Facets

1918 CE

#3135

A clinical study of puerperal anaemia.

Four cases of pernicious anemia of pregnancy treated by blood transfusion.

2007 CE

#12280

A history of streptokinase use in acute myocardial infarction.

A history of thrombolytic therapy. Digital facsimile from PubMedCentral at this link.

1964 CE

#1931.5

A new adrenergic beta-receptor antagonist.

Development of Propranolol, the first beta-blocker effectively used in the treatment of coronary heart disease and hypertension. R. G. Shanks, L. H. Smith and A. C. Dornhorst. In 1988 the Nobel Prize in Physiology or …

1915 CE

#2021

A new and greatly simplified method of blood transfusion. A preliminary report.

About the same time as Agote, Lewisohn introduced the citrate method of blood transfusion. See also his later paper in Surg. Gynec. Obstet., 1915, 21, 37-47.

1913 CE

#2018.1

A new and simple method of transfusion.

In order to prevent blood coagulation during transfusion, Kimpton and Brown used apparatus lined with paraffin wax. See also Boston med. surg. J., 1915, 173, 425-7.

1936 CE

#2024

A new method of blood transfusion.

Heparin used in blood transfusion. See also the same journal, 88, 443-49.

1992 CE

#13062

A pictorial history of blood practices and transfusion.

1885 CE

#1881

A text-book of pharmacology, therapeutics and materia medica.

Brunton was physician to St. Bartholomew’s Hospital and an eminent pharmacologist. He is notable for his introduction of amyl nitrite in the treatment of angina pectoris and for a vast amount of other work conce…

1943 CE

#2027.1

Advantages of a disodium-citrate-glucose mixture as a blood preservative.

This work made possible the storage of whole blood for up to three weeks.

1582 CE

#7327

Aigentlich Beschreibung der Raiss, so er vor diser Zeit gegen Auffgang inn die Morgenländer, fürnemlich Syriam, Iudaeam, Arabiam, Mesopotamiam, Babyloniam, Assyriam, Armeniam etc....

Rauwolf provided the first modern descriptions of the flora of the area east of the Levantine coast. He was also the first to describe the riparian flora of the Euphrates, and the first European to publish an account …

1667 CE

#2014

An account of the experiment of transfusion, practised upon a man in London.

First transfusion of blood performed on a human in England, Nov. 23, 1667.

1985 CE

#9233

An account of the foxglove and its medical uses 1785-1985.

This work consists of a reproduction of Withering's classic text published in 1785, extensively annotated by Aronson, followed by Aronson's history of "the use of the digitalis glycosides and related compounds over th…

1785 CE

#1836

An account of the foxglove, and some of its medical uses.

Before publication of Withering's book digitalis was a widely used folk remedy, occasionally mentioned in the literature. Withering established the correct dosages, and the action of digitalis in edema and on the hear…

1799 CE

#11592

An essay on the medical properties of the digitalis purpurea or foxglove.

"John Ferriar...published the first monograph on digitalis after William Withering (1785). Ferriar was the first to suggest that digitalis was beneficial in dropsy (severe congestive heart failure), in part because it…

1938 CE

#2027

An inexhaustible source of blood for transfusion, and its preservation. Preliminary report.

J. R. Goodall, F. O. Anderson, G. T. Altimas, and F. L. MacPhail pointed out the possibility of using placental blood for transfusion purposes.

1874 CE

#2018

Auflösung der rothen Blutzellen.

Landois discovered the hemolyzing effect of blood serum of one species when transfused into another.

2014 CE

#11513

Banking on the body: The market in blood, milk, and sperm in modern America.

1869 CE

#2017.1

Cases of transfusion, with some remarks on a new method of performing the operation.

Sodium phosphate used as anticoagulant in blood transfusion.

1665 CE

#1962

Clysmatica nova; oder newe Clystier-Kunst.

Elsholtz’s book on the venous infusion of medicaments was one of the first works to deal with blood transfusion. Latin edition in 1667; English translation in 1677. Reprint of Latin 1667 edition, Hildesheim, G. …

1935 CE

#2023

Continuous drip blood transfusion.

Introduction of the slow-drip method of blood transfusion.

1948 CE

#1929.3

Curare-like action of polymethylene bis-quaternary ammonium salts.

Methonium compounds. See also the same journal, 1948, 162, 810.

1817 CE

#9871

De nova infusionis methodo. Dissertatio inauguralis medico-chirurgica....

Eduard von Graefe’s medical thesis described the method devised by his brother, Carl Ferdinand von Graefe (1787-1840), for transfusing blood or other liquids into the blood vessels. The work includes an illustra…

1862 CE

#2388

Della trasmissione delle sifilide mediante la inoculazione del sangue.

Proof of the possibility of transmission of syphilis by blood transfusion.

1945 CE

#3104

Detection of weak and “incomplete” Rh agglutinins: a new test.

Coombs’s test for detecting antibodies in various clinical scenarios, such as Rh disease and blood transfusion. With A. E. Mourant and R. R. Race. A fuller description appears in Brit. J. exp. Path.,1945, 26, 25…

1802 CE–1803 CE

#2028.4

Die Transfusion des Blutes und Einspriitzung der Arzneyen in die Adem. Historisch und in Rücksicht auf die practische Heilkunde bearbeitet. 2 vols.

Schell was the author of the first 2 vols, which were the first major work on transfusion since the 17th century and an excellent early history of the subject. Scheel reviewed both transfusion and intravenous injectio…

1914 CE

#2844

Die unregelmässige Herztätigkeit und ihre klinische Bedeutung.

Wenckebach was the first to demonstrate (pp. 173-75) the value of quinine (“Wenckebach’s pills”) in the treatment of paroxysmal fibrillation. The same work contains a number of excellent descriptions…

1916 CE

#1904

Digitaliswirkung am isolierten Vorhof des Frosches.

An important analysis of the action of digitalis on the isolated heart.

1930 CE

#1920

Digoxin, a new digitalis glucoside.

Isolation of digoxin from Digitalis lanata.

1958 CE

#1931.6

Enzymatic O-methylation of epinephrine and other catechols.

The authors discovered the enzyme "COMT" or cathecol-O-methyltransferase, and determined that it was crucial in the methylation and inactivation of adrenergic and other catecholamine type neurotransmitters. (Thanks to…

1843 CE

#3060

Essai d’hématologie pathologique.

The first monograph on hematology in its "modern" sense. Andral established analysis of the blood on the basis of exact knowledge of the blood components. He analysed the blood fibrin and albumin. He recognized severa…

1876 CE

#7215

Études historiques, physiologiques et cliniques sur la transfusion du sang.

An excellent and well-documented treatise on blood transfusion, including a comprehensive history of the subject from its beginnings in the seventeenth century to its revival in the nineteenth after a long period of d…

1821 CE

#2016

Examen du sang et de son action dans les divers phénomènes de la vie.

First successful use of defibrinated blood for animal transfusions. This was the first attempt to prevent coagulation during transfusion.

1780 CE

#8589

Experiments establishing a criterion between mucaginous and purulent matter. An an account of the retrograde motions of the absorbent vessels of animal bodies in some diseases.

Includes the first description of the value of digitalis in the treatment of patients with heart failure, with discussion of several successful cases. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link. Darwin and Withe…

1818 CE

#2015

Experiments on the transfusion of blood by the syringe.

Blundell invented a syringe by means of which he was able to transfuse dogs.

1925 CE

#3087.1

Familial icterus gravis of the new-born and its treatment.

Successful exchange transfusion.

2008 CE

#10362

Flesh and blood: Organ transplantation and blood transfusion in twentieth-century America.

1883 CE

#1875

Grundriss der Arzneimittellehre.

Schmiedeberg, leading German pharmacologist, was professor at Dorpat and Strasburg. Among his many valuable investigations may be mentioned his study of the effect of drugs on the circulation.

1909 CE

#5628

Hemorrhage and transfusion.

1954 CE

#2028.42

History of blood transfusion.

1873 CE

#2017.2

Immediate transfusion in England: seven cases, and the author’s method of operating.

Portable transfusion apparatus.

1963 CE

#3108.7

Intrauterine transfusion of foetus in haemolytic disease.

1895 CE

#2893

Klinisches über Diuretin.

In 1895 Askanazy proposed diuretin as a remedy for anginal pain.

1887 CE

#2908

L’artério-sclérose subaiguë dans ses rapports avec les spasmes vasculaires et son traitement par la trinitrine (nitroglycérine).

“Huchard’s disease” – continued hypertension causing arteriosclerosis. Huchard did much to develop the knowledge concerning arteriosclerosis and summarized his work in a classic monograph publi…

1974 CE

#2028.43

Les origines de la transfusion sanguine.

Reprinted from Clio Medica, Vol. 9, 1974.

1667 CE

#2013

Lettre … touchant deux expériences de la transfusion faites sur des hommes.

The first transfusion of blood into a human was performed by Denis on June 15, 1667; he transfused lamb’s blood into a youth. For a partial translation, see Geoffrey Keynes’s Blood transfusion (Bristol, 19…

2019 CE

#11482

Mapping human microbiome drug metabolism by gut bacteria and their genes.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Zimmermann, Simmerman-Kogadeeva, Wegmann....The authors looked at 271 drugs and 68 different species from the main taxonomic microbiome groups. Of the 271 drugs, 176 un…

1844 CE

#1859

Mémoire sur l’alcool amylique.

Discovery of amyl nitrite.

1845 CE

#1860

Mémoire sur la digitale pourprée.

Isolation of an active principle in digitalis, amorphous digitalin, more potent than the plant itself.

1628 CE

#2011

Methodus facile parandi iucunda tuta et nova medicamenta & eius applicatio aduersus chimicos.

Page 170 includes the first definite description of a blood transfusion, notably published in the same year as Harvey's discovery of the circulation of the blood in De motu cordis. Digital facsimile from Google Books …

1905 CE

#2819

New methods of studying affections of the heart.

Mackenzie established the remarkable action of digitalis in auricular fibrillation.