Facets

1879 CE

#12418

Resektion af refben vid kroniskt empyem. C. R. Sur la résection des côtes dans l'empyème chronique.

Esklander proposed a new method of surgery, involving sectioning of the ribs, to cure a condition previously considered incurable caused by chronic purulent pleurisy.

1885 CE

#3226

A case of haemoptysis treated by the induction of pneumothorax so as to collapse the lung.

Artificial pneumothorax by pleural incision in intractable haemoptysis. See also Lancet, 1885, 1, 894-95.

1893 CE

#3227

A case of pneumonectomy.

Partial lobectomy in pulmonary tuberculosis.

1893 CE

#3179

A case of thoracoplasty for the removal of a large cicatricial fibrous growth from the interior of the chest, the result of an old empyema.

First thoracoplasty.

1898 CE

#951

A contribution to the chemistry of haemoglobin and its immediate derivatives.

Potassium ferricyanide method for the determination of oxygen in oxyhemoglobin.

1897 CE

#1573

A contribution to the history of the respiration of man.

1882 CE

#3225

A contribuzione della terapia chirurgica della tisi; ablazione de polmone? pneumotorace artificiale?

Forlanini first discussed the induction of artificial pneumothorax in the above papers; he applied it in 1888. For his report on its application, see Gazz. med. Torino, 1894, 45, 381, 401. English translation in Tuber…

1904 CE

#7652

A descriptive catalogue of pathological specimens in the museum of the Hospital for Consumption and Diseases of the Chest, Brompton.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1881 CE

#3173

A fatal form of septicaemia in the rabbit, produced by the subcutaneous injection of human saliva.

In the same year as Pasteur, and independently, Sternberg discovered the pneumococcus (Streptococcus pneumoniae) demonstrating its carriage in the healthy human mouth.

1964 CE

#11707

A history of respiration.

1961 CE

#10321

A history of the therapy of tuberculosis and the case of Frederic Chopin.

1925 CE

#5707

A lecture on respiration in anaesthesia: Control by carbon dioxide.

Henderson’s important investigations on the physiology of respiration included his demonstration of the relation of acapnia to anesthesia and the recommendation that carbon dioxide inhalation be used to overcome…

1911 CE

#955

A method for determining the total respiratory exchange in man.

Douglas bag.

1961 CE

#11671

A new approach to cardiac resuscitation.

"The pioneers of modern cardiopulmonary resucitation describe their breakthrough technique of combining mouth-to-mouth ventilation, closed chest compressions, and transthoracic defibrillation to treat cardiac arrest" …

1720 CE

#3217

A new theory of consumptions : more especially of a phthisis, or consumption of the lungs.

Marten believed that an infectious micro-organism was the cause of tuberculosis, thus forecasting the existence of the tubercle bacillus 162 years before its actual discovery. Though Leeuwenhoek reported seeing bacter…

1929 CE

#3202.1

A note on the inhalation treatment of asthma.

First use of adrenaline by the respiratory route for the treatment of bronchial asthma.

1851 CE

#2757

A practical treatise on the diseases of the lungs and heart, including the principles of physical diagnosis.

Walshe, physician to University College Hospital, London, was one of the first to recognize the presystolic character of the direct mitral murmur in mitral stenosis.

1906 CE

#5532

A protozoon general infection producing pseudotubercles in the lungs and focal necroses in the liver, spleen and lymphnodes.

Histoplasmosis (Histoplasma capsulatum), “Darling’s disease”.

1921 CE

#3197.1

A study of antispasmodic drugs on the bronchus.

Laboratory demonstration of the antispasmodic action of theophylline on bronchial smooth muscle.

1906 CE

#5531.1

A study of some tropical ulcerations of skin with particular reference to their etiology.

Strong described organisms consistent with Histoplasma capsulatum before Darling, although his work was overshadowed by the latter.

1698 CE

#3166

A treatise of the asthma.

Floyer provided the first clear descriptions of cases of bronchial asthma. Floyer himself suffered from asthma for over 30 years. He recognized the influence of heredity in asthma. The above includes (p. 239) an impor…

1932 CE

#3203.1

Acute symptoms following work with hay.

“Farmer’s lung”.

1667 CE

#916

An account of an experiment of preserving animals alive by blowing through their lungs with bellows.

By blowing air from a bellows over the exposed lungs of a dog, Hooke proved that respiratory motion is not necessary to maintain life, but that the essential feature of respiration lies in certain blood changes in the…

1746 CE

#3166.1

An account of what appeared on opening the body of an asthmatic person.

Probably the earliest comprehensive clinical and pathological account of emphysema.

1938 CE

#3211

An acute infection of the respiratory tract with atypical pneumonia: A disease entity probably caused by a filterable virus.

Atypical pneumonia.

1788 CE

#2028.54

An essay on the recovery of the apparently dead.

Kite recommended the use of artificial respiration and was probably the first to recommend electric shock for resuscitation.

1904 CE

#11700

An inquiry into the phenomena attending death by drowning and the means of promoting resuscitation in the apparently drowned. Report of a committee appointed by the Society, drawn up by Professor Schäfer, chairman of the committee.

The Schäfer method of artificial respiration. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1939 CE

#3038.1

An oxygenator with a large surface–volume ratio.

First heart–lung machine used successfully on an animal.

1947 CE

#971.1

Analyzer for accurate estimate of respiratory gases in one-half cubic centimeter samples.

An improvement on the classic Haldane method for analyzing oxygen and carbon dioxide in respiratory gases. It provides comparable accuracy over a wider range of gas concentrations with a gas sample of only 0.5 ml inst…

1951 CE

#3047.2

Aortic plastic valvular prosthesis.

Hufnagel designed and inserted the first workable prosthetic heart valve in man.

1954 CE

#3047.5

Application of a mechanical heart and lung apparatus to cardiac surgery.

First pump oxygenator used on humans. Performed on May 6, 1953, this was the first successful intracardiac operation in a patient with the use of total heart-lung bypass.

1943 CE

#12192

Barometric pressure: Researches in experimental physiology. Translated from the French by Mary Alice Hitchcock and Fred A. Hitchcock. [Foreward by John F. Fulton].

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1856 CE

#3169

Beiträge zur Lehre von den beim Menschen vorkommenden pflanzlichen Parasiten.

First description of pulmonary aspergillosis.

1998 CE

#13294

Black lung: Anatomy of a public health disaster.

1907 CE

#3186

Bronchoskopie und bronchoskopische Behandlung von Bronchialasthma.

Introduction of therapeutic bronchoscopy, for treatment of asthma.

2019 CE

#12407

Can artificial intelligence reliably report chest x-rays? Radiologist validation of an algorithm trained on 2.3 million x-rays.

"Background: Chest X-rays are the most commonly performed, cost-effective diagnostic imaging tests ordered by physicians. A clinically validated AI system that can reliably separate normals from abnormals can be inval…

1933 CE

#971

Carbonic anhydrase: Its preparation and properties.

Isolation of carbonic anhydrase.

1853 CE

#10235

Change of climate considered as a remedy in dyspetic, pulmonary, and other chronic affections; with an account of the most eligible places of residence for invalids in Spain, Portugal, Algeria, etc., at different seasons of the year; and an appendix on the mineral springs of the Pyrenees, Vichy, and Aix les Bains.

The author, a pulmonary specialist at Cavendish Square, London, provides a detailed manual for invalid travellers, seeking cures for tuberculosis, and indigestion and "nervous affections." It may be one of the first t…

1912 CE

#956

Chemical nature of specific oxygen capacity in haemoglobin.

Peters made accurate determinations of the ratio of iron to oxygen in the blood.

1897 CE

#3228

Chirurgie du poumon en particulier dans les cavernes tuberculeuses et la gangrène pulmonaire.

Describes (p. 31) first cure of tuberculosis by removal of lung apex.

1958 CE

#3047.12

Clinical use of an elastic Dacron prosthesis.

Arterial prosthesis. With L. C. France, R. F. Smith, and J. G. Whitcomb.

1941 CE

#3556

Congenital atresia of the esophagus with tracheoesophageal fistula. Report of successful extrapleural ligation of fistulous communication and cervical esophagostomy.

1614 CE

#2119

Consilium Peripneumoniacum: Das ist Ein getrewer Rath in der beschwerlichen Berg und Lungensucht : darinnen verfasset, was die fürnemsten Ursachen seyn beyderley Beschwerungen, beydes der gifftigen, die vom Bergwerck entstehet: so wol der gemeinen, die von Flüssen herrühret: Zuvor aber, wie der Mensch mit der kleinen Welt, und mit dem Bergwerck artlich zu vergleichen, und wie beyde Suchten zu vertreiben seyn.

Martin Pansa, a pupil of Georg Agricola, wrote the most important work on occupational disease before Ramazzini. He described the symptoms of the lung diseases of miners and smelters. Digital facsimile from the Bayeri…

2006 CE

#9926

Consumption and literature: The making of the romantic disease.

1876 CE

#12220

Contribution a l’étude du phénomène respiratoire de Cheyne-Stokes.

Biot's respiration, "an abnormal pattern of breathing characterized by groups of quick, shallow inspirations followed by regular or irregular periods of apnea"

1955 CE

#3047.7

Controlled cross circulation for direct-vision intracardiac surgery; correction of ventricular septal defects, atrioventricularis communis, and tetralogy of Fallot.

Controlled cross circulation (human heart–lung “machine”) for intracardiac surgery.

1929 CE

#968

Cytochrome and respiratory enzymes.

Keilin discovered cytochrome and laid the foundations of the modern concept of cellular respiration. See No. 1588.3.

1936 CE

#3659.2

Das Coeliakiesyndrom bei angeborener zysticher Pankreasfibromatose und Bronchiektasien.

Cystic fibrosis (mucoviscidosis) described. With E. Uehlinger and C. Knauer.

1772 CE

#921

De aëre fixo dicto, aut mephitico.

Discovery of nitrogen.

1819 CE

#2673

De l’auscultation médiate, ou traité du diagnostic des maladies des poumons et du coeur. 2 vols.

This book revolutionized the study of diseases of the chest. Auscultation in the instrumental sense dates from Laennec’s invention of the stethoscope (at first merely a roll of stiff paper) with a view to amplif…