1900–1909
957 entries with publication dates in this decade.
1905 CE
#3077
Pathologie der Primärerkrankungen des lymphatischen und hämatopoetischen Apparates.
Includes (p. 151) Sternberg’s description of lymphogranulomatosis, which was given the eponym “Sternberg’s disease”.
1905 CE
#5693
Perorale Tubagen mit und ohne Druck.
Kuhn introduced the intratracheal insufflation method of anesthetization about 1900; he used a flexible metal tube and a curved introducer. He also experimented with positive and negative pressure insufflation.
1905 CE
#1894
Physiological and pharmacological studies of magnesium salts.
A study of the anesthetic and other effects of magnesium salts.
1905 CE
#2820
Remarks on the determination of arterial blood-pressure in clinical practice.
1905 CE
#5279
Report on trypanosomes, trypanosomiasis, and sleeping sickness, being an experimental investigation into their pathology and treatment.
Thomas and Breinl discovered that arsanilic acid, was more potent in the treatment of laboratory trypanosomiasis than arsenic in inorganic form. As a crystalline powder it was introduced medically as Atoxyl. Thomas an…
1905 CE
#82.1
Semmelweis’ gesammelte Werke. Heraugegeben aus zum Theil aus dem Ungarischen Übersetzt von Tiberius von Gyory.
An annotated edition and translation, including the texts of Semmelweis’s works on puerperal fever as a septicemia (No. 6275) and on the etiology of puerperal sepsis (No. 6277) as well as other gynecological pap…
1905 CE
#4266
Some anatomical points connected with the performance of prostatectomy. With remarks upon the operative treatment of prostatic hypertrophy.
Watson first performed median perineal prostatectomy in 1889.
1905 CE
#4668
Studien über Poliomyelitis acuta.
Wickman was the first to produce evidence confirming the infectious nature of poliomyelitis.
1905 CE
#2817
Technik der Herstellung fast orthodiagraphischer Herzphotogramme vermittelst Röntgeninstrumentarien mit kleiner Elektrizitätsquelle.
Introduction of teleradiography of the heart.
1905 CE
#1298
The afferent nervous system from a new aspect.
This paper opened up a new field in the study of the sensory functions of the skin, and the theories put forward in it dominated neurological thought until 1940.
1905 CE
#1299
The consequences of injury to the peripheral nerves in man.
1905 CE
#1122
The Croonian Lectures on the chemical correlation of the functions of the body.
Starling constructed a general scheme of the “hormones” as he named the internal secretions. This is the first appearance of the word, which was suggested by W. B. Hardy.
1905 CE
#4266.1
The early diagnosis and radical cure of carcinoma of the prostate. Being a study of 40 cases and presentation of a radical operation which was carried out in four cases.
First radical prostatectomy for carcinoma.
1905 CE
#4879
The establishment of cerebral hernia as a decompressive measure for inaccessible brain tumors.
1905 CE
#8390
The Hearst Medical Papyrus: Hieratic text in 17 facsimile plates in collotype with introduction and vocabulary by George A. Reisner. University of California Publications. Egyptian Archaeology, Volume 1.
The papyrus has been dated to the 18th Dynasty of Egypt, around the time of pharaoh Tuthmosis III. The text is believed to have been composed earlier, during the Middle Kingdom, around 2000 BCE. The papyrus is so unus…
1905 CE
#5803
The historical relations of medicine and surgery to the end of the sixteenth century.
1905 CE
#5318
The nature of tick fever in the eastern part of the Congo Free State.
Independently of Ross and Milne, Dutton and Todd demonstrated relapsing fever in monkeys conveyed by infected ticks, Omithodorus moubata. The organism was named Sp. (now Borrelia) duttoni. Both Dutton and Todd contrac…
1905 CE
#13158
The organization and cell-lineage of the Ascidian egg.
Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.
1905 CE
#954
The regulation of the lung-ventilation.
Proof of the regulation of respiration by CO2 concentration of the alveolar air
1905 CE
#3399
The story of my life.
Helen Keller became blind and deaf at the age of 19 months, as the result of an illness. Her education was a triumph of patience and skill on the part of her teacher, Anne M. Sullivan, and a demonstration of the great…
1905 CE
#3025.1
The transplantation of veins and organs.
Reports experimental heart transplantation in a dog. See also the earlier paper on pp. 284-5.
1905 CE
#3571
The vermiform appendix and its diseases. With 399 original illustrations, some in colors, and 3 lithographic plates.
The first comprehensive book on the pathology of the appendix. Many of the illustrations are by Max Brödel. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1905 CE
#4713.1
Über familiäre amaurotische Idiotie und verwandte Krankheitsbilder.
Spielmayer-Vogt disease, or Spielmeyer-Vogt-Sjögren-Batten disease, the juvenile form of cerebromacular degeneration.
1905 CE
#5692
Uebereinige neue örtliche Anaesthetica (Stovain, Alypin, Novocain).
Procaine (novocaine), synthesized by Einhorn, was first used clinically by Braun.
1905 CE
#4594
Un caso de parálisis del lado derecho de la laringe y de la lengua, con parálisis del esterno-cleido-mastoidea y trapecio del mismo lado; accompañado de hemiplejia total temporal del lado izquierdo del cuerpo.
“Tapia’s syndrome” – palato-pharyngo-laryngeal hemiplegia.
1905 CE
#2592
Ursache und Behandlung des Heufiebers.
Dunbar studied the relationship of pollen to hay fever, separated the active substances responsible for producing the condition, and introduced a specific therapy.
1905 CE
#2399
Vorläufiger Bericht über das Vorkommen von Spirochaeten in syphilitischen Krankheitsprodukten und bei Papillomen.
On March 3, 1905, Schaudinn discovered the causal organism of syphilis Spirochaeta pallida, in serum obtained from a genital lesion by Hoffmann. Schaudinn later renamed the spirochete Treponema pallidum.
1905 CE
#729
Zur Erkenntnis der Kolloide.
1905 CE
#4140
Zur Kenntnis des Virus des Molluscum contagiosum des Menschen.
Juliusberg showed that the virus of molluscum contagiosum passed a Chamberland filter.
1905 CE
#1651
Zur Vorgeschichte der modernen Hygiene.
1905 CE–1906 CE
#1180
An experimental enquiry into the factors which determine the growth and activity of the mammary glands.
In their classic paper on the mammary gland, these workers attributed its changes during pregnancy to the fetus.
1905 CE–1906 CE
#2821
Complete heart-block, with dissociation of the action of the auricles and ventricles.
Auricular flutter in man first recognized.
1905 CE–1906 CE
#10599
The Edinburgh stereoscopic atlas of Anatomy. Edited by David Waterston. 5 vols.
The first large scale application of stereoscopic photography to anatomy. The 5 parts each contain 50 stereo cards on which are pasted original stereo photographs and corresponding printed descriptive text. Digital fa…
1905 CE–1906 CE
#5440
The histology of the skin lesions in varicella.
Tyzzer was first to recognize inclusion bodies in varicella.
1905 CE–1906 CE
#1337
Vagus inhibition of the heart in its relation to the inorganic salts of the blood.
Howell suggested that nerve impulses act indirectly by increasing the amount of diffusible potassium compounds in the heart tissue.
1905 CE–1907 CE
#5102
REPORTS of the Commission appointed by the Admiralty, the War Office, and the Civil Government of Malta, for the investigation of Mediterranean fever, under the supervision of an advisory committee of the Royal Society. 7 pts.
The important findings of the Mediterranean Fever Commission are summarized in Topley & Wilson’s Bacteriology,1975, p. 2173; probably the most valuable was that of T. Zammit, who showed goat’s milk to be t…
1905 CE–1908 CE
#6767
Die Handschriften der antiken Aerzte. I. Teil: Hippokrates und Galenos. II. Teil: Die übrigen grieschischen Ärzte aßer Hippokates und Galenos. Bericht über den Stand des interakademischen Corpus medicorum antiquorum und Erster Nachtrag zu den in den Abhandlungen 1905 und 1906 veröffentlichten Katalogen. . . .
A catalogue of surviving manuscripts of texts and translations of classical Greek physicians. Republished in book form, 1905-08. Available online from the Corpus Medicorum Graecorum at this link. Supplemented by: Gree…
1905 CE–1908 CE
#1634
Recherches sur l’épuration biologique et chimique des eaux d’égout. 8 vols.
1905 CE–1909 CE
#141
Geschichte der biologischen Theorien seit dem Ende des siebzehnten Jahrhunderts. 2 pts.
Second edition, extensively revised as Geschichte der biologischen Theorien in der Neuzeit, pt. l., Leipzig-Berlin, 1913. English translation of pt 2. as The history of biological theories, London, 1930.
1905 CE–1911 CE
#5365
The anatomy and life history of Agchylostoma duodenale Dub. A. monograph. 2 pts.
Vols. 3 and 4 of Records of the School of Medicine, Cairo. In 1898 Looss discovered that hookworm larvae can penetrate the skin. His monograph epitomized all knowledge of the condition to 1911.
1905 CE–1914 CE
#2518
Bacteria in relation to plant diseases. 3 vols.
One of the most careful investigations of the bacterial diseases in plants was made by Smith, who conclusively demonstrated the existence of such diseases and proposed a scheme of classification for the bacteria conce…
1905 CE–1922 CE
#6571
Den Danske Laegestand, 1749-1900. 5 vols.
Biographies of Danish physicians and surgeons. Supplements about every ten years.
1906 CE
#14351
A study of the structural unit of the liver.
Mall defined the liver's structural unit as a tissue block centered on a portal vein, rather than the classic hepatic lobule centered on a central vein. He proposed that the structural unit of the liver is defined by …
1906 CE
#2823
[In Russian:] Estimation of blood-pressure by Korotkov’s auditory method.
Kriloff made extensive observations on the sounds which Korotkov had shown to be emitted by the blood after removal of the Riva-Rocci air-pressure cuff during the blood-pressure measurement.
1906 CE
#4267
A method of controlling the bleeding after suprapubic prostatectomy.
The distensible bag for controlling hemorrhage after suprapubic prostatectomy was introduced by Briggs in 1905.
1906 CE
#2401
A propos de l’impregnation au nitrate d’argent des spirochètes sur coupes.
Levaditi’s method of staining T. pallidum.
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”.
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.
1906 CE
#2595
A study of the cause of sudden death following the injection of horse serum.
Forms Bulletin No. 29 of the Hygienic Laboratory, U. S. Marine Hospital Service. Rosenau and Anderson drew attention to the fact that animals receiving an injection of a foreign protein became sensitive to a second do…
1906 CE
#1895
An active alkaloid from ergot.
Isolation of ergotoxine. With F. H. Carr.