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1906 CE

#8473

Bibliotheca chemica: A catalogue of the alchemical, chemical and pharmaceutical books in the collection of the late James Young of Kelly and Durris....by John Ferguson. 2 vols.

One of the great landmarks of descriptive scientific bibliography. With bibliographical details of each work, biographical notices of each writer, and exhaustive lists of references in chronological order, its scope a…

1906 CE

#11731

Carl Weigert Gesammelte Abhandlungen unter Mitwirkung von Ludwig Edinger und Paul Ehrlich. Herausgegeben und Eingeleitet von Robert Rieder. 2 vols.

1906 CE

#11559

Case teaching in medicine: A series of graduated exercises in the differential diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of actual cases of disease.

"The first comprehensive description of the 'Cabot case' style of medical teaching that evolved into the classic clinicopathological case (CPC) mode. Cabot had a special interest in heart disease and was a pioneer of …

1906 CE

#7341

Cerebellum der Säugetiere. Eine Vergleichend Anatomische Untersuchung.

Bolk studied some 69 species of mammals, both in the adult and during development, and elaborated a basic plan for the cerebellum that remains influential today. "Lodewijk Bolk and the comparative anatomy of the cereb…

1906 CE

#7340

Cerebra simiarum illustrata. Das Affenhirn in bildlicher Darstellung.

Describes and illustrates with photographs the cerebral cortex of over 50 species of primate, including prosimians, monkeys, and apes..

1906 CE

#845

Das Reizleitungssystem des Säugethierherzens.

Tawara discovered and described the atrioventricular node – “node of Tawara”. Translated into English by Kozo Suma and Munehiro Shimada as The conduction system of the mammalian heart: An anatomical-…

1906 CE

#7199

Das Sexualleben unserer Zeit in seinen Beziehungen zur modernen Kultur.

An encyclopedia of the sexual sciences. English translation by M. Eden Paul from the sixth German edition as The sexual life of our time in its relations to modern civilization (1909). Digital facsimile of the 1907 Ge…

1906 CE

#2594

Das Theobald Smithsche Phänomen der Serum-Ueberfindlichkeit. In Gedenkschr. f.d. verstorb. Generalstabsarzt… von Leuthold, 1, 153-72

The “Theobald Smith phenomenon” was not reported by Smith but communicated by him to Ehrlich. Later Otto published details of the results obtained in his study of the phenomenon.

1906 CE

#7733

De l'acrocéphalosyndactylie.

"Apert syndrome", consisting of a triad of disorders: craniosynostosis, syndactyly and maxillary underdevelopment. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1906 CE

#2043

Deutsches Badewesen in vergangenen Tagen.

1906 CE

#3230

Die Behandlung der einseitigen Lungenphthisis mit künstlichem Pneumothorax (nach Murphy).

Brauer’s method of producing artificial pneumothorax by the injection of nitrogen.

1906 CE

#2562

Die experimentelle Bakteriologie und die Infektionskrankheiten.

English translation, 2 vols., London, Allen & Unwin, 1934.

1906 CE

#6213

Die Mechanik der Geburt.

1906 CE

#6506

Die Medizin im Koran.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1906 CE

#9220

Earthquake in California April 18, 1906. Special report of Maj. Gen. Adolphus W. Greely, U.S.A. on the relief operations conducted by the military authorities of the United States at San Francisco and other points, with accompanying documents.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1906 CE

#5950.1

Eine erfolgreiche totale Keratoplastik.

First successful corneal transplantation (keratoplasty).

1906 CE

#2402

Eine serodiagnostische Reaktion bei Syphilis.

The “Wassermann reaction”, a specific diagnostic blood test for syphilis, and a modification of the complement-fixation reaction of Bordet and Gengou. With A. Neisser and C. Bruck.

1906 CE

#242.3

Further experiments on inheritance in sweet peas and stocks; preliminary account.

W. Bateson, E. R. Saunders and R. C. Punnett noted the phenomena of linkage of genes.

1906 CE

#6212

Geburten in künstlichem Dämmerschlaf.

“Twilight sleep”. Gauss developed the method introduced by Steinbüchel (No. 6210).

1906 CE

#6291

Geschichte der Geburtshüfe.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1906 CE

#520

Handbuch der vergleichenden und experimentellen Entwicklungslehre der Wirbelthiere. 3 vols.

1906 CE

#11589

Het telecardiogram.

This paper includes the first published ECG tracing of atrial fibrillation. See W. Bruce Fye, "Tracing atrial fibrillation - 100 years," New Eng. J. Med., 355 (2006) 1412.

1906 CE

#12297

Höheklima und Bergwanderungen in ihrer Wirkung auf den Menschen. Ergebnisse experimenteller Forschungen im Hochgebirge und Laboratorium.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1906 CE

#2564

Infection, immunity and serum therapy.

1906 CE

#2005

Interprétation de quelques résultats de la radiothérapie et essai de fixation d’une technique rationelle.

Bergonié-Tribondeau law, “the sensitivity of cells to radiation varies directly with the reproductive capacity of the cells and inversely with their degree of differentiation” (Dorland).

1906 CE

#1637

Investigation on the purification of Boston sewage, with a history of the sewage-disposal problem.

1906 CE

#1652

L’hygiène publique à travers les âges.

1906 CE

#6580

La médecine à Genève jusqu’à la fin du dix-huitième siècle.

1906 CE

#6554

La médecine et les médecins en France à l’époque de la Renaissance.

Wickersheimer, librarian of University of Strasbourg, contributed several scholarly works on the history of medicine.

1906 CE

#13137

La pharmacie en Egypte.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1906 CE

#5087

Le microbe de la coqueluche.

The cocco-bacillus Haemophilus pertussis, commonly regarded as the causal organism of whooping cough, was at first named “Bordet–Gengou bacillus” after its discoverers. It has later renamed Bordetell…

1906 CE

#1431

Le syndrome thalamique.

The “thalamic syndrome”, investigations of the effect of localized thalamic injury.

1906 CE

#434

Lehrbuch der systematischen Anatomie des Menschen.

1906 CE

#5129

Les inoculations antipesteuses.

Haffkine developed an anti-bubonic plague vaccine (killed bouillon cultures), for use in man.

1906 CE

#13502

Moeurs médicales de l'Inde et leurs rapports avec la médecine européenne.

Digital facsimile from wellcomecollection.org at this link.

1906 CE

#3959

Morphology and physiology of areas of Langerhans in some vertebrates

Lydia De Witt ligated the pancreatic ducts and obtained extracts from the islets of Langerhans in cats, noting their glycolytic qualities.

1906 CE

#730.1

Note upon the presence of amino-acids in the blood and lymph as determined by the ß naphthalinsulphochloride reaction.

Demonstration of the presence of amino-acids in the blood.

1906 CE

#5950

Notes on a peculiar pupil phenomenon in cases of partial iridoplegia.

Markus was among the first to describe the condition known as “Adie’s syndrome” (No. 4611).

1906 CE

#3025.2

Nuevas trabajos de cirugía vascular; substitución plástica de las arteriás por las venas, ó arterioplastia venosa, aplicada, como nuevo metodo, al tratamiento de los aneurismas.

Goyanes used vein grafts to restore arterial flow.

1906 CE

#731

On carbohydrate metabolism.

1906 CE

#3229

On some points in the surgery of the lung.

Removal of left lung for tuberculosis, April 24, 1895. The patient was alive in 1940; see Bowman, Life and teaching of Sir William Macewen (London, 1942), p. 344.

1906 CE

#1300

On the distribution of chlorides in nerve cells and fibres.

1906 CE

#5472

On the etiology of dengue fever.

Bancroft was the first to produce evidence that Aëdes aegypti is a vector of dengue.

1906 CE

#1338

On the physiological action of certain cholin derivatives and new methods for detecting cholin.

Discovery of the remarkable hypotensive effect of acetylcholine.

1906 CE

#1300.1

On the proprio-ceptive system, especially in its reflex aspect.

Sherrington investigated and explained the proprioceptive system.

1906 CE

#2822

Paroxysmal irregularity of the heart and auricular fibrillation.

First recognition of auricular fibrillation in man. Cushny and Edmunds had a case under their care in 1901. Hering described the condition in man in Prag. med. Wschr.,1903, 28, 377. The Cushing & Edmunds paper was als…

1906 CE

#4231

Pyelographie (Roentgenographie des Nierenbeckens nach Kollargolfüllung).

Introduction of pyelography.

1906 CE

#2563

Quelques remarques sur le lait aigri.

Metchnikoff researched the effect of lactic acid produced by Lactobacilli on other non-desirable bacteria in the digestive tract. He thus expanded Döderlein's (No. 6279) concept of "normal flora" beyond the vagin…

1906 CE

#4630

Révision de la question de l’aphasie; la troisième circonvolution frontale gauche ne joue aucun rôle spécial dans la fonction du langage.

Marie disputed Broca’s claim that the third left frontal convolution of the brain is the speech center. He classified aphasia into three groups: anarthria (defects of articulation), Broca’s (motor) aphasia…

1906 CE

#5780

Senile parenchymatous hypertrophy of female breast.

Bloodgood’s theory of the causation of chronic mastitis.