1900–1909

1906 CE

#3890

Sexual infantilism with optic atrophy in cases of tumor affecting the hypophysis cerebri.

1906 CE

#13360

Shenei Ma'amarei ha-Mishgal. Ehad 'al 'Inyanei ha-Mishgal we-ehad 'al Ribbuy ha-Misgal. Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Medizin des XII. Jahrhunderts an der Hand zweier medizinischer Abhandlungen des Maimonides auf Grund von 6 unedierten Handschriften dargestellt und kritisch beleuchtet

1906 CE

#360

Sieben Bücher Anatomie des Galen: ... zum ersten Male veröffentlicht nach den Handschriften einer arabischen Übersetzung des 9. Jahrh. n. Chr. / ins Deutsche Übertragen und Kommentiert von Max Simon. 2 vols.

First printed edition of the final six and one-half books (the second half of book 9, and books 10-15) of Galen's De anatomicis administrationibus, which were lost in the Greek original. In 1714 the Bodleian Library a…

1906 CE

#5320

Studies in Spirillum obermeieri and related organisms.

Novy and Knapp made important observations on the spirochaete isolated by Norris et al. from a case of (American) relapsing fever, proving it to be different from Borrelia obermeieri, sometimes referred to as “N…

1906 CE

#5319

Study of a spirochete obtained from a case of relapsing fever in man, with notes on morphology, animal reactions, and attempts at cultivation.

Spirochaete causing the American variety of relapsing fever first isolated. With A. W. Pappenheimer and T. Flournoy.

1906 CE

#4233

Technique de la néphropexie.

“Albarran’s operation” – nephropexy.

1906 CE

#4475

Tecnica generale della amputazioni mucosi. Amputazioni plastico-ortopediche con metodo proprio secundo la proposta del Vanghetti. Dimonstrazioni pratiche.

Ceci was the first to operate on the lines suggested by Vanghetti.

1906 CE

#1044

The analyst and the medical man.

Hopkins predicted the existence of vitamins as early as 1906. He fed animals a diet of zein which failed to maintain growth; however, the animals grew at once when casein was substituted. He concluded that “in t…

1906 CE

#1026

The chemical mechanism of gastric secretion.

Gastric secretin (gastrin) was first described by Edkins. A preliminary communication is in Proc. roy. Soc. B, 1905, 76, 376.

1906 CE

#654

The dynamics of living matter.

1906 CE

#1045

The elements of the science of nutrition.

A classic exposition of respiratory and intermediary metabolism. Fourth edition, 1928. Reprint of Lusk’s personal annotated copy of the fourth edition, with biography and bibliography of his writings, New York, …

1906 CE

#5805

The evolution of American surgery. IN: American practice of surgery, Edited by J.D. Bryant and A.H. Buck, 2, 1-67.

1906 CE

#13574

The eye and nervous system: Their diagnostic relations by various authors. Edited by Wm. Campbell Posey and William G. Spiller.

The first comprehensive treatise in English on neuro-ophthalmology. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1906 CE

#1374

The grouping of afferent impulses within the spinal cord.

1906 CE

#7051

The health and physique of the Negro American: report of a social study made under the direction of Atlanta University: together with the Proceedings of the Eleventh Conference for the Study of the Negro Problems, held at Atlanta University, on May the 29th, 1906.

Probably the earliest sociological study of the medical problems of blacks written by a black. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1906 CE

#732

The importance of individual amino-acids in metabolism.

Demonstration of the importance of tryptophan in diet. The pioneer work of Hopkins led eventually to the discovery of vitamins.

1906 CE

#1432

The integrative action of the nervous system.

Sherrington insisted that the essential function of the nervous system was the co-ordination of activities of the various parts of the organism. His work on the nervous system, especially his experimental studies of r…

1906 CE

#12739

The jungle.

Sinclair wrote The jungle to portray the harsh conditions and exploited lives of immigrants in the United States in Chicago and other industrialized cities. His primary purpose in describing the meat industry and its …

1906 CE

#4194

The operative treatment of acute gonorrheal epididymitis.

Hagner devised the open operation for the relief of acute epididymitis.

1906 CE

#897

The origin and nature of the blood plates.

Discovery of the role of the megakaryocytes in the formation of the blood platelets.

1906 CE

#6989

The science of chiropractic. Its principles and adjustments by Dr. D. D. Palmer, discoverer and developer of chiropractic, and B. J. Palmer, D. C.

D. D. Palmer founded chiropractic; his son B. J. developed the practice. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1906 CE

#5378

The transmission of Rocky Mountain spotted fever by the bite of the wood-tick (Dermacentor occidentalis).

Ricketts (who himself died of typhus) demonstrated that the wood tick Dermacentor andersoni is a vector of Rocky Mountain spotted fever.

1906 CE

#5280

Traitement des trypanosomiases par les “couleurs de benzidine”.

Introduction of trypan-blue in the treatment of trypanosomiasis. Second paper by Mesnil and Nicolle.

1906 CE

#5111.1

Über Cholera- und choleraähnliche Vibrionen unter den aus Mekka zurückkehrenden Pilgern.

Isolation of El Tor vibrio, a particular strain of the bacterium Vibrio cholerae. Gotschlich first identified this strain in 1905 at a quarantine camp on the Sinai Peninsula in El Tor, Egypt . The vibrios were found i…

1906 CE

#843.1

Über die direkte Ableitung der Aktionsströme des menschlichen Herzens vom Oesophagus und über das Elektrokardiogramm des Fötus.

Fetal electrocardiogram recorded. Cremer was also the first to record an electrocardiogram with an electrode in the esophagus.

1906 CE

#4376

Ueber Ablösung von Gelenkteilen und verwandte Prozesse.

Büdinger was the first to describe pathological fracture of the cartilage of the patella. See also his later paper in the same journal, 1908, 92, 510-36. Later descriptions by Karl Ludloff, Verh. dtsch. Ges. Chir…

1906 CE

#4804

Ueber das Vorhandensein syphilitischer Antistoffe in der Cerebrospinalflüssigkeit von Paralytikem.

Wassermann applied his test (No. 2402) to the cerebrospinal fluid and, in paretics, obtained positive results in over 90 per cent of cases. The test greatly facilitated the diagnosis of general paralysis.

1906 CE

#5213

Ueber den Nachweis von Antikörpern im Serum eines an Arthritis gonorrhoica Erkrankten mittels Komplementablenkung.

“Müller–Oppenheim reaction” – a complement fixation test for the diagnosis of gonorrhoea.

1906 CE

#3643

Ueber die Assimilation von Galaktose und Milchzucker Beim Gesunden und Kranken.

Galactose tolerance test.

1906 CE

#4594.1

Ueber die nicht epileptischen Absencen oder kurzen narkoleptischen Anfälle.

First description of pyknolepsy.

1906 CE

#2399.1

Ueber die Transmission der Syphilis auf das Kaninchen. Vorläufiger Bericht.

Transmission of syphilis to rabbits.

1906 CE

#3400

Ueber die vom Ohrlabyrinth ausgelöste Gegenrollung der Augen bei Normalhörenden.

Bárány’s caloric test for labyrinthine function.

1906 CE

#4376.1

Ueber Osteogenesis imperfecta tarda.

Looser’s syndrome.

1906 CE

#2824

Ueber Spirochaeta pallida in der Aortenwand bei Hellerscher Aortitis.

Treponema pallidum first discovered in the diseased aorta.

1906 CE

#4714

Unilateral ascending paralysis and unilateral descending paralysis.

First description of unilateral descending paralysis.

1906 CE

#11563

Uniterminal and biterminal venous transplantations.

"The possibility of transforming a vein into an artery, from a functional point of view, naturally arouses the idea of substituting veins for arteries when the latter are rendered useless by some pathological processe…

1906 CE

#3401

Untersuchungen über den vom Vestibularapparat des Ohres reflektorisch ausgelösten Rhythmischen und seine Begleiterscheinungen.

Bárány’s pointing test for the localization of circumscribed cerebellar lesions. Republished in book form, Berlin, 1906. In 1914 Bárány was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Me…

1906 CE

#2518.1

Upon the bacteriology of the summer diarrhoea of infants.

Morgan’s bacillus, Proteus morgani.

1906 CE

#4682

Versuche zur Serodiagnostik und Serotherapie der epidemischen Genickstarre.

First attempts at the serum treatment of cerebrospinal meningitis.

1906 CE

#12820

Walter Reed and yellow fever.

Digital facsimile of the revised edition published in 1907 from Google Books at this link.

1906 CE

#5430

Was wissen wir über den Vakzineerreger?

“Paschen elementary bodies”; see also No. 5427.

1906 CE

#3891

Zur Frage der Operationen an der Hypophyse.

Schloffer’s Operation for acromegaly. He was the first successfully to operate upon a pituitary tumor in man (See No. 3892).

1906 CE

#2400

Zur Technik der Spirochaetenuntersuchung.

Dark field method of diagnosis for presence of T. pallidum.

1906 CE–1907 CE

#2084

On the poisons of Amanita phalloides.

Abel and Ford showed that there were two poisons in the fungus Amanita phalloides, and that immunity against them could be attained. A further study on the subject by the same authors is in Arch. exp. Path. Pharmak., …

1906 CE–1907 CE

#844

The form and nature of the muscular connections between the primary divisions of the vertebrate heart.

Discovery of the sinoatrial node, the “pacemaker of the heart”. Reprinted in Willius & Keys, Cardiac classics, 1941, pp. 747-62.

1906 CE–1907 CE

#4194.1

The treatment of malignant diseases of the bladder through suprapubic incision, with report of a case.

Radiotherapy for carcinoma of bladder.

1906 CE–1911 CE

#6401

Geschichte der Medizin. Vol. 1-2, pt. 1.

An English translation was published in London, 2 vols., 1909-25.

1906 CE–1914 CE

#1786

De materia medica. Edidit Max Wellmann. 3 vols.

Dioscorides’ work is the authoritative source on the materia medica of antiquity. He described over 600 plants and plant principles. The above edition by Wellman is the definitive Greek text. It also contains th…

1906 CE–1923 CE

#730

Untersuchungen über Aminosäuren, Polypeptide und Proteine. 2 vols.

In a series of papers, Fischer showed that animal and vegetable proteins are composed of a series of amino-acids united by elimination of water.

1906 CE–1954 CE

#9393

Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde. The Macrolepidoptera of the world: A systematic description of the known Macrolepidoptera. 16 vols. plus 4 supplements. Written and edited by Adalbert Seitz.

Published in French, German and English. The first 4 vols. describe the Palaearctic fauna and vols. 5–16 describe the exotic fauna (Volums 1–4, Palaearctic fauna, with 4 supplements; Vols. 5–8, Ameri…