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1906 CE–1960 CE

#534.7

Die Morphologie der Missbildungen des Menschen und der Thiere. Ein Lehrbuch für morphologen, physiologen, praktische Ärzte und Studierende. 3 vols. in 6 parts, plus supplements.

The first volume is an important contribution to general teratology, including a good history of the topic, and enunciating Schwalbe’s “teratogenic termination period”, the guiding principle for esti…

1907 CE

#3782

A hitherto undescribed disease characterized anatomically by deposits of fat and fatty acids in the intestinal and mesenteric lymphatic tissues.

“Whipple’s disease”. Whipple suggested the name lipodystrophia intestinalis (intestinal lipodystrophy) for this condition because there were abnormal lipid deposits in the small intestine wall. In fi…

1907 CE

#3689.1

A new and accurate method of making gold inlays.

Taggart invented the modern method of making gold inlays.

1907 CE

#13333

A new method by which sponges may be artificially reared.

In one of the first dissociation-reaggregation experiments Wilson demonstrated that mechanically dissociated sponge cells can reaggregate and self-organize to generate a whole organism. Digital facsimile from zenodo.o…

1907 CE

#1433

A new topographical survey of the human cerebral cortex, being an account of the distribution of the anatomically distinct cortical areas and their relationship to the cerebral sulci.

Elliot Smith, Professor of Anatomy at Cairo, Manchester, and University College, London, initiated modern studies of cerebral function with his work on the cortical pattern of the human brain. He identified 50 areas.

1907 CE

#12432

A sporozoan found in the peptic glands of the common mouse.

Tyzzer first identified cryptosporidium in mice and named it Cryptosporidium muris, spec. nov. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.)

1907 CE

#5447

Alcune esperienze di sieroimmunizzazione e sieroterapia nel morbillo.

First use of convalescent serum in prophylaxis against measles.

1907 CE

#3186

Bronchoskopie und bronchoskopische Behandlung von Bronchialasthma.

Introduction of therapeutic bronchoscopy, for treatment of asthma.

1907 CE

#5281

Chemotherapeutische Trypanosomen-Studien.

The first account of induced microbial drug resistance. Ehrlich encountered induced drug resistance in microbes while researching arsenical preparations as cures for sleeping sickness and other trypanosome-caused illn…

1907 CE

#2006

Climatology and balneotherapy.

1907 CE

#4430

Clinical remarks on the operative treatment of fractures.

Lane’s plates and screws for union of fractures.

1907 CE

#4683

Concerning a serum therapy for experimental infection with Diplococcus intracellularis.

Flexner prepared an antiserum for use in cerebrospinal meningitis.

1907 CE

#2597

Contribution à l’étude du “phénomène d’Arthus.”

“Passive” anaphylaxis first demonstrated.

1907 CE

#6118

Das Oophoroma folliculare.

“Brenner tumor”, earlier described by Orthmann (No. 6109). See the historical note in Cancer, 1956, 9, 217.

1907 CE

#8152

Das Werden der Welten. Mit Unterstützung des Verfassers aus dem schwedischen übersetzt von L. Bamberger.

In this work Arrhenius predicted the possibility of man-made global warming. His prediction that significant global warming would take ~3000 years to develop is now recognized as a substantial underestimate due in par…

1907 CE

#2599

De l’anaphylaxie en général et de l’anaphylaxie par la mytilocongestine en particulier.

In 1913 Richet was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "in recognition of his work on anaphylaxis."

1907 CE

#2596

De l’anaphylaxie et de l’anti-anaphylaxie vis-à-vis du sérum de cheval.

“Anti-anaphylaxis” was the term given by Besredka and Steinhardt to the specific desensitization of sensitized animals.

1907 CE

#2338

Der diagnostische Wert der kutanen Tuberkulinreaktion bei der Tuberkulose des Kindesalters auf Grund von 100 Sektionen.

Introduction of Pirquet’s test – a cutaneous reaction employed in the diagnosis of tuberculosis.

1907 CE

#2233

Die asthenische Konstitutionskrankheit.

“Stiller’s disease” – habitus asthenicus.

1907 CE

#7395

Die Bakteriologie in der Augenheilkunde.

Translated into English by Angus McNab as The bacteriology of the eye (London: Ballière, Tyndall & Cox, 1908, and New York: William Wood & Co, 1908).

1907 CE

#846

Die Registrierung der menschlichen Herztone mittels des Saitengalvanometers

Phonocardiography.

1907 CE

#6247

Die suprasymphysäre Entbindung und ihr Verhältniss zu den anderen Operationen bei engen Becken.

Suprasymphyseal transperitoneal Caesarean section.

1907 CE

#4431

Eine neue Extensionsmethode in der Frakturenbehandlung.

Steinmann nail or pin, for insertion through a distal fragment and controlled by direct skeletal traction. English translation in Bick, Classics of orthopaedics.

1907 CE

#12815

Enseignements médicaux de la Guerre Russo-Japonaise. Avec cartes, plans, croquis, schémas et photographies de l'auteur.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1907 CE

#3892

Erfolgreiche Operation eines hypophysen Tumors auf nasalem Wege.

Schloffer’s Operation by the nasal route.

1907 CE

#5473

Experimental investigations regarding the aetiology of dengue fever, with a general consideration regarding the disease.

Proof that the causal organism of dengue is a filterable virus. Published also in J. infect. Dis., 1907, 4, 440-75.

1907 CE

#3721

Experimental studies relating to “ship-beri-beri” and scurvy

Experimental production of scurvy in guinea-pigs. Holst published further papers on the subject in the same journal, 1907, 7, 634-71, and in Z. Hyg., 1912, 72, 1-120, both with Theodor Froelich. Their work made it pos…

1907 CE

#4141

Fall zur Diagnose (Poikiloderma vascularis atrophicans).

First description.

1907 CE

#896

Haematologické studie u psychotiků.

Janský, a Czech serologist, neurologist and psychiatrist, tried to find a correlation between mental diseases and blood diseases. He found no such correlation, and published a study, the title of which translat…

1907 CE

#7364

Hamilton's Itinerarium; being a narrative of a journey from Annapolis, Maryland, through Delaware, Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts and New Hampshire, from May to September, 1744, Edited by Albert Bushnell Hart.

Hamilton's Itinerarium was first issued by Albert Bushnell Hart in an edition privately printed by William K. Bixby, St. Louis, Missouri, 1907. It was republished as Gentleman's progress: the Itinerarium of Dr. Alexan…

1907 CE

#3783

Ictères hémolytiques non congénitaux avec anémie.

“Widal-Abrami disease” (Hayem-Widal disease), acquired hemolytic anemia. (See also No. 3777.)

1907 CE

#2564.1

Immunochemistry. The application of the principles of physical chemistry to the study of the biological antibodies.

Arrhenius defined immunochemistry, and laid out its frontiers.

1907 CE

#2130

In Report of the Departmental Committee on Compensation for Industrial Diseases. Cd. 3495 and 3496.

The first reported case of asbestosis was observed by Murray at Charing Cross Hospital, London, in 1899 and reported to the Committee (Report, p. 14: Minutes of Evidence, p. 127) in 1907.

1907 CE

#4142

Innesto positivo con filtrato de verruca volgare.

Ciuffo presented the first demonstration that a cell-free agent could induce a human tumor. He induced human warts on his own hand with a bacteria-free filtrate (a virus) prepared from excised wart tissue. The signifi…

1907 CE

#5952

Iridencleisis antiglaucomatosa.

Introduction of iridencleisis for glaucoma.

1907 CE

#9181

Is Mars habitable?

"His treatment of Mars in this book [Man's Place in the Universe] was brief, and in 1907, Wallace returned to the subject with a book Is Mars Habitable? to criticise the claims made by Percival Lowell that there were …

1907 CE

#2598

Klinische Studien über Vakzination und vakzinale Allergie.

Pirquet suggested the word “Allergie”; see also his paper with this title in Münich. med. Wschr., 1906, 53, 1457-58.

1907 CE

#4714.1

Klinische und anatomische Untersuchungen über eine besondere Form von familiärer amaurotische Idiotie.

See No. 4713.1. Reprinted in Histologische und Histopathologische Arbeiten über die Grosshirnrinde (Nissl), 1908, 2, 193-213.

1907 CE

#2518.2

Kolloidstudien mit der Filtrationsmethode.

Bechhold devised ultrafiltration methods for studies in microbiology.

1907 CE

#3843

L’infantilisme vrai.

Brissaud described thyroid infantilism.

1907 CE

#4431.1

L’intervention opératoire dans les fractures.

Lambotte developed an external fracture fixation device using pins on either side of the fracture, connected by a solid rod.

1907 CE

#733

Lactic acid in amphibian muscle.

Explanation of the production of lactic acid in normal muscular contraction.

1907 CE

#3025.3

Ligation of the ductus arteriosus.

Munro was first to suggest the feasibility of ligation of a patent ductus arteriosus.

1907 CE

#13488

Literatura medicală românească; biografii si bibliografie.

Covers the period 1700-1900. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1907 CE

#2714

Multiple hereditary developmental angiomata (telangiectases) of the skin and mucous membranes associated with recurring haemorrhages.

“Rendu–Osler–Weber disease.”

1907 CE

#13400

Multiple Nervenentzündung (Polyneuritis) bei Hühnern.

Marek's disease (fowl paralysis) later named by Peter Biggs, who determined that the disease was caused by Gallid alphaherpesvirus 2, and developed the first generation Marek's disease vaccine.

1907 CE

#2825

Neuerung zur Messung des systolischen und diastolischen Druckes.

Fellner suggested the use of the stethoscope in the measurement of systolic and diastolic pressure.

1907 CE

#5333

Note on an organism found in yellow-fever tissue.

Stimson discovered a spirochete in the organs of persons dying of (?) yellow fever. He called it Sp. interrogans, but it was almost certainly Leptospira icterohaemorrhagiae.

1907 CE

#5953

Nouveau traitement du glaucome chronique; iridectomie et sclérectomie combinée.

Sclerectomy for the treatment of glaucoma.

1907 CE

#521

Observations on the living developing nerve fiber.

Harrison demonstrated the development of nerve fibres by independent growth from cells outside the organism.