1900–1909

1907 CE

#12253

On herpetic inflammations of the geniculate ganglion: A new syndrome and its complications.

Herpes zoster oticus, also known as Ramsay Hunt syndrome type 2.

1907 CE

#3868

On suprarenal sarcoma in children with metastases in the skull.

Hutchison’s tumors.

1907 CE

#3781

Pathogénie de l’ictère de l’adulte.

“Minkowski–Chauffard disease” (see No. 3779).

1907 CE

#8108

Physiologie de l'aéronaute: Travail du laboratoire de la clinique médicale de l'Hôtel-Dieu. M. le Professeur Dieulafoy.

Physiological studies of balloonists; extensive bibliography. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1907 CE

#12138

Plague in Queensland, 1900-1907.

Ham was Queensland's first Commissioner of Public Health. Extensively illustrated. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1907 CE

#1709

Probability: The foundation of eugenics.

1907 CE

#5350

Recherches sur un séro-diagnostic du kyste hydatique par la méthode des précipitines.

Precipitin reaction for the diagnosis of hydatid disease.

1907 CE

#3079

Septische Erkrankungen bei Verkümmerung des Granulozytensystems.

First reported case of complete agranulocytosis.

1907 CE

#4879.01

Some points on the surgery of the brain and its membranes.

Ballance recognized and described chronic subdural hematoma with great accuracy, described a successful operation for it and also for subdural hygroma, discussed brain abscess fully and devoted 243pp. to brain tumors.

1907 CE

#4984

Studie über Minderwertigkeit von Organen.

Adler, a disciple of Freud, introduced the concept of the inferiority complex and the method of compensation needed to overcome it.

1907 CE

#6487

Studies in the medicine of ancient India. Part 1. Osteology or the bones of the human body.

All published.

1907 CE

#2337

Sur un nouveau procédé de diagnostic de la tuberculose chez l’homme par l’ophtalmo-reaction à la tuberculine.

Calmette’s conjunctival reaction test for tuberculosis.

1907 CE

#5806

Surgical instruments in Greek and Roman times.

Reprinted, N.Y., 1970.

1907 CE

#1895.1

Synthese des Imidazolyläthylamins.

Synthesis of histamine.

1907 CE

#4821

The border-land of epilepsy. Faints, vagal attacks, vertigo, migraine, sleep symptoms, and their treatment.

1907 CE

#1476

The central course of the nervus octavus and its influence on motility.

Winkler was Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry at Amsterdam and Utrecht. He published more than 200 papers, among the most important being that on the central pathways of the eighth nerve.

1907 CE

#5756.1

The correction of featural imperfections.

The first book on cosmetic surgery. Miller “was both a quack and surgical visionary, years ahead of his more academic colleagues” (Rogers).

1907 CE

#7226

The dancing mouse: A study in animal behavior.

The first work to examine the characteristics of deaf mice, which became the most important model for the study of genetic deafness. Digital facsimile from the Biodiversity Heritage Library, Internet Archive at this l…

1907 CE

#87

The fragments of Empedocles. Translated into English verse by William Ellergy Leonard.

Empedocles was a Greek philosopher, statesman, physician and reformer. His poem on Nature originally ran to 5,000 lines, of which only 400 are now left. He believed in four ultimate elements—fire, air, water and…

1907 CE

#1027

The influence of inanition on metabolism.

1907 CE

#14162

The journal of Dr. John Morgan of Philadelphia from the city of Rome to the city of London 1764. Together with a fragment of a journal written at Rome, 1764, and a biographical sketch.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1907 CE

#5321

The part played by Pediculus corporis in the transmission of relapsing fever.

Proof that relapsing fever is conveyed by the body louse, Pediculus corporis.

1907 CE

#788

The significance of a hitherto undescribed wave in the jugular pulse.

The physiological wave sometimes found in mid-diastole, when the pulse is slow, was first described by Gibson. He termed it the b-wave. Gibson worked with William Osler at the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford, and cared …

1907 CE

#3026

The surgery of blood vessels, etc.

Carrel’s remarkable technique of end-to-end anastomosis of blood vessels; see also No. 2909.

1907 CE

#3608.1

The technic of modern operations for hernia.

Includes description of the Ferguson operation.

1907 CE

#3337

Tracheo-bronchoscopy, esophagoscopy and gastroscopy.

First textbook on endoscopy.

1907 CE

#451

Tradition und Naturbeobachtung in den Illustrationen medicinischer Handschriften und Frühdrucke vornehmlich des 15. Jahrhunderts.

1907 CE

#4763

Traité des torticolis spasmodiques.

In this classic monograph, 357 cases of torticollis are recorded.

1907 CE

#5951

Über Zelleinschlüsse parasitärer Natur beim Trachom.

Halberstaedter and Prowazek first described the cytoplasmic inclusion bodies of trachoma, Chlamydia trachomatis.

1907 CE

#5350.1

Ueber den Wohnort von Schistosomum japonicum. [Japanese text.]

Fujinami and Nakamura identified the intermediate host of S. japonicum. Abstract in Arch. Schiffs-u. Tropenhyg., 1908, 12,471. Later (1909, 6, 224-52) they demonstrated that infection occurred by skin penetration. Eng…

1907 CE

#4234

Ueber die entzündlichen Veränderungen der Glomeruli der menschlichen Nieren und ihre Bedeutung für die Nephritis.

“Focal nephritis”. Löhlein established the importance of the initial inflammatory reaction in the glomerular capillaries in glomerulonephritis. Forms part 4 of Arb. path. Inst. Leipzig.

1907 CE

#4956

Ueber eine eigenartige Erkrankung der Hirnrinde.

“Alzheimer’s disease” –presenile dementia. Preliminary note in Neurol. Zbl., 1906, 25, 1134. English translation in Arch. neurol., 1969, 21, 109-110, and in K. Bick (ed.) The early story of Alz…

1907 CE

#4143

Ueber eine neue knötchenförmige Hauteruption; Lichen nitidus.

Original description of lichen nitidus, “Pinkus’s disease”. Pinkus first showed a case before the Berlin Dermatological Society on 3 Dec, 1901, and named it “lichen nitidus”.

1907 CE

#2594.1

Zur Frage der Serum-Ueberempfindlichkeit.

Otto discovered that a state of tolerance developed in animals that survived anaphylactic shock. He induced passive transfer of hypersensitivity.

1907 CE–1908 CE

#2633

A study of heredity in relation to the development of tumours in mice.

First experimental study of the heredity of mouse cancer.

1907 CE–1908 CE

#3078

Blutkrankheiten und Blutdiagnostik.

1907 CE–1908 CE

#522

Experiments on the origin and differentiation of the optic vesicle in amphibia.

1907 CE–1908 CE

#847

The extra-systole. A contribution to the functional pathology of the primitive cardiac tissue.

1907 CE–1908 CE

#1569.2

The labyrinth of animals. 2 vols.

“An important and elaborate work designed to give the anatomy of the labyrinth, or inside of the ears of vertebrates, with the exception of fishes” (Casey Wood). Illustrated with stereoscopic photographs.

1907 CE–1909 CE

#570

De usu partium libri XVII ad codicum fidem recensuit Georgius Helmreich. 2 vols.

First separate edition, edited from the prior printed editions and the surviving early manuscripts, of Galen's treatise on the function, use and purpose of the individual parts of the body. In this treatise Galen expl…

1907 CE–1910 CE

#11290

Modern medicine, its theory and practice. In original contributions by American and foreign authors. Edited by William Osler, assisted by Thomas McCrae. 7 vols.

Osler contributed six chapters to this massive system of medicine: "The Evolution of Internal Medicine", "Diseases of the Arteries," "Aneurism," "Raynaud's Disease," "Diffuse Scleroderma," "Angioneurotic Oedema." Osle…

1907 CE–1912 CE

#6635

A history of nursing. 4 vols.

Vols. 3-4 by L.L Dock only.

1907 CE–1913 CE

#3413

Geschichte der Ohrenheilkunde. 2 vols.

It is fitting that Politzer should have been the greatest historian of otology. He was Professor of Otology in Vienna and his teaching had great influence upon the advancement of the subject. The Geschichte is a maste…

1907 CE–1916 CE

#12

An English translation of the Sushruta Samhita, based on original Sankskrit text: Edited and published by Kaviraj Kunja Lal Bhishagratna. With a full and comprehensive introduction, translation of different readings, notes, comparative views, index, glossary and plates. 3 vols.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1907 CE–1928 CE

#2661.1

Die Lehre von der Krebskrankheit von den ältesten Zeiten bis zur Gegenwart. 4 vols.

Exhaustive and accurate review of all the then-available information on cancer. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link. English translation of vol. 1 as The science of cancerous disease from the earliest tim…

1907 CE–1951 CE

#11297

Bulletin of the International Association of Medical Museums, Vols. 1-32. Edited by Maude E. Abbott, Alfred Scott Warthin, and others.

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1908 CE

#2913

[In Russian:] Changes in parenchymatous organs and in the aorta of rabbits under the influence of animal protein.

Experimental atherosclerosis produced by a cholesterol-rich diet of whole milk, egg yolks, and meat. French translation as" Influence de la nourriture animale sur l'organisme des lapins," Arch. Méd. exp. Anat. …

1908 CE

#6768.1

A catalogue of the manuscripts in the library of the Hunterian Museum in the University of Glasgow. Planned and begun by the late John Young...Continued and completed under the direction of the Young Memorial Committee by P. Henderson Aitken.

Catalogue of the manuscripts collected and bequeathed to the University of Glasgow by William Hunter (1718-83), now in the Hunterian Collection, University of Glasgow Library. The catalogue provides full descriptions …

1908 CE

#1302

A human experiment in nerve division.

Head submitted to the division of his own left radial and external cutaneous nerves. His subsequent study of the loss and restoration of sensation thus brought about, led to a reclassification of the sensory pathways.…

1908 CE

#3528.1

A method of performing abdomino-perineal excision for carcinoma of the rectum and of the terminal portion of the pelvic colon.

Miles devised the operation of abdomino-perineal resection.