1900–1909
957 entries with publication dates in this decade.
1908 CE
#9724
A mind that found itself.
In 1900 Beers was confined to a private mental institution for depression and paranoia. He was later confined to another private hospital as well as a state institution. During those periods he experienced and witness…
1908 CE
#3689.2
A work on operative dentistry. 2 vols.
Black established a system of cavity preparation from which modern techniques have been derived. He constructed a “gnathodynamometer” with which the pressure exerted on the human tooth and therefore on the…
1908 CE
#6722
An Alabama student, and other biographical essays.
This collection of biographical essays includes most of Osler's famous writings in this category, with the exception of his essay on Michael Servetus. (Copies were also issued with a New York and a Toronto imprint.) D…
1908 CE
#3529
Beitrag zur Magenchirurgie.
Report of Hofmeister’s modification of the Billroth II gastro-enterostomy.
1908 CE
#1434
Beiträge zur histologischen Lokalisation der Grosshirnrinde. VI. Die Cortexgliederung des Menschen.
“Brodmann’s areas”, the occipital and pre-occipital area of the cerebral cortex.
1908 CE
#7094
Catalogue of the Library of Charles Darwin now in the Botany School, Cambridge, compiled by H. W. Rutherford, with an introduction by Francis Darwin.
See also the digital edition and virtual reconstruction of the surviving books owned by Charles Darwin from the Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link. This BHL special collection draws on original copies and surr…
1908 CE
#2634
Chronisch entzündliche Bauchdeckengeschwülste nach Bruchoperationen.
“Schloffer’s tumor” – a rare inflammatory pseudotumor of the abdomen. It usually appears several years after abdominal surgery, including herniotomy, or trauma.
1908 CE
#735
Comparative studies of the mode of oxidation of phenyl derivatives of fatty acids by the animal organism and by hydrogen peroxide.
Dakin’s oxidation theory.
1908 CE
#9645
Concerning the relationship between the strength of acids and their capacity to preserve neutrality.
Henderson-Hasselbalch equation for the determination of pH concentration in the blood. See Hasselbalch's paper. Digital facsimile of Henderson's paper from the American Journal of Physiology at this link. Henderson's …
1908 CE
#523
Contributions to the study of the early development and imbedding of the human ovum. An early ovum imbedded in the decidua.
The “Bryce-Teacher ovum”, age estimated at 13-14 days.
1908 CE
#86.5
Corpus Medicorum Graecorum. Ediderunt Academiae Berolinensis Hauniensis Lipsiensis
CORPUS MEDICORUM GRAECORUM
This series sets as its goal the scholarly edition of all extant ancient Greek medical texts, including those lost in the original language but preserved in medieval translations. These are numbered as follows: I. Hip…
1908 CE
#11329
Das Gebiss des Menschen und der Anthropomorphen. Vergleichend anatomische Untersuchungen.
1908 CE
#12896
Découverte d'un squelette humain moustérien à La Chapelle-aux-Saints (Corrèze).
On August 3, 1908 the brothers Amédée and Jean Bouyssonie and Lucien Bardon, three French priests with a keen interest in paleontology, unearthed a Neanderthal skeleton in the limestone bedrock of the Bo…
1908 CE
#1301
Der Bau der Spinalganglien des Menschen und der Säugetiere.
1908 CE
#1181
Der Bau der Uterusschleimhaut des geschlechtsreifen Weibes besonderer Berücksichtigung der Menstruation.
First definite description of the cyclical changes in the endometrium, which were shown to be a normal physiological process.
1908 CE
#7253
Der Unterkiefer des Homo heidelbergensis aus den Sanden von Mauer bei Heidelberg. Ein Beitrag zur Paläontologie des Menschens.
First report on the Mauer jaw discovered by Schoetensack in a sandpit or quarry in the environs of Heidelberg. This was the first fossil specimen unearthed of an extinct hominin species which Schoetensack named Homo h…
1908 CE
#12276
Design in nature illustrated by spiral and other arrangements in the inorganic and organic kingdoms as exemplified in matter, force, life, growth, rhythms, &c., especially in crystals, plants, and animals. 3 vols.
"Illustrated by nearly two thousand figures, mostly original and from nature." Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1908 CE
#6768
Deutsch medizinische Inkunabeln.
1908 CE
#3316
Die entzündlichen Nebenhöhlenerkrankungen der Nase im Röntgenbild.
The first important work on the radiology of the accessory nasal sinuses.
1908 CE
#6120
Die erweiterte vaginale Totalexstirpation des Uterus bei Kollumkarzinom.
Radical vaginal hysterectomy for carcinoma of the cervix.
1908 CE
#6248
Die extraperitoneale Uterusschnitt.
Sellheim’s operation. For his three subsequent modifications, see the same journal, 319-31, 641-51, and Mschr. Geburtsh. Gynäk., 1911, 34, 34-45.
1908 CE
#6214
Die künstliche Blutleere der unteren Körperhälfte.
Abdominal ligature in prevention of post-partum haemorrhage.
1908 CE
#2340
Die kutane und konjunktivale Tuberkulinreaktion, ihre Bedeutung für Diagnostik und Prognose der Tuberkulose.
Wolff-Eisner’s conjunctival tuberculin reaction.
1908 CE
#9477
Die Prognose der Dementia praecox (Schizophreniegruppe).
At the annual meeting of the Deutschen Verein für Psychiatrie in Berlin on the 24th and 25th of April, 1908 Bleuler introduced the term schizophrenia, by which he denoted a group of psychotic reactions rather tha…
1908 CE
#2044
Die volkmedizinische Organotherapie und ihr Verhältnis zum Kultopfer.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1908 CE
#12385
Die von Pirquet'sche Hautreaktion und die intravenöse Tuberkulinbehandlung.
First publication on the The Mantoux test or Mendel–Mantoux test (also known as the Mantoux screening test, tuberculin sensitivity test, Pirquet test, or PPD test for purified protein derivative) is a tool for s…
1908 CE
#3572
Die Wurmfortsatzentzündung.
Aschoff’s theory of the enterogenous origin of appendicitis.
1908 CE
#10392
Diseases of occupation from the legislative, social, and medical points of view.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1908 CE
#2826
Diseases of the heart.
Chapter 30 of the third edition (1914) includes Mackenzie’s classic description of the clinical picture of “nodal rhythm” (auricular fibrillation). Reprinted in Willius & Keys, Cardiac classics, 1941…
1908 CE
#452
Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Anatomie im Mittelalter, speziell der anatomischen Graphik nach Handschriften des 9. bis 15. Jahrhunderts.
Studien zur Geschichte der Medizin, Leipzig, Heft 4. Reprinted Hildesheim, 1964.
1908 CE
#4716
Eine eigentümliche tonische Krampfform mit hysterischen Symptomen.
First description of torsion-spasm, dystonia musculorum deformans; also called “Ziehen–Oppenheim disease” following reports of cases by these writers in Neurol. Zbl., 1911, 30, 109, 1090.
1908 CE
#10591
Experimental and clinical notes on chronic valvular lesions in the dog and their possible relation to a future surgery of cardiac valves.
Cushing and Branch's work was a key step in the early development of surgery of the mitral valves, later realized by Cushing's students Elliot Carr Cutler and Claude Beck in 1924. "Experiments on canine heart valves w…
1908 CE
#3079.1
Experimentelle Leukämie bei Hühnern.
Cell-free transmission of fowl leukemia. Ellermann and Bang produced leukemia by means of a filterable agent.
1908 CE
#5954
Forms of retinal disease with massive exudation.
“Coats’s disease” (retinitis circinata).
1908 CE
#5282
Further results of the experimental treatment of trypanosomiasis in rats.
Trial of antimony in the treatment of trypanosomiasis.
1908 CE
#6293
Geschichte der gynäkologische-anatomischen Abbildungen.
From the ancient world through the 18th century. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1908 CE
#9502
Hermaphroditismus beim Menschen.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1908 CE
#8238
Histoire de la médecine Arabe en Tunisie.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1908 CE
#7342
I ganglî cerebrospinali. Studi di istologia comparata e di istogenesi.
"Using comparative and developmental approaches he examined dorsal root ganglion cells in the embryos of 18 vertebrate species, and adults of 56 species—using a variety of histological stains, particularly those…
1908 CE
#3231
Indications du traitement chirurgical de la tuberculose pulmonaire.
First radical thoracoplasty.
1908 CE
#8246
Insanity in India: Its symptoms and diagnosis; with reference to the relation of crime and insanity.
Includes considerable discussion of the psychoactive effects of cannabis. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1908 CE
#3893
Insuffisance thyro-ovarienne et hyperactivité hypophysaire (troubles acromégaliques).
Rénon–Delille syndrome – dyspituitarism manifested by lowered blood-pressure, tachycardia, oliguria, insomnia, hyperhidrosis, and intolerance to heat.
1908 CE
#2341
Intradermo-réaction de la tuberculine.
Mantoux’s intradermal tuberculin skin test.
1908 CE
#5065
Kutanreaktion beil Impfung mit Diphtherietoxin.
The Schick test for the determination of susceptibility to diphtheria.
1908 CE
#13600
L'Honneur médical, manuel de déontologie élémentaire.
A treatise on medical ethics and the duties of the physician influenced by Christian religious beliefs. Translated into English by W.P. Grant as Medical etiquette (Handbook of elementary deontology). With a preface by…
1908 CE
#1158
L’hypophyse du cerveau. I. Physiologie.
Paulesco found that the removal of the anterior pituitary had fatal results, while removal of the posterior lobe had negative results.
1908 CE
#2999
La cure des varices du membre inférieur par l’injection intraveineuse d’une solution d’iode.
Schiassi combined operative and sclerosant methods in the treatment of varicose veins. Translation in Med. Press, 1909, 87,377.
1908 CE
#6578
La medicina en Cataluña (bosquejo histórico).
1908 CE
#12898
La photographie au laboratoire de médecine légale de l'Université de Nancy.
iIlustrated with 77 photographs, Bedin's work describes the methods and practices of forensic photography developed at Nancy between 1905 and 1908. The work is divided into two parts: The first part contains four chap…
1908 CE
#5781
