1900–1909
957 entries with publication dates in this decade.
1908 CE
#243
Mendelian proportions in a mixed population.
Hardy–Weinberg equilibrium.
1908 CE
#3960
Note on the sodium nitro-prusside reaction for acetone.
Test for acetone bodies in urine
1908 CE
#7444
Notes of a botanist on the Amazon & Andes, being records of travel on the Amazon and its tributaries, the Trombetas, Rio Negro, Uaupés, Casiquiari, Pacimoni, Huallaga, and Pastas; as also to the cataracts of the Orinoco, along the eastern side of the Andes of Peru and Ecuador, and the shores of the Pacific during the years 1849-1864. Edited and condensed by Alfred Russel Wallace..., with a biographical introduction, portrait, seventy-one illustrations and seven maps. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1908 CE
#3528
On infantilism from chronic intestinal infection; characterized by the overgrowth and persistence of flora of the nursling period.
“Herter’s infantilism”. Called also “Gee-Herter disease” (No. 3491).
1908 CE
#6119
Operation in cases of complete prolapsed.
Donald’s operation for prolapse.
1908 CE
#7110
Oppien d'Apamée, La chasse. Édition critique par Pierre Boudreaux.
Standard edition of the Cynegetica (Κυνηγετικά/KynÄ“getiká, 'On Hunting' ) by Oppian of Apamea. This edition was based upon a new collation of prior printed ed…
1908 CE
#3080
Per la patogenesi e per la diagnosi delle malattie del sangue e degli organi emopoietici. Puntura esplorativa del midollo osseo.
Introduction of bone marrow biopsy by puncturing the shaft of the tibia.
1908 CE
#9018
Philumeni de venenatis animalibus eorumque remediis capita XXXVIII ed. M. Wellmann. Corpus medicorum graecorum X 1, 1.
This work on venoms and their antidotes is the only surviving work of the Byzantine physician Philomenos. Within this context Philomenos also discusses the bites of rabid dogs. Digital facsimile from Corpus medicorum …
1908 CE
#6455.1
Physiological and medical observations among the Indians of Southwestern United States and Northern Mexico.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1908 CE
#3027
Results of the transplantation of blood vessels, organs and limbs.
Carrel showed that arteries kept for days or weeks outside the body can be transplanted successfully.
1908 CE
#4684
Serum treatment of epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis.
1908 CE
#5534
Sur une infection à corps de Leishman (ou organismes voisins) du gondi.
Toxoplasma described. English translation in Kean (No. 2268.1).
1908 CE
#4880.1
Surgery of the head. In: Surgery: its principles and practice, edited by William Williams Keen, 3, 17-276.
Cushing’s first treatise on neurosurgery. “As a result of this detailed monograph, neurological surgery became almost at once recognized as a clear-cut field of surgical endeavor” (J.F. Fulton, Harve…
1908 CE
#6572
Svenska Läkaresällskapets historia 1808-1908.
Continued (1908-38) by Gunnar Nilson, Stockholm, General-Statens litograf. Anstalt, 1947.
1908 CE
#9307
The Battle Creek Sanitarium system: History, organization, methods.
"John Harvey Kellogg is best known for the invention of the famous breakfast cereal, Corn Flakes, in 1878. Originally, he called this cereal Granula, which he later changed to Granola in 1881. However, due to patent r…
1908 CE
#3188
The Bradshaw Lecture on massive collapse of the lung.
William Pasteur discovered and described massive collapse of the lung.
1908 CE
#6002
The development of ophthalmology in America, 1800 to 1870.
Of limited value, but the only available history of early American ophthalmology.
1908 CE
#6536
The history of the study of medicine in the British Isles.
FitzPatrick Lectures, 1905-06.
1908 CE
#734
The oxidation of butyric acid by means of hydrogen peroxide with formation of acetone, aldehydes, and other products.
See No. 735.
1908 CE
#132
The problem of age, growth and death.
Minot’s theory of aging, based on cytomorphosis and the rate of growth. This work first appeared as a paper in vol. 7 of the Popular Science Monthly, 1907.
1908 CE
#3844
The relation of iodin to the structure of the thyroid gland.
Marks the beginning of Marine’s lifelong study of the thyroid.
1908 CE
#1435.1
The structure and functions of the cerebellum examined by a new method.
Stereotactic apparatus for the accurate location of electrodes in the brain. The apparatus devised by Horsley and Clarke opened the way to stereotactic surgery of the brain.
1908 CE
#2912
Thrombo-angiitis obliterans; a study of the vascular lesions leading to presenile spontaneous gangrene.
Buerger’s important paper on thrombo-angiitis obliterans gives the first comprehensive report of the clinical and pathological aspects of the disease. Buerger gave the condition its present name; it is also know…
1908 CE
#4235
Transplantation in mass of the kidneys.
Carrel revolutionized vascular surgery. He transplanted the kidney from one animal to another, an operation later carried out successfully in man. For his earlier work on vascular anastomosis and transplantation of vi…
1908 CE
#5484.1
Über die Immunisierung gegen Wutkrankheit.
Fermi was the first to use chemical treatment of tissue suspensions of fixed rabies virus for the preparation of vaccine (Fermi vaccine). He introduced the use of carbolic acid for this purpose.
1908 CE
#244
Überden Nachweis der Vererbung beim Menschen.
Weinberg, a general practitioner and obstetrician in Stuttgart, was also a founder of population genetics. He co-discovered the Hardy–Weinberg equilibrium.
1908 CE
#524
Ueber den chemischen Character des Befruchtungvorgangs.
1908 CE
#3080.1
Ueber den habituellen Ikterus de Neugeborenen.
First detailed description of familial icterus gravis neonatorum.
1908 CE
#736
Ueber die kleinsten Moleküle, welche die Leber zur Synthese des Glykogenes verwerten kann.
1908 CE
#3012
Ueber die operative Behandlung der Embolie der Lungenarterie.
Pulmonary embolectomy first attempted, “Trendelenburg’s operation” – first successfully performed by Kirschner (see No. 3016).
1908 CE
#4505.1
Ueber die Wirkung von Chinolincarbonsäuren und ihrer Derivate auf die Ausscheidung der Harnsäure.
Introduction of cinchophen in the treatment of gout.
1908 CE
#5477
Ueber ein neues invisibles Virus.
Doerr showed the relation of phlebotomus fever to the sandfly, Phlebotomus.
1908 CE
#2339
Ueber eine diagnostische verwertbare Reaktion der Haul auf Einreibung mit Tuberkulinsalbe.
Moro’s percutaneous tuberculin reaction, employed as a diagnostic measure.
1908 CE
#4377
Ueber eine häufige, bisher anscheinend unbekannte Erkrankung einzelner kindlicher Knochen.
“Köhler’s disease” of the scaphoid bone of the foot in children. See No. 4387.
1908 CE
#3644
Ueber eine neue Funktion des Pankreas und ihre Beziehung zum Diabetes mellitus.
Loewi’s pancreatic function test.
1908 CE
#4880
Ueber eine neue operative Methode der Behandlung spastischer Lähmungen mittels Resektion hinterer Rückenmarkswurzeln.
Foerster’s operation of rhizotomy for spastic paralysis.
1908 CE
#4145
Ueber Erythrodermia desquamativa, eine eigenartige universelle Dermatose der Brustkinder.
Desquamative erythroderma of nurslings (Leiner); apparently a toxic eruption peculiar to breast-fed children suffering from enteritis.
1908 CE
#4377.1
Ueber Gelenktransplantation.
First osteoarticular joint transplant. English translation in Clin. orthop., 1985, 197, 1-10. See also his paper, "Substitution of whole or half joints from freshly amputated extremities by free plastic operation," Su…
1908 CE
#1948
Ueber Sulfamide der p-Amidobenzolsulfonsäure.
Para-aminobenzenesulfonamide (sulphanilamide) first prepared.
1908 CE
#3961
Ueber Versuche einer specifischen Fermenttherapie des Diabetes.
Zuelzer succeeded in isolating the pancreatic extract which contained what we now know as insulin; serious hypoglycaemic reactions sometimes followed its use, however, and led to its abandonment. Preliminary paper in …
1908 CE
#5532.1
Uma mycose pseudococcidica localisada na bocca e observada no Brazil. Contribuiçao ao conhocimento das hyphoblastomycoses americanas.
South American blastomycosis.
1908 CE
#5693.1
Un appareil pour l’anesthésie par l’éther.
Ombrédanne ether inhaler.
1908 CE
#4144
Un cas de cutis laxa avec tumeurs par contusion chronique des coudes et des genoux.
Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (see also No. 4132). Danlos noted the subcutaneous tumors that may occur in this condition.
1908 CE
#5534.1
Un nuovo protozoa parassito de’ conigli incontrato nelle lesioni anatomiche d’una malattia che ricorda in molti punti il kala azar dell’uomo.
Splendore discovered Toxoplasma in a rabbit; it was named T. cuniculi.
1908 CE
#4715
Weitere Mitteilungen über eine eigenartige hereditär-familiare Erkrankung des Zentralnervensystems.
“Pelizaeus-Merzbacher disease”, familial centrolobar sclerosis (see also No. 4703).
1908 CE
#5041
Weitere Mitteilungen über Schweinepest mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Bakteriologie der Hogcholeragruppe.
First description of Salmonella paratyphi C.
1908 CE
#6403
Zeittafeln zur Geschichte der Medizin.
1908 CE–1909 CE
#2827
Chronic infectious endocarditis.
The tender subcutaneous nodes in subacute bacterial endocarditis (“Osler’s nodes”) were first observed by Osler in 1888, and reported in 1909. This paper is the first definite clinical description of…
1908 CE–1909 CE
#1339
The mode of action of specific substances with special reference to secretin.
These workers drew attention to the similarity between the effects of nerve stimulation and certain drugs, especially muscarine, on the heart.
1908 CE–1909 CE
#2309
The principles of pathology. 2 vols.
Vol. 2 written with A. G. Nicholls.