1900–1909
957 entries with publication dates in this decade.
1909 CE
#5284
Le mécanisme d’action des dérivés arsenicaux dans les trypanosomiases.
A study of the action of atoxyl and arsacétine.
1909 CE
#5263
Malaria and Greek history. To which is added the history of Greek therapeutics and the malaria theory by E.T. Withington.
The view is put forward by the writer that malarial infection was the cause of the decadence of the Greeks. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1909 CE
#9209
Manual of military hygiene.
Digital facsimile of the third, revised edition (1917) from the Internet Archive at this link.
1909 CE
#4195
Médecine opératoire des voies urinaires.
Albarran, a Cuban, became a teacher of the highest rank and attained a professorship at Paris in 1892. He was the first surgeon in France to perform perineal prostatectomy.
1909 CE
#12081
Medical sociology: A series of observations touching upon the sociology of health and the relations of medicine to society.
The first American book specifically on the topic of medical sociology. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1909 CE
#5535
Mycose nouvelle: l’hémisporose. Ostéite humaine primitive du tibia due à l’Hemispora Stellata.
Hemisporosis described.
1909 CE
#5283
Nova tripanozomiaze humana. Estudos sobre a morfolojia e o ciclo evolutivo do Schizotrypanum cruzi n.gen., n.sp., ajente etiolojico de nova entidade morbida do homen.
Chagas discovered T. cruzi, causal organism in American trypanosomiasis (“Chagas’s disease”). Partial English translation in Kean (No. 2268.1).
1909 CE
#10720
Observations on choked disc, with especial reference to decompressive cranial operations.
The diagnostic value for neurosurgery of changes in the optic nerve caused by increased intracranial pressure.
1909 CE
#5381
On heterologous agglutinins more particularly those present in the blood serum of cerebro-spinal fever and typhus fever cases.
The reaction described by Wilson was later developed by Weil and Felix and named after them (see No. 5390). See also the paper by Wilson in J. Hyg., 1920, 19, 115-30.
1909 CE
#1896
On the pharmacological action of some phthaleins and their derivatives.
This work led to the universal clinical use of phenolsulphonephthalein in renal function tests and of phenoltetrachlorphthalein in hepatic function tests.
1909 CE
#1897
On the relation between the toxicity and chemical constitution of a number of derivatives of choline and analogous compounds.
1909 CE
#3859
On the relation of tetany to the parathyroid glands and to calcium metabolism.
Proof that the parathyroids control calcium metabolism. MacCallum and Voegtlin were able to demonstrate the removal of post-parathyroidectomy tetany by administration of calcium.
1909 CE
#3962
On the relation of the islands of Langerhans to glycosuria.
MacCallum suggested a relationship between lesions of the islands of Langerhans and the glycosuria of diabetes.
1909 CE
#1437
On the structure and functional relations of the optic thalamus.
1909 CE
#2969
Partial progressive and complete occlusion of the aorta and other large arteries in the dog by means of the metal band.
Halsted introduced a metal band in place of a ligature for the occlusion of arteries.
1909 CE
#5283.1
Positive Infektionsversuche mit Trypanosoma brucei durch Glossina palpalis.
Glossina was believed to transmit Trypanosoma mechanically to the new host until Kleine showed that the latter undergoes a developmental cycle in Glossina. English translation in Kean (No. 2268.1).
1909 CE
#4005
Précis de dermatologie.
1909 CE
#11224
Remarks on the medical library in post-graduate work.
In this speech given by Osler as President of the Medical Library Association Osler spoke first about the essential value for practicing physicians of institutional medical libraries run by professional librarians, an…
1909 CE
#5460
Sanitation of the tropics with special reference to malaria and yellow fever.
1909 CE
#12411
Secret remedies, what they cost and what they contain. Based on analyses made for the British Medical Association.
This exposé of useless or dangerous drugs was followed in 1912 by More secret remedies. What they cost & what they contain. Based on analyses made for the British Medical Association. Digital facsimile of the 1…
1909 CE
#13795
Smallpox and vaccination in British India.
Includes the history of the introduction of vaccination in India from 1799 onward. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1909 CE
#2114
Snake venoms.
1909 CE
#789
Some considerations upon high amputation of the rectum.
“Hartmann’s critical point”, the site on the large intestine where the lowest sigmoid artery meets the superior rectal arterial branch.
1909 CE
#6404
Studien zur Geschichte der Medizin.
1909 CE
#1132
Studies on thyroid. I. The relation of iodine to the physiological activity of thyroid preparations.
1909 CE
#1159
The action of extracts of the pituitary body.
Oxytocic action of posterior pituitary injection.
1909 CE
#85
The collected papers of Joseph, Baron Lister. 2 vols.
Lister, a pupil of Sharpey, became Professor of Surgery successively at Glasgow, Edinburgh and King’s College, London. He was the first medical man in Britain to be raised to the peerage. The founder of the anti…
1909 CE
#2635
The Croonian Lectures on radioactivity and carcinoma.
1909 CE
#6845
The differentiation and specificity of corresponding proteins and other vital substances in relation to biological classification and organic evolution: The crystallography of hemoglobins.
This massive work with 100 plates including 600 images, was the first large-scale investigation of species differences at the molecular level. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1909 CE
#9208
The elements of military hygiene especially arranged for officers and men of the line.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link. Revised edition, 1915, of which a digital facsimile is available from the Internet Archive at this link.
1909 CE
#1236.2
The fluids of the body.
Starling put forward the idea that renal excretion of salt (and water) was conditioned by the volume of body fluids, particularly the blood volume. He suggested that the sum total of body fluids was arranged so that t…
1909 CE
#13476
The great white plague: Tuberculosis.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1909 CE
#4882
The Linacre lecture on the function of the so-called motor area of the brain.
Horsley demonstrated that removal of the precentral area in man abolished athetosis.
1909 CE
#6519.1
The mediaeval hospitals of England.
Reprinted London 1966.
1909 CE
#12792
The operation of epididymo-vasostomy for the relief of sterility.
Of 11 men with an epididymal obstruction, seven underwent a unilateral and four a bilateral epididymo-vasostomy. The operations consisted of the formation of a side-to-side epididymo-vasal fistula using silver wire su…
1909 CE
#3531
The operative treatment of chronic constipation.
Lane’s operation for chronic intestinal stasis (“Lane’s kink”) consisted in short-circuiting the intestine.
1909 CE
#6215
The pituitary body and the therapeutic value of the infundibular extract in shock, uterine atony, and intestinal paresis.
1909 CE
#6645
The relation of medicine to philosophy.
1909 CE
#9444
The Russo-Japanese war: Medical and sanitary reports from officers attached to the Japanese and Russian forces in the field, General staff, War office, April 1908.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1909 CE
#4196
The technique of orcheopexy.
Torek’s operation for undescended testicle.
1909 CE
#5956
Über Epithelzellveränderungen beim Trachom und andern Conjunctivalerkrankungen.
Demonstration of the inclusion bodies in ophthalmia neonatorum.
1909 CE
#2007
Ueber Diathermie. (Transthermie, Thermopenetration.)
Nagelschmidt employed high frequency currents in treatment after the suggestions of Tesla and the work of Nernst, claiming priority over the latter in the use of this method. Nagelschmidt named this form of treatment …
1909 CE
#4145.1
Ueber eine “Febris uveo-parotidea subchronica”, an der Glandula parotis und der Uvea des Auges lokalisiert und häufig mit Paresen cerebrospinaler Nerven kompliziert
“Heerfordt’s syndrome”, uveo-parotid fever, a form of sarcoidosis.
1909 CE
#3187
Ueber Lungenresektion wegen bronchiektatischer Cavernen.
Körte was the first successfully to remove bronchiectatic lobes.
1909 CE
#4378
Ueber Nagelextension.
Kirschner wire, for skeletal traction, and for stabilization of bone fragments or joint immobilization.
1909 CE
#4881
Ueber operative Behandlung gastrischer Krisen durch Resektion der 7-10. hinteren Dorsalwurzel.
Foerster’s operation for tabes.
1909 CE
#4669
Uebertragung der Poliomyelitis acuta auf Affen.
Landsteiner and Popper were the first to isolate poliovirus and to transmit poliomyelitis to monkeys.
1909 CE
#5756.2
Underdeveloped lower jaw, with limited excursion. Report of two cases with operation.
Closed ramisection of the mandible for micrognathia or prognathism.
1909 CE
#1435
Vergleichende Lokalisationslehre der Grosshirnrinde in ihren Prinzipien dargestellt auf Grund des Zellenbaues.
Brodmann was a pioneer in the study of cytoarchitectonics, and this work forms the basis for localization of function in the cerebral cortex. Brodmann's "areas" are used to designate cortical function regions. Brodman…
1909 CE
#1046
Versuche über Fütterung mit lipoidfreier Nahrung.
Stepp discovered that removal of fat from the diet greatly reduced its nutritive value, but that substitution of pure fats did not replace the deficiency. He thus discovered the existence of fat-soluble vitamins, with…