1900–1909
957 entries with publication dates in this decade.
1901 CE
#4132
Cutis laxa. Neigung zu Haemorrhagien in der Haut, Lockerung mehrerer Artikulationen.
Description of the syndrome to which the name “Ehlers–Danlos syndrome” was later attached (see also No. 4144), earlier described by Tschernogubow: Cutis laxa, Mh. prakt. Derm., 1892, 14, 76.
1901 CE
#5997
Die Augenheilkunde der Alten.
A history of ancient ophthalmology in which the writer has attempted to reconstruct the anatomical concepts of the ancient Greeks. Translated into English by Richey L. Waugh as Ophthalmology of the ancients, Oostende:…
1901 CE
#2661
Die Carcinomlitteratur. Eine Zusammenstellung der in-und ausländischen Krebsschriften bis 1900.
1901 CE
#16.2
Die Fragmente der sikelischen Ärzte Akron, Philistion und des Diokles von Karystos. Herausgegeben von M. Wellmann.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1901 CE
#6497
Die Medizin im Alten Testament.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1901 CE
#14092
Die Neven-verteilung in der Haut in ihrer Beziehung zu den Erkrankungen der Haut. Beilage zu den Verhandlungen der Deutschen Dermatologischen Gesellschaft VII Congress.
At the Seventh Congress of the German Dermatological Society held in 1901Blaschko presented observations of a rare dermatological condition involving patterned skin lesions S-shaped on the abdomen, V-shaped over the u…
1901 CE
#129
Die organischen Regulationen.
1901 CE
#12438
Die Schutzstoffe des Blutes.
In this paper on humoral immunity in humans Ehrlich addressed the bacteriocidal property of the blood, attributing that to antibodies and antitoxins. Digital facsimile from pei.de at this link. (Thanks to Juan Weiss f…
1901 CE
#3524
Diseases of the stomach and their surgical treatment.
1901 CE
#3889
Ein Fall von Tumor der Hypophysis cerebri ohne Akromegalie.
Fröhlich’s classic description of dystrophia adiposogenitalis, pituitary tumor, with obesity and sexual infantilism (“Fröhlich’s syndrome”). Reprinted (in German) in Research Publicat…
1901 CE
#1754
Eine Methode zur Unterscheidung der verschiedenen Blutarten, im besonderen zum differentialdiagnostischen Nachweise des Menschenblutes.
Uhlenhuth was the first to use precipitins in medico-legal tests for human blood.
1901 CE
#4952
Einführung in die psychiatrische Klinik.
Kraepelin evolved a new classification of insanity. He introduced the concepts “dementia praecox” and “manic-depressive insanity”. (Regarding the latter, see also No. 4932.)
1901 CE
#10138
Elephants and their diseases: A treatise on elephants.
Digital facsimile of the 1910 edition from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.
1901 CE
#1428.1
Estructura dela corteza cerebral olfativa del hombre y mamíferos.
Ramón y Cajal’s descriptions of the limbic cortex are still the most authoritative. The above work and three shorter papers in the same volume were translated by L.M. Kraft as Studies on the cerebral cort…
1901 CE
#12210
Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire. Lettres écrites d'Égypte à Cuvier, Jussieu, Lacépède, Monge, Desgenettes, Redouté le Jeune, Norry, etc., aux professeurs du muséum et à sa famille. Receuillies et publiées avec un préface et des notes par le Dr. E.-T. Hamy.
Digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this link.
1901 CE
#2182
Grundriss einer Geschichte der Kriegschirurgie.
1901 CE
#5998
Histoire des lunettes.
1901 CE
#2003.1
Introduction électrolytique des ions dans l’organisme vivant.
Introduction of ionic medication.
1901 CE
#13429
Katalog der Bücher-Sammlung von J. Hirschberg. (Vom Verfasser Überreicht.)
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1901 CE
#9904
L'Avortement
1901 CE
#2555
L’immunité dans les maladies infectieuses.
A classic study of the mechanisms concerned in specific antibacterial immunity, and one of Metchnikoff’s best works. Russian edition: Nevospriimchivost’ k infekcionnim boleznyam. St. Petersburg: K.L. Rikke…
1901 CE
#1575
Lectures on the history of physiology.
Reprinted 1924 and (Dover Pubs.), 1970.
1901 CE
#50
Magistri salernitani nondum editi. Catalogo ragionato della Esposizione di storia della medicina aperta in Torino nel 1898. By Piero Giacosa, with the assistance of Ferdinando Gabotto. 2 vols.
Reproduction of some of the texts produced at the School of Salerno. In all, it is believed that the total output from the School numbered 100 texts, including the famous poem Regimen Sanitatis Salernitanum, or Flos M…
1901 CE
#6486.1
Medicin. Grundriss der Indo-Arischen Philologie und Altertumskunde.(Encyclopedia of Indo-Aryan Research). III. Band, 10. Heft.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1901 CE
#5253
Note on a simple and rapid method of producing Romanowsky staining in malarial and other blood films.
“Leishman’s stain”, a modification of that introduced by Romanovsky in 1891.
1901 CE
#4003
Note sur le traitement du lupus érythémateux par des applications de radium.
First application of radium in the treatment of lupus.
1901 CE
#3523
Nouveau procédé pour la gastrostomie.
Depage used a tube formed from the anterior wall of the stomach, lined with mucous membrane, in his gastrostomy operation.
1901 CE
#2711
On a family form of recurring epistaxis, associated with multiple telangiectases of the skin and mucous membranes.
“Rendu–Osler–Weber disease.” Multiple hereditary telangiectasis was first described by Legg (No. 2707) in 1876 and later by Rendu (No. 2710) and Weber (No. 2714). Reprinted in Medical Classics,…
1901 CE
#1294
On the origin from the spinal cord of the vaso-dilator fibres of the hindlimb, and on the nature of these fibres.
1901 CE
#2624.1
On transplantation of tumours.
Loeb successfully transplanted cystic sarcoma of the thyroid in rats. He established the fact that growth of the transplant occurred through proliferation of its peripheral cells.
1901 CE
#3742
Over polyneuritis gallinarum
Grijns succeeded Eijkman as director of the Research Laboratory for Pathological Anatomy and Bacteriology in Batavia. He was the first to adopt the view that beriberi was simply a “deficiency disease”, sin…
1901 CE
#6115
Panhysterokolpectomy; a new prolapsus operation.
1901 CE
#4761
Pathologisch-anatomischer Beitrag zur Erb’schen Krankheit (Myasthenia gravis).
Weigert noted the connection of myasthenia gravis with hypertrophy of the thymus.
1901 CE
#2040.1
Peru: The history of coca, “the divine plant of the Incas”.
The most comprehensive work on the coca plant and the history of its use by the Incas and their descendants. Reprinted, San Francisco, And/Or Press, 1974.
1901 CE
#5135
Pestblätter des XV. Jahrhunderts. Hrsg. von P. Heitz, mit einleitendem Text von W.L. Scheiber.
1901 CE
#6644
Science and mediaeval thought.
1901 CE
#4295
Scratch-marks on the wax-tipped catheter as a means of determining the presence of stone in the kidney and in the ureter.
Kelly tipped the catheter with wax, so that it registered clearly any pressure from sharp stones. This became an important means of diagnosing calculi.
1901 CE
#1632
Some points in the construction of the continuous sewage filter.
1901 CE
#5688
Studien über die Narkose.
Overton developed the lipid theory of narcosis.
1901 CE
#2250.2
Studien zur Pathologie der Verbrennung. Die Ursache des Todes nach ausgedehnter Hautverbrennung.
Wilms was first to carry out full excision of burnt tissue, and sometimes grafted excised areas.
1901 CE
#2553
Sur l’existence de substances sensibilisatrices dans la plupart des sérums antimicrobiens.
The Bordet–Gengou complement-fixation reaction is the basis of many tests for infection, notably the Wassermann test for syphilis, and reactions for gonococcus infection, glanders, hydatid disease. English trans…
1901 CE
#951.2
Sur la cause de l’apnée.
Fredericq “established that chemical changes in the blood acting somewhere in the head were the major factor in the regulation of breathing” (Kellogg). English translation in No. 1588.16.
1901 CE
#1236.1
The action of pituitary extracts on the kidney.
Magnus and Starling reported that pituitary extracts caused expansion of the kidney and a marked and often prolonged diuresis. This was the first indication that the neurohypophysis plays a part in the regulation of u…
1901 CE
#1146
The blood-pressure-raising principle of the suprarenal glands.
Isolation of adrenaline.
1901 CE
#5625
The cause of diffuse peritonitis complicating appendicitis and its prevention.
Ochsner was professor of clinical surgery at the University of Illinois. The above is reprinted in Med. Classics, 1940, 4, 600-26.
1901 CE
#891
The colorimetric determination of haemoglobin.
Haldane’s hemoglobinometer and method for determination of hemoglobin.
1901 CE
#1295
The Croonian Lectures on the chemical side of nervous activity. Delivered before the Royal College of Physicians of London, in June, 1901.
First edition in book form, expanded from the journal publications, London: Bale, 1901. Digital facsimile of the book-form edition from the Internet Archive at this link.
1901 CE
#4229
The cure of chronic Bright’s disease by operation.
Edebohls introduced the operation of renal decortication for the treatment of chronic nephritis.
1901 CE
#4876
The division of the sensory root of the trigeminus for the relief of tic douloureux; an experimental, pathological, and clinical study, with a preliminary report of one surgically successful case.
Introduction of intracranial trigeminal neurotomy, using a modification of the techniques of Horsley (No. 4865) and Krause (No. 4871). Also published in Philad. med. J., 1901, 8, 1039-49.
1901 CE
#9372
The etiology of yellow fever: An additional note.
"The article describes a series of experiments conducted to explore how yellow fever is propagated from individual to individual and how the contagium is spread within households. The study was conducted in an experim…