1900–1909

1903 CE

#13384

Hermaphrodismus und Zeugungsunfähigkeit: Eine systematische Darstellung der Missbildungen der menschlichen Geschlechtsorgane. Autorisierte deutsche Ausgabe von Dr. med. R. Teuscher.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1903 CE

#5999

Histoire de l’ophtalmologie. In. P.F. Lagrange and E. Valude: Encyclopédie française d’ophtalmologie, Paris, 1, 1-86.

1903 CE

#4953

Hygiene der Nerven und des Geistes im gesunden und kranken Zustande.

English translation, New York, 1907.

1903 CE

#5626

Hyperaemie als Heilmittel.

Bier introduced hyperemia, active and passive, as an adjuvant in surgical therapy. English translation, Chicago, A. Robertson, 1905. Digital facsimile of the English translation from the Internet Archive at this link.

1903 CE

#5005.1

Hypnosis: Its history, practice and theory.

An unexcelled “scholarly, critical, and detailed analysis of hypnosis” (Bliss).

1903 CE

#4645

Inflammations meningées avec réactions chromatique, fibrineuse et cytologique du liquid cephalo-rachidien.

“Froin’s syndrome” – a coagulation of the cerebrospinal fluid.

1903 CE

#2591

Injections répétées de sérum de cheval chez le lapin.

The “Arthus phenomenon” – a symptom of anaphylaxis. Arthus showed that “antibody-mediated inflammation could be elicited in the skin of sensitized animals upon local introduction of an appropri…

1903 CE

#3526

Instruments for use through cylindrical rectal specula, with the patients in the knee-chest posture.

Various rectal and vesical specula were designed by Kelly.

1903 CE

#13067

L'Étude expérimentale de l'intelligence.

Once education was made mandatory for all French children from ages six to fourteen, it became necessary to determine which children might be considered retarded. To do so the question arose concerning what test shoul…

1903 CE

#4296.5

L’urologie et les médecins urologues dans la médecine ancienne. Gilles de Corbeil: Sa vie- ses oeuvres- son poème des urines.

Reproduces rare documents and illustrations, with texts by Gilles de Corbeil and de Cuba. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1903 CE

#5459

La fièvre jaune.

Yellow fever convalescent serum employed. With A. T. Salimbeni and P. L. Simond.

1903 CE

#11132

La pratique des autopsies.

Considered the most beautiful book on autopsies. Digital facsimile from BnFgallica at this link.

1903 CE

#13138

Le livre de l’art du traitement de Najm ad-Dyn Mahmoud: Texte, traduction, glossaires, précédés d’un essai sur la pharmacopée arabe par Pierre Paul Emile Guigues.

Arabic text, with a French translation, of parts 4-5 of “Al-Kitab al-hawi fi ‘ilm al-tadawi” by Najm al-Din Mahmud. Najm al-Din Mahmud ibn Ilyas al-Shirazi was a Persian physician from Shiraz. His ma…

1903 CE

#14034

Le passage du virus rabique à travers les filtres.

By demonstrating that the rabies organism is filterable Remlinger proved that rabies is a virus. The rabies virus was the second virus causing disease in humans to be identified. Remlinger made his discovery by follow…

1903 CE

#4954

Les obsessions et la psychasthénie.

Janet was the first to describe psychasthenia.

1903 CE

#11119

Les seins dans l'histoire.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1903 CE

#7217

Les tumeurs du rein.

Seminal work on renal tumors with unsurpassed descriptions of the clinical semiology of these diseases. In 1903 Albarran was the first "... to diagnose transitional cell carcinoma of the renal pelvis by detecting mali…

1903 CE

#4373

Lesions of the tibial tubercle occurring during adolescence.

Osgood was the first to draw attention to a condition of the tibial tuberosity; this is now referred to as “Osgood–Schlatter disease” (see also No. 4374).

1903 CE

#7382

Man's place in the universe. A study of the results of scientific research in relation to the unity or plurality of worlds.

The first serious attempt by a biologist to evaluate the likelihood of life on other planets. Wallace concluded that the Earth was the only planet in the solar system that could possibly support life, mainly because i…

1903 CE

#4877

Névralgie faciale; présentation de malade.

Alcohol injection of the Gasserian ganglion for treatment of trigeminal neuralgia. See also pp. 91-96 of the same volume. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1903 CE

#13923

Notes on the treatment of yellow fever at Las Animas Hospital, the hospital of the Sanitary Department, during the epidemic of 1900 at Havana, Cuba.

In 1901 Gorgas was sent to Havana to undertake a special campaign against the yellow fever mosquito Aëdes aegypti. His methods of sanitation were so successful that in three months yellow fever was practically er…

1903 CE

#6210.1

Obstetrics.

The most famous American textbook of obstetrics.

1903 CE

#895

On the appearance and significance of certain granules in the erythrocytes of man.

Reticulocytes described.

1903 CE

#5276

On the discovery of a species of trypanosoma in the cerebrospinal fluid of cases of sleeping sickness.

While in Uganda, Castellani discovered T. gambiense in human cerebrospinal fluid. A paper in Notes Rec. roy. Soc., 1973, 23, 93-110, discounts Castellani’s claim that although he first discovered trypanosomes in…

1903 CE

#5295

On the possibility of the occurrence of trypanosomiasis in India.

An organism found by Leishman in 1900 was later described by him as possibly a trypanosome. C. Donovan found the same organism in blood in July 1903. The name Leishmania donovani (Leishman-Donovan bodies) was later at…

1903 CE

#5296

On the possibility of the occurrence of typanosomiasis in India.

Leishimania donovani, independently discovered by two British medical officers William Boog Leishman in Netley, England, and Donovan in Madras, India, in 1903. However, the correct taxonomy was provided by Ronald Ross…

1903 CE

#12176

P. Vegeti Renati digestorum artis mulomedicinae libri edidit Ernestus Lommatzsch. Accedit Gargili Martialis de curis boum fragmentum.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link. Includes an edition of the Late Antique Latin writer Quintus Gargilius Martialis's fragmentary treatise on the tending of cattle.

1903 CE

#11627

Physiological aspects of the liquor problem. Investigations made by and under the direction of W. O. Atwater, John S. Billings, H. P. Bowditch, R. H. Chittenden, and W. H. Welch Sub-Committee of the Committee of Fifty to Investigate the Liquor Problem. 2 vols.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1903 CE

#3184

Pneumothorax; a historical, clinical, and experimental study.

1903 CE

#7315

Practical handbook of the pathology of the skin. An introduction to the histology, pathology, and bacteriology of the skin, with special reference to technique.

The first textbook on dermatopathology in English. Digital facsimile from Internet Archive at this link.

1903 CE

#5297

Protozoa in a case of tropical ulcer (Delhi sore).

Wright found Leishmania tropica in Delhi sore. He was unaware of Borovskii’s paper (No. 5294).

1903 CE

#4955

Sopra un’ alterazione del corpo calloso osservata in soggetti alcoolisti.

Marchiafava–Bignami disease – degeneration of the corpus callosum in alcoholism.

1903 CE

#1893

Standardisation of disinfectants.

Rideal–Walker method for testing disinfectants.

1903 CE

#12791

Sterility from obstruction at the epididymis cured by operative means.

The patient described in this paper gave a past history of epididymitis and also of gonococcal urethritis which was known at that time as ‘gleet’ and which had resulted in a urethral stricture. The epididy…

1903 CE

#5254

Studien über krankheitserregende Protozoen. II. Plasmodium vivax (Grassi & Feletti), der Erreger des Tertianfiebers beim Menschen.

Confirmation of the work of Ross and of Grassi.

1903 CE

#2814

Sur la lésion dite sténose congénitale de l’aorte dans la région de l’isthme.

Distinction of infantile and adult types of coarctation of the aorta.

1903 CE

#242.1

The chromosomes in heredity.

Sutton advanced the theory that Mendel’s factors were hereditary particles borne by the chromosomes and that Mendel’s laws for his factors were the direct result of the behaviour of chromosomes in meiosis.…

1903 CE

#9029

The geography of disease.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1903 CE

#11020

The medical annals of Maryland 1799-1899. Prepared for the centennial of the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1903 CE

#1297

The spinal origin of the cervical sympathetic nerve.

Section of the white rami caused retrograde degeneration of the lateral column cells.

1903 CE

#1525.1

The time relations of the photo-electric changes in the eyeball of the frog.

First correct electroretinograms.

1903 CE

#13133

The zoological gardens of Europe: Their history and chief features.

Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.

1903 CE

#3183

Triangolo paravertebrale opposto nella pleurite essudativa.

“Grocco’s triangle”. Grocco described paravertebral dullness on the opposite side in pleural effusion.

1903 CE

#8363

Trois traités d'anatomie arabes par Muhammad ibn Zakariyya al-Razi, 'Ali ibn al-'Abbas, et 'Ali ibn Sina. Text inédit de deux traités. Traduction de P. de Koning.

Parallel Arabic and French texts. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1903 CE

#9100

Turner on birds; a short and succinct history of the principal birds noticed by Pliny and Aristotle, first published by Doctor William Turner, 1544. Edited, with introduction, translation, notes, and appendix by A. H. Evans.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1903 CE

#241.1

Über mehrpolige Mitosen als Mittel zur Analyse des Zellkerns.

Boveri’s experiments, involving multipolar mitoses in sea urchin eggs fertilized by two sperm, demonstrated that different chromosomes perform different functions in development. English translation in No. 534.3.

1903 CE

#2627.1

Ueber den Einfluss der Röntgenstrahlen auf epitheliale Gewebe, insbesondere auf das Carcinom.

Perthes was among the first to study the inhibitory effect of x rays on carcinoma; he was a pioneer in radiotherapy.

1903 CE

#2591.1

Ueber die biologisch nachweisbaren Veränderungen des menschlichen Blutes nach den Seruminjektion.

Serum sickness first described.

1903 CE

#2113

Ueber die Isolirung von Schlangengift-Lecithiden.

English translation in Ehrlich, Studies in immunity, 1910.

1903 CE

#2911

Ueber die reine Mediaverkalkung der Extremitätenartien und ihr Verhalten zur Arteriosklerose.

“Mönckeberg’s sclerosis”. He described a form of medial sclerosis of the blood-vessels of the extremities. See also his later papers in Klin. Wschr.,1942, 52,1473-78, 1521-26.