1900–1909

1903 CE

#3074

Ueber eine Methode zur Untersuchung des lebenden Knochenmarks von Thieren und über das Bewegungsvermögen der Myelocyten.

Wolff-Eisner trephined the tibia and femur of experimental animals and suggested biopsy of bone marrow as a clinical procedure.

1903 CE

#1892

Ueber eine neue Klasse von Schlafmitteln.

Synthesis of barbitone (Barbitol), the first available barbiturate.

1903 CE

#242

Ueber Erblichkeit in Populationen und in reinen Linien.

More support for the Mendelian law of inheritance was provided by Johannsen, a Danish botanist, who showed that in certain self-fertilizing plants a pure line of descendants can be maintained indefinitely, in which ca…

1903 CE

#2712

Ueber Ionenwirkung und ihre therapeutische Verwendung.

Hypotensive action of thiocyanates first noted. Pauli was the father of the physicist Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958).

1903 CE

#6344

Ueber Trophodermatoneurose.

First clear description of infantile acrodynia (“pink disease”).

1903 CE

#12535

Une version syriaque des aphorismes d'Hippocrate. Texte et traduction par H. Pognon. 2 vols.

Edition of Bibliothèque nationale de France, fonds arabe 6734, a Syriac manuscript copied on 10 October 1205 by a physician, probably a Jacobite or Melchite naned Behnam, but nothing in the codex indicates the …

1903 CE

#4374

Verletzungen des schnabelförmigen Fortsatzes der oberen Tibia-epiphyse.

“Osgood–Schlatter disease”. A further description of the painful affection of the tibial tuberosity first noted by Osgood.

1903 CE

#1429

Zur anatomischen Gliederung des Cortex cerebri.

1903 CE

#2627

Zur Frage der Beziehungen zwischen Becquerelstrahlen und Hautaffectionen.

Records the first successful employment of radium in the treatment of cancer.

1903 CE

#2112

Zur Kenntniss der Cobragift activirenden Substanzen.

English translation in Ehrlich, Studies in immunity, 1910.

1903 CE

#2557

Zur Lehre von der Unterscheidung verschiedener Eiweissarten mit Hilfe spezifischer Sera.

Demonstration of organ-specific antigens, in this case in the proteins of the lens of the eye.

1903 CE

#4191.3

Zur Technik der Röntgenphotographie (Lendenwirbel, Blasensteine).

Cystography. Wittek filled the bladder with air and was able to demonstrate vertebrae and urinary calculus.

1903 CE–1904 CE

#2558

An experimental investigation of the rôle of the blood fluids in connection with phagocytosis.

Wright and Douglas showed the existence of thermolabile substances (opsonins) in normal and immune serum.

1903 CE–1904 CE

#894

Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Blutgerinnung.

Morawitz’s theory of blood coagulation.

1903 CE–1904 CE

#2398

Études expérimentales sur la syphilis.

Metchnikoff and Roux successfully transmitted syphilis from man to the higher apes. Although not the first to do this, they recorded much new information concerning the disease.

1903 CE–1904 CE

#6289

Geschichte der Geburtshülfe der Neuzeit. 2 pts.

A supplement to No. 6288.

1903 CE–1904 CE

#2003.2

L’électrisation cérébrale.

Leduc reported the effects of a galvanic current on the brain. His work led the way to electric convulsion therapy, introduced by Carletti and Bini (No. 4962).

1903 CE–1904 CE

#952

La physiologie de l’apnée étudiée chez l’homme.

First studies of the physiology of apnea in man.

1903 CE–1904 CE

#4372

Projektions-Röntgenbilder einer seltenen Knochenerkrankung.

First description of osteosclerosis fragilis, marble bones (“Albers-Schönberg disease”).

1903 CE–1906 CE

#6343

Lehrbuch der Kinderheilkunde. 2 vols.

Heubner was professor of pediatrics at Berlin. With Rubner he determined the caloric requirement of infants and did other important work on infant feeding.

1903 CE–1907 CE

#3793

The internal secretions and the principles of medicine. 2 vols.

Sajous, pioneer American endocrinologist, wrote the first treatise on the subject. In this work he regarded the adrenal, pituitary, and thyroid glands as controlling the immunizing mechanism of the body.

1903 CE–1909 CE

#2517

Handbuch der pathogenen Mikroorganismen. 6 vols.

Third edition, 10 vols. [in 19], 1929-31.

1903 CE–1910 CE

#8543

Datos par la materia médica Argentina. 2 vols. (Vol. 2: Trabajos de Instituto de Farmacología de la Facultad de Ciencias Médicas de Buenos Aires No. 25).

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1903 CE–1915 CE

#2458

Protozoa and disease. 4 vols.

1903 CE–1919 CE

#5277

Reports of the Sleeping Sickness Commission of the Royal Society, 1903-1912. 17 pts.

Bruce and D.N. Nabarro were sent to Africa by the Royal Society to study sleeping sickness, and in their report they showed that the tsetse fly was the vector of trypanosomiasis. They also found that Gambia fever and …

1903 CE–1929 CE

#7338

Opera Omnia. Volume I: Istologia normale—1870-1883 (Con 21 Tavole e ritratto); Volume II: Istologia normale—1883-1902 (Con 21 tavole); Volume III: Patologia generale e isto-patologia—1868-1894 (Con 9 Tavole). Volume IV: Scritti su argomenti varii.

Limited to 325 copies, including material not previously published.

1903 CE–1940 CE

#11251

Catalogue of the books, manuscripts, maps and drawings in the British Museum (Natural History). 5 vols. (1903-1915) + 3 vols. Supplement (1922-1940).

The first 5 vols. of the main author catalogue were written by Bernard B. Woodward; the Supplement was written by various members of the library staff. Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.

1904 CE

#5317

“Tick fever”.

Ross and Milne discovered the causative agent in the African variety of relapsing (tick) fever.

1904 CE

#7652

A descriptive catalogue of pathological specimens in the museum of the Hospital for Consumption and Diseases of the Chest, Brompton.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1904 CE

#13170

A group of distinguished physicians and surgeons of Chicago. A collection of biographical sketches of many of the eminent representatives, past and present, of the medical profession of Chicago.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1904 CE

#7206

Aequanimitas with other addresses to medical students, nurses and practitioners of medicine.

A compilation of 19 addresses given by Osler in various settings. These include many of Osler's most famous essays concerning the philosophical and moral foundations of medicine. Osler wrote, "we are here not to get a…

1904 CE

#11700

An inquiry into the phenomena attending death by drowning and the means of promoting resuscitation in the apparently drowned. Report of a committee appointed by the Society, drawn up by Professor Schäfer, chairman of the committee.

The Schäfer method of artificial respiration. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1904 CE

#6

Beiträge zur Kenntnis der assyrisch-babylonischen Medizin. Texte mit Umschrift, Uebersetzung und Kommentar von Friedrich Küchler.

Cuneiform medical texts from the library of Ashurbanipal, together with German translations. A valuable paper on this subject is M. Jastrow’s "The medicine of the Babylonians and Assyrians," Proceedings Royal So…

1904 CE

#13379

Berlins drittes Geschlecht.

"Third sex" was Hirschfeld's provisional term for gays and lesbians. Translated into English by James J. Conway as Berlin's third sex, Berlin: Rixdorf Editions, 2017.

1904 CE

#2561

Blood immunity and blood relationship, a demonstration of certain blood relationships amongst animals by means of the precipitin test for blood.

1904 CE

#4713

Cerebral degeneration, with symmetrical changes in the maculae, in three members of a family.

“Batten-Mayou disease”, juvenile amaurotic idiocy (see also No. 4712).

1904 CE

#2028.59

Description of a simple and efficient method of performing artificial respiration on the human subject especially in cases of drowning. To which is appended instruction for the treatment of the apparently drowned.

1904 CE

#449

Die Anfänge der Anatomie bei den alten Kulturvölkern.

Abhandlungen zur Geschichte der Medizin, Breslau, Heft 9.

1904 CE

#7339

Die Entwickelung des menschlichen Gehirns, während der ersten Monate.

"This final summary of brain development, published in the year of his death, contains a wealth of classic illustrations that have been adapted ever since in textbooks" (Larry W. Swanson).

1904 CE

#3075

Die neutrophilen weissen Blutkörperchen bei Infektions-Krankheiten.

“Arneth count”. Arneth distinguished five groups of polymorphonuclear leucocytes and advocated the estimation of these groups as a valuable aid in the determination of bone-marrow reaction to infective and…

1904 CE

#3315

Die submucöse Fensterresektion der Nasenscheidewand.

1904 CE

#843

Die unmittelbare Registrierung der Herztöne.

Frank obtained the first perfect pulse curves with special manometers, the so-called “Frank capsules”.

1904 CE

#6290

Die Wochenstube in der Kunst.

1904 CE

#3132.1

Elliptical human red cell corpuscles.

Hereditary elliptocytosis.

1904 CE

#6535

English medicine in the Anglo-Saxon times.

FitzPatrick Lectures, 1903.

1904 CE

#242.2

Ergebnisse über die Konstitution der chromatischen Substanz des Zellkerns.

See No. 242.1.

1904 CE

#4593

Essai de classification de quelques névralgies faciales par les injections de cocaine loco dolenti.

Classification of the neuralgias.

1904 CE

#519

Experimental studies on germinal localisation.

1904 CE

#148

Galeni De temperamentis libri III recensuit Georgius Helmreich.

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1904 CE

#2559

Gesammelte Arbeiten über Immunitätsforschung.

Reprints Ehrlich’s writings on immunology to date, as well as three papers by Kyes (Nos. 2111-3). English translation, with two more chapters by Ehrlich and Sachs, and one by Ehrlich, New York, 1906.