1900–1909

1904 CE

#2041

Geschichte der Pharmazie

Reprinted Hildesheim, 1964.

1904 CE

#4803

Histologische und histopathologische Arbeiten über die Grosshirnrinde. Vol. 1.

Pages 315-494 contain Nissl’s classic account of the histopathology of general paresis.

1904 CE

#4375

Les scolioses congénitales.

First description of platyspondylia.

1904 CE

#4265.1

Median perineal prostatectomy.

Complete perineal prostatectomy, September 1891.

1904 CE

#269.1

Mikrophotographische Untersuchungen mit ultraviolettem Licht.

The ultraviolet light microscope was conceived and designed by Köhler.

1904 CE

#347

Morphology and anthropology. A handbook for students.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1904 CE

#7686

Museums: Their history and their use with a bibliography and list of museums in the United Kingdom. 3 vols.

Volumes 2 and 3 are an exhaustive bibliography, thematic and geographic, of the historical literature of museums in Europe and the United States, including catalogues of museums published through the end of the 19th c…

1904 CE

#5349.2

Note on a new form of liver cirrhosis due to the presence of the ova of Bilharzia haematobia.

“Symmers’s fibrosis”, pipe stem fibrosis of the liver, occurring in cases of certain forms of schistosomiasis.

1904 CE

#5298

Note on the nature of the parasitic bodies found in tropical splenomegaly.

1904 CE

#5299

Note on the occurrence of Leishman–Donovan bodies in “cachexial fevers” including kala-azar.

Rogers demonstrated the Leishman–Donovan bodies in kala-azar. See also the same journal, 1904, 2, 645-50. At about the same time Bentley reported similar findings in India.

1904 CE

#953

Nouvelle méthode de mesure et d’inscription du débit et des mouvements respiratoires de l’homme et des animaux.

Tissot spirometer.

1904 CE

#5948

Nuovo metodo conservatore di cura radicale delle suppurazioni croniche del sacco lacrimale (dacriocistorinostomia).

Toti’s account of dacryocystorhinostomy, a procedure he himself introduced.

1904 CE

#9530

Obstetrics for nurses.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1904 CE

#2630

Om Röntgenbehandling af sarkom.

1904 CE

#5429.1

On experimental variola in the monkey.

Inoculation of smallpox into the monkey. An earlier report of successful inoculation by W. Zuelzer (Zbl. med. Wiss., 1874, 12, 82) is not generally accepted.

1904 CE

#1336

On the action of adrenalin.

The first intimation of the chemical mediation of nerve impulses was given in Elliott’s suggestion that when a sympathetic nerve impulse arrives at a smooth-muscle cell it liberates adrenaline, which acts as a c…

1904 CE

#10714

One hundred years of publishing 1804-1904. A brief historical account of the house of William Wood and Company.

1904 CE

#12904

Orthodontia and orthopaedia of the face. With seven hundred and sixty original illustrations.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1904 CE

#13362

Pathologie intertropicale. Doctrines et clinique.

Digital facsimile from BnF Gallaica at this link.

1904 CE

#1043

Physiological economy in nutrition.

Chittenden, founder of the first laboratory of physiological chemistry in the U.S.A., made many important experiments in nutrition, especially in connexion with the low protein diet advocated by him.

1904 CE

#4139

Pityriasis et alopécies pelliculaires.

Classic account of the different varieties of Trichophyton.

1904 CE

#4877.1

Pneumatic tourniquets: With especial reference to their use in craniotomies.

First report of tourniquet with pneumatic pressure of measurable degree. This inflatable cuff was the forerunner of the modern pneumatic tournequet cuff.

1904 CE

#2459

Researches in helminthology and parasitology. With a bibliography of his contributions to science.

In vol. 46 of Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. Leidy was called the greatest descriptive naturalist in mid-19th century America.

1904 CE

#5690

Stovaine, anesthésique locale.

Introduction of stovaine, 1903.

1904 CE

#3398

Sulla leptomeningite circonscritta e sulla paralisi dell abducente di origine otitica.

“Gradenigo’s syndrome” – acute otitis media followed by abductor paralysis. Translation of the paper is in the German Arch. Ohrenheilk., 1904, 62, 255-70.

1904 CE

#4004

Surla radiothérapie des teignes.

Sabouraud’s method of radiological treatment of ringworm.

1904 CE

#5349.1

The aetiology of a parasitic disease (in Japanese)

First description of Schistosoma japonicum. Translation in Kean (No. 2368.1), p. 518.

1904 CE

#1121

The chemical regulation of the secretory process.

Bayliss and Starling developed the theory of hormonal control of internal secretion.

1904 CE

#3642

The chemistry of the urine in diseases of the pancreas.

Test for diseases of the pancreas.

1904 CE

#11572

The clinical study of blood-pressure. A guide to the use of the sphygmomanometer in medical, surgical and obstetrical practice, with a summary of the experimental and clinical facts relating to the blood-pressure in health and disease.

The earliest American monograph on hypertension and its detection. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1904 CE

#1

The code of Hammurabi, King of Babylon about 2000 BCE. Autographed text, transliteration, translation, glossary, index of subjects, lists of proper names, signs, numerals, corrections, and erasures, with map, frontispiece, and photograph of text by Robert Francis Harper.

The Code of Hammurabi was found among the cuneiform tablets of the library of Ashurbanipal. It is now in the Louvre. It was first published in Scheil, "Textes élamites-sémitiques. Deuxième s&eacut…

1904 CE

#2437

The constituents of chaulmoogra seeds.

Hydnocarpus wightiana or Chaulmoogra is a tree in the Achariaceae family. The oil from seeds of Hydnocarpus wightiana or Chaulmoogra, a tree in the Achariaceae family, was widely used in Indian medicine and Chinese tr…

1904 CE

#2438

The cultivation of the Bacillus leprae.

Rost cultivated the leprosy bacillus, and he prepared leprolin, formerly used in treating leprosy.

1904 CE

#6117

The formation of an artificial vagina by intestinal transplantation.

Baldwin’s operation.

1904 CE

#10826

The Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia: Benefactors, alumni, hospital, etc., its founders, officers, instructors, 1826-1904: A history. Edited by George M. Gould. 2 vols.

A massive history, consisting of nearly 1100 pages. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1904 CE

#10740

The organization, construction, and management of hospitals, with numerous plans and details.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1904 CE

#10738

The surgery of the heart and lungs. A history and résumé of surgical conditions found therein, and experimental and clinical research in man and lower animals with reference to pneumonotomy, pneumonectomy and bronchotomy, and cardiotomy and cardiorraphy.

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1904 CE

#5278

Trypanosomes et trypanosomiases.

Laveran and Mesnil discovered that trypanosomes could be maintained indefinitely in rats and mice by serial passage.

1904 CE

#14271

Über eine sehr seltene Erkrankung der Netzhaut. Klinische Beobachtungen.

First description of angiomas in the eye (retinal hemangioblastomas), (Von Hippel-Lindau disease) (VHL). Von Hippel was preceded in his description of this disease by Edward Treacher Collins, "Two cases, brother and s…

1904 CE

#2558.1

Über paroxysmale Hämoglobinurie.

The first description of an auto-antibody, and of an auto-immune disease, paroxysmal cold hemoglobinuria. See A.M. Silverstein, A history of immunology, New York, Academic Press, 1989, Ch. 8, The Donanth-Landsteiner a…

1904 CE

#1147.1

Ueber Adrenalin und Alkylaminoacetobrenzcatechin.

Synthesis of adrenaline.

1904 CE

#2560

Ueber die Antikörper des Streptokokken- und Pneumokokken-Immunserums.

Bacteriotropins named and described.

1904 CE

#3185

Ueber die physiologischen and physikalischen Grundlagen bei intrathorakalen Eingriffen in meiner pneumatischen Operationskammer.

Sauerbruch’s negative pressure chamber for the prevention of pneumothorax.

1904 CE

#2815

Ueber die syphilitischen Aortenerkrankungen.

1904 CE

#1893.1

Ueber Digalen (Digitoxinum solubile).

Introduction of digalen.

1904 CE

#726

Ueber einen in biologischer Beziehung wichtigen Einfluss, den die Kohlensäurespannung des Blutes auf dessen Sauerstoffbindung übt.

Bohr, Hasselbalch, and Krogh showed, in the experimental animal, that the affinity of blood for oxygen depends upon carbon dioxide pressure. This became known as the Bohr effect, though the discovery may have been mad…

1904 CE

#3858

Ueber Ostitis deformans ohne osteoides Gewebe.

Askanazy was the first to associate osteitis fibrosa cystica with parathyroid tumors.

1904 CE

#2816

Zur Myocarditisfrage.

In his work on rheumatic myocarditis, Aschoff described the characteristic lesion (Aschoff body or nodule) and presented a histopathological picture of myocarditis that was to exert a great influence on the classifica…

1904 CE

#4982

Zur Psychopathologie des Alltagslebens.

An exposition of psychoanalytic theory for a popular audience. Includes description and examples of the well-known “Freudian slip”. English translation, London, 1914.

1904 CE–1905 CE

#8347

Die europäischen Übersetzungen aus dem Arabischen bis Mitte des 17. Jahrhunderts. 2 vols.

Digital facsimile from medadoc.bibliothek.uni-halle.de at this link.