1910–1919

1915 CE

#5350.5

Observations on the spread of Asiatic schistosomiasis.

First paper in English giving a detailed account of the development of S. japonicum in the snail and its subsequent development in man. Atkinson, a surgeon in the Royal Navy, was a member of Scott’s Antarctic ex…

1915 CE

#1903.2

On the use of certain antiseptic substances in the treatment of infected wounds.

Eusol and chloramine-T. “Dakin’s solution” was employed by Carrel (No. 5642) in the Carrel–Dakin method of irrigation of wounds.

1915 CE

#13851

Osteopathic mechanics: A text-book.

Digital facsimile from Hathi Trust at this link.

1915 CE

#11753

Outline of common skin diseases including eruptive fevers. Also diet plans for children in use in the Department of Pediatrics, the Johns Hopkins Hospital.

Gilchrist was the first professor to concentrate on dermatology at Johns Hopkins, joining the faculty in 1898. His guide to the common skin diseases, published for the use of medical students at Hopkins, was printed l…

1915 CE

#658

Principles of general physiology.

Bayliss’s book treats of general physiology from the physical chemical point of view. For some years it remained the most important book of its kind, and today is still of great value for its historical informat…

1915 CE

#5430.1

Pure cultivation in vivo of vaccine virus free from bacteria.

Noguchi obtained a pure culture of vaccinia virus.

1915 CE

#12573

Report of first expedition to South America 1913.

Strong was the first professor of tropical medicine at Harvard. The Harvard School of Tropical Medicine was founded in 1913, the year they undertook this expedition. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1915 CE

#5964

Report of one hundred successive extractions of cataract in the capsule after subluxation with the capsule forceps.

Knapp’s method of extraction of cataract with forceps. See also his later paper in the same journal, 1921, 50, 426-30.

1915 CE

#9259

Sanitation in Panama.

"Gorgas capitalized on the momentous work of ... Walter Reed, who had himself built much of his work on insights of a Cuban doctor, Carlos Finlay, to prove the mosquito transmission of yellow fever. He won internation…

1915 CE

#11962

The history and functions of botanic gardens.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1915 CE

#2569

The influence of the x-ray on the production of antibodies.

Proof that x rays suppress the antibody response.

1915 CE

#1133

The isolation in crystalline form of the compound containing iodine, which occurs in the thyroid; its chemical nature and physiologic activity.

Kendall isolated in crystalline form the thyroid hormone “thyroxine” on Christmas Day, 1914.

1915 CE

#246

The mechanism of Mendelian heredity.

Summarizes the major early findings of Morgan’s Drosophila research group, which based its research on the rapidly reproducing small vinegar fly, Drosophila melanogaster, often called the fruit fly. This epoch-m…

1915 CE

#10307

The medical history of Milwaukee, 1834-1914.

1915 CE

#2641

The mortality from cancer throughout the world.

1915 CE

#9182

The north-west Amazons: Notes of some months spent among cannibal tribes.

"This 1915 volume recounts Captain Thomas Whiffen’s travels in Brazil and Colombia in the region between the rivers Issa (or Içá) and Apaporis, and the Putumayo District. The study looks at the way…

1915 CE

#6857

The synoptic key.

Used as a reference work for the general practice of homeopathy. Digital facsimile of the second edition (1916) from the Hathitrust at this link.

1915 CE

#5642

Traitement abortif de l’infection des plaies.

Carrel–Dakin treatment of wounds. With J. Daufresne and M. Dumas. Carrel & Dehelly expanded this into a monograph entitled Le traitement des plaies infectées. Paris: Masson et Cie, 1917. That was rapidly …

1915 CE

#2177

Treatment of gunshot wounds by excision and primary suture.

Gray revived débridement of wounds, with primary suture. This procedure has been traditionally credited to Larrey and Desault. Larrey (No. 2160) employed excision and primary suture only for treatment of wounds…

1915 CE

#5094

Ueber die Bakteriologie der giftarmen Dysenteriebacillen (Para-dysenteriebacillen).

Sonne’s bacillus (Shigella sonnei) was probably described earlier by others, but it was Sonne who first drew serious attention to it. First published as inaugural dissertation, 1914.

1915 CE

#9646

X rays and crystal structure.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1915 CE

#6123

X-ray diagnosis in gynecology with the aid of intra-uterine collargol injection.

Independently of Cary (No. 6122) Rubin performed salpingography. Preliminary communication in Zbl Gynäk., 1914, 38, 658-60.

1915 CE

#5431

Zur Differentialdiagnose der Variola und der Varicellen. Die Erscheinungen an der variolierten Hornhaut des Kaninchens und ihre frühzeitige Erkennung.

Paul’s test for the diagnosis of smallpox.

1915 CE–1916 CE

#5350.4

Reports of the results of the bilharzia mission in Egypt, 1915.

Leiper identified the snail responsible for the transmission of Schistosoma mansoni and S. haematobium.

1915 CE–1916 CE

#6362

Ueber eigenartige Schädeldefekte im Jugendalter.

Schüller described two more cases of the condition to which his name, with those of Hand and Christian, has been attached.

1915 CE–1917 CE

#12818

Asaf Judaeus, der aelteste medizinische Schriftsteller in hebaeischer Sprache

The Sefer Asaf, the earliest known Hebrew work on medicine, is "extant in 16 manuscripts, some complete; it constitutes a source of information on ancient customs and Jewish medical ethics as well as of ancient Jewish…

1915 CE–1921 CE

#10135

Essai de bibliographie hippique donnant la description détaillée des ouvrages publiés ou traduits en Latin et en Français sur le cheval et la cavalerie avec de nombreuses biographies d’auteurs hippiques.... 2 vols. & supplement.

General Mennessier de la Lance was former commander of the 3rd division of cavalry in France. His comprehensive bio-bibliography on all things equestrian includes veterinary medicine. William Osler published a very co…

1916 CE

#10522

"The path of the destroyer": A history of leprosy in the Hawaiian Islands, and thirty years research into the means by which it has been spread.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1916 CE

#6537.1

A history of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and of the Irish schools of medicine, including a medical bibliography and a medical biography. 2nd ed.

First edition, 1886. Digital facsimile of the 1886 edition from the Internet Archive at this link.

1916 CE

#2521

Contribution à l’étiologie de la gangrène gazeuse.

Isolation of Cl. histolyticum.

1916 CE

#6370

Contribution à l’étude d’une épidémie de dysenterie dans la Somme (juillet–octobre 1916).

Includes several references to the condition later known as “Reiter’s syndrome” (No. 6371).

1916 CE

#4885

De la causalgie envisagée comme une névrite du sympathique et de son traitement par la dénudation et l’excision des plexus nerveux périartériels.

Periarterial sympathectomy.

1916 CE

#2846

De la sténose mitrale avec communication interauriculaire.

“Lutembacher syndrome”.

1916 CE

#4910

Diagnosis and treatment of surgical diseases of the spinal cord and its membranes.

Elsberg, American pioneer in neurosurgery, made valuable contributions to the surgery of the spinal cord. on tumours of the cord in 1925. His final work was Surgical diseases of the spinal cord, membranes, and nerve r…

1916 CE

#2692.1

Diaphragming Roentgen rays. Studies and experiments.

Moving grid. "Bucky-Potter grid" invented by Gustav Bucky and improved by radiologist Hollis E. Potter.

1916 CE

#9590

Die willkürlich bewegbare künstliche Hand: Eine Anleitung für Chirurgen und Techniker. Mit. anatomischen Beiträgen von G. Ruge and W. Felix.

1916 CE

#1904

Digitaliswirkung am isolierten Vorhof des Frosches.

An important analysis of the action of digitalis on the isolated heart.

1916 CE

#6124.1

Embryology, anatomy, and diseases of the umbilicus together with diseases of the urachus

Contains the first reference to what would become known as “Cullen’s sign”, discoloration of the skin about the umbilicus, as a sign of ruptured ectopic gestation. This work contains extraordinary il…

1916 CE

#3235

Endopleurale Operationen unter der Leitung des Thorakoskops.

Jacobaeus introduced adhesion-section with the cautery, to secure collapse in artificial pneumothorax.

1916 CE

#1682

Epidemics resulting from wars. Edited by Harald Westergaard.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1916 CE

#9346

Ethnobotany of the Tewa Indians. Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 55.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1916 CE

#353.1

Form and function: a contribution to the history of animal morphology.

Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.

1916 CE

#2570

Further experimental studies on the inheritance of susceptibility to a transplantable tumour, carcinoma (J. W. A.) of the Japanese waltzing mouse.

Marks the beginning of the study of histocompatibility antigens.

1916 CE

#2642

Further investigations on the origin of tumours in mice. III. On the part played by internal secretion in the spontaneous development of tumours.

Demonstration of the influence of an internal secretion on the development of spontaneous cancer. Castration of female mice of a strain in which mammary cancer was frequent reduced its incidence and delayed its growth.

1916 CE

#2600.6

Human sensitization.

The concept of atopy had its origin in the report by Cooke and Vander Veer in 1916.

1916 CE

#13329

Instincts of the herd in peace and war.

Trotter, a surgeon, also contributed to social psychology. In this work he popularized in English the concept, first developed by French sociologist, Gustave Le Bon, of an instinct over-riding the will of the individu…

1916 CE

#4719

Le syndrome nerveux de l’espace rétro-parotidien postérieur.

“Villaret’s syndrome”.

1916 CE

#4887

Les blessures des nerfs.

A study of the effect of gunshot wounds on nerves. English translation, London, 1917.

1916 CE

#6409

Medizin-geschichtliches Hilfsbuch mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Entdeckungsgeschichte und der Biographie.

1916 CE

#9559

Mikroskopischer Atlas des menschlichen Gehirns: Die Medulla Oblongata: (das verlängerte Mark).

Very large format. Digital facsimile from Universität Heidelberg at this link.