1910–1919
772 entries with publication dates in this decade.
1917 CE–1940 CE
#7106
The Birth Control Review.
Sanger edited The Birth Control Review until 1929. A new series began in 1933. It was a birth control advocacy periodical published by the American Birth Control League, and later by its successor, the Birth Control F…
1918 CE
#13905
Die Stacheldraht-Krankheit: Beiträge zur Psychologie des Kriegsgefangenen. 2 vols.
Translated into English as Barbed wire disease: A psychological study of prisoners of war. Translated from the German, with additions. London: Bale & Danielson, 1919.
1918 CE
#11922
"Spanish influenza," "Three-day fever," "The flu".
Public health advice from the U.S. Public Health Service published during the pandemic.
1918 CE
#3135
A clinical study of puerperal anaemia.
Four cases of pernicious anemia of pregnancy treated by blood transfusion.
1918 CE
#8742
A list of books by some of the old masters of medicine and surgery together with books on the history of medicine and on medical biography in the possession of Lewis Stephen Pilcher with biographical and bibliographical notes and reproductions of some title pages and captions.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1918 CE
#3650
Accidental injection of bile ducts with petrolatum and bismuth paste. Preliminary report on a new method.
Reich was the first to obtain cholangiograms.
1918 CE
#8107
Air service medical manual.
The first U. S. work dedicated to the medical aspects of military pilot selection. According to the National Museum of Health and Medicine, this manual was written by William Holland Wilmer, then director of the Medic…
1918 CE
#8821
American Negro slavery: A survey of the supply, employment and control of Negro labor as determined by the plantation régime.
Incudes information on health and medicine. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1918 CE
#2894.1
Angina pectoris: changes in electrocardiogram during paroxysm.
First electrocardiogram recorded (1917) from a patient with angina pectoris.
1918 CE
#2692.2
Aqueous solutions of potassium and sodium iodids as opaque mediums in roentgenography.
1918 CE
#3543
Ausgedehnte Magenresektion bei Ulcus duodeni statt der einfachen Duodenalresektion bzw.
Hofmeister-Finsterer gastro-enterostomy (see No. 3529).
1918 CE
#2184
Chirurgiens et blessés à travers l’histoire.
In this well-illustrated book Cabanès deals exhaustively with the transportation and surgical treatment of the wounded.
1918 CE
#5757.3
Congenital clefts of the face.
Roberts introduced the push-back procedure - backward displacement of the velum to ensure adequate speech.
1918 CE
#3849
Das Myxödemherz
First systematic study of the characteristic changes of the heart in myxedema.
1918 CE
#6527
Die Entwicklung der Medizin in Oesterreich.
1918 CE
#7725
Die Rotation der Wange und allgemeine Bemerkungen bei chirurgischer Gesichtsplastik.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1918 CE
#3542
Dysentery bacilli: the differentiation of the true dysentery bacilli from allied species.
Shigella alkalescens described.
1918 CE
#4238.1
Experimental hydronephrosis; repair following ureterocysto-neostomy in white rats with complete ureteral obstruction.
Commencement of Hinman’s classic work on treatment of hydronephrosis.
1918 CE
#4888
Extirpation of the choroid plexus of the lateral ventricles in communicating hydrocephalus.
1918 CE
#5007
Hundert Jahre Psychiatrie.
English translation, New York, 1962.
1918 CE
#13834
La médecine dans notre théâtre comique, depuis ses origines jusqu'au XVIe siècle...
Digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this link.
1918 CE
#9597
Manual of medical research laboratory.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1918 CE
#7099
Married love. A new contribution to the solution of sex difficulties.
One of the first books to discuss the differences between male and female sexual desires, and the first book to note that increased sexual desire in women coincides with ovulation and the period right before menstruat…
1918 CE
#12079
Medical contributions to the study of evolution.
"Part I: Adaptation and disease". The Croonian Lectures delivered in June 1917. Includes "Adaptation in the bacteria and the evolution of the infectious diseases" and "Adaptation to disease-producing agencies in the h…
1918 CE
#8604
Medical diseases of the war. Second edition
Roughly the first half of this work is on "war neuroses." The second half is on "infective and other disorders," including gas poisoning. Hurst greatly expanded the first section after experience as a neurologist in E…
1918 CE
#4686
Nebennierenapoplexie bei kleinen Kindern.
See No. 4685.
1918 CE
#5081
Serologische Beobachtungen am Scharlachexanthem.
Schultz–Charlton reaction.
1918 CE
#5334.2
Spirochaeta hebdomadis, the causative agent of seven-day fever (nanukayami)
Discovery of Leptospira hebdomadis, carried by a mouse. With H. Ito and H. Wani.
1918 CE
#13030
The American hospital of the twentieth century: A treatise on the development of medical institutions, both in Europe and in America, since the beginning of the present century.
An architect, Stevens wrote from the hospital designer's point of view. Digital facsimile of the 1921 edition from the U.S. National Library of Medicine at this link.
1918 CE
#10998
The Australian Army Medical Corps in Egypt. An illustrated and detailed account of the early organisation and work of the Australian medical units in Egypt in 1914-1915.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1918 CE
#248
The correlation between relatives on the supposition of Mendelian inheritance.
"Fisher put forward a genetics conceptual model that shows that continuous variation amongst phenotypic traits could be the result of Mendelian inheritance. The paper also contains the first use of the statistical ter…
1918 CE
#8720
The history of St. Bartholomew's Hospital. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1918 CE
#10807
The history of the Boston Medical Library.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1918 CE
#852
The ligation of coronary arteries with electrocardiographic study.
1918 CE
#853
The Linacre lecture on the law of the heart.
Starling’s “law of the heart”.
1918 CE
#11014
The medical report of the Rice Expedition to Brazil.
The expedition was led by Alexander H. Rice, Jr., an American physician, geographer, geologist and explorer noted for his expeditions to the Amazon Basin. "As a geographer and explorer Rice specialized in rivers.[1][7…
1918 CE
#1052
The newer knowledge of nutrition.
1918 CE
#5350.6
The successful use of antimony in bilharziosis.
Introduction of tartar emetic (antimony) in the treatment of schistosomiasis.
1918 CE
#4477
The utilization of the muscles of a stump to actuate artificial limbs: cinematic amputations.
Putti developed and improved kineplastic surgery.
1918 CE
#4889
Tic douloureux and its treatment, with a review of the cases operated upon at the University Hospital in 1917.
Trigeminal nerve resection with conservation of the motor root, for treatment of trigeminal neuralgia.
1918 CE
#959
Ueber das Vorkommen des Coferments des alcoholischen Hefegärung im Muskelgewebe und seine muttmassliche Bedeutung im Atmungsmechanismus.
In 1922 Meyerhof was awarded half of the Nobel Prize in Pysiology or Medicine "for his discovery of the fixed relationship between the consumption of oxygen and the metabolism of lactic acid in the muscle." The other …
1918 CE
#9986
Ueber die Pharmaka in der Ilias und Odyssee.
Medicines and poisons in the Iliad and Odyssey.
1918 CE
#2848
Ueber Vorhofflimmern beim Menschen und seine Beseitigung durch Chinidin.
Following Wenckebach’s discovery of the efficacy of quinine in the restoration of normal rhythm in auricular fibrillation. Frey showed that quinidine was the most effective of the cinchona alkaloids in this resp…
1918 CE
#1342
Vasodilator reactions.
Showed that tissues are more sensitive to acetylcholine after treatment with eserine (physostigmine).
1918 CE
#4602
Ventriculography following the injection of air into the cerebral ventricles.
Dandy was responsible for the introduction of ventriculography.
1918 CE
#12076
War surgery of the face: A treatise on plastic restoration after facial injury. Prepared at the suggestion of the Subsection on Plastic and Oral Surgery connected with the Office of the Surgeon General.
Digital facsimile from the U.S. National Library of Medicine at this link.
1918 CE
#3084
Zur Therapie der Polyzythämie.
Phenylhydrazine hydrochloride first used in the treatment of polycythemia.
1918 CE–1919 CE
#3733
The part played by an “accessory factor” in the production of experimental rickets.
First convincing experimental evidence that rickets is a deficiency disease, curable by correct diet.
1918 CE–1919 CE
#792
The vasodilator action of histamine and of some other substances.
Dale and Richards studied the effect of histamine on the control of the circulation and showed its peripheral action to be located in the capillaries and smaller arterioles.
1918 CE–1919 CE
#905
Two new factors in blood coagulation — heparin and pro-antithrombin.
Isolation of heparin.