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1918 CE–1919 CE

#4806

Ueber die Einwirkung der Malaria auf die progressive Paralyse.

In 1917 Wagner von Jauregg returned to the idea of the inoculation of paretics with malaria to induce pyrexia, first proposed by him in 1887 (Ueber die Einwirkung fieberhafter Erkrankungen auf Psychosen, Jb. Psychiat.…

1918 CE–1922 CE

#12228

A monograph of the pheasants. 4 vols.

Beebe's spectacular work, with 90 colored plates of birds and 88 photogravure plates of habitats and scenery, has been called the greatest ornithological treatise of the 20th century. Illustrators included Henrik Gr&o…

1918 CE–1973 CE

#82

Sebrané spisy. Opera omnia. Tom. 1-12.

Purkynĕ was Professor of Physiology at Breslau and Prague. Eminent as physiologist and microscopist, he was first to use the microtome. See Kruta, V. J.E. Purkynĕ, Physiologist. A short account of his contributions&he…

1919 CE

#11031

“Album de la guerre”: Five hundred photographs, seventy drawings and thirteen articles by members of Base Hospital no. 4, U.S.A. . . . and Mobile Hospital no. 5, U.S.A. . . . covering a period of twenty-three months from May 8th, 1917 to April 8th, 1919.

1919 CE

#3321

A case of cardiospasm with dilatation and angulation of the esophagus.

See also his later paper in Minnesota Med., 1922, 5, 107-08. The syndrome of dysphagia, glossitis, and hypochromic anemia has become known as the Plummer-Vinson syndrome (see No. 3320). A. Brown Kelly and D. R. Paters…

1919 CE

#5044

A new generation of paratyphoid.

Hirszfeld gave an important description of Salmonella paratyphi C. (“Hirszfeld’s bacillus”).

1919 CE

#1908

A new germicide for use in the genito-urinary tract; “mercurochrome-220”.

Introduction of mercurochrome. With E. C. White and E. O. Swartz.

1919 CE

#3922

A system of blood analysis.

Folin–Wu test for blood sugar.

1919 CE

#3734

An experimental investigation on rickets.

In his important experiments on rickets, Mellanby both induced and controlled the disease by diet.

1919 CE

#6220

Bluish discoloration of the umbilicus as a diagnostic sign where ruptured uterine pregnancy exists. In: Contributions to medical and biological research dedicated to Sir William Osler, 1, 420-21.

“Cullen’s sign”.

1919 CE

#1907

Chemotherapy of trypanosome and spirochete infections. Chemical series. I. N-phenylglycineamide-p-arsonic acid.

Introduction of tryparsamide.

1919 CE

#2849

Das Myxödemherz.

First attempt to restore the heart’s action by intracardiac injection.

1919 CE

#6363

Defects in membranous bones, exophthalmos, and diabetes insipidus; an unusual syndrome of dyspituitarism; a clinical study. IN: Contributions to medical and biological research, dedicated to Sir William Osler, 1, 390-401.

“Hand-Schüller-Christian syndrome”.

1919 CE

#3722

Der Skorbut.

1919 CE

#3651

Diagnosis and treatment of diseases of the gall-bladder and bilary ducts. Preliminary report on a new method.

See No. 3649.

1919 CE

#6126

Die pathogenese der Meno- und besonders der Metrorrhagien.

First description of metropathia hemorrhagica.

1919 CE

#6280

Die pathologische Anatomie des Puerperalprozesses.

1919 CE

#3403.1

Essays on the surgery of the temporal bone. 2 vols.

Finely illustrated, and beautifully produced, with several historical chapters. Includes a history of the development of temporal bone surgery.

1919 CE

#4651

Etiology of epidemic (lethargic) encephalitis. Preliminary note.

Experimental transmission of encephalitis lethargica.

1919 CE

#3732

Heilung von Rachitis durch künstliche Höhensonne.

Rickets cured by ultraviolet irradiation.

1919 CE

#5630

Histamine shock.

Experimental shock produced by histamine and shown to be similar to traumatic and surgical shock.

1919 CE

#12557

History of medicine in New York: Three centuries of medical progress. 4 vols.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1919 CE

#11739

In Flanders fields and other poems by John McCrae. With an essay in character by Sir Andrew MacPhail.

McCrae's poem, In Flanders Fields, was among the most popular poems of World War I. He was inspired to write it on May 3, 1915, after presiding over the funeral of friend and fellow soldier Lieutenant Alexis Helmer, w…

1919 CE

#2132

Industrial medicine and surgery.

1919 CE

#8871

Irish ethno-botany and the evolution of medicine in Ireland.

A discussion of Irish materia medica and a summary of the development of medicine in Ireland from the earliest times. Indices in Gaelic and English. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1919 CE

#7729

La chirurgie esthétique des rides du visage.

Passot was the first surgeon in France to perform facelifts. In this article with 1 illustration, Passot showed "sites of elliptic skin excision of the hairline, the forehead, and the temporal and preauricular areas t…

1919 CE

#6538

Medicine in England during the reign of George III.

FitzPatrick Lectures, 1917-18.

1919 CE

#4479

Menders of the maimed.

Gives details of the work of John Hunter, John Hilton, Hugh Owen Thomas, Little, Stromeyer, Marshall Hall, Arbuthnot Lane, Syme, Julius Wolff, etc., in the development of modern orthopaedics. Second edition, 1925. Fac…

1919 CE

#906

Morphologische Hämatologie. Vol. 1.

1919 CE

#2644

Neoplastic diseases.

Fourth edition, 1940.

1919 CE

#1053

Note on the role of the antiscorbutic factor in nutrition.

In 1920 Drummond suggested the term “vitamin”.

1919 CE

#2137.4

Note préliminaire sur l’étude des effets de la force centrifuge sur l’organisme.

The first anti-blackout device. Proposed the use of the g belt to prevent the flow of blood to the abdomen.

1919 CE

#3136

Observations on the severe anaemias of pregnancy and the post-partum state.

Osler described his four-part classification of anemias of pregnancy: anemia from post-partum hemorrhage, severe anemia of pregnancy, post-partum anemia, and the acute anemia of post-partum sepsis. This was Osler's la…

1919 CE

#2440

On the value of a skin reaction to a suspension of leprous nodules.

Mitsuda (lepromin) reaction. English translation by the author in Int. J. Leprosy, 1953, 21, 347-58.

1919 CE

#3756

Pellagra.

1919 CE

#8900

Pioneers of birth control in England and America.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1919 CE

#5757.4

Plastic surgery: Its principles and practice.

Davis was the first surgeon to limit his work exclusively to plastic surgery. This was the first comprehensive textbook on the subject.

1919 CE

#11016

Prostitution in Europe. Introduction by John D. Rockefeller, Jr.

"Publications of the Bureau of Social Hygiene". Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1919 CE

#4987

Psychology from the standpoint of a behaviorist.

Watson was the principal exponent of behaviorist psychology. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1919 CE

#4239

Renal efficiency tests in nephritis, and the reaction of the urine.

Alkaline tide of urine.

1919 CE

#4603

Röntgenography of the brain after the injection of air into the spinal canal.

Introduction of pneumoencephalography.

1919 CE

#3849.1

Some considerations on the operation for exophthalmic goitre.

Dunhill’s operation of exophthalmic goitre is described above. He was a pioneer in thyroid surgery.

1919 CE

#5391

Studies on Rocky Mountain spotted fever.

In his important aetiological and pathological studies of Rocky Mountain spotted fever, Wolbach mentioned the causal agent Dermacentroxenus rickettsi.

1919 CE

#11486

The amoebae living in man; a zoological monograph.

"I have attempted in this monograph to give an accurate and concise account of all the amoebae which live in human beings." Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.

1919 CE

#528

The elementary nervous system.

Important studies on the survival of primitive types of neuromuscular mechanism in some of the higher vertebrates.

1919 CE

#10741

The journal of a disappointed man. With an introduction by H. G. Wells.

Published under the pseudonym, Wilhelm Nero Pilate Barbellion. "Cummings' life changed forever when he was called to enlist in the British Army to fight in World War I in November 1915. He had consulted his doctor bef…

1919 CE

#2137.5

The medical and surgical aspects of aviation by H. Graeme Anderson. With chapters on applied physiology of aviation by Martin Flack, and the aero-neuroses of war pilots by Oliver H. Gotch.

The first textbook on aviation medicine. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1919 CE

#9436

The medical aspects of mustard gas poisoning.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1919 CE

#12507

The microscopic anatomy of the teeth.

Digital facsimile of the 1919 edition from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link. Mummery substantially expanded and retitled the second edition of this work as The microscopic & general anatomy of the teeth huma…

1919 CE

#6251

The newer methods of cesarean section. Report of 40 cases.

DeLee’s low cervical operation (laparotrachelotomy).