1910–1919

1911 CE–1913 CE

#1639

Handbuch der Hygiene. 6 vols.

With Max Gruber and P. M. Ficker.

1911 CE–1913 CE

#12897

L'homme fossile de La Chapelle-aux-Saints.

Originally published in four parts in Vols. 6-8 (1911-13) of the Annales de paléontologie. The La Chapelle-aux-Saints skeleton (La Chapelle-aux-Saints 1), discovered in 1908, was the most complete single Neande…

1911 CE–1916 CE

#365

Leonardo da Vinci: Quaderni d’anatomia I-VI. Fogli della Royal Library di Windsor, pubblicati da Ove C.L. Vangensten, A. Fonahn, H. Hopstock. 6 vols.

Leonardo, “the greatest artist and scientist of the Italian Renaissance, was the founder of iconographic and physiologic anatomy” (Garrison). He made over 750 sketches of all the principal organs of the bo…

1911 CE–1918 CE

#11470

The Bradley Bibliography: A guide to the literature of the woody plants of the world published before the beginning of the twentieth century. Compiled at the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University under the direction of Charles Sprague Sargent by Alfred Rehder. 5 vols.

An attempt at a truly comprehensive bibliography of the world literature in western languages on these subjects to 1900, including more than 100,000 entries. Digital facsimile from the Biodiversity Heritage Library at…

1911 CE–1936 CE

#12412

Nostrums and quackery: Articles on the nostrum evil and quackery reprinted from the Journal of the American Medical Association. 3 vols.

Cramp was director of the AMA's Propaganda for Reform Department. "In 1911, Cramp published the first of three volumes called Nostrums and Quackery,[3] which would become "a veritable encyclopedia on the nostrum evil …

1912 CE

#741.1

A new method for the determination of total nitrogen in urine.

Folin introduced several micro-methods for the determination of nitrogen, urea, creatine, etc.

1912 CE

#11288

A review of the primates. 3 vols.

Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.

1912 CE

#2841

A study of the endocardial lesions of subacute bacterial endocarditis.

1912 CE

#3898

Acromegaly: a personal experience.

Mark, a medical practitioner, suffered from acromegaly from the age of 24. The condition was obvious to his friends, but Mark was 50 before he realized the cause of the symptoms of which he had kept a record for many …

1912 CE

#5159

An account of the discovery of a hitherto undescribed infective disease occurring among the population of Rangoon.

First description of melioidosis. Together with C.S. Krishnaswami, Whitmore identified Burkholderia pseudomallei, the causative agent of melioidosis (also known as "Whitmore's disease") in opium addicts in Rangoon in …

1912 CE

#10792

An index of differential diagnosis of main symptoms by various writers. Edited by Herbert French.

The first edition extended to more than 1000 pages. It had reached its 16th edition by 2016. Digital facsimile of the New York 1912 edition from the Internet Archive at this link.

1912 CE

#5962

Angiopathia retinae traumatica. Lymphorrhagien des Augengrundes.

“Purtscher’s disease”, traumatic angiopathy of the retina, first described.

1912 CE

#4386.02

Anterior dislocation of the head of the ulna.

Darrach procedure for problems of the distal ulna.

1912 CE

#2424

Aus der Frühgeschichte der Syphilis.

Sudhoff believed in the pre-Columbian existence of syphilis.

1912 CE

#5756.6

Blood-vessel surgery and its applications.

This book describes Guthrie’s pioneer work in tissue and organ transplantation.

1912 CE

#2131

Caisson sickness, and the physiology of work in compressed air.

1912 CE

#956

Chemical nature of specific oxygen capacity in haemoglobin.

Peters made accurate determinations of the ratio of iron to oxygen in the blood.

1912 CE

#2839

Clinical features of sudden obstruction of the coronary arteries.

Outstanding description of coronary thrombosis. Herrick was the first to describe and diagnose coronary thrombosis in a living person; he showed that sudden coronary occlusion is not necessarily fatal. Reprint in Will…

1912 CE

#11812

Coral and atolls. A history and description of the Keeling-Cocos Islands, with an account of their fauna and flora, and a discussion of the method of development and transformation of coral structures in general.

Wood Jones was one of the first to study coral reefs as living organisms interacting with their environment. Prior to Wood Jones's book most of the work on corals was done from the systematics viewpoint using specimen…

1912 CE

#12433

Cryptosporidium parvum (sp. nov.) a coccidium found in the small intestine of the common mouse.

Tyzzer described an even smaller species of cryptosporidium, Cryptosporidium parvum (sp. nov.), later recognized as the chief species infecting humans. His paper reproduced color lithographs of all the different life …

1912 CE

#5367

Das Oleum chenopodii anthelmintici gegen Ankylostomiasis im Vergleich zu anderen Wurmmitteln.

Schüffner and Vervoort introduced oil of chenopodium for the treatment of ankylostomiasis as early as 1900.

1912 CE

#11097

Der Londoner medizinische Papyrus (Brit. Museum 10 059) und der Papyrus Hearst in Transkription, Übersetzung und Kommentar. Herausgegeben von Walther Wreszinski. Mit Facsimile der Londoner Pap. auf 17 Lichtdrucktafeln.

The London Medical Papyrus contains "61 recipes, of which 25 are classified as medical while the remainder are of magic.[1] The medical foci of the writing are skin complaints, eye complaints, bleeding[2] (predominant…

1912 CE

#3233

Der primäre Lungenherd bei der Tuberkulose der Kinder.

Ghon described the anatomical distribution and development of the lesions in pulmonary tuberculosis among children – “Ghon’s primary focus”. His book was translated into English in 1916. See al…

1912 CE

#11254

Die diluviale Vorzeit Deutschlands. Archäologischer Teil, von R. R. Schmidt; II. Geologischer Teil, von Ernest Koken, Die Geologie und Tierweld der paläolithischen Kulturstätten Deutschlands; III. Anthropologischer Teil von A. Schliz, Die diluvialen Menschenreste Deutschlands.

This splendidly produced and illustrated large folio volume was the first major book on paleolithic research published in Germany. Schmidt described systematic investigations of the caves in the Swabian Alps, and was …

1912 CE

#8153

Die Entstehung der Kontinente.

Wegener originated the theory of continental drift in this paper on the origin of continents, which he conceived after being struck by the apparent correspondence in the shapes of the coastlines on the west and east s…

1912 CE

#2567.1

Die heteroplastiche und homöoplastiche Transplantation.

Schöne coined the term “transplantation immunity”. He set out general rules governing the acceptance or rejection of tumor grafts which are essentially the same as the modern “laws of transplant…

1912 CE

#5756.8

Die kosmetische Chirurgie. In Handbuch der Kosmetik, ed. M. Joseph.

Briefly describes (p. 688) the first facelift operation. Holländer later stated that the operation was performed in 1901. A pupil of James Israel (No. 5755.1), Holländer is better known today for his series …

1912 CE

#12888

Die Migräne.

Flatau presented the full clinical picture of migraine and described the disease as an innate disposition to pathological metabolic processes in the nervous system. He described its distinguished characters - ocular, …

1912 CE

#3338

Die Schwebelaryngoscopie.

Introduction of suspension laryngoscopy. English translation in 1914.

1912 CE

#3320

Diffuse dilatation of the esophagus without anatomic stenosis (cardio spasm): a report of ninety-one cases.

See No. 3321.

1912 CE

#10921

Does a human tick-borne disease exist in British Columbia?

Report on the first cases of "tick paralysis", a potentially lethal disease treatable by removing the tick. Follow-up paper by Todd: "Tick bite in British Columbia," Canad. med. Assoc. J., 2 (1912) 1118-1119. Unlike m…

1912 CE

#4385

Dysostose cranio-faciale héréditaire.

First description of cranio-facial dysostosis, hypertelorism (Crouzon's syndrome).

1912 CE

#2840

Electro-cardiography and its importance in the clinical examination of heart affections.

1912 CE

#2639

Epithelial proliferation induced by the injection of gasworks tar.

Experimental production of cancer by the injection of tar as a byproduct of the manufacture of coal gas.

1912 CE

#2914

Esclerosis secundaria de la arteria pulmonar y su cuadro clinico (Cardiacos negros).

A classical description of “Ayerza’s syndrome or disease” (cor pulmonale), to which Arrillaga named after Abel Ayerza, who first mentioned the disease in a lecture given in 1901. Corvisart mentioned …

1912 CE

#4670.4

Experimental and pathological investigation. In: Investigations on epidemic infantile paralysis, report from the State Medical Institute of Sweden to the XVth International Congress on Hygiene and Demography.

Kling, A. Pettersson, and W. Wernstedt recovered the poliomyelitis virus from the intestinal wall and contents, disproving the contention of Flexner that it was exclusively neurotropic.

1912 CE

#1048

Feeding experiments illustrating the importance of accessory factors in normal dietaries.

In 1929 Hopkins shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Eijkman "for his discovery of the growth-stimulating vitamins."

1912 CE

#5174

Further observations on a plague-like disease of rodents with a preliminary note on the causative agent, Bacterium tularense.

Isolation of Pasteurella tularensis, causal organism in tularemia.

1912 CE

#86

Gesammelte Werke von Robert Koch. Unter Mitwirkung von G. Gaffky and E. Pfuhl. Herausgegeben von J. Schwalbe. 2 vols. [in 3).

For his work on tuberculosis Koch received the Nobel Prize in 1905. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link. See T.D. Brock, Robert Koch: A life in medicine and bacteriology, Madison, WS: Science-Tech…

1912 CE

#2838

Glomerular lesions of subacute bacterial endocarditis.

Baehr drew attention to the renal lesions in subacute bacterial endocarditis.

1912 CE

#11017

History of medical teaching in Trinity College Dublin and of the School of Physic In Ireland.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1912 CE

#7177

Hygiene der Aeronautik und Aviatik.

Schrötter conducted a great deal of research on the physiological influence of barometric pressure and was one of the first to apply these observations to aviation medicine. Following flight tests he was the firs…

1912 CE

#4386.01

Infections of the hand: A guide to the surgical treatment of acute and chronic suppurative processes in the fingers, hand, and forearm.

The first comprehensive treatise on hand surgery, and the classic work on tendon and bursal hand spaces relevant to management of hand infections. Kanavel developed the method of forcible injection of radio-opaque mat…

1912 CE

#6917

Interferenz-Erscheinungen bei Röntgenstrahlen. . . . Eine quantitative Prüfung der Theorie für die Interferenz-Erscheinungen bei Röntgenstrahlen

Discovery of the diffraction of X-rays in crystals. Laue’s discovery was of dual importance: it allowed the subsequent investigation of X-radiation by means of wavelength determination, and it provided the means…

1912 CE

#5963

Intrakapsuläre Staroperationen.

Stanculeanu’s technique for cataract extraction.

1912 CE

#5960

Klinische, experimentelle und mikroskopische Studien über Trachom, Einschlussblenorrhöe und Frühjahrskatarrh.

Filtration of the virus of inclusion conjunctivitis.

1912 CE

#4716.1

L’atrophie olivo-ponto-cérébelleuse.

Olivo-ponto-cerebellar atrophy. English translation in Rottenberg & Hochberg, No. 5019.14, pp. 219-51.

1912 CE

#5961

Le magot animal réactif du trachôme. Filtrabilité du virus. Pouvoir infectant des larmes.

Filtration of the trachoma agent, Chlamydia trachomatis. With L. Blaisot and A. Cuénod.

1912 CE

#5285.3

Le trypanosoma cruzi évolue chez Conorhinus megistus, Cimex lectularius, Cimex Boueti et Ornithodorus moubata. Cycle évolutif de ce parasite.

Life cycle of T. cruzi described. English translation in Kean (No. 2268.1).

1912 CE

#2101

Lead poisoning and lead absorption.