1910–1919

1912 CE

#4147

Les sporotrichoses.

First complete description of sporotrichosis (“de Beurmann–Gougerot disease”).

1912 CE

#4823

Luminal bei Epilepsie.

Introduction of phenobarbitone in the treatment of epilepsy.

1912 CE

#2425

Mal Franzoso in Italien in der ersten Hälfte des 15. Jahrhunderts.

Forms Heft 5 of K. Sudhoff & G. Sticker: Zur historischen Biologie der Krankheitserreger.

1912 CE

#13833

Médecins et médecine en Éthiopie: Généralités, pathologie médicale, pathologie chirurgicale et accouchements, médecins étrangers en Éthiopie.

Digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this link.

1912 CE

#1766.503

Medical education in Europe.

Flexner wrote the first systematic and thorough comparisons of the major systems of medical education.

1912 CE

#10413

Modern methods in nursing.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1912 CE

#3846

Myxödem und Kretinismus.

1912 CE

#5698

Nitrous oxide-oxygen-ether anesthesia: notes on administration; a perfected apparatus.

Boothby and Cotton’s flowmeter.

1912 CE

#8407

On mortality and the causes of death according to occupations. IN: Transactions of the 15th International Congress on Hygiene Demography, pp. 336-339.

Bertillon, brother of Alphonse Bertillon, was Chief of Statistical Services for the city of Paris. His classification of diseases was based on the principle, adopted by Farr, of distinguishing between general diseases…

1912 CE

#5285.2

On the transmission of human trypanosomes by Glossina morsitans, Westw.; and on the occurrence of human trypanosomes in game.

Glossina morsitans shown to be the transmitting fly of T. rhodesiense.

1912 CE

#6250

Operative Gynäkologie. 3rd ed.

Includes (p. 879) first description of Krönig’s operation of transperitoneal lower-segment Caesarean section.

1912 CE

#741

Oxidations and reductions in the animal body.

1912 CE

#6609

Plastik und Medizin.

1912 CE

#4148

Precancerous dermatosis. A study of two cases of chronic atypical epithelial proliferation.

Bowen, a Boston dermatologist, first described a precancerous dermatosis (“Bowen’s disease”), which is now considered to be a variant of an intra-epidermal basal cell epithelioma.

1912 CE

#3192

Primary malignant growths of the lungs and bronchi.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1912 CE

#4717

Progressive lenticular degeneration, a familial nervous disease associated with cirrhosis of the liver.

Classic description of progressive familial hepatolenticular degeneration (“Wilson’s disease”), first described by Frerichs in 1861 (see No. 4693), now considered to be a disorder of copper and cerul…

1912 CE

#2519

Pure cultivation of Spirochaeta refringens.

Noguchi obtained pure cultures of spirochaetae. See also his later papers in the same journal, 1912, 16, 199-210, 620-28.

1912 CE

#12582

Report of the International Plague Conference held at Mukden [Shenyang], April, 1911.

Report on the epidemic of pneumonic plague that raged in Manchuria and north China during the winter months of 1910-11, causing the death of nearly 50,000 people. This was the first outbreak of epidemic pneumonic plag…

1912 CE

#4596.1

Röntgen-diagnostik der Erkrankungen des Kopfes.

A fundamental work on radiological examination of the skull. English translation, St. Louis, 1918.

1912 CE

#5324

Salvarsantherapie der Rattenbisskrankheit in Japan.

Salvarsan first used in the treatment of rat-bite fever.

1912 CE

#5756.7

Surgery and diseases of the mouth and jaws.

First comprehensive work on maxillofacial surgery. After World War I Blair established the first separate Plastic Surgery Service in the United States at Barnes Hospital and Washington University in St. Louis.

1912 CE

#14126

Technique chirurgicale infantile: Indications opératoires, opérations courantes.

Ombrédanne improved surgical techniques for the correction of undescended testicles, cleft palate and penile hypospadias in children.

1912 CE

#527

Terminologie der Entwicklungsmechanik.

1912 CE

#11252

Texts illustrating the history of medicine in the Library of the Surgeon General's Office, U.S. Army. Arranged in chronological order. Reprint from volume xvii, second series, Index-Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon General's Office.

In 1912 Garrison was Assistant Librarian of the Surgeon General's Office, U.S. Army. At the suggestion of Sir William Osler, Garrison prepared this classified listing of medical classics across the full range of the h…

1912 CE

#791

The blood pressure fall produced by traction on the carotid artery.

First description of the carotid sinus depressor reflex.

1912 CE

#12589

The causes and prevention of miners' nystagmus.

Abstract "Miners' nystagmus is an occupational neurosis which is confined to workers in coal mines. The chief symptom and physical sign is a rotatory oscillation of the eyeballs, which prevents the miner from accurate…

1912 CE

#13924

The cinematograph as an aid to medical education and research: A lecture illustrated by moving pictures of ultramicroscopic life in the blood and tissues, and of surgical operations.

1912 CE

#5255.1

The cultivation of malaria plasmodia (Plasmodium vivax and Plasmodium falciparum) in vitro.

Cultivation of the malaria parasite.

1912 CE

#7482

The depths of the ocean. A general account of the modern science of oceanography based largely on the scientific researches of the Norwegian Steamer Michael Sars in the North Atlantic.

Digital facsimile from the Biodiversity Heritage Library, Internet Archive at this link.

1912 CE

#11181

The development of the nervous system. Keibel & Mall (eds.) Manual of human embryology, vol. 2, pp. 1-156.

1912 CE

#656.1

The growth of bone.

Throughout his life Macewen devoted much time to the study of bone growth. His researches revolutionized ideas concerning osteogenesis.

1912 CE

#13522

The influence of caffeine on mental and motor efficiency. Columbia Contributions to Philosophy and Psychology, Vol. XX, No. 4.

"The Coca-Cola Company, facing a lawsuit from the federal government under the Pure Food and Drug Act, approached Hollingworth (after James McKeen Cattell and several other psychologists turned them down)[4] about inv…

1912 CE

#11535

The Kallikak family: A study in the heredity of feeble-mindedness.

When this book was published Goddard was Director of the Research Laboratory of the Training School at Vineland, New Jersey, for Feeble-minded Girls and Boys. Though this work drew wide attention to the problems of pe…

1912 CE

#135

The mechanistic conception of life.

This work established Loeb's reputation as a researcher who treated organisms as machines. He stated that biologists explain organic phenomena only when they could control those phenomena. Loeb first published the tit…

1912 CE

#7050

The Negro in medicine.

An early publication on the medical problems of blacks written by a black physician. Kenney served as school physician at Tuskegee University, was the first director of the John A. Andrew Memorial Hospital at Tuskegee…

1912 CE

#3896

The pituitary body and its disorders.

The first clinical monograph on the hypophysis. Cushing, outstanding neurological surgeon of the early 20th century, added much to our knowledge of the pituitary body and its disorders. The above work includes a descr…

1912 CE

#5190

The rapid cure of amoebic dysentery and hepatitis by hypodermic injections of soluble salts of emetine.

Following up the work of Vedder, Rogers showed that the soluble salts of emetine could be safely injected subcutaneously. The general use of emetine, introduced by Rogers, diminished the incidence of liver abscess &nd…

1912 CE

#4883

The treatment of persistent pain of organic origin in the lower part of the body by division of the anterolateral column of the spinal cord.

Cordotomy for the relief of intractable pain.

1912 CE

#1162

Über die Funktion der Hypophyse.

Aschner was able to keep his hypophysectomized dogs alive indefinitely. He found that they developed genital hypoplasia.

1912 CE

#4985.1

Über die nervösen Charakter.

Adler seceded from Freud’s psycho-analytical group and founded the school of individual psychology. English translation of above, 1917. See also his Practice and theory of individual psychology, 1924.

1912 CE

#3897

Ueber Beziehungen der Hypophyse zum Diabetes insipidus.

Frank was the first definitely to connect the posterior lobe of the pituitary with diabetes insipidus.

1912 CE

#2405

Ueber Laboratoriumsversuche und klinische Erprobung von Heilstoffen.

Introduction of neoarsphenamine (neosalvarsan).

1912 CE

#4197

Ueber Leitungsanästhesie bei Nierenoperationen und Thorakoplastiken überhaupt bei Operationen am Rumpf.

Paravertebral anesthesia in urology.

1912 CE

#4386

Un cas d’absence des vertèbres cervicales avec cage thoracique remontant jusqu’à la base du crâne (cage thoracique cervicale).

“Klippel–Feil syndrome” – absence or incomplete development of cervical vertebrae. English translation in Bick, Classics of orthopaedics, 511-16.

1912 CE

#4646

Zur Kenntnis der sogenannten diffusen Sklerose (über Encephalitis periaxialis diffusa).

“Schilder’s disease” – encephalitis periaxialis diffusa.

1912 CE

#3845

Zur Kenntniss der lymphomatösen Veränderung der Schilddrüse (Struma lymphomatosa).

“Hashimoto’s disease”, struma lymphomatosa, lymphoid infiltration of the thyroid.

1912 CE

#3539

Zur Operation der angeborenen Pylorusstenose.

The first pyloromyotomy for pyloric stenosis, incising the pyloric muscle while leaving the mucosa intact and leaving the muscle to heal: “Rammstedt’s operation.” In 1920 Rammstedt discovered that th…

1912 CE

#7178

Zur Physiologie und Hygiene der Luftfahrt.

Luftfahrt und Wissenschaft, herausgegeben on Joseph Stricker. Heft 3.

1912 CE–1913 CE

#1030

Contributions to the physiology of the stomach.

Carlson recorded stomach movements by means of a balloon inserted through a gastric fistula. Much of his important work on gastric physiology was summed up in his book published in 1916. See No. 1033.

1912 CE–1913 CE

#4764

Thymektomie bei einem Fall von Morbus Basedowi mit Myasthenie.

Thymectomy for myasthenia gravis. Reported by C. H. Schumacher and – . Roth.