1910–1919

1913 CE

#245.5

Non-disjunction of the sex chromosome of Drosophila.

Bridges discovered non-disjunction, failure of chromosome pairs to segregate regularly during meiosis.

1913 CE

#5699

Oil-ether anaesthesia.

Gwathmey produced anesthesia by injection into the rectum of liquid ether with olive oil dissolved in it (synergistic anesthesia). Faulconer & Keys report that by 1930 Gwathmey was able to report 20,000 successful cas…

1913 CE

#849

On the action of drugs and the function of the anterior lymph hearts in cardiectomized frogs.

Abel was one of America’s most distinguished pharmacologists. See A. M. Harvey. "Pharmacology’s giant," Johns Hopk. med. J., 1974, 135, 245-58.

1913 CE

#211

On the discovery of a palaeolithic skull and mandible in a flint-bearing gravel overlying the Wealden (Hastings Beds) at Piltdown, Fletching (Sussex). With appendix by Grafton Elliot Smith.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Dawson, Woodward. The first "scientific" report on “Piltdown man” (Eoanthropus dawsoni,) one of the longest-lasting and most influential hoaxes ever perpetr…

1913 CE

#4884.1

Operative Erfolge bei Geschwülsten der Sehhügel-und Vierhügel gegend.

Successful removal of pineal tumor.

1913 CE

#3403

Otosclerosis: certain clinical features and experimental operative procedures.

Jenkins suggested the modern fenestration operation of otosclerosis.

1913 CE

#957

Physiological observations made on Pike’s Peak, Colorado, with special reference to adaptation to low barometric pressures.

1913 CE

#1641

Preventive medicine and hygiene by Milton J. Rosenau. With chapters on sewage and garbage by George C. Whipple...Vital statistics by Cressy L. Wilbur...The prevention of mental diseases by Thomas W. Salmon.

Digital facsimile of the 1913 edition from the Internet Archive at this link. There were numerous later revised editions.

1913 CE

#1640

Sewage disposal by oxidation methods.

1913 CE

#12744

Shou-Shi-Pien: Ein chinesisches Lehrbuch der Geburtshülfe. Aus dem chinesischen Urtext übersetzt und erläutert von Dr. med. et phil. Hübotter.

1913 CE

#10791

Social work in hospitals: A contribution to progressive medicine.

Cannon, sister of Walter Bradford Cannon, established medical social work as an accepted subspecialty of social work first at Massachusetts General Hospital, and eventually throughout the U.S. Her career was closely a…

1913 CE

#11550

Surgery of the vascular system.

Bernheim was a pupil of William Halsted. His work includes 53 illustrations by James Didusch, a protegé of Max Broedel. "The depict the innovative vascular procedures developed by Carrel, halsted, Matas, and Be…

1913 CE

#38

Syrian anatomy, pathology and therapeutics or "The Book of Medicines". The Syriac text with an English translation, etc

Text and translation from a copy made for Budge of a 12th century codex---one of the most extensive early medical manuscripts in Syriac. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1913 CE

#2600.5

The anaphylactic reaction of plain muscle in the guinea-pig.

See No. 2600.2. Dale concluded that histamine induced hypersensitivity reactions.

1913 CE

#3538

The cause and treatment of certain unfavourable after-effects of gastroenterostomy.

First description of the “dumping syndrome”, so named by C. L. Mix, Surg. Clin. N. Amer., 1922, 2, 617-22. (During WWI Hertz changed his name to Hurst; see No. 8604.)

1913 CE

#7542

The complete athletic trainer, by S. A. Mussabini in collaboration with Charles Ranson.

Includes advice on health, diet, etc. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1913 CE

#6919

The diffraction of short electromagnetic waves by a crystal.

At the age of 22, Bragg discovered that the regular pattern of dots produced on a photographic plate by an X-ray beam passing through a crystal could be regarded as a reflection of electromagnetic radiation from plane…

1913 CE

#3540

The first successful case of resection of the thoracic portion of the oesophagus for carcinoma.

See also Arch. Surg. (Chicago), 1925, 10, 353-60, which reported that the patient was still living.

1913 CE

#5436

The historic evolution of variolation.

1913 CE

#5629

The kinetic theory of shock and its prevention through anoci-association (shockless operation).

Crile advanced the anoci-association concept in which local and general anesthesia are combined in a sequence to eliminate pre-operative fear and tension.

1913 CE

#245.4

The linear arrangement of six sex-linked factors in Drosophila, as shown by their mode of association.

Proof that the genes are arranged in a linear sequence along the chromosome. Sturtevant determined the relative positions of six genetic factors on a fly’s chromosome by creating a process called gene mapping. T…

1913 CE

#527.1

The mechanism of fertilization.

1913 CE

#1049

The necessity of certain lipids in the diet during growth.

Discovery of “fat-soluble A” (vitamin A). See also J. biol. Chem., 1915, 23,181-246, in which the same authors showed the necessity in diet for at least two factors – “fat-soluble A” and …

1913 CE

#1113

The origin and development of the lymphatic system.

1913 CE

#6537

The physician in English history.

Linacre Lecture, 1913.

1913 CE

#1903.1

The plant alkaloids.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1913 CE

#6920

The reflection of x-rays by crystals.

Discovery of X-ray crystallography. The father and son team of physicists, William Henry Bragg and William Lawrence Bragg, constructed the first X-ray spectrometer using crystals as gratings, using a known wavelength …

1913 CE

#1050

The relation of growth to the chemical constituents of the diet.

Like McCollum and Davis, Osborne and Mendel showed the necessity in diet of a factor which was later to be known as vitamin A.

1913 CE

#9380

Totem und Tabu: Einige Übereinstimmungen im Seelenleben der Wilden und der Neurotiker.

Freud's primary contribution to medical anthropology. First translated into English by A. A. Brill as Totem and taboo: Resemblances between the psychic lives of savages and neurotics (1919). Digital facsimile of the 1…

1913 CE

#3015

Traumatic lipaemia and fatty embolism.

Classic clinical description of pulmonary fat embolism.

1913 CE

#5067

Ueber ein neues Diphtherieschutzmittel.

Toxin–antitoxin for immunization against diphtheria.

1913 CE

#3082.1

Ueber eine neue Leukämie durch echte Uebergangsformen (Splenozytenleukämie) und ihre Bedeutung für die Selbständigkeit dieser Zellen.

Monocytic leukemia reported.

1913 CE

#2915

Ueber experimentelle Cholesterinsteatose und ihre Bedeutung für die Entstehung einiger pathologischer Prozesse.

Anichkov and Chalatov of St. Petersburg, Russia, discovered that atherosclerosis of large arteries is critically dependent on cholesterol. (Translated in Arteriosclerosis, 1983, 3, 178-182). The inflammatory nature of…

1913 CE

#5300.1

Un cas de kala-azar à Asuncion (Paraguay).

Migone first noted the existence of visceral leishmaniasis in the Americas (Paraguay).

1913 CE

#2640

Untersuchungen über eine Nematode (Spiroptera sp. n.) und deren Fähigkeit papillomatöse und carcinomatose Geschwulstbildungen im Magen der Ratte hervorzurufen.

Fibiger demonstrated that the roundworm, which he called Spiroptera carcinoma (but is correctly named Gongylonema neoplasticum), could cause stomach cancer (squamous cell carcinoma) in rats and mice. His experimental …

1913 CE

#9658

Vitalfärbung am Zentralnervensystem. Beitrag zur Physio-pathologie des Plexus choroideus und der Hirnhäute.

Goldmann was the first to demonstrate the blood-brain barrier. "By the intravenous and intrathecal administration of trypan blue he found that the barrier was impermeable to its large molecules, and he concluded that …

1913 CE

#3900

Z kazuistyki zmian anatomo-patholigicznych w przysadce mózgowej

Glinski preceded Simmonds in this important description of post-partum necrosis of the anterior pituitary. Abstract in Dtsch med. Wschr., 1913, 39, 473.

1913 CE–1914 CE

#2691

A grafting-diaphragm to cut off secondary rays from the object.

Bucky devised a diaphragm for roentgenography which, by preventing the secondary rays from reaching the plate, secured better contrast and definition.

1913 CE–1914 CE

#2692

A powerful Roentgen ray tube with a pure electron discharge.

Coolidge invented the high vacuum tube, capable of kilovoltage energies.

1913 CE–1914 CE

#435

Die Anatomie des Menschen. 3 pts.

1913 CE–1914 CE

#560.1

Estudios sobre la degeneración y regeneración de sistema nervioso.

The most complete work on the subject so far written. Ramón y Cajal, great neuroanatomist and histologist, was for many years in charge of the institute bearing his name at Madrid. He gained the Nobel Prize in …

1913 CE–1914 CE

#3648

Experiments on haemolytic icterus.

McNee showed that bile pigment formation is not a function of the liver cells alone, but can take place in other tissues. He thus disproved the theory propounded by Minkowski and Naunyn in 1886.

1913 CE–1914 CE

#6488

The surgical instruments of the Hindus, with a comparative study of the surgical instruments of the Greek, Roman, Arab and the modern Eouropean [sic] surgeons. 2 vols.

Vol. 2 consists of plates.

1913 CE–1922 CE

#12960

Pratyaksa-śārira: pratyaksha-shariram: A textbook of human anatomy in Sanskrit with English & Sanskrit introductions, containing a short history of Ayurvedic literature. 3 vols.

1913 CE–1926 CE

#3696

Kulturgeschichte der Zahnheilkunde. 4 vols. Edited by Curt Proskauer.

Vol. 4: Iconographia odontologia. Mit 186 abbildungen, by Curt Proskauer.

1914 CE

#1664.1

A study in hospital efficiency as demonstrated by the case report of the first two years of a private hospital.

Pioneer application of efficiency engineering principles to hospital administration, made over a two year period. Codman was responsible for the “end result idea”. This revolutionary concept, which seems s…

1914 CE

#29

[Opera omnia]. Corpus Medicorum Graecorum V ...

As of 1990 about twenty volumes containing perhaps a fifth of the Corpus were published. Although the principles of the edition varied somewhat over the 75 year course of the project, all volumes represent a decisive …

1914 CE

#3341

A history of laryngology and rhinology. 2nd ed.

1914 CE

#8241

A history of the Indian Medical Service 1600-1913. 2 vols.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1914 CE

#1341

Acetylcholine, a new active principle of ergot.

Isolation of acetylcholine in ergot.