1910–1919

1914 CE

#5068

Active immunization in diphtheria and treatment by toxin-antitoxin.

With A. Zingher and M. H. Serota. Park was an early advocate of diphtheria immunization with toxin-antitoxin. A second paper is in the same journal, 1915, 65, 2216-20.

1914 CE

#5699.1

Anesthesia.

Gwathmey was one of the first physicians in the United States to specialize exclusively in anesthesiology. This work includes (p. 334) a description of his nitrous oxide-oxygen-ether apparatus.

1914 CE

#10832

Animal experimentation and medical progress.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1914 CE

#6625

Astrology in medicine.

1914 CE

#2843

Auricular flutter.

1914 CE

#11429

Bibliographia medica typographica pedemontana saeculorum XV et XVI. A Iohanne Carboneli medico doctore collecta in qua non tantum auctorum nomina sed etiam fere omnium operum inscriptiones eadem forma mensuraque relatae inveniuntur. Cum appendicibus et explanationibus atque indicibus copiosissimis.

1914 CE

#13877

Book of monsters.

The first book of macro photographs (extreme close-up photography) of insects.

1914 CE

#4596.2

Contribution à l’étude des troubles mentaux dans l’hémiplégie organique cérébrale (anosognosie).

Babinski drew attention to anosognosia, a name he gave to unconcern or denial of striking neurological disorders.

1914 CE

#1985

De sanitate tuenda ed. K. Koch. Corpus Medicorum Graecorum V, 4, 2, 1-198

English translation by R. M. Green, Springfield, Ill., 1951.

1914 CE

#5350.2

Der Zwischenwirt des Schistosomum japonicum Katsurada.

Miyairi and Suzuki confirmed that snails are the intermediate hosts of S. japonicum, and their paper completed the description of the life cycle from ova to snail intermediate host. Translation in Kean (No. 2268.1), p…

1914 CE

#1032

Die äussere Sekretion der Verdauungsdrüsen.

1914 CE

#4238

Die Brightsche Nierenkrankheit.

First full description of pure nephrosis, relating clinical features to morbid anatomy.

1914 CE

#3192.2

Die Erreger von Husten und Schnopfen.

Kruse reported that colds could be produced in volunteers by intranasal instillation of bacteria-free filtrates of secretions from persons suffering from colds.

1914 CE

#1438.2

Die Lokalisation im Grosshirn und der Abbau der Funktion durch kortikale Herde.

A monumental work on cerebral localization.

1914 CE

#12381

Die Sportverletzungen. Neue Deutsche Chirurgie, hrsg. von P. von Bruns., 13. bd.

Sportart, Sportverletzung, Sportmedizin, Kampfsport, Ballspiel, Leichtathletik, Tanz, Bergsport, Gerätturnen, Wassersport, Wintersport, Motorsport, Pferdesport, Rudersport, Radsport, Sporttraumatologie.

1914 CE

#2844

Die unregelmässige Herztätigkeit und ihre klinische Bedeutung.

Wenckebach was the first to demonstrate (pp. 173-75) the value of quinine (“Wenckebach’s pills”) in the treatment of paroxysmal fibrillation. The same work contains a number of excellent descriptions…

1914 CE

#1051

Die Vitamine

A pioneer work in the study of vitamins. Much of the previous literature is reviewed. Funk introduced the term “vitamine”, later changed to “vitamin”. In 1912 (J. State Med., 20, 341) he postul…

1914 CE

#11906

Diseases of the kidneys, ureters and bladder, with special reference to the diseases in women. With 628 illustrations, for the most part by Max Brödel

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1914 CE

#3784

Ein unbekanntes Krankheitsbild.

First description of that form of xanthomatosis which Pick described more fully in 1926 (No. 3785) and to which the eponym “Niemann-Pick disease” has been applied.

1914 CE

#6348

Erythroedema.

Acrodynia (“pink disease”, “Swift’s disease”); first full description.

1914 CE

#3029

Etude expérimentelle sur la chirurgie des valvules du coeur.

Tuffier carried out the first successful experimental operation for the relief of chronic valvular disease. He also operated successfully in a case of aortic stenosis.

1914 CE

#1641.1

Geriatrics: The diseases of old age and their treatment, including physiological old age, home and institutional care, and medico-legal relations.

The first modern treatise on the subject. Nascher coined the term “geriatrics” in a paper of that name in N.Y. med. J., 1909, 90, 358-59.

1914 CE

#5506.1

German measles (rubella): an experimental study.

Experimental proof that rubella is caused by a virus.

1914 CE

#3340

Geschichte der Nasenheilkunde von ihren Anfängen bis zum 18. Jahrhundert. Vol. 1.

Continued through 18th and part of 19th century in articles in Z. Laryngol., vols. 7, 8, 9, 11, 1914-23. Reprinted, 2 vols., Hildesheim, G. Olms, 1967, with title Geschichte der Nasenheilkunde … bis zum 19 Jahr…

1914 CE

#8121

Graphic methods for presenting facts.

The first book on information graphics published in America. Digital facsimile of the 1919 printing from the Internet Archive at this link.

1914 CE

#2568

Infection and resistance.

1914 CE

#5175

Infection of man with Bacterium tularense

Wherry and Lamb were first to isolate P. tularensis from lesions in man.

1914 CE

#4597

Internal hydrocephalus.

Dandy and the pediatrician Blackfan published two papers on the production, circulation, and absorption of CSF in the brain and on the causes and potential treatments of hydrocephalus. Hydrocephalus is the buildup of …

1914 CE

#5704

L’anesthésie régionale.

There was a second edition in 1917. Gaston Labat was the third co-author of the third edition (1921). Labat published his own book in English in 1922, the first work in English on the subject.

1914 CE

#2443

La lèpre à travers les siècles et les contrées.

1914 CE

#190

Lehrbuch der Anthropologie.

Exhaustive bibliography. 2nd ed., 1928.

1914 CE

#5536

Les grains botryomycotiques. Leur signification en pathologie et en biologie générales.

Thèse de Paris, No. 267, 1914. Magrou showed botriomycosis (granuloma pyogenicum) to be due to a staphylococcus.

1914 CE

#13746

Les médecins dans l'ouest de la France au Xième et XIIème siècles.

Digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this link.

1914 CE

#9438

Medicina de quadrupedibus: An early English version with introduction, translation, notes, and glossary.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1914 CE

#5535.1

Note on certain protozoa-like bodies in a case of protracted fever with splenomegaly.

Castellani was first to suspect that toxoplasmosis could affect humans.

1914 CE

#6122

Note on determination of patency of Fallopian tubes by the use of collargol and x-ray shadow.

Cary was the first to perform salpingography.

1914 CE

#2019

Note sur une nouvelle méthode de transfusion.

Hustin demonstrated the anticoagulant powers of sodium citrate and glucose in blood transfusion.

1914 CE

#2020

Nuevo procedimiento para la transfusion de la sangre.

Agote was the first to transfuse citrated blood. Text in Spanish and French.

1914 CE

#5129.1

Observations on the mechanism of the transmission of plague by fleas.

Bacot and Martin demonstrated the method by which the rat flea (primarily Xenopsylla cheopis) transmits the plague bacillus from rat to man.

1914 CE

#851

On some cardiac reflexes.

Bainbridge found that cardiac reflex action is produced by inhibition of vagus tone and excitation of the accelerator nerves.

1914 CE

#1711

On the handicapping of the first-born.

1914 CE

#850

On the influence of the lymph hearts upon the action of convulsant drugs in cardiectomized frogs. II.

1914 CE

#741.2

On the removal of diffusible substances from the circulating blood of living animals by dialysis.

Hemodialysis. See also No. 1976. Preliminary communication in Trans Ass. Amer. Phycns., 1913, 28, 51-4. "Together with L.G. Rowntree and B.B. Turner, Abel devised what they called a "vividiffusion" apparatus, consisti…

1914 CE

#5138

Plague and pestilence in literature and art.

Deals with the subject up to the end of the 18th century. Revised ed., 1951.

1914 CE

#1976

Plasma removal with return of corpuscles (plasmaphaeresis).

Report of a method of removal of plasma from the living animal, with return of the corpuscles after washing and separation by centrifugalization. See the authors' earlier papers in the same journal, 1914, 5, 275-316, …

1914 CE

#12670

Pseudogaleni in Hippocratis de septimanis commentarium ab Hunaino q. f. Arabice versum, ex codice monacensi primum edidit et Germanice vertit.

1914 CE

#5350.3

Report of the Bombay Bacteriological laboratory for the year 1913.

Experimental demonstration, on pp. 14-16, of the complete life cycle of Dracunculus medinensis, the parasite causing Dracunculiasis, popularly known as Guinea-worm disease.

1914 CE

#10520

Sanitary conditions among the Eskimos: A report on conditions in native villages along the Arctic coast of Alaska. Supplement No. 9 to Public Health Reports, December 12, 1913.

In 1912 the U.S. Public Health Service assigned Dr. Emil Krulish to supervise health care in the Territory of Alaska. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1914 CE

#4598

Sémiologie des affections du système nerveux.

1914 CE

#5301

Sobre o tratemento de leishmaniose tegumentar.

Vianna introduced tartar emetic in the treatment of S. American leishmaniasis. His preliminary announcement on this form of treatment was made to the Brazilian Dermatological Society and appears in Arch. brasil. Med.,…