1920–1929
804 entries with publication dates in this decade.
1926 CE
#3087.2
Hereditär pseudohemofili.
Von Willebrand’s disease, pseudo-hemophilia type B, an hereditary bleeding disorder affecting both sexes.
1926 CE
#7031
Het volkomen huwelijk. Een studie omtrent zijn physiologie en zijn techniek: voor den arts en den echtgenoot geschreven.
English translation: Ideal Marriage: Its Physiology and Technique. (1930). The first printing had an insert: "The sale of this book is strictly limited to members of the medical profession, Psychoanalysts, Scholars, a…
1926 CE
#7307
Human origins: A manual of prehistory. 2 vols.
A detailed and extensively illustrated summary, with detailed bibliographical references, of the state of knowledge of prehistory in Europe as of 1926. Appendix 1: "Stratigraphic Study of Paleolithic Sites" is a very …
1926 CE
#4607
Idiopathic narcolepsy: a disease sui generis; with remarks on the mechanism of sleep.
Adie’s description of narcolepsy is called “maladie d’Adie” by some French writers.
1926 CE
#6470
Imhotep: the vizier and physician of Kind Zoser, and afterwards the Egyptian god of medicine.
1926 CE
#12386
Isolation of a crystalline protein with tuberculin activity.
Siebert identified the active agent in tuberculin as a protein.
1926 CE
#7724
La chirurgie esthétique, son rôle social.
Noël was one of the first women to practice cosmetic surgery; her book on the subject was the first written by a woman and one of the earliest books on aesthetic plastic surgery in French.
1926 CE
#14003
Le bactériophage et son comportement.
In this book d'Hérelle reported on the results of quantitative work based on the plaque-count, and dilution methods of assay that he invented. He described a three-step process for the life history of the bacte…
1926 CE
#6632
Medical numismatics.
An excellent short paper on the subject, with references to the more important previous work.
1926 CE
#12574
Medical report of the Hamilton Rice Seventh expedition to the Amazon In conjunction with the Department of Tropical Medicine of Harvard University, 1924-1925
"The Hamilton Rice Seventh Expedition to Amazonia was undertaken [under the leadership of Richard Pearson Strong] partly for general geographical exploration and partly for medical investigation in a section of the Am…
1926 CE
#4273
Minor surgery of the prostate gland; a new cystoscopic instrument employing a cutting current capable of operation in a water medium.
Stern’s resectoscope.
1926 CE
#663
Muscular contraction and the reflex control of movement.
A detailed study of the physiology of skeletal muscle. A valuable historical introduction will be found on pp. 3-55, and the book includes an extensive bibliography.
1926 CE
#1915
On the chemotherapy of neurosyphilis and trypanosomiasis.
Study of the effect of twelve different substances in neurosyphilis and trypanosomiasis.
1926 CE
#3699
Orthodontics; an historical review of its origin and evolution, including an extensive bibliography of orthodontic literature up to the time of specialization. 2 vols.
1926 CE
#10468
Population problems of the age of Malthus.
Includes chapters on birth and marriage rates relating to conditions of employment, also the influence of the Poor Laws on these rates. Other chapters concern agriculture and food and health of towns and factores, and…
1926 CE
#2462
Protozoology. 2 vols.
Wenyon was one of the world’s foremost authorities on medical protozoology.
1926 CE
#5707.1
Some physical factors in the administration of gaseous ether.
McKesson introduced the intermittent flow method.
1926 CE
#5971
Studien über Kleinhirncysten. Bau, Pathogenese und Beziehungen zur Angiomatosis retinae.
Lindau’s important histological study of hemangiomatosis retinae (“Lindau’s disease”).
1926 CE
#14313
Studies in intracranial physiology & surgery. The third circulation. The hypophysis. The gliomas. The Cameron Prize Lectures delivered at the University of Edinburgh October 19, 20, 22, 1925.
This series of three lectures was an analytical review by Cushing of the three main categories of scientific work that he had accomplished during the previous 25 years. Remarkably, Cushing completed this review and de…
1926 CE
#1241
Studies on kidney function.
First attempt to determine the glomerular filtration rate in man.
1926 CE
#5433
Studies on variola, vaccinia, and avian molluscum.
Ledingham’s diagnostic test.
1926 CE
#1917
The action of adrenalin and ergotamine on the uterus of the rabbit.
Gaddum produced concentration-effect curves of antagonistic drugs, showing the dose-ratio linearly related to antagonistic concentration. See also No. 1925.1
1926 CE
#1058.1
The anti-rachitic properties of irradiated sterols.
Proof that the irradiation of ergosterol formed vitamin D.
1926 CE
#795.1
The capillary pressure in frog mesentery as determined by micro-injection methods.
Direct measurement of the blood pressure within the capillaries.
1926 CE
#12907
The dental assistant.
The first textbook for dental assistants.
1926 CE
#1307
The impulses produced by sensory nerve-endings. Part 2. The response of a single end-organ.
The observations of Adrian and Zotterman on the response of single sensory end-organs to a natural stimulus led them to formulate their conception of “adaptation” of receptors to stimuli.
1926 CE
#14025
The isolation and crystallization of the enzyme urease.
Sumner first isolated and crystallized an enzyme (urease) and proved that enzymes are proteins. One month after publication of the above paper Sumner reinforced his discovery by recrystalizing urease, publishing a fol…
1926 CE
#9656
The natural history of ants: From an unpublished manuscript in the Academy of Sciences of Paris. Translated and annotated by William Morton Wheeler.
French and English text. The French text was first published in France as the 7th volume of Reaumur's Mémoires, Paris, 1928.
1926 CE
#3201
The nature of the “oat-celled sarcoma” of the mediastinum.
An important study of the histology of “oat-celled sarcoma” which Barnard showed to be primary carcinoma of the lung.
1926 CE
#251
The theory of the gene.
1926 CE
#5395
The Weil-Felix reaction in sporadic tropical typhus.
Bull. Inst. Med. Res., F. M. S., 1926, No. 1. Demonstration that scrub-typhus patients developed agglutinins against the OX-K strain of B. proteus but not the OX-19 strain.
1926 CE
#3140
Treatment of pernicious anemia by a special diet.
Introduction of raw liver diet in the treatment of pernicious anemia. This treatment ranks as one of the greatest modern advances in therapy. See also the later paper in the same journal, 1927, 89,759-66. Reprinted in…
1926 CE
#4609
Über das morphologische Wesen und die Histopathologie der hereditaersystematischen Nervenkrankheiten.
Schaffer was a pioneer Hungarian neuropathologist. He laid down a triad of criteria for judging whether or not a neurological disease is hereditary.
1926 CE
#12298
Über den Energieverbrauch bei musikalischer Betätigung.
Specialized study on the energy consumption of musicians.
1926 CE
#4151.1
Über Myome, ausgehend von der quergestreiften willkürlichen Muskulatur.
“Abrikosov’s tumor”, granular-cell myoblastoma.
1926 CE
#2651
Ueber den Stoffwechsel der Tumoren.
In his important studies of the metabolism of tumors, Warburg was first to observe that malignant tissue utilizes glucose by glycolysis, whether or not oxygen is available (aerobic glycolysis). English translation, 1930.
1926 CE
#2345
Ueber Versuche, schwere Formen der Tuberkulose durch diätetische Behandlung zu beeinflussen.
Gerson introduced a salt-restricted diet in the treatment of tuberculosis; this was subsequently modified by Sauerbruch and Herrmannsdorfer, becoming known as the “Gerson–Sauerbruch–Hermannsdorfer di…
1926 CE
#145.64
Variazioni e fluttuazioni del numero d’individui in specie animali conviventi.
The mathematician Volterra created the basic equations for two species interactions. Abridged English translation as appendix to R. Chapman, Animal ecology, New York, 1931.
1926 CE
#1913
Vergleichende Messungen über die Gewöhnung des Atemzentrums an Morphin, Dicodid und Dilaudid.
Introduction of dilaudid (Hydromorphone)
1926 CE–1927 CE
#5256
Die Wirkung des Plasmochins auf die Vogelmalaria.
Introduction of plasmoquine (pamaquin) in the treatment of malaria.
1926 CE–1927 CE
#796
Studies in the velocity of blood flow.
First practical method of measuring circulation time. "In 1925, Hermann Blumgart performed the first diagnostic procedure using radioactive indicators on humans; this first is well recognized. Less well recognized is …
1926 CE–1933 CE
#32
Collectionum medicarum reliquae, libri 1-VIII, libri IX-XVI, libri XXIV-XXV, XLIII-XLVIII, libri XLIX-L, libri incerti ecologae medicamentorum. Synopsis ad Eustathium, Libri ad Eunapium. Edited by Johannes Raeder. 5 vols.
Contains selections from the writings of physicians, the originals of some of whose works no longer exist, and who would have been forgotten, but for the compilations of Oribasius. Writers included are Agathinus, Anty…
1926 CE–1978 CE
#2311
Handbuch der speziellen pathologischen Anatomie und Histologie. Edited by Friedrich Henke, Otto Lubarsch and Robert Rössle. 13 vols. in 43.
1: Blut, Knochenmark, Lymphknoten, Milz. 1/1: Blut, Lymphknoten von Max Askanazy. 1926. 1/2: Milz, Knochenmark von Max Askanazy. 1927. 3A: Lymphknoten: Diagnostik in Schnitt und Ausstrich: Cytologie und Lymphadenitis …
1927 CE
#12674
Ar-Raoudat at-tibbiyya (Le jardin médical) par Ubaîd-Allah Ben Gibraîl Ben Bakhtichoû, Chrétien décédé en 1058: Texte arabe, publié pour la première fois d’après trois manuscrits conservées dans la Bibliothèque des Manuscrits.
1927 CE
#3088
"Methodology of examining bone marrow in live patients, with haemopoietic disease."
Needle puncture of bone marrow biopsy. (In Russian.) German account in Folia haemat. (Lpz.), 1929, 38, 233-40. English translation from the German in Bick, Classics of orthopaedics, 339-44.
1927 CE
#6947
A catalogue of manuscripts and medical books printed before 1640 in the library of Le Roy Crummer
The collection was mostly bequeathed to the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. See also A Doctor's Odyssey: A Sentimental Record of Le Roy Crummer: Physician, Author, Bibliophile, Artist in Living, 1872-1934, by Alex …
1927 CE
#10150
A history of the Royal Army Veterinary Corps 1796-1919.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1927 CE
#4653
A leukoenkephalitis periaxialis concentricaról.
“Baló’s disease” – encephalitis periaxialis concentrica. Translation in Arch. Neurol. Psychiat. (Chicago), 1928, 19, 242-64.
1927 CE
#910
A new agglutinable factor differentiating individual human bloods.
Discovery of M and N agglutinogens. See also the same journal, pp. 941-42.
1927 CE
#5974
A new operation for removing cataracts with their capsules.
Verhoeffs buttonhole iridectomy.