1920–1929
804 entries with publication dates in this decade.
1927 CE
#12226
A study of the electrical field surrounding active heart muscle.
At Johns Hopkins Hospital Craib evolved his fundamental theory of the doublet hypothesis which revolutionized electrocardiographic thinking. Until then, it was held that electricity in the heart differed from electric…
1927 CE
#6627
Amulette und Talismane und andere geheime Dingen.
1927 CE
#1529
An introduction to the theory of perception.
1927 CE
#456
Anatomical texts of the earlier Middle Ages: A study in the transmission of culture, with a revised Latin text of Anatomia Cophonis and translations of four texts.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1927 CE
#3141
Anemia in children, with splenomegaly and peculiar changes in the bones.
“Cooley’s erythroblastic anemia”, thalassemia. With E. R. Witwer and O. P. Lee. An earlier brief account by Cooley and Lee appeared in Trans. Amer. Pediat. Soc.,1925, 37, 29.
1927 CE
#145.65
Animal ecology.
Elton integrated the concepts of food chains, pyramids of numbers, and the “niche” into a useful framework for ecology.
1927 CE
#4203.9
Aphorisms, Section VII, number 34. In his Works. Ed. W. H. S. JONES and E. T. WITHINGTON
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The first description of the association of proteinuria and chronic renal disease.
1927 CE
#251.1
Artificial transmutation of the gene.
Muller showed that radiation causes mutations that are passed on from one generation to the next. This was the first suggestion that inherited traits might be altered or controlled, and it created a sensation: “…
1927 CE
#3706
Avitaminosen und verwandte Krankheitszustände. Edited by W. Stepp and P. György.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1927 CE
#7698
Bibliographie des Selbstmords mit textlichen Einführungen zu Jedem Kapitel.
Approaches the literature of suicide from many points of view including philosophical, medical, psychological, religious, literary, and artistic, as well as topics like family suicide, mass suicide and euthanasia, fro…
1927 CE
#2414
Bismuth arsphenamine sulphate.
Clinical introduction of bismarsen, synthesized by G. W. Raiziss in 1924.
1927 CE
#4394
Bone sarcoma. The primary malignant tumors of bone and the giant cell tumor.
Based on material collected by the Registry of Bone Sacrcoma in Boston since its foundation in 1921.
1927 CE
#3972
Carcinoma of the islands of the pancreas; hyperinsulinism and hypoglycemia.
R. M. Wilder, F. N. Allan, M. H. Power, and H. E. Robertson reported the occurrence of carcinoma with hyperinsulinism. They also reported the first operation for hyperinsulinism performed on December 2, 1926 by Willia…
1927 CE
#7842
Certain samaritans.
A first-hand account of the American Women's Hospitals especially in Greece, Turkey and the Balkans helping to relieve the poulations uprooted by World War I and its aftermath. Lovejoy became the second woman to gradu…
1927 CE
#1138
Chemistry of thyroxine. III. Constitution and synthesis of thyroxine.
Synthesis of thyroxine.
1927 CE
#2856
Congenital cardiac disease by Maude Abbott. IN: Modern medicine: Its theory and practice, edited by Sir William Osler, assisted by Thomas McCrae. 3rd ed., 4, 612-812.
1927 CE
#5219
Contribución al estudio de la linfogranulomatosis inguinal subaguda o ulcera venérea adenógena de Nicolás y Favre.
Gay Prieto was the first actually to see the infective agent of lymphogranuloma venereum.
1927 CE
#2255
Contribution to the study of burns, their classification and treatment.
Goldblatt’s classification of burns.
1927 CE
#1168
Das Hormon des Hypophysenvorderlappens.
Isolation of the gonadotrophic hormone of the anterior pituitary (Prolan A & B).
1927 CE
#2086.1
Der Meskalinrausch. Seine Geschichte und Erscheinungsweise.
The most comprehensive treatise on peyote and its active agent, mescaline, which was synthesized in 1919.
1927 CE
#6559
Die Entwickelung der ärztlichen Kunst in Deutschland.
1927 CE
#3242
Die Krankheitslehre der Phthise in den Phasen ihrer geschichtlichen Entwicklung.
1927 CE
#6626
Die magischen Heil- und Schutzmittel aus der unbelebten Natur.
1927 CE
#7227
Die Ohrenkrankheiten im Kindesalter mit Einschuss der Grenzgebiete.
The first work on pediatric ear diseases, dedicated to the author's teacher, Adam Politzer. Alexander "was assassinated on the street between his home and the Poliklinik by Johann Sokoup, a Czechoslovakian former pati…
1927 CE
#7529
Die Zukunft einer Illusion.
1927 CE
#2008
Discordance des effets des rayons X, d’une part dans la peau, d’autre part dans le testicule, par le fractionnement de la dose: diminution de l’efficacité dans la peau, maintien de l’efficacité dans le testicule.
Dose fractionation.
1927 CE
#4990.1
Einführung in die Technik der Kinderanalyse.
Daughter of Sigmund Freud, Anna Freud made the psychoanalysis of children her own province. This is probably the most famous classic of child analysis.
1927 CE
#2694
Einstellung der Röntgenologie.
1927 CE
#9622
Essai de repertoire des ex-libris et fers de reliure des medecins et des pharmaciens français. Préface de ... Laignel-Lavastine.
1927 CE
#1242
Estimation of afferent arteriole and glomerular capillary pressures in the frog kidney.
1927 CE
#1656
Evolution of preventive medicine.
1927 CE
#1167
Experimental evidence regarding the rôle of the anterior pituitary in the development and regulation of the genital system.
Pituitary tissue implanted in the immature mouse was found by these writers to cause precocious sexual maturity. Thus they showed that the activity of the gonads is maintained by the anterior lobe of the pituitary.
1927 CE
#5973
Experimental production of a trachoma-like condition in monkeys by means of a micro-organism isolated from American Indian trachoma.
Isolation of Bact. granulosis, believed by Noguchi to be the causal organism in trachoma. See also his monograph in J. exp. Med., 1928, 48, Suppl. 2.
1927 CE
#3142
Familiäre infantile perniziösaartige Anämie (perniziöses Blutbild und Konstitution).
“Fanconi’s syndrome”, congenital hypoplasia of bone marrow with multiple congenital defects occurring as a familial disease.
1927 CE
#3787
Follicular lymphadenopathy with splenomegaly: a newly recognized disease of the lymphatic system.
“Brill-Symmers disease” (see No. 3786).
1927 CE
#2052
Four thousand years of pharmacy; an outline history of pharmacy.
First history of pharmacy by an American. Reprinted as The curious lore of drugs and medicines, New York, Garden City Publ. Co., 1936.
1927 CE
#4406
Fractures, joints, instruments of reduction. In [Works] with an English translation by E.T. Withington, 3, 83-449.
1927 CE
#3655
Funktionsprüfung der Leber mittels Bilirubinbelastung.
Bilirubin excretion test of liver function. See also his thesis, published in 1925.
1927 CE
#1148
Further studies on adrenal insufficiency in dogs.
Cortical hormone first obtained.
1927 CE
#6299
History of British midwifery from 1650-1800.
1927 CE
#10304
History of medicine in Iowa.
1927 CE
#11595
How to make the periodic health examination: A manual of procedure. Foreward by Major General Merritte W. Ireland, Surgeon General, United States Army.
Fisk was medical director, Life Extension Institute; Crawford was Assistant Medical Director, Life Extension Institute. "This pioneering monograph on the value of periodic health examination includes numbers of photog…
1927 CE
#2715
Hypertension of the pulmonary circulation.
1927 CE
#4610.1
Injections intracarotidiennes et substances injectables opaques aux rayons X.
Carotid arteriography.
1927 CE
#5709
Klinische Erfahrungen mit Avertin (E 107).
First clinical use of “avertin”.
1927 CE
#6482
Kos und Knidos.
1927 CE
#4610
L’encéphalographie artérielle, son importance dans la localisation des tumeurs cérébrales.
Introduction of cerebral arteriography. See also Presse méd., 1928, 36, 689-93. English translation in J. Neurosurg., 1964, 21, 145-56.
1927 CE
#11994
La vaccination préventive contre la tuberculose par le "BGG". Par Albert Calmette avec la collaboration de C. Guérin, A. Boquet et L. Nègre.
A 250-page monograph, with bibliographical references, on the development of the BCG vaccine from M. bovis, from 1909 to 1927 by the scientists involved. (Thanks to Ron Cox for this reference.)
1927 CE
#5630.2
Mechanism and treatment of experimental shock. I. Shock following hemorrhage.
First of a series of papers in the Archives. See also No. 5630.3.
1927 CE
#13996
Metatarsus atavicus: The identification of a distinct type of foot disorder.
"Morton's toe," the condition of having a first metatarsal which is short in relation to the second metatarsal. It is a type of brachymetatarsia. See also Morton, The human foot: Its evolutionary development, physiolo…