1920–1929

1927 CE

#6298

Missgeburten und Wundergestalten in Einblattdrucken und Handzeichnungen des 16. Jahrhunderts.

1927 CE

#12383

Muscular movement in man: The factors governing speed and recovery from fatique.

1927 CE

#5972

Nouveaux cas de guérison opératoire de décollements rétiniens.

Gonin’s operation of ignipuncture for treatment of detachment of the retina.

1927 CE

#12266

Paroxysmal hypertension with tumor of retroperitoneal nerve. Report of a case.

First resection of a pheochromocytoma in America, and the second in the world, by the co-founder of the Mayo Clinic. In 1926 César Roux of Lausanne did the first resection of this rare type of tumor.

1927 CE

#6009

Sorani Gynaeciorum libri 4. De signis fracturarum. De fasciis. Vita Hippocratis secundum Soranum. Ed. Johannes Ilberg. Corpus medicorum Graecorum, 4.

Standard Greek edition of the works of Soranus. Digital facsimile from the Corpus Medicorum Graecorum at this link.

1927 CE

#8711

South America, amplified to include all of Latin America: The Vandyck Cruise.

Medical visits to Latin America on behalf of the American College of Surgeons, of which Martin was a founder. Includes chapters by William J. Mayo, among others.

1927 CE

#6418

Storia della medicina.

This work is similar in plan and scope to that of Garrison (No. 6408). Much attention is devoted to palaeopathology, with valuable accounts of the School of Salerno, and medieval and Renaissance Italian medicine. An E…

1927 CE

#9335

Studies on the velocity of blood flow: I. The method utilized.

Reports the first diagnostic procedure, done in 1925, using radioactive indicators on humans. "Less well recognized is the fact that Blumgart and his coworker Otto C. Yens, then a medical student, developed the first …

1927 CE

#2346

Sur la vaccination préventive des enfants nouveau-nés contre la tuberculose par le B.C.G.

1927 CE

#1528

The action of light on the eye.

On the electrical discharges from the vertebrate optic nerve.

1927 CE

#797

The blood-vessels of the human skin and their responses.

1927 CE

#10355

The care of the patient.

Full text from depts.washington.edu at this link.

1927 CE

#3724

The effect of desiccation upon the nutritive properties of egg-white.

Demonstration of the effect of deprivation of biotin.

1927 CE

#1187

The effect of the injection of a lipoid fraction of bull testicle in capons.

McGee prepared the first active male hormone extract from the lipoid fraction of bull testes. His paper includes a preliminary account of the capon-comb test. See No. 1191.

1927 CE

#11383

The herbal in antiquity and its transmission to later ages.

1927 CE

#1655

The history of heating, ventilation, and lighting.

1927 CE

#1166

The induction of precocious sexual maturity by pituitary homeotransplants.

Smith was able to induce precocious sexual maturity in mice and rats by the implantation of pituitary tissue.

1927 CE

#6459

The infancy of medicine. An enquiry into the influence of folk-lore upon the evolution of scientific medicine.

1927 CE

#5350.8

The insect transmission of Onchocerca volvulus (Leuckart, 1893), the cause of worm nodules in man in Africa.

The fly Simulium damnosum shown to be the vector of onchocerciasis.

1927 CE

#7255

The lower molar hominid tooth from the Chou Kou Tien deposit.

In this report on a single hominid tooth found by Swedish archeologist Birger Bohlin at the Zhoukoudian site in 1927 Black named a new genus and species of hominid, Sinanthropus pekinensis. He characterized the specim…

1927 CE

#1185

The menstrual cycle of the monkey, Macacus rhesus. Observations on normal animals, the effects of removal of the ovaries and the effects of injection of ovarian and placental extracts into the spayed animals.

This paper marks the beginning of modern knowledge of the menstrual cycle. Allen showed that uterine bleeding occurs as a withdrawal effect when estrogen ceases to act on the endometrium.

1927 CE

#1530

The nature of the intra-ocular fluids.

1927 CE

#1916

The nature of the vaso-dilator constituents of certain tissue extracts.

Proof that histamine occurs in certain organs in amounts sufficient to account for the depressant action of extracts of these organs. With H. H. Dale, H. W. Dudley, and W. V. Thorpe.

1927 CE

#13850

The new medical follies: An encyclopedia of cultism and quackery in these United States, with essays on the cult of beauty, the craze for reduction, rejuvenation, eclecticism, bread and dietary fads, physical therapy, and a forecast as to the physician of the future.

1927 CE

#3142.1

The pathology of the bone marrow in pernicious anaemia.

Peabody studied the bone marrow in pernicious anemia. He suggested that failure of blood formation rather than hemolysis was the main defect in the disease, and that the benefit from liver feeding was due to a factor …

1927 CE

#5142

The plague in Shakespeare’s London.

1927 CE

#1186

Über das Vorkommen weiblichen Sexualhormons (Menformon) im Harn von Männern.

Discovery of the estrogenic activity of male urine. With E. Dingemanse, P. C. Hart, and S. E. de Jongh.

1927 CE

#5708

Ueber rektale Narkose mit Avertin (E 107).

Experimental use of “avertin’’ (tribromethanol).

1927 CE

#14272

Zur Frage der Angiomatosis Retinae und Ihrer Hirncomplikation.

Lindau described the angiomas of the cerebellum and spine found in Von Hippel-Lindau disease (VHL).

1927 CE–1928 CE

#4296

The experimental production of stone-in-the-bladder.

McCarrison’s experiments showed that urinary calculi could follow a diet probably deficient in vitamin A.

1927 CE–1937 CE

#4006

Handbuch der Haut-und Geschlechtskrankheiten. Hrsg…von J. JADASSOHN. 24 vols.

1927 CE–1943 CE

#563

Handbuch der mikroskopischen Anatomie des Menschen. 7 vols. [in 17.]

1927 CE–1948 CE

#6419

Introduction to the history of science. 3 vols. in 5.

An extensively annotated bibliographical survey to the end of the 14th century.

1927 CE–1952 CE

#6598

Historia de la medicina en el Uruguay. 3 vols.

1928 CE

#2134.1

A case of pneumoconiosis. Result of the inhalation of asbestos dust.

Seiler established an unequivocal relationship between asbestos and pulmonary fibrosis.

1928 CE

#856.1

A double perfusion-pump.

Mechanical heart.

1928 CE

#2317

A history of pathology.

The first systematic history of the subject in the English language. Revised edition, New York, Dover Publications, 1965.

1928 CE

#11005

A medical review of Soviet Russia.

Gantt went to Russia in the 1920s with the American Relief Administration, and became a student of Pavlov. Moving to Johns Hopkins in 1929, he founded the Pavlovian Laboratory, and devoted his career to understanding …

1928 CE

#6421

A short history of medicine.

A highly readable outline history. Second edition revised by E.A. Underwood (1962).

1928 CE

#5461

A yellow fever vaccine.

First vaccine for immunization against yellow fever. Hindle devised a method for the transportation of frozen infected material from West Africa to London, making it possible to carry on experimental work in Britain.

1928 CE

#5709.1

Anaesthesia for tonsillectomy and removal of adenoids.

Denis Browne ether inhaler.

1928 CE

#194.1

Äskulap und Venus. Eine Kultur- und Sittengeschichte im Spiegel des Ärztes.

An exhaustive and well-illustrated survey of medical anthropology with emphasis on sexuality.

1928 CE

#6727

Available sources and future prospects of medical biography.

Includes a valuable bibliography of sources of medical biography.

1928 CE

#2856.1

Beiträge zur Lehre von den angeborenen Herzfehlern.

Roesler described the most important roentgenologic sign of aortic coarctation.

1928 CE

#7824

Bibliographicheskii ukazatel' russkoi literatury po istorii meditsiny s 1789 g. po 1928.

1928 CE

#2652

Cancer and heredity.

By selective breeding over a period of 15 years, Slye produced generations of mice absolutely resistant to, or particularly susceptible to, cancer. She demonstrated that resistance is a Mendelian dominant and suscepti…

1928 CE

#3156

Cardio-vascular diseases since Harvey’s discovery.

Harveian Oration, 1928.

1928 CE

#5761

Cleft palate.

Wardill’s operation for cleft palate.

1928 CE

#10118

Coming of age in Samoa: A psychological study of primitive youth for western civilisation.

Mead based her study primarily on adolescent girls on the island of Ta'u in the Samoan Islands. The book detailed the sexual life of teenagers in Samoan society in the early 20th century, and theorized that culture ha…

1928 CE

#5434.1

Cultivation of vaccinia virus without tissue culture.

Introduction of “Maitland’s medium”.