1920–1929
804 entries with publication dates in this decade.
1928 CE
#4654
Ueber die Encephalitis epidemica in Japan.
Japanese encephalitis distinguished from encephalitis lethargica.
1928 CE
#750
Ueber die katalytischen Wirkungen der lebendigen Substanz.
1928 CE
#9271
Use of plants by the Chippewa Indians. Smithsonian Institution-Bureau of American Ethnology Annual Report 44.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1928 CE
#12605
With a woman's unit in Serbia, Salonika and Sebastopol.
Hutton, a physician who specialized in mental and nervous disorders, began working with the Scottish Women’s Hospitals, a voluntary organisation established by her older colleague Elsie Inglis, in 1915 first in …
1928 CE
#6366
Xanthomatosis and the reticulo-endothelial system.
“Rowland collected 14 cases of the Hand–Schüller–Christian syndrome, and made the important generalization that it was due to xanthomatosis” (Rolleston).
1928 CE
#1333
Zur Histologie und Topographie der vegetativen Zentren im Rückenmark.
Study of the cells of origin of the white rami.
1928 CE–1929 CE
#4246
Studies of urea excretion.
Blood urea clearance test. With J. F. Mcintosh and D. D. Van Slyke.
1928 CE–1929 CE
#2523
The pathogenic streptococci. An historical survey of their role in human and animal disease.
Documents over 1,600 studies.
1928 CE–1941 CE
#1445
Lectures on conditioned reflexes. 2 vols.
Besides his work on digestion, Pavlov is remembered for his investigations upon conditioned reflexes. An English translation of another work by Pavlov, entitled Conditioned reflexes, appeared in 1927.
1928 CE–1975 CE
#11773
Index litteraturae entomologicae serie I: Die Welt-Literatur über die gesamte Entomologie bis inklusive. Index litteraturae entomologicae series II: von 1864 bis 1900. 9 vols.
The first part, by Horn and Schenkling, was privately published by Horn in 4 vols., 1928-29. The second part, by Derksen and Göllner-Scheiding, was published by the Akademie der Lanwirtschafwissenschaften der DDR…
1929 CE
#12327
Glycogen formation in the liver from d- and 1-lactic acid.
The Cori cycle (also known as the lactic acid cycle), a metabolic pathway in which lactate produced by anaerobic glycolysis in muscles is transported to the liver and converted to glucose, which then returns to the mu…
1929 CE
#2186
A history of the Medical Department of the United States Army.
1929 CE
#5711
A new anaesthetic gas: Cyclopropane. A preliminary report.
1929 CE
#3202.1
A note on the inhalation treatment of asthma.
First use of adrenaline by the respiratory route for the treatment of bronchial asthma.
1929 CE
#2576.01
A quantitative study of the precipitin reaction between Type III pneumococcus polysaccharide and purified homologous antibody.
Heidelberger and Kendall adapted the precipitin reaction to permit the quantitative measurement of antibody and antigen. This established the principle of quantitative immunochemistry.
1929 CE
#12460
A revision of the genus Gorilla.
Basis of the modern taxonomy of the genus Gorilla. Digital facsimile from the Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.
1929 CE
#1138.02
Action de la préhypophyse sur le thyroïde chez le cobaye.
Simultaneously with Loeb (No. 1138.1) Aron demonstrated the thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) in the anterior pituitary.
1929 CE
#1168.2
Action du lobe antérieur de l’hypophyse sur la montée laiteuse.
Demonstration of the existence of a pituitary lactogenic hormone (prolactin).
1929 CE
#7726
Artery flaps.
1929 CE
#9629
Benevenutus Grassus of Jerusalem De oculis eorumque egritudinibus et curis: Translated with notes and illustrations from the first printed edition, Ferrara, 1474 A.D
1929 CE
#6772
Bibliotheca Osleriana. A catalogue of books illustrating the history of medicine and science, collected, arranged and annotated by Sir William Osler, Bt. and bequeathed to McGill University. [Edited by . W. W. Francis, R. H. Hill, Leonard Mackall, and Archibald Malloch.]
This bibliography of over 7,500 titles, edited by W. W. Francis, R. H. Hill, Leonard Mackall, and Archibald Malloch, is the catalogue of Osler’s magnificent library. For it Osler wrote an unfinished Introduction…
1929 CE
#1446.1
Brain mechanisms and intelligence: a quantitative study of injuries to the brain.
Lashley related nervous function and behavior with well-defined areas of the brain, particularly in connection with cerebral lesions.
1929 CE
#1062
Cholesterinstoffwechsel in Hühnereiern und Hühnchen.
In 1943 Dam shared the Nobel Prize with Doisy "for discovery of vitamin K, the blood coagulating factor."
1929 CE
#4397.1
Chondro-osteo-dystrophy. Roentgenographic and clinical features of a child with dislocation of vertebrae.
Morquio–Brailsford disease (see No. 4397).
1929 CE
#968
Cytochrome and respiratory enzymes.
Keilin discovered cytochrome and laid the foundations of the modern concept of cellular respiration. See No. 1588.3.
1929 CE
#4200
Darstellung der Niere und Harnwege im Röntgenbild durch intravenöse Einbringung eines neuen Kontraststoffes, des Uroselectans.
Introduction of Uroselectan. In a following paper (pp. 2089-91), A. von Lichtenberg and M. Swick used it in human excretion urography.
1929 CE
#3144
Desiccated stomach in the treatment of pernicious anemia.
Sturgis and Isaacs showed that stomach tissue contains a factor active in the treatment of pernicious anemia.
1929 CE
#9987
Die Ärƶtlichen Kenntnisse in Ilias und Odyssee.
Medical knowledge in the Iliad and Odyssey. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1929 CE
#12741
Die chinesische Medizin zu Beginn des XX. Jahrhunderts und ihr historischer Entwicklungsgang.
1929 CE
#12642
Die Encephalitis lethargica, ihre Nachkrankheiten und ihre Behandlung.
Translated and adapted by K. O. Newman as Encephalitis lethargica its sequelae and treatment. London: Oxford University Press, 1931.
1929 CE
#10642
Die fossilen Gehirne.
The founding work of paleoneurology based on Edinger's discovery that mammalian brains left imprints on fossil skulls, allowing paleoneurologists to discern their anatomy.
1929 CE
#2858
Die Sondierung des rechten Herzens.
The first cardiac catheterization on a living person. Forssmann catheterized his own heart. Historical note by N. Howard-Jones, Bull. Hist. Med.,1973, 47,524-6. English translation in Callahan, Keys & Key, Classics of…
1929 CE
#3657
Diseases of the liver, gall-bladder, and bile ducts. 3rd edition.
1929 CE
#1138.01
Effect of hormones of anterior pituitary on thyroid gland in the guinea pig.
Loeb and Aron (No.1138.2) demonstrated the thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) in the anterior pituitary.
1929 CE
#4395.1
Ein Fall von Osteopathia hyperostotica (sclerotisans) multiplex infantilis.
“Engelmann’s disease”, also known as "Camurati-Engelmann disease" — a very rare autosomal dominant genetic disorder that causes characteristic anomalies in the skeleton. It is a form of dysplas…
1929 CE
#3549
Eine neue Methode der Gastrostomie.
Introduction of tubo-valvular gastrostomy.
1929 CE
#2695
Eine neue Methode zur röntgenologischen Darstellung der Milz.
Thorium dioxide (“thorotrast”) first used in radiological diagnosis.
1929 CE
#5710
Eine psycheschonende und steuerbare Form der Allgemeinbetäubung.
Intravenous use of “avertin”.
1929 CE
#5538.2
Etiology of Oroya fever. XIV. The insect vectors of Carrión’s disease.
Phlebotomus sand flies shown to be the vector of Oroya fever. With R. C. Shannon, E. B. Tilden, and J. B. Tyler.
1929 CE
#3547
Gastric and duodenal ulcer.
1929 CE
#4991
Gestalt psychology.
1929 CE
#14096
Gestaltungsanalyse am Amphibienkeim mit Örtlicher Vitalfärbung: II. Teil. Gastrulation und Mesodermbildung bei Urodelen und Anuren.
Modern fate mapping began in 1929 when Walter Vogt marked the groups of cells using a dyed agar chip and tracked them through gastrulation.
1929 CE
#3656
Hepato-nephromegalia glykogenika (Glykogenspeicherkrankheit der Leber und Nieren).
“Von Gierke’s disease”, glycogen disease of hepatomegalic type. See also the review by S. van Creveld, Medicine, 1939, 18, 1-128.
1929 CE
#13404
History of Blockley: A history of the Philadelphia General Hospital from Its inception, 1731-1928.
1929 CE
#2312.4
Human paleopathology, with some original observations on symmetrical osteoporosis of the skull.
1929 CE
#2576.02
Hypersensitiveness to arsphenamine in guinea pigs. I. Experiments in prevention and desensitization.
First demonstration of specific, acquired, lasting refractoriness to sensitization. This is the same or a closely related phenomenon to that demonstrated later by Burnet and Medawar under the name immune tolerance. Se…
1929 CE
#5712
Induction of anesthesia in man by intravenous injection of sodium isoamyl-ethyl barbiturate.
Sodium amytal (Amobarbitol). With J. T. C. McCallum, H. A. Shonle, E. E. Swanson, J. B. Scott, and G. H. A. Clowes.
1929 CE
#2859
L’artériographie des membres de l’aorte et de ses branches abdominales.
Aortography. With A. C. Lamas and J. Pereira Caldas. Also published in Bull. Soc.méd.chir. Paris, 1929, 55,587-601.
1929 CE
#4506.1
L’aurothérapie dans les rhumatismes chroniques.
Introduction of gold therapy.
1929 CE
#12725