1920–1929

1920 CE

#4719.1

Ueber eine eigenartige herdförmige Erkrankung des Zentralnervensystems.

Creutzfeld-Jakob disease, spatic pseudoschlerosis, independently discovered by Jakob. (see No. 4722). English translation in No. 5019.14, pp. 97-112. Creutzfeld described a single case and later reported that "his cas…

1920 CE

#2853

Verhandlungen ärtzlicher Gesellschaften und Kongressberichte.

Saxl injected a mercurial compound (Novasurol), a powerful diuretic, for the treatment of cardiac failure.

1920 CE

#3796

Verjüngung durch experimentelle Neubelebung der alternden Pubertätsdrüse

Steinach rejuvenation operation, ligation of the vas deferens, later discredited.

1920 CE

#7157

Women as army surgeons. Being the history of the Women's Hospital Corps in Paris, Wimereux & Endell Street, September 1914 - October 1919

Together with Louisa Garrett Anderson (1873-1943), to whom the book was dedicated, Murray co-founded the Women's Hospital for Children in 1912. The hospital provided health care for working-class children of the area,…

1920 CE

#4198

X-ray studies of the seminal vesicles and vasa deferentia after urethroscopic injection of the ejaculatory ducts with thorium – a new diagnostic method.

Vesiculography first demonstrated.

1920 CE

#4720

Zur Lehre der Erkrankungen des striären Systems.

“Vogt syndrome”, disease of the corpora striata.

1920 CE

#5701

Zur Technik der Splanchnicusanästhesie.

Splanchnic anesthesia. See also Dtsch. med. Wschr., 1920, 46, 535.

1920 CE–1921 CE

#1247

Die vergleichende Anatomie des Nervensystems der Wirbeltiere und des Menschen. 2 vols.

Ariëns Kappers was Professor of Neuroanatomy at Amsterdam. See also No. 14229.

1920 CE–1921 CE

#960

The partition of CO2, between plasma and corpuscles in oxygenated and reduced blood.

1920 CE–1924 CE

#13463

McGill Library. William Osler Letter Index.

https://osler-letters.library.mcgill.ca/about "About the William Osler Letter Collection "Sir William Osler (1849-1919) is one of the most renowned and respected physicians in medical history. Born in Bond Head, Ontar…

1920 CE–1925 CE

#3195

Die Chirurgie der Brustorgane. Zugleich zweite Auflage der Technik der Thoraxchirurgie. 2 vols.

Abridged English translation, Baltimore, 1937.

1920 CE–1938 CE

#8898

Medical life. Edited by Victor Robinson. (214 issues were published, beginning with vol. 27 and ending with vol. 45 because Robinson considered this a merger of five earlier medical periodicals.)

"the first monthly journal in English to be devoted to the history of medicine. Robinson opened the pages of Medical Life to eminent historians and beginners. A number of outstanding European medical historians contri…

1920 CE–1939 CE

#136

Handbuch der biologischen Arbeitsmethoden. Edited by Emil Abderhalden. 14 vols. in 107.

The Hathi Trust maintains versions of all 107 parts, most of which are searchable to a limited extent, at this link.

1921 CE

#12923

A century of dental art. A centenary memoir 1820-1921.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1921 CE

#12620

A contribution to the histology and pathogenesis of pyorrhea alveolaris.

Gottlieb was "the major periodontal investigator of the early 20th century. He extended the histopathologic studies of Znamensky.... His major contributions were in the nature of the epithelial attachment to the tooth…

1921 CE

#1654

A half-century of public health. Jubilee historical volume of the American Public Health Association.

1921 CE

#7309

A new cave man from Rhodesia, South Africa.

The first fossil human discovered in Africa: Homo rhodesiensis, commonly referred to as the Broken Hill Skull or the Kabwe Cranium.The skull, which most current experts classify as Homo heidelbergensis, was discovered…

1921 CE

#5759

A new principle in the surgical treatment of “congenital cleft palate”, and its mechanical counterpart.

Gillies’s operation for cleft palate.

1921 CE

#3197.1

A study of antispasmodic drugs on the bronchus.

Laboratory demonstration of the antispasmodic action of theophylline on bronchial smooth muscle.

1921 CE

#5703

Anaesthetics in the plastic surgery of the face and jaws.

Intratracheal insufflation method of anesthetization. See also Magill, I. W., Lancet, 1921, 1, 918; 1923, 2, 229.

1921 CE

#5702

Anestesia metamérica.

Introduction of epidural anesthesia.

1921 CE

#6507

Arabian medicine. Being the Fitzpatrick lectures delivered at the Royal College of Physicians in November 1919 and November 1920.

Browne, an eminent authority on oriental languages, became professor of Arabic in the University of Cambridge. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1921 CE

#1527

Atlas der Spaltlampenmikroskopie des lebenden Auges.

An important work on the biomicroscopy of the eye. Second ed. greatly revised and enlarged, vol. 1-2, Springer, 1930-31; vol. 3, Stuttgart, F. Enke, 1942; vol. 3 (English translation) Zurich, 1947. Second ed. reprinte…

1921 CE

#5392

Cultivation of rickettsia-like bodies in typhus fever.

Isolation of Rickettsia prowazeki from the blood. With S. A. Ritter and G. Baehr.

1921 CE

#6528

Das alte medizinische Wien in zeitgenössischen Schilderungen.

1921 CE

#11010

Diagnosis of protozoa and worms parasitic in man.

1921 CE

#4388.2

Die Arthroendoskopie.

First published account of the use of the laparoscope for arthroscopy.

1921 CE

#6003

Die Erfindung der Augengläser.

1921 CE

#4388

Diffuse endothelioma of bone.

Ewing described a form of bone sarcoma (“Ewing’s sarcoma”), usually involving the shaft of long bones.

1921 CE

#3001

Du traitement des varices par les injection coagulantes, concentrées de sels de quinine.

Injection of quinine urethane for the treatment of varicose veins.

1921 CE

#10823

Early diagnosis of the acute abdomen.

The classic treatise on the initial approach to abdominal pain. This work underwent its 22nd edition in 2011.

1921 CE

#1054

Fat-soluble vitamine. VII. The fat-soluble vitamine and yellow pigmentation in animal fats with some observations on its stability to saponification.

Separation of vitamin A from vitamin D. With M. Sell and M. Van R. Buell.

1921 CE

#6413

Geschichte der Medizin im Überblick.

5th edition, 1965, under the title Illustrierte Geschichte der Medizin.

1921 CE

#3697

Geschichte der Zahnheilkunde

Second edition, 1926 (reprinted 1964).

1921 CE

#6479

Greek medicine in Rome.

FitzPatrick Lectures, 1909-10. Allbutt was Regius Professor of Physic at Cambridge and a great literary stylist. Underwood described him as the most learned and distinguished physician of the last hundred years.

1921 CE

#6579

Historia de la medicina en España.

1921 CE

#2133

Industrial fatigue and efficiency.

1921 CE

#11920

Influenza: An epidemiological study. The American Journal of Hygiene. Monographic Series No. 1.

A comprehensive survey written two years after the pandemic, including historical information back to 1893. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1921 CE

#4988

Körperbau und Charakter.

Kretschmer has attempted to correlate body build and constitution with character and mentality.

1921 CE

#4389

Kyphosis dorsalis juvenilis.

“Scheuermann’s disease” – necrosis of the epiphyses of the vertebrae, causing kyphosis.

1921 CE

#9580

La radiologie et la guerre.

Digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this link.

1921 CE

#3870

La virilisme pilaire et son association à l’insuffisance glycolytique (Diabète des femmes à barbe).

“Achard–Thiers syndrome”. These writers established as a definite syndrome the combination of hirsutism with diabetes.

1921 CE

#10196

Le bactériophage: Son rôle dans l'immunité.

D'Hérrelle cited several actual reports of successful treatment of bacterial infections by the injection of bacteriophages in animals and humans. These may be considered early attempts at direct gene transfer i…

1921 CE

#6611

Le costume du médecin en France des origines au XVIIe siècle.

1921 CE

#2970

Ligation (partial occlusion) of the abdominal aorta for aneurism.

First successful ligation of the abdominal aorta.

1921 CE

#1756

Medicolegal application of human blood grouping.

An important series of papers on blood-grouping and the jurisprudence of paternity. Ottenberg performed the first matched-blood transfusion.

1921 CE

#2693

Méthode radiographique d’exploration de la cavité épidurale par la lipiodol.

Positive contrast myelography with iodized oil (lipiodol). This paper records the first use of lipiodol in radiology.

1921 CE

#12069

Mortality statistics 1919. Twentieth annual report.

From "Influenza and pneumonia (All forms)" p. 28: "In the later part of 1918 a pandemic of influenza swept over the country and did not fully spend its force until well into 1919.... "In the registration area (exclusi…

1921 CE

#11762

On a form of swine fever occurring in British East Africa (Kenya Colony).

First description of African Swine Fever. Montgomery was "Veterinary Adviser to the Government of Uganda, formerly Veterinary Pathologist to the East Africa Protectorate."

1921 CE

#745

On an autoxidisable constituent of the cell.

Isolation of glutathione.