1920–1929
804 entries with publication dates in this decade.
1922 CE
#6581
Über Medizin und Krankenpflege im Mittelalter in Schweizerischen Landen.
1922 CE
#6609.1
Wunder, Wundgeburt und Wundergestalt in Einblattdrucken des 15-18. Jahrhunderts.
History of teratology in art from 15th to 18th centuries.
1922 CE–1923 CE
#1164
Evaluation of the hormone of the infundibulum of the pituitary gland in terms of histamine, with experiments on the action of repeated injections of the hormone on the blood pressure.
1922 CE–1924 CE
#3798
Endocrinology and metabolism presented in their scientific and practical clinical aspects by ninety-eight contributors. 5 vols.
1922 CE–1925 CE
#3691
An investigation into the aetiology of dental caries. I: The nature of the destructive agent and the production of artificial caries. II" The biological characteristics and distribution of B. acidolphilus odontolyticus. III: Further experiments on the production of artificial caries. IV: Accessory factors in dental caries. (1) Reaction of the saliva (2) Acid resistance of teeth.(3) Bacteriotropic action of saliva.
Isolation of Lactobacillus odontolyticus I and II from carious teeth. Digital facsimile of part 1 from PubMedCentral at this link. Digital facsimile of part 4 from PubMedCentral at this link.
1922 CE–1931 CE
#7649
Das Leben des Menschen. Eine volkstümliche Anatomie, Biologie, Physiologie und Entwicklungsgeschichte des Menschen. 5 vols.
By developing a new infographics style of illustration in which physiological processes and other technical medical and biological concepts were often depicted as, or compared to machines, Kahn made medical and biolog…
1922 CE–1933 CE
#57
Paracelsus: Sämtliche Werke…Herausg. von K. Sudhoff und W. Mathiessen. 14 vols.
Paracelsus, a much-travelled man, was one of the most remarkable figures in medicine. He was first to write on miners’ diseases, to establish the relationship between cretinism and endemic goitre and to note the…
1922 CE–1939 CE
#83
Œuvres de Pasteur, réunies par Pasteur Vallery-Radot. 7 vols.
One of the founders of bacteriology, Pasteur's work on fermentation, the doctrine of spontaneous generation (which he exploded), virus diseases and preventive vaccinations, was fundamental. Digital facsimile of the co…
1923 CE
#8552
"Magistri Salernitani nondum cogniti": A contribution to the history of the Medical School of Salerno. By Pietro Capparoni. With a foreward by D'Arcy Power. (Wellcome Historical medical Museum. Research Studies in Medical History No. 2).
Physicans from the medical school at Salerno who were unknown to de Renzi (No. 6518). Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1923 CE
#11008
A history of the Massachusetts Medical Society: With brief biographies of the founders and chief officers, 1781-1922.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1923 CE
#4198.1
A new type of observation and operating cysto-urethroscope.
McCarthy foroblique pan-endoscope.
1923 CE
#12109
A treatise on influenza, with special reference to the pandemic of 1918.
Sen, company doctor on the Hurmutty Tea Estate in Assam, estimated that the pandemic killed about 15,000,000 people in India.
1923 CE
#12116
Acute lymphadenosis compared with acute lymphatic leukemia, Part II - Hematologic studies.
Downey characterized reactive lymphocytes, usually associated with viral illnesses, such as Epstein-Barr virus, but which can also be caused by drug reactions or other pathogens. He classified the cells into type 1, t…
1923 CE
#9077
American homeopathy in the world war. Edited by Frederick M. Dearborn.
Reflective of the extent to which homeopathy remained in mainstream American medicine in the period immediately after World War I. Reproduces at the front of the book a letter from President Warren G. Harding congratu…
1923 CE
#1135
An elementary chemical study of the parathyroid glands of cattle.
Hanson isolated the first really potent parathyroid extract.
1923 CE
#1183
An ovarian hormone.
Isolation of the active principle of the ovarian hormone (oestrin). More detailed account in J. biol. Chem., 1924, 61, 711-23.
1923 CE
#2897
Angina pectoris.
A classic description of angina by “the beloved physician”, one of the greatest of all cardiologists. Mackenzie considered the disease to be due to cardiac failure.
1923 CE
#6471.92
Assyrian medical texts. From the originals in the British Museum.
Facsimiles of the texts of 660 cuneiform medical tablets, many of which were hitherto unpublished, from the library of Ashurbanipal. The tablets date back to the seventh century B.C. No translations are included, but …
1923 CE
#2426
Beiträge zur Geschichte der Syphilis: insbesondere über ihren Ursprung und ihre Pathologie in Ostasien.
Gives, in an appendix, a list of writers on syphilis from 1495 to 1829. Digital facsimile from wellcomecollection.org at this link.
1923 CE
#2252
Blood concentration changes in extensive superficial burns, and their significance for systemic treatment.
F. P. Underhill, G. L. Carrington, R. Kapsinow, and G. T. Pack made important studies on the blood concentration following burns.
1923 CE
#3030.1
Cardiotomy and valvulotomy for mitral stenosis. Experimental observations and clinical notes concerning an operated case with recovery.
Successful section of mitral valve for relief of mitral stenosis.
1923 CE
#5288
Chimiothérapie des trypanosomiasis.
Introduction of moranyl (“Foumeau 309”).
1923 CE
#12756
Chronologia medica: A handlist of persons, periods and events in the history of medicine.
An illustrated outline of people and events the authors considered significant in 1923. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1923 CE
#1641.2
Contraception (birth control). Its theory, history and practice. A manual for the medical and legal professions.
The first formal handbook on birth control.
1923 CE
#11685
Cyanosis.
"In their monumental 1945 paper on the surgical treatment of malformations of the heart, Alfred Blalock and Helen Taussig refer to this monograph: 'Lundsgaard and Van Slyke in their classic studies on the causes of cy…
1923 CE
#794
Der Karotisdruckversuch.
1923 CE
#12594
Die Extrapyramidalen Erkrankungen: Mit Besonderer Berücksichtigung der pathologischen Anatomie und Histologie und der Pathophysiologie der Bewegungsstörungen.
Pages 218-245 represent Jakob's full clinical-pathologic description of the fifth patient that he first described in this work.The symptoms of this patient and the histopathopathologic illustrations correspond fully w…
1923 CE
#5760
Die Operation der atrophischen und hypertrophischen Hängebrust.
Plastic operation for enlarged breasts.
1923 CE
#2117
Die Pfeilgifte, nach eigenen toxikologischen und ethnologischen Untersuchungen.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1923 CE
#2916
Die Röntgenographische Darstellung der Arterien und Venen am lebenden Menschen.
Arteriography. First angiogram of a living patient.
1923 CE
#3087
Die Sternumtrepanation, ein einfache Methode zur diagnostischen Entnahme von Knochenmark bei Lebenden.
Bone marrow biopsy by sternal puncture.
1923 CE
#6349
Eine eigenartige Neurose des vegetativen Systems beim Kleinkinde.
Feer described a vegetative neurosis (“Feer’s disease”) affecting infants and characterized by cyanosis of the extremities, recurrent sweating, tremor, motor weakness, rapid pulse, and insomnia. It w…
1923 CE
#6267
Epidemics 1, case 4. In: [Works] with an English translation by W.H. Jones.
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The earliest known description of puerperal fever.
1923 CE
#5228
Epidemics I and III. In [Works] with English translation by W.H.S. Jones, 1, 139-287
Hippocrates may be regarded as the first malariologist; he clearly and fully described the intermittent fevers; he was acquainted with seasonal and topographical variations in the distribution of malaria; and he recog…
1923 CE
#1672
Epidemics I and III. In: [Works] with an English translation by W.H.S. Jones.
Hippocrates introduced the inductive method of studying epidemics.
1923 CE
#9294
Ethnobotany of the Menomini Indians.
Digital facsimile from spiritoftherivers.wikispaces.com at this link.
1923 CE
#3797
Greffes testiculaires
Voronoff first reported his controversial experimental rejuvenation by means of testicular transplants in 1919.
1923 CE
#12994
Handwörterbuch der Sexualwissenschaft. Enzyklopädie der natur- und kulturwissenschaftlichen Sexualkunde des Menschen heraugegeben von Max Marcuse.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link. New edition with an introduction by Robert Jütte, Berlin & New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2001.
1923 CE
#6647
Hippocrates and his successors in relation to the philosophy of their time.
1923 CE
#6353
History of pediatrics. In I. Abt, System of pediatrics, 1, 1-170.
Re-issued separately with an appendix on the history of pediatrics in recent times by A. F. Abt, Philadelphia, W. B. Saunders, 1965.
1923 CE
#6769
Incunabula medica. A study of the earliest printed medical books, 1467-1480.
Bibliographical Society Publication. Based on Osler’s presidential address to the Bibliographical Society in 1914, with minor editing for posthumous publication by Archibald Malloch and W. W. Francis. Introducti…
1923 CE
#5706
Isoamyl ethyl barbituric acid-an anesthetic without influence on blood sugar regulation.
Sodium amytal described.
1923 CE
#907
L’hématoblaste, troisiéme élement du sang.
Hayem first named the hematoblasts in 1877 (Mém. Soc. Biol. (Paris), 1877, 29, 97). His view, reiterated in 1923, was that they were the early stages of red blood cells and regenerated the blood.
1923 CE
#4990
La médecine psychologique.
Janet’s summary of his work with hypnosis, including one of the most detailed histories of hypnosis available. English translation, as Psychological healing, 2 vols., 1925.
1923 CE
#5193
Le stovarsol guérit rapidement la dysenterie amibienne.
Introduction of stovarsol (oxyaminophenylarsenic acid) in the treatment of amoebiasis.
1923 CE
#3609
Living sutures in the treatment of hernia.
Gallie and LeMesurier used fascial sutures in their operation for inguinal hernia.
1923 CE
#2522
Manual of determinative bacteriology.
The Society of American Bacteriologists appointed in 1920 a Committee on Characterization and Classification of Bacterial Types. Their reports were incorporated in the above Manual issued under the names of Bergey and…
1923 CE
#4390
Nouvelle observation d’acrocéphalosyndactylie.
With Tixier, Hue, and Kermorgant.
1923 CE
#1767
On airs, waters, and places. IN: his [Works] with an English translation by W. H. S. Jones, 1, pp. 65-137
“The first book ever written on medical geography, climatology, and anthropology” (Garrison). The Latin translation of this text was first published in Rhazes’ Liber ad Almansorem, Milan, 1481. See N…
1923 CE
#5538.1
On Rhinosporidium seeberi (Wernicke, 1903), with special reference to its sporulation and affinities.
Ashworth was the first to show that Rhinosporidium was a fungus.