1920–1929

1923 CE

#3323

On the aetiology of the laryngeal papilloma.

In this classic paper Ullmann reported the transmission of the virus to animals.

1923 CE

#3136.2

On the existence of more than four isoagglutinin groups in human blood.

First genetic study of sickling.

1923 CE

#4391

Orthopaedic surgery.

Jones was a pupil of Hugh Owen Thomas and a pioneer of active surgical intervention in orthopedics. He advocated tendon transplantation, bone grafting, and other reconstructive and restorative procedures. He did much …

1923 CE

#2312.3

Paleopathology; an introduction to the study of ancient evidences of disease.

Surveys the ancient evidence of disease in plants, invertebrates and vertebrates, including man.

1923 CE

#5705

Physiologic effects of ethylene; a new gas anesthetic.

Introduction of ethylene.

1923 CE

#4432

Recurrent or habitual dislocation of the shoulder-joint.

Blundell Bankart’s operation.

1923 CE

#4199

Roentgenography of the urinary tract during excretion of sodium iodide.

First use of sodium iodide in uretero-pyelography. With C. G. Sutherland and A. J. Scholl.

1923 CE

#3404

Some experiences in the surgery of otosclerosis.

Holmgren’s fenestration operation.

1923 CE

#9333

The absorption and translocation of lead by plants: A contribution to the application of the method of radioactive indicators in the investigation of the change of substance in plants.

The first application of radioactive tracers in biological studies. Digital facsimile from PubMedCentral at this link. Hevesy received the 1943 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his work on the use of isotopes as tracers …

1923 CE

#1134

The acetonitril test for thyroid and of some alterations of metabolism.

The acetonitril test was introduced by Hunt in 1905 (J. biol. Chem., 1, 33) and later modified by him. It shows the activity of thyroid preparations to be proportional to their iodine content.

1923 CE

#7709

The antiquity of disease.

An account intended for general audiences, as compared to Moodie's Palaeopathology published the same year. Digital facsimile of The Antiquity of Disease from the Internet Archive at this link.

1923 CE

#138

The chemical basis of growth and senescence.

1923 CE

#7407

The elephant man and other reminiscences.

The story of Treves's patient, Joseph Carey Merrick (1862-1890), incorrected identified by Treves in these reminiscences as "John Merrick." The story was retold in The elephant man, Bernard Pomerance's 1977 play about…

1923 CE

#1237.1

The mechanism of the elimination of phenolsulphonephthalein by the kidney–a proof of secretion by the convoluted tubules.

Proof of tubular secretion in mammals.

1923 CE

#6456

The medicine man: A sociological study of the character and evolution of shamanism.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1923 CE

#3969

The original method as used for the isolation of insulin in semipure form for the treatment of the first clinical cases.

Collip improved insulin.

1923 CE

#746

The possible significance of hexosephosphoric esters in ossification.

Records an important advance in the knowledge concerning the conversion of blood calcium into the insoluble calcium of bone.

1923 CE

#963

The regulation of respiration.

Lumsden introduced the concept of subsidiary respiratory centers in the brain stem.

1923 CE

#12588

The relation between home conditions and the intelligence of school children. From data collected by the late Mrs. Frances Wood. Privy Council. Medical Report Council. Special reports series No. 74.

1923 CE

#4807

The sacred disease. In [Works]…edited with an English translation by W.H.S. Jones. 2, 127-83

This includes the first mention of epilepsy in children. Hippocrates grouped all convulsive attacks together as ερα νο̂σος, the sacred disease. He did not employ the w…

1923 CE

#11695

The transplantation of tissues. By Harold Neuhof with the collaboration of Samuel Hirshfeld.

Covers experimental and clinical transplantation with an extensive bibliography.

1923 CE

#962

The velocity with which carbon monoxide displaces oxygen from combination with haemoglobin.

1923 CE

#11567

Traumatic shock.

"In the fall of 1916, before the United States entered World War I, the National Research Council named Cannon a member of a committee on traumatic shock. Later he joined the Harvard University Hospital Unit. On his w…

1923 CE

#4242

Ueber die Beseitigung giftiger Stoffe aus dem Blute durch Dialyse.

First description of the experimental use of peritoneal dialysis in uremia.

1923 CE

#3031

Ueber Erkennung und Behandlung der Umklammerung des Herzens durch schwielige Perikarditis.

First complete pericardiectomy for constrictive pericarditis.

1923 CE

#4243

Ueber Nierenveränderungen nach Verschüttung.

Crush syndrome.

1923 CE

#14164

Vocabularium anatomiae latine-arabice.[Qāmūs al-tašrīḥ Lātīnī-‘Arabī].

1923 CE–1924 CE

#1165

Further investigations on the oxytocic-pressor-diuretic principle of the infundibular portion of the pituitary gland.

1923 CE–1924 CE

#2573.2

The soluble specific substance of pneumococcus.

Heidelberger, Avery, and their colleagues made a chemical study of the antigenic constituents of the pneumococcus, separating the polysaccharide antigens.

1923 CE–1929 CE

#6724

Die Medizin der Gegenwart in Selbstdarstellungen. Hrsg. von L. R. Grote. 8 vols.

1923 CE–1929 CE

#6488.1

History of Indian medicine. Containing notices, biographical, of the Ayurvedic physicians and their works on medicine, from the earliest ages to the present time. 3 vols.

Reprinted New Delhi, 1974.

1923 CE–1958 CE

#6422

A history of magic and experimental science. 8 vols.

Vols. 1-2 deal with the first 13 centuries of the Christian era; vols. 3-4 with the 14th and 15th centuries, vols. 5-6 with the 16th century, and vols. 7-8 with the 17th century.

1923 CE–2005 CE

#9321

Handbuch der Zoologie / Handbook of Zoology. Eine Naturgeschichte der Stämme des Tierreichs / A natural history of the phyla of the animal kingdom. Gegründet von / Founded by Willy Kükenthal. 8 vols., each expanded into many parts.

The Handbuch der Zoologie/Handbook of Zoology was founded by Willi Kükenthal in Berlin, and treated the complete animal kingdom from single cell organisms to mammals in eight thematic volumes: Volume I: Protozoa,…

1923 CE–2012 CE

#16

Hippocrates [Works] with an English translation by W.H.S. Jones, E.T. Withington, and Paul Potter. 12 vols.

Greek–English edition in the Loeb Classical Library.

1924 CE

#2916.2

A clinical study of diseases of the circulation of the extremities; a description of a new method of examination.

Femoral arteriography.

1924 CE

#1238

A description of the glomerular circulation in the frog’s kidney and observations concerning the action of adrenalin and various other substances upon it.

Richards made many experiments concerning the secretion of urine. Among other things he collected and analysed the fluid from a single glomerulus; his work confirmed the theories of Ludwig and Cushny.

1924 CE

#2855

A hitherto undescribed form of valvular and mural endocarditis.

“Libman–Sacks disease”.

1924 CE

#4894

A new operative procedure in the treatment of spastic paralysis and its experimental basis.

Sympathetic ramisection. See also Surg. Gynec. Obstet., 1924, 39, 701-20.

1924 CE

#2440.1

A plea for the early recognition of leprosy, with notes on diagnosis and methods.

The scraped-incision slit-skin method for bacterial examination in leprosy.

1924 CE

#5083

A scarlet fever antitoxin.

Following their successful attempts to establish individual susceptibility to scarlet fever, these workers prepared an antitoxin for immunization.

1924 CE

#5082

A skin test for susceptibility to scarlet fever.

The “Dick test” for the determination of individual susceptibility to scarlet fever.

1924 CE

#6372

Aleukämische Reticulose. (Ein Beitrag zu den proliferativen Erkrankungen des Retikuloendothelialapparates.)

“Letterer–Siwe disease”; see also No. 6373.

1924 CE

#4244

An unexplained diazo-colour-reaction in uraemic sera.

Diazo-color test of renal function.

1924 CE

#6653

ARCHIWUM HISTORII MEDYCYNY. 1-

Original title, Archiwum Historii i Filozofii Medycyny; title shortened 1957.

1924 CE

#1036

Basal metabolism in health and disease.

1924 CE

#3405.1

Binaural minimum audition in a subject with ranges of deficient acuity.

First demonstration of the phenomenon of loudness recruitment.

1924 CE

#11226

Catalogue of the mycological library of Howard A. Kelly. Compiled by Louis C. C. Krieger.

The catalogue was prepared for Kelly by Louis Krieger, an eminent mycologist and botanical illustrator. Entries for this library were not numbered; however in his introduction Kelly stated that the library "herewith c…

1924 CE

#6252

Césarienne suivie d’extériorisation temporaire de l’utérus et de réintégration secondaire dans le bassin.

Portes operation – the classic Caesarean section followed by temporary exteriorization of the uterus. More fully described in Gynéc. et Obstét., 1924, 10, 225-50.

1924 CE

#748

Chemical dynamics of life phenomena.

1924 CE

#4506

Chronic arthritis in the adult, associated with splenomegaly and leucopenia.

“Felty syndrome”.