1920–1929
804 entries with publication dates in this decade.
1924 CE
#562
Das reticulo-endotheliale System.
In an earlier paper on this subject (Münch, med. Wschr., 1922, 69, 1352-56) Aschoff introduced the term “reticulo-endothelial system”; as early as 1914 he grouped certain phagocytic cells into his sys…
1924 CE
#795
Die Aenderung der Herzschlagzahl durch Aenderung des arteriellen Blutdruckes erfolgt aus reflektorischem Wege; gleichzeitig eine Mitteilung über die Funktion des Sinus caroticus, beziehungsweise der Sinusnerven.
First description of the structure and function of the sinus nerve and the reflex character of carotid pressure.
1924 CE
#856
Die Arterien der Herzwand.
1924 CE
#9919
Die Klimate der geologischen Vorzeit.
Translated as The climates of the geological past. Die Klimate der geologischen Vorzeit. Reproduction of the original German edition and complete English translation. Faksimile-Nachdruck der deutschen Originalausgabe …
1924 CE
#6512
Die Medizin im Avesta.
The Avesta (Persian: اوستا) is the primary collection of religious texts of Zoroastrianism, composed in the otherwise unrecorded Avestan language.
1924 CE
#3016
Ein durch die Trendelenburgsche Operation geheilter Fall von Embolie der Art. pulmonalis.
First successful surgical treatment of pulmonary embolism, a procedure suggested by Trendelenburg in 1908 (see No. 3012).
1924 CE
#907.1
Ergebniss einer biostatischen zusammenfassenden Betrachtung über die erblichen Blutstrukturen des Menschen.
Bernstein, a mathematician, determined the correct blood group inheritance pattern of multiple alleles at one locus through statistical analysis.
1924 CE
#2343
Essai d’immunisation contre l’infection tuberculeuse.
B.C.G. (Bacille Calmette–Guérin) vaccine was first produced in 1906 and subcultured for 13 years. It was first used as a prophylactic against tuberculosis in children in 1921. It remains in use. See also …
1924 CE
#1442
Experimental researches on sensory localization in the cerebral cortex of the monkey (Macacus).
Dusser de Barenne demonstrated the major functional subdivisions of the sensory cortex.
1924 CE
#4605.3
Fingeragnosie. Eine umschriebene Störung der Orientierung am eigenen Körper.
Gerstmann’s syndrome, due to cerebral lesion. Translation in Arch. Neurol. Psychiat., 1971, 24, 475-76.
1924 CE
#6296
Geschichte der Gynäkologie. In: J. von Halban and L. Seitz: Biologie und Pathologie des Weibes.1, 1-202.
1924 CE
#11580
Herz und Sport: klinische Untersuchungen über die Einwirkung des Sportes auf das Herz.
This pioneering study on the effects of exercise on the cardiovascular system was translated into English by Louis M. Warfield as Herz und Sport. Heart and athletics. London: Henry Kimpton, 1927. Digital facsimile of …
1924 CE
#10828
Humane society leaders in America. With a sketch of the early history of the humane movement in England.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1924 CE
#4392
Hypertelorism. A hitherto undifferentiated congenital cranio-facial deformity.
First description of hypertelorism as a separate entity.
1924 CE
#3970
Insulin.
1924 CE
#2916.1
Intra-arterial injection of sodium iodide: Preliminary report.
Clinical angiography.
1924 CE
#661
Körperstellung.
A classic work on muscle tone and posture, a subject upon which Magnus spent many years of study. He demonstrated among other things that the labyrinth is the one sense organ entirely concerned with posture and equili…
1924 CE
#3199
L’exploration radiologique des cavités broncho-pulmonaires par les injections intra-trachéales d’huile iodée.
Bronchography was advanced by the work of Sicard and Forestier on the intratracheal introduction of lipiodol.
1924 CE
#13374
Medicine, magic and religion. [Edited] with a preface by G. Elliot Smith.
Fitzpatrick Lectures 1915-16. Originally published in Lancet , 94, 59–65, 117–23.
1924 CE
#5327
Observations on the causal organism of rat-bite fever in man.
Robertson proved one of the causal organisms of rat-bite fever to be Sp. morsus muris. He re-named it Spirillum minus Carter, 1887, identifying it as the first spiral micro-organism to be described from a rodent.
1924 CE
#1239
Observations on the composition of glomerular urine with particular reference to the problem of reabsorption in the renal tubules.
Experimental proof that the initial step in urine production is the formation in Bowman’s space of a protein-free ultrafiltrate of plasma and that reabsorption of certain substances must occur in the tubules sin…
1924 CE
#5301.1
On a Herpetomonas found in the gut of the sandfly, Phlebotomus argentipes, fed on kala-azar patients.
Demonstration that L. donovani is capable of reproduction in Phlebotomus. With R. O. Smith.
1924 CE
#2086
Phantastica.
The classic of psychoactive drug classification. Lewin established the following categories: Euphorics, Phantastics, Inebriants, Hypnotics, and Excitants. English translation, 1931.
1924 CE
#12701
Pierre Curie par Marie Curie.
Digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this link. Through a quirk in publishing history the English translation appeared in 1923 prior to the French edition as Pierre Curie by Marie Curie, Translated by Charlotte and V…
1924 CE
#13680
Plastische Anatomie: Die konstruktive Form des menschlichen Körpers. Mit Bildern von Hermann Sachs.
An anatomy for artists, illustrated by Hermann Sachs.
1924 CE
#7384
Proiskhozhedenie Zhizni.
Oparin’s central thesis was that the first organisms to emerge in the anaerobic environment of the primitive Earth must have been heterotrophic bacteria. He proposed that life had been preceded by a lengthy peri…
1924 CE
#9334
Radiochemical method of studying the circulation of lead in the body.
First application of radioactive tracers in animals, specifically rabbits and guinea pigs. See also Hevesy et al, "Radiochemical method of studying the circulation of bismuth in the body," C. R. Acad. Sci. (Paris) 178…
1924 CE
#1443
Reflexes in response to stretch (myotatic reflexes).
This investigation of the stretch reflex was of value in elucidating muscle tone and posture.
1924 CE
#139
Regeneration from a physico-chemical viewpoint.
1924 CE
#908
Relation of blood cells to connective tissues and endothelium.
Maximow’s blood regeneration theory.
1924 CE
#2854
Rheumatic heart disease.
The first systematic textbook on rheumatic heart disease.
1924 CE
#3652
Roentgenologic examination of the gallbladder.
Introduction of cholecystography.
1924 CE
#4606
Some problems in neurology. No. 2. Pathological laughing and crying.
An important paper on the pathology of facial movements.
1924 CE
#3653
Studies in hepatic function. VI. A. The pharmacological behavior of certain dyes. B. The value of selected phthalein compounds in the estimation of hepatic function.
Bromsulphthalein test for liver function.
1924 CE
#747
Studies in nuclein metabolism. II. The isolation of a nucleotide from human blood.
Jackson demonstrated the existence of pentose nucleotides in normal blood.
1924 CE
#10943
Studies on Rickettsia-like micro-organisms in insects.
Hertig and Wolbach first described the parasitic microbe Wolbachia in the common house mosquito in 1924. In 1936 Hertig formally described the species as Wolbachia pipientis. Since then the genus Wolbachia has become …
1924 CE
#86.3
Surgical papers.[Edited by Walter C. Burket]. 2 vols.
In spite of an addiction to cocaine hydrochlorate from experimentation with it as a surgical anesthetic in 1884 until his death, Halsted was among the greatest of all surgical innovators and teachers. While pioneering…
1924 CE
#3324
Technic of a pan-sinus operation.
Independently of Howarth (No. 3322), Lynch devised an operation for the conservative treatment of sinusitis.
1924 CE
#1787
The Assyrian herbal: A monograph on the Assyrian vegetable drugs, the subject matter of which was communicated in a paper to the Royal Society, March 20, 1924.
A study of Assyrian material medical reproduced by cyclostyle, in the author's handwriting.
1924 CE
#1305
The compound nature of the action current of nerve as disclosed by the cathode ray oscillograph.
In 1944 Erlanger and Gasser shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for their discoveries regarding the highly differentiated functions of single nerve fibers."
1924 CE
#963.1
The determination of gases in blood and other solutions by vacuum extraction and manometric measurement.
Method for the manometric analysis of gases in blood and other solutions.
1924 CE
#1758
The doctor’s oath, an essay in the history of medicine.
The Hippocratic Oath forms the basis of medical ethics. It was probably an ancient temple oath of the Asclepiadae, and not a genuine Hippocratic document. In the above work the various manuscripts of the Oath are enum…
1924 CE
#5082.1
The etiology of scarlet fever.
Proof that streptococcus is the cause of scarlet fever.
1924 CE
#6350
The food requirements of malnourished infants with a note on the use of insulin.
Marriott introduced the insulin-fattening method of treatment of malnutrition in infants.
1924 CE
#2646
The formation of a cancer-producing substance from isoprene (2-methyl-butadiene).
Kennaway produced carcinogenic tars by submitting acetylene or isoprene to high temperatures in an atmosphere of hydrogen, thus proving that some carcinogens are pure hydrocarbons.
1924 CE
#2573.1
The genetics of tissue transplantation in mammals.
Little established that the homograft reaction was due to genetic differences between donor and recipient.
1924 CE
#1184
The induction of a sexually mature condition in immature females by injection of the ovarian follicular hormone.
Test for recognition of the estrus hormone.
1924 CE
#4893
The influence of the sympathetic nervous system in the genesis of the rigidity of striated muscle in a spastic paralysis.
Hunter believed in the sympathetic innervation of skeletal muscle and on this assumption devised the technique of sympathetic ramisection carried out by Royle (No. 4894). Biography by M.J. Blunt, Sydney, 1985.
1924 CE
#1570
The mechanism of the cochlea. A restatement of the resonance theory of hearing.
1924 CE
#1766.603
The medical sciences in the German Universities: a study in the history of civilization. Translated by William H. Welch.
German edition first published in 1876.