1930–1939
893 entries with publication dates in this decade.
1936 CE
#1151
A physiologic and chemical investigation of the suprarenal cortex.
Isolation of nine closely related steroid hormones from adrenal cortical extracts; one of these was Compound E (C21H28O5) which in 1939 was renamed cortisone. With H. L. Mason, C. S. Myers, and W. D. Allers. See also …
1936 CE
#2356
A short history of tuberculosis.
1936 CE
#4659
A virus isolated in 1935 epidemic of summer encephalitis in Japan.
T. Taniguchi, M. Hosokawa, and S. Kuga established a virus etiology for Japanese B encephalitis.
1936 CE
#14286
Age and other factors in motor recovery from precentral lesions in monkeys.
This was the first of a series of papers by Kennard that led to what became known as the Kennard Principle, which posits a negative linear relationship between age of a brain lesion and the recovery outcome. The earli…
1936 CE
#3037
An experimental method of providing a collateral circulation to the heart.
By attaching a pedicled omental graft to the surface of the heart (cardio-omentopexy), thus providing a collateral circulation to that organ, O’Shaughnessy made an important advance in the treatment of angina an…
1936 CE
#2865
Atlas of congenital cardiac disease.
1936 CE
#11637
Bibliography of the writings of Dr. William S. Thayer by Efie Smither Hunley.
1936 CE
#12974
Catalogue de livres et autographes provenant en majeur partie des bibliothèques d'Antoine, Bernard, Antoine-Laurent et Adrien de Jussieu, démonstrateurs et professeurs au Jardin du Roi, Membres de l'Institut 1686-1853. Voyages - Médecine - Sciences - Litérature - Sciences naturelles et principalement botanique....
Remarkably, many of the treasures of the Jussieu dynastic library, formed starting in the 18th century, remained in the family, and were sold at auction in Paris by Edouard Giard and Georges Andrieux on 10 February 19…
1936 CE
#10704
Catalogue of the museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. Part I. Comprehending the preparations illustrative of pathology.
"The letters B.C. ... signify that the preparation is part of an extensive collection purchased by the College from Sir Charles Bell...." Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1936 CE
#13044
Collected writings. With a biographical memoir by Abraham Flexner. 2 vols.
1936 CE
#4725
Contribution à l’étude des syndromes du globe pâle. La dégénérescence progressive du globe pâle et de la portion réticuléé de la substance noire (maladie d’Hallervorden–Spatz).
Clovis Vincent, a pioneer French neurosurgeon, contributed a valuable study of Hallervorden–Spatz disease.
1936 CE
#4670.6
Cultivation of poliomyelitis virus in vitro in human embryonic nervous tissue.
Isolation and propagation of the poliomyelitis virus in pure culture.
1936 CE
#5480
Cultivation of the viruses of sandfly fever and dengue fever on the chorioallantoic membrane of the chick-embryo.
Cultivation of the virus of phlebotomus fever. With R. S. Rao and C. S. Swaminath.
1936 CE
#3659.2
Das Coeliakiesyndrom bei angeborener zysticher Pankreasfibromatose und Bronchiektasien.
Cystic fibrosis (mucoviscidosis) described. With E. Uehlinger and C. Knauer.
1936 CE
#9589
Das Ich und die Abwehrmechanismen.
Translated into English by Anna Freud and Cecil Baines, as The ego and the mechanisms of defense. London: Hogarth Press, 1937.
1936 CE
#14173
Dermographisme et mastocytose.
Sézary and colleagues first reported systemic mastocytosis.
1936 CE
#6432
Disease and destiny.
1936 CE
#3338.1
Diseases of the air and food passages of foreign-body origin.
One of the most comprehensive treatises on the subject ever published, with a 636-page appendix describing, and in most cases illustrating, 3266 foreign bodies and how they were removed.
1936 CE
#7919
Effect of Benzedrine sulfate on mood and fatigue in normal and neurotic persons.
Myerson, an American neurologist, psychiatrist, clinician, pathologist, and researcher, funded by Benedrine manufacturer Smith, Kline and French, promoted Benzedrine (i.e. amphetamine) as an anti-depressant, leading t…
1936 CE
#2865.1
Elektrographische Diagnostik der Herzmuskelerkrankungen.
Introduction of the vectorcardiogram.
1936 CE
#7035
Encyclopaedia sexualis: A comprehensive encyclopaedia-dictionary of the sexual sciences. Edited by Victor Robinson.
One of the first encyclopedias of sexuality, published when relevant information was difficult to obtain, especially in English.
1936 CE
#4905
Essai d’un traitement chirurgical de certaines psychoses.
Prefrontal leucotomy (lobotomy). Translation in J. Neurosurg., 1964, 21, 1110-14. See also Egas Moniz's book Tentatives opératoires dans le traitement de certaines psychoses, Paris, 1936. His name was originall…
1936 CE
#3905
Experimental diabetes insipidus in the monkey.
With C. Fisher and S. W. Ransom.
1936 CE
#4904.1
Gefässmissbildungen und Gefässgeschwülste des Gehirns.
Olivecrona first successfully removed an intracranial aneurysm in 1932.
1936 CE
#11896
Gynäkologische Fragmente aus dem frühen Mittelalter: nach einer Petersburger Handschrift aus dem VIII.-IX. Jahrhundert zum ersten Mal gedruckt.
1936 CE
#12400
Harvey, iniciador del método experimental.
First edition in Spanish of De motu cordis as well as a facsimile of the first edition. "Contains an important historical review of the circulation with particular reference to Servetus and to the Spanish reception of…
1936 CE
#11502
Hominidae fossiles. Edited by W. Quenstedt.
Fossilium catalogus, I: Animalia (ed. W. Quenstedt), part 74. “This volume has been prepared under the critical editorship of Dr. Werner Quenstedt, as a work in cooperation with the Cenozoic Research Laboratory …
1936 CE
#8551
Il "Tractatus de pulsibus," di Alfano Io arcivescovo di Salerno, sec. xi: Trascrizione del codice 1024 della biblioteca dell'Arsenale di Parigi (da carta 16 v. a carta 18 r). Annotazioni e commento con tavoli di riproduzione del testo [di] Pietro Capparoni.
Alfanus I or Alfano I, a physician before he became archbishop, was one of the earliest doctors of the Schola Medica Salernitana. He was Archbishop of Salerno from 1058 to his death. He was famed as a translator, writ…
1936 CE
#2576.4
Immunogenetic studies of species and of species hybrids in doves, and the separation of species-specific substances in the backcross.
Irwin coined the term, “immunogenetics” to describe the union of immunology with genetics. He attempted to determine the genetic control of antigenicity through genetic cross matings.
1936 CE
#11821
Industrial dust: Hygienic significance, measurement and control.
Includes information on asbestosis.
1936 CE
#5497
Influenza infection of man from the ferret.
First record of successful passage of influenza from animal to man. The ferret had previously been infected with a virus from a case of influenza.
1936 CE
#4250
Intercapillary lesions in the glomeruli of the kidney.
“Kimmelstiel–Wilson syndrome”. First description of nodular intercapillary glomerulosclerosis, the only known morphological alteration specific, or almost so, for diabetes mellitus.
1936 CE
#8456
Johannes de Mirfeld of St. Bartholomew's Smithfield: His life and works, by Percival Horton-Smith Hartley and Harold Richard Aldridge.
Concerns the first writings of a medical nature known to be associated with an English hospital. Includes the original Latin text and English translation of Mirfeld's works including his Breviary, a scrapbook of extra…
1936 CE
#6463
La médecine chez les peuples primitifs.
1936 CE
#12005
Liquid crystalline substances from virus infected plants.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Bawden, Pirie, Bernal, Fankuchen. The authors isolated and crystallized tobacco mosaic virus, finding for the first time that a virus contained nucleic acids, when othe…
1936 CE
#1662
Medical history of contraception.
Reprinted with updating preface, 1963, 1970.
1936 CE
#6499
Medicine in the Bible. The Pentateuch, Torah.
References to medicine in the Old Testament, with notes and definitions, and references to the Talmud.
1936 CE
#6574.1
Medisinens historic i Norge.
1936 CE
#3148.1
Mediterranean disease – thalassemia (erythroblastic anemia of Cooley); associated pigment abnormalities simulating hemochromatosis.
Whipple and Bradford contributed a classic paper on the pathology of thalassemia, a name introduced by them.
1936 CE
#5815
Memorandum book of a tenth-century oculist for the use of modern ophthalmologists. A translation of the Tadhkirat.
The Tadhkirat al-Kahhalin was one of the oldest and best of the medieval Arabic works on ophthalmology. It carefully described 130 diseases of the eye and became the standard work on the subject in the Middle East. Ge…
1936 CE
#269.6
Microscopy with ultra-violet light. A simplification of method.
1936 CE
#4009
Nouvelle pratique dermatologique. 8 vols.
1936 CE
#1086.1
Observations on a substance in pancreas (a fat metabolizing hormone) which permits survival and prevents liver changes in depancreatized dogs.
Lipocaic. With J. Van Prohaska and H. P. Harms.
1936 CE
#9893
On certain septicemias due to anaerobic organisms.
"Lemierre's syndrome (or Lemierre's disease, also known as postanginal shock including sepsis and human necrobacillosis) refers to infectious thrombophlebitis of the internal jugular vein. It most often develops as a …
1936 CE
#3611
Operation for femoral hernia by a midline extraperitoneal approach; with a preliminary note on the use of this route for reducible inguinal hernia.
Henry’s operation for femoral hernia.
1936 CE
#8978
Physiologus. Ed. F. Sbordóne.
Physiologus, a didactic Christian text, is thought to have been written or compiled in Greek by an unknown author in Alexandria, 200-275 CE. It describes a "hodgepodge" of animals, real and imaginery, with the fig tre…
1936 CE
#4906
Prefrontal lobotomy in agitated depression. Report of a case.
See also the book by the same authors, Psychosurgery: Intelligence, emotion, and social behavior following prefrontal lobotomy for mental disorders. Springfield: Charles C Thomas, 1942. By the 1950s lobotomy was large…
1936 CE
#5484.2
Propagation of rabies virus in tissue culture and the successful use of culture virus as antirabic vaccine.
Webster and Clow succeeded in growing rabies virus in tissue culture.
1936 CE
#3975
Protamine insulin.
R. B. Kerr, C. H. Best, W. R. Campbell, and A. A. Fletcher advocated the combination of zinc with insulin to delay its absorption rate. Later this was combined with protamine to form protamine zinc insulin.
1936 CE
#3974
Protamine insulinate.
Hagedorn created NPH insulin and founded Nordisk Insulinlaboratorium, known today as Novo Nordisk. NPH insulin is one of the earliest examples of engineering drug delivery. Hagedorn became interested in modifying the …