1930–1939

1937 CE

#6775

British periodicals of medicine. A chronological list.

Covers British periodicals published in the British Empire. Published in book form, Baltimore, 1938. Supplement, 1938-61, by A. M Shadrake, Bull. med. Libr. Ass., 1963, 51, 181-96, covers Gt Britain and Ireland, but e…

1937 CE

#751.1

Citric acid in intermediate metabolism in animal tissues.

Citric acid cycle (CAC) of aerobic carbohydrate metabolism (Krebs cycle). Three months after his initial publication on CAC Krebs published a supplementary paper aimed at the medical audience, rather than the biochemi…

1937 CE

#2866

Clinical roentgenology of the cardiovascular system.

1937 CE

#1154

Corticosteron, a crystallized compound with the biological activity of the adrenal-cortical hormone.

Isolation of corticosterone. With E. Laqueur, T. Reichstein, R. W. Spanhoff, and I. E. Uyldert.

1937 CE

#12008

Cultivation of the virus of infectious bronchitis.

The authors were the first to isolate a pathogenic coronavirus in chickens. This was the first pathogenic coronavirus described. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.)

1937 CE

#5987

Developmental abnormalities of the eye.

1937 CE

#12352

Die Geschichte der angeborenen Herzkrankheiten.

A history of congenital heart disease covering cyanosis, foetal endocarditis and various malformations. Bedford 850.

1937 CE

#8594

Dr. Bodo Otto and the medical background of the American revolution by James E. Gibson.

Oddo, born in Germany, is one of the better-known American surgeons in the American revolutionary war; however he published nothing and is primarily known from this biography.

1937 CE

#6524

Early medieval medicine with special reference to France and Chartres. The Hideyo Noguchi Lectures.

1937 CE

#4908

Eine neue Operationsmethode bei Trigeminusneuralgie: Durchschneidung des Tractus spinalis trigemini.

Trigeminal tractotomy. See also Acta psychiat. neural. (Kbh.), 1938, Suppl. 17, 1-139.

1937 CE

#12832

Electrophoresis of serum globulin. II- Electrophoretic analysis of normal and immune sera.

Tiselius showed that an antibody that he produced in a rabbit by immunizing it with albumin (ovalbumin) was clearly located in the gamma globulin fraction. He summarized the paper with this statement: "Investigation o…

1937 CE

#5988

Ergebnisse der Diathermiestichelung des Corpus ciliare (Zyklodiathermiestichelung) gegen Glaukom.

Vogt’s operation of cyclodiathermy for glaucoma.

1937 CE

#5398

Experimental studies on the virus of “Q” fever.

Discovery of Rickettsia burneti, causal agent in Q fever.

1937 CE

#5988.1

Fundus oculi: diagnostica oftalmoscopica…

The first atlas of ophthalmoscopy published in Italy, considered by many to be the most beautiful ever published. German translation, Torino, Rosenberg und Sellier, [1941]. Some copies of that edition contain an Engli…

1937 CE

#1076

Further studies on the concentration of the antipellagra factor.

Chicken pellagra factor.

1937 CE

#4963.1

Galen: De propriorum animi cuiuslibet affectuum dignotione et curatione. De animi cuius libet peccatorum dignotione et curatione ed. W. De Boer. Corpus Medicorum Graecorum V, 4, 1, 1, pp. 1-68.

English translation by P.W. Harkins, Galen on the passions and errors of the soul. Columbus, Ohio, 1963.

1937 CE

#254.2

Genetics and the origin of species.

Dobzhansky, an emigrant from the Soviet Union to the United States, and a postdoctoral worker in Thomas Hunt Morgan's fruit fly lab, was one of the first to apply genetics to natural populations. He worked mostly with…

1937 CE

#3876

Genital abnormalities, hermaphroditism and related adrenal diseases.

1937 CE

#6303

Geschichte der Frauenheilkunde. 1 Teil. Die Frauenheilkunde der alten Welt.

Forms Bd. 12, Teil 1, of Handbuch der Gynäkologie, hrsg. J. Veit u. Stoeckel. See also No. 6311.4

1937 CE

#5544.1

Granulomatous encephalomyelitis due to an encephalitozoon (encephalitozoic encephalomyelitis), a new protozoon disease of man.

Definite recognition of human toxoplasmosis. See also their later paper in the same journal, 1938, 7, 266-83.

1937 CE

#6465

Heilkunde und Volkstum auf Bali.

1937 CE

#3096.1

Hemophilia. II. Some properties of a substance obtained from normal human plasma effective in accelerating the coagulation of hemophilic blood.

Antihemophilic globulin (factor VIII).

1937 CE

#3019

Heparin and the thrombosis of veins following injury.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Murray, Jaques, Perrett, Best. Heparin was discovered by Jay McLean and William Henry Howell in 1916; however it was not tested as an anticoagulant in clinical trials u…

1937 CE

#6648

I santi nella storia della medicina.

1937 CE

#4671

Infantile paralysis and cerebral diplegia: Methods used for the restoration of function.

1937 CE

#2312

Isolation and properties of the factor responsible for increased capillary permeability.

Leukotaxine isolated.

1937 CE

#13880

Journal of a seaplane cruise around the world August 20, 1934 to January 24, 1935.

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1937 CE

#6633.1

Katalog der Sammlung Dr. Josef Brettauer Medicina in Nummis.

5557 items; references to works on numismatics and medical history.

1937 CE

#5631

Künstliche Scheidenbildung mittels Eihäuten.

Introduction of amnioplastin.

1937 CE

#11568

La angio-cardiografía radio-opaca.

Intravenous angiocardiography. This was the first publication that dealt with the normal cardiac structure and the changes seen in ventricular septal defect and pulmonary stenosis.

1937 CE

#5213.1

La toxi-infection gonococcique expérimentale et son traitement chimiothérapique.

Levaditi and Vaisman showed that sulfanilamide protected mice against gonococcal infection.

1937 CE

#13501

Médecine traditionnelle de l'Inde: La magie noire.

1937 CE

#6464

Medicina aborigen americana.

1937 CE

#2057.1

Naturheilkunde in Lebensbildern.

Mainly 19th-20th century: includes hydrotherapy, massage, and dietetics. Second edition, 1951.

1937 CE

#3408

New technique in the surgical treatment of severe and progressive deafness from otosclerosis.

First successful attempt to restore hearing in otosclerosis by fenestration.

1937 CE

#3215

Observations on L-organism of Kleineberger.

Isolation of a mycoplasma from man.

1937 CE

#6604.4

Occidental therapeutics in the Netherlands East Indies during three centuries of Netherlands settlement. 1600-1900.

An English summary of two earlier Dutch works by D. Schoute, 1929-1936.

1937 CE

#2319

Pathology.

Krumbhaar edited the Clio Medica series of volumes on the history of medicine, and contributed a history of pathology to it.

1937 CE

#1173

Permanent experimental diabetes produced by pituitary (anterior lobe) injections.

Anterior pituitary diabetogenic hormone.

1937 CE

#3907.1

Post-partum necrosis of the anterior pituitary.

Sheehan’s syndrome – panhypopituitarism due to pituitary necrosis following post-partum hemorrhage.

1937 CE

#10672

Religion and medicine of the Ga people.

1937 CE

#3660

Resection of head of pancreas and duodenum for carcinoma – pancreatoduodenectomy.

See also the same journal, 1943, 77, 581-84.

1937 CE

#6567

Russian medicine.

1937 CE

#2721

Secreción hipertensora del rinón isquemiado.

Houssay and Fasciolo transplanted an ischemic kidney into an animal from which both kidneys had been removed. Hypertension resulted after establishment of circulation, supporting the view that hypertension is due to a…

1937 CE

#9832

Socialized medicine in the Soviet Union.

"... Sigerist was influential in the creation of socialized medicine in Canada. He made four trips to Canada in the 1930s and 1940s at the invitation of various medical groups to speak on this topic. Under his influen…

1937 CE

#1075

Studies on vitamin E. The isolation of β-tocopherol from wheat germ oil.

With F. Bergel and T. S. Work.

1937 CE

#5329

Sur une nouvelle fièvre par morsure de rat.

A. Lemierre, J. Reilly, A. Laporte, and M. Morin isolated Streptobacillus moniliformis from a case of rat-bite fever.

1937 CE

#4401

Syndrome characterized by osteitis fibrosa disseminata, areas of pigmentation and endocrine dysfunction, with precocious puberty in females. Report of five cases.

“Albright’s syndrome”. With A. M. Butler, A. O. Hampton, and P. Smith.

1937 CE

#2659

The carcinogenic action of oestrone: induction of mammary carcinoma in female mice of a strain refractory to the spontaneous development of mammary tumours.

With L. H. Stickland and K. I. Connal.

1937 CE

#9441

The cataract operations of 'Ammar Ibn Alī Al-Mausilī by Max Meyerhof.

Mausilī invented a hollow metallic syringe, which he applied through the sclerotic, and successfully extracted cataracts through suction.