1930–1939
893 entries with publication dates in this decade.
1937 CE
#10198
The Citadel.
This novel was "groundbreaking with its treatment of the contentious theme of medical ethics. It has been credited with laying the foundation in Great Britain for the introduction of the NHS a decade later.[1] "For hi…
1937 CE
#2358
The control of tuberculosis in England, past and present.
1937 CE
#4402
The effects on bone of the presence of metals; based upon electrolysis. An experimental study.
Introduction of vitallium. With W. Stuck and A. Beach.
1937 CE
#4824
The electro-encephalogram in epilepsy.
Demonstration of the changes in the electro-encephalogram in epilepsy. With S. Graham and W. Grey Walter.
1937 CE
#2576.5
The genetic and antigenic basis of tumour transplantation.
Gorer made the initial discoveries which formed the basis of transplantation genetics. He studied mouse blood groups and described an antigen in erythrocytes (antigen II). His studies established the laws of transplan…
1937 CE
#3157
The history of angina pectoris.
1937 CE
#8751
The history of the acute exanthemata.
Smallpox, chicken pox, scarlet fever, measles and German measles. Rolleston was the brother of Sir Humphrey Davy Rolleston.
1937 CE
#12675
The medico-philosophical controversy between Ibn Butlan of Baghdad and Ibn Ridwan of Cairo: A contribution to the history of Greek learning among the Arabs. (The Egyptian University, the Faculty of Arts: Publication 13.)
1937 CE
#11466
The origin and growth of renal calculi.
Randall founded the theory of kidney stone formation on anchored papillary plaque. https://kidneystones.uchicago.edu/randalls-plaque/ Digital facsimile from PubMedCentral at this link.
1937 CE
#1925.1
The quantitative effect of antagonistic drugs
Gaddum was the first to formulate the theory of competitive drug antagonism. See also No. 1917.
1937 CE
#2026
The therapy of the Cook County Hospital. Blood preservation.
Described the establishment of the first blood bank (at the Cook County Hospital).
1937 CE
#4689
The treatment of meningococcic meningitis with sulfanilamide.
With S. Gelman and P. H. Long.
1937 CE
#5214.1
The use of sulfanilamide in gonococcic infections. Preliminary report.
1937 CE
#5467
The use of yellow fever virus modified by in vitro cultivation for human immunization.
Immunization without the use of immune serum. In 1951 Theiler was awared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for his discovery of an effective vaccine against yellow fever." This was the first Nobel Prize award…
1937 CE
#11441
Toxicity of industrial organic solvents.
1937 CE
#3661
Treatment of alcoholic cirrhosis of the liver with high vitamin therapy.
A pioneer paper on the dietary treatment of cirrhosis.
1937 CE
#6374
Über rezidivierende, aphthöse, durch ein Virus verursachte Geschwüre am Mund, am Auge und an den Genitalien.
Behçet’s disease, previously described by H. Planner and F. Remenovsky, Arch. Derm. Syph. (Berlin), 1922, 140, 162-88.
1937 CE
#9242
Useful plants and drugs of Iran and Iraq. By David Hooper with notes by Henry Field.
Digital facsimile from the Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.
1937 CE
#2430
Who gave the world syphilis? The Haitian myth.
1937 CE–1938 CE
#1310
A review of the Golgi apparatus.
1937 CE–1939 CE
#7259
The stone age of Mount Carmel. Volume I: Excavations at the Wady el-Mughara. Volume II: The fossil remains from the Lavalloiso-Mousterian.
Garrod carried out her landmark excavations of the el-Wad, el-Tabun and es-Skhul caves on the hills of Mount Carmel, close to Wadi el-Mugharah (Valley of the Caves) between 1929 and 1934. Her monograph on the subject …
1937 CE–1946 CE
#9358
Fragments of entomological history including some personal recollections of men and events. 2 vols.
1937 CE–1960 CE
#10200
Topographische Anatomie des Menschen. Lehrbuch und Atlas der regionär-stratigraphischen Präparation. 4 vols. in 7. Vol. 1 in 2 pts: Brust un Brustgliedmasse, 1937; Vol. 2 in 2 pts: Bauch, Becken und Beckengliedmasse, 1941; Vol. 3: Der Hals, 1952; Vol. 4 in 2 pts: Topographische und stratigraphischen Anatomie des Kopfes, 1957, 1960.
Pernkopf's anatomy is remarkable for the intricacy of its detailed images and its "regional stratigraphic" approach, i.e. "multiple layers of dissection with an emphasis on fascia shown and reflected, approaching the …
1937 CE–1969 CE
#11629
Tobacco: Its history illustrated by the books, manuscripts and engravings in the library of George Arents, Jr. 5 vols. + 10 Supplements.
1938 CE
#4435.01
“Rotules à os” pour la réduction dirigée, non sanglante, des fractures (“ostéotaxis”).
Hoffmann, a Swiss general surgeon with a doctorate in theology and unusual skill in carpentry, developed the versatile Hoffmann system of external fixation devices.
1938 CE
#4962.1
A clinical and genetic study of 1,280 cases of mental defect.
In this exhaustive study Penrose showed (p. 36) the significance of maternal age in the etiology of Down syndrome.
1938 CE
#8224
A critical bibliography of German literature in English translation, 1481-1927: With supplement embracing the Years 1928-1935. Second edition, completely revised and greatly augmented.
Includes translations of many non-fictional works, including those in biology, etc. It was reprinted several times. The 1938 edition is searchable at Google Books at this link. Digital facsimile of the 1922 first edit…
1938 CE
#6650
A history of women in medicine from the earliest times to the beginning of the ninteenth century.
1938 CE
#12593
A medical survey of the republic of Guatemala, by George Cheever Shattuck. With the collaboration of Joseph C. Bequaert, Margaret M. Hilferty, Jack H. Sandground [and] Samuel Drury Clark.
Organized and directed by the Department of Tropical Medicine, Harvard School of Public Health. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1938 CE
#14335
A new method of measuring nuclear magnetic moment.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Rabi, Zacharais,...Kusch. Followed by: (2) The magnetic moments of 3Li6, 3Li7, and 9F19. Physical Review 53, 1938. (3) The molecular beam resonance method for measuring…
1938 CE
#2869
A practical method of visualization of the chambers of the heart, the pulmonary circulation, and the great vessels in man.
Introduction of angiocardiography, which for the first time revealed the internal structure of the living heart. A fuller account by the same authors is in Amer. J. Roentgenol.,1939, 41,1-17.
1938 CE
#3801.1
A syndrome of infantilism, congenital webbed neck, and cubitus valgus.
“Turner’s syndrome”.
1938 CE
#3211
An acute infection of the respiratory tract with atypical pneumonia: A disease entity probably caused by a filterable virus.
Atypical pneumonia.
1938 CE
#2027
An inexhaustible source of blood for transfusion, and its preservation. Preliminary report.
J. R. Goodall, F. O. Anderson, G. T. Altimas, and F. L. MacPhail pointed out the possibility of using placental blood for transfusion purposes.
1938 CE
#6133
An operation for the cure of congenital absence of the vagina.
Mclndoe’s operation for the construction of an artificial vagina.
1938 CE
#14110
Artificial fever produced by physical means; its development and application.
Perhaps the most comprehensive study of the application of pyrotherapy in the treatment of a wide variety of diseases, including syphilis. For syphilis in particular the treatment was replaced by penicillin, developed…
1938 CE
#12621
Biology and pathology of the tooth and its supporting mechanism
1938 CE
#11771
Bird books and bird art: An outline of the literary history and iconography of descriptive ornithology, based principally on the collection of books containing plates with figures of birds and their eggs now in the University Library at Copenhagen and including a catalogue of these works.
This bibliography is distinctive for its very detailed annotations.
1938 CE
#13328
Bound feet.
The author was assistant superintendent of Massachusetts Memorial Hospitals in Boston and Assistant Professor of Tropical Diseases at Boston University School of Medicine. His book is part travelogue and part memoir o…
1938 CE
#7016
Chemisch-Pharmazeutisches Bio-und Bibliographikon. Herausgegeben von der Gesellschaft für Geschichte der Pharmazie durch Fritz Ferchl. 2 vols.
1938 CE
#1951
Chemotherapy of pneumococcal and other infections with 2-(p-aminobenzenesulphonamido) pyridine.
Experimental proof of the efficacy of sulfapyridine (M & B 693) in pneumococcal pneumonia.
1938 CE
#5449
Culture “in vitro” du virus de la rougeole.
Successful cultivation of measles virus.
1938 CE
#13827
Cystic fibrosis of the pancreas and its relation to celiac disease: A clinical and pathological study.
Andersen was the first to describe the characteristic cystic fibrosis of the pancreas, and to correlate it with the lung and intestinal disease prominent in CF. She also was the first to hypotheize that cystic fibrosi…
1938 CE
#6915
Das Gleichgewicht zwischen Hämoglobin and Sauerstoff.
Haurowitz discovered that crystalline deoxyhemoglobin changes in shape and color on reaction with oxygen, suggesting that it is a molecular lung.
1938 CE
#5308.1
Demonstratión de un treponema en el borde activo un caso de pinto de las manos y pies y en la linfa de ganglios superficiales (reporte preliminar).
B. Saenz, J. Grau Triana, and J. Alfonso Armenteros indicated that pinta is caused by a treponeme, T. carateum.
1938 CE
#1982
Design and construction of the masks for the oxygen inhalation apparatus.
The B. L. B. (Boothby-Lovelace-Bulbulian) mask. See also No. 1981.
1938 CE
#5506.2
Die Röteln sind eine Viruskrankheit.
Successful transfer of rubella to children by means of filtered nasal washings.
1938 CE
#12929
Early dental literature.
A narrative analysis of dental literature up to about 1850, with bibliographical listings of the earliest classics from various countries. Digital facsimile from PubMedCentral at this link.
1938 CE
#2867
Effects of induced oxygen want in patients with cardiac pain.
Diagnosis of cardiac pain. With A. L. Barach and H. G. Bruenn.
1938 CE
#4435.1
El tratamiento de la fractura de guerra.
During the Spanish Civil War (1935-38) Trueta adopted as standard treatment for gunshot wounds and compound fractures the closed plaster method originated by the American surgeon H. Winnett Orr. Trueta called this the…