1930–1939

1938 CE

#2446

Through the leper-squint. A study of leprosy from pre-Christian times to the present day.

1938 CE

#1952

Treatment of pneumonia with 2-(p-aminobenzenesulphonamido) pyridine.

Clinical proof of the value of sulphapyridine. M & B 693 (sulphapyridine) treatment of pneumonia. This followed the experimental work of L. E. H. Whitby (see No. 1951).

1938 CE

#3149

Tropical macrocytic anaemia: Its relation to pernicious anaemia.

1938 CE

#4962

Un nuovo metodo di shockterapia: “L’elettroshock”. (Riassunto.)

Introduction of electric convulsion therapy.

1938 CE

#1078

Vitamins and vitamin deficiencies. Vol. 1.

1938 CE

#12398

William Harvey, physician and biologist: His precursors, opponents and successors. Parts I-V.

"The most comprehensive bibliographical reference work on the history of the circulation" (Bedford 200).

1938 CE

#5467.1

Yellow fever virus in jungle mosquitoes.

Haemagogus sp. shown to be vectors of yellow fever. With L. Whitman and M. Frania.

1938 CE

#1079

α-Tocopherol.

P. Karrer, H. Fritzsche, B. H. Ringier, and H. Salomon synthesized vitamin E (α-tocopherol).

1939 CE

#11189

A bibliography of the writings of Harvey Cushing prepared on the occasion of his seventieth birthday April 8, 1939 by The Harvey Cushing Society.

Revised and best third edition, Park Ridge, IL: American Association of Neurological Surgeons, 1993. This includes a photographic essay, with extensive captions, by Richard Upjohn Light.

1939 CE

#2268

A history of tropical medicine. 2 vols.

An exhaustive history of the subject to the time of writing.

1939 CE

#4909.1

A new palliative operation in cases of inoperable occlusion of the Sylvian aqueduct.

Ventriculocisternostomy for the relief of obstructive hydrocephalus.

1939 CE

#14053

A preliminary atlas of early human fetal activity.

The first published photographic study of fetal physiology using live human fetuses. Includes 20 full-age photographic plates, each with 6-12 images (189 total). The fetuses, all between 8.5 and 14 weeks gestation, we…

1939 CE

#5087.2

A study in active immunization against pertussis.

Pertussis vaccine.

1939 CE

#1310.1

Action potentials recorded from inside a nerve fibre.

Hodgkin and Huxley were the first to succeed in inserting electrodes into a living giant nerve fiber and to measure directly the action potential within it. In 1963 Hodgkin and Huxley shared the Nobel Prize in Physiol…

1939 CE

#10226

Alcoholics Anonymous: The story of how many thousands of men and women have recovered from alcoholism.

"Describes how to recover from alcoholism, primarily written by William G. "Bill W." Wilson, one of the founders of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA). It is the originator of the seminal "twelve-step method" widely used to tr…

1939 CE

#2576.8

An electrophoretic study of immune sera and purified antibody preparations.

Antibodies shown to be gamma globulins.

1939 CE

#3038.1

An oxygenator with a large surface–volume ratio.

First heart–lung machine used successfully on an animal.

1939 CE

#912.1

An unusual case of intra-group agglutination.

Discovery of the Rh antigen.

1939 CE

#4250.2

Architecture of the kidney in chronic Bright’s disease.

A description of the morphological changes in the nephrons of diseased kidneys. Hypertrophic, atrophic and aglomerular units are described.

1939 CE

#2991

Arteriovenous fistula of the lung associated with polycythemia vera: report of a case in which the diagnosis was made clinically.

1939 CE

#4403

Arthroplasty of the hip. A new method.

Vitallium cup arthroplasty.

1939 CE

#1933.1

Bactericidal effect of an extract of a soil bacillus on gram-positive cocci.

Isolation of gramicidin.

1939 CE

#2581

Bacteriology.

A much briefer history than Bulloch’s but with a thorough and accurate bibliography.

1939 CE

#6565

Bibliografia di storia della medicina italiana.

Classified list of 7451 books and papers, some annotated, on Italian medical history and biography.

1939 CE

#912

Blood groups.

Boyd showed that blood groups are inherited and not changed by environment.

1939 CE

#6599

Brazilian medical contributions.

1939 CE

#6654

BULLETIN OF THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE. 7-

Vol. 1-6, 1933-38 entitled Bulletin of the Institute of the History of Medicine. Recent issues may be viewed from Project Muse at: http://muse.jhu.edu/journal/24 .

1939 CE

#5763.1

Calibrated intermediate skin-grafts.

Padgett dermatome.

1939 CE

#2722

Circulatory diseases of the extremities.

1939 CE

#3803

Clinical use of triphenylchlorethylene.

1939 CE

#459

Das Anatomenbildnis. Seine Entwicklung im Zusammenhang mit der anatomischen Abbildung.

1939 CE

#8449

Das Arzneidrogenbuch Circa Instans in einer Fassung des XIII. Jahrhunderts aus der Universitätsbibliothek Erlangen. Text und Kommentar als Beitrag zur Pflanzen- und Drogenkunde des Mittelalters by Hans Wölfel.

1939 CE

#13462

Das Hospital zu St. Georg in Leipzig durch acht Jahrhunderte 1212–1940. Band 1. Das Hospital zu St. Georg vom Jahre 1212 bis zum Jahre 1631. (Vols. 2 & 3 not published).

1939 CE

#2700

Differential radiography.

Watson first described axial transverse tomography.

1939 CE

#2723

Diffuse arteriolar disease with hypertension and the associated retinal lesions.

The Keith–Wagener classification of fundal lesions. They classified essential hypertension into four groups.

1939 CE

#1927

Dolantin, ein neuartiges Spasmolytikum und Analgetikum. (Chemisches und pharmakologisches.)

Synthesis of pethidine (dolantin) (Demoral).

1939 CE

#9323

Ethnobotany of the Hopi. Bulletin No. 15.

1939 CE

#3907

Experimental diabetes insipidus.

Production of diabetes insipidus in dogs by injury to the hypothalamus.

1939 CE

#4152.1

Familial benign chronic pemphigus.

“Hailey–Hailey disease”, earlier described by H. Gougerot, Arch. derm. – syph. Clin. St Louis, 1933, 5, 255-57.

1939 CE

#7158

Fused neurons and synaptic contacts in the giant nerve fibers of cephalopods.

Young discovered the squid giant synapse, a chemical synapse found in squid, and the largest chemical junction in nature.

1939 CE

#531.1

Gewebeaffinität, ein Mittel der embryonalen Formbildung.

Tissue affinity as a means of embryonic morphogenesis. English translation in No. 534.3.

1939 CE

#7174

Grundriss der Luftfahrtmedizin.

Compendium of aerospace medicine during the Nazi regime. Ruff was director of the Aviation Medicine Department at the German Experimental Institute for Aviation. Though he was later indicted for war crimes, Ruff was n…

1939 CE

#11670

Heparin: Its chemistry, physiology and application in medicine.

In the early 1930s Jorpes began work on the isolation and structure of heparin. In 1936 he successfully purified heparin and subsequently demonstrated that it was localized in the mast cells of tissues. In the same ye…

1939 CE

#5484.3

Infection of chicks and chick embryos with rabies.

Cultivation of rabies virus in the chick embryo. Soon afterwards I. J. Kligler and H. Bernkopf, Nature, 1939, 143, 899, made a similar report.

1939 CE

#1080

Isolierung des Vitamins K in hochgereinigter Form.

Isolation of vitamin K1 from alfalfa. It was isolated independently by R. W. McKee and his co-workers, J. Amer. chem. Soc., 1939, 61, 1295.

1939 CE

#13305

Jewish magic and superstition: A study in folk religion.

1939 CE

#11239

John Howard (1726-1790) hospital and prison reformer: A bibliography

1939 CE

#9735

La médecine et les médecins dans la littérature française.

1939 CE

#8527

Les manuscrits arabes de l'Escurial. Vol. 2, Fascicule 2: Médecine et histoire naturelle. Compiled by Hartwig Derenbourg, edited by Henri Paul Joseph Renaud.

1939 CE

#3708

Methods for assessing the level of nutrition of the human subject: estimation of vitamin B1 in urine by the thiochrome test.

Wang’s test for avitaminosis.