1930–1939

1939 CE

#4771

Myasthenia gravis and tumors of the thymic region. Report of a case in which the tumor was removed.

First deliberate treatment of myasthenia gravis by thymectomy, with M. F. Mason, H. J. Morgan, and S. S. Riven.

1939 CE

#6465.1

Navajo medicine man. Sandpaintings and legends of Miguelito from the John Frederick Huckel Collection

Navajo sandpaintings are traditionally made only for the healing ceremony in which they are used, and then destroyed. This book contains superb reproductions on sand-colored paper of watercolor versions of the sandpai…

1939 CE

#10688

Nutrition and physical degeneration: A comparison of primitive and modern diets and their effects.

"The 1939 foreword to the book, written by physical anthropologist Earnest A. Hooton, lauded Price's work for confirming previous research that dental caries were less prevalent in "savages" and attempting to establis…

1939 CE

#3664

On aspiration biopsy of the liver, with remarks on its diagnostic significance.

Modern method of liver puncture.

1939 CE

#4403.2

Operative orthopedics.

First edition of the most influential American textbook of orthopedics in the twentieth century.

1939 CE

#3212

Pneumonia. With special reference to pneumococcus lobar pneumonia.

1939 CE

#6231

Prediction and prevention of late pregnancy accidents in diabetes.

First report of hormone treatment. Written with R.S. Titus, E.P. Joslin, and H. Hunt.

1939 CE

#2137.10

Principles and practice of aviation medicine.

Used by all American flight surgeons during World War II.

1939 CE

#4403.1

Principles involved in the treatment of congenital clubfoot.

Kite’s method, involving “a series of plaster casts and wedgings, without the use of anesthetics, forcible manipulations, or operative procedures”, became standard practice.

1939 CE

#3240

Pulmonary tuberculosis. Pathology, diagnosis, management and prevention.

Third edition, 1953, by W. Pagel, F. A. H. Simmonds, and N. Macdonald.

1939 CE

#3787.2

Radiotherapy in Hodgkin’s disease (malignant granulomatosis). Anatomic and clinical foundations; governing principles; results.

Gilbert was among the first to achieve durable responses to radiotherapy in Hodgkin’s disease.

1939 CE

#2724

Renal changes in malignant hypertension; experimental evidence.

Production of hypertension in rats by constriction of one renal artery, and important studies of the renal changes produced, which included degeneration of the renal arterioles.

1939 CE

#3211.1

Segmental pneumonectomy in bronchiectasis. The lingula segment of the left upper lobe.

1939 CE

#12448

Sleep and wakefulness as alternating phases in the cycle of existence.

Discusses phases of the sleep cycle, experimental work on sleep and wakefulness, sleep disorders and their treatment, and such sleep-like states as hypnosis and hibernation.

1939 CE

#800

STANDARDIZATION of methods of measuring the arterial blood pressure. A joint report of the committees appointed by the Cardiac Society of Great Britain and Ireland and the American Heart Association.

Digital facsimile from PubMedCentral at this link.

1939 CE

#1933.2

Studies in the biochemistry of micro-organisms. LX. Griseofulvin, C17H17O6Cl, a metabolic product of Penicillium griseo-fulvum Dierckx.

Isolation of griseofulvin. With H. Raistrick and P. Simonart.

1939 CE

#3098

Studies on leukemia with the aid of radioactive phosphorus.

Therapeutic use of radioactive isotopes for the treatment of leukemia. John H. Lawrence was the brother of Ernest Orlando Lawrence, inventor of the cyclotron; John Lawrence also worked at the Lawrence Berkeley Nationa…

1939 CE

#2870

Studies on the estimation of cardiac output in man, and abnormalities in cardiac function, from the heart’s recoil and the blood’s impacts; the ballistocardiogram.

Introduction of the ballistocardiogram. With A. J. Rawson, H. A. Schroeder, and N. R. Joseph.

1939 CE

#4671.2

Successful transfer of the Lansing strain of poliomyelitis virus from the cotton rat to the white mouse.

Armstrong adapted the Lansing strain of poliomyelitis to the cotton rat and then to the mouse, greatly facilitating experimental work on the disease.

1939 CE

#3039

Surgical ligation of a patent ductus arteriosus: Report of first successful case.

One of the earliest successful surgical repairs for congenital heart disease. See also later paper in Ann. Surg.,1939, 110, 321-56.

1939 CE

#1083

Synthesis of vitamin K1.

1939 CE

#3213

Tabakmissbrauch und Lungencarcinom.

In the first case-control epidemiological study of the effects of tobacco Müller recorded a statistically significant correlation between cigarette smoking and lung cancer. See Alfredo Morabia, "Quality, original…

1939 CE

#4403.3

Tendon transplanation in the upper extremity.

Correction to this article in Am. J. Surg., 1939, 44, 534.

1939 CE

#2525

The anaerobic bacteria and their activities in nature and disease. A subject bibliography. 2 vols.

Supplements were published: 1938-1975, 8 vols., 1941-82.

1939 CE

#5721.1

The art of anesthesia. 6th ed.

Flagg had an important influence on American anesthesia. The Flagg can is described on p. 148 of his book.

1939 CE

#3802

The endocrine glands

Goldzieher dealt very fully with the history, theory, and practice of endocrinology.

1939 CE

#1092.51

The Englishman’s food. A history of five centuries of English diet.

Revised edition, 1958.

1939 CE

#6304

The evolution of obstetric analgesia.

1939 CE

#6594

The first Negro medical society. A history of the Medico-Chirurgical Society of the District of Columbia.

A detailed history of the “first American Negro medical society formed in America and probably in the world”. Cobb was the first black American medical historian of note.

1939 CE

#1081

The isolation of vitamin K1.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Binkley, MacCorquodale, Thayer, Doisy. In 1943 Doisy received half of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for his discovery of the chemical nature of vitamin K."…

1939 CE

#5645

The local implantation of sulfanilamide in compound fractures.

Sulphonamide dressing of wounds. With L. W. Johnsrud and M. C. Nelson.

1939 CE

#11787

The measurement of adult intelligence.

Wechsler made the first attempt to construct an intelligence scale specifically for adults. Until his effort, most intelligence tests used with adults were not standardized for anyone over 18. "Discusses the construct…

1939 CE

#1714

The natural history of population.

1939 CE

#6914

The nature of the chemical bond and the structure of molecules and crystals: An introduction to modern structural chemistry.

This book set forth in detail Pauling's valence-bond theory based on the quantum-mechanical concept of resonance between two energy states, which led to his highly innovative idea that the hybridization of orbitals (e…

1939 CE

#1928

The pharmacological actions and therapeutic uses of some compounds related to adrenaline.

1939 CE

#534

The rise of embryology.

Includes a fine bibliography.

1939 CE

#8120

The social function of science.

This pioneering sociological study contained two large folding information graphics. The first was one of the first attempts at a "map of science." It divided science into physical, biological, and social sectors, and…

1939 CE

#5172.1

The use of anthrax vaccines prepared from avirulent (uncapsulatec) variants of Bacillus anthracis.

Nonencapsulated spore vaccine.

1939 CE

#3877

Treatment of adrenal insufficiency by means of subcutaneous implants of pellets of desoxycorticosterone acetate (a synthetic adrenal cortical hormone).

With L. L. Engel and H. Eisenberg. For treatment of Addison’s disease by the same method, see the same journal, pp. 339-65.

1939 CE

#2010.1

Ueber die Ausbreitung und Absorption des Ultraschalls im menschlichen Gewebe und seine therapeutische Wirkung an lschias und Plexusneuralgie.

First therapeutic use of ultrasonics. With R. Richter and E. Parow.

1939 CE

#4660.1

Vesennij (vesenne-letnij) endemiceskij klescevoj encefalit. [Vernal (verno-aestival) endemic tick-borne encephalitis.]

Isolation of the virus of spring–summer (Russian Far East) encephalitis.

1939 CE–1941 CE

#13432

The Dr. Howard A. Kelly library catalogue

Parts 1-6.

1939 CE–2015 CE

#12964

The collected letters of Antoni Van Leeuwenhoek / Alle de Brieven van Antoni Van Leeuwenhoek. Edited, illustrated & annotated by a committee of Dutch scientists. 17 vols. through 2015.