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1930–1939

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1930 CE

#5977

Operative Behandlung von Netzhautabhebung mit Elektroendothermie und Trepanation; vorläufige Mitteilung.

Superficial diathermy treatment of retinal detachment. See also Arch Ophthal. (N.Y.), 1932, 7, 661-80.

1930 CE

#3407

Otologische Röntgendiagnostik.

Includes a brief history of the subject.

1930 CE

#7710

Paleopathologie et pathologie comparative.

Pales described a broad range of diseases and noted relationships between disease, evolution and species extinction.

1930 CE

#6730

Plarr’s lives of the Fellows of the Royal College of Surgeons of England; Plarr's lives of the Fellows Online.

Publication began with the first 2 vols. edited after Plarr's death by D'Arcy Power with the assistance of W. G. Spencer and G. E. Gask, 1930. Supplement, 1930-51, by Sir D’Arcy Power and W. R. LeFanu, 1953. Sec…

1930 CE

#4398

Pseudofractures (hunger osteopathy, late rickets, osteomalacia): report of a case.

“Milkman’s syndrome”.

1930 CE

#1577

Reflex action. A study in the history of physiological psychology.

Reprinted, New York, Hafner, 1964.

1930 CE

#6729

Roll of the Indian Medical Service 1615-1930.

Appendix and Errata, 1933. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1930 CE

#12158

Seed, a novel of birth control.

1930 CE

#8322

Sexual life in ancient India: A study in the comparative history of Indian Culture.

Extensively revised by the author, with additional notes by the translator (unidentified), from Das Weib im altindischen Epos. Ein Beitrag zur indischen und zur vergleichenden Kulturgeschichte. Von Johann Jacob Meyer.…

1930 CE

#10847

Sittengeschichte des Weltkrieges. 2 vols.

Sexuality in World War I. Abridged translation into English Sexual History of the World War (New York, Panurge Press, 1934). Only a small sampling of the plates from the German edition were issued as Illustrated Suppl…

1930 CE

#5463

Studies on the action of yellow fever virus in mice.

The intracerebral protection test in mice, a test for the diagnosis of yellow fever and for the determination of its past existence in a community, was made possible by Theiler’s discovery that white mice are su…

1930 CE

#12459

The African Republic of Liberia and the Belgian Congo based on the observations made and material collected during the Harvard African Expedition, 1926-1927. Edited by Richard P. Strong. 2 vols.

"The Harvard Medical African Expedition of 1926-1927 was an eight-man venture sent by Harvard University for the primary purpose of conducting a medical and biological survey of Liberia; the secondary purpose being to…

1930 CE

#5713

The anesthetic properties of certain unsaturated ethers.

Demonstration of the anesthetic properties of divinyl ether.

1930 CE

#6471

The beginnings. Egypt and Assyria.

Clio Medica series.

1930 CE

#10316

The centennial history of the Tennessee State Medical Association, 1830-1930.

1930 CE

#1194

The chemistry of oestrin. III. An improved method of preparation and the isolation of active crystalline material.

Crystalline estriol obtained.

1930 CE

#4850

The Edwin Smith surgical papyrus. Published in facsimile and hieroglyphic transliteration with translation and commentary by James Henry Breasted. 2 vols.

At Luxor, Egypt, in 1862 the American collector and dealer in papyri Edwin Smith purchased the papyrus which bears his name. It is preserved at the New York Academy of Medicine. The original text was written about 300…

1930 CE

#253

The genetical theory of natural selection.

The first coherent general algebraic analysis of Mendelian population behavior. The work contains Fisher’s rigorous development of his “fundamental theorem of natural selection”–”the rate…

1930 CE

#11324

The infant welfare movement in the eighteenth century.

1930 CE

#5712.1

The intravenous use of the barbituric acid hypnotics in surgery.

Intravenous use of pentobarbitone sodium.

1930 CE

#12830

The moving boundary method of studying the electrophoresis of proteins. (Nova Acta Reg. Soc. Scient. Upsaliensis, IV, 7, No. 4.)

Tilesius's doctoral dissertation introduced the laboratory technique of moving-boundary electrophoresis, a technique for separation of chemical compounds by electrophoresis in free solution. For this work, and the wor…

1930 CE

#1192

The ovary-stimulating hormone of the placenta.

Collip’s anterior-pituitary-like (A-L-P) factor.

1930 CE

#1193

The preparation of the crystalline ovarian hormone from the urine of pregnant women.

First isolation of a pure crystalline hormone (estrone). Preliminary communication in Amer. J. Physiol., 1929, 90, 329-30.

1930 CE

#6772.1

The printed books in the library of the Hunterian Museum in the University of Glasgow. A catalogue by Mungo Ferguson.

Catalogue of the printed books in the celebrated library formed by William Hunter (1718-83), now called the Hunterian Collection, at the University of Glasgow Library. The catalogue was actually printed in 1916, well …

1930 CE

#4507

The relationship of throat infection to acute rheumatism in childhood.

Schlesinger showed that hemolytic streptococcal infection was a cause of acute rheumatism in children.

1930 CE

#11495

The William H. Welch Medical Library of The Johns Hopkins University. An account of its origin and development together with a description of the building an an account of the exercises held on the occasion of the dedication of the library and the inauguration of the chair of the history of medicine at The Johns Hopkins University.

A separate edition in book form was also issued.

1930 CE

#2009

Therapeutische Versuche im elektrischen Kurzwellenfeld.

Introduction of short-wave diathermy.

1930 CE

#5538.3

Tick-borne infections in Colorado. I. The diagnosis and management of infections transmitted by the wood tick.

Becker first clearly described Colorado tick fever as a separate entity and suggested that the causal organism was transmitted by the tick, Dermacentor andersoni.

1930 CE

#5979

Transplantation of cornea: a preliminary report on a series of experiments on rabbits.

See also his paper in Brit. J. Ophthal., 1934, 18, 129-42.

1930 CE

#5976

Ueber den Ausgleich sämtlicher Brechungsfehler des Auges durch geschliffene Haftgläser (unter den Lidern getragene Schalen).

The manufacture of modern contact lenses was made possible by the work of Heine. See also his paper in Lancet, 1931, 1, 631-32. For a brief history of this subject, see Schweiz, med. Wschr., 1946, 76, 719.

1930 CE

#5177

Ueber Identität von “Yato-Byo” (Ohara’s disease) und “Tularämie”, sowie ihren Erreger.

In Japan tularemia is known as “Ohara’s disease”.

1930 CE

#13387

What medicine can do for law. The Anniversary Discourse delivered before the New York Academy of Medicine November 1, 1928.

When he delivered this presentation Cardozo was Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals. In 1832 President Herbert Hoover appointed Cardozo to the U.S. Supreme Court to succeed Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

1930 CE–1932 CE

#9240

Zur Heilkinde der Uiguren. Edited by G. R. Rachmati. 2 vols.

Old Uygur medical fragments, some of which are now lost, in the Berlin Turfan collection. Rachmati was the pioneer historian of Islamic Central Asian medicine.

1930 CE–1933 CE

#6588

Medicine in Virginia in the seventeenth (eighteenth, nineteenth) century. 3 vols.

1930 CE–1938 CE

#1782

Handbuch der Klimatologie. Vol. 1-5.

1930 CE–1943 CE

#9621

Official history of the Australian Army Medical Services in the war of 1914-1918

1931 CE

#4611.2

A clinical study on positional nystagmus in cases of brain tumour.

1931 CE

#7062

A modern herbal. The medicinal, culinary, cosmetic and economic properties, cultivation and folk-lore of herbs, grasses, fungi, shrubs & trees with their modern scientific uses. With an introduction by the editor, Mrs. C. F. Leyel. 2 vols.

Online version at Botanical.com at this link.

1931 CE

#2524

A new series of graded collodion membranes suitable for general bacteriological use, especially in filterable virus studies.

In his important studies on the filtration of virus preparations, Elford showed that different viruses possessed different and characteristic sizes.

1931 CE

#6224

A simple, rapid procedure for the laboratory diagnosis of early pregnancies.

Friedman test for the diagnosis of pregnancy.

1931 CE

#5396.3

Aetiologie der Tsutsugamushi-Kiankheit: Rickettsia tsutsugamushi.

Ogata isolated the causal agent of tsutsugamushi disease, Orientia Tsutsugamushi, in 1927.

1931 CE

#7788

American martyrs to science through the Roentgen rays.

1931 CE

#354

An introduction to the literature of vertebrate zoology. Based chiefly on the titles in the Blacker Library of Zoology, the Emma Shearer Wood Library of Ornithology, the Bibliotheca Osleriana and other libraries of McGill University, Montreal.

A comprehensive summary and bibliography of the literature on vertebrate zoology. The first 170 pages are a narrative divided into 19 chapters, plus an index. The remainder is a "partially annotated catalogue" arrange…

1931 CE

#6522

An old Icelandic medical miscellany. MS. Royal Irish Academy 23 D 43, with supplement from MS. Trinity College (Dublin) L.2.27. Edited by Henning Larsen.

1931 CE

#4611.1

Apparatus and technique for roentgen examination of the skull.

Lysholm–Schönander skull table, allowing precise radiography of the skull.

1931 CE

#2696

Archiv und Atlas der normalen und pathologischen Anatomie in typischen Röntgenbildern. Das röntgenographische Bewegungsbild und seine Anwendung (Flachenkymographie und Kymoskopie).

Introduction of roentgen kymography.

1931 CE

#4400.1

Arthroscopy or the direct visualization of joints: An experimental cadaver study.

The first description of arthroscopic appearance of joints other than the knee, and a classic on the fundamental principles of the procedure. Follow-up paper by Burman, H. Finkelstein, & L. Mayer: Arthroscopy of the k…

1931 CE

#11250

Bibliographia Burtoniana: A study of Robert Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy, with a bibliography of Burton's Writings

1931 CE

#531

Chemical embryology. 3 vols.

1931 CE

#7730

Chirurgie esthétique pure (technique et résultats).

Describes cosmetic surgery for the face, nose and breasts.