1930–1939

1931 CE

#7224

Correlations of the differences in the density of innervation of the organ of Corti with differences in the acuity of hearing, including evidence as to the location in the cochlea of the receptors of certain tones.

The first study to relate hair cell and neuron loss to the hearing of patients. It was the first to show that high frequency sound is "heard" at the base of the cochlea and low frequency sound at the apex. With S. J. …

1931 CE

#12985

Das Problem der dentalen Fokalinfektion und ihre Bekämpfung durch die konservierende Zahnheilkunde.

With physicist Fritz Giesel, Walkhoff on December 28, 1895 Walkhoff did the first dental radiograph on his own teeth. Later, Walkhoff was "responsible for the shift to an everyday use of camphorated chlorophenol to st…

1931 CE

#5044.1

Der heutige Stand der Paratyphusforschung.

Kauffmann–White classification of Salmonella based on antigenic structure. For historical note, including the part played by P. B. White, see J. Hyg. (camb), 1934, 34, 335.

1931 CE

#1347

Der humorale Wirkungsmechanismus der Oculomotoriusreizung.

1931 CE

#6804

Die Eigennamen in der Krankheitsterminologie.

This dictionary of medical eponyms gives references to the original publications involved and records wherever possible the first use of the eponym.

1931 CE

#13561

Die hormonale Sterilisierung des weiblichen Organismus.

Halberlandt, professor of physiology at Innsbruck, invented the first hormonal contraceptive, Infecundin, using corpus luteum extracts from females rich in the hormone progesterone. His initial report on the contracep…

1931 CE

#1196

Die Hormone des Ovariums und des Hypophysenvorderlappens.

Second edition, 1935.

1931 CE

#4248

Die nicht diabetischen Glykosurien und Hyperglykämien des älteren Kindes.

“Fanconi’s syndrome”, dysfunction of the renal tubules with hypophosphatemia, renal glycosuria, and metabolic disturbances.

1931 CE

#11777

Die Werke der Maria Sibylle Merian: bibliographisch Zusammengestellt.

1931 CE

#5763

Division palatine.

Includes Veau’s operation for cleft palate.

1931 CE

#3091

Eine klinisch brauchbare Bestimmungsmethode der Blutumlaufszeit mittels Decholininjektion.

The decholin method for estimation of circulation time. With J. Deutsch and Z. Brull.

1931 CE

#5980

Eine neue Ablatiooperation.

Guist’s operation for detachment of the retina (multiple trephining and chemical cauterization of the choroid).

1931 CE

#6424

Einführing in die Medizin.

Traces the evolution of medicine from the stage of superstition and magic to the present time, and shows how our knowledge of the subject has developed through the study of anatomy and physiology. Translated in Englis…

1931 CE

#5227.1

Entwurf einer Geschichte der ansteckenden Geschlechtskrankheiten.

1931 CE

#5541

Enzootic hepatitis or Rift Valley fever. An undescribed virus disease of sheep, cattle and man from East Africa.

First description.

1931 CE

#2990

Erfolgreiche operative Beseitigung eines Aneurysma der rechten Herzkammer.

First successful surgical intervention in cardiac aneurysm.

1931 CE

#253.1

Evolution in Mendelian populations.

First detailed presentation of Wright’s quantitative theory of the effects of mutation, migration, selection, and population size on changes in gene frequencies in populations. Digital facsimile from Genetics.or…

1931 CE

#11188

Experiences with the cerebellar astrocytomas. A critical review of seventy-six cases.

Cushing's most extensive contribution to pediatric neurosurgery concerned his operative experience with these tumors (often benign) that most frequently occur in childhood.

1931 CE

#5475

Experimental studies of dengue.

Proof that Aëdes albopictus is a vector of dengue. See also the earlier paper in the same journal, 1930, 41, 215-29. With J. H. St. John and F. H. K. Reynolds.

1931 CE

#3203

Exstirpation eines ganzen Lungenflügels.

Removal of entire bronchiectatic lung; successful.

1931 CE

#11447

Fra Mand til Kvinde: Lili Elbes Bekendelser.

Posthumously published autobiography of one of the first transgender women, known prior to the sex change as the Danish painter Einar Wegener. Translated into English as Man into woman: An authentic record of a change…

1931 CE

#2055

Histoire de la pharmacie à travers les âges. 2 vols.

1931 CE

#2428

Histoire de la syphilis.

Forms tome I of Traité de la syphilis, ed. by E. Jeanselme and E. Shulmann.

1931 CE

#2355

Historie de la tuberculose.

1931 CE

#11026

History of medicine in the province of Quebec.

Reprinted, with additions, from "The Storied Province of Quebec". Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1931 CE

#6590

History of medicine in the United States. 2nd. ed. 2 vols.

An authoritative source-book of the history of medicine in the United States. The first edition appeared in 1901. Dr. Packard edited the Annals of Medical History from its commencement in 1917 until its decease in 194…

1931 CE

#6423

Imhotep to Harvey: Backgrounds of medical history. Forward by Henry Fairfield Osborn.

1931 CE

#4670.5

Immunological differences between strains of poliomyelitis virus.

1931 CE

#4478.107

Injuries and sport. A general guide for the practitioner.

The first English treatise on sports medicine.

1931 CE

#8887

International studies of the relation between the private & official practice of medicine with special reference to the prevention of disease. Vol. 1: The Netherlands, Scandinavia, Germany, Austria, Switzerland. Vol. 2: Belgium, France, Italy, Jugo-Slavia, Hungary, Poland, Czecho-Slovakia. Vol. 3: England and Wales, Scotland, Ireland.(3 vols.)

Contains almost no references to prior literature.

1931 CE

#4434

Intracapsular fractures of the neck of the femur. Treatment by internal fixation.

Smith-Petersen nail, a three-flanged nail which prevented rotation of the femoral head. With E.F. Cave and G. W. Van Gorder.

1931 CE

#3145.1

Intravenous use of extract of liver.

1931 CE

#1309

Lebensnerven und Lebenstriebe. 3te. Aufl.

1931 CE

#2920

Les dérivés du thorium dans l’artériographie des membres.

Thorotrast first used in arteriography.

1931 CE

#9213

Medical men in the American Revolution 1775-1783.

Digital edition from U.S. Army Medical Department Office of Medical History at this link.

1931 CE

#6633

Medicina in nummis. A descriptive list of the coins, medals, jetons relating to medicine, surgery and the allied sciences.

This consists mainly of a catalogue of 6,000 medals collected by Horatio Storer, an eminent Boston gynecologist. The collection is now in the Boston Medical Library at Harvard Medical School, and the very thick book, …

1931 CE

#2137.7

Muscular exercise at low barometric pressures.

With C.G. Douglas, L.P. Kendal, & R. Margaria. The first recorded attack of bends pain experienced at low barometric pressures. The authors atttempted to find the maximum altitude at which work could be done effective…

1931 CE

#5763.01

Nasenplastik und sonitige Gesichitsplastik nebst einem Anhang über Mammaplastik.

A masterpiece of 20th century plastic surgery, and Joseph’s most comprehensive work. English translation by Stanley Milstein, following original text and illustrations page for page: Rhinoplasty and facial plast…

1931 CE

#5072

On the existence of two forms of diphtheria bacillus B. diphtheria gravis and B. diphtheriae mitis.

J. S. Anderson, F. C. Happold, J. W. McLeod, and J. G. Thomson were the first to distinguish the gravis, mitis, and intermediate types of C. diphtheriae.

1931 CE

#3092

Over een familiaire anomalie der leucocyten.

Pelger–Huët anomaly of the nuclei of the leucocytes; see also No. 3089. German translation in Klin. Wschr., 1932, 11,1264-66.

1931 CE

#139.2

Pinocytosis.

Discovery of pinocytosis.

1931 CE

#4611

Pseudo-Argyll Robertson pupils with absent tendon reflexes; a benign disorder simulating tabes dorsalis.

“Adie’s syndrome”; see also his later paper in Brain, 1932, 55, 98-113. It was earlier reported by J. Strasberger, by A. Saenger and by M. Nonne in Neurol. Zbl., 1902, 21, 738, 837, and 1000. See als…

1931 CE

#4959

Rauwolfia serpentina, a new Indian drug for insanity and high blood pressure.

Introduction of reserpine in the treatment of psychoses.

1931 CE

#6489

Report of the committee of enquiry into the indigenous system of medicine.

1931 CE

#213

Sinanthropus – Peking Man, its discovery and significance.

Elliot Smith visited Peking to view the skull of Sinanthropus pekinensis, discovered by W. C. Pei on December 2, 1929. A preliminary description by Pei is to be found in Bull. geol. Soc. China, 1929, 8, 3.

1931 CE

#1346

Studies on conditions of activity in endocrine organs. xxvi. A hormone produced by sympathetic action on smooth muscle.

Cannon and Bacq suggested the name “sympathin” for a substance which they considered to be liberated into the blood stream following nerve stimulation and which acted in the same manner as sympathetic impu…

1931 CE

#4274

Surgical pathology of prostatic obstructions.

1931 CE

#5493

Swine influenza. III. Filtration experiments and etiology.

Isolation in pigs of influenzavirus A or influenza A virus. Full text available from PubMedCentral at this link.

1931 CE

#3923

The analysis of whole-blood. II. The determination of sugar and of saccharoids (non-fermentable copper-reducing substances).

Benedict’s test for blood-sugar.

1931 CE

#5352

The bibliography of schistosomiasis (bilharziasis).