1930–1939
893 entries with publication dates in this decade.
1931 CE
#5142.1
The black death and men of learning.
1931 CE
#5785
The cause of “painful breasts” and treatment by means of ovarian residue.
Cutler was the first to employ ovarian hormone systematically in the treatment of chronic mastitis.
1931 CE
#11570
The factor of infection in the rheumatic state.
Coburn demonstated that streptococcus is the infective agent in rheumatic fever that can lead to rheumatic heart disease.
1931 CE
#6356
The history of paediatrics. The progress of the study of diseases of children up to the end of the XVIIIth century.
This work covers the whole field of pediatrics to the end of the 18th century. It is a very readable, interesting and accurate history of the subject. Reprinted Folkstone, 1965. See No. 4503.
1931 CE
#253.2
The inborn factors in disease.
Garrod argued that chemical individuality could result in individuals having a predisposition to certain diseases. This view has become particularly significant in light of the establishment of recombinant DNA methods…
1931 CE
#7880
The mystery and lore of monsters. With account of some giants, dwarfs and prodigies.
Digital facsimile of the New York 1931 issue from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1931 CE
#5087.1
The phases of Haemophilus pertussis.
Leslie and Gardner classified H. pertussis cultures into four types and established an experimental basis for the development of an effective vaccine.
1931 CE
#9449
The physician of the Dance of Death: A historical study of the evolution of the dance of death mythus in art.
"Reprinted with additions and corrections from Annals of medical history (n. s., vol. II, nos. 4, 5, 6, 1930, and vol. III, nos. 1, 2, 1931)."
1931 CE
#1065
The quantitative estimation of vitamin D by radiography.
Medical Research Council Special Report No. 158. R. B. Bourdillon, H. M. Bruce, C. Fischmann, R. G. C. Jenkins, and T. A. Webster isolated from irradiated ergosterol a crystalline compound, calciferol, which, weight f…
1931 CE
#2919.1
The roentgenographic visualization of the arteries of the extremities in peripheral vascular disease.
1931 CE
#2524.1
The susceptibility of the chorio-allantoic membrane of chick embryos to infection with the fowl-pox virus.
By their demonstration of the infection of the chorio-allantoic membrane with the virus of fowl pox, Woodruff and Goodpasture initiated wide-spread adoption of this host for the study of viruses.
1931 CE
#4399
The treatment of chronic osteomyelitis with the maggot (larva of the blow fly).
Larrey observed the therapeutic effect of maggots on wounds; W. S. Baer inaugurated the method of treating osteomyelitis by this means (“Baer therapy”).
1931 CE
#5464
The use of mice in tests of immunity against yellow fever.
Intraperitoneal protection test.
1931 CE
#1066
The vitamins.
1931 CE
#4478.108
Training, conditioning, and the care of injuries.
The first American book on sports medicine, co-authored by the legendary football coach, Knute Rockne.
1931 CE
#4898
Traitement des syndromes douloureux de la périphérie par 1’alcoolisation sub-arachnoïdienne des racines postérieures à leur émergence de la moelle épinière.
Subarachnoid injection of alcohol for the relief of pain.
1931 CE
#3146
Treatment of “pernicious anaemia of pregnancy” and “tropical anaemia”, with special reference to yeast extract as a curative agent.
First observations of hemopoietic effect of folic acid.
1931 CE
#2604
Treatment of hay fever by intranasal zinc ionization.
Introduction of the method.
1931 CE
#4400
Tumors of bone.
1931 CE
#5784
Tumours of the breast. Their pathology, symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment.
1931 CE
#5396.2
Typhus fever. A virus of the typhus type derived from fleas collected from wild rats.
Murine typhus shown to be caused by an organism later named Rickettsia mooseri, transmitted by fleas from rats to man. With A. Rumreich and L. F. Badger.
1931 CE
#14209
U. S. Plant patent 1. Climbing or trailing rose. Filed Aug. 6, 1930. Issued Aug. 18, 1931.
This was the first patent granted for a life form. In response to complaints from the nursery industry that the future of the plant breeding industry was jeopardized by the “pirating” of new plant varietie…
1931 CE
#3658
Über ein neues Röntgensymptom der Gallensteinkrankheit.
Star-shaped radiolucencies caused by gas in gallstones.
1931 CE
#6372.1
Ueber Arachnodaktylie (Dystrophia mesodermalis congenita, Typus Marfan).
Weve of Utrecht first clearly demonstrated the heritable nature of the Marfan syndrome (see No. 4365.1).
1931 CE
#1195
Ueber die chemische Untersuchung der Sexualhormone.
The male sex hormone, androsterone, was isolated in crystalline form by Butenandt. In 1939 Butenandt received half of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his work on sex hormones." The other half was awarded to Leopold …
1931 CE
#13378
Vénus et Mercure.
"Chapter by Pierre Najac, “L’Institut de science sexuelle à Berlin”; includes numerous illustrations from the archives of Magnus Hirschfeld’s Institute for Sexual Science in Berlin, as w…
1931 CE
#5468
Yellow fever: an epidemiological and historical study of its place of origin. Edited by Laura Armistead Carter and Wade Hampton Frost.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1931 CE
#14238
Zur Kenntnis des Vitamins-A aus Fischtranen.
In 1930 Karrer established the correct formula for carotene (the chief precursor of vitamin A), the first demonstration of the chemical structure of a vitamin. Shortly thereafter, he was able to determine the formula …
1931 CE–1932 CE
#10764
Selected writings of John Hughlings Jackson, edited by James Taylor, with the advice and assistance of Gordon Holmes and F. M. R. Walshe. 2 vols.
1932 CE
#1658
A century of public health in Britain, 1832-1929.
1932 CE
#2862
A lecture on vaso-vagal syncope and the carotid sinus mechanism.
Vaso-vagal syncope.
1932 CE
#5541.1
A morphological study of psittacosis virus, with the description of a developmental cycle.
Conclusive proof of the causal relationship of the psittacosis agent to the infection.
1932 CE
#3923.1
A new error of tyrosine metabolism: tyrosinosis, intermediary metabolism of tyrosine and phenylalanine.
1932 CE
#2717
A standard stimulus for measuring vasomotor reactions: its application in the study of hypertension.
Cold-pressor test.
1932 CE
#12586
A study of monkey-malaria, and its experimental transmission to man.
Das Gupta and his supervisor Robert Knowles first described Plasmodium knowlesi as a distinct species, and as a potential cause of human malaria in 1932 when they described the morphology of the parasite in macaque bl…
1932 CE
#2656
A transmissible tumor-like condition in rabbits.
Shope papilloma virus (SPV), a benign infectious tumor due to a virus. This was the first mammalian tumor virus discovered. Full text from PubMedCentral at this link. See also Shope, "Infectious Papillomatosis of Rabb…
1932 CE
#3903
Acromegaly.
An extensive analytical tabulation of acromegaly; 1,319 cases are reported.
1932 CE
#1979
Actuation of the inert diaphragm by a gravity method.
Eve’s method of artificial respiration.
1932 CE
#3203.1
Acute symptoms following work with hay.
“Farmer’s lung”.
1932 CE
#4611.3
An improved method of encephalography.
Lumbar encephalography. In 1937 the authors published a monograph on the subject entitled The normal encephalogram. After Dyke's premature death in 1943 Davidoff collaborated with radiologist Bernard S. Epstein (1908-…
1932 CE
#2657
Apparition de cancers de la mamelle chez la souris mâle, soumise à des injections de folliculine.
Demonstration of the carcinogenic effect of ovarian hormone.
1932 CE
#5984
Behandlung der Netzhautabhebung mit Elektroden für multiple diathermische Stichelung.
Safar’s method of treatment of retinal detachment.
1932 CE
#269.3
Beitrag zur geometrischen Elektronenoptik.
Electron microscope. See also their later paper in Z. Physik. 1932, 78, 318.
1932 CE
#1092.5
Bibliographical survey of vitamins 1650-1930, with a section on patents by M. H. Wodlinger.
1932 CE
#12160
Brave new world.
"The novel opens in the World State city of London in AF (After Ford) 632 (AD 2540 in the Gregorian calendar), where citizens are engineered through artificial wombs and childhood indoctrination programmes into predet…
1932 CE
#10279
California's medical story.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1932 CE
#5194.2
Carbarsone in the treatment of amebiasis.
With H. H. Anderson and N. A. David.
1932 CE
#4400.2
Cerebral birth injuries: Their orthopaedic classification and subsequent treatment.
Phelps established the modern classification and approach to these injuries.
1932 CE
#2241
Classic descriptions of disease.
A collection of classic descriptions of disease by 179 different writers, from ancient times to the present. Foreign papers are translated into English. A second edition of this most interesting and useful book appear…
1932 CE
#1715
