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1930–1939

893 entries with publication dates in this decade.

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1933 CE

#11668

The failing heart of middle life: The myocardiosis syndrome, coronary thrombosis, and angina pectoris with a section upon the medico-legal aspects of sudden death from heart disease.

"This pioneering monograph on the pathophysiology of coronary artery disease includes a detailed discussion of the recently recognized electrocardiographic features of myocardial infarction. Hyman invented a [external…

1933 CE

#1924.1

The fibrinolytic activity of hemolytic streptococci.

Tillett and Garner discovered a substance elaborated by a strain of haemolytic streptococcus which promoted lysis of fibrin and is now known as streptokinase.

1933 CE

#2429

The history and epidemiology of syphilis.

1933 CE

#4156

The history of dermatology.

Reprinted, New York, 1976.

1933 CE

#5264

The history of malaria in the Roman Campagna from ancient times. Edited and enlarged by Anna Celli-Fraentzel.

Reprinted New York, 1977.

1933 CE

#8079

The incidence of illness and the receipt and costs of medical care among representative families. Experiences in twelve consecutive months during 1928-1931. Publications of the Committee on the Costs of Medical Care : No. 26.

Digital facsimile from Hathi Trust at this link.

1933 CE

#1924

The mode of action of drugs on cells.

1933 CE

#1349

The mode of action of vasodilator and vasoconstrictor nerves.

1933 CE

#5768

The operative story of cleft palate.

1933 CE

#1923

The pharmacological action of an alkaloid obtained from Rauwolfia serpentina Benth. A preliminary note.

R. N. Chopra, J. C. Gupta, and B. Mukherjee demonstrated the sedative and hypotensive effect of an alkaloid isolated from Rauwolfia serpentina (reserpine).

1933 CE

#1171

The preparation, identification and assay of prolactin – a hormone of the anterior pituitary.

With R. W. Bates and S. W. Dykshorn.

1933 CE

#1114

The quantitative study of lymphocyte production.

1933 CE

#2258

The role of infection in burns; the theory and treatment with special reference to gentian violet.

Introduction of gentian violet in the treatment of burns.

1933 CE

#3659

The synthesis of hippuric acid: a new test of liver function.

Quick’s liver-function test.

1933 CE

#11688

Transplantation of the intact mammalian heart.

Mann and colleagues accomplished the first transplantation of an intact mammalian heart.

1933 CE

#4249

Über das Wesen der spezifischen Veränderungen der Niere und der Leber durch das Nephrotoxin bzw. das Hepatotoxin.

Experimental production of acute glomerulonephritis. For Masugi’s later work, see the same journal, 1933-34, 92, 429, and Klin. Wschr., 1935, 14, 373.

1933 CE

#1570.1

Über den Knall und die Theorie des Hörens.

In 1961 Békésy was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for his discoveries of the physical mechanism of stimulation within the cochlea." English translation in Békésy, Experi…

1933 CE

#5335.1

Ueber die Prophylaxe der Spirochaetosis icterohaemorrhagica Inada (Weilschen Krankheit) durch Schutzimpfung.

Prophylactic vaccination against leptospirosis.

1933 CE

#5985

Ueber Haftgläser und Kontaktschalen.

Contact lenses introduced. See also No. 5976.

1933 CE

#1351

Ueber humorale Uebertragung der Erregung von einem Neuron suf das andere.

Kibjakow showed that some substance in a muscle perfusate is able to contract muscle during stimulation of nerve.

1933 CE

#1535

Vitamin A in the retina.

Through his research on xerophthalmia, karatomalacia and night blindness Wald revealed the critical function of vitamin A in normal vision and visual pathology. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and their inter…

1933 CE

#2702

Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen and the early history of the Roentgen rays.

The standard biography of Röntgen with a detailed history of the discovery of X-rays and the early period of roentgenology. Includes a bibliography of 1044 items on the subject published during the first year aft…

1933 CE

#3206

Zur Pathogenese der Bronchiektasien. I. Mitteilung: Bronchiektasien bei Situs viscerum inversus.

Bronchiectasis and sinus maldevelopment associated with transposition of viscera – “Kartageners syndrome”.

1933 CE–1934 CE

#2137.8

Der Einfluss von Beschleunigungen auf den Kreislaufapparat.

Determination of the effect of high acceleration on blood pressure, establishing that the systolic pressure in arteries going to the head falls progressively as acceleratory forces increase.

1933 CE–1934 CE

#5495

Influenza. 2 vols.

Annals of the Pickett Thomson Research Lab., Monograph 16. "In two massive volumes Thomson and Thomson reviewed the literature on influenza up to 1934" (Spink).

1933 CE–1934 CE

#10693

Studies on the structure of the cerebral cortex. I. Area entorhinalis. II. Continuation of the study of the Ammonic system.

Lorente de Nó "demonstrated structural evidence that the cortical areas of mammals are organized in a columnar manner rather than in horizontal layers, thus articulating for the first time the basic features of…

1933 CE–1937 CE

#35.1

Médecine et thérapeutique byzantines: Oeuvres médicales d’Alexander de Tralles, le dernier auteur classique des grands médecins grecs de l’antiquité. Ed. F. Brunet. 4 vols.

1933 CE–1939 CE

#6131

Considérations sur la radiothérapie des cancers cervico-uterins, d’après l’experience et les résultats acquis à l’Institut du Radium de Paris.

The Paris method of radium treatment of cancer of the uterus was devised by Regaud.

1934 CE

#533

A history of embryology.

An exhaustive history of the subject. Deals with embryology from the earliest times to the beginning of the 19th century and includes a valuable bibliography and many illustrations. Second edition, with the assistance…

1934 CE

#1659

A history of food adulteration and analysis.

1934 CE

#8876

A leechbook or collection of medical receipts of the fifteenth century: The text of ms. no. 136 of the Medical Society of London, together with a transcript into modern spelling, transcribed and edited with an introduction, notes and appendix by Warren R. Dawson.

1934 CE

#1244

A method for explantation of the kidney.

1934 CE

#5045

A new antigen of B. typhosus. Its relation to virulence and to active and passive immunisation.

Vi antigens first described.

1934 CE

#6228

A new technique for the self-administration of gas-air analgesia in labour.

Introduction of the “Minnitt apparatus”.

1934 CE

#6226

A rapid test for the diagnosis of pregnancy.

The Xenopus toad test for the diagnosis of pregnancy; this preliminary note followed Hogben’s demonstration that Xenopus responds by ovulation to the gonadotrophic hormone (Trans. roy. Soc. S. Africa, 1930, Ser.…

1934 CE

#5716

A study of anesthesia and analgesia, with special reference to such substances as trichlorethylene and vinesthene (divinyl ether), together with apparatus for their administration.

Experimental use of trichlorethylene as anesthetic.

1934 CE

#5541.2

A unique infection in man caused by a new yeast-like organism, a pathogenic member of the genus Sepedomum.

Cultivation of Histoplasma capsulatum before DeMonbreun (No. 5542); preliminary announcement in Science, 1933, 77, Suppl. 2002, p. 8. DeMonbreun and Hansmann & Schenken independently and almost simultaneously demonstr…

1934 CE

#4658

Acute ascending myelitis following a monkey bite, with the isolation of a virus capable of reproducing the disease.

Herpesvirus simiae (B virus) infection; isolation of the virus.

1934 CE

#10609

An atlas of infant behavior: A systematic delineation of the forms and early growth of human behavior patterns... illustrated with 3,200 action photographs. Vol. l: Normative series, in collaboration with Helen Thompson and Catherine S. Amatruda. Selected bibliographies (p. 45). Vol. 2: Naturalistic series, in collaboration with Alice V. Keliher, Frances L. Ilg, and Jessie J. Carlson. (2 vols.)

Gesell, who originated the Child Study Center at Yale University, was the founder of the study of child development in the United States. He is best known for his groundbreaking studies of normal child development: be…

1934 CE

#2415

An experimental study of mapharsen (meta-amino para-hydroxy phenyl arsine oxide) as an antisyphilitic agent.

Introduction of mapharsen.

1934 CE

#5543

An investigation of the etiology of mumps.

Isolation of mumps virus.

1934 CE

#11350

Benign, encapsulated tumors in the lateral ventricles of the brain: Diagnosis and treatment.

1934 CE

#9066

Catálogo de las obras y documentos raros y curiosos de su libreria que figuran en la exposicion abierta para conmemorar el II centenario de su fundacion, 1734-1934.

Lists 198 books and manuscripts from the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries in the collection of the National Academy of Medicine in Madrid.

1934 CE

#6494

Chinese medicine

1934 CE

#5222

Cultivation of the virus of lymphogranuloma inguinale and its use in therapeutic inoculation. Preliminary report.

1934 CE

#5718

Cyclopropane anesthesia.

Closed circuit method.

1934 CE

#5717

Cyclopropane as an anesthetic agent: a preliminary clinical report.

First clinical use of cyclopropane. With W. B. Neff, and E. A. Rovenstine.

1934 CE

#3747

Das Beriberi-Herz.

Wenckebach wrote a classic account of the heart in beriberi.

1934 CE

#5336

De leptospiroses bij den hond, en de beteekenis der Leptospira canicola.

DHONT, C. M.
DHONT, C. M. & et al.

First reported cases of human infection with L. canicola. With A. Klarenbeek, W. A. P. Schüffner, and J. Voet.

1934 CE

#269.4

Die Methoden der Fluoreszenzmikroskopie. In: Abderhalden, Handbuch der biologischen Arbeitsmethoden, Abt. II, Teil 3, pp. 3307-37.

Modern methods of fluorescence microscopy were developed by Haitinger.