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1930–1939

893 entries with publication dates in this decade.

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1934 CE

#2864

Electrocardiograms that represent the potential variations of a single electrode.

Unipolar leads. With F. D. Johnston, A. G. MacLeod, and P. S. Barker.

1934 CE

#12509

Exhibit for dentistry at a Century of Progress International Exposition, Chicago, 1933-1934: A portrayal of problems of dental health and the prevention of dental disease with which is interwoven something of the development of the profession and the history of dental practice. Booklet prepared by Arthur D. Black. Exhibit operated under auspices of American Dental Association [and] Chicago Dental Society, by the Chicago Centennial Dental Congress, Chicago.

Illustrated 64-page brochure recording in detail an exhibition that was seen supposedly by 8,000,000 people. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1934 CE

#11358

Exhibition of first editions of epochal achievements in the history of science.

Briefly annotated listings of 114 classics under the headings of Mathematics, Astronomy, Physics, Chemistry, Geology, Botany, Zoology, and the Hearst Medical Papyrus. Strangely, several major medical and biological cl…

1934 CE

#4688

Experimental lymphocytic choriomeningitis of monkeys and mice produced by a virus encountered in studies of the 1933 St. Louis encephalitis epidemic.

Isolation of the virus of benign lymphocytic choriomeningits.

1934 CE

#2605.1

Experiments in silk hypersensitivity and the inhalation of allergen in atopic dermatitis (neurodermatitis disseminatus).

Proof that inhaled allergens can reach the skin in a quantity and quality capable of eliciting urticarial reactions. With W.T. Vaughn. Coca and Sulzberger coined the term, “atopic dermatitis.”

1934 CE

#6555

French Medicine. Translated by E. B. Krumbhaar.

Clio Medica series.

1934 CE

#6560

German medicine. Translated by Jules Freund.

Clio Medica series.

1934 CE

#5807

Histoire de la chirurgie française (1790-1920).

1934 CE

#6425

Historia contemporánea de la medicina.

1934 CE

#9340

I. Un nouveau type de radioactivité. II. Séparation chimique des nouveaux radioéléments émetteur d’électrons positifs.

Discovery of artificially produced radionuclides or radioisotopes. In February 1934, the Joliot-Curies reported the first artificial production of radioactive material after discovering radioactivity in aluminum foil …

1934 CE

#10391

Industrial maladies.

Legge was the first Medical Inspector of Factories and Workshops in the United Kingdom, appointed in 1898.

1934 CE

#1150

Isolation in crystalline form of the hormone essential to life from the suprarenal cortex; its chemical nature and physiologic properties.

Together with H. L. Mason, B. F. McKenzie, C. S. Myers, and G. A. Koelsche, Kendall reported the isolation in crystalline form of cortin ('C20H30O5)'

1934 CE

#8677

Jewish contributions to medicine in America from colonial times to the present.

1934 CE

#6622.1

John Keats’s anatomical and physiological note book …edited by Maurice Buxton Forman.

Keats was a pupil and dresser at Guy’s Hospital from 1815-16, and was licensed to practice upon completion of his studies. While struggling to launch his poetic career he was often tempted to practice medicine, …

1934 CE

#13231

L'analisi electroacustica del linguaggio. 2 vols.

1934 CE

#7766

L'angiographie cérébrale, ses applications et résultats en anatomic, physiologie et clinique.

1934 CE

#11131

La lèpre.

A handsome folio volume of some seven hundred pages, well printed on fine paper and beautifully illustrated, the book is a tribute to the printer's art as well as to the scientist's efforts. Of special interest is the…

1934 CE

#7403

Le décollement de la rétine.

1934 CE

#6628

Medicine and mysticism.

1934 CE

#6514

Medicine in Persia.

1934 CE

#12990

Meharry Medical College: A history.

The first history of an African-American medical school written by an African-American. Meharry Medical College, founded in 1876 as the Medical Department of Central Tennessee College, was the first medical college fo…

1934 CE

#1200

Neuere Ergebnisse auf dem Gebiet der Sexualhormone.

Progesterone obtained in crystalline form.

1934 CE

#12046

Oeuvre scientifique. Recueil des principaux travaux publié par les soins de J. A. Barré.

Collected edition of Babinski's previously published works edited by Barré and numerous other editors. Contents: La méthode en sémiologie. - Sémiologie. - Tumeurs cérébrales e…

1934 CE

#12575

Onchocerciasis: With special reference to the Central American form of the disease. Parts I, II, III, and IV

In depth study of onchcerciasis in Guatemala, where "the disease was of real importance to human beings" at the time. Each of the 4 authors contributed a separate part of the report.

1934 CE

#11001

Postures & practices during labor among primitive peoples: Adaptations to modern obstetrics, with chapters on taboos & superstitions & postpartum gymnastics.

1934 CE

#7245

Prolonging the life span.

McCay proved that caloric restriction increases the life span of rats, a discovery that triggered extensive further research and experiments in the field of nutrition and longevity.

1934 CE

#6229

Roentgen visualization of the placenta.

Direct radiography of the placenta. "Clilan (C.B.) Powell, longtime owner of the Amsterdam News, was born in 1894 to former Virginia slaves. Very little is known about his childhood. He received his medical degree in …

1934 CE

#4435

Rupture of the intervertebral disc with involvement of the spinal canal.

Demonstration of the causal role of intervertebral disc herniation in sciatica.

1934 CE

#4960

Schizophreniebehandlung mittels Insulin-Hypoglykämie sowie hypoglykämischer Schocks.

Insulin shock therapy of schizophrenia. Sakel wrote several subsequent papers on this subject in the same journal. English version in Amer. J. Psychiat., 1937, 93, 829-41.

1934 CE

#3094

Sternal puncture; preliminary note.

Needle for sternal puncture.

1934 CE

#2719

Studies on experimental hypertension. 1. The production of persistent elevation of systolic blood pressure by means of renal ischemia.

Goldblatt discovered the role of the kidneys in the regulation of blood pressure. This was the first of Goldblatt’s papers on experimental hypertension, which established an aetiologic role for renal ischemia in…

1934 CE

#14203

The anemias.

1934 CE

#1352

The chemical transmitter at synapses in a sympathetic ganglion.

These workers produced evidence that a chemical agent (acetylcholine) appears in the transfer of nerve impulses from neuron to neuron in sympathetic ganglia.

1934 CE

#2576.6

The chemistry of antigens and antibodies.

“The advent of the lattice theory of antibody-antigen coupling” (Bibel, Milestones in immunology [1988]pp. 91-94).

1934 CE

#5542

The cultivation and cultural characteristics of Darling’s Histoplasma capsulatum.

Demonstration of the fungal nature of the pathogen.

1934 CE

#8564

The Greek herbal of Dioscorides, illustrated by a Byzantine, A.D. 512; Englished by John Goodyer, A.D. 1655; edited and first printed, A.D. 1933, by Robert T. Gunther ... with three hundred and ninety-six illustrations.

Goodyer's translation is considered more of a paraphrase than a translation.

1934 CE

#3093

The haemostatic possibilities of snake-venom.

Snake venom used in the treatment of hemophilia.

1934 CE

#1447

The interpretation of potential waves in the cortex.

Confirmation of Berger’s findings (No. 1446). See also Brain, 1934, 57, 355-85.

1934 CE

#12387

The isolation and properties of the purified protein derivative of tuberculin

Purification of tuberculin (PPD). By the 1940s Seibert's PPD was the international standard for tuberculin tests.

1934 CE

#1069

The lyochromes: a new group of animal pigments.

Chemical formula of riboflavine (vitamin B2).

1934 CE

#6774

The medical and scientific periodicals of the 17th and 18th centuries, with revised catalogue and check-list.

Addenda and corrigenda by D.A. Kronick, Bull. Hist. Med. 1958, 32, 456-74.

1934 CE

#11663

The negro professional man and the community with special emphasis on the physician and lawyer.

An in-depth social statistical and geographical analysis of America's black doctors including their distribution, economic links, and social activism that varied throughout the South, as well as the North and West.

1934 CE

#6564

The renaissance of medicine in Italy … The Hideyo Noguchi Lectures.

1934 CE

#2524.3

The serological classification of Streptococcus pyogenes.

Griffith’s classification of streptococci. Digital facsimile from PubMedCentral at this link.

1934 CE

#4400.4

The shoulder.

Definitive study of the rotator cuff, written in Codman’s idiosyncratic and iconoclastic style. Reprint, Malabar, Fl., Krieger, 1965.

1934 CE

#13637

The Smith papers: The correspondence and miscellaneous papers of Sir James Edward Smith

1934 CE

#1580

The story of the development of our ideas of chemical mediation of nerve impulses.

1934 CE

#145.66

The struggle for existence.

Gause developed the concept of competitive exclusion as formulated by Volterra.

1934 CE

#3005

The treatment of varicose veins.

Cooper combined ligation with subsequent injection of 5 per cent sodium morrhuate in the treatment of varicose veins.

1934 CE

#3237

Therapeutic pneumoperitoneum. A review of 100 cases.

Banyai combined artificial pneumoperitoneum with phrenic nerve paralysis.