1940–1949
610 entries with publication dates in this decade.
1947 CE
#10216
The ranks of death: A medical history of the conquest of America
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1947 CE
#6311
The secret instrument. The birth of the midwifery forceps.
Reprinted with No. 6311.5, San Francisco, Norman Publishing, 1989.
1947 CE
#195
The use of blood groups in anthropology.
1947 CE
#1090
Unidentified growth factors for Lactobacillus lactis in refined liver extract.
Mary Shorb provided a method of biological assay of liver extracts that made possible the isolation of vitamin B12.
1947 CE
#2878.1
Ventricular fibrillation of long duration abolished by electric shock.
The first successful defibrillation of a surgical patient, with the chest opened, and the paddles applied directly to the heart. With H.S. Feil.
1947 CE
#6739
Wayfarers in medicine.
1948 CE
#6992
[Trials of] Burke and Hare, edited by William Roughead. Third edition.
Notable British Trials Series. Transcripts of the trials of the most famous "resurrection men", with related documents. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1948 CE
#3702
A history of dentistry. 2nd edition.
1948 CE
#3160
A history of the heart and circulation.
1948 CE
#2010.3
A linear electron accelerator.
With W. R. Kennedy.
1948 CE
#2526
A new mycobacterial infection in man.
Myco. ulcerans first described. With J. C. Tolhurst, G. Buckle, and H. A. Sissons.
1948 CE
#6006
A short history of ophthalmology. 2nd ed.
1948 CE
#1929.4
A study of the adrenotropic receptors.
Described the concept of α and β adrenergic receptors in the sympathetic nervous system, and placed specific receptors into pharmacologic mechanisms.
1948 CE
#3047
A venous shunt for marked mitral stenosis.
First pulmonary-azygos shunt operation for relief of mitral stenosis. Two further patients were operated upon later the same year; all three are reported in J. Amer. med. Ass.,1949, 140, 1259. A similar procedure was …
1948 CE
#3154
Activity of vitaminB12 in Addisonian pernicious anemia.
First demonstration of the effectiveness of vitamin B12 in pernicious anemia.
1948 CE
#3703
An introduction to the history of dentistry. 2 vols.
The first volume covers the history to 1800; the second deals solely with the history of dentistry in America.
1948 CE
#5545
An unidentified, filterable agent isolated from the feces of children with paralysis.
Isolation of the Coxsackie virus from the stool of a patient residing in Coxsackie, New York.
1948 CE
#7863
Aureomycin; a product of the continuing search for new antibiotics.
Discovery of clortetracycline (trade name Aureomycin, Lederle) the first tetracycline antibiotic identified. Duggar,a plant physiologist, identified the antibiotic as the product of an actinomycete he cultured from a …
1948 CE
#2138
Aviation medicine in its preventive aspects: an historical survey.
1948 CE
#2993
Cellophane treatment of syphilitic aneurysms with report of results in six cases.
1948 CE
#11766
Congenital anaomies of the heart and great vessels. Clinicopathologic study of 132 ases.
An extensively illustrated pathological-anatomical and physiological presentation with an historical approach.
1948 CE
#1091
Crystalline vitamin B12.
With N. G. Brink, F. R. Koniuszy, T. R. Wood, and K. Folkers.
1948 CE
#1929.3
Curare-like action of polymethylene bis-quaternary ammonium salts.
Methonium compounds. See also the same journal, 1948, 162, 810.
1948 CE
#4991.1
Cybernetics: or control and communication in the animal and the machine.
Foundation of "the science of control and communication theory, named ‘cybernetics’ by Wiener, from the Greek word ‘kubernetes’ or steersman. Automation, information feedback, regulators in eng…
1948 CE
#1451.1
Die funktionelle Organisation des vegetativen Nervensystems.
In 1949 Hess shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Egas Moniz in 1949 “for his discovery of the functional organization of the interbrain as a coordinator of the activities of the internal organs…
1948 CE
#6443
Einführung in die Geschichte der Medizin in Einzeldarstellungen.
1948 CE
#6782
Encyclopedia of medical sources.
A valuable list of medical eponyms and original sources, arranged alphabetically by authors’ names.
1948 CE
#3977
Experimental diabetes produced by the administration of glucose.
Experimental diabetes produced by artificially-induced hyperglycemia.
1948 CE
#6491
Hindu medicine.
1948 CE
#2137
History of factory and mine hygiene.
1948 CE
#2578.6
In vitro method for testing the toxin-producing capacity of diphtheria bacteria.
Agar gel immunodiffusion.
1948 CE
#2662.1
Index to the literature of experimental cancer research 1900-1935.
Divided into author and subject sections.
1948 CE
#3611.2
Inguinal and femoral hernioplasty: anatomic repair.
The McVay or Cooper ligament repair.
1948 CE
#3108
Klinische Erfahrungen mit einem neuen Präparat der Cumarinreihe.
Introduction of ethyl biscoumacetate (“tromexan”).
1948 CE
#11946
La médecine et l'eglise: Contribution à l'histoire de l'exercice médical par les clercs.
1948 CE
#2442.1
Leprosy treated with sulphetrone in 1943.
Clinical use of solapsone (sulphetrone).
1948 CE
#1716
Medical statistics from Graunt to Farr.
FitzPatrick Lectures, 1941 and 1943.
1948 CE
#6639.2
Medicine and science in postage stamps.
1948 CE
#4154.1
Melanomas of childhood.
Spitz first defined the histologic criteria for the diagnosis of juvenile melanoma.
1948 CE
#6631.1
Music and medicine.
1948 CE
#7786
No place to hide.
Bradley's autobiographical account of his work in the Radiological Safety Section in the Pacific in the aftermath of the Bikini atomic bomb tests, Operation Crossroads, alerted the world to the dangers of radioactive …
1948 CE
#2135.1
Occupational marks and other physical signs. A guide to personal identification.
Calluses, other dermatological and physical signs of professions and occupations illustrated and described, with an annotated bibliography that includes some historical references.
1948 CE
#12359
Orally administered penicillin in patients with rheumatic fever.
Massell and colleagues demonstrated that rheumatic fever could be prevented by penicillin treatment of streptococcal throat infections. (Order of authorship in the original publication: Massell, Dow, Jones.) See also:…
1948 CE
#2880
Penicillin in subacute bacterial endocarditis. Report to the Medical Research Council on 269 patients treated in 14 centres appointed by the Penicillin Clinical Trials Committee.
1948 CE
#5261.2
Pentaquine (Sn-13,276), a therapeutic agent effective in reducing the relapse rate in vivax malaria.
Clinical trials of pentaquine. With B. Craige, R. Jones, C. M. Whorton, T. N. Pullman, and L. Eichelberger.
1948 CE
#1092
Presence of cobalt in the anti-pernicious anaemia factor.
Independently of Rickes et al., Lester Smith isolated vitamin B12 in Britain. See also Nature (Lond.), 1948, 161, 638.
1948 CE
#2237.1
Presentation of two bone marrow elements: The “Tart” cell and the “L. E”. cell.
The Hargraves “L. E”. cell, a diagnostic aid in acute disseminated lupus erythematosus. With H. Richmond and R. J. Morton. First reported by Morton in A study of the bone marrow in cases of disseminated lu…
1948 CE
#3046
Pulmonary valvulotomy for the relief of congenital pulmonary stenosis. Report of three cases.
"Brock performed the first successful valvotomies for isolated pulmonary stenosis in 1948. He gained access to the blood-filled beating heart through a small incision in the right ventricle through which he passed a v…
1948 CE
#3107.1
Replacement transfusion as a treatment for erythroblastosis fetalis.
Exchange transfusion.
1948 CE
#3020
Report of the Committee for the Evaluation of Anticoagulants in the Treatment of Coronary Thrombosis with Myocardial Infarction.
With C. D. Marple and D. F. Beck.