1940–1949

1948 CE

#1943

Ricerche su di un nuovo antibiotico.

Brotzu showed that a Cephalosporium acremonium filtrate inhibited the growth of Gram-positive and -negative organisms.

1948 CE

#7038

Sexual behavior in the human male.

1948 CE

#4482

Source book of orthopaedics.

A concise, thematic history of orthopedic surgery from the earliest times. Includes a useful bibliography. Reprinted 1968.

1948 CE

#3908

Studies in growth. I. Interrelationship between pituitary growth factor and growth-promoting androgens in acromegaly and gigantism. II. Quantitative evaluation of bone and soft tissue growth in acromegaly and gigantism.

L. W. Kinsell, G. D. Michaels, C. H. Li, and W. E. Larsen showed that there is an increase in growth hormone in plasma in acromegaly.

1948 CE

#3046.2

Surgery of pulmonary stenosis. A case in which the pulmonary valve was successfully divided.

Operation Dec. 4, 1947.

1948 CE

#2660.1

Temporary remissions in acute leukemia in children produced by folic acid antagonist 4-amethopteroylglutamic acid (aminopterin).

With L. K. Diamond, R. D. Mercer, R. F. Sylvester, and V. A. Wolff.

1948 CE

#139.1

The cell-theory: a restatement, history, and critique.

1948 CE

#10204

The Ciba collection of medical illustrations. A compilation of pathological and anatomical paintings prepared by Frank H. Netter, M.D.

This was the first collection of anatomical images by Netter published in book form.

1948 CE

#4615.2

The clinical use of fluorescein in neurosurgery; localization of brain tumors.

Tumor localization by radio-isotopes. With W. T. Peyton, L. A. French, and W. W. Walker. Preliminary reports in Science, 1947, 106, 130-31; 1948, 107, 569-71.

1948 CE

#1669

The dawn of Scottish social welfare. A survey from medieval times to 1863.

1948 CE

#7802

The estimation of acetanilide and its metabolic products, aniline, N-acetyl p-aminophenol and p-aminophenol (free and total conjugated) in biological fluids and tissues.

Brodie and Axelrod confirmed that paracetamol, also known as acetaminophen, was the major metabolite of acetanilide in human blood, and established that it was efficacious an analgesic. Unlike its precursors, paraceta…

1948 CE

#9179

The geographical distribution of cold-blooded vertebrates.

"Darlington's most important contribution to science was his theory of the Old World tropical origin of dominant vertebrate groups. He first sketched out this formulation—which would influence research in zoogeo…

1948 CE

#566.2

The growth in vitro of single isolated tissue cells.

Sanford was the first to clone in vitro a single living cell of a mammal—in this instance, a rodent. She performed this feat in search of a means to research how cells transform into malignancy.

1948 CE

#1929.2

The occurrence of nucleases in culture filtrates of group A hemolytic streptococci.

Streptodornase. See also W. S. Tillett et al., Proc. Soc. exp. Biol. (N. Y.), 1948, 68, 184-88.

1948 CE

#9024

The Pan American Sanitary Bureau: Its origin, developments and achievements, 1902-1944.

1948 CE

#5262.1

The pre-erythrocytic stage of human malaria Plasmodium vivax.

With P. C. C. Garnham, G. Covell, and P. G. Shute.

1948 CE

#5262

The pre-erythrocytic stage of mammalian malaria.

Demonstration of the pre-erythrocytic stage of P. cynomolgi in the monkey. With P. C. C. Garnham and B. Malamos. Preliminary communication in Nature (Lond.), 1948, 161, 126.

1948 CE

#3107.2

The reduction of methaemoglobin in red blood cells and studies on the cause of idiopathic methaemoglobinaemia.

Cause of hereditary methemoglobinemia elucidated.

1948 CE

#2091

The sensitizing effect of tetraethylthiuramdisulphide (Antabuse) to ethyl alcohol.

Introduction of “antabuse” in the treatment of alcoholism. With E. Jacobsen and V. Larsen. See also Lancet, 1948, 2, 1004.

1948 CE

#3046.1

The surgical treatment of mitral stenosis. 1. Valvuloplasty.

Valvuloplasty for mitral stenosis. Harken reported the first successful intracardiac operation for treatment of this lesion--a procedure was first attempted in the 1920s. Charles Bailey in Philadelphia undertook a sim…

1948 CE

#2879

Thoracic aortography. Preliminary report.

With H. E. Hanson and J. Karnell.

1948 CE

#11620

Urological oddities.

1948 CE–1949 CE

#11770

Bibliographie ornithologique française: [Vol.1:] Travaux publies en langue française et en latin en France et dans les Colonies Françaises de 1473 a 1944. [Vol. 2:] Abréviations des titres des publications périodiques cités dans la Bibliographie Ornithologique Française et Index méthodiques et systématiques. 2 vols.

1948 CE–1949 CE

#6740

Lives of master surgeons.

One volume and supplement.

1948 CE–1963 CE

#10981

The Johns Hopkins Hospital and the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine: A chronicle. 3 vols.

Vol. 1: Early Years 1867-1893; Vol. 2: 1893-1905; Vol. 3: 1905-1914.

1948 CE–1966 CE

#12191

A bibliographical sourcebook of compressed air, diving and submarine medicine. 3 vols.

Vol. 1 by Hoff; Vols. 2 and 3 by Hoff and Greenbaum, Jr. Digital facsimiles of all three volumes from U.S. National Library of Medicine at this link.

1948 CE–2017 CE

#10356

WMA Declaration of Geneva.

Modernized version of the Hippocratic Oath, promulgated in response to the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials. https://www.wma.net/policies-post/wma-declaration-of-geneva/ "Adopted by the 2nd General Assembly of the World Me…

1949 CE

#2065

A critical review of the basic facts in the history of cinchona.

1949 CE

#3704

A dental bibliography: British and American, 1692-1880.

1949 CE

#8514

A dictionary of Assyrian botany.

1949 CE

#3342

A history of oto-laryngology

From antiquity to the beginning of the 20th century.

1949 CE

#5766.1

A method of cutting and suturing the lip in the treatment of complete unilateral clefts.

LeMesurier’s cheiloplasty procedure was based on Hagedorn’s method. He was first to attempt construction of the cupid’s bow of the vermilion.

1949 CE

#255.5

A morphological distinction between neurones of the male and female, and the behaviour of the nucleolar satellite during accelerated nucleoprotein synthesis.

The Barr body, " the inactive X chromosome in a female somatic cell,[2] rendered inactive in a process called lyonization, in those species in which sex is determined by the presence of the Y (including humans) or W c…

1949 CE

#7084

A Sand County almanac, and sketches here and there.

This combination of natural history, philosophy, and poetic writing informed the environmental movement. It is perhaps best known for the following quote, which defines Leopold's land ethic: "A thing is right when it …

1949 CE

#1583

A short history of physiology. 2nd ed.

1949 CE

#11987

A stereotaxic apparatus for intracerebral surgery.

"In 1947 Leksell visited Wycis in Philadelphia and then developed and described his instrument in a publication in 1949. This was the first example of a stereotactic system based on the principle of ‘‘cent…

1949 CE

#5990.1

Actual técnica de elecciόn en queratoplastia penetrante.

Barraquer’s method of corneal graft fixation by minute direct interrupted stitches.

1949 CE

#6596

Aesculapius comes to the Colonies. The story of the early days of medicine in the thirteen original colonies.

1949 CE

#7297

Age determinations by radiocarbon content: checks with samples of known age.

Introduction of radiocarbon dating for dating organic materials, including fossils (maximum 50,000 to 60,000 years old). With J. R. Arnold.

1949 CE

#1945

An antiphage agent isolated from Aspergillus sp.

Isolation of fumagillin, an antibiotic with amoebicidal activity. See also Science, 1951, 113, 202-3.

1949 CE

#12613

Antibiotics: A survey of penicillin, streptomycin, and other antimicrobial substances from fungi, actinomycetes, bacteria, and plants. 2 vols.

Order of authorship of the original set: H. W. Florey, Chain, Heatley, Jennings, Sanders, Abraham, M. E. Florey.

1949 CE

#7896

ASCLEPIO. Revista de Historia de la Medicina e cienca. 1-

1949 CE

#5352.1

Bibliographie des schistosome et des schistosomiases (bilharzioses) humaines et animales de 1931 á 1948.

Continues and supplements No. 5352.

1949 CE

#11228

Bibliotheca chemica et alchemica. An annotated catalogue of printed books on alchemy, chemistry and cognate subjects.

Though he was not credited on the title page, most of this catalogue was written by Herbert S. Klickstein, working for the collector, Denis Duveen.

1949 CE

#1930

Bradykinin, a hypotensive and smooth muscle stimulating factor releases from plasma globulin by snake venoms and by trypsin.

Discovery of bradykinin. With W. T. Beraldo and G. Rosenfeld.

1949 CE

#9384

Bring out your dead: The great plague of yellow fever in Philadelphia in 1793.

Reprinted with a new introduction by Kenneth R. Foster, Mary F. Jenkins, and Anna Coxe Toogood (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1993).

1949 CE

#12289

Complete transposition of the aorta and a levoposition of the pulmonary artery; clinical, physiological, and pathological findings.

Taussig–Bing syndrome, a cyanotic congenital heart defect[1] in which the patient has both double outlet right ventricle (DORV) and subpulmonic ventricular septal defect (VSD).[2]

1949 CE

#4154.2

Concurrent melanosis and hypertrichosis in distribution of nevus unius lateris.

“Becker’s nevus”, pigmented hairy epidermal nevus.

1949 CE

#4404.2

Control of bone growth by epiphyseal stapling: A preliminary report.

“Blount staple”. Unlike previous processes, epiphyseal stapling permitted subsequent correction.

1949 CE

#4671.1

Cultivation of the Lansing strain of poliomyelitis virus in cultures of various human embryonic tissues.

Enders, Weller, and Robbins grew the poliomyelitis virus in cultures of different tissues. Their method proved of great value in virus research, and removed the final obstacles to vaccine production. In 1974 Enders, W…