1940–1949
610 entries with publication dates in this decade.
1949 CE
#5546
Disease resembling nonparalytic poliomyelitis associated with a virus pathogenic for infant mice.
Isolation of the Coxsackie virus from patients with poliomyelitis. With E. W. Shaw.
1949 CE
#6444
Einführung in die Medizinhistorik. Ihr Wesen, ihre Arbeitsweise und ihre Hilfsmittel.
1949 CE
#4435.2
Evolution of medullary fixation of fractures by the longitudinal pin.
“Rush pins”, made of specially hardened type 316 stainless steel, for fractures of the long bones.
1949 CE
#2526.1
Genetic recombinations leading to production of active bacteriophage from ultraviolet inactivated bacteriophage particles.
In 1969 Luria shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in with Delbrück (No. 2578.5) and A. D. Hershey (No. 256) "for their discoveries concerning the replication mechanism and the genetic structure of vi…
1949 CE
#8885
Group medicine & health insurance in action.
"The Health Insurance Plan of Greater New York was established in March, 1947 for the specific purpose of accumulating the required experience under carefully controlled conditions. In order to assemble measurable dat…
1949 CE
#2064
Histoire illustrée de la pharmacie.
1949 CE
#7316
Histopathology of the skin.
1949 CE
#352
History of the primates.
1949 CE
#6878
Huang Ti Nei Ching Su Wen: The Yellow Emperor's classic of internal medicine. Translated by Ilza Veith.
First edition in English of the Yellow Emperor's Inner Classic (Huangdi Neijing,) , the most important ancient text in Chinese medicine as well as a major book of Daoist theory and lifestyle. According to leading scho…
1949 CE
#3855.1
Imidazoles. IV. The synthesis and antithyroid activity of some 1-substituted-2-mercaptoimidazoles.
Synthesis of methimazole (mercazole, thiamazole), an antithyroid drug more potent than methylthiouracil. With E. C. Kornfeld, K. C. McLaughlin, and R. C. Anderson.
1949 CE
#2419
Immobilization of Treponema pallidum in vitro by antibody produced in syphilitic infection.
Nelson’s treponemal immobilization test.
1949 CE
#1155
Isolation of nor-adrenaline from the adrenal gland.
With U.S. von Euler and U. Hamberg. See also fuller account in Acta physiol. scand., 1950, 20, 101-8. Noradrenaline was independently isolated by B. F. Tullar, Science, 1950, 109, 536-7.
1949 CE
#1175.2
Isolation of pituitary follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH).
By Choh Hao Li and colleagues.
1949 CE
#12784
La chirurgie discipline de la connaissance.
Three hundred copies on papier vélin contain a lithographed portrait of Leriche drawn and hand-signed and numbered by Henri Matisse.
1949 CE
#8127
La Doctrine classique de la médecine indienne. Ses origines et ses parallèles grecs.
Second edition, Paris: Ecole Française d'Extêm-Orient, 1975. English translation: The classical doctrine of Indian medicine: Its origins and its Greek parallels. Translated from the original in French by …
1949 CE
#2924.1
Le traitement de l’artérite oblitérante parla greffe veineuse.
Kunlin, an associate of R. Leriche, first reported the use of a bypass venous graft for femoropopliteal occlusive arterial disease.
1949 CE
#1930.1
Lithium salts in the treatment of psychotic excitement.
The first clinical trial of lithium.
1949 CE
#12019
Medicine under canvas: A war journal of the 77th Evacuation Hospital. Edited by Max Scott Allen. [Copyright by the University of Kansas School of Medicine.]
"Organized in Kansas with a capacity of 750 beds, this unit was made up of 47 doctors, 52 nurses, a hospital dietitian, and 318 enlisted men. The unit shipped out to England in May, 1942 on the H.M.T. Orcades. They be…
1949 CE
#11102
Mushrooms in their natural habitats.
A distinctively published work illustrated stereoscopically with color View-Master slides, and incorporating the View-Master "reels" and a View-Master viewer in a box along with the conventional bound text.
1949 CE
#1944
Neomycin, a new antibiotic active against streptomycin-resistant bacteria, including tuberculosis organisms.
Isolation of neomycin.
1949 CE
#4483
On the contributions of Hugh Owen Thomas of Liverpool, Sir Robert Jones of Liverpool and London, John Ridlon, M.D., of New York and Chicago, to modern orthopedic surgery.
1949 CE
#3412.4
Operative treatment of chronic suppurative otitis media.
Tympanoplasty.
1949 CE
#4404.1
Osteogenesis imperfecta: A study of clinical features and heredity based on 55 Danish families comprising 180 affected members.
Includes a translation of Ekman’s thesis (No. 4304.1). Also gives a case reported in 1678.
1949 CE
#5728
Proprietà farmacodinamiche di alcuni derivati della succinilcolina dotati di azione curarica. Esteri di trialchiletanolammonio di acidi bicarbossilici alifatici.
Introduction of succinylcholine chloride. With S. Guarino, V. G. Longo, and M. Marotta.
1949 CE
#5515
Pure granulomatous nocardiosis: a new fungus disease distinguished by intracellular parasitism. A description of a new disease in man due to a hitherto undescribed organism, Nocardia intracellularis, n.sp., including a study of the biological and pathogenic properties of this species.
Nocardiosis described.
1949 CE
#7134
Queratoplastia refractiva.
Barraquer was the first to sculpt corneal stromal tissue to change corneal curvature. He developed a procedure which he called "keratomileusis," (sculpting of the cornea). This involved ressecting a disc of anterior c…
1949 CE
#4914
Revascularization of the brain through establishment of a cervical arteriovenous fistula. Effects in children with mental retardation and convulsive disorders.
With C. F. McKhann and W. D. Belnap.
1949 CE
#4914.1
Selective cortical undercutting as a means of modifying and studying frontal lobe function in man. Preliminary report of forty-three operative cases.
1949 CE
#5402.1
Serological evidence of Q fever in Great Britain.
Relationship of primary atypical pneumonia and Q fever.
1949 CE
#3154.1
Sickle cell anemia, a molecular disease.
First recognition, by Pauling and colleagues, of a structural hemoglobin variant, and the beginning of the molecular approach to disease.
1949 CE
#5500
Studies on survival of influenza-virus between epidemics and antigenic variants of the virus.
Recovery of influenza C virus.
1949 CE
#7992
The Army Medical Library research project at the Welch Medical Library.
One of the first reports on one of the earliest projects in automating information retrieval, the expression for which was coined by Calvin Mooers the following year. At this early date electronic computers were not y…
1949 CE
#4962.2
The biology of mental defect.
1949 CE
#10
The Charaka Samhita. 6 vols.
Edited and published with translations in Hindi, Gujerati and English. The Charaka Samhita is the oldest known Hindu text on Ayurveda (life sciences). It was followed by the Sushruta Samhita. Except for some topics an…
1949 CE
#6485.92
The Charaka Samhita. Edited and published with translations in Hindi, Gujerati and English 6 vols.
1949 CE
#12634
The chemistry of penicillin.
The National Academy of Sciences arranged for the preparation of this summary, with Clarke and Johnson representing the United States on the editorial board, and Robinson representing Britain. The 1120 page book was p…
1949 CE
#6310
The development of gynaecological surgery and instruments… from the Hippocratic age to the Antiseptic period.
Reprint, San Francisco, Norman Publishing, 1990.
1949 CE
#4508
The effects of a hormone of the adrenal cortex (17-hydroxy-11-dehydrocorticosterone: compound E) and of pituitary adrenocorticotropic hormone on rheumatoid arthritis.
Introduction of cortisone and A.C.T.H. in treatment of rheumatoid arthritis. With C. H. Slocumb, and H. F. Polley. In 1950 Hench and Kendall shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Tadeusz Reichstein (No…
1949 CE
#4509
The effects of the adrenal cortical hormone 17-hydroxy-11-dehydrocorticosterone (compound E) on the acute phase of rheumatic fever: preliminary report.
Compound E (cortisone) introduced in the treatment of rheumatic fever. With C. H. Slocumb, A. R. Barnes, H. L. Smith, H. F. Polley.
1949 CE
#11428
The fine library of a surgical historian, sold by order of Alfred Brown, M.D.
Auction catalogue of Brown's library, comprising 291 lots.
1949 CE
#11726
The first medical college in Vermont: Castleton, 1818-1862.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1949 CE
#3154.2
The inheritance of sickle cell anemia.
Genetic evidence that sickle-cell disease is inherited in a simple Mendelian manner.
1949 CE
#5225
The laboratory diagnosis of lymphogranuloma venereum.
Skin-test antigen. With C. F. Barwell, E. J. King, and L. W. J. Bishop.
1949 CE
#5015.1
The mentally ill in America. A history of their care and treatment from colonial times. Second edition, revised and enlarged.
1949 CE
#2010.4
The microwave linear electron accelerator.
1949 CE
#14289
The mind of mechanical man.
Jefferson’s paper on the differences between electronic computers and the human brain inspired Alan Turing to respond with his famous paper, “Computing machinery and intelligence” (1950), which intro…
1949 CE
#8084
The Negro in the medical profession.
Publications of the University of Virginia, Phelps-Stokes fellowship papers, no. 18.
1949 CE
#12735
The organization of behavior: A neuropsychological theory.
Hebb connected the biological function of the brain as an organ together with the higher function of the mind. He studied how the function of neurons contributed to psychological processes such as learning. In this wo…
1949 CE
#8763
The origin of medical terms.
Revised and enlarged edition, Baltimore, 1961. Digital facsimile of the 1949 edition from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1949 CE
#5727
The pharmacological actions of polymethylene bistrimethyl-ammonium salts.
Introduction of hexamethonium bromide.