1940–1949

1940 CE

#6495

The Chinese way in medicine.

1940 CE

#1082

The constitution of vitamin K2.

Structural formula of vitamin K2.

1940 CE

#1664

The development of public health in Canada: a review of the history and organization of public health in the provinces of Canada, with an outline of the present organization of the National Health Section of the Department of Pensions and National Health, Canada. Edited by R. D. Defries.

CANADIAN PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOCIATION

1940 CE

#2349

The effect of promin (sodium salt of P. P’-diamino-diphenyl-sulfone-N, N’-dextrose sulfonate) on experimental tuberculosis: a preliminary report.

Experimental evidence of the value of promin (sodium glucosulphone) in tuberculosis. With H. C. Hinshaw and H.E. Moses. See also Amer. Rev. Tuberc., 1942, 45, 303-33.

1940 CE

#5259.1

The form of Plasmodium, gallinaceum present in the incubation period of the infection.

Independently of Mudrow, H. E. Shortt, K. P. Menon, and P. V. Seetharama Iyer found pre-erythrocytic forms of P. gallinaceum in the tissues.

1940 CE

#13352

The patient’s dilemma: The quest for medical security in America.

Cabot advocated the group practice of medicine and for budgeted prepayment systems for healthcare.

1940 CE

#1955.1

The relation of p-amniobenzoic acid to the mechanism of the action of sulphanilamide.

Isolation of p-aminobenzoic acid, a structural analog of sulfanilamide.

1940 CE

#2724.1

The substance causing renal hypertension.

Angiotensin. With J. C. Fasciolo, L. F. Leloir, and J. M. Muñoz. Independently isolated by Page and Helmer (see No. 2724.2) and later named angiotensin.

1940 CE

#4661

Virus filtrant pathogène pour l’homme et les animaux de laboratoire, et à affinité meningée et pulmonaire.

“Durand’s disease” – D virus infection. Durand isolated the virus from his own blood. See also the paper by G. M. Findlay, Trans. roy. Soc. trop. Med., 1942, 35, 303-18.

1940 CE–1993 CE

#10743

Bibliography of fossil vertebrates: The indexed published literature of vertebrate paleontology, 1509-1993.

http://vertpaleo.org/Publications/Bibliography-of-Fossil-Vertebrates.aspx "The Bibliography of Fossil Vertebrates (BFV) aimed to index the world literature of vertebrate paleontology. Although no compilation can ever …

1941 CE

#5013

A history of medical psychology.

1941 CE

#2417

A new serologically active phospholipid from beef heart.

Cardiolipin antigen for serological diagnosis of syphilis. For isolation and purification see J. biol. Chem., 1942, 143, 247-56.

1941 CE

#2187

A short history of nautical medicine.

1941 CE

#6357.57

Abdominal surgery of infancy and childhood.

Ladd pioneered the development of pediatric surgery in the United States. Robert E. Gross, his chief resident, succeeded to his position at Boston Children’s Hospital.

1941 CE

#13183

Bibliografia delle opere di Francesco Redi; segue la riproduzione della Lettera intorno all'invenzione degli occhiali scritta a Paolo Falconieri. Dall'edizione delle "Lettere" 1779-1795

1941 CE

#13361

Bibliographie générale et méthodique d'Haiti. 2 vols.

Vol. 2, pp. 169-208 contains a comprehensive chronological account of medical publications printed in Haiti, or about medicine in Haiti, from the earliest imprints to 1941. Digital facsimile from ufdc.ufl.edu at this …

1941 CE

#14330

Bio-Bibliography of XVI. century medical authors. Fasciculus 1, Abarbanel-Albert, S.

1941 CE

#3158

Cardiac classics. A collection of classic works on the heart and circulation with comprehensive biographic accounts of the authors.

Covers the literature up to 1912. Reprinted in 2 vols, as Classics of cardiology, New York, Dover, 1961. Reprinted again, with volume 3 by John A. Callahan, Thomas E. Keys & Jack E. Key, Malabar, Florida, Krieger, 198…

1941 CE

#2871

Catheterization of the right auricle in man.

First investigations with the cardiac catheter as a clinical method of investigation. In 1956 Cournand in 1956 shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Forssmann (No. 2858) and Richards (No. 2883.2) "for …

1941 CE

#4404

Chondrodystrophic dwarfs in Denmark (supplemented with investigations from Sweden and Norway) with special reference to the inheritance of chondrodystrophy.

Morch established the fact that chondrodystrophy may be inherited.

1941 CE

#3556

Congenital atresia of the esophagus with tracheoesophageal fistula. Report of successful extrapleural ligation of fistulous communication and cervical esophagostomy.

1941 CE

#5507

Congenital cataract following German measles in the mother.

Gregg drew attention to congenital defects in infants following rubella in the mother during the early part of pregnancy.

1941 CE

#1533

Continuous and reproducible records of the electrical activity of the human retina.

Electroretinography

1941 CE

#4252

Crush injuries with impairment of renal function.

Bywaters and Beali encountered cases of the “crush syndrome” among victims of the London air-raids of 1940-41.

1941 CE

#4153

En ny og spesifikk kutan-reaksjon ved Boecks sarcoid. En foreløbig meddelelse.

Kveim’s test for sarcoidosis.

1941 CE

#4614.1

Encephalography.

Robertson improved the accuracy and reliability of encephalography and reduced its discomforts.

1941 CE

#4910.1

Epilepsy and cerebral localization: A study of the mechanism, treatment and prevention of epileptic seizures.

Penfield’s most widely recognized contribution was the gradual development of cortical excision as an accepted and valuable method of treating medically refractory focal epilepsy. See also No. 4914.2.

1941 CE

#13881

Focus on Africa.

Includes the first aerial photographs of Africa taken by Mary Light. This was the second book to reproduce aerial photographs. Richard Light was an American neurosurgeon, a noted aviator, and a photographer and cinema…

1941 CE

#2060

Fundamental errors in the early history of cinchona.

1941 CE

#1934.1

Further observations on penicillin.

First report of the chemotherapeutic action of penicillin on humans (10 cases).

1941 CE

#254.3

Genetic control of biochemical reactions in Neurospora.

Beadle and Tatum proposed the "one gene, one enzyme" hypothesis in 1941. This was a restatement of ideas originally proposed by Archibald Garrod (No. 244.1) in 1908. 1958 Beadle and Tatum shared the Nobel Prize in Phy…

1941 CE

#6483

Hippocratic medicine. Its spirit and method.

1941 CE

#3411

History and present status of operations on the labyrinthine capsule for otosclerosis.

Kopetzky improved the technique of the fenestration operation. The above has a useful history of the development of this operation. See also his earlier papers in Ann. Otol. (St. Louis), 1930, 39, 996; 1931, 40, 157.

1941 CE

#10769

Jak zapobiegać chorobom zakaźnym i jak je zwalczać? Biblioteczka Zydowskiej Samopomocy Spolecznej. Nr. 1.

A 14-page pamphlet on epidemiology published by the Żydowska Samopomoc Społeczna, Prezydium (Jewish Social Self-Help Organization) in the Kraków Ghetto to educate Jewish activists and physicians. The author per…

1941 CE

#13027

Kanon der Erdbestrahlung und seine Anwendung auf das Eiszeitenproblem.

Milanković’s masterwork on his astronomical theory of climate, which brought together all the mathematical elements underlying the theory of “Milanković cycles.” Milanković cycles are cyclical change…

1941 CE

#6467

La medicina primitiva.

1941 CE

#13889

Library of Dr. S. Weir Mitchell author of Hugh Wynne. Books autographs, prints, and historical relics. To be sold at unrestricted public sale on Monday, May 19th, 1941.

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1941 CE

#6232

Maternal pulmonary embolism by amniotic fluid as a cause of obstetric shock and unexpected deaths in obstetrics.

Amniotic fluid embolism described.

1941 CE

#6898

Metabolic generation and utilization of phosphate bond energy.

In this paper about group potential and the transfer of acetyl and phosphoryl groups Lipmann proposed that acetyl phosphate acted as an acetyl door in the biosynthesis of essential metabolites and that ATP functioned …

1941 CE

#1244.1

Methods for the collection of fluid from single glomeruli and tubules of the mammalian kidney, and the collection and analysis of fluid from single nephrons of the mammalian kidney.

This was the first (and for many years) the only application of the Wearn-Richards procedure (No. 1239) to the mammalian kidney.

1941 CE

#6466

Native African medicine: With special reference to Its practice in the Mano tribe of Liberia.

1941 CE

#9281

Navajo Indian medical ethnobotany. University of New Mexico Bulletin, Anthropological Series, Vol. 3, No. 5.

Digital facsimile from herbaltherapeutics.net at this link.

1941 CE

#1084

p-Aminobenzoic acid, a vitamin.

Recognition of β-amenobenzoic acid as a member of the vitamin-B complex.

1941 CE

#12379

Physical medicine: The employment of physical agents for diagnosis and therapy.

1941 CE

#912.3

Recherches sur un nouvel hémo-agglutinogéne du sang humain.

Moureau discovered the Rh factor independently of Levine and others whose work was not known to him owing to the military occupation of Belgium. See also his paper in Amer. J. clin. Path., 1946, 16, 373-79.

1941 CE

#12823

Report of the Blood Transfusion Association concerning the Project for Supplying Blood Plasma to England, which has been carried on jointly with the American Red Cross from August, 1940, to January, 1941. Narrative account of work and medical report.

Drew discovered the method for long-term storage of blood plasma, and organized America's first large-scale blood bank. Drew's thesis for his medical degree at Columbia was entitled "Banked Blood: A Study in Blood Pre…

1941 CE

#2873

Studies on congestive heart failure. I. The importance of restriction of salt as compared to water.

Low-sodium diet in heart failure.

1941 CE

#4276

Studies on prostatic cancer. I. The effect of castration, of estrogen, and of androgen injection on serum phosphatases in metastatic carcinoma of the prostate.

In 1966 Huggins was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for discovering in 1941 "for his discoveries concerning hormonal treatment of prostatic cancer."

1941 CE

#3102

Studies on the hemorrhagic sweet clover disease. V. Identification and synthesis of the hemorrhagic agent.

Isolation of dicoumarol (3:3-methylene-bis-4-hydroxycoumarin). With C. F. Huebner.

1941 CE

#1957

Succinyl sulfathiazole, a new bacteriostatic agent locally active in the gastrointestinal tract.

Introduction of sulfasuxidine.