1940–1949

1945 CE

#1175.1

Isolation and properties of the anterior hypophyseal growth hormone.

Choh Hao Li and colleagues isolated the anterior pituitary growth hormone.

1945 CE

#11687

Les tumeurs et les polypes du coeur: Étude anatomo-clinique.

A classical monograph on heart tumors with 1298 references on these relatively rare tumors.

1945 CE

#10893

Lewis's 1844-1944: A brief account of a century's work.

1945 CE

#4011

Lupus vulgaris treated with calciferol.

Dowling and Prosser Thomas introduced calciferol in the treatment of lupus independently of Charpy (no. 4010) whose work was unknown to them owing to the wartime isolation of France.

1945 CE

#1782.1

Medical geographies.

A historical survey of the classical works.

1945 CE

#3150

Observations of the anti-anemic properties of synthetic folic acid.

Hemopoietic properties of folic acid reported. With C. F. Vilter, M. B. Koch, and M. H. Caldwell.

1945 CE

#9891

On the use of matrices in certain population mathematics.

"... the Leslie matrix is a discrete, age-structured model of population growth that is very popular in population ecology.... The Leslie matrix (also called the Leslie model) is one of the most well known ways to des…

1945 CE

#6309

One hundred years of gynaecology, 1800-1900.

1945 CE

#13061

Plantas medicinale aromaticas o venenosas de Cuba. 2 vols.

1945 CE

#6623

Poet physicians: An anthology of medical poetry written by physicians.

1945 CE

#5475.1

Production of immunity to dengue with virus modified by propagation in mice.

Successful propagation of dengue in mice and production of a vaccine.

1945 CE

#4277

Retropubic prostatectomy. A new extravesical technique.

Retropubic prostatectomy.

1945 CE

#6581.1

Schweizer Aerzte als Forscher, Entdecker und Erfinder.

1945 CE

#3855

Some observations on the use of thiobarbital as an antithyroid agent in the treatment of Graves’s disease.

Clinical introduction of thiobarbital.

1945 CE

#1928.4

Streptococcal fibrinolysis. A proteolytic reaction due to a serum enzyme activated by streptococcal fibrinolysin.

Purification and concentration of Tillett and Garner’s (No. 1924.1) substance to produce streptokinase.

1945 CE

#2350

Streptomycin in treatment of clinical tuberculosis: a preliminary report.

1945 CE

#5260

Studies on synthetic antimalarial drugs.

F. H. S. Curd, D. G. Davey, and F. L. Rose synthesized proguanil (“paludrine”) and first tested it in avian malaria.

1945 CE

#5261

Studies on synthetic antimalarial drugs. XIII. Results of a preliminary investigation of the therapeutic action of 4888 (paludrine) on acute attacks of benign tertian malaria.

First use of proguanil in human malaria. With B. G. Maegraith, J. D. King, R. H. Townsend, T. H. Davey, and R. E. Havard.

1945 CE

#11353

Surgery of the brain.

Volume XII in Lewis' Practice of Surgery.

1945 CE

#3044.1

Surgical correction for coarctation of the aorta.

Resection of coarctation and direct anastomosis of remaining ends. See also his report of 60 cases in J. Amer.med.Assoc.,1949, 139,285-92.

1945 CE

#13801

The effect of smallpox on the destiny of the Amerindian.

1945 CE

#5015

The falling sickness: A history of epilepsy from the Greeks to the beginnings of modern neurology. Second edition.

Revised second edition. Baltimore, 1971.

1945 CE

#12618

The herbal of Rufinus. Edited from the unique manuscript by Lynn Thorndike, assisted by Francis S. Benjamin, Jr.

First printed edition of an herbal written circa 1287 by Rufinus, a medieval monk / physician unknown before this edition. Rufinus was titular abbot in absentia of the monastery of Tyre, and plenipotentiary to the arc…

1945 CE

#5732

The history of surgical anesthesia.

Reprinted with corrections and additions, 1963. Reprint, 1978.

1945 CE

#3043

The surgical treatment of malformations of the heart in which there is pulmonary stenosis or pulmonary atresia.

The “Blalock-Taussig operation” for the relief of congenital defects of the pulmonary artery, Tetralogy of Fallot ("blue baby syndrome"). "The first surgical repair was carried out in 1944 at Johns Hopkins…

1945 CE

#2659.4

The synchrotron: a proposed high energy particle accelerator.

In 1951 McMillan shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Glenn Theodore Seaborg "for their discoveries in the chemistry of the transuranium elements."

1945 CE

#2900

Thiouracil treatment of angina pectoris; rationale and results.

1945 CE

#3214

Transmission of primary atypical pneumonia to human volunteers.

COMMISSION ON ACUTE RESPIRATORY DISEASES

1945 CE–1946 CE

#14276

The chemical evolution of vision.

In this paper Wald identified structures for all the visual pigments and their peak absorption wavelengths. He detailed the function of the rods and cones and broke down visual photonic perception at the molecular lev…

1945 CE–1951 CE

#6780

Short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700. 3 vols.

Supplements the Short title catalogue (No. 6771). This was superseded by the second edition, revised and enlarged, 3 vols., New York, Modern Language Association of America, 1972-88. In addition to countless works of …

1946 CE

#12623

Penicillin: Its practical application. Edited by Sir Alexander Fleming.

This was the only book that Fleming ever published on penicillin. American issue, Philadelphia: Blakiston, 1946.

1946 CE

#751.3

A common factor in the enzymatic acetylation of sulfanilamide and of choline.

Lipmann shared the 1953 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of coenzyme A, an important catalytic substance involved in the cellular conversion of food into energy. He first described the discovery…

1946 CE

#2418.1

A microflocculation test for syphilis using cardiolipin antigen: preliminary report.

V. D. Research Laboratory test (Harris test). With A. A. Rosenberg and L. M. Riedel.

1946 CE

#1354.1

A specific sympathomimetic ergone in adrenergic nerve fibres (sympathin) and its relations to adrenaline and nor-adrenaline.

Noradrenaline shown to be the predominant transmitter of the effects of sympathetic nerve impulses. In 1970 Euler shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Katz and Axelrod "for their discoveries concernin…

1946 CE

#3045

Anastomosis of the aorta to a pulmonary artery. Certain types in congenital heart disease.

With S. Smith and S. Gibson.

1946 CE

#8634

Ancient anodynes: Primitive anaesthesia and allied conditions.

1946 CE

#6652

ANNALS OF MEDICAL HISTORY. 1-10; New series, 1-10; 3rd series, 1-4, 1917-42. Index (1917-42),

1946 CE

#2359

Chemotherapy of tuberculosis. Researches during the past 100 years.

1946 CE

#5261.1

Chloroquine for treatment of acute attacks of vivax malaria.

Harry Most led the development of chloroquine for use in treating American troops suffering from malaria. At the beginning of the American involvement in the war there were more American casualties from malaria than f…

1946 CE

#7236

Choroba glodowa: Badania kliniczne nad glodem wykonane w getcie warszawskim z roku 1942.

A series of articles by Jewish physicians working in the Bersohn and Bauman Jewish Children's Hospital and "Czyste" Hospital in the Warsaw ghetto, who conducted independent research between November 1941 and August 19…

1946 CE

#2062

Die Injektion.

Deals exhaustively with the history of intravenous and intramuscular injection.

1946 CE

#11510

Die kunstmatige Nier.

Kolff's first book on the artificial kidney. This was his doctoral dissertation. There were two versions published. The first was designated Proefschrift and credited Kolff as Willem Johan Kolff on the title page. It …

1946 CE

#14138

Die Tänze der Bienen.

Von Frisch discovered the waggle dance, a particular figure-eight dance of honey bees by which successful foragers can communicate information with other members of their colony about the direction and distance to pat…

1946 CE

#255.4

Gene recombination in Escherichia coli.

Discovery of sexual processes in the reproduction of bacteria. In 1958 Lederberg shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Tatum and Beadle (No. 254.3) "for his discoveries concerning genetic recombination…

1946 CE

#11018

Harvey Cushing: A biography.

Remains the most comprehensive biography of Cushing, by his student Fulton.

1946 CE

#3924.2

Heredopathia atactica polyneuritiformis; a familial syndrome not hitherto described.

“Refsum’s syndrome”, an inherited disorder of lipid metabolism.

1946 CE

#12822

Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis (1818-1865), an annotated bibliography

1946 CE

#5544.2

Immunity in mumps. VI. Experiments on the vaccination of human beings with formolized mumps virus.

With E. P. Maris, and L. W. Kane.

1946 CE

#2578.5

Induced mutations in bacterial viruses.

Genetic recombination in bacteriophages. In 1969 Delbrück shared the Nobel Prize with A. D. Hershey and S. E. Luria "for their discoveries concerning the replication mechanism and the genetic structure of viruses."

1946 CE

#11231

John Hunter: A list of his books. Compiled by W. R. LeFanu.

Unlike Lefanu's other bibliographical writings, this is a basic 31 page booklist.