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1940–1949

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1946 CE

#6662

JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE AND ALLIED SCIENCES. 1-

The latest issue may be viewed at http://jhmas.oxfordjournals.org .

1946 CE

#5401

Kew Gardens spotted fever.

Rickettsialpox described.

1946 CE

#4727

Le traitement de la maladie de Parkinson par le chlorhydrate de diéthylaminoéthyl-N-thiodiphénylamine (2987 R.P.). Premiers résultats.

Introduction of “diparcol” in the treatment of Parkinson’s disease. With D. Boyet and G. Dumont.

1946 CE

#3106

Leukaemia treated with urethane compared with deep x-ray therapy.

Urethane in treatment of leukemia. With A. Haddow, I. Ap Thomas, and J. M. Watkinson.

1946 CE

#10996

Medical interchange between the British Isles and America before 1801. Based on the FitzPatrick Lectures for 1939.

1946 CE

#5351.2

Miracil, ein neues Chemotherapeuticum gegen die Darmbilharziose.

Lucanthone hydrochloride (Miracil D). With R. Gönnert and H. Mauss.

1946 CE

#6631.02

Musical sons of Aesculapius.

1946 CE

#10133

Nitrogen mustard therapy. Use of methyl-bis(beta-chloroethyl)amine hydrochloride and tris(beta-chloroethyl)amine hydrochloride for Hodgkin's disease, lymphosarcoma, leukemia and certain allied and miscellaneous disorders.

Widely considered the first uses of chemotherapy for the treatment of malignant diseases.

1946 CE

#3152

Observations on the effect of massive doses of iron given intravenously to patients with hypochromic anemia.

1946 CE

#6510

Outline of Arabic contributions to medicine and the allied sciences.

1946 CE

#3241

Para-aminosalicylic acid in the treatment of tuberculosis.

p-Aminosalicylic acid used in pulmonary tuberculosis. See also his earlier paper in Svenska LäkT., 1946, 43, 2029-40.

1946 CE

#214.1

Pretoria: The South African fossil ape-men. The Australopithecinae. Part I. The occurrence and general structure of the South African ape-men.

With this comprehensive report Broom presented his case to the scientific establishment that Australopithecus probably represented the stock from which mankind had evolved.

1946 CE

#5725

Propriétés curarisantes du di-iodoéthylate de bis-[quinoléyloxy-8’] 1.5-pentane.

Introduction of gallamine triethiodide (“flaxedil”). With S. Courvoisier, R. Ducrot, And R. Horclois. See also the same journal, 1947, 225, 74.

1946 CE

#14317

Radioactive Element 94 from deuterons on uranium.

"This letter was received for publication on the date indicated (January 28, 1941), but was voluntarily withheld from publication until the end of the war." Seaborg and McMillan discovered element 94, which they named…

1946 CE

#9338

Radioactive iodine therapy: Effect on functioning metastases of adenocarcinoma of the thyroid.

Seidlin and Marinelli described the first successful treatment of a patient with thyroid cancer metastases using radioiodine (I-131). This paper demonstrated the potential of nuclear medicine as a medical specialty.

1946 CE

#5400

Rickettsialpox. A newly recognized rickettsial disease. IV. Isolation of a rickettsia apparently identical with the causative agent of rickettsialpox from Allodermanyssus sanguineus, a rodent mite.

Isolation of Rickettsia akari, aetiologic agent of rickettsialpox. With W. L. Jellison and C. Pomerantz.

1946 CE

#13085

Self: A study in ethics and endocrinology.

An early work on transexualism. Dillon was the first trans man to undergo phalloplasty. Between 1946 and 1949 Dillon underent at least 13 surgeries performed by Harold Gillies for sex-reassignment surgery.

1946 CE

#5180

Streptomycin treatment of tularemia.

1946 CE

#3412.2

The acoustic impedance measured on normal and pathological ears. Orientating studies on the applicability of impedance measurement.

The modern impedance test was developed by Metz.

1946 CE

#3788

The biological actions and therapeutic applications of the ß-chloroethyl amines and sulfides.

Introduction of nitrogen mustard in treatment of Hodgkin’s disease

1946 CE

#5732.1

The centennial of surgical anesthesia. An annotated catalogue of books and pamphlets bearing on the early history of surgical anesthesia exibited at the Yale Medical Library.

1946 CE

#11819

The common sense book of baby and child care.

One of the best-selling books of the twentieth century, selling 500,000 copies in the six months after its initial publication in 1946, and 50 million by the time of Spock's death in 1998. As of 2011, the book had bee…

1946 CE

#2659.5

The design of a proton linear accelerator.

Linear ion accelerator. In 1968 Alvarez received the Nobel Prize in Physics "for his decisive contributions to elementary particle physics, in particular the discovery of a large number of resonance states, made possi…

1946 CE

#2237.01

The face in health and disease.

1946 CE

#7641

The Hunterian Museum yesterday and to-morrow, being the Hunterian Oration for 1945 delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons of England.

Remains one of the best accounts of the development of John Hunter's museum, and its development after Hunter's death, its partial destruction from bombing in World War II, and plans for reconstruction developed in th…

1946 CE

#13638

The Huxley papers: A descriptive catalogue of the correspondence, manuscripts and miscellaneous papers of the Rt. Hon. Thomas Henry Huxley ... preserved in the Imperial College of Science and Technology, London

1946 CE

#9504

The medical story of early Texas 1528-1853. Foreward by Chauncey D. Leake.

1946 CE

#8741

The midwest pioneer: His ills, cures, & doctors.

The first general history of frontier or pioneer medicine in America, covering mainly the first half of the 19th century, and including many folk medicine treatments. First published privately in Crawfordsville, India…

1946 CE

#1667

The story of water supply.

1946 CE

#3151

The structure and synthesis of liver. L. casei factor.

Isolation, determination of structure, and final synthesis of folic acid.

1946 CE

#4256

The treatment of acute renal failure by peritoneal irrigation.

With H. A. Frank and A. M. Seligman.

1946 CE

#3709

The vitamins in medicine.

4th edition, 2 vols, 1980.

1946 CE

#2351

Ueber eine neue, gegen Tuberkelbazillen in vitro wirksame Verbindungsklasse.

Introduction of thiosemicarbazone in treatment of tuberculosis. With R. Behnisch, F. Mietzsch, and H. Schmidt.

1946 CE

#4726

Ueber Parpanit, einen neuen estrapyramidal-motorische Störungen beeinflussenden Stoff.

Introduction of caramiphen (“parpanit”) in the treatment of Parkinson’s disease.

1946 CE

#8901

Victory over pain: A history of anesthesia.

1946 CE

#11725

Western Reserve University centennial history of the School of medicine.

1946 CE

#8899

White caps: The story of nursing.

1946 CE–1947 CE

#6569.1

Istoriia meditsiny v Armenii s drevneishikh vremen do nashikh dnei. 5 vols.

Supplement, Illustratskii k istorii meditsiny v Armenii, Erevan, 1958. A version of this work was edited and translated as Histoire de la médicine en Arménie des origines au debut du XIX siècle (!…

1947 CE

#1937

“Aerosporin”, an antibiotic produced by Bacillus aerosporus Greer.

Discovery of aerosporin (polymyxin). With A. M. Brown and G. Brownlee.

1947 CE

#6781

A check-list of medical books published in English before 1600.

1947 CE

#2063

A critical study of the origins and early development of hypodermic medication.

1947 CE

#1668

A guide to the history of physical education. 3rd edition, revised and enlarged by George Affleck.

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1947 CE

#8644

A history of the American Medical Association 1847 to 1947.

1947 CE

#3412.3

A new audiometer.

Semi-automatic (Békésy) audiometer.

1947 CE

#913

A new human iso-agglutinin subdividing the MN blood groups.

S blood-group antigen.

1947 CE

#10692

A study of nerve physiology. 2 vols.

See, Jorge A. Larriva-Sahd, "Some predictions of Rafael Lorente de Nó 80 years later," Frontiers in neuoranatomy, 8 (2014) 147.

1947 CE

#7396

A treatise on gonioscopy.

The first comprehensive book on gonioscopy.

1947 CE

#3107

Action hypoprothrombinémiante (anti-K) de la phényl-indanedione étudiée expérimentalement chez le lapin. Son application chez l’homme.

Introduction of phenylindanedione.

1947 CE

#6595

American medical research, past and present.

1947 CE

#971.1

Analyzer for accurate estimate of respiratory gases in one-half cubic centimeter samples.

An improvement on the classic Haldane method for analyzing oxygen and carbon dioxide in respiratory gases. It provides comparable accuracy over a wider range of gas concentrations with a gas sample of only 0.5 ml inst…