1940–1949

1947 CE

#3558

Atresia of the ileum. First successful case cured by enterostomy alone.

1947 CE

#6601.1

Bosquejo histórico de la farmacia y la medicina en Honduras.

1947 CE

#1938

Chloromycetin, a new antibiotic from a soil actinomycete.

Production of chloramphenicol from Streptomyces venezuelae. With Q. R. Bartz, R. M. Smith, D. A. Joslyn and P. R. Burkholder.

1947 CE

#1940

Chloromycetin, an antibiotic with chemotherapeutic activity in experimental rickettsial and viral infections.

Introduction of chloramphenicol, used in treatment of typhus.

1947 CE

#2877

Circulatory failure studied by means of venous catheterization.

1947 CE

#13575

Clinical neuro-ophthalmology.

Considered first textbook on neuro-ophthalmology.

1947 CE

#2878

Congenital malformations of the heart.

This 618-page work, which required ten years to write, was the first "definitive textbook" of congenital heart defects, a subspecialty of pediatrics that Taussig created. The second edition, published in 1960, was ess…

1947 CE

#2090

Curare, its history, nature, and clinical use.

1947 CE

#7892

Das Diktat der Menschenverachtung. Der Nürnberger Ärzteprozeß und seine Quellen.

English version: Doctors of infamy. The story of the Nazi medical crimes, translated from German by Heinz Norden. With statements of 3 American authorities identified with the Nuremberg medical trial and a note on med…

1947 CE

#6529

Das medizinische Wien: Geschichte, Werden, Würdigung. 2nd ed.

1947 CE

#11511

Development of an artificial kidney: Experimental and clinical experiences.

".... a significant contribution to renal therapies was made by Canadian surgeon Gordon Murray with the assistance of two doctors, an undergraduate chemistry student, and research staff. Murray's work was conducted si…

1947 CE

#2660

Effect of intraperitoneal injection of malignant urine extracts in normal and hypophysectomized rats.

Test for diagnosis of cancer. With B. Halperin and S. H. Libert.

1947 CE

#2876

Electrokymograph for recording heart motion, improved type.

With B. R. Boone and W. E. Chamberlain.

1947 CE

#356.1

English naturalists from Neckham to Ray.

1947 CE

#751.4

Enzymatic reactions in carbohydrate metabolism.

In 1947 Carl Cori and his wife Gerty Cori (1896-1957) shared the Nobel Prize (with Houssay) “for their discovery of the course of the catalytic conversion of glycogen.” They are more often remembered for t…

1947 CE

#5351.3

Experimental chemotherapy of filariasis. III. Effect of 1-diethylcarbamyl-4-methyl-piperazine hydrochloride against naturally acquired filarial infections in cotton rats and dogs.

Proof of antifilarial action of diethylcarbarmazine citrate (hetrazan). With S. Kushner, H. W. Stewart, E. White, W. S. Wallace, and Y. Subbarow.

1947 CE

#4615.1

Fluorescein as an agent in the differentiation of normal and malignant tissues.

Radioactive isotopes used in neuroradiology. See also Science, 1948, 107, 569-71.

1947 CE

#6650.1

Frauen in der abendländischen Heilkunde, vom klassischen Altertum bis zum Ausgang des 19. Jahrhunderts.

1947 CE

#9343

Healing herbs of the upper Rio Grande.

Revised and edited by Michael Moore as Healing herbs of the upper Rio Grande: Traditional medicine of the Southwest (Sante Fe: Western Edge Press, 1997).

1947 CE

#6556

Histoire de la médecine française: son passé, son présent, son avenir.

1947 CE

#6601

Historia da medicina no Brasil. (Do século XVI ao século XIX). 2 vols.

1947 CE

#6579.1

História da medicina portuguesa.

1947 CE

#6440

History of medicine. A correlative text arranged according to subjects by Cecilia Mettler. Edited by Fred A Mettler.

Posthumously published after the author died three days after childbirth.

1947 CE

#3153

Intravenous administration of iron.

1947 CE

#13496

La contribución del Ecuador a la material médica: La quina.

1947 CE

#5

Le papyrus médical Chester Beatty, par le Dr. Frans Jonckheere.

A hieratic papyrus of the 13th-12th century BCE. It is a fragment of a monograph on diseases of the anus. The papyrus was reproduced with transcription by A. H. Gardiner in 1935. See No. 8318.

1947 CE

#6629

Magic and healing.

1947 CE

#12814

Medical care and the plight of the Negro.

1947 CE

#6569

Medicine and health in the Soviet Union.

1947 CE

#6940

Nicolaus Pol Doctor 1494 by Max H. Fisch. With a critical text of his guaiac tract, edited with a translation by Dorothy M. Schullian.

The 1494 in the title comes from the year in which Pol became a physician, and his habit of writing his name and that date in his books. The volume includes a study of books from Nicolaus Pol's library in Cleveland an…

1947 CE

#11066

Nos hôpitaux Parisiens. Un siècle d'histoire hospitalière. Deux siècles d'histoire hôpitalière de Henri IV à Louis-Philippe (1602-1836). 2 vols.

1947 CE

#13043

Physicians' desk reference to pharmaceutical specialties and biologicals.

1947 CE

#13043

Physicians' desk reference to pharmaceutical specialties and biologicals. Richard R. Maehler, Editor of Compilation and Arrangement.

This work underwent its 71st edition in 2017.

1947 CE

#1941

Polymyxin: a new chemotherapeutic agent.

With R. G. Shepherd and H. J. White.

1947 CE

#1939

Procaine penicillin G (duracillin); a new salt of penicillin which prolongs the action of penicillin.

Procaine benzylpenicillin also known as penicillin G procaine was developed by Herrell and colleagues. With D.R. Nichols.

1947 CE

#6234

Reacción diagnóstica del embarazo en la que se usa el sapo macho como animal reactivo.

Male toad test. An English account is in J. clin. Endocr., 1947, 7, 653-58.

1947 CE

#11392

Research and writings on training, conditioning, treatment of athletic injuries, and corrective work. 2 vols.

Bohm was probably the first full-time professional physician in professional sports.

1947 CE

#1534

Sensory mechanisms of the retina: with an appendix on electroretinography.

An account of twenty years’ work on the electrical responses of the retina, a discussion of visual purple and visual violet, and an exposition of Granit’s hypothesis of colour vision. His researches have d…

1947 CE

#4912.1

Stereotaxic apparatus for operations on the human brain.

"The first successful cranial application of stereotactic surgery in humans is credited to the team of Ernest Spiegel and Henry Wycis in the Department of Experimental Neurology at Temple University in Philadelphia (S…

1947 CE

#6441

Storia della medicina. 2 vols.

1947 CE

#1245

Studies of the renal circulation.

With A. E. Barclay, P. M. Daniel, K. J. Franklin, and M. M. L. Prichard. In studying the anurias which follow injury, especially crushing injuries and burns, Trueta’s team demonstrated that both the processes of…

1947 CE

#5351.4

Sur la chimiothérapie de l’onchocercose. (Note préliminaire).

First effective chemotherapy (suramin) for onchocerciasis. With C. Heurard, E. Peel, and M. Wanson.

1947 CE

#3019.1

Sur la désobstruction des thromboses artérielles anciennes.

In 1946 Santos removed a thrombus and atheroma plaque from an artery in order to unblock it, and, using the knowledge acquired from Gordon Murray, placed the patient on heparin in order to avoid re-thrombosis. Called …

1947 CE

#1244.2

The antidiuretic hormone and the factors which determine its release.

Verney elucidated the factors that determine the release of antidiuretic hormone, and introduced the osmoreceptor concept.

1947 CE

#912.5

The coagulation of blood. Investigations on a new clotting factor.

Discovery of the Factor V. Preliminary account in Proc. Norwegian Acad. Sci., 1941, 17, 21.

1947 CE

#5733

The development of inhalation anaesthesia, with special reference to the years 1846-1900.

Publications of the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, New series, No. 2. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1947 CE

#10822

The diagnosis of the acute abdomen in rhyme by Zeta.

Cope published this humorous version of his Early diagnosis of the acute abdomen under the pseudonym Zeta.

1947 CE

#10284

The doctor in Oregon: A medical history.

1947 CE

#13113

The effects of atomic bombs on health and medical services in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The United States Strategic Bombing Survey, Medical Division.

Digital facsimile from U.S. National Library of Medicine at this link.

1947 CE

#9080

The medical writings of Anonymus Londinensis.

The text edited by Diels, with an English translation, introduction and notes by Jones, together with essays on the nature of Greek thought and medicine.