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1,008 entries match Immunology & Dermatology [C19 / C20 / C17]
1927 –1937
#4006
Handbuch der Haut-und Geschlechtskrankheiten. Hrsg…von J. JADASSOHN. 24 vols.
1927
#3972
Carcinoma of the islands of the pancreas; hyperinsulinism and hypoglycemia.
R. M. Wilder, F. N. Allan, M. H. Power, and H. E. Robertson reported the occurrence of carcinoma with hyperinsulinism. They also reported the first operation for hyperinsulinism performed on December 2, 1926 by Willia…
1927
#6298
Missgeburten und Wundergestalten in Einblattdrucken und Handzeichnungen des 16. Jahrhunderts.
1927
#11994
La vaccination préventive contre la tuberculose par le "BGG". Par Albert Calmette avec la collaboration de C. Guérin, A. Boquet et L. Nègre.
A 250-page monograph, with bibliographical references, on the development of the BCG vaccine from M. bovis, from 1909 to 1927 by the scientists involved. (Thanks to Ron Cox for this reference.)
1927
#12266
Paroxysmal hypertension with tumor of retroperitoneal nerve. Report of a case.
First resection of a pheochromocytoma in America, and the second in the world, by the co-founder of the Mayo Clinic. In 1926 César Roux of Lausanne did the first resection of this rare type of tumor.
1928
#1168.1
The active principles of the posterior lobe of the pituitary gland. I. The demonstration of the presence of two active principles. II. The separation of the two principles and their concentration in the form of potent solid preparations.
Isolation of vasopressin and oxytocin. With T. B. Aldrich, I. W. Grote, L. W. Rowe, and E. P. Bugbee.
1928
#4152
Relapsing febrile nodular nonsuppurative panniculitis.
See No. 4151.
1928
#5070
L’anatoxine diphtérique. Ses propriétés–ses applications.
In 1923 Ramon so modified the diphtheria toxin with formaldehyde that it lost its toxic properties while retaining its antigenic virtues. This modified “anatoxin” (toxoid) superseded toxin–antitoxin as an immunizing a…
1928
#4155
Geschichte der Dermatologie, geographische Verteilung der hautkrankheiten Nomenklatur. (Handbuch der Haut- und Geschlechtskrankheiten, Bd. 14, 2. T.)
1928
#5461
A yellow fever vaccine.
First vaccine for immunization against yellow fever. Hindle devised a method for the transportation of frozen infected material from West Africa to London, making it possible to carry on experimental work in Britain.
1929 –1934
#1125
Die Hormone; ihre Physiologie und Pharmakologie. 2 vols.
1929
#1138.01
Effect of hormones of anterior pituitary on thyroid gland in the guinea pig.
Loeb and Aron (No.1138.2) demonstrated the thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) in the anterior pituitary.
1929
#1138.02
Action de la préhypophyse sur le thyroïde chez le cobaye.
Simultaneously with Loeb (No. 1138.1) Aron demonstrated the thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) in the anterior pituitary.
1929
#1149
The preparation of an active extract of the supra-renal cortex.
First practical method of preparing an extract of the active agent of the adrenal cortical hormone. It was named cortin until it was recognized that there are several active agents in the secretion.
1929
#1168.2
Action du lobe antérieur de l’hypophyse sur la montée laiteuse.
Demonstration of the existence of a pituitary lactogenic hormone (prolactin).
1929
#1188
Physiology of the corpus luteum.
Discovery of the corpus luteum hormone, progesterone.
1929
#1189
The male hormone.
Funk and Harrow obtained crude active male hormone extracts from male urine.
1929
#1190
The chemistry of oestrin. I. Preparation from urine and separation from an unidentified solid alcohol.
Isolation of pregnanediol.
1929
#1191
The effects of extracts of testis in correcting the castrated condition in the fowl and in the mammal.
C. R. Moore, T. F. Gallagher, and F. C. Koch were the first to obtain a potent testicular extract containing the male sex hormone, androsterone, later obtained in crystalline form by Butenandt. They also gave a detail…
1929
#2576.01
A quantitative study of the precipitin reaction between Type III pneumococcus polysaccharide and purified homologous antibody.
Heidelberger and Kendall adapted the precipitin reaction to permit the quantitative measurement of antibody and antigen. This established the principle of quantitative immunochemistry.
1929
#2576.02
Hypersensitiveness to arsphenamine in guinea pigs. I. Experiments in prevention and desensitization.
First demonstration of specific, acquired, lasting refractoriness to sensitization. This is the same or a closely related phenomenon to that demonstrated later by Burnet and Medawar under the name immune tolerance. Se…
1929
#3202.1
A note on the inhalation treatment of asthma.
First use of adrenaline by the respiratory route for the treatment of bronchial asthma.
1929
#3873
Suprarenal cortical extracts in suprarenal insufficiency (Addison’s disease).
Rogoff and Stewart were the first to use adrenal cortical extract (“inter-renalin”) in the treatment of adrenal insufficiency. See also No. 1148.
1929
#4397
Sur une forme de dystrophie osseuse familiale.
“Morquio’s disease”, eccentro-osteochondrodysplasia.
1929
#7186
The female sex hormone. Part I: Biology, pharmacology and chemistry. Part II: Clinical investigations based on the female sex hormone blood test.
The first handbook on female sex hormones. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1929
#14192
The action of ephedrine, pseudoephedrine and epinephrine on the bronchioles.
Swanson showed that just 0.01 mg. of epinephrine was as vasconstrictive as 2 mg. of ephedrine and 4 mg. of pseudoephedrine. He also showed that all three of these drugs have bronchodilator properties, but epinephrine …
1930
#1169
La diabetes pancreática de los perros hipofisoprivos.
Houssay’s depancreatized hypophysectomized dog. This work led to Houssay’s demonstration of the importance of the anterior pituitary in sugar metabolism. See also Endocrinology, 1931,15, 511-23. In 1947 Houssay shared…
1930
#1192
The ovary-stimulating hormone of the placenta.
Collip’s anterior-pituitary-like (A-L-P) factor.
1930
#1193
The preparation of the crystalline ovarian hormone from the urine of pregnant women.
First isolation of a pure crystalline hormone (estrone). Preliminary communication in Amer. J. Physiol., 1929, 90, 329-30.
1930
#1194
The chemistry of oestrin. III. An improved method of preparation and the isolation of active crystalline material.
Crystalline estriol obtained.
1930
#2603.1
Arsphenamine hypersensitiveness in guinea pigs. II. Experiments demonstrating the role of the skin, both as originator and as site of the hypersensitiveness.
Sulzberger showed that allergens gaining access to the epidermis are processed there in some manner (Langerhans cells?) that determines their allergenicity. See No. 2576.02
1930
#2653
Allergie des Lebensalters, die bösartigen Geschwülste.
Important study of the age and sex incidence of cancer.
1930
#2576.1
Chemische Untersuchung des Präzipitates aus Hämoglobin und AntiHämoglobin-Serum und Bemerkungen über die Natur der Antikörper.
Template or instruction theory of antibody formation.
1930
#5071
Insoluble precipitates in diphtheria and tetanus immunization.
Alum-precipitated toxoid for active immunization.
1931
#4670.5
Immunological differences between strains of poliomyelitis virus.
1931
#1195
Ueber die chemische Untersuchung der Sexualhormone.
The male sex hormone, androsterone, was isolated in crystalline form by Butenandt. In 1939 Butenandt received half of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his work on sex hormones." The other half was awarded to Leopold …
1931
#1196
Die Hormone des Ovariums und des Hypophysenvorderlappens.
Second edition, 1935.
1931
#2604
Treatment of hay fever by intranasal zinc ionization.
Introduction of the method.
1931
#3923
The analysis of whole-blood. II. The determination of sugar and of saccharoids (non-fermentable copper-reducing substances).
Benedict’s test for blood-sugar.
1931
#5087.1
The phases of Haemophilus pertussis.
Leslie and Gardner classified H. pertussis cultures into four types and established an experimental basis for the development of an effective vaccine.
1931
#5785
The cause of “painful breasts” and treatment by means of ovarian residue.
Cutler was the first to employ ovarian hormone systematically in the treatment of chronic mastitis.
1931
#5227.1
Entwurf einer Geschichte der ansteckenden Geschlechtskrankheiten.
1931
#7880
The mystery and lore of monsters. With account of some giants, dwarfs and prodigies.
Digital facsimile of the New York 1931 issue from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1932
#1197
Sex and internal secretions; a survey of recent research.
Second edition, 1939, with C. H. Danforth and E. A. Doisy.
1932
#2605
Studies in anaphylaxis.
Detection of the release of histamines into the circulation during anaphylactic reaction. Thereafter histamine was identified as Lewis’s “H-substance.”
1932
#3552
Papers relating to the pituitary body, hypothalamus, and para-sympathetic nervous system.
Cushing advanced the theory that the hypothalamus is responsible for the development of peptic ulcer (see p. 175 et seq.). This work contains his four principal contributions to pituitary-hypothalamic interrelationshi…
1932
#3203.1
Acute symptoms following work with hay.
“Farmer’s lung”.
1932
#3852
Diseases of the thyroid gland, with special reference to thyrotoxicosis.
Second edition, 1951. Joll was a pioneer in the treatment of thyrotoxicosis by means of subtotal thyroidectomy.
1932
#3874
The adrenal cortical hormone.
The cortical hormone prepared by Swingle and Pfiffner (“eschatin”) was found to be very effective in the treatment of Addison’s disease. Their first paper on the subject appeared in Science, 1930, 71, 321.
1932
#3903
Acromegaly.
An extensive analytical tabulation of acromegaly; 1,319 cases are reported.