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1,008 entries match Immunology & Dermatology [C19 / C20 / C17]

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1932

#3904

The basophil adenomas of the pituitary body and their clinical manifestations (pituitary basophilism).

CUSHING, Harvey Williams (1869 – 1939)
CUSHING, Harvey Williams (1869 – 1939)

“Cushing’s syndrome”.

1932

#3923.1

A new error of tyrosine metabolism: tyrosinosis, intermediary metabolism of tyrosine and phenylalanine.

MEDES, Grace May (1886 – 1967)

1932

#5179

Serum treatment of tularemia.

FOSHAY, Lee (1896 – 1960)

Foshay devised a serum for the treatment of tularemia.

1932

#2657

Apparition de cancers de la mamelle chez la souris mâle, soumise à des injections de folliculine.

LACASSAGNE, Antoine Marcellin Bernard (1884 – 1971)

Demonstration of the carcinogenic effect of ovarian hormone.

1932

#5465

Vaccination against yellow fever with immune serum and virus fixed for mice.

SAWYER, Wilbur Augustus (1879 – 1951) LLOYD, Wray Devere Marr (1902 – 1936)

These workers devised an immune serum for prophylactic inoculation against yellow fever. With S. F. Kitchen and W. D. M. Lloyd.

1932

#13289

Sobre in caso de galactorrea y amenorrea.

AHUMADA SOTOMAYOR, Juan Carlos (1890 – 1976) DEL CASTILLO, Enrique Benjamin (1897 – 1969)

Ahumada-Del Castillo syndrome: galactorrhoea-amenorrhoea not associated with pregnancy; oestrogen deficiency and decreased urinary gonadotropin levels.

1933

#1170

The adrenotropic hormone of the anterior pituitary lobe.

COLLIP, James Bertram (1892 – 1965)
COLLIP, James Bertram (1892 – 1965) & et al.

Isolation of an impure “adrenotropic hormone” containing adrenocorticotropic principle. With E. M. Anderson and D. L. Thomson.

1933

#1171

The preparation, identification and assay of prolactin – a hormone of the anterior pituitary.

RIDDLE, Oscar (1877 – 1968) & et al.

With R. W. Bates and S. W. Dykshorn.

1933

#1377.1

The dermatomes in man.

FOERSTER, Otfrid (1873 – 1941)

1933

#1198

Chemical and physiological properties of crystalline oestrogenic hormones.

BROWNE, John Symonds Lyon (1904 – 1984)

Estriol obtained from placental tissue.

1933

#1199

Die Behandlung der Amenorrhoë mit hohen Dosen der Ovarialhormone.

KAUFMANN, Carl

First use of estrogenic hormone for the treatment of amenorrhea in ovariectomized women, with production of the typical cyclical endometrial changes.

1933

#2576.2

Die Spezifizität der serologischen Reaktionen.

LANDSTEINER, Karl (1868 – 1943)
LANDSTEINER, Karl (1868 – 1943)

Summary of many years of research on antigen-antibody interactions. Landsteiner considered his study of hapten-antibody reactions to be his most significant work. Revised English translation, 1936 (revised 1945).

1933

#2899

Congestive heart failure and angina pectoris: The therapeutic effect of thyroidectomy on patients without clinical or pathologic evidence of thyroid toxicity.

BLUMGART, Hermann Ludwig (1895 – 1977)
LEVINE, Samuel Albert (1891 – 1966)
LEVINE, Samuel Albert (1891 – 1966) & et al.

Thyroidectomy for congestive heart failure and angina pectoris. With D. D. Berlin.

1933

#3875

The adrenal cortex; a surgical and pathological study.

BROSTER, Lennox Ross (1889 – 1965) VINES, Howard William Copland (1893 – )

Includes the demonstration, by Vines, of virilism with the aid of a new stain; cortical cells of the adrenals removed at operation stained an abnormal (red) color – the so-called Ponceau fuchsin stain.

1933

#4007

Die Röntgen-Nahbestrahlung maligner Tumoren.

CHAOUL, Henri (1887 – 1964) ADAM, Albert

Chaoul therapy.

1933

#4008

Inherited abnormalities of the skin and its appendages.

COCKAYNE, Edward Alfred (1880 – 1956)

1933

#4156

The history of dermatology.

PUSEY, William Allen (1865 – 1940)
PUSEY, William Allen (1865 – 1940)

Reprinted, New York, 1976.

1933

#5151

Sur la valeur et la durée de l’immunité conférée par l’anatoxine tétanique dans la vaccination de l’homme contre le tétanos.

RAMON, Gaston Léon (1886 – 1963)
RAMON, Gaston Léon (1886 – 1963) ZOELLER, Christian (1888 – 1934)

Tetanus toxoid first employed in the immunization of humans.

1933

#5335.1

Ueber die Prophylaxe der Spirochaetosis icterohaemorrhagica Inada (Weilschen Krankheit) durch Schutzimpfung.

WANI, Hidetsune

Prophylactic vaccination against leptospirosis.

1933

#7829

Pigs born without eyeballs.

HALE, Fred

Hale demonstrated that pregnant pigs fed a diet deficient in vitamin A gave birth to piglets with a variety of malformations, predominantly a lack of eyes. See also: Hale, F., 'The relation of vitamin A to anophthalmo…

1934

#1150

Isolation in crystalline form of the hormone essential to life from the suprarenal cortex; its chemical nature and physiologic properties.

KENDALL, Edward Calvin (1886 – 1972) & et al.

Together with H. L. Mason, B. F. McKenzie, C. S. Myers, and G. A. Koelsche, Kendall reported the isolation in crystalline form of cortin ('C20H30O5)'

1934

#1200

Neuere Ergebnisse auf dem Gebiet der Sexualhormone.

BUTENANDT, Adolf Friedrich Johann (1903 – 1995)
BUTENANDT, Adolf Friedrich Johann (1903 – 1995)

Progesterone obtained in crystalline form.

1934

#1201

Über die Synthese des Testikelhormons (Androsteron) und Stereoisomerer desselben durch Abbau hydrierter Sterine.

RUZICKA, Leopold (1887 – 1976) & et al.

First complete synthesis of a sex hormone (androsterone). With M. W. Goldberg, J. Meyer, H. Brüngger, and E. Eichenberger. In 1939 Ruzicka shared the 1939 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Butenandt (No. 1195) "for his wo…

1934

#2605.1

Experiments in silk hypersensitivity and the inhalation of allergen in atopic dermatitis (neurodermatitis disseminatus).

SULZBERGER, Marion Baldur (1895 – 1983)

Proof that inhaled allergens can reach the skin in a quantity and quality capable of eliciting urticarial reactions. With W.T. Vaughn. Coca and Sulzberger coined the term, “atopic dermatitis.”

1934

#2576.6

The chemistry of antigens and antibodies.

MARRACK, John Richardson (1886 – 1976)

“The advent of the lattice theory of antibody-antigen coupling” (Bibel, Milestones in immunology [1988]pp. 91-94).

1934

#5045

A new antigen of B. typhosus. Its relation to virulence and to active and passive immunisation.

FELIX, Arthur (1887 – 1956)
FELIX, Arthur (1887 – 1956) PITT, R. Margaret

Vi antigens first described.

1935

#1152

Chemical studies on the adrenal cortex. II. Isolation of several physicologically inactive crystalline compounds from active extracts. III. Isolation of two new physiologically inactive compounds.

PFIFFNER, Joseph John (1903 – 1975) WINTERSTEINER, Oskar Paul (1898 – 1971)

Isolation of Compound F, identical with Kendall’s Compund E. See No. 1151.

1935

#1201.1

Über krystallinisches männliches Hormon aus Hoden (Testosteron), wirksamer als aus Harn oder aus Cholesterin bereitetes Androsteron.

DAVID, K & et al.

Isolation of testosterone from the testis. With E. Dingemanse, J. Freud, and E. Laqueur.

1935

#2576.3

A protective action of neurotropic against viscerotropic yellow fever virus in Macacus rhesus.

HOSKINS, Meredith

One of the first examples of an animal virus interference phenomenon was demonstrated by Hoskins.

1935

#3659.1

Treatment of carcinoma of the ampulla of Vater.

WHIPPLE, Allen Oldfather (1881 – 1963) & et al.

Pancreaticoduodenectomy for cancer of pancreas. With W. B. Parsons and C. R. Mullins.

1936

#1151

A physiologic and chemical investigation of the suprarenal cortex.

KENDALL, Edward Calvin (1886 – 1972)

Isolation of nine closely related steroid hormones from adrenal cortical extracts; one of these was Compound E (C21H28O5) which in 1939 was renamed cortisone. With H. L. Mason, C. S. Myers, and W. D. Allers. See also …

1936

#1153

Über Bestandteile der Nebennieren-Rinde. VI. Trennungsmethoden sowie Isolierung der Substanzen Fa, H, und j.

REICHSTEIN, Tadeusz (1897 – 1996)
REICHSTEIN, Tadeusz (1897 – 1996)

Isolation of Compound Fa, identical with Compounds E and F. "In the mid-1930s Edward Kendall and Tadeus Reichstein succeeded in isolating and analyzing the composition of a number of similar hormones derived from the …

1936 –1939

#1172

The physiology and pharmacology of the pituitary body. 2 vols.

VAN DYKE, Harry Benjamin (1895 – 1971)

Includes an extensive bibliography.

1936

#1202

The isolation of the principal estrogenic substance of liquor folliculi.

MACCORQUODALE, Donald William (1898 – 1986) & et al.

Isolation of oestradiol. With S. A. Thayer and E. A. Doisy.

1936

#2576.4

Immunogenetic studies of species and of species hybrids in doves, and the separation of species-specific substances in the backcross.

IRWIN, M. Robert (1897 – 1987)
COLE, Leon Jacob (1877 – 1948)
COLE, Leon Jacob (1877 – 1948)

Irwin coined the term, “immunogenetics” to describe the union of immunology with genetics. He attempted to determine the genetic control of antigenicity through genetic cross matings.

1936

#3905

Experimental diabetes insipidus in the monkey.

INGRAM, Walter Robinson (1905 – 1978) & et al.

With C. Fisher and S. W. Ransom.

1936

#3909

The endocrine organs in health and disease. With an historical review.

ROLLESTON, Sir Humphrey Davy (1862 – 1944)

"As a history of the subject, this work is unsurpassed in detail and accuracy" (L.T. Morton).

1936

#4009

Nouvelle pratique dermatologique. 8 vols.

DARIER, Ferdinand-Jean (1856 – 1938)
DARIER, Ferdinand-Jean (1856 – 1938) & et al.

1936

#5484.2

Propagation of rabies virus in tissue culture and the successful use of culture virus as antirabic vaccine.

WEBSTER, Leslie Tillotson (1894 – 1943) CLOW, Anna D. (1905 – 1992)

Webster and Clow succeeded in growing rabies virus in tissue culture.

1936

#7346

Quantitative und qualitative Untersuchungen über den Sympathicusstoff*. Zugleich XIV. Mitteilung über humorale Übertragung der Herznervenwirkung Ausgeführt mit Unterstützung der -Stiftung.

LOEWI, Otto (1873 – 1961)
LOEWI, Otto (1873 – 1961)

In this paper Loewi proved that the cardioexcitatory neurotransmitter of the sympathetic nerves is adrenaline, or actually noradrenaline.

1936

#14173

Dermographisme et mastocytose.

SÉZARY, Albert (1880 – 1956) LEVY-COBLENTZ, G. CHAUVILLON, P.

Sézary and colleagues first reported systemic mastocytosis.

1937

#1154

Corticosteron, a crystallized compound with the biological activity of the adrenal-cortical hormone.

FREMERY, P. de & et al.

Isolation of corticosterone. With E. Laqueur, T. Reichstein, R. W. Spanhoff, and I. E. Uyldert.

1937

#1173

Permanent experimental diabetes produced by pituitary (anterior lobe) injections.

YOUNG, Sir Frank George (1908 – 1988)

Anterior pituitary diabetogenic hormone.

1937

#1925

Action protectrice des éthers phénoliques au cours de l’intoxication histaminique.

BOVET, Daniel (1907 – 1992)
BOVET, Daniel (1907 – 1992) STAUB, Anne-Marie (1914 – 2012)

First description of structure and action of an antihistamine. In 1957 Bovet was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine “for his discoveries relating to synthetic compounds that inhibit the action of certai…

1937

#2576.5

The genetic and antigenic basis of tumour transplantation.

GORER, Peter Alfred (1907 – 1961)

Gorer made the initial discoveries which formed the basis of transplantation genetics. He studied mouse blood groups and described an antigen in erythrocytes (antigen II). His studies established the laws of transplan…

1937

#3876

Genital abnormalities, hermaphroditism and related adrenal diseases.

YOUNG, Hugh Hampton (1870 – 1945)
YOUNG, Hugh Hampton (1870 – 1945)

1937

#3907.1

Post-partum necrosis of the anterior pituitary.

SHEEHAN, Harold Leeming (1900 – 1988)

Sheehan’s syndrome – panhypopituitarism due to pituitary necrosis following post-partum hemorrhage.

1937

#4401

Syndrome characterized by osteitis fibrosa disseminata, areas of pigmentation and endocrine dysfunction, with precocious puberty in females. Report of five cases.

ALBRIGHT, Fuller (1900 – 1969)

“Albright’s syndrome”. With A. M. Butler, A. O. Hampton, and P. Smith.

1937

#5467

The use of yellow fever virus modified by in vitro cultivation for human immunization.

THEILER, Max (1899 – 1972)
THEILER, Max (1899 – 1972) SMITH, Hugh Hollingsworth (1902 – 1995)

Immunization without the use of immune serum. In 1951 Theiler was awared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for his discovery of an effective vaccine against yellow fever." This was the first Nobel Prize award…

1937

#8751

The history of the acute exanthemata.

ROLLESTON, John Davy (1873 – 1946)

Smallpox, chicken pox, scarlet fever, measles and German measles. Rolleston was the brother of Sir Humphrey Davy Rolleston.