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1,672 entries match Pharmacology & Therapeutics [D01 / E02]

1901

#2003.1

Introduction électrolytique des ions dans l’organisme vivant.

Introduction of ionic medication.

1901

#2040.1

Peru: The history of coca, “the divine plant of the Incas”.

The most comprehensive work on the coca plant and the history of its use by the Incas and their descendants. Reprinted, San Francisco, And/Or Press, 1974.

1901 –1903

#240

Die Mutationstheorie. 2 vols.

The theory of mutation was first advanced by de Vries. English translation, 2 vols., Chicago, 1909-10.

1901

#8540

The medicinal plants of the Philippines. Translated and revised by Jerome B. Thomas, Jr.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1902 –1906

#2083

Lehrbuch der Intoxikationen. 2te. Aufl. 2 vols.

1902

#2110

Snake venom in relation to haemolysis, bacteriolysis, and toxicity.

1902

#2111

Ueber die Wirkungsweise des Cobragiftes.

While in Germany Kyes showed lecithin to be a complement of cobra-hemolysin. English translation in Ehrlich, Studies in immunity, 1910.

1902

#2590

De l’action anaphylactique de certains venins.

First full description of the phenomenon of “anaphylaxis,” the name of which was coined by Richet. Abbreviated English translation in Bibel, Milestones of immunology (1988). In 1913, Richet was awarded the Nobel Prize…

1902

#241

Mendel’s principles of heredity: A defence.

The first book on Mendelism in English, and the first English textbook of genetics. It contains a reprint of the first English translation of Mendel’s “Versuch über Pflanzen-Hybriden” from the J. Roy. Horticult. Soc.,…

1902

#8569

Des Pedanios Dioskurides aus Anazarbos Arzneimittellehre in fünf Büchern. Übersetzt und mit Erklärungen Versehen.

Analysis of Dioscordes from the pharmacological standpoint, including determination of his units of measurements, critical in dosage. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1902

#8961

Lithotherapie: Historische Studien über die medizinische Verwendung der Edelsteine.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

c. 1902

#12437

Ueber die Beziehungen von chemischer Constitution. Vertheilung und pharmakologischer Wirkung: Vortrag, gehalten im Verein für Innere Medicin am 12. December 1898.

In this speech Ehrlich explained how the molecular structure of a drug can define its action and function. It represents his first attempts at modifying the molecular structure of a compound in order to tailor the in …

1903

#1892

Ueber eine neue Klasse von Schlafmitteln.

Synthesis of barbitone (Barbitol), the first available barbiturate.

1903

#1893

Standardisation of disinfectants.

Rideal–Walker method for testing disinfectants.

1903

#2112

Zur Kenntniss der Cobragift activirenden Substanzen.

English translation in Ehrlich, Studies in immunity, 1910.

1903

#2113

Ueber die Isolirung von Schlangengift-Lecithiden.

English translation in Ehrlich, Studies in immunity, 1910.

1903

#4955

Sopra un’ alterazione del corpo calloso osservata in soggetti alcoolisti.

Marchiafava–Bignami disease – degeneration of the corpus callosum in alcoholism.

1903

#242

Ueber Erblichkeit in Populationen und in reinen Linien.

More support for the Mendelian law of inheritance was provided by Johannsen, a Danish botanist, who showed that in certain self-fertilizing plants a pure line of descendants can be maintained indefinitely, in which ca…

1903 –1910

#8543

Datos par la materia médica Argentina. 2 vols. (Vol. 2: Trabajos de Instituto de Farmacología de la Facultad de Ciencias Médicas de Buenos Aires No. 25).

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1903

#11627

Physiological aspects of the liquor problem. Investigations made by and under the direction of W. O. Atwater, John S. Billings, H. P. Bowditch, R. H. Chittenden, and W. H. Welch Sub-Committee of the Committee of Fifty to Investigate the Liquor Problem. 2 vols.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1904

#2041

Geschichte der Pharmazie

Reprinted Hildesheim, 1964.

1904

#1893.1

Ueber Digalen (Digitoxinum solubile).

Introduction of digalen.

1904

#2437

The constituents of chaulmoogra seeds.

Hydnocarpus wightiana or Chaulmoogra is a tree in the Achariaceae family. The oil from seeds of Hydnocarpus wightiana or Chaulmoogra, a tree in the Achariaceae family, was widely used in Indian medicine and Chinese tr…

1905

#1893.2

On the reaction of cells and of nerve-endings to certain poisons, chiefly as regards the reaction of striated muscle to nicotine and to curari.

Langley introduced the concept of a receptor substance present in the biological object with which a drug has to interact in order to exert its biological effect. Digital facsimile from PubMedCentral at this link.

1905

#1894

Physiological and pharmacological studies of magnesium salts.

A study of the anesthetic and other effects of magnesium salts.

1905 –1914

#2518

Bacteria in relation to plant diseases. 3 vols.

One of the most careful investigations of the bacterial diseases in plants was made by Smith, who conclusively demonstrated the existence of such diseases and proposed a scheme of classification for the bacteria conce…

1905

#2819

New methods of studying affections of the heart.

Mackenzie established the remarkable action of digitalis in auricular fibrillation.

1905

#5279

Report on trypanosomes, trypanosomiasis, and sleeping sickness, being an experimental investigation into their pathology and treatment.

Thomas and Breinl discovered that arsanilic acid, was more potent in the treatment of laboratory trypanosomiasis than arsenic in inorganic form. As a crystalline powder it was introduced medically as Atoxyl. Thomas an…

1906 –1914

#1786

De materia medica. Edidit Max Wellmann. 3 vols.

Dioscorides’ work is the authoritative source on the materia medica of antiquity. He described over 600 plants and plant principles. The above edition by Wellman is the definitive Greek text. It also contains the Frag…

1906

#2005

Interprétation de quelques résultats de la radiothérapie et essai de fixation d’une technique rationelle.

Bergonié-Tribondeau law, “the sensitivity of cells to radiation varies directly with the reproductive capacity of the cells and inversely with their degree of differentiation” (Dorland).

1906

#2043

Deutsches Badewesen in vergangenen Tagen.

1906

#1895

An active alkaloid from ergot.

Isolation of ergotoxine. With F. H. Carr.

1906 –1907

#2084

On the poisons of Amanita phalloides.

Abel and Ford showed that there were two poisons in the fungus Amanita phalloides, and that immunity against them could be attained. A further study on the subject by the same authors is in Arch. exp. Path. Pharmak., …

1906

#5280

Traitement des trypanosomiases par les “couleurs de benzidine”.

Introduction of trypan-blue in the treatment of trypanosomiasis. Second paper by Mesnil and Nicolle.

1906

#242.3

Further experiments on inheritance in sweet peas and stocks; preliminary account.

W. Bateson, E. R. Saunders and R. C. Punnett noted the phenomena of linkage of genes.

1906

#8473

Bibliotheca chemica: A catalogue of the alchemical, chemical and pharmaceutical books in the collection of the late James Young of Kelly and Durris....by John Ferguson. 2 vols.

One of the great landmarks of descriptive scientific bibliography. With bibliographical details of each work, biographical notices of each writer, and exhaustive lists of references in chronological order, its scope a…

1906

#13137

La pharmacie en Egypte.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1907

#2006

Climatology and balneotherapy.

1907

#1895.1

Synthese des Imidazolyläthylamins.

Synthesis of histamine.

1907

#5281

Chemotherapeutische Trypanosomen-Studien.

The first account of induced microbial drug resistance. Ehrlich encountered induced drug resistance in microbes while researching arsenical preparations as cures for sleeping sickness and other trypanosome-caused illn…

1908

#2044

Die volkmedizinische Organotherapie und ihr Verhältnis zum Kultopfer.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1908

#1948

Ueber Sulfamide der p-Amidobenzolsulfonsäure.

Para-aminobenzenesulfonamide (sulphanilamide) first prepared.

1908

#5282

Further results of the experimental treatment of trypanosomiasis in rats.

Trial of antimony in the treatment of trypanosomiasis.

1908

#7444

Notes of a botanist on the Amazon & Andes, being records of travel on the Amazon and its tributaries, the Trombetas, Rio Negro, Uaupés, Casiquiari, Pacimoni, Huallaga, and Pastas; as also to the cataracts of the Orinoco, along the eastern side of the Andes of Peru and Ecuador, and the shores of the Pacific during the years 1849-1864. Edited and condensed by Alfred Russel Wallace..., with a biographical introduction, portrait, seventy-one illustrations and seven maps. 2 vols.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1908

#8246

Insanity in India: Its symptoms and diagnosis; with reference to the relation of crime and insanity.

Includes considerable discussion of the psychoactive effects of cannabis. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1908

#9018

Philumeni de venenatis animalibus eorumque remediis capita XXXVIII ed. M. Wellmann. Corpus medicorum graecorum X 1, 1.

This work on venoms and their antidotes is the only surviving work of the Byzantine physician Philomenos. Within this context Philomenos also discusses the bites of rabid dogs. Digital facsimile from Corpus medicorum …

1909

#2007

Ueber Diathermie. (Transthermie, Thermopenetration.)

Nagelschmidt employed high frequency currents in treatment after the suggestions of Tesla and the work of Nernst, claiming priority over the latter in the use of this method. Nagelschmidt named this form of treatment …

1909

#2114

Snake venoms.

1909

#1897

On the relation between the toxicity and chemical constitution of a number of derivatives of choline and analogous compounds.

1909

#5628

Hemorrhage and transfusion.