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1932

#1197

Sex and internal secretions; a survey of recent research.

ALLEN, Edgar (1892 – 1943)
ALLEN, Edgar (1892 – 1943)

Second edition, 1939, with C. H. Danforth and E. A. Doisy.

1932

#2056

Physical therapy.

COULTER, John Stanley (1885 – 1949)

“Clio medica” series.

1932

#1683

Epidemiology, historical and experimental.

GREENWOOD, Major (1880 – 1949)
GREENWOOD, Major (1880 – 1949)

1932

#2347

The chemistry of tuberculosis. Second edition.

LONG, Esmond Ray (1890 – 1979) WELLS, Henry Gideon (1875 – 1943)

1932

#2241

Classic descriptions of disease.

MAJOR, Ralph Hermon (1884 – 1970)

A collection of classic descriptions of disease by 179 different writers, from ancient times to the present. Foreign papers are translated into English. A second edition of this most interesting and useful book appear…

1932

#3552

Papers relating to the pituitary body, hypothalamus, and para-sympathetic nervous system.

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

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

#2861

The cardiac output of man in health and disease.

GROLLMAN, Arthur (1901 – 1980)

1932

#4900

Intracranial tumours.

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

Cushing’s operating technique reduced the mortality rate dramatically in intracranial surgery. This was his last published report on the statistical results of his operations on brain tumors-- essentially a summation …

1932

#6460

Medicine among the American Indians.

STONE, Eric Percy (1892 – )

Reprinted, New York, Hafner, 1962.

1932

#6563

Italian medicine. Translated by E.B. Krumbhaar.

CASTIGLIONI, Arturo (1874 – 1953)
CASTIGLIONI, Arturo (1874 – 1953)

Clio Medica series.

1932

#6574

Lappische Heilkunde.

QVIGSTAD, Just Knud (1853 – 1957)
QVIGSTAD, Just Knud (1853 – 1957) WIKLUND, Karl Bernhard (1868 – 1934)

Folk medicine of the Sami people.

1932

#7003

The Swimmer manuscript. Cherokee sacred formulas and medicinal prescriptions, by James Mooney, revised, completed and edited by Frans M. Olbrechts. Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 99.

MOONEY, James (1861 – 1921)
MOONEY, James (1861 – 1921) OLBRECHTS, Frans Maria (1899 – 1958)

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1932

#8074

Medical care for the American people. The final report of the Committee on the Costs of Medical Care.

COMMITTEE ON THE COSTS OF MEDICAL CARE

See Gore, "A forgotten landmark medical study from 2932 by the Committee on the Cost of Medical Care," Proc (Bayl Univ Med Cent). 2013 Apr; 26 (2): 142–143. Available from PubMedCentral at this link. See also, Ross, "…

1932

#9283

The ethnobotany of the Acoma and Laguna Indians. M.A. thesis.

SWANK, George R.

1932

#9295

Ethnobotany of the Ojibwe Indians.

SMITH, Huron Herbert (1883 – 1933)
SMITH, Huron Herbert (1883 – 1933)

Digital facsimile from nwic.edu at this link.

1932

#10279

California's medical story.

HARRIS, Henry (1874 – 1938)

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1932

#12753

The sexual side of marriage.

EXNER, Max Joseph (1871 – 1943)

A very good advice book for its time by a physician. Initially published by a small publisher, this book was rapidly reprinted, many times by W.W. Norton. The cover reprinted an endorsement by Havelock Ellis: "An admi…

1933

#4478.109

The control of football injuries.

STEVENS, Marvin Allen (1900 – 1979) PHELPS, Winthrop Morgan (1894 – 1971)

Apparently the first book on the prevention and treatment of injuries in a single sport, written after fifty players were killed in the 1931 American football season. Stevens was an orthopedic surgeon who became head …

1933

#2429

The history and epidemiology of syphilis.

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

1933

#4297

History of urology. Prepared under the auspices of the American Urological Association. Editorial Committee: Edgar G. Ballenger, William A. FRontz, Homer G. Hamer, and Bransford Lewis. 2 vols

BALLENGER, Edgar Garrison (1877 – 1945)

Every aspect of the subject is covered exhaustively by the various contributors to this collective work; valuable bibliographies are included.

1933

#4156

The history of dermatology.

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

Reprinted, New York, 1976.

1933

#5768

The operative story of cleft palate.

DORRANCE, George Morris (1877 – 1949)

1933

#6584

Medicine in Canada.

HOWELL, William Boyman (1873 – 1947)

1933

#8075

The costs of medical care: A summary of investigations on the economic aspects of the prevention and care of illness.

FALK, Isidore Sydney (1899 – 1984) ROREM, Clarence Rufus (1894 – 1988) RING, Martha D.

1933

#8079

The incidence of illness and the receipt and costs of medical care among representative families. Experiences in twelve consecutive months during 1928-1931. Publications of the Committee on the Costs of Medical Care : No. 26.

FALK, Isidore Sydney (1899 – 1984) SINAI, Nathan (1894 – ) KLEM, Margaret C.

Digital facsimile from Hathi Trust at this link.

1933

#10308

Red medicine: Socialized health in Soviet Russia.

NEWSHOLME, Sir Arthur (1857 – 1943)
NEWSHOLME, Sir Arthur (1857 – 1943) KINGSBURY, John Adams (1876 – 1956)

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1933

#11002

Medical women of America: A short history of the pioneer medical women of America and of a few of their colleagues in England.

HURD-MEAD, Kate Campbell (1867 – 1941)
HURD-MEAD, Kate Campbell (1867 – 1941)

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1933

#11349

Benign tumors in the third ventricle of the brain: Diagnosis and treatment.

DANDY, Walter Edward (1886 – 1946)
DANDY, Walter Edward (1886 – 1946)

1933

#11668

The failing heart of middle life: The myocardiosis syndrome, coronary thrombosis, and angina pectoris with a section upon the medico-legal aspects of sudden death from heart disease.

HYMAN, Albert S. (1893 – 1972) PARSONNET, Aaron E. (1889 – 1951)

"This pioneering monograph on the pathophysiology of coronary artery disease includes a detailed discussion of the recently recognized electrocardiographic features of myocardial infarction. Hyman invented a [external…

1933

#12802

Las plantas medicinales de México.

MARTÍNEZ MARTÍNEZ, Maximino (1888 – 1964)

Contains information on 833 species.

1934 –1938

#1781

The patient and the weather. With the assistance of Margaret E. Milliken. 4 vols. in 7.

PETERSEN, William Ferdinand (1887 – 1950) MILLIKEN, Margaret Eugenie Wilson

1934

#145.66

The struggle for existence.

GAUSE, George Francis (Georgiĭ Frantsevich) (1910 – 1986)

Gause developed the concept of competitive exclusion as formulated by Volterra.

1934

#4400.4

The shoulder.

CODMAN, Ernest Amory (1869 – 1940)
CODMAN, Ernest Amory (1869 – 1940)

Definitive study of the rotator cuff, written in Codman’s idiosyncratic and iconoclastic style. Reprint, Malabar, Fl., Krieger, 1965.

1934

#6132.01

Tumors of the female pelvic organs.

MEIGS, Joe Vincent (1892 – 1963)

“Meigs’s syndrome” – fibroma of the ovary with pleural effusion – is described on pp. 262-63.

1934

#6494

Chinese medicine

MORSE, William Reginald (1874 – 1939)

1934

#6514

Medicine in Persia.

ELGOOD, Cyril Lloyd (1892 – 1970)

1934

#6555

French Medicine. Translated by E. B. Krumbhaar.

LAIGNEL-LAVASTINE, Paul-Marie Maxime (1875 – 1953) MOLINÉRY, Raymond (1876 – 1946)

Clio Medica series.

1934

#6560

German medicine. Translated by Jules Freund.

HABERLING, Wilhelm Gustav Moritz (1871 – 1940)

Clio Medica series.

1934

#6564

The renaissance of medicine in Italy … The Hideyo Noguchi Lectures.

CASTIGLIONI, Arturo (1874 – 1953)
CASTIGLIONI, Arturo (1874 – 1953)

1934

#7700

Who shall survive? A new approach to the problem of human interrelations.

MORENO, Jacob Levy (1889 – 1974)
MORENO, Jacob Levy (1889 – 1974)

Moreno founded psychodrama, and pioneered group psychotherapy. Apart from its psychiatric and sociological significance, this work contained some of the earliest graphic depictions of social networks— data visualizati…

1934

#8677

Jewish contributions to medicine in America from colonial times to the present.

KAGAN, Solomon Robert (1881 – 1955)

1934

#10609

An atlas of infant behavior: A systematic delineation of the forms and early growth of human behavior patterns... illustrated with 3,200 action photographs. Vol. l: Normative series, in collaboration with Helen Thompson and Catherine S. Amatruda. Selected bibliographies (p. 45). Vol. 2: Naturalistic series, in collaboration with Alice V. Keliher, Frances L. Ilg, and Jessie J. Carlson. (2 vols.)

GESELL, Arnold Lucius (1880 – 1961)

Gesell, who originated the Child Study Center at Yale University, was the founder of the study of child development in the United States. He is best known for his groundbreaking studies of normal child development: be…

1934

#11001

Postures & practices during labor among primitive peoples: Adaptations to modern obstetrics, with chapters on taboos & superstitions & postpartum gymnastics.

JARCHO, Julius (1882 – 1963)

1934

#11350

Benign, encapsulated tumors in the lateral ventricles of the brain: Diagnosis and treatment.

DANDY, Walter Edward (1886 – 1946)
DANDY, Walter Edward (1886 – 1946)

1934

#11358

Exhibition of first editions of epochal achievements in the history of science.

EVANS, Herbert McLean (1882 – 1971)
EVANS, Herbert McLean (1882 – 1971)

Briefly annotated listings of 114 classics under the headings of Mathematics, Astronomy, Physics, Chemistry, Geology, Botany, Zoology, and the Hearst Medical Papyrus. Strangely, several major medical and biological cl…

1934

#11663

The negro professional man and the community with special emphasis on the physician and lawyer.

WOODSON, Carter Godwin (1875 – 1950)
WOODSON, Carter Godwin (1875 – 1950)

An in-depth social statistical and geographical analysis of America's black doctors including their distribution, economic links, and social activism that varied throughout the South, as well as the North and West.

1934

#12509

Exhibit for dentistry at a Century of Progress International Exposition, Chicago, 1933-1934: A portrayal of problems of dental health and the prevention of dental disease with which is interwoven something of the development of the profession and the history of dental practice. Booklet prepared by Arthur D. Black. Exhibit operated under auspices of American Dental Association [and] Chicago Dental Society, by the Chicago Centennial Dental Congress, Chicago.

BLACK, Arthur Davenport (1870 – 1937)

Illustrated 64-page brochure recording in detail an exhibition that was seen supposedly by 8,000,000 people. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1934

#12575

Onchocerciasis: With special reference to the Central American form of the disease. Parts I, II, III, and IV

STRONG, Richard Pearson (1872 – 1948)
STRONG, Richard Pearson (1872 – 1948)
BEQUAERT, Joseph Charles (1886 – 1982)
BEQUAERT, Joseph Charles (1886 – 1982) SANDGROUND, Jack Henry (1899 – 1987) OCHOA, Miguel Muños

In depth study of onchcerciasis in Guatemala, where "the disease was of real importance to human beings" at the time. Each of the 4 authors contributed a separate part of the report.

1934

#12990

Meharry Medical College: A history.

ROMAN, Charles Victor (1864 – 1934)

The first history of an African-American medical school written by an African-American. Meharry Medical College, founded in 1876 as the Medical Department of Central Tennessee College, was the first medical college fo…

1935

#1780

A geography of disease.

MCKINLEY, Earl Baldwin (1894 – 1938)

Published as supplement to Amer. J. trop. Med., 1935, 15, No. 5.