1897 MACINTYRE, John (1857 – 1928)

X-ray records for the cinematograph.

Macintyre was the first to demonstrate x-ray cinematography.

GMN 2687 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4216

1897 FOX, George Henry (1846 – 1937)

Skin diseases of children. With twelve photogravure and chromographic plates, and sixty illustrations in the text.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

GMN 10597 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12790

1898 BRAUN, Ludwig (1867 – 1936)

Ueber Herzbewegung und Herzstoss.

First employment of cinematograph to record the cardiac changes during all phases of heart contraction.

GMN 838 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/583

1898 BUXBAUM, A

Ueber die Photographie von Gallensteinen in vivo.

First x-ray demonstration of gall-stones.

GMN 3638 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4636

1899 MUYBRIDGE, Eadweard [JAMES EDWARD MUGGERIDGE] (1830 – 1904)

Animals in motion.

GMN 650 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/528

1899 TUFFIER, Théodore (1857 – 1929)

Sonde urétérale opaque. In Traité de chirurgie, 2e ed. vol. 7, p. 414.

Tuffier made the first pioneer attempt to visualize the urinary tract by the combination of an opaque ureteral styletted catheter and radiography.

GMN 4191.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6119

1899 MARINESCU, Gheorghe [Georges Marinesco] (1863 – 1938)

Les troubles de la marche dans l'hémiplégie organique étudiés à l'aide du cinématographe.

Between July 1898 and 1902 Romanian neurologist Gheorghe Marinescu (Georges Marinesco) made the world's first documentary films in his clinic in Bucharest. "Marinescu perfected the use of cinematography as a research …

GMN 11293 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13490

1901 MUYBRIDGE, Eadweard [JAMES EDWARD MUGGERIDGE] (1830 – 1904)

The human figure in motion. An electro-photographic investigation of consecutive phases of muscular actions.

Muybridge, an Englishman, made exhaustive photographic investigations of consecutive animal movements while he was in America. More than 100,000 photographs were embodied in his Animal locomotion. An electro-photograp…

GMN 651 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/553

1901 ILLYÉS, Géza (1870 – 1951)

Uretercatheterezés és radiographia.

Géza von Illyés showed that ureteral calculi could be accurately demonstrated by x rays with the help of an indwelling opaque catheter. German translation in Dtsch. Z. Chir., 1901, 62, 132-40.

GMN 4294 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5388

1902 MORITZ, Friedrich (1861 – 1938)

Ueber orthodiagraphische Untersuchungen am Herzen.

Orthodiagraphy of the heart.

GMN 2813 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3479

1903 –1904 ALBERS-SCHÖNBERG, Heinrich Ernst (1865 – 1921)

Projektions-Röntgenbilder einer seltenen Knochenerkrankung.

First description of osteosclerosis fragilis, marble bones (“Albers-Schönberg disease”).

GMN 4372 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5858

1905 KÖHLER, Alban (1874 – 1947)

Technik der Herstellung fast orthodiagraphischer Herzphotogramme vermittelst Röntgeninstrumentarien mit kleiner Elektrizitätsquelle.

Introduction of teleradiography of the heart.

GMN 2817 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3496

1905 VOELCKER, Friedrich (1872 – 1955); LICHTENBERG, Alexander von (1880 – 1949)

Die Gestalt der menschlichen Harnblase im Röntgenbilde.

First cystograms.

GMN 4192 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6129

1905 –1906 WATERSTON, David

The Edinburgh stereoscopic atlas of Anatomy. Edited by David Waterston. 5 vols.

The first large scale application of stereoscopic photography to anatomy. The 5 parts each contain 50 stereo cards on which are pasted original stereo photographs and corresponding printed descriptive text. Digital fa…

GMN 10599 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12792

1908 KUTTNER, Arthur (1862 – 1939)

Die entzündlichen Nebenhöhlenerkrankungen der Nase im Röntgenbild.

The first important work on the radiology of the accessory nasal sinuses.

GMN 3316 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4532

1908 BEDIN, Alphonse (1878 – )

La photographie au laboratoire de médecine légale de l'Université de Nancy.

iIlustrated with 77 photographs, Bedin's work describes the methods and practices of forensic photography developed at Nancy between 1905 and 1908. The work is divided into two parts: The first part contains four chap…

GMN 12898 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15145

1909 GROEDEL, Franz Maximilian (1881 – 1951)

Die Technik der Roentgenkinematographie.

Groedel invented the first machine for taking serial x-rays.

GMN 2690 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4269

1911 EDLING, Lars (1878 – 1962)

Ueber die Anwendung des Roentgenverfahrens bei der Diagnose der Schwangerschaft.

First use of x rays for the diagnosis of pregnancy.

GMN 6216 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7632

1912 MATAS, Rudolph (1860 – 1957)

The cinematograph as an aid to medical education and research: A lecture illustrated by moving pictures of ultramicroscopic life in the blood and tissues, and of surgical operations.

GMN 13924 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16218

1913 GLÉNARD, Roger (1880 – 1964)

Le mouvement de l’intestin en circulation artificielle (chez les vertébrés). Thèses présentées a la Faculté des sciences de Paris.

Cinematographic studies of the movements of the intestines in animals. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

GMN 1031 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1000

1913 HUISMANS, L

Der Ersatz des Orthiodiagraphen durch der Teleröntgen.

Instantaneous radiography of the heart.

GMN 2842 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3595

1914 FAIRCHILD, David Grandison (1869 – 1954); FAIRCHILD, Marion Bell

Book of monsters.

The first book of macro photographs (extreme close-up photography) of insects.

GMN 13877 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16167

1916 CRANE, Augustus Warren (1868 – 1937)

Roentgenology of the heart.

Introduction of kymography in clinical cardiology.

GMN 2845 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3609

1917 ROWNTREE, Leonard George (1883 – 1959); WATERS, Charles Alexander (1888 – 1961); BAYNE-JONES, Brig. Gen. Stanhope (1866 – 1970)

Roentgenography of the lung: Roentgenographic studies in living animals after intratracheal injection of iodoform emulsion.

Experimental introduction of iodoform (lipiodol) into the bronchial tree in dogs, obtaining satisfactory bronchograms.

GMN 3194.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4252

1917 THOMA, Kurt Hermann (1883 – 1972)

Oral roentgenology.

GMN 3690 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5716

1918 DANDY, Walter Edward (1886 – 1946)

Ventriculography following the injection of air into the cerebral ventricles.

Dandy was responsible for the introduction of ventriculography.

GMN 4602 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8927

1919 DANDY, Walter Edward (1886 – 1946)

Röntgenography of the brain after the injection of air into the spinal canal.

Introduction of pneumoencephalography.

GMN 4603 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/554

1920 YOUNG, Hugh Hampton (1870 – 1945); WATERS, Charles Alexander (1888 – 1961)

X-ray studies of the seminal vesicles and vasa deferentia after urethroscopic injection of the ejaculatory ducts with thorium – a new diagnostic method.

Vesiculography first demonstrated.

GMN 4198 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6159

1921 FORESTIER, Jacques (1890 – 1978); SICARD, Jean Athanase (1872 – 1929)

Méthode radiographique d’exploration de la cavité épidurale par la lipiodol.

Positive contrast myelography with iodized oil (lipiodol). This paper records the first use of lipiodol in radiology.

GMN 2693 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/556

1921 WIDERØE, Sofus (1880 – 1937)

Über die diagnostische Bedeutung der intraspinalen Luftinjektionen bei Rückenmarksleiden, besonders bei Geschwülsten.

Myelography by air injection into spinal subarachnoid space.

GMN 4605.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/558

1921 LYNAH, Henry Lowndes (1879 – 1922); STEWART, William Holmes (1869 – 1954)

Roentgenographic studies of bronchiectasis and lung abscess after direct injection of bismuth mixture through the bronchoscope.

Important studies on bronchiectasis were carried out by Lynah and Stewart.

GMN 3197 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4270

1922 WEBER, Frederick Parkes (1863 – 1962)

Right-sided hemi-hypertrophy resulting from right-sided congenital spastic hemiplegia, with a morbid condition of the left side of the brain, revealed by radiograms.

Sturge–Weber syndrome (see No. 4560.1).

GMN 4605.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/564

1923 BERBERICH, Josef (1897 – ); HIRSCH, S

Die Röntgenographische Darstellung der Arterien und Venen am lebenden Menschen.

Arteriography. First angiogram of a living patient.

GMN 2916 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4895

1923 ROWNTREE, Leonard George (1883 – 1959); OSBORNE, Earl Dorland (1895 – 1960); ET AL

Roentgenography of the urinary tract during excretion of sodium iodide.

First use of sodium iodide in uretero-pyelography. With C. G. Sutherland and A. J. Scholl.

GMN 4199 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6166

1924 FORESTIER, Jacques (1890 – 1978); SICARD, Jean Athanase (1872 – 1929)

L’exploration radiologique des cavités broncho-pulmonaires par les injections intra-trachéales d’huile iodée.

Bronchography was advanced by the work of Sicard and Forestier on the intratracheal introduction of lipiodol.

GMN 3199 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4292

1924 GRAHAM, Evarts Ambrose (1883 – 1957); COLE, Warren Henry (1898 – 1990)

Roentgenologic examination of the gallbladder.

Introduction of cholecystography.

GMN 3652 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4751

1924 BROOKS, Barney (1884 – 1952)

Intra-arterial injection of sodium iodide: Preliminary report.

Clinical angiography.

GMN 2916.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4897

1924 BROOKS, Barney (1884 – 1952); JOSTES, F. A.

A clinical study of diseases of the circulation of the extremities; a description of a new method of examination.

Femoral arteriography.

GMN 2916.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4898

1925 RAPER, Howard Riley (1887 – 1978)

A new kind of x-ray examination for preventive dentistry.

Original description of technique of making “bite-wing” radiographs.

GMN 3692 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5731

1925 GESELL, Arnold Lucius (1880 – 1961)

The mental growth of the pre-school child: A psychological outline of normal development from birth to the sixth year, including a system of development diagnosis.

"The Maturational Theory of child development was introduced in 1925[1] by Dr. Arnold Gesell, an American educator, pediatrician and clinical psychologist whose studies focused on "the course, the pattern and the rate…

GMN 10610 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12803

1927 EGAS MONIZ, Antonio Caetano de Abreu Freire (1874 – 1955)

L’encéphalographie artérielle, son importance dans la localisation des tumeurs cérébrales.

Introduction of cerebral arteriography. See also Presse méd., 1928, 36, 689-93. English translation in J. Neurosurg., 1964, 21, 145-56.

GMN 4610 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/578

1927 EGAS MONIZ, Antonio Caetano de Abreu Freire (1874 – 1955)

Injections intracarotidiennes et substances injectables opaques aux rayons X.

Carotid arteriography.

GMN 4610.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8929

1929 PORGES, Otto (1879 – 1968)

Ueber Gastrophotographie.

Introduction of gastrophotography.

GMN 3548 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4059

1930 MAYER, Ernst Georg (1893 – )

Otologische Röntgendiagnostik.

Includes a brief history of the subject.

GMN 3407 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5208

1930 MENEES, Thomas Orville (1890 – 1937); ET AL

Amniography; preliminary report.

Introduction of amniography. With J. D. Miller and L. E. Holly.

GMN 6223 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7649

1931 PEARSE, Herman Elwyn (1899 – ); WARREN, Stafford Leak (1896 – 1981)

The roentgenographic visualization of the arteries of the extremities in peripheral vascular disease.

GMN 2919.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4906

1931 SANTOS, Reynaldo dos (1880 – 1970); CALDAS, Jose Guilherme Mendes Pereira

Les dérivés du thorium dans l’artériographie des membres.

Thorotrast first used in arteriography.

GMN 2920 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4909

1931 LYSHOLM, Erik (1891 – 1947)

Apparatus and technique for roentgen examination of the skull.

Lysholm–Schönander skull table, allowing precise radiography of the skull.

GMN 4611.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8930

1931 WALKHOFF, Friedrich Otto (1860 – 1934)

Das Problem der dentalen Fokalinfektion und ihre Bekämpfung durch die konservierende Zahnheilkunde.

With physicist Fritz Giesel, Walkhoff on December 28, 1895 Walkhoff did the first dental radiograph on his own teeth. Later, Walkhoff was "responsible for the shift to an everyday use of camphorated chlorophenol to st…

GMN 12985 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15233

1932 DAVIDOFF, Leo Max (1898 – 1975); DYKE, Cornelius Gysbert (1900 – 1943)

An improved method of encephalography.

Lumbar encephalography. In 1937 the authors published a monograph on the subject entitled The normal encephalogram. After Dyke's premature death in 1943 Davidoff collaborated with radiologist Bernard S. Epstein (1908-…

GMN 4611.3 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/585