1884 APOSTOLI, Georges (1847 – 1900)
Sur la faradisation utérine double ou bipolaire.
Apostoli was the first to employ the double faradic current in the electrotherapy of uterine diseases.
GMN 6079 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7477
1887 KNEIPP, Sebastian (1821 – 1897)
Meine Wasser-Kur, durch mehr als 30 Jahre erprobt und geschrieben zur Heilung der Krankheiten und Erhaltung der Gesundheit.
Kneipp was a Bavarian priest and not a physician. He learned about hydrotherapy and other methods of treatment later called naturopathic during the time he suffered from tuberculosis. Digital facsimile of the 1889 10t…
GMN 13259 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15525
1892 D'ARSONVAL, Jacques Arsène (1851 – 1940)
Recherches d’électrothérapie: la voltaisation sinusoïdale.
Introduction of high-frequency currents in electrotherapy.
GMN 1999 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1878
1892 BRUNTON, Sir Thomas Lauder (1844 – 1916)
An introduction to modern therapeutics, being the Croonian Lectures on the relationship between chemical structure and physiological action.
One of the best known of Lauder Brunton’s works.
GMN 1973 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3755
1892 ANDERSON, Winslow (1860 – 1917)
Mineral springs and health resorts of California: With a complete chemical analysis of every important mineral water in the world... A Prize Essay; Annual Prize of the Medical Society of the State of California, Awarded April 20, 1889.
The first half of the book concerns mineral springs and health resorts in California and how to use them; the second half mostly concerns mineral springs and other health resorts in North America and Europe. Digital f…
GMN 10438 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12631
1896 FINSEN, Niels Ryberg (1860 – 1904)
Om anvendelse medicinen af koncentrerede kemiske lysstraaler.
Finsen was the founder of modern phototherapy. He demonstrated the value of invisible light, the actinic or chemical ray, the ultra-violet ray, as therapeutic measures. Digital facsimile from wellcomecollection.org at…
GMN 2000 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1895
1897 FREUND, Leopold (1868 – 1944)
Demonstration eines mit Röntgenstrahlen behandelten Falles von Naevus pigmentosus pilosus.
First use of x rays for deep irradiation therapy.
GMN 2002 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1909
1897 FEISSINGER, Charles Albert (1857 – 1942)
La thérapeutique des vieux maîtres.
GMN 2037 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2191
1898 CURIE, Pierre (1859 – 1906); CURIE, Marie Sklodowska (1867 – 1934)
Sur une substance nouvelle radio-active, contenue dans la pechblende.
The Curies, studying the radioactivity of minerals containing uranium and thorium, isolated from pitchblend a substance which they called radium and which they showed to possess an astonishing degree of radioactivity.…
GMN 2003 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1914
1901 LEDUC, Stéphane Armand Nicolas (1853 – 1939)
Introduction électrolytique des ions dans l’organisme vivant.
Introduction of ionic medication.
GMN 2003.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1919
1906 BERGONIÉ, Jean (1857 – 1925); TRIBONDEAU, Louis Mathieu Frédéric Adrien (1872 – 1918)
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).
GMN 2005 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1927
1906 MARTIN, Ferdinand Heinrich Alfred (1874 – )
Deutsches Badewesen in vergangenen Tagen.
GMN 2043 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2217
1907 WEBER, Sir Hermann David (1823 – 1918); WEBER, Frederick Parkes (1863 – 1962)
Climatology and balneotherapy.
GMN 2006 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1929
1908 HOEFLER, Max (Höfler) (1848 – 1914)
Die volkmedizinische Organotherapie und ihr Verhältnis zum Kultopfer.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 2044 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2225
1909 NAGELSCHMIDT, Karl Franz (1875 – 1952)
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 …
GMN 2007 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1931
1909 CRILE, George Washington (1864 – 1943)
Hemorrhage and transfusion.
GMN 5628 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7211
1910 HUCHARD, Henri (1844 – 1910); FIESSINGER, Charles Albert (1857 – 1942)
La thérapeutique en vingt médicaments.
Huchard and Fiessinger suggested that actual drug therapy should be limited to 20 medicaments.
GMN 1975 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3761
1911 GRASSET, Hector
La médecine naturiste à travers les siècles. Histoire de la physiothérapie.
GMN 2046 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2255
1913 KIMPTON, Arthur Ronald (1881 – 1962); BROWN, James Howard (1884 – 1956)
A new and simple method of transfusion.
In order to prevent blood coagulation during transfusion, Kimpton and Brown used apparatus lined with paraffin wax. See also Boston med. surg. J., 1915, 173, 425-7.
GMN 2018.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2006
1913 ROLLIER, Auguste (1874 – 1954)
Die Heliotherapie der Tuberkulose.
In 1903 Rollier introduced ultra-violet light and Alpine sunlight in the treatment of surgical tuberculosis. Heliotherapy for chronic affections was advocated as early as the 5th century CE by Caelius Aurelianus.
GMN 2342 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3091
1914 HUSTIN, Albert (1882 – 1967)
Note sur une nouvelle méthode de transfusion.
Hustin demonstrated the anticoagulant powers of sodium citrate and glucose in blood transfusion.
GMN 2019 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2008
1914 AGOTE, Luis (1868 – 1954)
Nuevo procedimiento para la transfusion de la sangre.
Agote was the first to transfuse citrated blood. Text in Spanish and French.
GMN 2020 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2014
1914 ABEL, John Jacob (1857 – 1938); TURNER, Benjamin Bernard (1871 – 1945); ROWNTREE, Leonard George (1883 – 1959)
Plasma removal with return of corpuscles (plasmaphaeresis).
Report of a method of removal of plasma from the living animal, with return of the corpuscles after washing and separation by centrifugalization. See the authors' earlier papers in the same journal, 1914, 5, 275-316, …
GMN 1976 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3763
1914 GALEN, [Κλαύδιος Γαληνός; Galen of Pergamon] (129 – 216)
De sanitate tuenda ed. K. Koch. Corpus Medicorum Graecorum V, 4, 2, 1-198
English translation by R. M. Green, Springfield, Ill., 1951.
GMN 1985 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8824
1915 LEWISOHN, Richard (1875 – 1962)
A new and greatly simplified method of blood transfusion. A preliminary report.
About the same time as Agote, Lewisohn introduced the citrate method of blood transfusion. See also his later paper in Surg. Gynec. Obstet., 1915, 21, 37-47.
GMN 2021 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2017
1917 –1918 ROBERTSON, Oswald Hope (1886 – 1966)
Transfusion with preserved red blood cells.
Robertson stored blood and used it with good results to treat casualties on the battlefield.
GMN 2021.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2023
1917 HALDANE, John Scott (1860 – 1936)
The therapeutic administration of oxygen.
Haldane initiated oxygen therapy.
GMN 1977 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3765
1918 –1919 WAGNER VON JAUREGG, Julius (1857 – 1940)
Ueber die Einwirkung der Malaria auf die progressive Paralyse.
In 1917 Wagner von Jauregg returned to the idea of the inoculation of paretics with malaria to induce pyrexia, first proposed by him in 1887 (Ueber die Einwirkung fieberhafter Erkrankungen auf Psychosen, Jb. Psychiat.…
GMN 4806 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1579
1918 SCHMIDT, Harry Burke (1882 – )
A clinical study of puerperal anaemia.
Four cases of pernicious anemia of pregnancy treated by blood transfusion.
GMN 3135 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3941
1922 COLWELL, Hector Alfred (1875 – 1946)
An essay on the history of electrotherapy and diagnosis.
GMN 2047 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2257
1925 RIEHL, Gustav (1855 – 1943)
Zur Therapie schwerer Verbrennungen.
Riehl was an early advocate of blood transfusion in the treatment of shock after burns.
GMN 2254 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2787
1925 HART, Alfred Purvis (1887 – 1954)
Familial icterus gravis of the new-born and its treatment.
Successful exchange transfusion.
GMN 3087.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3757
1929 DRINKER, Philip (1894 – 1972); MCKHANN, Charles Freemont (1930 – )
The use of a new apparatus for the prolonged administration of artificial respiration. I. A fatal case of poliomyelitis.
The Drinker respirator (“iron lung”).
GMN 1978 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3767
1930 SCHLIEPHAKE, Erwin Friedrich Karl Georg Heinrich Victor (1894 – 1995)
Therapeutische Versuche im elektrischen Kurzwellenfeld.
Introduction of short-wave diathermy.
GMN 2009 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1936
1930 LARSSON, Sven
Operative Behandlung von Netzhautabhebung mit Elektroendothermie und Trepanation; vorläufige Mitteilung.
Superficial diathermy treatment of retinal detachment. See also Arch Ophthal. (N.Y.), 1932, 7, 661-80.
GMN 5977 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7043
1931 BAER, William Stevenson (1872 – 1931)
The treatment of chronic osteomyelitis with the maggot (larva of the blow fly).
Larrey observed the therapeutic effect of maggots on wounds; W. S. Baer inaugurated the method of treating osteomyelitis by this means (“Baer therapy”).
GMN 4399 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6011
1932 COULTER, John Stanley (1885 – 1949)
Physical therapy.
“Clio medica” series.
GMN 2056 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2294
1932 –1939 TISCHNER, Rudolf (1879 – 1961)
Geschichte der Homöopathie. 4 vols.
A comprehensive history, particularly for homeopathy in Germany. Includes extensive bibliographies.
GMN 2056.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2299
1932 EVE, Frank Cecil (1871 – 1952)
Actuation of the inert diaphragm by a gravity method.
Eve’s method of artificial respiration.
GMN 1979 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3770
1933 SIMILI, Alessandro (1901 – 1977)
Origine e vicende della trasfusione del sangue. Considerazioni storico-critche.
GMN 2028.41 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2069
1935 FLOSDORF, Earl William (1904 – 1958); MUDD, Stuart (1893 – 1975)
Procedure and apparatus for preservation in “lyophile” form of serum and other biological substances.
GMN 2022 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2025
1935 MARRIOTT, Hugh Leslie (1900 – 1983); KEKWICK, Alan (1909 – 1974)
Continuous drip blood transfusion.
Introduction of the slow-drip method of blood transfusion.
GMN 2023 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2029
1936 HEDENIUS, Per Johannes (1906 – 1981)
A new method of blood transfusion.
Heparin used in blood transfusion. See also the same journal, 88, 443-49.
GMN 2024 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2036
1936 YUDIN, Sergei Sergeievich (1891 – 1954)
Transfusion of cadaver blood.
Cadaver blood used in human transfusions. Prof. Shamov of Kharkov carried out the first experimental work on transfusion of cadaver blood in 1927.
GMN 2025 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2040
1937 FANTUS, Bernard (1874 – 1940)
The therapy of the Cook County Hospital. Blood preservation.
Described the establishment of the first blood bank (at the Cook County Hospital).
GMN 2026 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2045
1937 BRAUCHLE, Alfred Karl (1898 – 1964)
Naturheilkunde in Lebensbildern.
Mainly 19th-20th century: includes hydrotherapy, massage, and dietetics. Second edition, 1951.
GMN 2057.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2306
1938 GOODALL, James Robert (1878 – 1947); ET AL
An inexhaustible source of blood for transfusion, and its preservation. Preliminary report.
J. R. Goodall, F. O. Anderson, G. T. Altimas, and F. L. MacPhail pointed out the possibility of using placental blood for transfusion purposes.
GMN 2027 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2050
1938 LOVELACE, William Randolph II (1907 – 1965)
Oxygen for therapy and aviation: an apparatus for the administration of oxygen or oxygen and helium by inhalation.
GMN 1981 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3772
1938 BULBULIAN, Arthur H. (1900 – 1996)
Design and construction of the masks for the oxygen inhalation apparatus.
The B. L. B. (Boothby-Lovelace-Bulbulian) mask. See also No. 1981.
GMN 1982 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3774
1938 CERLETTI, Ugo (1877 – 1963); BINI, Lucio (1908 – 1964)
Un nuovo metodo di shockterapia: “L’elettroshock”. (Riassunto.)
Introduction of electric convulsion therapy.
GMN 4962 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6322
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