1938 NEYMANN, Clarence Adolph (1887 – 1951)

Artificial fever produced by physical means; its development and application.

Perhaps the most comprehensive study of the application of pyrotherapy in the treatment of a wide variety of diseases, including syphilis. For syphilis in particular the treatment was replaced by penicillin, developed…

GMN 14110 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16421

1939 POHLMANN, R

Ueber die Ausbreitung und Absorption des Ultraschalls im menschlichen Gewebe und seine therapeutische Wirkung an lschias und Plexusneuralgie.

First therapeutic use of ultrasonics. With R. Richter and E. Parow.

GMN 2010.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1942

1940 TOCANTINS, Leandro Maues (1901 – 1963)

Rapid absorption of substance injected into the bone marrow.

Tocantins demonstrated the possibility of transfusion of fluids via the bone marrow. See also later paper with J. F. O’Neill, Surg. Gynec. Obstet., 1941, 73, 281-87.

GMN 1983 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3775

1941 DREW, Charles Richard (1904 – 1950); ET AL

Report of the Blood Transfusion Association concerning the Project for Supplying Blood Plasma to England, which has been carried on jointly with the American Red Cross from August, 1940, to January, 1941. Narrative account of work and medical report.

Drew discovered the method for long-term storage of blood plasma, and organized America's first large-scale blood bank. Drew's thesis for his medical degree at Columbia was entitled "Banked Blood: A Study in Blood Pre…

GMN 12823 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15069

1943 LOUTIT, John Freeman (1910 – 1992); MOLLISON, Patrick Loudon (1914 – 2012)

Advantages of a disodium-citrate-glucose mixture as a blood preservative.

This work made possible the storage of whole blood for up to three weeks.

GMN 2027.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2053

1944 GRÖNWALL, Anders Johan Troed (1912 – 1989); INGLEMAN, Björn

Untersuchungen über Dextran und sein Verhalten bei parenteraler Zufuhr.

Introduction of dextran as plasma substitute.

GMN 2028 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2057

1945 COOMBS, Robert Royston Amos ( (1921 – 2006); ET AL

Detection of weak and “incomplete” Rh agglutinins: a new test.

Coombs’s test for detecting antibodies in various clinical scenarios, such as Rh disease and blood transfusion. With A. E. Mourant and R. R. Race. A fuller description appears in Brit. J. exp. Path.,1945, 26, 255-66.

GMN 3104 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3805

1946 BUESS, Heinrich (1911 – 1984)

Die Injektion.

Deals exhaustively with the history of intravenous and intramuscular injection.

GMN 2062 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2339

1947 HOWARD-JONES, Norman (1909 – 1985)

A critical study of the origins and early development of hypodermic medication.

GMN 2063 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2344

1948 GINZTON, Edward Leonard (1915 – 1998); HANSEN, William Webster (1909 – 1949); ET AL

A linear electron accelerator.

With W. R. Kennedy.

GMN 2010.3 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1949

1948 DIAMOND, Louis Klein (1902 – 1999)

Replacement transfusion as a treatment for erythroblastosis fetalis.

Exchange transfusion.

GMN 3107.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3816

1949 NEWBERRY, G. R.

The microwave linear electron accelerator.

GMN 2010.4 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1951

1949 WAKIM, Khalil Georges (1907 – 1985); KRUSEN, Frank Hammond (1898 – 1973); ET AL

Therapeutic possibilities of microwaves.

Introduction of microwave radiation therapy. With J. F. Herrick, G. M. Martin.

GMN 2010.5 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1956

1950 SMITH, Audrey Ursula (1915 – 1981)

Prevention of haemolysis during freezing and thawing red blood-cells.

Demonstration that human blood diluted with equal volumes of 30% glycerol in Ringer’s lactate solution could be frozen at -79° C and thawed after eight weeks without damage.

GMN 2028.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2061

1954 MALUF, Nobel Suydam Rustum (1913 – )

History of blood transfusion.

GMN 2028.42 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2071

1955 ASCLEPIADES OF BITHYNIA (ἈΣΚΛΗΠΙΆΔΗΣ) (-124 – -40); GUMPERT, Christian Gottlieb (1772 – 1832); GREEN, Robert Montraville (1880 – 1955); COCCHI, Antonio (1695 – 1757)

Asclepiades, his life and writings: A translation of Cocchi's life of Asclepiades and Gumpert's fragments of Asclepiades, by Robert Montraville Green.

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

GMN 8329 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10505

1958 CREMER, Richard J.; PERRYMAN, P. W.; RICHARDS, D. H.

Influence of light on the hyperbilirubinaemia of infants.

In 1956 Sister Jean Ward of the Premature Unit of the Rochford General Hospital in Essex, England noted the benefit of phototherapy when she took infants outside because she assumed that fresh air had healing benefits…

GMN 12971 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15219

1959 KAUFFMANN, Claus Michael (1931 – ); PETER OF EBOLI, (Petrus de Ebulo) ( – 1220)

The baths of Pozzuoli. A study of the medieval illuminations of Peter of Eboli's poem

GMN 12603 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14843

1962 PETER OF EBOLI, (Petrus de Ebulo) ( – 1220); LATTANZI, Angela Daneu (1901 – 1985)

Nomina et virtutes balneorum; seu de balneis Puteolorum et Baiarum. Codex angelico 1474. Facsimile edition, introduction by Angela Daneu Lattanzi.

Written about in the early 13th century by the poet, chronicler and physician Peter of Eboli, the didactic poem, De balneis Putelolanis (The baths of Pozzuoli) was the first widely distributed medieval guidebook to me…

GMN 6984 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9150

1963 LILEY, Albert William (1929 – 1983)

Intrauterine transfusion of foetus in haemolytic disease.

GMN 3108.7 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3833

1967 WEISS, Harry Bischoff (1883 – 1972)

The great American water-cure craze: A history of hydropathy in the United States.

GMN 13258 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15523

1968 CASH, Richard Alan (1941 – 2024); NALIN, David R. (1941 – ); ISLAM, Rafiqul; PHILLIPS, Robert Allan (1906 – 1976); ET AL

Oral maintenance therapy for cholera in adults.

Abstract: "An oral solution containing glucose, sodium chloride, sodium bicarbonate, and potassium chloride or citrate was used as maintenance therapy for acute cholera. In comparison with control patients who receive…

GMN 14303 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16628

1971 CASH, Richard Alan (1941 – 2024); NALIN, David R. (1941 – )

Oral or nasogastric maintenance therapy in pediatric cholera patients.

GMN 14304 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16629

1973 ACKERKNECHT, Erwin Heinz (1906 – 1988)

Therapeutics from the primitives to the 20th century, with an appendix: history of dietetics.

Includes a valuable bibliography. First published in German, Stuttgart, 1970.

GMN 2068.16 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2458

1974 PEUMERY, Jean-Jacques

Les origines de la transfusion sanguine.

Reprinted from Clio Medica, Vol. 9, 1974.

GMN 2028.43 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2073

1974 HARIG, Georg (1935 – 1989)

Bestimmung der Instensität im medizinischen System Galens: Ein Beiträg zur theoretische Pharmakologie, Nosologie und Therapie in der Galenischen Medizin.

GMN 9008 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11187

1975 SCHIÖTZ, Eiler H.; CYRIAX, James Henry (1904 – 1985)

Manipulation past and present, with an extensive bibliography.

GMN 2068.17 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2464

1979 DAVIS, Audrey B. ( – 2006); APPEL, Toby A. (1945 – )

Bloodletting instruments in the National Museum of History and Technology.

Digital facsimile from Smithsonian Research Online at this link.

GMN 2682.54 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4107

1982 BERGER, Albrecht (1957 – )

Das Bad in der byzantinischen Zeit.

GMN 8333 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10509

1986 GALEN, [Κλαύδιος Γαληνός; Galen of Pergamon] (129 – 216); BRAIN, Peter

Galen on bloodletting: A study of the origins, development and validity of his opinions, with a translation of the three works

Bloodletting is thought to have been practiced by Greek physicians of the 5th century BCE. This study includes translation of Galeni de venae sectione adversus Erasistratum liber (162-163 CE), Galeni de venae sectione…

GMN 8235 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10411

1986 WARNER, John Harley (1953 – )

The therapeutic perspective: Medical practice, knowledge, and identity in America, 1820-1885.

GMN 9464 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11647

1991 FREIREICH, Emil J. (1927 – ); LEMAK, Noreen Ann (1921 – 2013)

Milestones in leukemia research and therapy.

Freireich was part of the team that first introduced combined-drug cancer chemotherapy in 1965.

GMN 8650 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10827

1992 GOTTLIEB, A. Matthew

A pictorial history of blood practices and transfusion.

GMN 13062 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15314

1995 HAGELIN, Ove

Kinetic jottings: Rare and curious books in the library of the old Royal Central Institute of Gymnastics. An illustrated and annotated catalogue.

Outstanding descriptions and superb illustrations of a very unusual collection of books, including those on fencing, gymnastics, orthopedics, physical medicine, acrobatics, and dance.

GMN 7211 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9378

1999 MAEHLE, Andreas-Holger (1957 – )

Drugs on trial: Experimental pharmacology and therapeutic innovation in the eighteenth century.

"This book demonstrates that the basic methodology of the field, including chemical analysis, in vitro testing, animal experimentation and human research, was already developed in the course of the seventeenth and eig…

GMN 9468 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11651

2002 CALVERT, Robert Noah ( – 2006)

The history of massage: An illustrated survey from around the world.

GMN 9788 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11976

2006 JENNINGS, Eric Thomas (1970 – )

Curing the colonizers: Hydrotherapy, climatology, and French colonial spas.

Translated into French by the author as À la cure, les coloniaux ! Thermalisme, climatisme et colonisation française, 1830-1962. Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2011.

GMN 12291 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14512

2007 DVORJETSKI, Estee

Leisure, pleasure and healing: Spa culture and medicine in Ancient Eastern Mediterranean.

GMN 8342 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10518

2008 MERCURIALE, Girolamo (1530 – 1606); NUTTON, Vivian (1943 – ); PENNUTO, Concetta

De arte gymnastica. The art of gymnastics. Critical edition by Concetta Pennuto. English translation by Vivian Nutton.

This critical edition, based upon the 1601 edition, the last edition published in Mercuriale's lifetime, includes the Latin text and English translation, reproductions of the woodcuts attributed to Coriolan and the or…

GMN 9370 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11553

2008 LEDERER, Susan E. (1955 – )

Flesh and blood: Organ transplantation and blood transfusion in twentieth-century America.

GMN 10362 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12554

2009 KOSSO, Cynthia; SCOTT, Anne

The nature and function of water, baths, bathing and hygiene from antiquity through the Renaissance. Edited by Cynthia Koss and Anne Scott.

GMN 10464 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12657

2013 SCHNEIDER, William H.

The history of blood transfusion in Sub-Saharan Africa.

GMN 7843 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10015

2013 KIRK, Robert G. W.; PEMBERTON, Neil

Leech.

Published in the "Animal" series. Seemingly a definitive work on the natural history and medical application of leeches.

GMN 8683 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10860

2014 SWANSON, Kara W.

Banking on the body: The market in blood, milk, and sperm in modern America.

GMN 11513 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13712

2014 STEPHANOU, Aspasia

Reading vampire gothic through blood: Bloodlines.

GMN 11745 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13945

2020 BERNER, Boel (1945 – )

Strange blood: The rise and fall of lamb blood transfusion in 19th century medicine and beyond.

eBook version available at no cost from play.google.com at this link.

GMN 13267 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15533