1936 SÉZARY, Albert (1880 – 1956); LEVY-COBLENTZ, G.; CHAUVILLON, P.
Dermographisme et mastocytose.
Sézary and colleagues first reported systemic mastocytosis.
GMN 14173 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16488
1937 PATEK, Arthur Jackson Jr. (1904 – 1991); TAYLOR, Francis Henry Laskey (1900 – 1959)
Hemophilia. II. Some properties of a substance obtained from normal human plasma effective in accelerating the coagulation of hemophilic blood.
Antihemophilic globulin (factor VIII).
GMN 3096.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3787
1938 BUTT, Hugh Roland (1910 – 2008); SNELL, Albert Markley (1896 – 1960)
The use of vitamin K and bile in treatment of the haemorrhagic diathesis in cases of jaundice.
Vitamin K used in the treatment of hemorrhagic disease.
GMN 3097 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3790
1939 LAWRENCE, John Hundale (1904 – 1991); ET AL
Studies on leukemia with the aid of radioactive phosphorus.
Therapeutic use of radioactive isotopes for the treatment of leukemia. John H. Lawrence was the brother of Ernest Orlando Lawrence, inventor of the cyclotron; John Lawrence also worked at the Lawrence Berkeley Nationa…
GMN 3098 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3792
1940 LAWRENCE, John Hundale (1904 – 1991)
Nuclear physics and therapy: preliminary report on a new method for the treatment of leukemia and polycythemia.
Radio-phosphorus in treatment of leukemia.
GMN 3099 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3795
1941 LEVINE, Philip (1900 – 1987); ET AL
The rôle of iso-immunization in the pathogenesis of erythroblastosis fetalis.
Erythroblastosis fetalis due to rhesus incompatibility (Rh disease) between mother and child. With L. Burnham, E. M. Katzin, and P. Vogel.
GMN 3100 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3796
1945 COMLY, Hunter Hall (1919 – )
Cyanosis in infants caused by nitrates in well water.
Methemoglobinemia. Comly first suggested the above hypothesis, since proved valid.
GMN 3103 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3799
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 PATERSON, Edith (1900 – 1995); ET AL
Leukaemia treated with urethane compared with deep x-ray therapy.
Urethane in treatment of leukemia. With A. Haddow, I. Ap Thomas, and J. M. Watkinson.
GMN 3106 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3811
1948 GIBSON, Quentin Howieson (1918 – 2011)
The reduction of methaemoglobin in red blood cells and studies on the cause of idiopathic methaemoglobinaemia.
Cause of hereditary methemoglobinemia elucidated.
GMN 3107.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3819
1952 BIGGS, Rosemary Peyton (1921 – 2001); ET AL
Christmas disease, a condition previously mistaken for haemophilia.
Christmas disease, hemophilia B, due to lack of Factor IX. Named after the patient whose case was the first recorded example. With six co-authors.
GMN 3108.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3824
1953 BURCHENAL, Joseph Holland (1912 – 2006); ET AL
Clinical evaluation of a new antimetabolite, 6-mercaptopurine, in treatment of leukemia and allied diseases.
Clinical introduction of 6-mercaptopurine in treatment of acute leukemia and chronic myelocytic leukemia. With nine co-authors.
GMN 3108.3 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3826
1953 HADDOW, Sir Alexander (1907 – 1976); TIMMIS, Geoffrey Millward
Myleran in chronic myeloid leukaemia: chemical constitution and biological action.
Introduction of myleran (busulphan). For results, see pp. 208-13.
GMN 3108.4 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3829
1953 SHAY, Harry (1898 – ); ET AL
Treatment of leukemia with triethylenethiophosphoramide (Thio-TEPA); preliminary results in experimental and clinical leukemia.
With C. Zarafonetis, N. Smith, I. Woldow and D. C. H. Sun.
GMN 3108.5 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3830
1955 GALTON, David Abraham Goiten (1922 – 2007)
Clinical trials of p-(DI-2-chloroethylamino)-phenylbutyric acid (CB 1348) in malignant lymphoma.
Clinical use of chlorambucil for chronic lymphatic leukemia. With L. G. Israels, J. D. N. Nabarro, and M. Till.
GMN 3108.6 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3831
1963 LILEY, Albert William (1929 – 1983)
Intrauterine transfusion of foetus in haemolytic disease.
GMN 3108.7 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3833
1964 FREDA, Vincent J. (1927 – 2003); ET AL
Successful prevention of experimental Rh sensitization in man with an anti-Rh gamma2-globulin antibody preparation.
With J. G. Gorman and W. Pollack.
GMN 3108.8 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3836
1968 ELLISON, Rose Ruth (1923 – 2009); ET AL
Arabinosyl cytosine: A useful agent in the treatment of acute leukemia in adults.
Cytosine arabinoside. With J. P. Holland, M. Weil, et al.
GMN 3108.9 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3838
