1937 BURNET, Sir Frank Macfarlane (1899 – 1985); FREEMAN, Mavis Louisa (1907 – 1992)

Experimental studies on the virus of “Q” fever.

Discovery of Rickettsia burneti, causal agent in Q fever.

GMN 5398 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7187

1937 PARÉ, Ambroise (1510 – 1590); DOE, Janet

A bibliography of the works of Ambroise Paré: Premier chirugien & conseiller du Roy

GMN 11215 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13412

1937 BROWNING, Ethel (1891 – 1969)

Toxicity of industrial organic solvents.

GMN 11441 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13640

1938 CUSHING, Harvey Williams (1869 – 1939); EISENHARDT, Louise Charlotte (1891 – 1967)

Meningiomas: Their classification, regional behavior, life history, and surgical end results.

Begun in 1915, soon after Cushing's monograph on pituitary disorders, this represents 25 years of work, and is, by common consent, regarded as Cushing’s greatest clinical monograph. Reprint, 2 vols., New York, Hafner,…

GMN 4612 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/590

1938 HOWITT, Beatrice Fay (1891 – )

Recovery of the virus of equine encephalomyelitis from the brain of a child.

Western equine encephalitis virus recovered from man.

GMN 4660 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/783

1938 GAISFORD, Wilfrid Fletcher (1902 – 1988); EVANS, Gladys Mary (1897 – 1973)

Treatment of pneumonia with 2-(p-aminobenzenesulphonamido) pyridine.

Clinical proof of the value of sulphapyridine. M & B 693 (sulphapyridine) treatment of pneumonia. This followed the experimental work of L. E. H. Whitby (see No. 1951).

GMN 1952 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2829

1938 WILLS, Lucy (1888 – 1964); EVANS, Barbara Dorothy Fordyce (1909 – 1995)

Tropical macrocytic anaemia: Its relation to pernicious anaemia.

GMN 3149 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3996

1938 WOLLMAN, Eugène (1883 – 1943); WOLLMAN, Elisabeth (1888 – 1943)

Recherches sur le phénomène de Twort-d’Hérelle (bactériophage ou autolyse hérédo-contagieuse).

The Wollmans made important contributions to the knowledge on bacteriophage and lysogeny.

GMN 2576.7 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4125

1938 HURD-MEAD, Kate Campbell (1867 – 1941)

A history of women in medicine from the earliest times to the beginning of the ninteenth century.

GMN 6650 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7787

1938 SANGER, Margaret (1879 – 1966)

Margaret Sanger: An autobiography.

GMN 7406 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9578

1938 ANDERSEN, Dorothy Hansine (1901 – 1963)

Cystic fibrosis of the pancreas and its relation to celiac disease: A clinical and pathological study.

Andersen was the first to describe the characteristic cystic fibrosis of the pancreas, and to correlate it with the lung and intestinal disease prominent in CF. She also was the first to hypotheize that cystic fibrosi…

GMN 13827 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16117

1939 MCCOY, Elizabeth Florence (1903 – 1978); MCCLUNG, Leland Swint (1910 – 2000)

The anaerobic bacteria and their activities in nature and disease. A subject bibliography. 2 vols.

Supplements were published: 1938-1975, 8 vols., 1941-82.

GMN 2525 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3658

1939 MIGUELITO (1865 – 1936); REICHARD, Gladys Amanda (1893 – 1955); HUCKEL, John Frederick (1863 – 1936)

Navajo medicine man. Sandpaintings and legends of Miguelito from the John Frederick Huckel Collection

Navajo sandpaintings are traditionally made only for the healing ceremony in which they are used, and then destroyed. This book contains superb reproductions on sand-colored paper of watercolor versions of the sandpai…

GMN 6465.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7636

1939 WHITE, Priscilla (1900 – 1989); ET AL

Prediction and prevention of late pregnancy accidents in diabetes.

First report of hormone treatment. Written with R.S. Titus, E.P. Joslin, and H. Hunt.

GMN 6231 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7860

1939 ZOLLINGER, Robert Milton (1903 – 1992); CUTLER, Elliott Carr (1888 – 1947); CODDING, Mildred B. (1902 – 1991)

Atlas of surgical operations

Considered a new type of surgical textbook, with particularly remarkable illustrations by Codding. The work, which was initially used as a field guide for American military personnel during World War II, remained in p…

GMN 14362 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16694

1940 EVANS, Herbert McLean (1882 – 1971); LI, Choh Hao (1913 – 1987); SIMPSON, Miriam Elizabeth (1894 – 1991)

Interstitial cell stimulating hormone. II. Method of preparation and some physico-chemical studies.

Choh Hao Li and colleagues isolated of the interstitial cell stimulating (luteinizing) hormone.

GMN 1173.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1578

1940 MCKEE, Clara M.

Complement-fixation test in lymphogranuloma venereum.

Diagnosis of lymphogranuloma venereum by complement-fixation test. With G. W. Rake and M. F. Shaffer.

GMN 5224 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7840

1940 MUDROW, Lilly (1908 – 1957)

Klinische und parasitologische Befunde und chemotherapeutische Ergebnisse bei der Hühnermalaria.

Discovery of the developmental forms of P. gallinaceum in the incubation period.

GMN 5259 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8542

1941 PANGBORN, Mary Candace (1907 – 2003)

A new serologically active phospholipid from beef heart.

Cardiolipin antigen for serological diagnosis of syphilis. For isolation and purification see J. biol. Chem., 1942, 143, 247-56.

GMN 2417 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3420

1941 HARE, Ronald (1899 – 1986); MCCLELLAND, Laurella (1912 – 1993)

The absorption of influenza virus by red cells and a new in vitro method of measuring antibodies for influenza virus.

Independently of Hirst, McClelland and Hare discovered virus hemagglutination.

GMN 2578 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4133

1942 FREUND, Jules Thomas (1891 – 1960); MCDERMOTT, Katherine

Sensitization to horse serum by means of adjuvants.

Freund’s adjuvant. Freund’s procedure allowed adjuvants to be used for any antigen.

GMN 2578.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4135

1942 FELTON, Lloyd Derr (1885 – 1953); OTTINGER, Barbara

Pneumococcus polysaccharide as a paralyzing agent on the mechanism of immunity in white mice.

GMN 2578.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4138

1942 TREADWELL, Anne de G.; ET AL

Metabolic studies on neoplasm of bone with the aid of radioactive strontium.

Radioisotopic bone scanning. With B. Low-Beer, H. Friedell, and J. Lawrence.

GMN 2700.01 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4324

1942 GRIFFITH, Harold Randall (1894 – 1985); MACLEOD, Enid Johnson (1909 – 2001)

The use of curare in general anesthesia.

Introduction of curare in anesthesia.

GMN 5724 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6458

1943 EVANS, Herbert McLean (1882 – 1971); LI, Choh Hao (1913 – 1987); SIMPSON, Miriam Elizabeth (1894 – 1991)

Adrenocorticotropic hormone.

Choh Hao Li and colleagues Isolated pure adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) from sheep pituitary glands.

GMN 1174 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1580

1943 SANO, Machteld Elisabeth (1903 – 1993)

Skin grafting. A new method based on the principles of tissue culture.

First use of fibrin glue for skin grafting. See also Surg. Gynec. Obstet., 1943, 77, 510-13.

GMN 5765 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6725

1943 JENSEN, Deborah Maclurg (1900 – 1962)

History of nursing.

Second edition, History and trends of professional nursing, 1950.

GMN 6636 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7733

1943 HUGHES, Muriel Joy (1903 – )

Women healers in medieval life and literature.

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

GMN 8554 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10731

1943 HAMILTON, Alice (1869 – 1970)

Exploring the dangerous trades: The autobiography of Alice Hamilton.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

GMN 8590 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10767

1944 ROCK, John A. (1890 – 1984); MENKIN, Miriam Friedman (1901 – 1992)

In vitro ferilization and cleavage of human ovarian eggs.

First in vitro fertilization of human eggs.

GMN 532.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1698

1944 SCHATZ, Albert (1920 – 2005); WAKSMAN, Selman Abraham (1888 – 1973); GREGORY, Elizabeth Bugie

Streptomycin, a substance exhibiting antibiotic activity against Grampositive and Gram-negative bacteria.

Introduction of streptomycin. Order of authorship: Schatz, Gregory, Waksman. In 1952 Waksman was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for ingenious, systematic, and successful studies of the soil microbe…

GMN 1935 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2788

1944 –1948 KEFFER, Luiza

Indice bibliográfico de lepra, 1560-1943. 3 vols.

Supplements 1-5, 1952-62.

GMN 2447 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2944

1944 LEUCHTENBERGER, Cecile (1906 – ); LEUCHTENBERGER, Rudolf; ET AL

“Folic acid” a tumor growth inhibitor.

Inhibition of tumor growth by a folic acid concentrate. With R. Lewisohn, D. Laszlo. These workers later (Proc. Soc. exp. Biol. N. Y., 1944, 56, 144-45) obtained similar results with xanthopterin.

GMN 2659.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3352

1945 EVANS, Herbert McLean (1882 – 1971); LI, Choh Hao (1913 – 1987); SIMPSON, Miriam Elizabeth (1894 – 1991)

Isolation and properties of the anterior hypophyseal growth hormone.

Choh Hao Li and colleagues isolated the anterior pituitary growth hormone.

GMN 1175.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1585

1945 JOHNSON, Balbina A. (1897 – 1970); ET AL

Bacitracin: a new antibiotic produced by a member of the B, subtilis group.

With H. Anker and F. L. Meleney.

GMN 1936 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2789

1945 BLALOCK, Alfred (1899 – 1964); TAUSSIG, Helen Brooke (1898 – 1986)

The surgical treatment of malformations of the heart in which there is pulmonary stenosis or pulmonary atresia.

The “Blalock-Taussig operation” for the relief of congenital defects of the pulmonary artery, Tetralogy of Fallot ("blue baby syndrome"). "The first surgical repair was carried out in 1944 at Johns Hopkins.[70] The pr…

GMN 3043 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3475

1945 ROTH, Grace M. (1894 – 1982); KVALE, Walter Frederick (1907 – 1970)

A tentative test for pheochromocytoma.

The Roth–Kvale histamine test for the diagnosis of pheochromocytoma.

GMN 3869 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4921

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

1946 GOETSCH, Anne Carlton Tompkins (1917 – 2003); ET AL

Observations on the effect of massive doses of iron given intravenously to patients with hypochromic anemia.

GMN 3152 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4008

1946 PICKARD, Madge Evelyn; BULEY, Roscoe Carlyle (1893 – 1968)

The midwest pioneer: His ills, cures, & doctors.

The first general history of frontier or pioneer medicine in America, covering mainly the first half of the 19th century, and including many folk medicine treatments. First published privately in Crawfordsville, India…

GMN 8741 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10919

1947 SHORB, Mary Shaw (1907 – 1990)

Unidentified growth factors for Lactobacillus lactis in refined liver extract.

Mary Shorb provided a method of biological assay of liver extracts that made possible the isolation of vitamin B12.

GMN 1090 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/869

1947 WALSH, Robert John (1917 – 1983); MONTGOMERY, Carmel M.

A new human iso-agglutinin subdividing the MN blood groups.

S blood-group antigen.

GMN 913 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1089

1947 TAUSSIG, Helen Brooke (1898 – 1986)

Congenital malformations of the heart.

This 618-page work, which required ten years to write, was the first "definitive textbook" of congenital heart defects, a subspecialty of pediatrics that Taussig created. The second edition, published in 1960, was ess…

GMN 2878 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4208

1947 METTLER, Cecilia Charlotte Asper (1909 – 1943); METTLER, Fred A.

History of medicine. A correlative text arranged according to subjects by Cecilia Mettler. Edited by Fred A Mettler.

Posthumously published after the author died three days after childbirth.

GMN 6440 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8433

1947 SMADEL, Joseph Edwin (1907 – 1963); JACKSON, Elizabeth B.

Chloromycetin, an antibiotic with chemotherapeutic activity in experimental rickettsial and viral infections.

Introduction of chloramphenicol, used in treatment of typhus.

GMN 1940 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8617

1948 SANFORD, Katherine Koontz (1915 – 2005); ET AL

The growth in vitro of single isolated tissue cells.

Sanford was the first to clone in vitro a single living cell of a mammal—in this instance, a rodent. She performed this feat in search of a means to research how cells transform into malignancy.

GMN 566.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/300

1948 HARKEN, Dwight Emary (1910 – 1993); ZARSKY, Leona Norman (1923 – 2013); ET AL

The surgical treatment of mitral stenosis. 1. Valvuloplasty.

Valvuloplasty for mitral stenosis. Harken reported the first successful intracardiac operation for treatment of this lesion--a procedure was first attempted in the 1920s. Charles Bailey in Philadelphia undertook a sim…

GMN 3046.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3527

1948 SPITZ, Sophie (1910 – 1956)

Melanomas of childhood.

Spitz first defined the histologic criteria for the diagnosis of juvenile melanoma.

GMN 4154.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5874

1948 PATON, Sir William Drummond Macdonald (1917 – 1993); ZAIMIS, Eleanor (1915 – 1982)

Curare-like action of polymethylene bis-quaternary ammonium salts.

Methonium compounds. See also the same journal, 1948, 162, 810.

GMN 1929.3 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6466

1948 DALLDORF, Gilbert Julius (1900 – 1979); SICKLES, Grace Mary (1898 – 1959)

An unidentified, filterable agent isolated from the feces of children with paralysis.

Isolation of the Coxsackie virus from the stool of a patient residing in Coxsackie, New York.

GMN 5545 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6761