1924 SPALTEHOLZ, Karl Werner (1861 – 1940)
Die Arterien der Herzwand.
GMN 856 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/715
1924 COOMBS, Carey Franklin (1879 – 1932)
Rheumatic heart disease.
The first systematic textbook on rheumatic heart disease.
GMN 2854 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3641
1924 LIBMAN, Emanuel (1872 – 1946); SACKS, Benjamin (1896 – 1939)
A hitherto undescribed form of valvular and mural endocarditis.
“Libman–Sacks disease”.
GMN 2855 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3645
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
1924 KIRSCHNER, Martin (1879 – 1942)
Ein durch die Trendelenburgsche Operation geheilter Fall von Embolie der Art. pulmonalis.
First successful surgical treatment of pulmonary embolism, a procedure suggested by Trendelenburg in 1908 (see No. 3012).
GMN 3016 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5408
1924 BECK, Claude Schaeffer (1894 – 1971); CUTLER, Elliott Carr (1888 – 1947); LEVINE, Samuel Albert (1891 – 1966)
The surgical treatment of mitral stenosis: Experimental and clinical studies.
The first successful operations on the mitral valves, published in a paper of monograph length. As Surgeon-in-Chief of Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, under whom Beck, Cutler, and Levine worked, Harvey Cushing reported, …
GMN 10592 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12785
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 AYERZA, Luis
Consideraciones sobre la denominación de “Enfermedad de Ayerza”.
In 1901 Argentinian physician Abel Ayerza (1861-1918) lectured on the syndrome of chronic cyanosis, dyspnoea, erythremia, and sclerosis of the pulmonary artery, “Ayerza’s disease” (cor pulmonale). He did not publish t…
GMN 2917 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4899
1925 –1926 KLOTZ, Oskar (1878 – 1936)
Concerning the pathology of some arterial diseases.
Klotz, eminent Canadian pathologist, is particularly remembered for his contributions to the subject of arteriosclerosis.
GMN 2918 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4902
1925 LINSER, Karl Gottlieb (1895 – 1976)
Die Behandlung der Krampfadern mit intravarikösen Kochsalzinjektionen.
Sodium chloride first used in the injection treatment of varicose veins.
GMN 3003 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5323
1925 SOUTTAR, Sir Henry Sessions (1875 – 1964)
The surgical treatment of mitral stenosis.
Mitral valvotomy; report of a successful case.
GMN 3032 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5529
1926 BABCOCK, William Wayne (1872 – 1963)
A new treatment of thoracic aneurysm.
Babcock’s operation for thoracic aneurysm. See also Amer. J. Surg.,1932, 16,401-07.
GMN 2988 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5188
1926 NOBL, Gabor (1864 – 1938)
Die Calorose als Verödungsmittel varikös entarteter Venen.
Nobl used dextrose in the injection treatment of varicose veins.
GMN 3004 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5325
1927 MOSCHCOWITZ, Eli (1879 – 1964)
Hypertension of the pulmonary circulation.
GMN 2715 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4438
1927 BLALOCK, Alfred (1899 – 1964)
Mechanism and treatment of experimental shock. I. Shock following hemorrhage.
First of a series of papers in the Archives. See also No. 5630.3.
GMN 5630.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7223
1929 ERDHEIM, Jakob (1874 – 1937)
Medionecrosis aortae idiopathica (cystica).
Classic description of aortic medionecrosis.
GMN 2857 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3652
1929 SANTOS, Reynaldo dos (1880 – 1970); ET AL
L’artériographie des membres de l’aorte et de ses branches abdominales.
Aortography. With A. C. Lamas and J. Pereira Caldas. Also published in Bull. Soc.méd.chir. Paris, 1929, 55,587-601.
GMN 2859 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3656
1929 KEITH, Norman Macdonnell (1885 – 1976); WAGENER, Henry Patrick (1890 – 1961); ET AL
Some different types of essential hypertension; their course and prognosis.
The Keith-Wagener-Barker classification of hypertension. With N. W. Barker.
GMN 2716 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4440
1929 BABCOCK, William Wayne (1872 – 1963)
Operative decompression of aortic aneurysm by carotid-jugular anastomosis.
Babcock’s operation for aortic aneurysm.
GMN 2989 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5191
1929 DUCUING, Jean (1889 – )
Phlébites, thromboses et embolies post-opératoires.
GMN 3018 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5412
1930 WOLFF, Louis (1898 – 1972); PARKINSON, Sir John (1885 – 1976); WHITE, Paul Dudley (1886 – 1973)
Bundle-branch block with short P-R interval in healthy young people prone to paroxysmal tachycardia.
Wolff–Parkinson–White syndrome, the best-known of the “pre-excitation syndromes”.
GMN 2860 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3660
1930 SCHMIDT, Max (1898 – )
Intracranial aneurysms.
Temporal arteritis is first described in Case 24 (p. 532). Schmidt’s paper also appeared in Bibl. Laeger, 1930, 122,269 (Case 24, p. 320). Temporal arteritis was also described as a new condition by B. T. Horton, T. B…
GMN 2919 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4904
1930 BLALOCK, Alfred (1899 – 1964)
Experimental shock. The cause of the low blood pressure produced by muscle injury.
Blalock “demonstrated that surgical shock is not due to the elaboration of toxins nor to reflex neurologic mechanisms, but … to decrease in circulating the blood volume” (M.M. Ravitch). He wrote many papers on the sub…
GMN 5630.3 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7225
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 SAUERBRUCH, Ernst Ferdinand (1875 – 1951)
Erfolgreiche operative Beseitigung eines Aneurysma der rechten Herzkammer.
First successful surgical intervention in cardiac aneurysm.
GMN 2990 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5193
1931 COBURN, Alvin Frederick (1899 – 1975)
The factor of infection in the rheumatic state.
Coburn demonstated that streptococcus is the infective agent in rheumatic fever that can lead to rheumatic heart disease.
GMN 11570 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13769
1932 GROLLMAN, Arthur (1901 – 1980)
The cardiac output of man in health and disease.
GMN 2861 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4114
1932 LEWIS, Sir Thomas (1881 – 1945)
A lecture on vaso-vagal syncope and the carotid sinus mechanism.
Vaso-vagal syncope.
GMN 2862 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4128
1932 HINES, Edgar Alphonso Jr. (1905 – 1978); BROWN, George Elgie (1885 – 1935)
A standard stimulus for measuring vasomotor reactions: its application in the study of hypertension.
Cold-pressor test.
GMN 2717 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4441
1933 BLUMGART, Hermann Ludwig (1895 – 1977); LEVINE, Samuel Albert (1891 – 1966); ET AL
Congestive heart failure and angina pectoris: The therapeutic effect of thyroidectomy on patients without clinical or pathologic evidence of thyroid toxicity.
Thyroidectomy for congestive heart failure and angina pectoris. With D. D. Berlin.
GMN 2899 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4387
1933 WEISS, Soma (1898 – 1942); BAKER, James Porter (1913 – 1988)
The carotid sinus in health and disease: its rôle in the causation of fainting and convulsions.
The carotid sinus syndrome.
GMN 2921 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4910
1933 HYMAN, Albert S. (1893 – 1972); PARSONNET, Aaron E. (1889 – 1951)
The failing heart of middle life: The myocardiosis syndrome, coronary thrombosis, and angina pectoris with a section upon the medico-legal aspects of sudden death from heart disease.
"This pioneering monograph on the pathophysiology of coronary artery disease includes a detailed discussion of the recently recognized electrocardiographic features of myocardial infarction. Hyman invented a [external…
GMN 11668 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13869
1934 WENCKEBACH, Karel Frederik (1864 – 1940)
Das Beriberi-Herz.
Wenckebach wrote a classic account of the heart in beriberi.
GMN 3747 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4565
1934 COOPER, William Morris (1894 – )
The treatment of varicose veins.
Cooper combined ligation with subsequent injection of 5 per cent sodium morrhuate in the treatment of varicose veins.
GMN 3005 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5332
1935 –1936 PEET, Max Minor (1885 – 1949)
The surgical treatment of hypertension.
Peet operation for hypertension. Preliminary communication in Univ. Hosp. Bull. (Ann Arbor), 1935, 1,17-18.
GMN 3036 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3428
1935 HARRISON, Tinsley Randolph (1900 – 1978)
Failure of the circulation.
GMN 11608 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13808
1936 O’SHAUGHNESSY, Laurence Frederick (1900 – 1940)
An experimental method of providing a collateral circulation to the heart.
By attaching a pedicled omental graft to the surface of the heart (cardio-omentopexy), thus providing a collateral circulation to that organ, O’Shaughnessy made an important advance in the treatment of angina and card…
GMN 3037 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3447
1936 BARKER, Marion Herbert (1899 – 1947)
The blood cyanates in the treatment of hypertension.
Barker made thiocyanate treatment a practical proposition in hypertension.
GMN 2720 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4447
1937 LERICHE, Henri Marie René (1879 – 1955); ET AL
Arterectomy.
Arterectomy in arterial thrombosis. With R. Fontaine and S. M. Dupertuis.
GMN 3038 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3450
1937 ROLLESTON, Sir Humphrey Davy (1862 – 1944)
The history of angina pectoris.
GMN 3157 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4093
1938 LEVY, Robert Louis (1888 – 1974); ET AL
Effects of induced oxygen want in patients with cardiac pain.
Diagnosis of cardiac pain. With A. L. Barach and H. G. Bruenn.
GMN 2867 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4170
1939 KEITH, Norman Macdonnell (1885 – 1976); WAGENER, Henry Patrick (1890 – 1961)
Diffuse arteriolar disease with hypertension and the associated retinal lesions.
The Keith–Wagener classification of fundal lesions. They classified essential hypertension into four groups.
GMN 2723 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4454
1939 WILSON, Clifford (1906 – 1997); BYROM, Frank Burnet (1902 – 1976)
Renal changes in malignant hypertension; experimental evidence.
Production of hypertension in rats by constriction of one renal artery, and important studies of the renal changes produced, which included degeneration of the renal arterioles.
GMN 2724 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4456
1939 SMITH, Harry Leroy (1887 – ); HORTON, Bayard Taylor (1895 – 1980)
Arteriovenous fistula of the lung associated with polycythemia vera: report of a case in which the diagnosis was made clinically.
GMN 2991 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5198
1940 LERICHE, Henri Marie René (1879 – 1955)
De la résection du carrefour aortico-iliaque avec double sympathectomie lombaire pour thrombose artéritique de l’aorte; le syndrome de l’oblitération termino-aortique par artérite.
Obliteration of the abdominal aorta.
GMN 3040 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3464
1940 SMITHWICK, Reginald Hammerick (1899 – 1987)
A technique for splanchnic resection for hypertension; preliminary report.
Smithwick operation for hypertension.
GMN 3041 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3469
1940 LAUBRY, Charles (1872 – 1960); ET AL
Grosse pulmonaire. Petite aorte. Affection congénitale.
Idiopathic dilatation of the pulmonary artery reported. With D. Routier and R. Heim de Balsac.
GMN 2923 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4919
1941 SCHROEDER, Henry Alfred (1906 – 1975)
Studies on congestive heart failure. I. The importance of restriction of salt as compared to water.
Low-sodium diet in heart failure.
GMN 2873 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4196
1942 RICH, Arnold Rice (1893 – 1968)
The rôle of hypersensitivity in periarteritis nodosa; as indicated by seven cases developing during serum sickness and sulfonamide therapy.
Rich considered hypersensitivity to be an important factor in the aetiology of periarteritis nodosa.
GMN 2924 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4922
1942 HEPBURN, John (1888 – ); DAUPHINEE, James Arnold (1903 – 1983)
Successful removal of hemangioma of the lung followed by the disappearance of polycythemia.
First successful excision of arteriovenous aneurysm of the lung.
GMN 2992 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5249
