1900 LIPINSKA, Mélanie (1865 – 1933)
Histoire des femmes médecins depuis l’antiquité jusqu’à nos jours.
GMN 6649.93 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7784
1901 SABIN, Florence Rena (1871 – 1953)
An atlas of the medulla and midbrain: A laboratory manual.
GMN 11180 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13377
1902 MENDENHALL, Dorothy Mabel Reed (1874 – 1964)
On the pathological changes in Hodgkin’s disease, with especial reference to its relation to tuberculosis.
Dorothy Reed’s classic work on Hodgkin’s disease included a study of the histological picture. She described the proliferation of the endothelial and reticular cells, and the formation of lymphadenoma cells – “Dorothy…
GMN 3780 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4677
1902 BLACKWELL, Elizabeth (1821 – 1910)
Essays in medical sociology. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 12082 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14291
1905 –1906 STARLING, Ernest Henry (1866 – 1927); LANE-CLAYPON, Janet Elizabeth (1877 – 1967)
An experimental enquiry into the factors which determine the growth and activity of the mammary glands.
In their classic paper on the mammary gland, these workers attributed its changes during pregnancy to the fetus.
GMN 1180 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1633
1905 KELLY, Howard Atwood (1858 – 1943); HURDON, Elizabeth (1869 – 1941); BRÖDEL, Max (1870 – 1941)
The vermiform appendix and its diseases. With 399 original illustrations, some in colors, and 3 lithographic plates.
The first comprehensive book on the pathology of the appendix. Many of the illustrations are by Max Brödel. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 3571 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4086
1906 HOPKINS, Sir Frederick Gowland (1861 – 1947); WILLCOCK, Edith Gertrude (1879 – 1953)
The importance of individual amino-acids in metabolism.
Demonstration of the importance of tryptophan in diet. The pioneer work of Hopkins led eventually to the discovery of vitamins.
GMN 732 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1097
1906 DE WITT, Lydia Maria Adams (1859 – 1928)
Morphology and physiology of areas of Langerhans in some vertebrates
Lydia De Witt ligated the pancreatic ducts and obtained extracts from the islets of Langerhans in cats, noting their glycolytic qualities.
GMN 3959 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5233
1907 BESREDKA, Alexandre (1870 – 1940); STEINHARDT, Edna
De l’anaphylaxie et de l’anti-anaphylaxie vis-à-vis du sérum de cheval.
“Anti-anaphylaxis” was the term given by Besredka and Steinhardt to the specific desensitization of sensitized animals.
GMN 2596 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2960
1907 –1912 NUTTING, Mary Adelaide (1858 – 1948); DOCK, Lavinia Lloyd (1858 – 1956)
A history of nursing. The evolution of nursing systems from the earliest times to the foundation of the first English and American training schools for nurses [and] From the earliest times to the present day with special reference to the work of the past thirty years. 4 vols.
Vols. 3-4 by L.L Dock only.
GMN 6635 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7731
1907 –1951 WARTHIN, Aldred Scott (1866 – 1931); ABBOTT, Maude Elizabeth Seymour (1869 – 1940)
Bulletin of the International Association of Medical Museums, Vols. 1-32. Edited by Maude E. Abbott, Alfred Scott Warthin, and others.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
GMN 11297 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13494
1910 LONDON, Efim Semenovich (1869 – 1939); DOBROVOLSKAYA-ZAVADSKAYA, Nadezhda Alexandrovna (1878 – 1954)
Studien über die spezifische Anpassung der Verdauungssäfte. III. Mittheilung.
Digital facsimile from ECHO at this link.
GMN 1028 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/943
1911 FREUND, Ernst (1863 – 1946); KAMINER, Gisa (1883 – 1941)
Zur Diagnose des Karzinoms.
A serum reaction, employed by Freund and Kaminer in 1910 for the diagnosis of cancer.
GMN 2638 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3243
1911 AIKENS, Charlotte Albina (1868 – 1949)
Hospital management: A handbook for hospital trustees, superintendents, training-school principals, physicians, and all who are actively engaged in promoting hospital work. Edited by Charlotte A. Aikens.
Digital facsimile from the Google Books at this link.
GMN 8598 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10775
1913 MCCOLLUM, Elmer Verner (1879 – 1967); DAVIS, Marguerite (1887 – 1967)
The necessity of certain lipids in the diet during growth.
Discovery of “fat-soluble A” (vitamin A). See also J. biol. Chem., 1915, 23,181-246, in which the same authors showed the necessity in diet for at least two factors – “fat-soluble A” and “water-soluble B”.
GMN 1049 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/594
1913 SABIN, Florence Rena (1871 – 1953)
The origin and development of the lymphatic system.
GMN 1113 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1191
1913 CANNON, Ida Maud (1877 – 1960)
Social work in hospitals: A contribution to progressive medicine.
Cannon, sister of Walter Bradford Cannon, established medical social work as an accepted subspecialty of social work first at Massachusetts General Hospital, and eventually throughout the U.S. Her career was closely a…
GMN 10791 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12987
1913 MENTEN, Maud Lenore (1879 – 1960); MICHAELIS, Leonor (1875 – 1949)
Die Kinetik der Invertinwirkung.
The Michaelis-Menten equation, which showed that the rate of an enzyme-catalyzed reaction is proportional to the amount of the enzyme-substrate complex. This relationship between reaction rate and enzyme–substrate con…
GMN 11438 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13637
1914 –1915 LEWIS, Margaret Adaline Reed (1881 – 1970); LEWIS, Warren Harmon (1870 – 1964)
Mitochondria and other cytoplasmic structures in tissue cultures.
Original investigations upon the visible mitochondria.
GMN 561 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/288
1916 LOEB, Leo (1869 – 1959); LATHROP, Abbie E. C. (1868 – 1918)
Further investigations on the origin of tumours in mice. III. On the part played by internal secretion in the spontaneous development of tumours.
Demonstration of the influence of an internal secretion on the development of spontaneous cancer. Castration of female mice of a strain in which mammary cancer was frequent reduced its incidence and delayed its growth.
GMN 2642 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3268
1916 AIKENS, Charlotte Albina (1868 – 1949)
Studies in ethics for nurses.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
GMN 8599 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10776
1917 –1940 SANGER, Margaret (1879 – 1966)
The Birth Control Review.
Sanger edited The Birth Control Review until 1929. A new series began in 1933. It was a birth control advocacy periodical published by the American Birth Control League, and later by its successor, the Birth Control F…
GMN 7106 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9273
1919 HURLER, Gertrud (1889 – 1965)
Ueber einen Typ multipier Abartungen, vorwiegend am Sklettsystem.
Hurler syndrome (lipochondrodystrophy, gargoylism), earlier described by Hunter (No. 6371.1).
GMN 6371.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8308
1920 VOGT-MUGNIER, Cécile (1875 – 1962); VOGT, Oskar (1870 – 1959)
Zur Lehre der Erkrankungen des striären Systems.
“Vogt syndrome”, disease of the corpora striata.
GMN 4720 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1217
1920 MURRAY, Flora (1869 – 1923); ANDERSON, Louisa Garrett (1873 – 1943)
Women as army surgeons. Being the history of the Women's Hospital Corps in Paris, Wimereux & Endell Street, September 1914 - October 1919
Together with Louisa Garrett Anderson (1873-1943), to whom the book was dedicated, Murray co-founded the Women's Hospital for Children in 1912. The hospital provided health care for working-class children of the area,…
GMN 7157 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9324
1921 PEARCE, Louise (1886 – 1959)
Studies on the treatment of human trypanosomiasis with tryparsamide (the sodium salt of N-phenylglycineamide-p-arsonic acid).
Introduction of tryparsamide in the treatment of trypanosomiasis.
GMN 5287 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6364
1922 EVANS, Herbert McLean (1882 – 1971); BISHOP, Katharine Scott (1889 – 1976)
On the existence of a hitherto unrecognized dietary factor essential for reproduction.
Discovery of vitamin E. See also their later paper in J. Amer. med. Ass.,1923, 81, 889-92.
GMN 1055 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/641
1923 STOPES, Marie Charlotte Carmichael (1880 – 1958)
Contraception (birth control). Its theory, history and practice. A manual for the medical and legal professions.
The first formal handbook on birth control.
GMN 1641.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2124
1924 SPEMANN, Hans (1869 – 1941); MANGOLD, Hilde (1898 – 1924)
Über Induktion von Embryonalanlagen durch Implantation artfremder Organisatoren.
This was Hilde Mangold's thesis. Spemann designed the experiment, and Mangold performed the work, and was the co-discoverer of the "organizer," the chemical that directs the embryonic development of tissues and organs…
GMN 530 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1687
1924 DICK, George Frederick (1881 – 1967); DICK, Gladys Rowena Henry (1881 – 1963)
A skin test for susceptibility to scarlet fever.
The “Dick test” for the determination of individual susceptibility to scarlet fever.
GMN 5082 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5946
1924 DICK, George Frederick (1881 – 1967); DICK, Gladys Rowena Henry (1881 – 1963)
The etiology of scarlet fever.
Proof that streptococcus is the cause of scarlet fever.
GMN 5082.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5949
1924 DICK, George Frederick (1881 – 1967); DICK, Gladys Rowena Henry (1881 – 1963)
A scarlet fever antitoxin.
Following their successful attempts to establish individual susceptibility to scarlet fever, these workers prepared an antitoxin for immunization.
GMN 5083 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5951
1924 DOCHEZ, Alphonse Raymond (1882 – 1964); SHERMAN, Lillian
The significance of Streptococcus hemolyticus in scarlet fever and the preparation of a specific anti-scarlatinal serum by immunization of the horse to Streptococcus hemolyticus-scarlatinae.
Dochez and Sherman immunized a horse by repeated injections of scarlet fever toxin. A serum obtained from the horse blanched a scarlet fever rash and, when injected subcutaneously, caused marked amelioration of the ea…
GMN 5084 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5955
1925 DOAN, Charles Austin (1896 – 1990); CUNNINGHAM, Robert Sydney (1891 – 1963); SABIN, Florence Rena (1871 – 1953)
Experimental studies on the origin and maturation of avian and mammalian red blood-cells.
GMN 909 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1058
1925 HAMILTON, Alice (1869 – 1970)
Industrial poisons in the United States.
GMN 2134 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2670
1925 ROBSCHEIT-ROBBINS, Frieda Saur (1893 – 1973); WHIPPLE, George Hoyt (1878 – 1976)
Blood regeneration in severe anaemia. II. Favourable influence of liver, heart and skeletal muscle in diet.
These workers showed the beneficial effect of raw beef liver upon blood regeneration in anemia. Their work paved the way for the liver diet treatment of Minot and Murphy. In 1934 Whipple shared the Nobel Prize in Phys…
GMN 3139 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3949
1925 EVANS, Alice Catharine (1881 – 1975)
Studies on Brucella (Alkaligenes) melitensis.
Forms Bulletin No. 143 of the U.S. Public Health Service Hygienic Laboratory. Alice Evans showed that the causal organism of Malta fever was closely related to Brucella abortus, responsible for contagious abortion in …
GMN 5103 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6034
1926 LANE-CLAYPON, Janet Elizabeth (1877 – 1967)
A further report on cancer of the breast, with special reference to its associated antecedent conditions.
First modern case-control study.
GMN 5782.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6835
1926 SANGER, Margaret (1879 – 1966)
Happiness in marriage.
Full text available from LifeDynamics.com at this link.
GMN 7105 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9272
1926 NOËL, Suzanne Blanche Gros (1876 – 1954)
La chirurgie esthétique, son rôle social.
Noël was one of the first women to practice cosmetic surgery; her book on the subject was the first written by a woman and one of the earliest books on aesthetic plastic surgery in French.
GMN 7724 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9896
1926 SEIBERT, Florence Barbara (1897 – 1991)
Isolation of a crystalline protein with tuberculin activity.
Siebert identified the active agent in tuberculin as a protein.
GMN 12386 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14613
1926 NUTTING, Mary Adelaide (1858 – 1948)
A sound economic basis for schools of nursing and other addresses.
Nutting was a member of the first graduating class of the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing in 1891, and by 1894 its superintendent of nurses and principal. She left Hopkins in 1907 for Teachers College at Columbia Univ…
GMN 14363 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16695
1927 ADRIAN, Edgar Douglas (1889 – 1977); MATTHEWS, Rachel
The action of light on the eye.
On the electrical discharges from the vertebrate optic nerve.
GMN 1528 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2854
1927 OSLER, Sir William (1849 – 1919); ABBOTT, Maude Elizabeth Seymour (1869 – 1940); MCCRAE, Thomas (1870 – 1935)
Congenital cardiac disease by Maude Abbott. IN: Modern medicine: Its theory and practice, edited by Sir William Osler, assisted by Thomas McCrae. 3rd ed., 4, 612-812.
GMN 2856 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3647
1927 FIXSEN, Margaret Averil Boas (1899 – )
The effect of desiccation upon the nutritive properties of egg-white.
Demonstration of the effect of deprivation of biotin.
GMN 3724 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4495
1927 LOVEJOY, Esther Pohl (1869 – 1967)
Certain samaritans.
A first-hand account of the American Women's Hospitals especially in Greece, Turkey and the Balkans helping to relieve the poulations uprooted by World War I and its aftermath. Lovejoy became the second woman to gradu…
GMN 7842 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10014
1928 SLYE, Maud (1879 – 1954)
Cancer and heredity.
By selective breeding over a period of 15 years, Slye produced generations of mice absolutely resistant to, or particularly susceptible to, cancer. She demonstrated that resistance is a Mendelian dominant and suscepti…
GMN 2652 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3307
1928 MAITLAND, Hugh Bethune (1895 – 1972); MAITLAND, Mary L. Cowan ( – 1972)
Cultivation of vaccinia virus without tissue culture.
Introduction of “Maitland’s medium”.
GMN 5434.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7422
1928 MANN, Ida Caroline (1893 – 1983)
The development of the human eye.
The first monograph on the subject, illustrated with drawings by the author.
GMN 7392 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9564
1928 MEAD, Margaret (1901 – 1978)
Coming of age in Samoa: A psychological study of primitive youth for western civilisation.
Mead based her study primarily on adolescent girls on the island of Ta'u in the Samoan Islands. The book detailed the sexual life of teenagers in Samoan society in the early 20th century, and theorized that culture ha…
GMN 10118 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12307
