1923 VAN SLYKE, Donald Dexter (1883 – 1971); LUNDSGAARD, Christen (1883 – )
Cyanosis.
"In their monumental 1945 paper on the surgical treatment of malformations of the heart, Alfred Blalock and Helen Taussig refer to this monograph: 'Lundsgaard and Van Slyke in their classic studies on the causes of cy…
GMN 11685 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13886
1924 HERING, Heinrich Ewald (1866 – 1948)
Die Aenderung der Herzschlagzahl durch Aenderung des arteriellen Blutdruckes erfolgt aus reflektorischem Wege; gleichzeitig eine Mitteilung über die Funktion des Sinus caroticus, beziehungsweise der Sinusnerven.
First description of the structure and function of the sinus nerve and the reflex character of carotid pressure.
GMN 795 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/572
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)
Intra-arterial injection of sodium iodide: Preliminary report.
Clinical angiography.
GMN 2916.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4897
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
1924 DEUTSCH, Felix; KAUF, Emil
Herz und Sport: klinische Untersuchungen über die Einwirkung des Sportes auf das Herz.
This pioneering study on the effects of exercise on the cardiovascular system was translated into English by Louis M. Warfield as Herz und Sport. Heart and athletics. London: Henry Kimpton, 1927. Digital facsimile of …
GMN 11580 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13779
1925 CUSHNY, Arthur Robertson (1866 – 1926)
The action and uses in medicine of digitalis and its allies.
GMN 1912 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2675
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 LANDIS, Eugen Markley (1901 – 1987)
The capillary pressure in frog mesentery as determined by micro-injection methods.
Direct measurement of the blood pressure within the capillaries.
GMN 795.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/125
1926 –1927 BLUMGART, Hermann Ludwig (1895 – 1977); WEISS, Soma (1898 – 1942)
Studies in the velocity of blood flow.
First practical method of measuring circulation time. "In 1925, Hermann Blumgart performed the first diagnostic procedure using radioactive indicators on humans; this first is well recognized. Less well recognized is …
GMN 796 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/130
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 LEWIS, Sir Thomas (1881 – 1945)
The blood-vessels of the human skin and their responses.
GMN 797 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/136
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 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
1927 BLUMGART, Hermann Ludwig (1895 – 1977); YENS, Otto C.
Studies on the velocity of blood flow: I. The method utilized.
Reports the first diagnostic procedure, done in 1925, using radioactive indicators on humans. "Less well recognized is the fact that Blumgart and his coworker Otto C. Yens, then a medical student, developed the first …
GMN 9335 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11517
1927 CRAIB, William Hofmeyr (1895 – 1982)
A study of the electrical field surrounding active heart muscle.
At Johns Hopkins Hospital Craib evolved his fundamental theory of the doublet hypothesis which revolutionized electrocardiographic thinking. Until then, it was held that electricity in the heart differed from electric…
GMN 12226 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14438
1928 REIN, Friedrich Hermann (1898 – 1953)
Die Thermo-Stromuhr. Ein Verfahren zur fortlaufenden Messung der mittleren absoluten Durchfulssmengen in uneröffneten Gefässen in situ.
Introduction of the Thermostromuhr, an instrument for measuring the velocity of the blood flow.
GMN 798 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/144
1928 WIGGERS, Carl John (1883 – 1963)
The pressure pulses in the cardiovascular system.
Wiggers, professor of physiology at the Western Reserve University, Cleveland, contributed much to the knowledge of the circulation and devised several instruments to promote the study of this subject.
GMN 799 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/148
1928 DALE, Sir Henry Hallett (1875 – 1968); SCHUSTER, Edgar Hermann Joseph (1899 – 1969)
A double perfusion-pump.
Mechanical heart.
GMN 856.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/720
1928 ROESLER, Hugo (1899 – 1961)
Beiträge zur Lehre von den angeborenen Herzfehlern.
Roesler described the most important roentgenologic sign of aortic coarctation.
GMN 2856.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3649
1928 ROLLESTON, Sir Humphrey Davy (1862 – 1944)
Cardio-vascular diseases since Harvey’s discovery.
Harveian Oration, 1928.
GMN 3156 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4092
1929 GROLLMAN, Arthur (1901 – 1980)
The determination of the cardiac output of man by the use of acetylene.
Grollman introduced the acetylene method of determination of cardiac output.
GMN 857 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/726
1929 ERDHEIM, Jakob (1874 – 1937)
Medionecrosis aortae idiopathica (cystica).
Classic description of aortic medionecrosis.
GMN 2857 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3652
1929 FORSSMANN, Werner Theodor Otto (1904 – 1979)
Die Sondierung des rechten Herzens.
The first cardiac catheterization on a living person. Forssmann catheterized his own heart. Historical note by N. Howard-Jones, Bull. Hist. Med.,1973, 47,524-6. English translation in Callahan, Keys & Key, Classics of…
GMN 2858 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3654
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 BLUMGART, Hermann Ludwig (1895 – 1977); WEISS, Soma (1898 – 1942); ROBB, George Porter (1898 – 1983)
The velocity of blood flow in health and disease as measured by the effect of histamine on the minute vessels.
Measurement of circulation time.
GMN 3090 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3769
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 SMITH, Sydney
Digoxin, a new digitalis glucoside.
Isolation of digoxin from Digitalis lanata.
GMN 1920 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2693
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
1930 MACKENZIE, Sir James (1853 – 1925); MONTEITH, William Black Rankin (1898 – 1974)
Bibliography with synopsis of the original papers of the writings of Sir James Mackenzie. Edited by William Black Rankin Monteith.
GMN 11686 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13887
1930 PIANKOFF, Alexandre (1897 – 1966)
Le cœur dans les textes égyptiens depuis l'ancien jusqu'à la fin du nouvel Empire.
GMN 12366 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14590
1931 WINTERNITZ, M; ET AL
Eine klinisch brauchbare Bestimmungsmethode der Blutumlaufszeit mittels Decholininjektion.
The decholin method for estimation of circulation time. With J. Deutsch and Z. Brull.
GMN 3091 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3771
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 SANTOS, Reynaldo dos (1880 – 1970); CALDAS, Jose Guilherme Mendes Pereira
Les dérivés du thorium dans l’artériographie des membres.
Thorotrast first used in arteriography.
GMN 2920 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4909
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
