1912 SOLLMANN, Torald Hermann (1874 – 1965); BROWN, Edgar Dwight (1869 – 1961)
The blood pressure fall produced by traction on the carotid artery.
First description of the carotid sinus depressor reflex.
GMN 791 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/112
1912 HERRICK, James Bryan (1861 – 1954)
Clinical features of sudden obstruction of the coronary arteries.
Outstanding description of coronary thrombosis. Herrick was the first to describe and diagnose coronary thrombosis in a living person; he showed that sudden coronary occlusion is not necessarily fatal. Reprint in Will…
GMN 2839 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3580
1912 LEWIS, Sir Thomas (1881 – 1945)
Electro-cardiography and its importance in the clinical examination of heart affections.
GMN 2840 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3586
1912 LIBMAN, Emanuel (1872 – 1946)
A study of the endocardial lesions of subacute bacterial endocarditis.
GMN 2841 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3589
1912 ARRILLAGA, Francisco C.
Esclerosis secundaria de la arteria pulmonar y su cuadro clinico (Cardiacos negros).
A classical description of “Ayerza’s syndrome or disease” (cor pulmonale), to which Arrillaga named after Abel Ayerza, who first mentioned the disease in a lecture given in 1901. Corvisart mentioned the condition in 1…
GMN 2914 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4888
1913 HUISMANS, L
Der Ersatz des Orthiodiagraphen durch der Teleröntgen.
Instantaneous radiography of the heart.
GMN 2842 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3595
1913 ANICHKOV, Nikolai Nikolaevich (Anitschkow) (1885 – 1964); CHALATOV, Semen Sergeevich (1884 – 1951)
Ueber experimentelle Cholesterinsteatose und ihre Bedeutung für die Entstehung einiger pathologischer Prozesse.
Anichkov and Chalatov of St. Petersburg, Russia, discovered that atherosclerosis of large arteries is critically dependent on cholesterol. (Translated in Arteriosclerosis, 1983, 3, 178-182). The inflammatory nature of…
GMN 2915 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4890
1913 JEGER, Ernest
Die Chirurgie der Blutgefässe und des Herzens.
Jeger was the first to advocate the bypass principle for management of peripheral aneurysms.
GMN 2915.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4892
1913 KEY, Einar Samuel Henrik (1872 – 1954)
Ein Fall operierter Embolie der Arteria femoralis.
Key performed his first successful embolectomy on December 4, 1912, and reported it to a meeting of the Svenska Läkaresällskapet on January 28, 1913. See also his review in Ergebn. Chir. Orthop.,1929, 22,1-94.
GMN 3014 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5397
1913 BAUER, Fritz
Fall von Embolus aortae abdominalis, Operation, Heilung.
First successful aortic embolectomy.
GMN 3014.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5401
1913 WARTHIN, Aldred Scott (1866 – 1931)
Traumatic lipaemia and fatty embolism.
Classic clinical description of pulmonary fat embolism.
GMN 3015 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5405
1913 DOYEN, Eugène-Louis (1859 – 1916)
Chirurgie des malformations congénitales ou acquises du coeur.
First attempt at surgical relief of valvular disease of the heart (congenital pulmonary stenosis). Experimental valvotomy.
GMN 3028.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5511
1913 CRILE, George Washington (1864 – 1943)
The kinetic theory of shock and its prevention through anoci-association (shockless operation).
Crile advanced the anoci-association concept in which local and general anesthesia are combined in a sequence to eliminate pre-operative fear and tension.
GMN 5629 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7213
1913 LEWIS, Sir Thomas (1881 – 1945)
Clinical electrocardiography.
The first textbook of electrocardiography.
GMN 11679 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13880
1914 BAINBRIDGE, Francis Arthur (1874 – 1921)
On some cardiac reflexes.
Bainbridge found that cardiac reflex action is produced by inhibition of vagus tone and excitation of the accelerator nerves.
GMN 851 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/657
1914 RITCHIE, William Thomas (1873 – 1945)
Auricular flutter.
GMN 2843 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3599
1914 WENCKEBACH, Karel Frederik (1864 – 1940)
Die unregelmässige Herztätigkeit und ihre klinische Bedeutung.
Wenckebach was the first to demonstrate (pp. 173-75) the value of quinine (“Wenckebach’s pills”) in the treatment of paroxysmal fibrillation. The same work contains a number of excellent descriptions of various forms …
GMN 2844 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3605
1914 TUFFIER, Théodore (1857 – 1929)
Etude expérimentelle sur la chirurgie des valvules du coeur.
Tuffier carried out the first successful experimental operation for the relief of chronic valvular disease. He also operated successfully in a case of aortic stenosis.
GMN 3029 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5516
1914 CABOT, Richard Clarke (1868 – 1939)
The four common types of heart disease: An analysis of 600 cases.
"The first appearance of Cabot's innovative classification of cardiac disease that was widely adopted" (W. Bruce Fye, American Cardiology. Baltimore, 1995, 49-50.)
GMN 12224 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14436
1914 LEWIS, Sir Thomas (1881 – 1945); WHITE, Paul Dudley (1886 – 1973); MEAKINS, Jonathan Campbell (1882 – 1959)
The excitatory process in the dog's heart. Part 1. The auricles.
Experiments designed to identify the "origin of the contraction wave in the mammalian heart." Three photographic plates depict numerous electrocardiographic recordings. "From 1910 to 1916, Lewis and his associates per…
GMN 12258 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14474
1914 STARLING, Ernest Henry (1866 – 1927); PATTERSON, Sydney Wentworth (1882 – 1960); PIPER, H.
The regulation of the heart beat.
"Ernest Henry Starling (1866-1927) has probably contributed more than any man to our understanding of heart failure....His work with Patterson and Piper on the mechanical factors involved in the response of the heart …
GMN 12287 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14508
1915 ALLBUTT, Sir Thomas Clifford (1836 – 1925)
Diseases of the arteries, including angina pectoris. 2 vols.
Includes his suggestion of the aortic genesis of angina pectoris, and (vol. 2, p. 368) his mechanical theory of cardiac pain in coronary occlusion.
GMN 2894 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4368
1916 STRAUB, Walter (1874 – 1944)
Digitaliswirkung am isolierten Vorhof des Frosches.
An important analysis of the action of digitalis on the isolated heart.
GMN 1904 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2654
1916 CRANE, Augustus Warren (1868 – 1937)
Roentgenology of the heart.
Introduction of kymography in clinical cardiology.
GMN 2845 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3609
1916 LUTEMBACHER, René (1884 – 1968)
De la sténose mitrale avec communication interauriculaire.
“Lutembacher syndrome”.
GMN 2846 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3612
1917 LEWIS, Sir Thomas (1881 – 1945)
Report upon soldiers returned as cases of “disordered action of the heart” (D.A.H.) or “valvular disease of the heart” (V.D.H.).
Medical Research Committee Special Rept. No. 8. Sir Thomas Lewis described as “effort syndrome” the condition of disordered action of the heart known as “Da Costa’s syndrome”.
GMN 2847 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3615
1918 –1919 DALE, Sir Henry Hallett (1875 – 1968); RICHARDS, Alfred Newton (1876 – 1966)
The vasodilator action of histamine and of some other substances.
Dale and Richards studied the effect of histamine on the control of the circulation and showed its peripheral action to be located in the capillaries and smaller arterioles.
GMN 792 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/114
1918 SMITH, Fred M. (1888 – 1946)
The ligation of coronary arteries with electrocardiographic study.
GMN 852 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/667
1918 STARLING, Ernest Henry (1866 – 1927)
The Linacre lecture on the law of the heart.
Starling’s “law of the heart”.
GMN 853 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/674
1918 FREY, Walter (1884 – 1972)
Ueber Vorhofflimmern beim Menschen und seine Beseitigung durch Chinidin.
Following Wenckebach’s discovery of the efficacy of quinine in the restoration of normal rhythm in auricular fibrillation. Frey showed that quinidine was the most effective of the cinchona alkaloids in this respect.
GMN 2848 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3617
1918 BOUSFIELD, Guy William John (1893 – 1974)
Angina pectoris: changes in electrocardiogram during paroxysm.
First electrocardiogram recorded (1917) from a patient with angina pectoris.
GMN 2894.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4370
1918 ZONDEK, Hermann (1887 – 1979)
Das Myxödemherz
First systematic study of the characteristic changes of the heart in myxedema.
GMN 3849 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4880
1919 ZONDEK, Hermann (1887 – 1979)
Das Myxödemherz.
First attempt to restore the heart’s action by intracardiac injection.
GMN 2849 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3622
1919 DALE, Sir Henry Hallett (1875 – 1968); LAIDLAW, Sir Patrick Playfair (1881 – 1940)
Histamine shock.
Experimental shock produced by histamine and shown to be similar to traumatic and surgical shock.
GMN 5630 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7217
1919 HERRICK, James Bryan (1861 – 1954)
Thrombosis of the coronary arteries.
"...includes electrocardiographic tracings of a 42-year-old physician who died "after coronary obstructive symptoms" and of a dog following experimental ligation of a coronary artery. This finding "led Herrick to conc…
GMN 12248 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14463
1920 PARDEE, Harold Ensign Bennett (1886 – 1972)
An electrocardiographic sign of coronary artery obstruction.
First description of the typical changes in the electrocardiogram in coronary thrombosis.
GMN 2852 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3633
1920 SAXL, Paul (1880 – 1932)
Verhandlungen ärtzlicher Gesellschaften und Kongressberichte.
Saxl injected a mercurial compound (Novasurol), a powerful diuretic, for the treatment of cardiac failure.
GMN 2853 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3635
1920 MANN, Hubert (1891 – 1975)
A method of analyzing the electrocardiogram.
Mann developed the monocardiogram while a fourth-year medical student. This was the first vector loop and the beginning of modern vectorcardiography.
GMN 2853.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3639
1920 JONNESCO, Thomas (Thoma Ionescu) (1860 – 1926)
Angine de poitrine guérie par la résection du sympathique cervicothoracique.
Cervical sympathectomy for the treatment of angina pectoris was first carried out by Jonnesco in 1916.
GMN 2895 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4376
1921 GROSS, Louis (1894 – 1937)
The blood supply to the heart.
Coronary arterial anatomy studied by radiography of the injected arteries by a standard technique.
GMN 855 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/712
1921 GENEVRIER, J
Du traitement des varices par les injection coagulantes, concentrées de sels de quinine.
Injection of quinine urethane for the treatment of varicose veins.
GMN 3001 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5318
1921 LAUBRY, Charles (1872 – 1960)
Traité des maladies congenitales du coeur.
GMN 11677 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13878
1922 KROGH, Schack August Steenberg (1874 – 1949)
The anatomy and physiology of the capillaries.
Silliman Lectures. Krogh was first to describe the adaptation of blood perfusion in muscle and other organs according to demands through opening and closing the arterioles and capillaries. In 1920 Krogh received the N…
GMN 793 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/118
1922 LAEWEN, Arthur (1876 – 1958)
Paravertebrale Novokaininjektionen zur Differentialdiagnose intra-abdomineller Erkrankungen.
First paravertebral injection for the treatment of angina pectoris.
GMN 2896 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4379
1922 SICARD, Jean Athanase (1872 – 1929); ET AL
Traitement des varices par les injections phlébo-sclérosantes du salicylate de soude.
Introduction of sodium salicylate injections for the treatment of varicose veins. With J. Paraf and J. Lermoyez.
GMN 3002 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5321
1923 HERING, Heinrich Ewald (1866 – 1948)
Der Karotisdruckversuch.
GMN 794 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/121
1923 MACKENZIE, Sir James (1853 – 1925)
Angina pectoris.
A classic description of angina by “the beloved physician”, one of the greatest of all cardiologists. Mackenzie considered the disease to be due to cardiac failure.
GMN 2897 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4383
1923 BERBERICH, Josef (1897 – ); HIRSCH, S
Die Röntgenographische Darstellung der Arterien und Venen am lebenden Menschen.
Arteriography. First angiogram of a living patient.
GMN 2916 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4895
1923 CUTLER, Elliott Carr (1888 – 1947); LEVINE, Samuel Albert (1891 – 1966)
Cardiotomy and valvulotomy for mitral stenosis. Experimental observations and clinical notes concerning an operated case with recovery.
Successful section of mitral valve for relief of mitral stenosis.
GMN 3030.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5525
1923 CANNON, Walter Bradford (1871 – 1945)
Traumatic shock.
"In the fall of 1916, before the United States entered World War I, the National Research Council named Cannon a member of a committee on traumatic shock. Later he joined the Harvard University Hospital Unit. On his w…
GMN 11567 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13766
