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 HAENDEL, Ludwig (1869 – 1939); JOETTEN, Karl Wilhelm (1886 – 1958)
Ueber chemotherapeutische Versuche mit “205 Bayer”, einen neuen trypanoziden Mittel von besonderer Wirkung.
Introduction of “Bayer 205” (germanin, suramin, naphuride).
GMN 5286 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6361
1921 SPIRO, Karl (1867 – 1932); STOLL, Arthur (1887 – 1971)
Ueber die wirksamen Substanzen des Mutterkorns.
Isolation of ergotamine.
GMN 1910 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2664
1921 MACHT, David Israel (1882 – 1961); TING, Giu-Ching
A study of antispasmodic drugs on the bronchus.
Laboratory demonstration of the antispasmodic action of theophylline on bronchial smooth muscle.
GMN 3197.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4275
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
1921 LLOYD, John Uri (1849 – 1936)
Origin and history of all the pharmacopeial vegetable drugs, chemicals and preparations with bibliography... Prepared under the auspices of and published by the American Drug Manufacturers' Association, Washington, D.C. Vol. 1 Vegetable drugs
Lloyd comprehensively collected and studied the historical literature, citing it throughout the text and in the numerous bibliographies of specific drugs in this work. The book includes a bibliography of historical so…
GMN 12446 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14678
1922 ROHDE, Eleanour Sophy Sinclair (1881 – 1950)
The old English herbals.
Reprinted London, Minerva Press, 1972.
GMN 2048 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2258
1922 FLEMING, Sir Alexander (1881 – 1955)
On a remarkable bacteriolytic element found in secretions and tissues.
Lysozyme, an antimicrobial enzyme that is a component of secretions such as tears and saliva. Digital facsimile from royalsocietypublishing.org at this link
GMN 1910.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2667
1922 UKERS, William Harrison (1873 – 1945)
All about coffee.
Covers the historical, technical, scientific, commercial, social and artistic dimensions of coffee. Second edition, 1935. Digital facsimile of the 1922 edition from Google Books at this link.
GMN 11722 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13923
1923 FOURNEAU, Ernest (1872 – 1949)
Chimiothérapie des trypanosomiasis.
Introduction of moranyl (“Foumeau 309”).
GMN 5288 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6368
1924 THOMPSON, Reginald Campbell (1876 – 1941)
The Assyrian herbal: A monograph on the Assyrian vegetable drugs, the subject matter of which was communicated in a paper to the Royal Society, March 20, 1924.
A study of Assyrian material medical reproduced by cyclostyle, in the author's handwriting.
GMN 1787 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1841
1924 –1925 BENEDICENTI, Alberico (1866 – 1961)
Malati medici e farmacisti: Storia dei rimedi traverso i secoli e delle teorie che ne spiegano l’azione sull’organismo. 2 vols.
Second edition, 1947-51.
GMN 2049 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2260
1924 LEWIN, Louis (1850 – 1929)
Phantastica.
The classic of psychoactive drug classification. Lewin established the following categories: Euphorics, Phantastics, Inebriants, Hypnotics, and Excitants. English translation, 1931.
GMN 2086 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2565
1925 KLEBS, Arnold Carl (1870 – 1943)
Catalogue of early herbals.
GMN 2050 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2262
1925 CHURCHMAN, John Woolman (1877 – 1937)
Intravenous use of dyes.
Churchman demonstrated the selective bactericidal action of gentian violet against staphylococci. See also J. exp. Med., 1912, 16, 221-47; J. Urol., 1924, 11, 1-18.
GMN 1911 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2673
1925 CUSHNY, Arthur Robertson (1866 – 1926)
The action and uses in medicine of digitalis and its allies.
GMN 1912 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2675
1926 URDANG, George (1882 – 1960)
Der Apotheker als Subjekt und Objekt der Literatur.
GMN 2051 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2264
1926 CUSHNY, Arthur Robertson (1866 – 1926)
Biological relations of optically isomeric substances.
Cushny made important contributions concerning the pharmacological action of optical isomers over a period of nearly twenty years. He summarized this work and that of others in his Charles E. Dohme Lectures, 1925.
GMN 1912.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2676
1926 GOTTLIEB, Rudolf (1864 – 1924)
Vergleichende Messungen über die Gewöhnung des Atemzentrums an Morphin, Dicodid und Dilaudid.
Introduction of dilaudid (Hydromorphone)
GMN 1913 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2678
1926 HANZLIK, Paul John (1885 – 1951)
Actions and uses of the salicylates and cinchophen in medicine.
Republished in book form, Baltimore, 1927.
GMN 1914 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2680
1926 LOEVENHART, Arthur Salomon (1878 – 1929); STRATMAN-THOMAS, Warren Kidwell (1894 – 1946)
On the chemotherapy of neurosyphilis and trypanosomiasis.
Study of the effect of twelve different substances in neurosyphilis and trypanosomiasis.
GMN 1915 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2682
1926 GADDUM, Sir John Henry (1900 – 1965)
The action of adrenalin and ergotamine on the uterus of the rabbit.
Gaddum produced concentration-effect curves of antagonistic drugs, showing the dose-ratio linearly related to antagonistic concentration. See also No. 1925.1
GMN 1917 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2686
1926 LEVADITI, Constantin (1874 – 1953)
Essai de prophylaxie des trypanosomiases par des dérivés phénylarsiniques administré
First attempt to induce prophylaxis by chemical means in trypanosomiasis. With S. Nicolau and I. Galloway.
GMN 5289 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6371
1926 –1927 ROEHL, Wilhelm ( – 1929)
Die Wirkung des Plasmochins auf die Vogelmalaria.
Introduction of plasmoquine (pamaquin) in the treatment of malaria.
GMN 5256 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7917
1927 LA WALL, Charles Herbert (1871 – 1937)
Four thousand years of pharmacy; an outline history of pharmacy.
First history of pharmacy by an American. Reprinted as The curious lore of drugs and medicines, New York, Garden City Publ. Co., 1936.
GMN 2052 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2281
1927 BEST, Charles Herbert (1899 – 1978); ET AL
The nature of the vaso-dilator constituents of certain tissue extracts.
Proof that histamine occurs in certain organs in amounts sufficient to account for the depressant action of extracts of these organs. With H. H. Dale, H. W. Dudley, and W. V. Thorpe.
GMN 1916 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2684
1927 OLIVIER, Eugène (1881 – 1864); VIALET, Gonzague (1872 – 1939)
Essai de repertoire des ex-libris et fers de reliure des medecins et des pharmaciens français. Préface de ... Laignel-Lavastine.
GMN 9622 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11809
1927 SINGER, Charles Joseph (1876 – 1960)
The herbal in antiquity and its transmission to later ages.
GMN 11383 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13582
1927 IBN BAKHTYASHU, Abu Sa'id Ubaid Allah ( Bukhtishu, Bukhtyashu, and Bakhtshooa) (940 – 1058); SBATH, Paul (Būlus Sbāt) (1887 – 1945)
Ar-Raoudat at-tibbiyya (Le jardin médical) par Ubaîd-Allah Ben Gibraîl Ben Bakhtichoû, Chrétien décédé en 1058: Texte arabe, publié pour la première fois d’après trois manuscrits conservées dans la Bibliothèque des Manuscrits.
GMN 12674 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14918
1928 SINTON, Brigadier John Alexander (1884 – 1956); BIRD, William
Studies in malaria, with special references to treatment. Part IX. Plasmoquine in the treatment of malaria.
Clinical trials of pamaquin.
GMN 5256.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7918
1928 MACHT, David Israel (1882 – 1961)
The holy incense: A botanical, pharmacological, psychological and archaeological appreciation of the Bible.
GMN 9943 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12131
1928 WITHINGTON, Edward Theodore (1860 – 1947); BACON, Roger (1219 – 1292); LITTLE, A. G. (1863 – 1945)
De retardatione accidentium senectutis cum aliis opusculis de rebus medicinalibus. Nunc primum ediderunt A. G. Little [and] E. Withington.
New edition edited from the 1590 printed edition in comparison with existing medieval manuscripts.
GMN 10950 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13146
1928 PAPACOSTAS, Georges; GATÉ, Jean
Les associations microbiennes: Leurs applications thérapeutiques.
This work included a 60-page chapter on bacterial inhibition by molds and antibiosis, with several hundred historical references. It appeared one year before Fleming's landmark paper.
GMN 12622 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14862
1928 BUDGE, Sir Ernest Alfred Thompson Wallis (1857 – 1934)
The divine origin of the craft of the herbalist.
A semi-popular account useful for its surveys of the earliest herbal literature: Egyptian, Sumerian, Assyrian, Greece, Syriac, Arabic, Coptic, Ethiopian (Abyssinian). Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at thi…
GMN 12678 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14923
1929 –1934 TRENDELENBURG, Paul (1884 – 1931)
Die Hormone; ihre Physiologie und Pharmakologie. 2 vols.
GMN 1125 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1245
1929 THOMPSON, Charles John Samuel (1862 – 1943)
The mystery and art of the apothecary.
GMN 2054 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2289
1929 FLEMING, Sir Alexander (1881 – 1955)
On the antibacterial action of cultures of a penicillium, with special reference to their use in the isolation of B. influenzae.
Discovery of the growth-inhibiting action of Penicillium on certain bacteria. In 1945 Fleming shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Ernst Boris Chain and Sir Howard Walter Florey "for the discovery of …
GMN 1933 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2774
1929 SULZBERGER, Marion Baldur (1895 – 1983)
Hypersensitiveness to arsphenamine in guinea pigs. I. Experiments in prevention and desensitization.
First demonstration of specific, acquired, lasting refractoriness to sensitization. This is the same or a closely related phenomenon to that demonstrated later by Burnet and Medawar under the name immune tolerance. Se…
GMN 2576.02 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3707
1929 HOOPER, David (1858 – 1947)
On Chinese medicine: Drugs of Chinese pharmacies in Malaya.
GMN 9247 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11429
1930 EDGEWORTH, Harriet Isabel (1892 – )
A report of progress on the use of ephedrine in a case of myasthenia gravis.
Harriet Edgeworth discovered by accident the beneficial effect of ephedrine in myasthenia gravis. Digital facsimile from jamanetwork.com at this link.
GMN 4765 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1412
1930 SCHMIDT, Carl Frederic (1893 – 1988); CHEN, Ko Kuei (1898 – 1988)
Ephedrine and related substances.
A digest of the literature, together with an excellent bibliography. By their earlier work (J. Pharmacol., 1924, 24, 339-57) Chen and Schmidt aroused worldwide interest in ephedrine.
GMN 1918 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2690
1930 FELDBERG, Wilhelm Siegmund (1900 – 1993); SCHILF, Erich
Histamin: seine Pharmakologie und Bedeutung für die Humoralphysiologie.
GMN 1919 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2692
1930 SMITH, Sydney
Digoxin, a new digitalis glucoside.
Isolation of digoxin from Digitalis lanata.
GMN 1920 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2693
1930 RUIZ, Celestino L. (1904 – ); ET AL
Contribución al estudio sobre la composición quimica de la insulina. Estudio de algunos cuerpos sintéticos solfurados con acción hypoglucemiante.
Discovery of the hypoglycemic effect of certain sulphonamide derivatives. With L. L. Silva and L. Libenson.
GMN 3973 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5284
1931 REUTTER DE ROSEMONT, Louis (1876 – )
Histoire de la pharmacie à travers les âges. 2 vols.
GMN 2055 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2291
1931 SEN, Ganneth; BOSE, Katrick Chandra
Rauwolfia serpentina, a new Indian drug for insanity and high blood pressure.
Introduction of reserpine in the treatment of psychoses.
GMN 4959 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6306
1931 GRIEVE, Sophia Emma Magdalene [Maud Grieve] (1858 – 1941)
A modern herbal. The medicinal, culinary, cosmetic and economic properties, cultivation and folk-lore of herbs, grasses, fungi, shrubs & trees with their modern scientific uses. With an introduction by the editor, Mrs. C. F. Leyel. 2 vols.
Online version at Botanical.com at this link.
GMN 7062 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9229
1932 –1934 FISCHL, Viktor; SCHLOSSBERGER, Hans (1887 – 1960)
Handbuch der Chemotherapie. 2 vols.
GMN 1921 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2705
1932 KIKUTH, Walter (1896 – 1968)
Zur Weiterentwicklung synthetisch dargestellter Malariamittel. I. Ueber die chemotherapeutische Wirkung des Atebrin.
Introduction of atebrin (mepacrine, quinacrine).
GMN 5257 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7919
1932 –1937 MEYERHOF, Max (1874 – 1945); AL-GHAFIQI, Muhammad ibn Aslam ( – 1165); BAR HEBRAEUS, Gregory (1226 – 1286)
The abridged version of "The book of simple drugs" of Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Ghāfiqī by Gregorius abu l-Faraj (Bar Hebraeus). Edited from the only two known manuscripts with an English translation, commentary and indices by M. Meyerhof and G. P. Sobhy Bey. 2 pts.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 7163 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9330
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