1917 JACKSON, Chevalier (1865 – 1958)
Endothelioma of the right bronchus removed by peroral bronchoscopy.
First reported case.
GMN 3194 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4243
1917 ROWNTREE, Leonard George (1883 – 1959); WATERS, Charles Alexander (1888 – 1961); BAYNE-JONES, Brig. Gen. Stanhope (1866 – 1970)
Roentgenography of the lung: Roentgenographic studies in living animals after intratracheal injection of iodoform emulsion.
Experimental introduction of iodoform (lipiodol) into the bronchial tree in dogs, obtaining satisfactory bronchograms.
GMN 3194.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4252
1920 –1925 SAUERBRUCH, Ernst Ferdinand (1875 – 1951)
Die Chirurgie der Brustorgane. Zugleich zweite Auflage der Technik der Thoraxchirurgie. 2 vols.
Abridged English translation, Baltimore, 1937.
GMN 3195 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4255
1921 WESTERGREN, Alf Vilhelm Albertsson (1891 – 1968)
Studies of the suspension stability of the blood in pulmonary tuberculosis.
Westergren’s method of measuring the erythrocyte sedimentation rate.
GMN 3085 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3752
1921 LYNAH, Henry Lowndes (1879 – 1922); STEWART, William Holmes (1869 – 1954)
Roentgenographic studies of bronchiectasis and lung abscess after direct injection of bismuth mixture through the bronchoscope.
Important studies on bronchiectasis were carried out by Lynah and Stewart.
GMN 3197 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4270
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
1922 HIRSCH, Samson Raphael (1890 – 1960)
Klinische und experimentelle Beitrag zur krampflösenden Wirkung der Purinderivate.
Hirsch established the value of theophylline in the management of asthma.
GMN 3197.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4278
1922 DUNHILL, Sir Thomas Peel (1876 – 1957)
Removal of intrathoracic tumours by the trans-sternal route.
Dunhill’s operation for the removal of intrathoracic tumors.
GMN 5630.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7220
1924 FORESTIER, Jacques (1890 – 1978); SICARD, Jean Athanase (1872 – 1929)
L’exploration radiologique des cavités broncho-pulmonaires par les injections intra-trachéales d’huile iodée.
Bronchography was advanced by the work of Sicard and Forestier on the intratracheal introduction of lipiodol.
GMN 3199 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4292
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
1927 PAGEL, Walter Traugott Ulrich (1898 – 1983)
Die Krankheitslehre der Phthise in den Phasen ihrer geschichtlichen Entwicklung.
GMN 3242 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3865
1929 BRUNN, Harold (1874 – 1950)
Surgical principles underlying one-stage lobectomy.
Brunn’s one-stage lobectomy.
GMN 3202 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4301
1929 CHURCHILL, Edward Delos (1895 – 1972); COPE, Oliver (1902 – 1994)
The rapid shallow breathing resulting from pulmonary congestion and edema.
First description of the Churchill–Cope reflex, a reflex in which distension of the pulmonary vascular bed, as occurs in pulmonary oedema, causes an increase in respiratory rate (tachypnoea) by stimulation of the juxt…
GMN 12394 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14622
1931 NISSEN, Rudolph (1896 – 1981)
Exstirpation eines ganzen Lungenflügels.
Removal of entire bronchiectatic lung; successful.
GMN 3203 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4311
1932 SHENSTONE, Norman Strahan (1881 – 1970); JANES, Robert Meredith (1894 – 1966)
Experiences in pulmonary lobectomy.
Introduction of the hilar tourniquet in pulmonary surgery.
GMN 3203.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4317
1933 VAJDA, Ludwig
Ob das Pneumoperitoneum in der Kollapstherapie der beiderseitigen Lungentuberkulose angewandt werden kann?
Introduction of artificial pneumoperitoneum for the treatment of bilateral pulmonary tuberculosis.
GMN 3236 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3857
1933 GRAHAM, Evarts Ambrose (1883 – 1957); SINGER, Jacob Jesse (1882 – 1954)
Successful removal of entire lung for carcinoma of the bronchus.
First reported case: April 5, 1933.
GMN 3205 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4326
1933 KARTAGENER, Manes (1897 – 1975)
Zur Pathogenese der Bronchiektasien. I. Mitteilung: Bronchiektasien bei Situs viscerum inversus.
Bronchiectasis and sinus maldevelopment associated with transposition of viscera – “Kartageners syndrome”.
GMN 3206 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4327
1933 LILIENTHAL, Howard (1861 – 1946)
Pneumonectomy for sarcoma of the lung in a tuberculous patient.
Total pneumonectomy.
GMN 3207 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4330
1934 BANYAI, Andrew Ladislaus (1893 – )
Therapeutic pneumoperitoneum. A review of 100 cases.
Banyai combined artificial pneumoperitoneum with phrenic nerve paralysis.
GMN 3237 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3858
1935 FREEDLANDER, Samuel Oscar (1893 – 1971)
Lobectomy in pulmonary tuberculosis. Report of a case.
The modern era in lung resection for tuberculosis begins with the work of Freedlander. He performed the first planned lobectomy for pulmonary tuberculosis.
GMN 3238 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3859
1935 SEMB, Carl Boye (1895 – 1971)
Thoracoplasty with extrafascial apicolysis.
“Semb’s operation”.
GMN 3239 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3860
1936 FANCONI, Guido (1892 – 1979); ET AL
Das Coeliakiesyndrom bei angeborener zysticher Pankreasfibromatose und Bronchiektasien.
Cystic fibrosis (mucoviscidosis) described. With E. Uehlinger and C. Knauer.
GMN 3659.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4793
1939 KAYNE, George Gregory (1901 – 1945); O’SHAUGHNESSY, Laurence Frederick (1900 – 1940); PAGEL, Walter Traugott Ulrich (1898 – 1983)
Pulmonary tuberculosis. Pathology, diagnosis, management and prevention.
Third edition, 1953, by W. Pagel, F. A. H. Simmonds, and N. Macdonald.
GMN 3240 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3861
1939 CHURCHILL, Edward Delos (1895 – 1972); BELSEY, Ronald Herbert Robert (1910 – 2007)
Segmental pneumonectomy in bronchiectasis. The lingula segment of the left upper lobe.
GMN 3211.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4350
1941 BROWN, Lawrason (1871 – 1937)
The story of clinical pulmonary tuberculosis.
GMN 3243 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3868
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
1946 LEHMANN, Jörgen (1898 – 1989)
Para-aminosalicylic acid in the treatment of tuberculosis.
p-Aminosalicylic acid used in pulmonary tuberculosis. See also his earlier paper in Svenska LäkT., 1946, 43, 2029-40.
GMN 3241 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3863
1955 COMROE, Julius H. Jr. (1911 – 1984); DUBOIS, Arthur Brooks (1924 – 2020); FORSTER, Robert E. II; BRISCOE, William A. (1918 – 1985); CARLSEN, Elizabeth
The lung: Clinical physiology and pulmonary function tests.
Comroe and associates at the University of Pennsylvania introduced pulmonary function tests developed by physiologists into clinical practice. Comroe invented several of the tests described in the book.
GMN 12458 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14690
1961 LONG, Esmond Ray (1890 – 1979)
A history of the therapy of tuberculosis and the case of Frederic Chopin.
GMN 10321 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12513
1981 CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION (CDC)
Kaposi's sarcoma and pneumocystis pneumonia among homosexual men--New York City and California.
The second published report on what later became the AIDS epidemic. The report described 26 homosexual men in New York and California with Kaposi's sarcoma, and 10 more Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP) cases in ho…
GMN 6995 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9161
1982 LAENNEC, René Théophile Hyacinthe (1781 – 1826); GRMEK, Mirko Dražen (1924 – 2000); BOULLE, Lydie; LUPOVICI, Catherine; SAMION-CONTET, Janine
Laennec: Catalogue des manuscrits scientifiques
Documents manuscripts by Laennec preserved in the Archives de l'Académie des Sciences, and Musée Laennec de la Bibliothèque Universitaire de Nantes, Section médecine-pharmacie.
GMN 11055 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13251
1998 DERICKSON, Alan (1948 – )
Black lung: Anatomy of a public health disaster.
GMN 13294 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15560
2006 LAWLOR, Clark (1965 – )
Consumption and literature: The making of the romantic disease.
GMN 9926 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12114
2019 PUTHA, Preetham; WARIER, Prashant; RAO, Pooja; ET AL
Can artificial intelligence reliably report chest x-rays? Radiologist validation of an algorithm trained on 2.3 million x-rays.
"Background: Chest X-rays are the most commonly performed, cost-effective diagnostic imaging tests ordered by physicians. A clinically validated AI system that can reliably separate normals from abnormals can be inval…
GMN 12407 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14637
