1909 BARTON, Alberto Leonardo (1870 – 1950)
Descripción de elementos endo-globulares hallados en las enfermos de fiebre verrucosa.
The causal organism of Oroya fever and verruga peruana, endemic in Peru, was named Bartonella bacilliformis after Barton, who was one of the first to observe it.
GMN 5533 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6681
1909 GORGAS, William Crawford (1854 – 1920)
Sanitation of the tropics with special reference to malaria and yellow fever.
GMN 5460 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7564
1909 INOUYE, Tatsuji (1880 – 1976)
Die Sehstörungen bei Schussverletzungen der kortikalen Sehsphäre, nach Beobachtungen an Verwundeten der letzten japanischen Kriege.
During and after Japan’s war with Russia (1904-1905 ) Inouye tested the visual fields in wounded soldiers for insurance purposes, and set out his observations in this work. English translation: Glickstein, M. & Fahle,…
GMN 7397 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9569
1909 BRYANT, Alfred T.
Zulu medicine and medicine-men.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 8797 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10975
1909 MACPHERSON, William Grant (1958 – 1927)
The Russo-Japanese war: Medical and sanitary reports from officers attached to the Japanese and Russian forces in the field, General staff, War office, April 1908.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 9444 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11627
1909 TURNER, Sir William (1832 – 1916)
Catalogue of the specimens in the Anatomical Museum of the University of Edinburgh. Vol. 1.- Pathology. Edited by Sir William Turner.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 10368 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12560
1909 JAMES, Sydney Price (1870 – 1946)
Smallpox and vaccination in British India.
Includes the history of the introduction of vaccination in India from 1799 onward. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 13795 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16082
1910 FLEXNER, Abraham (1866 – 1959)
Medical education in the United States and Canada.
This report caused massive reforms in North American medical education, including the closure or merging with stronger institutions, of 76 medical schools between 1910 and 1920. Part 1 is a history and analysis of med…
GMN 1766.502 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3217
1910 RICKETTS, Howard Taylor (1871 – 1910); WILDER, Russell Morse (1885 – 1959)
The relation of typhus fever (tabardillo) to Rocky Mountain spotted fever.
Ricketts and Wilder differentiated Rocky Mountain spotted fever and typhus.
GMN 5380 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7064
1910 RICKETTS, Howard Taylor (1871 – 1910); WILDER, Russell Morse (1885 – 1959)
The etiology of the typhus fever (tabardillo) of Mexico City. A further preliminary report.
Demonstration of the causal organism of typhus.
GMN 5380.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7067
1910 CONOR, Alfred Leon Joseph (1870 – 1914); BRUCH, A
Une fièvre éruptive observée en Tunisie.
First description of fievre boutonneuse, a form of tick-borne typhus found in Tunisia.
GMN 5383 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7084
1910 FONAHN, Adolf Mauritz (1873 – 1940)
Zur Quellenkunde der persischen Medizin.
Comprehensive analysis, with thorough bibliographical citations, of classic writings and scholarship in this field, to 1910. Besides medicine and pathology, Includes pharmacy, veterinary medicine, and "medical works i…
GMN 6511 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8078
1910 PIRES DE LIMA, Joaquim Alberto (1877 – 1951)
Catálogo da Bibliotheca da Escola Medico-Cirurgica do Porto.
(Thanks to Richard Ramer for this reference.)
GMN 8947 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11126
1911 BERTILLON, Jacques (1851 – 1922)
La dépopulation de la France: Ses conséquences, ses causes, mésures à prendre pour la combattre.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 1710 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2526
1911 BRAZIL, Vital (1865 – 1950)
A defensa contra o ophidismo.
Brazil founded the Instituto Butantan, São Paulo, one of the first institutes to produce antivenin sera on a large scale. French translation, 1911. Digital facsimile of the Portuguese edition from Biodiversity Heritag…
GMN 2115 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2623
1911 GAFFAREL, Paul Louis Jacques (1843 – 1920); DURANTY, Marquis de
La peste de 1720 à Marseille et en France d’après des documents inédits.
GMN 5137 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6149
1911 VEDDER, Edward Bright (1878 – 1952)
Experiments undertaken to test the efficacy of the ipecac treatment of dysentery.
Vedder demonstrated the amoebicidal action of emetine; his work led to the general adoption of emetine in the treatment of amoebic dysentery.
GMN 5189 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6337
1911 VIANNA, Gaspar Oliviera (1885 – 1914)
Contribuiçao para o estudo da anatomia patolojica da “molestia de Carlos Chagas”.
Demonstration of the mode of reproduction of T. cruzi. Text in Portuguese and German. See also the paper by Chagas in pp. 219-75 of the same journal.
GMN 5285.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6354
1911 FRANCO, Roberto; TORO, Gabriel; MARTINEZ, Jorge
Fiebre amarilla y fiebre espiroquetal; endemias y epidemias en Muzo, de 1907 a 1910.
Franco, J. Martínez-Santamaria, and G. Toro-Villa described epidemics of yellow fever spread by mosquitoes other than Ae. aegypti. Later F. L. Soper, et al., Amer. J. Hyg., 1933, 18, 555-87, substantiated this.
GMN 5460.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7567
1911 LAACHE, Soren Bloch (1854 – 1941)
Norsk medicin i hundrede aar.
GMN 6573 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8277
1911 FUJIKAWA, Yū (1865 – 1940)
Geschichte der Medizin in Japan.
History of Japanese medicine from the earliest times to 1911. Expanded English translation, translated from the German by John Ruhrah, with a chapter on the recent history of medicine in Japan, by Kageyas W. Amano. Ne…
GMN 6604.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8530
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
1911 LANDOUZY, Louis Théophile Joseph (1845 – 1917); LEGRAND, Noé (1875 – 1915)
Les collections artistiques de la Faculté de Médecine de Paris: Inventaire raisonné.
Catalogue raisonné of the collection of paintings, drawings, prints, medals and sculptures belonging to the Faculté de Médecine de Paris. Digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this link.
GMN 8692 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10869
1911 GILLIES, Hugh Cameron
Regimen sanitatis. The rule of health. A Gaelic medical manuscript of the early sixteenth century or perhaps older from the vade mecum of the famous Macbeaths physicians to the Lords of the Isles and the Kings of Scotland for several centuries.
Text reproduced in facsimile (15 leaves), transliteration and English translation. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
GMN 11114 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13310
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
1912 WHITMORE, Alfred (1876 – 1946); KRISHNASWAMI, C. S.
An account of the discovery of a hitherto undescribed infective disease occurring among the population of Rangoon.
First description of melioidosis. Together with C.S. Krishnaswami, Whitmore identified Burkholderia pseudomallei, the causative agent of melioidosis (also known as "Whitmore's disease") in opium addicts in Rangoon in …
GMN 5159 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6213
1912 HATA, Sahachiro (1873 – 1938)
Salvarsantherapie der Rattenbisskrankheit in Japan.
Salvarsan first used in the treatment of rat-bite fever.
GMN 5324 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6624
1912 –1914 SMITH, Sir Frederick (1857 – 1929)
A veterinary history of the war in South Africa, 1899-1902. Supplement to: Veterinary record May 25, 1912-Sept. 26, 1914.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
GMN 10151 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12340
1912 SANDERS, Georgiana Jane (1864 – )
Modern methods in nursing.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 10413 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12606
1912 TODD, John Lancelot (1876 – 1949)
Does a human tick-borne disease exist in British Columbia?
Report on the first cases of "tick paralysis", a potentially lethal disease treatable by removing the tick. Follow-up paper by Todd: "Tick bite in British Columbia," Canad. med. Assoc. J., 2 (1912) 1118-1119. Unlike m…
GMN 10921 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13117
1912 KIRKPATRICK, Thomas Percy Claude (1869 – 1954)
History of medical teaching in Trinity College Dublin and of the School of Physic In Ireland.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 11017 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13213
1912 SCHMIDT, Robert Rudolf (1882 – 1950)
Die diluviale Vorzeit Deutschlands. Archäologischer Teil, von R. R. Schmidt; II. Geologischer Teil, von Ernest Koken, Die Geologie und Tierweld der paläolithischen Kulturstätten Deutschlands; III. Anthropologischer Teil von A. Schliz, Die diluvialen Menschenreste Deutschlands.
This splendidly produced and illustrated large folio volume was the first major book on paleolithic research published in Germany. Schmidt described systematic investigations of the caves in the Swabian Alps, and was …
GMN 11254 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13451
1912 WOOD JONES, Frederick (1879 – 1954)
Coral and atolls. A history and description of the Keeling-Cocos Islands, with an account of their fauna and flora, and a discussion of the method of development and transformation of coral structures in general.
Wood Jones was one of the first to study coral reefs as living organisms interacting with their environment. Prior to Wood Jones's book most of the work on corals was done from the systematics viewpoint using specimen…
GMN 11812 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14014
1912 STRONG, Richard Pearson (1872 – 1948)
Report of the International Plague Conference held at Mukden [Shenyang], April, 1911.
Report on the epidemic of pneumonic plague that raged in Manchuria and north China during the winter months of 1910-11, causing the death of nearly 50,000 people. This was the first outbreak of epidemic pneumonic plag…
GMN 12582 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14821
1912 MÉRAB, E.
Médecins et médecine en Éthiopie: Généralités, pathologie médicale, pathologie chirurgicale et accouchements, médecins étrangers en Éthiopie.
Digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this link.
GMN 13833 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16123
1913 PATTON, Walter Scott (1876 – 1960); CRAGG, Francis William (1882 – 1924)
A textbook of medical entomology.
Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.
GMN 349 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/265
1913 SMITH, Sir Grafton Elliot (1871 – 1937); DAWSON, Charles (1864 – 1916); WOODWARD, Arthur Smith (1864 – 1944)
On the discovery of a palaeolithic skull and mandible in a flint-bearing gravel overlying the Wealden (Hastings Beds) at Piltdown, Fletching (Sussex). With appendix by Grafton Elliot Smith.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Dawson, Woodward. The first "scientific" report on “Piltdown man” (Eoanthropus dawsoni,) one of the longest-lasting and most influential hoaxes ever perpetrated in scie…
GMN 211 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3866
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 MIGONE, Luis Enrique (1876 – 1954)
Un cas de kala-azar à Asuncion (Paraguay).
Migone first noted the existence of visceral leishmaniasis in the Americas (Paraguay).
GMN 5300.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6490
1913 –1914 MUKHOPADHYAYA, Girindranath (1872 – 1935)
The surgical instruments of the Hindus, with a comparative study of the surgical instruments of the Greek, Roman, Arab and the modern Eouropean [sic] surgeons. 2 vols.
Vol. 2 consists of plates.
GMN 6488 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7985
1913 MOORE, Sir Norman (1847 – 1922)
The physician in English history.
Linacre Lecture, 1913.
GMN 6537 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8147
1913 MOUTIN, Lucien (1854 – 1918); MANN, G. A.
Manuel d'ostéopathie pratique, théorie et procédés, par le Dr L. Moutin et G. A. Mann, d'après les ouvrages du Dr Andrew Taylor Still,... et du Dr Wilfred L. Riggs,... à l'usage des élèves de l'École d'ostéopathie.
The first French monograph on osteopathy.
GMN 11155 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13352
1913 HÜBOTTER, Franz (1881 – 1967)
Beiträge zur kenntnis der chinesischen sowie der tibetisch-mongolischen pharmakologie.
Contributions to the history of pharmacology in China, Tibet and Mongolia. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 12743 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14989
1914 AGOTE, Luis (1868 – 1954)
Nuevo procedimiento para la transfusion de la sangre.
Agote was the first to transfuse citrated blood. Text in Spanish and French.
GMN 2020 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2014
1914 VIANNA, Gaspar Oliviera (1885 – 1914)
Sobre o tratemento de leishmaniose tegumentar.
Vianna introduced tartar emetic in the treatment of S. American leishmaniasis. His preliminary announcement on this form of treatment was made to the Brazilian Dermatological Society and appears in Arch. brasil. Med.,…
GMN 5301 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6525
1914 MAGROU, Joseph Émile (1883 – 1951)
Les grains botryomycotiques. Leur signification en pathologie et en biologie générales.
Thèse de Paris, No. 267, 1914. Magrou showed botriomycosis (granuloma pyogenicum) to be due to a staphylococcus.
GMN 5536 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6699
1914 MIYAIRI, Keinosuke (1865 – 1946); SUZUKI, Masatsugu
Der Zwischenwirt des Schistosomum japonicum Katsurada.
Miyairi and Suzuki confirmed that snails are the intermediate hosts of S. japonicum, and their paper completed the description of the life cycle from ova to snail intermediate host. Translation in Kean (No. 2268.1), p…
GMN 5350.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6847
1914 TURKHUD, Dnyaneshwar Atmaran (1863 – 1926)
Report of the Bombay Bacteriological laboratory for the year 1913.
Experimental demonstration, on pp. 14-16, of the complete life cycle of Dracunculus medinensis, the parasite causing Dracunculiasis, popularly known as Guinea-worm disease.
GMN 5350.3 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8614
1914 CRAWFORD, Dirom Grey (1857 – 1942)
A history of the Indian Medical Service 1600-1913. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 8241 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10417
1914 KELLY, Howard Atwood (1858 – 1943)
Some American medical botanists commemorated in our botanical nomenclature.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 8548 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10725
