1914 CUMPSTON, John Howard Lidgett (1890 – 1954)
The history of small-pox in Australia 1788-1908.
A second volume, The history of small-pox in Australia, 1909-1923 by J.H.L. Compston and F. McCallum was published in Melbourne: H. J. Green, govt. printer, 1925.
GMN 13802 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16089
1915 –1916 LEIPER, Robert Thomson (1881 – 1969)
Reports of the results of the bilharzia mission in Egypt, 1915.
Leiper identified the snail responsible for the transmission of Schistosoma mansoni and S. haematobium.
GMN 5350.4 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6861
1915 PROWAZEK, Stanislaus Joseph Matthias von (1875 – 1915)
Ätiologische Untersuchungen über den Flecktyphus in Serbien 1913 und in Hamburg 1914.
Prowazek, like Ricketts and Wilder, demonstrated the specific causal agent in typhus. Like Ricketts he died of the disease.
GMN 5384.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7107
1915 HUNT, George Herbert (1884 – 1926); RANKIN, Allan Coats (1877 – 1959)
Intermittent fever of obscure origin, occurring among British soldiers in France. The so-called “trench-fever”.
In this paper trench fever is so named for the first time.
GMN 5386 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7118
1915 WHIFFEN, Thomas
The north-west Amazons: Notes of some months spent among cannibal tribes.
"This 1915 volume recounts Captain Thomas Whiffen’s travels in Brazil and Colombia in the region between the rivers Issa (or Içá) and Apaporis, and the Putumayo District. The study looks at the way in which the indige…
GMN 9182 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11361
1915 GORGAS, William Crawford (1854 – 1920)
Sanitation in Panama.
"Gorgas capitalized on the momentous work of ... Walter Reed, who had himself built much of his work on insights of a Cuban doctor, Carlos Finlay, to prove the mosquito transmission of yellow fever. He won internation…
GMN 9259 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11441
1915 TYZZER, Ernest Edward (1875 – 1965); STRONG, Richard Pearson (1872 – 1948); SELLARDS, Andrew Watson (1884 – 1941); BRUES, Charles Thomas (1879 – 1955); GASTIABURU, J. C.; HARVARD SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE
Report of first expedition to South America 1913.
Strong was the first professor of tropical medicine at Harvard. The Harvard School of Tropical Medicine was founded in 1913, the year they undertook this expedition. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 12573 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14812
1915 ARTIGAS Y CUERVA, Manuel (1866 – 1925)
Bibliografía médico-farmacéutica de Filipinas. Con biografías de los profesionales extranjeros de nota que han estado en el país, y con especialidad las de los filipinos.
GMN 13858 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16148
1916 SCOTT, Sir Henry Harold (1874 – 1956)
On the ‘vomiting sickness’ of Jamaica.
Discovery of the cause of the “vomiting sickness of Jamaica”: ackee poisoning.
GMN 2085 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2564
1916 –1917 HURD, Henry Mills (1843 – 1927); BLUMER, George Alder (1857 – 1940); BURGESS, Thomas Joseph Workman (1849 – 1926); PILGRIM, Charles Winfield (1855 – 1934); DREWRY, William Francis (1860 – 1934); DEWEY, Richard (1845 – 1933)
The institutional care of the insane in the United States and Canada. Edited by Henry M. Hurd. 4 vols.
Hurd was Professor of Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University. The work includes his history of American psychiatry. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
GMN 5006 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6576
1916 HIS, Wilhelm Jr. (1863 – 1934)
Ueber eine neue periodische Fiebererkrankung (Febris Wolhynica).
His encountered a form of “trench fever” in Volhynia, Russia, and named it after that district.
GMN 5387 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7134
1916 CLELAND, Sir John Burton (1878 – 1971); ET AL
On the transmission of Australian dengue by the mosquito Stegomyia fasciata.
These workers proved that Aëdes aegypti (Stegomyia fasciata) is capable of transmitting dengue fever. See also J. Hyg. (Camb.), 1918, 16, 317-418. With C. H. Bradley and W. McDonald.
GMN 5474 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7616
1916 CAMERON, Sir Charles Alexander (1830 – 1921)
A history of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and of the Irish schools of medicine, including a medical bibliography and a medical biography. 2nd ed.
First edition, 1886. Digital facsimile of the 1886 edition from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 6537.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8150
1917 CAMPBELL, Alfred Walter (1868 – 1937); CLELAND, Sir John Burton (1878 – 1971)
The Australian epidemics of an acute polio-encephalomyelitis (X disease).
Campbell was Australia's first neurologist. This paper described Murray Valley encephalitis (Australian X disease). Cleland and Campbell isolated a virus from the cerebral tissue of three patients.
GMN 4648 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/738
1917 FILATOV, Vladimir Petrovich (1875 – 1956)
Plastika na kruglom stebl. [Plastic procedure using a round pedicle].
Filatov used a tubed pedicle flap in September 1916. English translation in Surg. Clin. N. Amer., 1959, 39, 277-87.
GMN 5757.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6682
1917 JOHNSTON, William (1843 – 1914)
Roll of commissioned officers in the medical service of the British Army.
Covers the period from the accession of George II in 1727 to the formation of the Royal Army Medical Corps, 1898. Reprinted 1968, together with the complementary List of commissioned medical officers of the Army, Char…
GMN 6723 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7837
1917 –1922 BERTILLON, Jacques (1851 – 1922); ABADIE, Joseph Louis Irenée Jean (1873 – 1934); BROUARDEL, Georges (1869 – 1959); ALBERT, François (1877 – 1933)
Science et dévouement: Le service de santé, la Croix-Rouge, les oeuvres de solidarité de guerre et d'après-guerre. Publie avec la colloboration de MM. J. Abadie, Jacques Bertillon, Georges Brouardel....Edited by François Albert.
A deluxe, large format, commemorative volume edited by journalist François Albert. It was published by subscription, limited to 5000 copies, and issued in fascicules from 1917-1922. Includes contributions by 50 eminen…
GMN 10532 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12725
1917 YOUNG, Francis Brett (1884 – 1954)
Marching on Tanga (with General Smuts in East Africa).
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
GMN 12500 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14733
1917 GOGARTY, Oliver St. John (1878 – 1957)
Blight: The tragedy of Dublin: An exposition in 3 acts.
Gogarty, an Irish poet, author, otolaryngologist, athlete, politician, and well-known conversationalist, served as the inspiration for Buck Mulligan in James Joyce's novel Ulysses. Blight: The Tragedy of Dublin was "o…
GMN 12539 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14776
1918 NEUBURGER, Max (1868 – 1955)
Die Entwicklung der Medizin in Oesterreich.
GMN 6527 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8117
1918 MOORE, Sir Norman (1847 – 1922)
The history of St. Bartholomew's Hospital. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 8720 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10898
1918 BARRETT, James William Sir (1862 – 1945); DEANE, Percival Edgar (Percy) (1890 – 1946)
The Australian Army Medical Corps in Egypt. An illustrated and detailed account of the early organisation and work of the Australian medical units in Egypt in 1914-1915.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 10998 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13194
1918 COUNCILMAN, William Thomas (1854 – 1933); LAMBERT, Robert Archibald (1883 – 1960)
The medical report of the Rice Expedition to Brazil.
The expedition was led by Alexander H. Rice, Jr., an American physician, geographer, geologist and explorer noted for his expeditions to the Amazon Basin. "As a geographer and explorer Rice specialized in rivers.[1][7…
GMN 11014 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13210
1919 MITSUDA, Kensuke (1876 – 1964)
On the value of a skin reaction to a suspension of leprous nodules.
Mitsuda (lepromin) reaction. English translation by the author in Int. J. Leprosy, 1953, 21, 347-58.
GMN 2440 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2914
1919 CHAPLIN, Thomas Hancock Arnold (1864 – 1944)
Medicine in England during the reign of George III.
FitzPatrick Lectures, 1917-18.
GMN 6538 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8152
1919 MOLONEY, Michael Francis (1891 – 1961)
Irish ethno-botany and the evolution of medicine in Ireland.
A discussion of Irish materia medica and a summary of the development of medicine in Ireland from the earliest times. Indices in Gaelic and English. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 8871 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11049
1919 GILMORE, Melvin Randolph (1868 – 1940)
Uses of plants by the Indians of the Missouri River region. Thirty-third annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, 1911-1912.
Medicinal and edible plants used by the Dakota, Omaha/Ponca, Winnebago and Pawnee peoples. Gilmore reports on 180 plants, and offers 16 pages of tables of names in various languages. Digital facsimile from the Biodive…
GMN 9287 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11469
1919 –1933 SMITH, Sir Frederick (1857 – 1929); BULLOCK, Fred (1878 – 1937)
The early history of veterinary literature and its British development
Digital facsimile of vol. 1 and limited (search only) of vol. 2-4 from the Hathi Trust at this link.
GMN 10149 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12338
1919 MACPHAIL, Ian (1923 – 2014); MCCRAE, John (1872 – 1918)
In Flanders fields and other poems by John McCrae. With an essay in character by Sir Andrew MacPhail.
McCrae's poem, In Flanders Fields, was among the most popular poems of World War I. He was inspired to write it on May 3, 1915, after presiding over the funeral of friend and fellow soldier Lieutenant Alexis Helmer, w…
GMN 11739 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13835
1919 –1968 BENT, Arthur Cleveland (1866 – 1954)
Life histories of North American Birds. 23 vols.
One of the most comprehensive repositories of North American ornithology, published over 50 years, in a series of volumes in the United States National Museum Bulletin. Bent used his own experiences traveling over the…
GMN 12828 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15074
1920 PEARL, Raymond (1879 – 1940); REED, Lowell Jacob (1886 – 1966)
On the rate of growth of the population of the United States since 1790 and its mathematical representation.
GMN 1712 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2537
1920 SINGER, Charles Joseph (1876 – 1960)
Early English magic and medicine.
Reprinted from Proc. Brit. Acad., 1919-20, 9, 341-74.
GMN 6539 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8174
1921 CARELLI, Humberto Horacio (1882 – 1962); SORDELLI, Alfredo (1891 – 1967)
Un nuevo procedimiento para explorar al riñón.
Perirenal insufflation of oxygen, for the roentgenological study of the kidney.
GMN 4241 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5116
1921 NAKAGAWA, Koan (1874 – 1959)
On the life cycle of Fasciolopsis buski Lankester.
GMN 5350.7 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6872
1921 NEUBURGER, Max (1868 – 1955)
Das alte medizinische Wien in zeitgenössischen Schilderungen.
GMN 6528 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8119
1921 GARCIA DEL REAL Y ÁLVAREZ DE MIJARES, Eduardo (1870 – 1947)
Historia de la medicina en España.
GMN 6579 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8295
1921 WOODWARD, Arthur Smith (1864 – 1944)
A new cave man from Rhodesia, South Africa.
The first fossil human discovered in Africa: Homo rhodesiensis, commonly referred to as the Broken Hill Skull or the Kabwe Cranium.The skull, which most current experts classify as Homo heidelbergensis, was discovered…
GMN 7309 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9479
1921 MONTGOMERY, R. Eustace
On a form of swine fever occurring in British East Africa (Kenya Colony).
First description of African Swine Fever. Montgomery was "Veterinary Adviser to the Government of Uganda, formerly Veterinary Pathologist to the East Africa Protectorate."
GMN 11762 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13963
1922 SMITH, Sir Grafton Elliot (1871 – 1937)
The Rhodesian skull.
Description of the skull found at Broken Hill, Rhodesia, in 1921.
GMN 212 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3875
1922 HILTON-SIMPSON, Melville William (1881 – 1938)
Arab medicine and surgery. A study of the healing art in Algeria.
Medicine, surgery and pharmacology as practiced among the nomadic Arabs in Algeria at time of writing.
GMN 6508 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8067
1922 BRUNNER, Conrad (1859 – 1927)
Über Medizin und Krankenpflege im Mittelalter in Schweizerischen Landen.
GMN 6581 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8301
1922 MARTIN, Franklin Henry (1857 – 1935)
South America from a surgeon's point of view.
Martin, "Director-General, American College of Surgeons," and Managing Editor, Surgery, Gynecology and Obstetrics, visited South American with William J. Mayo, who wrote the introduction. Digital facsimile from Google…
GMN 8712 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10890
1922 DOCK, Lavinia Lloyd (1858 – 1956); NOYES, Clara Dutton (1869 – 1936); CLEMENT, Fannie Fletcher (1881 – 1950); FOX, Elizabeth Gordon (1884 – 1958)
History of American Red Cross nursing.
By six authors. Also authored by Sarah Elizabeth Pickett, and Anna R. van Meter. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 9933 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12121
1923 DOHI, Keizo (1866 – 1931)
Beiträge zur Geschichte der Syphilis: insbesondere über ihren Ursprung und ihre Pathologie in Ostasien.
Gives, in an appendix, a list of writers on syphilis from 1495 to 1829. Digital facsimile from wellcomecollection.org at this link.
GMN 2426 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2884
1923 MOON, Robert Oswald (1865 – 1953)
Hippocrates and his successors in relation to the philosophy of their time.
GMN 6647 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7771
1923 –1929 MUKHOPADHYAYA, Girindranath (1872 – 1935)
History of Indian medicine. Containing notices, biographical, of the Ayurvedic physicians and their works on medicine, from the earliest ages to the present time. 3 vols.
Reprinted New Delhi, 1974.
GMN 6488.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7987
1923 CAPPARONI, Pietro (1868 – 1947)
"Magistri Salernitani nondum cogniti": A contribution to the history of the Medical School of Salerno. By Pietro Capparoni. With a foreward by D'Arcy Power. (Wellcome Historical medical Museum. Research Studies in Medical History No. 2).
Physicans from the medical school at Salerno who were unknown to de Renzi (No. 6518). Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 8552 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10729
1923 SEN, Rajendra Kumar
A treatise on influenza, with special reference to the pandemic of 1918.
Sen, company doctor on the Hurmutty Tea Estate in Assam, estimated that the pandemic killed about 15,000,000 people in India.
GMN 12109 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14318
1924 WADE, Herber Windsor (1886 – 1968); LARA, C. B.
A plea for the early recognition of leprosy, with notes on diagnosis and methods.
The scraped-incision slit-skin method for bacterial examination in leprosy.
GMN 2440.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2917
1924 FICHTNER, Horst (1893 – )
Die Medizin im Avesta.
The Avesta (Persian: اوستا) is the primary collection of religious texts of Zoroastrianism, composed in the otherwise unrecorded Avestan language.
GMN 6512 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8079
