1935 HUXLEY, Thomas Henry (1825 – 1895); HUXLEY, Sir Julian Sorell (1887 – 1975)
T. H. Huxley's diary of the voyage of H. M. S. Rattlesnake. Edited from the unpublished ms
Huxley served as assistant surgeon and naturalist aboard the Rattlesnake (1845-50) which made cruises from Australia to Louisiade Archipelago, New Guinea and Cape York. His diary is illustrated with his own drawings.
GMN 7449 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9621
1935 GARDINER, Sir Alan Henderson (1879 – 1963)
Hieratic papyri in the British Museum: Third series: Chester Beatty gift. Edited by Alan H. Gardiner. 2 vols.
Reproduces, with transcription, the Chester Beatty medical papyrus. See No. 5.
GMN 8318 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10494
1935 CASTETTER, Edward Franklin (1896 – 1978); UNDERHILL, Ruth Murray (1883 – 1984)
The ethnobiology of the Papago Indians. Ethnological Studies in the American Southwest II.
"The Tohono O’odham ... are a Native American people of the Sonoran Desert, residing primarily in the U.S. state of Arizona and the Mexican state of Sonora. Tohono O’odham means "Desert People." The federally recogniz…
GMN 9303 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11485
1935 MACDERMOT, Hugh Ernest (1888 – 1983)
History of the Canadian Medical Association.
GMN 13603 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15883
1936 TANIGUCHI, Tenji (1889 – 1961); ET AL
A virus isolated in 1935 epidemic of summer encephalitis in Japan.
T. Taniguchi, M. Hosokawa, and S. Kuga established a virus etiology for Japanese B encephalitis.
GMN 4659 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/774
1936 SHORTT, Henry Edward (1887 – 1987); ET AL
Cultivation of the viruses of sandfly fever and dengue fever on the chorioallantoic membrane of the chick-embryo.
Cultivation of the virus of phlebotomus fever. With R. S. Rao and C. S. Swaminath.
GMN 5480 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6369
1936 –1979 WICKERSHEIMER, Charles Adolphe Ernest (1880 – 1965); JACQUART, Danielle (1947 – )
Dictionnaire biographique des médecins en France au moyen age.By E. Wickersheimer. 2 vols. (1936). Supplement by Danielle Jacquart (1979).
GMN 6736 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7861
1936 REICHBORN-KJENNERUD, Ingjald (1865 – 1949); ET AL
Medisinens historic i Norge.
GMN 6574.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8281
1936 JOHANNES DE MIRFELD ( – 1407); HARTLEY, Percival Horton-Smith (1867 – 1952); ALDRIDGE, Harold Richard
Johannes de Mirfeld of St. Bartholomew's Smithfield: His life and works, by Percival Horton-Smith Hartley and Harold Richard Aldridge.
Concerns the first writings of a medical nature known to be associated with an English hospital. Includes the original Latin text and English translation of Mirfeld's works including his Breviary, a scrapbook of extra…
GMN 8456 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10633
1936 CAPPARONI, Pietro (1868 – 1947); ALFANUS I, (Alfano I) ( – 1085)
Il "Tractatus de pulsibus," di Alfano Io arcivescovo di Salerno, sec. xi: Trascrizione del codice 1024 della biblioteca dell'Arsenale di Parigi (da carta 16 v. a carta 18 r). Annotazioni e commento con tavoli di riproduzione del testo [di] Pietro Capparoni.
Alfanus I or Alfano I, a physician before he became archbishop, was one of the earliest doctors of the Schola Medica Salernitana. He was Archbishop of Salerno from 1058 to his death. He was famed as a translator, writ…
GMN 8551 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10728
1936 RACHMATI, Gabdul Rasid
Türkische Turfan-Texte 7 [APAW 12] edited by G. R. Rachmati.
Medieval medical texts from Turfan (Turpan), Central Asia.
GMN 9241 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11423
1937 KENNY, Elizabeth (1886 – 1952)
Infantile paralysis and cerebral diplegia: Methods used for the restoration of function.
GMN 4671 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/870
1937 HOLCOMBE, Richmond Cranston (1874 – 1945)
Who gave the world syphilis? The Haitian myth.
GMN 2430 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2888
1937 PARDAL, Ramón (1896 – 1955)
Medicina aborigen americana.
GMN 6464 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7631
1937 MACKINNEY, Loren Cary (1891 – 1963)
Early medieval medicine with special reference to France and Chartres. The Hideyo Noguchi Lectures.
GMN 6524 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8100
1937 GANTT, William Andrew Horsley (1892 – 1980)
Russian medicine.
GMN 6567 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8268
1937 SCHOUTE, Dirk (1873 – 1953)
Occidental therapeutics in the Netherlands East Indies during three centuries of Netherlands settlement. 1600-1900.
An English summary of two earlier Dutch works by D. Schoute, 1929-1936.
GMN 6604.4 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8535
1937 WECK, Wolfgang (1881 – )
Heilkunde und Volkstum auf Bali.
GMN 6465 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8606
1937 –1939 KEITH, Sir Arthur (1866 – 1955); GARROD, Dorothy Annie Elizabeth (1892 – 1968); BATE, Dorothea Minola Alice (1878 – 1951); MCCOWN, Theodore Doney (1908 – 1969)
The stone age of Mount Carmel. Volume I: Excavations at the Wady el-Mughara. Volume II: The fossil remains from the Lavalloiso-Mousterian.
Garrod carried out her landmark excavations of the el-Wad, el-Tabun and es-Skhul caves on the hills of Mount Carmel, close to Wadi el-Mugharah (Valley of the Caves) between 1929 and 1934. Her monograph on the subject …
GMN 7259 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9428
1937 HOOPER, David (1858 – 1947); FIELD, Henry (1902 – 1986)
Useful plants and drugs of Iran and Iraq. By David Hooper with notes by Henry Field.
Digital facsimile from the Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.
GMN 9242 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11424
1937 SIGERIST, Henry Ernest (1891 – 1957)
Socialized medicine in the Soviet Union.
"... Sigerist was influential in the creation of socialized medicine in Canada. He made four trips to Canada in the 1930s and 1940s at the invitation of various medical groups to speak on this topic. Under his influen…
GMN 9832 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12020
1937 –1960 PERNKOPF, Eduard (1888 – 1955)
Topographische Anatomie des Menschen. Lehrbuch und Atlas der regionär-stratigraphischen Präparation. 4 vols. in 7. Vol. 1 in 2 pts: Brust un Brustgliedmasse, 1937; Vol. 2 in 2 pts: Bauch, Becken und Beckengliedmasse, 1941; Vol. 3: Der Hals, 1952; Vol. 4 in 2 pts: Topographische und stratigraphischen Anatomie des Kopfes, 1957, 1960.
Pernkopf's anatomy is remarkable for the intricacy of its detailed images and its "regional stratigraphic" approach, i.e. "multiple layers of dissection with an emphasis on fascia shown and reflected, approaching the …
GMN 10200 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12389
1937 FIELD, Margaret Joyce
Religion and medicine of the Ga people.
GMN 10672 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12865
1937 CASTELLANOS, Agustin Walfredo (1902 – 2000); ET AL
La angio-cardiografía radio-opaca.
Intravenous angiocardiography. This was the first publication that dealt with the normal cardiac structure and the changes seen in ventricular septal defect and pulmonary stenosis.
GMN 11568 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13767
1937 MARIADASSOU, Paramananda
Médecine traditionnelle de l'Inde: La magie noire.
GMN 13501 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15776
1938 TRUETA I RASPALL, Josep (1897 – 1977)
El tratamiento de la fractura de guerra.
During the Spanish Civil War (1935-38) Trueta adopted as standard treatment for gunshot wounds and compound fractures the closed plaster method originated by the American surgeon H. Winnett Orr. Trueta called this the…
GMN 4435.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6303
1938 SAENZ RICART, Braulio (1886 – 1961)
Demonstratión de un treponema en el borde activo un caso de pinto de las manos y pies y en la linfa de ganglios superficiales (reporte preliminar).
B. Saenz, J. Grau Triana, and J. Alfonso Armenteros indicated that pinta is caused by a treponeme, T. carateum.
GMN 5308.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6564
1938 CONTENAU, Georges (1877 – 1964)
La médecine en Assyrie et en Babylonie.
GMN 6473 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7934
1938 BROOM, Robert (1866 – 1951)
The Pleistocene anthropoid apes of South Africa.
Paranthropus robustus, discovered by Broom in Kromdraal, South Africa, in 1938. The species is generally dated from about 2 million to 1.2 million years before present.
GMN 7281 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9451
1938 HERTZLER, Arthur Emanuel (1870 – 1946)
The horse and buggy doctor.
The bestselling work by this Kansas physician documenting the practice of medicine in the rural midwest in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
GMN 10408 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12601
1938 SHATTUCK, George Cheever (1879 – 1972); BEQUAERT, Joseph Charles (1886 – 1982); SANDGROUND, Jack Henry (1899 – 1987); HILFERTY, Margaret M.; CLARK, Samuel Drury
A medical survey of the republic of Guatemala, by George Cheever Shattuck. With the collaboration of Joseph C. Bequaert, Margaret M. Hilferty, Jack H. Sandground [and] Samuel Drury Clark.
Organized and directed by the Department of Tropical Medicine, Harvard School of Public Health. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
GMN 12593 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14833
1938 POWELL, Charles Austin (1887 – 1950)
Bound feet.
The author was assistant superintendent of Massachusetts Memorial Hospitals in Boston and Assistant Professor of Tropical Diseases at Boston University School of Medicine. His book is part travelogue and part memoir o…
GMN 13328 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15595
1939 ZILBER, Lev Aleksandrovich (Alexandrovich) (1894 – 1966)
Vesennij (vesenne-letnij) endemiceskij klescevoj encefalit. [Vernal (verno-aestival) endemic tick-borne encephalitis.]
Isolation of the virus of spring–summer (Russian Far East) encephalitis.
GMN 4660.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/785
1939 PAZZINI, Adalberto (1898 – 1975)
Bibliografia di storia della medicina italiana.
Classified list of 7451 books and papers, some annotated, on Italian medical history and biography.
GMN 6565 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8261
1939 COBB, William Montague (1904 – 1990)
The first Negro medical society. A history of the Medico-Chirurgical Society of the District of Columbia.
A detailed history of the “first American Negro medical society formed in America and probably in the world”. Cobb was the first black American medical historian of note.
GMN 6594 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8501
1939 RIBEIRO, Leonídio (1893 – 1976)
Brazilian medical contributions.
GMN 6599 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8515
1939 DERENBOURG, Hartwig (1844 – 1908); RENAUD, Henri-Paul-Joseph (1881 – 1945)
Les manuscrits arabes de l'Escurial. Vol. 2, Fascicule 2: Médecine et histoire naturelle. Compiled by Hartwig Derenbourg, edited by Henri Paul Joseph Renaud.
GMN 8527 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10704
1939 CRUCHET, Jean René (1875 – 1959)
La médecine et les médecins dans la littérature française.
GMN 9735 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11922
1939 SEYFARTH, Paul Carly (1890 – 1950)
Das Hospital zu St. Georg in Leipzig durch acht Jahrhunderte 1212–1940. Band 1. Das Hospital zu St. Georg vom Jahre 1212 bis zum Jahre 1631. (Vols. 2 & 3 not published).
GMN 13462 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15736
1940 DURAND, Paul (1895 – 1961)
Virus filtrant pathogène pour l’homme et les animaux de laboratoire, et à affinité meningée et pulmonaire.
“Durand’s disease” – D virus infection. Durand isolated the virus from his own blood. See also the paper by G. M. Findlay, Trans. roy. Soc. trop. Med., 1942, 35, 303-18.
GMN 4661 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/787
1940 CRUZ, Martin De La; EMMART, Emily Walcott (1898 – ); BADIANO, Juan (1484 – 1552)
The Badianus manuscript. (Codex Barberini, Latin, 241) Vatican Library. An Aztec herbal of 1552. Edited and translated by Emily W. Emmart.
The earliest complete Mexican medical text and the only medical text known to be the work of native Aztecs. Written by an Aztec physician named by the Spanish Martin de la Cruz, and translated into Latin by another na…
GMN 1811.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2009
1940
The development of public health in Canada: a review of the history and organization of public health in the provinces of Canada, with an outline of the present organization of the National Health Section of the Department of Pensions and National Health, Canada. Edited by R. D. Defries.
CANADIAN PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOCIATION
GMN 1664 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2219
1940 LEWTHWAITE, Raymond (1894 – 1972); SAVOOR, S. R. (1900 – 1980)
Rickettsia disease of Malaya. Identity of tsutsugamushi and rural typhus.
Lewthwaite and Savoor showed scrub typhus to be identical to tsutsugamushi fever.
GMN 5398.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7195
1940 HUME, Edward Hicks (1876 – 1957)
The Chinese way in medicine.
GMN 6495 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8006
1940 TAYLOR, Lyda Averill
Plants used as curatives by certain Southeastern tribes.
Digital facsimile from herablstudies.net at this link.
GMN 9278 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11460
1940 SMITHBURN, K. C.; HUGHES, T. P.; BURKE, A. W.; ET AL
A neurotropic virus isolated from the blood of a native in Uganda.
Order of authorship in the original paper: Smithburn, Hughes, Burke. In 1937 the authors isolated a virus from the blood of an adult female with fever from the Omogo West Nile district of Uganda, and named it West Nil…
GMN 10951 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13147
1940 ROBB, George Douglas (1899 – 1974)
Medicine and health in New Zealand: A retrospect and a prospect.
Medical education, the hospital system, the relationship between specialists and general practitioners, and the brain drain of doctors to Britain.
GMN 12541 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14778
1941 KVEIM, Morten Ansgar (1892 – 1966)
En ny og spesifikk kutan-reaksjon ved Boecks sarcoid. En foreløbig meddelelse.
Kveim’s test for sarcoidosis.
GMN 4153 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5868
1941 MORCH, Ernst Trier (1908 – 1996)
Chondrodystrophic dwarfs in Denmark (supplemented with investigations from Sweden and Norway) with special reference to the inheritance of chondrodystrophy.
Morch established the fact that chondrodystrophy may be inherited.
GMN 4404 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6063
1941 HARLEY, George Way (1894 – 1966)
Native African medicine: With special reference to Its practice in the Mano tribe of Liberia.
GMN 6466 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7639
