1900–1909
957 entries with publication dates in this decade.
1904
#11572
The clinical study of blood-pressure. A guide to the use of the sphygmomanometer in medical, surgical and obstetrical practice, with a summary of the experimental and clinical facts relating to the blood-pressure in health and disease.
The earliest American monograph on hypertension and its detection. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1904
#11700
An inquiry into the phenomena attending death by drowning and the means of promoting resuscitation in the apparently drowned. Report of a committee appointed by the Society, drawn up by Professor Schäfer, chairman of the committee.
The Schäfer method of artificial respiration. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1904
#12904
Orthodontia and orthopaedia of the face. With seven hundred and sixty original illustrations.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1904 –1924
#12952
Bibliotheca Sinica: Dictionnaire bibliographique des ouvrages relatifs à l'empire Chinois. Deuxième édition, revue, corrigée et considérablement augmentée. 4 vols. (1904-1908), plus Supplement (1923-1945).
The "standard enumerative bibliography" of 70,000 works on China up to 1921, including the full titles, tables of contents, and annotations regarding many books. Cordier was able to achieve this despite having only mi…
1904
#13170
A group of distinguished physicians and surgeons of Chicago. A collection of biographical sketches of many of the eminent representatives, past and present, of the medical profession of Chicago.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1904
#13362
Pathologie intertropicale. Doctrines et clinique.
Digital facsimile from BnF Gallaica at this link.
1904
#13379
Berlins drittes Geschlecht.
"Third sex" was Hirschfeld's provisional term for gays and lesbians. Translated into English by James J. Conway as Berlin's third sex, Berlin: Rixdorf Editions, 2017.
1904
#14271
Über eine sehr seltene Erkrankung der Netzhaut. Klinische Beobachtungen.
First description of angiomas in the eye (retinal hemangioblastomas), (Von Hippel-Lindau disease) (VHL). Von Hippel was preceded in his description of this disease by Edward Treacher Collins, "Two cases, brother and s…
1905
#954
The regulation of the lung-ventilation.
Proof of the regulation of respiration by CO2 concentration of the alveolar air
1905
#4594
Un caso de parálisis del lado derecho de la laringe y de la lengua, con parálisis del esterno-cleido-mastoidea y trapecio del mismo lado; accompañado de hemiplejia total temporal del lado izquierdo del cuerpo.
“Tapia’s syndrome” – palato-pharyngo-laryngeal hemiplegia.
1905
#4668
Studien über Poliomyelitis acuta.
Wickman was the first to produce evidence confirming the infectious nature of poliomyelitis.
1905
#727
Abbau und Aufbau der Eiweisskörper im tierischen Organismus.
1905
#728
Die Abbau aromatischer Fettsäuren im Tierkörper.
ß-oxidation theory.
1905
#729
Zur Erkenntnis der Kolloide.
1905
#450
Anatomy in America.
1905
#4713.1
Über familiäre amaurotische Idiotie und verwandte Krankheitsbilder.
Spielmayer-Vogt disease, or Spielmeyer-Vogt-Sjögren-Batten disease, the juvenile form of cerebromacular degeneration.
1905
#1122
The Croonian Lectures on the chemical correlation of the functions of the body.
Starling constructed a general scheme of the “hormones” as he named the internal secretions. This is the first appearance of the word, which was suggested by W. B. Hardy.
1905
#82.1
Semmelweis’ gesammelte Werke. Heraugegeben aus zum Theil aus dem Ungarischen Übersetzt von Tiberius von Gyory.
An annotated edition and translation, including the texts of Semmelweis’s works on puerperal fever as a septicemia (No. 6275) and on the etiology of puerperal sepsis (No. 6277) as well as other gynecological papers an…
1905 –1906
#1337
Vagus inhibition of the heart in its relation to the inorganic salts of the blood.
Howell suggested that nerve impulses act indirectly by increasing the amount of diffusible potassium compounds in the heart tissue.
1905 –1906
#1180
An experimental enquiry into the factors which determine the growth and activity of the mammary glands.
In their classic paper on the mammary gland, these workers attributed its changes during pregnancy to the fetus.
1905 –1908
#1634
Recherches sur l’épuration biologique et chimique des eaux d’égout. 8 vols.
1905
#1635
Die sexuelle Frage.
Forel’s best work; translated into 16 languages; 16th edition in 1931.
1905
#1636
Die Bedeutung der Bakterien für die Gesundheitspflege.
1905
#1651
Zur Vorgeschichte der modernen Hygiene.
1905
#1430
Histological studies on the localisation of cerebral function.
The precentral area of the cerebral cortex is known as “Campbell’s area”. Campbell and Brodmann were pioneers in the study of the architectonics of the cerebral cortex, or cerebral cytoarchitecture. Digital facsimile …
1905 –1909
#141
Geschichte der biologischen Theorien seit dem Ende des siebzehnten Jahrhunderts. 2 pts.
Second edition, extensively revised as Geschichte der biologischen Theorien in der Neuzeit, pt. l., Leipzig-Berlin, 1913. English translation of pt 2. as The history of biological theories, London, 1930.
1905
#1298
The afferent nervous system from a new aspect.
This paper opened up a new field in the study of the sensory functions of the skin, and the theories put forward in it dominated neurological thought until 1940.
1905
#1299
The consequences of injury to the peripheral nerves in man.
1905
#1893.2
On the reaction of cells and of nerve-endings to certain poisons, chiefly as regards the reaction of striated muscle to nicotine and to curari.
Langley introduced the concept of a receptor substance present in the biological object with which a drug has to interact in order to exert its biological effect. Digital facsimile from PubMedCentral at this link.
1905
#1894
Physiological and pharmacological studies of magnesium salts.
A study of the anesthetic and other effects of magnesium salts.
1905
#1755
Criminal responsibility.
1905
#2632
Die Entstehung des Carcinoms.
Ribbert was the modern protagonist of the theory of the embryonal origin of cancer.
1905 –1914
#2518
Bacteria in relation to plant diseases. 3 vols.
One of the most careful investigations of the bacterial diseases in plants was made by Smith, who conclusively demonstrated the existence of such diseases and proposed a scheme of classification for the bacteria conce…
1905
#2399
Vorläufiger Bericht über das Vorkommen von Spirochaeten in syphilitischen Krankheitsprodukten und bei Papillomen.
On March 3, 1905, Schaudinn discovered the causal organism of syphilis Spirochaeta pallida, in serum obtained from a genital lesion by Hoffmann. Schaudinn later renamed the spirochete Treponema pallidum.
1905
#2817
Technik der Herstellung fast orthodiagraphischer Herzphotogramme vermittelst Röntgeninstrumentarien mit kleiner Elektrizitätsquelle.
Introduction of teleradiography of the heart.
1905
#2818
On methods of studying blood pressure.
Korotkov introduced the modern method of applying the stethoscope to the brachial artery during blood-pressure examination with Riva-Rocci’s sphygmomanometer, for the purpose of investigating the sounds made by the bl…
1905
#2819
New methods of studying affections of the heart.
Mackenzie established the remarkable action of digitalis in auricular fibrillation.
1905
#2820
Remarks on the determination of arterial blood-pressure in clinical practice.
1905 –1906
#2821
Complete heart-block, with dissociation of the action of the auricles and ventricles.
Auricular flutter in man first recognized.
1905
#3076
Die Bedeutung der Blutdruckmessung für die Praxis.
Includes (p. 396) description of “Geisböck’s disease” – polycythemia hypertonica.
1905
#3077
Pathologie der Primärerkrankungen des lymphatischen und hämatopoetischen Apparates.
Includes (p. 151) Sternberg’s description of lymphogranulomatosis, which was given the eponym “Sternberg’s disease”.
1905
#3571
The vermiform appendix and its diseases. With 399 original illustrations, some in colors, and 3 lithographic plates.
The first comprehensive book on the pathology of the appendix. Many of the illustrations are by Max Brödel. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1905
#2592
Ursache und Behandlung des Heufiebers.
Dunbar studied the relationship of pollen to hay fever, separated the active substances responsible for producing the condition, and introduced a specific therapy.
1905
#2593
Die Serumkrankheit.
Serum sickness and its significance. English translation, Baltimore: Williams & Wilkins, 1951.
1905
#2713
Gefässkrisen.
1905
#3867
On the relation of the suprarenal capsules to the sex organs.
First recognition of the “adrenogenital syndrome”. This paper showed a relationship to exist between the adrenals and the sex organs.
1905
#4232
Exploration des fonctions rénales.
Albarran’s polyuria test for renal inadequacy.
1905
#3399
The story of my life.
Helen Keller became blind and deaf at the age of 19 months, as the result of an illness. Her education was a triumph of patience and skill on the part of her teacher, Anne M. Sullivan, and a demonstration of the great…
1905
#3958
Neue Reaktion zum Nachweis von Aceton, samt Vemerkungen über Acetonurie.
Frommer’s test for acetone in urine.
1905
#4266
Some anatomical points connected with the performance of prostatectomy. With remarks upon the operative treatment of prostatic hypertrophy.
Watson first performed median perineal prostatectomy in 1889.