1900–1909
957 entries with publication dates in this decade.
1905
#4266.1
The early diagnosis and radical cure of carcinoma of the prostate. Being a study of 40 cases and presentation of a radical operation which was carried out in four cases.
First radical prostatectomy for carcinoma.
1905
#3025.1
The transplantation of veins and organs.
Reports experimental heart transplantation in a dog. See also the earlier paper on pp. 284-5.
1905
#4878
Concerning surgical intervention for the intracranial hemorrhages of the new-born.
Successful operative intervention in intracranial hemorrhage of the new-born.
1905
#4879
The establishment of cerebral hernia as a decompressive measure for inaccessible brain tumors.
1905
#4140
Zur Kenntnis des Virus des Molluscum contagiosum des Menschen.
Juliusberg showed that the virus of molluscum contagiosum passed a Chamberland filter.
1905
#4375.1
On the means of lengthening in the lower limbs, the muscles and tissues which are shortened through deformity.
First attempt at surgical lengthening of limbs.
1905 –1907
#5102
REPORTS of the Commission appointed by the Admiralty, the War Office, and the Civil Government of Malta, for the investigation of Mediterranean fever, under the supervision of an advisory committee of the Royal Society. 7 pts.
The important findings of the Mediterranean Fever Commission are summarized in Topley & Wilson’s Bacteriology,1975, p. 2173; probably the most valuable was that of T. Zammit, who showed goat’s milk to be the main sour…
1905
#4192
Die Gestalt der menschlichen Harnblase im Röntgenbilde.
First cystograms.
1905
#4983
Drei Abhandlungen zur Sexualtheorie.
The work which Freud considered second in importance only to his Die Traumdeutung. Freud’s epochal theory of infantile sexuality linked the forces motivating the development of body and mind from earliest infancy. Inf…
1905
#5306
On the presence of spirochaetes in two cases of ulcerated parangi (yaws).
Castellani demonstrated in scrapings of yaws tissue a spirochaete, T. pertenue, later found to be the causal organism. He thus finally established it as a distinct organism from the syphilis spirochaete. Preliminary n…
1905
#5307
On a spirochaete found in yaws papules.
Independently of Castellani (No. 5306) Wellmann discovered Treponema pertenue. "In addition to being an author, Wellman was also a doctor of tropical medicine, scientist, administrator, artist, educator, spy, and engi…
1905
#5318
The nature of tick fever in the eastern part of the Congo Free State.
Independently of Ross and Milne, Dutton and Todd demonstrated relapsing fever in monkeys conveyed by infected ticks, Omithodorus moubata. The organism was named Sp. (now Borrelia) duttoni. Both Dutton and Todd contrac…
1905
#5803
The historical relations of medicine and surgery to the end of the sixteenth century.
1905
#5804
Geschichte der Chirurgie. In. T. PUSCHMANN’S Handbuch der Geschichte der Medizin, 3, 1-306.
1905
#5949
Die Cyklodialyse, eine neue Glaukomoperation.
Introduction of cyclodialysis in glaucoma.
1905 –1911
#5365
The anatomy and life history of Agchylostoma duodenale Dub. A. monograph. 2 pts.
Vols. 3 and 4 of Records of the School of Medicine, Cairo. In 1898 Looss discovered that hookworm larvae can penetrate the skin. His monograph epitomized all knowledge of the condition to 1911.
1905
#6001
Geschichte der Augenheilkunde. Handbuch der Geschichte de Medizin 3, 489-572
1905
#5691
Die Lokalanästhesie, ihre wissenschaftliche Grundlagen und praktische Anwendung.
Braun’s important book on local anesthesia greatly stimulated the development of that subject. English translation, Philadelphia, 1914.
1905
#5693
Perorale Tubagen mit und ohne Druck.
Kuhn introduced the intratracheal insufflation method of anesthetization about 1900; he used a flexible metal tube and a curved introducer. He also experimented with positive and negative pressure insufflation.
1905 –1906
#5440
The histology of the skin lesions in varicella.
Tyzzer was first to recognize inclusion bodies in varicella.
1905
#5446
Experimental measles.
Experimental human transmission of measles.
1905
#6619
Die Karikatur und Satire in der Medizin.
An encyclopedic collection of medical wit and caricature of all ages. Second edition, 1921.
1905
#6641
Die Kurierfreiheit und das Recht auf den eigenen Körper. Ein geschichtlicher Beitrag zum Kampf gegen das Kurpfuschertum.
1905
#5255
Intracorpuscular conjugation in the malarial plasmodia and its significance.
Demonstration of the existence of malarial carriers.
1905 –1908
#6767
Die Handschriften der antiken Aerzte. I. Teil: Hippokrates und Galenos. II. Teil: Die übrigen grieschischen Ärzte aßer Hippokates und Galenos. Bericht über den Stand des interakademischen Corpus medicorum antiquorum und Erster Nachtrag zu den in den Abhandlungen 1905 und 1906 veröffentlichten Katalogen. . . .
A catalogue of surviving manuscripts of texts and translations of classical Greek physicians. Republished in book form, 1905-08. Available online from the Corpus Medicorum Graecorum at this link. Supplemented by: Gree…
1905 –1922
#6571
Den Danske Laegestand, 1749-1900. 5 vols.
Biographies of Danish physicians and surgeons. Supplements about every ten years.
1905
#5279
Report on trypanosomes, trypanosomiasis, and sleeping sickness, being an experimental investigation into their pathology and treatment.
Thomas and Breinl discovered that arsanilic acid, was more potent in the treatment of laboratory trypanosomiasis than arsenic in inorganic form. As a crystalline powder it was introduced medically as Atoxyl. Thomas an…
1905
#5692
Uebereinige neue örtliche Anaesthetica (Stovain, Alypin, Novocain).
Procaine (novocaine), synthesized by Einhorn, was first used clinically by Braun.
1905
#6868
History of homoeopathy and its institutions in America: Their founders, benefactors, faculties, officers, hospitals, alumni, etc., with a record of achievement of its representatives in the world of medicine .... 4 vols.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1905
#6968
History of osteopathy, and twentieth-century medical practice.
Revised & enlarged second edition Cincinnati: Printed for the Author, the Caxton Press, 1924. Digital facsimile of the first edition from the Internet Archive at this link. Digital facsimile of the second edition from…
1905
#7441
My life: A record of events and opinions. 2 vols.
1905
#8390
The Hearst Medical Papyrus: Hieratic text in 17 facsimile plates in collotype with introduction and vocabulary by George A. Reisner. University of California Publications. Egyptian Archaeology, Volume 1.
The papyrus has been dated to the 18th Dynasty of Egypt, around the time of pharaoh Tuthmosis III. The text is believed to have been composed earlier, during the Middle Kingdom, around 2000 BCE. The papyrus is so unus…
1905
#8689
History of the Philadelphia almshouses and hospitals from the beginning of the eighteenth to the ending of the nineteenth centuries, covering a period of nearly two hundred years. showing the mode of distributing public relief through the management of the Boards of Overseers of the Poor, Guardians of the Poor and the Directors of the Department of Charities and Correction.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1905
#8713
How to succeed in the practice of medicine.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1905
#9514
De graecorum medicis publicis.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link. See Vivian Nutton, "Archiatri and the medical profession in antiquity," Papers of the British School at Rome, 45 (1977), 191-226.
1905
#10447
A history of medicine in Missouri.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1905 –1906
#10599
The Edinburgh stereoscopic atlas of Anatomy. Edited by David Waterston. 5 vols.
The first large scale application of stereoscopic photography to anatomy. The 5 parts each contain 50 stereo cards on which are pasted original stereo photographs and corresponding printed descriptive text. Digital fa…
1905
#10780
A preliminary note on the susceptibility of goats to Malta fever.
Zammit discovered that contaminated goat milk was the vector for transmission to humans of the Malta fever bacterium, Brucellosis melitensis. At the time goat milk was a primary source of milk in Malta and other parts…
1905
#12273
Die Chemie der Blutgerinnung.
In this paper Morawitz perfected observations made earlier by Alexander Schmidt, and described four coagulation factors: fibrinogen (I), prothrombin (II), thrombokinase (III) and calcium (IV).
1905
#12457
Auscultation of the rhythmic sounds produced by the stomach and intestines.
Cannon reported on the rhythmic sounds made by the GI tract, mostly basing his observations on his own abdomen. This may be the first serous study of this topic.
1905
#12519
Die arabischen Lehrbücher der Augenheilkunde. Ein Capitel zur arabischen Litteraturegeschichte. Unter Mitwirkung von J. Lippert und E. Mittwoch. Bearbeitet von J. Hirschberg.
Digital facsimile of the 1905 edition from the Internet Archive at this link. Translated into English as The Arabian Ophthalmologists, compiled from original texts by J. Hirschberg, J. Lippert and E. Mittwoch and tran…
1905
#13158
The organization and cell-lineage of the Ascidian egg.
Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.
1905
#14095
Grundzüge einer Biologie der menschlichen Plazenta. Mit besonderer Berücksichtig der Fragen der fötalen Ernährung.
Discovery of Hofbauer cells, oval eosinophilic histiocytes with granules and vacuoles found in the placenta, which are of mesenchymal origin, in mesoderm of the chorionic villus, particularly numerous in early pregnan…
1905
#14147
An anatomical, experimental, and clinical study of acute phlegmons of the hand.
"Kanavel produced the classic paper on infection in Surgery, Gynecology and Obstetrics in 1905. In that paper, he described the anatomy and clinical study of acute infections of the hand. This clearly changed the cour…
1906
#4475
Tecnica generale della amputazioni mucosi. Amputazioni plastico-ortopediche con metodo proprio secundo la proposta del Vanghetti. Dimonstrazioni pratiche.
Ceci was the first to operate on the lines suggested by Vanghetti.
1906 –1960
#534.7
Die Morphologie der Missbildungen des Menschen und der Thiere. Ein Lehrbuch für morphologen, physiologen, praktische Ärzte und Studierende. 3 vols. in 6 parts, plus supplements.
The first volume is an important contribution to general teratology, including a good history of the topic, and enunciating Schwalbe’s “teratogenic termination period”, the guiding principle for estimating the timing …
1906
#360
Sieben Bücher Anatomie des Galen: ... zum ersten Male veröffentlicht nach den Handschriften einer arabischen Übersetzung des 9. Jahrh. n. Chr. / ins Deutsche Übertragen und Kommentiert von Max Simon. 2 vols.
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First printed edition of the final six and one-half books (the second half of book 9, and books 10-15) of Galen's De anatomicis administrationibus, which were lost in the Greek original. In 1714 the Bodleian Library a…
1906
#4594.1
Ueber die nicht epileptischen Absencen oder kurzen narkoleptischen Anfälle.
First description of pyknolepsy.
1906
#654
The dynamics of living matter.
1906
#843.1
Über die direkte Ableitung der Aktionsströme des menschlichen Herzens vom Oesophagus und über das Elektrokardiogramm des Fötus.
Fetal electrocardiogram recorded. Cremer was also the first to record an electrocardiogram with an electrode in the esophagus.