1900–1909
957 entries with publication dates in this decade.
1906 –1907
#844
The form and nature of the muscular connections between the primary divisions of the vertebrate heart.
Discovery of the sinoatrial node, the “pacemaker of the heart”. Reprinted in Willius & Keys, Cardiac classics, 1941, pp. 747-62.
1906
#845
Das Reizleitungssystem des Säugethierherzens.
Tawara discovered and described the atrioventricular node – “node of Tawara”. Translated into English by Kozo Suma and Munehiro Shimada as The conduction system of the mammalian heart: An anatomical-histological study…
1906
#4630
Révision de la question de l’aphasie; la troisième circonvolution frontale gauche ne joue aucun rôle spécial dans la fonction du langage.
Marie disputed Broca’s claim that the third left frontal convolution of the brain is the speech center. He classified aphasia into three groups: anarthria (defects of articulation), Broca’s (motor) aphasia, and Wernic…
1906
#1026
The chemical mechanism of gastric secretion.
Gastric secretin (gastrin) was first described by Edkins. A preliminary communication is in Proc. roy. Soc. B, 1905, 76, 376.
1906
#4682
Versuche zur Serodiagnostik und Serotherapie der epidemischen Genickstarre.
First attempts at the serum treatment of cerebrospinal meningitis.
1906
#897
The origin and nature of the blood plates.
Discovery of the role of the megakaryocytes in the formation of the blood platelets.
1906
#434
Lehrbuch der systematischen Anatomie des Menschen.
1906
#1044
The analyst and the medical man.
Hopkins predicted the existence of vitamins as early as 1906. He fed animals a diet of zein which failed to maintain growth; however, the animals grew at once when casein was substituted. He concluded that “in the org…
1906
#1045
The elements of the science of nutrition.
A classic exposition of respiratory and intermediary metabolism. Fourth edition, 1928. Reprint of Lusk’s personal annotated copy of the fourth edition, with biography and bibliography of his writings, New York, Johnso…
1906 –1923
#730
Untersuchungen über Aminosäuren, Polypeptide und Proteine. 2 vols.
In a series of papers, Fischer showed that animal and vegetable proteins are composed of a series of amino-acids united by elimination of water.
1906
#730.1
Note upon the presence of amino-acids in the blood and lymph as determined by the ß naphthalinsulphochloride reaction.
Demonstration of the presence of amino-acids in the blood.
1906
#731
On carbohydrate metabolism.
1906
#732
The importance of individual amino-acids in metabolism.
Demonstration of the importance of tryptophan in diet. The pioneer work of Hopkins led eventually to the discovery of vitamins.
1906
#4714
Unilateral ascending paralysis and unilateral descending paralysis.
First description of unilateral descending paralysis.
1906
#1338
On the physiological action of certain cholin derivatives and new methods for detecting cholin.
Discovery of the remarkable hypotensive effect of acetylcholine.
1906
#4804
Ueber das Vorhandensein syphilitischer Antistoffe in der Cerebrospinalflüssigkeit von Paralytikem.
Wassermann applied his test (No. 2402) to the cerebrospinal fluid and, in paretics, obtained positive results in over 90 per cent of cases. The test greatly facilitated the diagnosis of general paralysis.
1906
#520
Handbuch der vergleichenden und experimentellen Entwicklungslehre der Wirbelthiere. 3 vols.
1906
#1374
The grouping of afferent impulses within the spinal cord.
1906 –1914
#1786
De materia medica. Edidit Max Wellmann. 3 vols.
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Dioscorides’ work is the authoritative source on the materia medica of antiquity. He described over 600 plants and plant principles. The above edition by Wellman is the definitive Greek text. It also contains the Frag…
1906
#2005
Interprétation de quelques résultats de la radiothérapie et essai de fixation d’une technique rationelle.
Bergonié-Tribondeau law, “the sensitivity of cells to radiation varies directly with the reproductive capacity of the cells and inversely with their degree of differentiation” (Dorland).
1906
#1637
Investigation on the purification of Boston sewage, with a history of the sewage-disposal problem.
1906
#1652
L’hygiène publique à travers les âges.
1906
#1431
Le syndrome thalamique.
The “thalamic syndrome”, investigations of the effect of localized thalamic injury.
1906
#1432
The integrative action of the nervous system.
Sherrington insisted that the essential function of the nervous system was the co-ordination of activities of the various parts of the organism. His work on the nervous system, especially his experimental studies of r…
1906
#2043
Deutsches Badewesen in vergangenen Tagen.
1906
#1300
On the distribution of chlorides in nerve cells and fibres.
1906
#1300.1
On the proprio-ceptive system, especially in its reflex aspect.
Sherrington investigated and explained the proprioceptive system.
1906
#1895
An active alkaloid from ergot.
Isolation of ergotoxine. With F. H. Carr.
1906 –1907
#2084
On the poisons of Amanita phalloides.
Abel and Ford showed that there were two poisons in the fungus Amanita phalloides, and that immunity against them could be attained. A further study on the subject by the same authors is in Arch. exp. Path. Pharmak., …
1906
#2594
Das Theobald Smithsche Phänomen der Serum-Ueberfindlichkeit. In Gedenkschr. f.d. verstorb. Generalstabsarzt… von Leuthold, 1, 153-72
The “Theobald Smith phenomenon” was not reported by Smith but communicated by him to Ehrlich. Later Otto published details of the results obtained in his study of the phenomenon.
1906
#2595
A study of the cause of sudden death following the injection of horse serum.
Forms Bulletin No. 29 of the Hygienic Laboratory, U. S. Marine Hospital Service. Rosenau and Anderson drew attention to the fact that animals receiving an injection of a foreign protein became sensitive to a second do…
1906
#2518.1
Upon the bacteriology of the summer diarrhoea of infants.
Morgan’s bacillus, Proteus morgani.
1906
#2399.1
Ueber die Transmission der Syphilis auf das Kaninchen. Vorläufiger Bericht.
Transmission of syphilis to rabbits.
1906
#2400
Zur Technik der Spirochaetenuntersuchung.
Dark field method of diagnosis for presence of T. pallidum.
1906
#2401
A propos de l’impregnation au nitrate d’argent des spirochètes sur coupes.
Levaditi’s method of staining T. pallidum.
1906
#2402
Eine serodiagnostische Reaktion bei Syphilis.
The “Wassermann reaction”, a specific diagnostic blood test for syphilis, and a modification of the complement-fixation reaction of Bordet and Gengou. With A. Neisser and C. Bruck.
1906
#2822
Paroxysmal irregularity of the heart and auricular fibrillation.
First recognition of auricular fibrillation in man. Cushny and Edmunds had a case under their care in 1901. Hering described the condition in man in Prag. med. Wschr.,1903, 28, 377. The Cushing & Edmunds paper was als…
1906
#2823
[In Russian:] Estimation of blood-pressure by Korotkov’s auditory method.
Kriloff made extensive observations on the sounds which Korotkov had shown to be emitted by the blood after removal of the Riva-Rocci air-pressure cuff during the blood-pressure measurement.
1906
#2824
Ueber Spirochaeta pallida in der Aortenwand bei Hellerscher Aortitis.
Treponema pallidum first discovered in the diseased aorta.
1906
#2564
Infection, immunity and serum therapy.
1906
#2562
Die experimentelle Bakteriologie und die Infektionskrankheiten.
English translation, 2 vols., London, Allen & Unwin, 1934.
1906
#2563
Quelques remarques sur le lait aigri.
Metchnikoff researched the effect of lactic acid produced by Lactobacilli on other non-desirable bacteria in the digestive tract. He thus expanded Döderlein's (No. 6279) concept of "normal flora" beyond the vagina. Tr…
1906
#3229
On some points in the surgery of the lung.
Removal of left lung for tuberculosis, April 24, 1895. The patient was alive in 1940; see Bowman, Life and teaching of Sir William Macewen (London, 1942), p. 344.
1906
#3230
Die Behandlung der einseitigen Lungenphthisis mit künstlichem Pneumothorax (nach Murphy).
Brauer’s method of producing artificial pneumothorax by the injection of nitrogen.
1906
#3643
Ueber die Assimilation von Galaktose und Milchzucker Beim Gesunden und Kranken.
Galactose tolerance test.
1906
#3890
Sexual infantilism with optic atrophy in cases of tumor affecting the hypophysis cerebri.
1906
#3891
Zur Frage der Operationen an der Hypophyse.
Schloffer’s Operation for acromegaly. He was the first successfully to operate upon a pituitary tumor in man (See No. 3892).
1906
#4231
Pyelographie (Roentgenographie des Nierenbeckens nach Kollargolfüllung).
Introduction of pyelography.
1906
#4233
Technique de la néphropexie.
“Albarran’s operation” – nephropexy.
1906
#3400
Ueber die vom Ohrlabyrinth ausgelöste Gegenrollung der Augen bei Normalhörenden.
Bárány’s caloric test for labyrinthine function.