1900–1909
957 entries with publication dates in this decade.
1906
#13502
Moeurs médicales de l'Inde et leurs rapports avec la médecine européenne.
Digital facsimile from wellcomecollection.org at this link.
1906
#13574
The eye and nervous system: Their diagnostic relations by various authors. Edited by Wm. Campbell Posey and William G. Spiller.
The first comprehensive treatise in English on neuro-ophthalmology. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1906
#14351
A study of the structural unit of the liver.
Mall defined the liver's structural unit as a tissue block centered on a portal vein, rather than the classic hepatic lobule centered on a central vein. He proposed that the structural unit of the liver is defined by …
1907
#87
The fragments of Empedocles. Translated into English verse by William Ellergy Leonard.
Empedocles was a Greek philosopher, statesman, physician and reformer. His poem on Nature originally ran to 5,000 lines, of which only 400 are now left. He believed in four ultimate elements—fire, air, water and earth…
1907 –1909
#570
De usu partium libri XVII ad codicum fidem recensuit Georgius Helmreich. 2 vols.
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First separate edition, edited from the prior printed editions and the surviving early manuscripts, of Galen's treatise on the function, use and purpose of the individual parts of the body. In this treatise Galen expl…
1907
#846
Die Registrierung der menschlichen Herztone mittels des Saitengalvanometers
Phonocardiography.
1907 –1908
#847
The extra-systole. A contribution to the functional pathology of the primitive cardiac tissue.
1907 –1916
#12
An English translation of the Sushruta Samhita, based on original Sankskrit text: Edited and published by Kaviraj Kunja Lal Bhishagratna. With a full and comprehensive introduction, translation of different readings, notes, comparative views, index, glossary and plates. 3 vols.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1907
#1027
The influence of inanition on metabolism.
1907
#4683
Concerning a serum therapy for experimental infection with Diplococcus intracellularis.
Flexner prepared an antiserum for use in cerebrospinal meningitis.
1907
#896
Haematologické studie u psychotiků.
Janský, a Czech serologist, neurologist and psychiatrist, tried to find a correlation between mental diseases and blood diseases. He found no such correlation, and published a study, the title of which translates as H…
1907
#733
Lactic acid in amphibian muscle.
Explanation of the production of lactic acid in normal muscular contraction.
1907
#451
Tradition und Naturbeobachtung in den Illustrationen medicinischer Handschriften und Frühdrucke vornehmlich des 15. Jahrhunderts.
1907 –1908
#1569.2
The labyrinth of animals. 2 vols.
“An important and elaborate work designed to give the anatomy of the labyrinth, or inside of the ears of vertebrates, with the exception of fishes” (Casey Wood). Illustrated with stereoscopic photographs.
1907
#4763
Traité des torticolis spasmodiques.
In this classic monograph, 357 cases of torticollis are recorded.
1907
#4821
The border-land of epilepsy. Faints, vagal attacks, vertigo, migraine, sleep symptoms, and their treatment.
1907
#521
Observations on the living developing nerve fiber.
Harrison demonstrated the development of nerve fibres by independent growth from cells outside the organism.
1907 –1908
#522
Experiments on the origin and differentiation of the optic vesicle in amphibia.
1907
#788
The significance of a hitherto undescribed wave in the jugular pulse.
The physiological wave sometimes found in mid-diastole, when the pulse is slow, was first described by Gibson. He termed it the b-wave. Gibson worked with William Osler at the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford, and cared …
1907
#2006
Climatology and balneotherapy.
1907
#1433
A new topographical survey of the human cerebral cortex, being an account of the distribution of the anatomically distinct cortical areas and their relationship to the cerebral sulci.
Elliot Smith, Professor of Anatomy at Cairo, Manchester, and University College, London, initiated modern studies of cerebral function with his work on the cortical pattern of the human brain. He identified 50 areas.
1907
#1476
The central course of the nervus octavus and its influence on motility.
Winkler was Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry at Amsterdam and Utrecht. He published more than 200 papers, among the most important being that on the central pathways of the eighth nerve.
1907
#1709
Probability: The foundation of eugenics.
1907
#1895.1
Synthese des Imidazolyläthylamins.
Synthesis of histamine.
1907
#2130
In Report of the Departmental Committee on Compensation for Industrial Diseases. Cd. 3495 and 3496.
The first reported case of asbestosis was observed by Murray at Charing Cross Hospital, London, in 1899 and reported to the Committee (Report, p. 14: Minutes of Evidence, p. 127) in 1907.
1907
#2594.1
Zur Frage der Serum-Ueberempfindlichkeit.
Otto discovered that a state of tolerance developed in animals that survived anaphylactic shock. He induced passive transfer of hypersensitivity.
1907
#2596
De l’anaphylaxie et de l’anti-anaphylaxie vis-à-vis du sérum de cheval.
“Anti-anaphylaxis” was the term given by Besredka and Steinhardt to the specific desensitization of sensitized animals.
1907
#2597
Contribution à l’étude du “phénomène d’Arthus.”
“Passive” anaphylaxis first demonstrated.
1907
#2598
Klinische Studien über Vakzination und vakzinale Allergie.
Pirquet suggested the word “Allergie”; see also his paper with this title in Münich. med. Wschr., 1906, 53, 1457-58.
1907
#2599
De l’anaphylaxie en général et de l’anaphylaxie par la mytilocongestine en particulier.
In 1913 Richet was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "in recognition of his work on anaphylaxis."
1907
#2337
Sur un nouveau procédé de diagnostic de la tuberculose chez l’homme par l’ophtalmo-reaction à la tuberculine.
Calmette’s conjunctival reaction test for tuberculosis.
1907
#2338
Der diagnostische Wert der kutanen Tuberkulinreaktion bei der Tuberkulose des Kindesalters auf Grund von 100 Sektionen.
Introduction of Pirquet’s test – a cutaneous reaction employed in the diagnosis of tuberculosis.
1907 –1908
#2633
A study of heredity in relation to the development of tumours in mice.
First experimental study of the heredity of mouse cancer.
1907
#2518.2
Kolloidstudien mit der Filtrationsmethode.
Bechhold devised ultrafiltration methods for studies in microbiology.
1907 –1928
#2661.1
Die Lehre von der Krebskrankheit von den ältesten Zeiten bis zur Gegenwart. 4 vols.
Exhaustive and accurate review of all the then-available information on cancer. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link. English translation of vol. 1 as The science of cancerous disease from the earliest tim…
1907
#2825
Neuerung zur Messung des systolischen und diastolischen Druckes.
Fellner suggested the use of the stethoscope in the measurement of systolic and diastolic pressure.
1907
#2564.1
Immunochemistry. The application of the principles of physical chemistry to the study of the biological antibodies.
Arrhenius defined immunochemistry, and laid out its frontiers.
1907 –1908
#3078
Blutkrankheiten und Blutdiagnostik.
1907
#3079
Septische Erkrankungen bei Verkümmerung des Granulozytensystems.
First reported case of complete agranulocytosis.
1907
#2233
Die asthenische Konstitutionskrankheit.
“Stiller’s disease” – habitus asthenicus.
1907
#3186
Bronchoskopie und bronchoskopische Behandlung von Bronchialasthma.
Introduction of therapeutic bronchoscopy, for treatment of asthma.
1907
#2714
Multiple hereditary developmental angiomata (telangiectases) of the skin and mucous membranes associated with recurring haemorrhages.
“Rendu–Osler–Weber disease.”
1907
#3608.1
The technic of modern operations for hernia.
Includes description of the Ferguson operation.
1907
#3721
Experimental studies relating to “ship-beri-beri” and scurvy
Experimental production of scurvy in guinea-pigs. Holst published further papers on the subject in the same journal, 1907, 7, 634-71, and in Z. Hyg., 1912, 72, 1-120, both with Theodor Froelich. Their work made it pos…
1907
#3337
Tracheo-bronchoscopy, esophagoscopy and gastroscopy.
First textbook on endoscopy.
1907
#3781
Pathogénie de l’ictère de l’adulte.
“Minkowski–Chauffard disease” (see No. 3779).
1907
#3782
A hitherto undescribed disease characterized anatomically by deposits of fat and fatty acids in the intestinal and mesenteric lymphatic tissues.
“Whipple’s disease”. Whipple suggested the name lipodystrophia intestinalis (intestinal lipodystrophy) for this condition because there were abnormal lipid deposits in the small intestine wall. In figure 9 of his pape…
1907
#3783
Ictères hémolytiques non congénitaux avec anémie.
“Widal-Abrami disease” (Hayem-Widal disease), acquired hemolytic anemia. (See also No. 3777.)
1907
#3843
L’infantilisme vrai.
Brissaud described thyroid infantilism.
1907
#3868
On suprarenal sarcoma in children with metastases in the skull.
Hutchison’s tumors.