1900–1909
957 entries with publication dates in this decade.
1908
#4880.1
Surgery of the head. In: Surgery: its principles and practice, edited by William Williams Keen, 3, 17-276.
Cushing’s first treatise on neurosurgery. “As a result of this detailed monograph, neurological surgery became almost at once recognized as a clear-cut field of surgical endeavor” (J.F. Fulton, Harvey Cushing [1947] 2…
1908 –1911
#4880.2
Chirurgie des Gehirns und Rückenmarks nach eigenen Erfahrungen. 2 vols.
With Macewen and Cushing, Krause pioneered the development of neurosurgery as a specialty. This is his most comprehensive work. English translation by H.A. Haubold and M. Thorek, 3 vols., New York, Rebman, [1909-12],
1908
#4144
Un cas de cutis laxa avec tumeurs par contusion chronique des coudes et des genoux.
Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (see also No. 4132). Danlos noted the subcutaneous tumors that may occur in this condition.
1908
#4145
Ueber Erythrodermia desquamativa, eine eigenartige universelle Dermatose der Brustkinder.
Desquamative erythroderma of nurslings (Leiner); apparently a toxic eruption peculiar to breast-fed children suffering from enteritis.
1908
#5041
Weitere Mitteilungen über Schweinepest mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Bakteriologie der Hogcholeragruppe.
First description of Salmonella paratyphi C.
1908
#4377
Ueber eine häufige, bisher anscheinend unbekannte Erkrankung einzelner kindlicher Knochen.
“Köhler’s disease” of the scaphoid bone of the foot in children. See No. 4387.
1908
#4377.1
Ueber Gelenktransplantation.
First osteoarticular joint transplant. English translation in Clin. orthop., 1985, 197, 1-10. See also his paper, "Substitution of whole or half joints from freshly amputated extremities by free plastic operation," Su…
1908
#5065
Kutanreaktion beil Impfung mit Diphtherietoxin.
The Schick test for the determination of susceptibility to diphtheria.
1908
#5282
Further results of the experimental treatment of trypanosomiasis in rats.
Trial of antimony in the treatment of trypanosomiasis.
1908
#5477
Ueber ein neues invisibles Virus.
Doerr showed the relation of phlebotomus fever to the sandfly, Phlebotomus.
1908
#5484.1
Über die Immunisierung gegen Wutkrankheit.
Fermi was the first to use chemical treatment of tissue suspensions of fixed rabies virus for the preparation of vaccine (Fermi vaccine). He introduced the use of carbolic acid for this purpose.
1908
#5532.1
Uma mycose pseudococcidica localisada na bocca e observada no Brazil. Contribuiçao ao conhocimento das hyphoblastomycoses americanas.
South American blastomycosis.
1908
#5534
Sur une infection à corps de Leishman (ou organismes voisins) du gondi.
Toxoplasma described. English translation in Kean (No. 2268.1).
1908
#5534.1
Un nuovo protozoa parassito de’ conigli incontrato nelle lesioni anatomiche d’una malattia che ricorda in molti punti il kala azar dell’uomo.
Splendore discovered Toxoplasma in a rabbit; it was named T. cuniculi.
1908
#5781
Les tumeurs du sein.
1908
#5954
Forms of retinal disease with massive exudation.
“Coats’s disease” (retinitis circinata).
1908
#6002
The development of ophthalmology in America, 1800 to 1870.
Of limited value, but the only available history of early American ophthalmology.
1908
#5693.1
Un appareil pour l’anesthésie par l’éther.
Ombrédanne ether inhaler.
1908
#6119
Operation in cases of complete prolapsed.
Donald’s operation for prolapse.
1908
#6120
Die erweiterte vaginale Totalexstirpation des Uterus bei Kollumkarzinom.
Radical vaginal hysterectomy for carcinoma of the cervix.
1908
#6214
Die künstliche Blutleere der unteren Körperhälfte.
Abdominal ligature in prevention of post-partum haemorrhage.
1908
#6722
An Alabama student, and other biographical essays.
This collection of biographical essays includes most of Osler's famous writings in this category, with the exception of his essay on Michael Servetus. (Copies were also issued with a New York and a Toronto imprint.) D…
1908
#6248
Die extraperitoneale Uterusschnitt.
Sellheim’s operation. For his three subsequent modifications, see the same journal, 319-31, 641-51, and Mschr. Geburtsh. Gynäk., 1911, 34, 34-45.
1908
#6293
Geschichte der gynäkologische-anatomischen Abbildungen.
From the ancient world through the 18th century. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1908
#6536
The history of the study of medicine in the British Isles.
FitzPatrick Lectures, 1905-06.
1908
#6768
Deutsch medizinische Inkunabeln.
1908
#6768.1
A catalogue of the manuscripts in the library of the Hunterian Museum in the University of Glasgow. Planned and begun by the late John Young...Continued and completed under the direction of the Young Memorial Committee by P. Henderson Aitken.
Catalogue of the manuscripts collected and bequeathed to the University of Glasgow by William Hunter (1718-83), now in the Hunterian Collection, University of Glasgow Library. The catalogue provides full descriptions …
1908
#6572
Svenska Läkaresällskapets historia 1808-1908.
Continued (1908-38) by Gunnar Nilson, Stockholm, General-Statens litograf. Anstalt, 1947.
1908
#6578
La medicina en Cataluña (bosquejo histórico).
1908
#6403
Zeittafeln zur Geschichte der Medizin.
1908
#6455.1
Physiological and medical observations among the Indians of Southwestern United States and Northern Mexico.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1908 –1909
#6455
Vergleichende Volksmedizin. Eine Darstellung volksmedizinischer Sitten und Gebräuche, Anschauungen und Heilfaktoren, des Aberglaubens und der Zaubermedizin. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1908
#243
Mendelian proportions in a mixed population.
Hardy–Weinberg equilibrium.
1908
#244
Überden Nachweis der Vererbung beim Menschen.
Weinberg, a general practitioner and obstetrician in Stuttgart, was also a founder of population genetics. He co-discovered the Hardy–Weinberg equilibrium.
1908
#86.5
Corpus Medicorum Graecorum. Ediderunt Academiae Berolinensis Hauniensis Lipsiensis
CORPUS MEDICORUM GRAECORUM
This series sets as its goal the scholarly edition of all extant ancient Greek medical texts, including those lost in the original language but preserved in medieval translations. These are numbered as follows: I. Hip…
1908
#7094
Catalogue of the Library of Charles Darwin now in the Botany School, Cambridge, compiled by H. W. Rutherford, with an introduction by Francis Darwin.
See also the digital edition and virtual reconstruction of the surviving books owned by Charles Darwin from the Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link. This BHL special collection draws on original copies and surr…
1908
#7110
Oppien d'Apamée, La chasse. Édition critique par Pierre Boudreaux.
Standard edition of the Cynegetica (Κυνηγετικά/KynÄ“getiká, 'On Hunting' ) by Oppian of Apamea. This edition was based upon a new collation of prior printed editions and extant manuscripts of the text. Boudreaux pref…
1908
#7253
Der Unterkiefer des Homo heidelbergensis aus den Sanden von Mauer bei Heidelberg. Ein Beitrag zur Paläontologie des Menschens.
First report on the Mauer jaw discovered by Schoetensack in a sandpit or quarry in the environs of Heidelberg. This was the first fossil specimen unearthed of an extinct hominin species which Schoetensack named Homo h…
1908
#7342
I ganglî cerebrospinali. Studi di istologia comparata e di istogenesi.
"Using comparative and developmental approaches he examined dorsal root ganglion cells in the embryos of 18 vertebrate species, and adults of 56 species—using a variety of histological stains, particularly those of Go…
1908
#7444
Notes of a botanist on the Amazon & Andes, being records of travel on the Amazon and its tributaries, the Trombetas, Rio Negro, Uaupés, Casiquiari, Pacimoni, Huallaga, and Pastas; as also to the cataracts of the Orinoco, along the eastern side of the Andes of Peru and Ecuador, and the shores of the Pacific during the years 1849-1864. Edited and condensed by Alfred Russel Wallace..., with a biographical introduction, portrait, seventy-one illustrations and seven maps. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1908
#8238
Histoire de la médecine Arabe en Tunisie.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1908
#8246
Insanity in India: Its symptoms and diagnosis; with reference to the relation of crime and insanity.
Includes considerable discussion of the psychoactive effects of cannabis. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1908
#9018
Philumeni de venenatis animalibus eorumque remediis capita XXXVIII ed. M. Wellmann. Corpus medicorum graecorum X 1, 1.
This work on venoms and their antidotes is the only surviving work of the Byzantine physician Philomenos. Within this context Philomenos also discusses the bites of rabid dogs. Digital facsimile from Corpus medicorum …
1908
#9307
The Battle Creek Sanitarium system: History, organization, methods.
"John Harvey Kellogg is best known for the invention of the famous breakfast cereal, Corn Flakes, in 1878. Originally, he called this cereal Granula, which he later changed to Granola in 1881. However, due to patent r…
1908
#9477
Die Prognose der Dementia praecox (Schizophreniegruppe).
At the annual meeting of the Deutschen Verein für Psychiatrie in Berlin on the 24th and 25th of April, 1908 Bleuler introduced the term schizophrenia, by which he denoted a group of psychotic reactions rather than one…
1908
#9502
Hermaphroditismus beim Menschen.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1908
#9645
Concerning the relationship between the strength of acids and their capacity to preserve neutrality.
Henderson-Hasselbalch equation for the determination of pH concentration in the blood. See Hasselbalch's paper. Digital facsimile of Henderson's paper from the American Journal of Physiology at this link. Henderson's …
1908
#9724
A mind that found itself.
In 1900 Beers was confined to a private mental institution for depression and paranoia. He was later confined to another private hospital as well as a state institution. During those periods he experienced and witness…
1908
#10392
Diseases of occupation from the legislative, social, and medical points of view.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1908
#10591
Experimental and clinical notes on chronic valvular lesions in the dog and their possible relation to a future surgery of cardiac valves.
Cushing and Branch's work was a key step in the early development of surgery of the mitral valves, later realized by Cushing's students Elliot Carr Cutler and Claude Beck in 1924. "Experiments on canine heart valves w…