1900–1909
957 entries with publication dates in this decade.
1908
#11329
Das Gebiss des Menschen und der Anthropomorphen. Vergleichend anatomische Untersuchungen.
1908
#12276
Design in nature illustrated by spiral and other arrangements in the inorganic and organic kingdoms as exemplified in matter, force, life, growth, rhythms, &c., especially in crystals, plants, and animals. 3 vols.
"Illustrated by nearly two thousand figures, mostly original and from nature." Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1908
#12385
Die von Pirquet'sche Hautreaktion und die intravenöse Tuberkulinbehandlung.
First publication on the The Mantoux test or Mendel–Mantoux test (also known as the Mantoux screening test, tuberculin sensitivity test, Pirquet test, or PPD test for purified protein derivative) is a tool for screeni…
1908
#12896
Découverte d'un squelette humain moustérien à La Chapelle-aux-Saints (Corrèze).
On August 3, 1908 the brothers Amédée and Jean Bouyssonie and Lucien Bardon, three French priests with a keen interest in paleontology, unearthed a Neanderthal skeleton in the limestone bedrock of the Bouffia Bonneval…
1908
#12898
La photographie au laboratoire de médecine légale de l'Université de Nancy.
iIlustrated with 77 photographs, Bedin's work describes the methods and practices of forensic photography developed at Nancy between 1905 and 1908. The work is divided into two parts: The first part contains four chap…
1908
#13600
L'Honneur médical, manuel de déontologie élémentaire.
A treatise on medical ethics and the duties of the physician influenced by Christian religious beliefs. Translated into English by W.P. Grant as Medical etiquette (Handbook of elementary deontology). With a preface by…
1909
#4
Der grosse medizinische Papyrus des Berliner Museums (Pap. Berl. 3038) in Facsimile und Umschrift mit Uebersetzung, Kommentar und Glossar. Herausg. von Walter Wreszinski.
BRUGSCH PAPYRUS
The Greater German Papyrus (Brugsch Papyrus) dates from about 1300 BCE. The above facsimile reproduction and translation forms vol. 1 of the Medizin der alten Aegypter series. Digital facsimile from the U.S. National …
1909
#789
Some considerations upon high amputation of the rectum.
“Hartmann’s critical point”, the site on the large intestine where the lowest sigmoid artery meets the superior rectal arterial branch.
1909
#655
Définition expérimentale de l’excitabilité.
Lapicque first defined “chronaxia”, the duration of excitation of tissue. Partial translation in J. F. Fulton’s Selected readings in the history of physiology, 2nd ed., 1966, pp. 233-34.
1909
#4669
Uebertragung der Poliomyelitis acuta auf Affen.
Landsteiner and Popper were the first to isolate poliovirus and to transmit poliomyelitis to monkeys.
1909
#1046
Versuche über Fütterung mit lipoidfreier Nahrung.
Stepp discovered that removal of fat from the diet greatly reduced its nutritive value, but that substitution of pure fats did not replace the deficiency. He thus discovered the existence of fat-soluble vitamins, with…
1909
#737
Kapillarchemie.
1909
#738
Grundriss der Kolloidchemie.
1909
#1132
Studies on thyroid. I. The relation of iodine to the physiological activity of thyroid preparations.
1909
#85
The collected papers of Joseph, Baron Lister. 2 vols.
Lister, a pupil of Sharpey, became Professor of Surgery successively at Glasgow, Edinburgh and King’s College, London. He was the first medical man in Britain to be raised to the peerage. The founder of the antiseptic…
1909
#1159
The action of extracts of the pituitary body.
Oxytocic action of posterior pituitary injection.
1909
#525
Die chemische Entwicklungserregung des tierischen Eies; künstiiche Parthenogenese.
Artificial parthenogenesis. For Loeb’s first paper on this subject see No. 515.1. Translated and revised in Loeb’s Artificial parthenogenesis and fertilization, 1913.
1909
#1375
Der rote Kern, die Haube und die Regio hypothalamica bei einigen Säugetieren und beim Menschen.
“Monakow’s bundle”, the rubrospinal tract.
1909
#1204
Action de la sécrétion interne du pancréas sur différent organes et en particulier sur la sécrétion rénale.
De Meyer was apparently the first to suggest the name “insuline” for the substance then believed to be secreted by the pancreas.
1909
#2007
Ueber Diathermie. (Transthermie, Thermopenetration.)
Nagelschmidt employed high frequency currents in treatment after the suggestions of Tesla and the work of Nernst, claiming priority over the latter in the use of this method. Nagelschmidt named this form of treatment …
1909
#1236.2
The fluids of the body.
Starling put forward the idea that renal excretion of salt (and water) was conditioned by the volume of body fluids, particularly the blood volume. He suggested that the sum total of body fluids was arranged so that t…
1909
#1435
Vergleichende Lokalisationslehre der Grosshirnrinde in ihren Prinzipien dargestellt auf Grund des Zellenbaues.
Brodmann was a pioneer in the study of cytoarchitectonics, and this work forms the basis for localization of function in the cerebral cortex. Brodmann's "areas" are used to designate cortical function regions. Brodman…
1909
#1436
Gehirn und Sympathicus.
First experimental studies on hypothalmic function
1909
#1437
On the structure and functional relations of the optic thalamus.
1909
#2114
Snake venoms.
1909
#1896
On the pharmacological action of some phthaleins and their derivatives.
This work led to the universal clinical use of phenolsulphonephthalein in renal function tests and of phenoltetrachlorphthalein in hepatic function tests.
1909
#1897
On the relation between the toxicity and chemical constitution of a number of derivatives of choline and analogous compounds.
1909
#2635
The Croonian Lectures on radioactivity and carcinoma.
1909
#2828
Beitrag zur Aetiologie und pathologischen Anatomie der Myokarditis rheumatica.
“Bracht–Wächter bodies” in the myocardium in bacterial endocarditis.
1909
#2829
Infective endocarditis, with an analysis of 150 cases.
Classic description of subacute bacterial endocarditis.
1909
#2830
Auricular fibrillation; a common clinical condition.
First description of auricular fibrillation as a cause of clinical perpetual arrhythmia. See also the paper in Heart, London, 1909-10, 1,306-72.
1909
#2831
Vorhofflimmern und Arhythmia perpetua.
Independently of Lewis (No. 2830) these workers claimed auricular fibrillation to be the cause of perpetual arrhythmia.
1909
#4835
Die Tetanie der Kinder.
1909
#2565
Beiträge zur experimentellen Pathologie und Chemotherapie.
1909
#3530
Essais de traitement de quelques cas d’épithélioma de l’oesophage par les applications locales directes de radium.
Radium therapy by means of the esophagoscope.
1909
#3531
The operative treatment of chronic constipation.
Lane’s operation for chronic intestinal stasis (“Lane’s kink”) consisted in short-circuiting the intestine.
1909
#3187
Ueber Lungenresektion wegen bronchiektatischer Cavernen.
Körte was the first successfully to remove bronchiectatic lobes.
1909
#2690
Die Technik der Roentgenkinematographie.
Groedel invented the first machine for taking serial x-rays.
1909
#3317
A simple operation for the complete removal of tonsils, with notes on 900 cases.
Waugh introduced blunt dissection tonsillectomy.
1909
#3743
An inquiry concerning the etiology of beri-beri.
Studies from the Institute for Medical Research, F. M. S., No. 10. Careful and long-continued experiments on the aetiology of beriberi were carried out by Fraser and Stanton in Malaya.
1909
#3645
Die Cholelithiasis.
1909
#3859
On the relation of tetany to the parathyroid glands and to calcium metabolism.
Proof that the parathyroids control calcium metabolism. MacCallum and Voegtlin were able to demonstrate the removal of post-parathyroidectomy tetany by administration of calcium.
1909
#3860
Auto- and isotransplantation, in dogs, of the parathyroid glandules.
1909
#3895
Eine neue Methode der endonasalen operation von Hypophysentumoren.
Hirsch first demonstrated the transnasal transseptal exposure of the sphenoid sinus and pituitary gland in a cadaveric specimen in front of the medical society of Vienna.
1909
#244.1
Inborn errors of metabolism.
Garrod established chemical individuality as a paradigm of Mendelian variation. His study, which he began around the turn of the 20th century, coincided with the rediscovery of Mendel's laws of inheritance in 1900. He…
1909
#2969
Partial progressive and complete occlusion of the aorta and other large arteries in the dog by means of the metal band.
Halsted introduced a metal band in place of a ligature for the occlusion of arteries.
1909
#4005
Précis de dermatologie.
1909
#3962
On the relation of the islands of Langerhans to glycosuria.
MacCallum suggested a relationship between lesions of the islands of Langerhans and the glycosuria of diabetes.
1909
#3963
Das Koma diabeticum und seine Behandlung.
Magnus-Levy is remembered for his work on the treatment of diabetic coma.
1909
#3695