1900–1909
957 entries with publication dates in this decade.
1902
#12082
Essays in medical sociology. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1902
#12114
The significance of recent American cases of hookworm disease (Uncinariasis or Anchylostomiasis) in man.
In this paper Stiles fully characterized and extensively illustrated the American hookworm parasite that he first described in No. 5363. This species and the Schistosoma are the pathogenic organisms that can penetrate…
1902
#12249
A report of a case of successful suturing of the heart, and table of thirty-seven other cases of suturing by different operations with various terminations, and the conclusions drawn.
Hill reported his successful suturing of a knife wound in the left ventricle. His patient, a thirteen-year-old boy recovered. This was the first successful suture of the heart performed in America. Hill argued "that a…
1902
#12263
Principles of sanitary science and the public health, with special reference to the causation and prevention of infectious diseases.
Digital facsimile of the 1902 first edition from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1902
#12294
Die Geisteskrankheiten des Kindesalters mit besonderer Berücksichtigung des schulpflichtigen Alters.
The first systematic work on child psychiatry in Germany. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1902
#12393
Life and correspondence of Henry Ingersoll Bowditch by his son, Vincent Y. Bowditch. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
c. 1902
#12437
Ueber die Beziehungen von chemischer Constitution. Vertheilung und pharmakologischer Wirkung: Vortrag, gehalten im Verein für Innere Medicin am 12. December 1898.
In this speech Ehrlich explained how the molecular structure of a drug can define its action and function. It represents his first attempts at modifying the molecular structure of a compound in order to tailor the in …
1902
#12619
Alveolar pyorrhoea - its pathological anatomy and its radical treatment.
Znamensky, professor of stomatology in Moscow, had a very clear understanding of periodontitis, and the interaction of local and systemic factors in its etiology. He presented the first description of the histopatholo…
1902
#12704
Zur Psychologie und Pathologie sogenannter occulter Phaeonomene.
Jung's M.D. thesis, in which he dealt for the first time with spiritualism in psychological terms, reporting data gathered at seances, and formulated the prototype of his theory of synchronicity. Digital facsimile fro…
1902
#12755
The varieties of religious experience: A study in human nature. Being the Gifford Lectures on Natural Religion delivered at Edinburgh in 1901-1902.
Digital facsimile of the 33rd impression (1922) from the Internet Archive at this link.
1902
#12790
The surgical treatment of sterility due to obstruction at the epididymis. Together with a study of the morphology of human spermatozoa.
Martin and colleagues reported on the study of 192 sterile couples. Martin pointed out "that 33 (17%) of the men in this group were azoospermic and two more could produce no ejaculate at all. From an examination of th…
1902
#12943
Dominique Larrey et les compagnes de la révolution et de l'empire 1768-1842. Étude historique aux XVIIIe et XIXe siècles d'après documents inédits. Journal et agendas de compagnes. Notes manuscrites. Correspondance officielle et privée.
Digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this link
1902
#12944
Napoléon et Larrey: Récits inédits de la revolution et de l’empire.
Some copies of this book include 8 of the 16 plates hand-colored; an unusual manual process for a book produced at this date.
1902 –1910
#13048
Reports to the evolution committee of the Royal Society. Reports I-V. 1902-1909.
In 1908 Archibald Garrod delivered the Croonian Lectures at the Royal College of Physicians in London on inborn errors of metabolism. In his studies of the rare disease alkaptonuria, which affects about one in one mil…
1902
#13220
A nurse's guide for the operating room. Published under the direction of the Sisters of Charity, St. Joseph's Hospital.
Distinctively, Senn devoted his first chapter to the "Preparation of Operating Room in a Private House," suggesting that surgeons may have been frequently called upon to perform operations in homes when the book was p…
1902
#14071
Historia de la medicina en Guatemala.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link. Second edition, 1958 with appendix listing physicians, surgeons and pharmacists who received degrees or taught at the University of Guatemala from1902 to 1953.
1903 –1904
#952
La physiologie de l’apnée étudiée chez l’homme.
First studies of the physiology of apnea in man.
1903
#4592
Du myosis dans certaines lésions bulbaires en foyer (hémiplégie du type Avellis associée au syndrome oculaire sympathique).
“Cestan–Chenais syndrome”.
1903
#4645
Inflammations meningées avec réactions chromatique, fibrineuse et cytologique du liquid cephalo-rachidien.
“Froin’s syndrome” – a coagulation of the cerebrospinal fluid.
1903 –1904
#894
Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Blutgerinnung.
Morawitz’s theory of blood coagulation.
1903
#895
On the appearance and significance of certain granules in the erythrocytes of man.
Reticulocytes described.
1903
#448
Geschichte der Anatomie.
1903
#4712
Cerebral degeneration with symmetrical changes in the maculae in two members of a family.
Batten disease, a fatal disease of the nervous system that typically begins in childhood. Onset of symptoms is usually between 5 and 10 years of age. Often, it is autosomal recessive. It is the common name for a group…
1903
#2183
Die Verwundeten in den Kriegen der alten Eidgenossenschaft.
History of the care of the wounded during the Wars of the Swiss Confederation. Brunner shows that the Swiss were the first nation in Europe to organize state care of the wounded. Part 2 of the above work was published…
1903 –1904
#2003.2
L’électrisation cérébrale.
Leduc reported the effects of a galvanic current on the brain. His work led the way to electric convulsion therapy, introduced by Carletti and Bini (No. 4962).
1903
#1429
Zur anatomischen Gliederung des Cortex cerebri.
1903
#1297
The spinal origin of the cervical sympathetic nerve.
Section of the white rami caused retrograde degeneration of the lateral column cells.
1903
#1892
Ueber eine neue Klasse von Schlafmitteln.
Synthesis of barbitone (Barbitol), the first available barbiturate.
1903
#1893
Standardisation of disinfectants.
Rideal–Walker method for testing disinfectants.
1903
#2112
Zur Kenntniss der Cobragift activirenden Substanzen.
English translation in Ehrlich, Studies in immunity, 1910.
1903
#2113
Ueber die Isolirung von Schlangengift-Lecithiden.
English translation in Ehrlich, Studies in immunity, 1910.
1903
#1525.1
The time relations of the photo-electric changes in the eyeball of the frog.
First correct electroretinograms.
1903
#1525.2
Demonstration eines Instrumentes zur Erzeugung von Strahlengebilden um leuchtende Punkte.
Gullstrand invented the slit-lamp, making possible the microscopic study of the living eye.
1903
#2436.2
Eine Lepraähnliche Erkrankung der Haut und der Lymphdrtüsen bei Wanderratten.
Murine leprosy described.
1903 –1915
#2458
Protozoa and disease. 4 vols.
1903
#2313
Geschichte der pathologischen Anatomie des Menschen. In: Puschmann, T.: Handbuch der Geschichte der Medizin, 2, 473-559
1903
#2627
Zur Frage der Beziehungen zwischen Becquerelstrahlen und Hautaffectionen.
Records the first successful employment of radium in the treatment of cancer.
1903
#2627.1
Ueber den Einfluss der Röntgenstrahlen auf epitheliale Gewebe, insbesondere auf das Carcinom.
Perthes was among the first to study the inhibitory effect of x rays on carcinoma; he was a pioneer in radiotherapy.
1903
#2628
Experimentelle Untersuchungen über Krebs bei Mäusen.
Jensen carried rat sarcoma through as many as 40 generations of rodents without change in microscopic structure. His classic study discredited the theory of the infectivity of cancer, and established its inoculability…
1903
#2629
Die Verbreitungswege der Karzinome und die Beziehung generalisierter Sarkome zu den leukämischen Neubildungen.
Schmidt supported the theory of the hematogenous origin of carcinoma metastases.
1903 –1909
#2517
Handbuch der pathogenen Mikroorganismen. 6 vols.
Third edition, 10 vols. [in 19], 1929-31.
1903 –1904
#2398
Études expérimentales sur la syphilis.
Metchnikoff and Roux successfully transmitted syphilis from man to the higher apes. Although not the first to do this, they recorded much new information concerning the disease.
1903
#2814
Sur la lésion dite sténose congénitale de l’aorte dans la région de l’isthme.
Distinction of infantile and adult types of coarctation of the aorta.
1903 –1904
#2558
An experimental investigation of the rôle of the blood fluids in connection with phagocytosis.
Wright and Douglas showed the existence of thermolabile substances (opsonins) in normal and immune serum.
1903
#3073
Chronic cyanosis, with polycythaemia and enlarged spleen: a new clinical entity.
When describing polycythemia with cyanosis, Osler thought it a new entity, but later acknowledged the priority of Vaquez’s description (No. 3070). Reprinted in Med. Classics, 1939, 4,254-75.
1903
#3074
Ueber eine Methode zur Untersuchung des lebenden Knochenmarks von Thieren und über das Bewegungsvermögen der Myelocyten.
Wolff-Eisner trephined the tibia and femur of experimental animals and suggested biopsy of bone marrow as a clinical procedure.
1903
#3526
Instruments for use through cylindrical rectal specula, with the patients in the knee-chest posture.
Various rectal and vesical specula were designed by Kelly.
1903
#3527
Chirurgische Erfahrungen über das Darmcarcinom.
Development of Bloch’s two-stage Operation for resection of tumors of the rectum. English translation in Medical Classics, 1937, 2, 210-29.
1903
#3183
Triangolo paravertebrale opposto nella pleurite essudativa.
“Grocco’s triangle”. Grocco described paravertebral dullness on the opposite side in pleural effusion.
1903
#3184