1900–1909
957 entries with publication dates in this decade.
1903
#2689
Die Röntgen-Technik.
Albers-Schönberg invented the compression diaphragm, the function of which is to intensify the object by cutting out secondary rays.
1903
#2591
Injections répétées de sérum de cheval chez le lapin.
The “Arthus phenomenon” – a symptom of anaphylaxis. Arthus showed that “antibody-mediated inflammation could be elicited in the skin of sensitized animals upon local introduction of an appropriate antigen” (Silverstei…
1903
#2591.1
Ueber die biologisch nachweisbaren Veränderungen des menschlichen Blutes nach den Seruminjektion.
Serum sickness first described.
1903
#2557
Zur Lehre von der Unterscheidung verschiedener Eiweissarten mit Hilfe spezifischer Sera.
Demonstration of organ-specific antigens, in this case in the proteins of the lens of the eye.
1903
#2712
Ueber Ionenwirkung und ihre therapeutische Verwendung.
Hypotensive action of thiocyanates first noted. Pauli was the father of the physicist Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958).
1903
#3314
Die Killian’sche Radicaloperation chronischer Stirnhöhleneiterungen.
Killian devised an operation for the treatment of pathological conditions in the nasal sinuses. It consists of excision of the anterior wall of the frontal sinus, removal of the diseased tissue, and formation of a per…
1903
#3641
Disease of the pancreas; its cause and nature.
1903 –1907
#3793
The internal secretions and the principles of medicine. 2 vols.
Sajous, pioneer American endocrinologist, wrote the first treatise on the subject. In this work he regarded the adrenal, pituitary, and thyroid glands as controlling the immunizing mechanism of the body.
1903
#2910
Athérôme aortique expérimental par injections répétées d’adrénaline dans les veines.
Experimental production of arteriosclerosis.
1903
#2911
Ueber die reine Mediaverkalkung der Extremitätenartien und ihr Verhalten zur Arteriosklerose.
“Mönckeberg’s sclerosis”. He described a form of medial sclerosis of the blood-vessels of the extremities. See also his later papers in Klin. Wschr.,1942, 52,1473-78, 1521-26.
1903
#3920
Familiäre Cystindiathese.
Cystinosis described.
1903
#4230
Funktionelle Nierendiagnostik ohne Ureterenkatheter.
Voelcker’s kidney-function test.
1903
#4265
Conservative perineal prostatectomy.
Young’s operation of perineal prostatectomy.
1903
#4296.5
L’urologie et les médecins urologues dans la médecine ancienne. Gilles de Corbeil: Sa vie- ses oeuvres- son poème des urines.
Reproduces rare documents and illustrations, with texts by Gilles de Corbeil and de Cuba. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1903
#4877
Névralgie faciale; présentation de malade.
Alcohol injection of the Gasserian ganglion for treatment of trigeminal neuralgia. See also pp. 91-96 of the same volume. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1903
#5040
Die Bekämpfung des Typhus.
The prophylactic measures for the control of typhus suggested by Koch have been adopted almost everywhere.
1903
#4371
Die Jodoformknochenplombe.
Use of iodoform to plug bone defects.
1903 –1904
#4372
Projektions-Röntgenbilder einer seltenen Knochenerkrankung.
First description of osteosclerosis fragilis, marble bones (“Albers-Schönberg disease”).
1903
#4373
Lesions of the tibial tubercle occurring during adolescence.
Osgood was the first to draw attention to a condition of the tibial tuberosity; this is now referred to as “Osgood–Schlatter disease” (see also No. 4374).
1903
#4374
Verletzungen des schnabelförmigen Fortsatzes der oberen Tibia-epiphyse.
“Osgood–Schlatter disease”. A further description of the painful affection of the tibial tuberosity first noted by Osgood.
1903
#4191.2
Extirpation einer Harnblase mit Einpflanzung der Ureteren in die Flexura iliaca.
Total cystectomyand bilateral ureterosigmoidostomy.
1903
#4191.3
Zur Technik der Röntgenphotographie (Lendenwirbel, Blasensteine).
Cystography. Wittek filled the bladder with air and was able to demonstrate vertebrae and urinary calculus.
1903
#4953
Hygiene der Nerven und des Geistes im gesunden und kranken Zustande.
English translation, New York, 1907.
1903
#4954
Les obsessions et la psychasthénie.
Janet was the first to describe psychasthenia.
1903
#4955
Sopra un’ alterazione del corpo calloso osservata in soggetti alcoolisti.
Marchiafava–Bignami disease – degeneration of the corpus callosum in alcoholism.
1903
#5484
Contributo alio studio dell’ eziologia della rabia.
Discovery of the “Negri bodies” in rabies, the size of which makes viewing possible with a light microscope, and allows prompt microscopic diagnosis. German translation in Z. Hyg. InfektKr., 1903, 43, 507-28. Even tho…
1903
#5295
On the possibility of the occurrence of trypanosomiasis in India.
An organism found by Leishman in 1900 was later described by him as possibly a trypanosome. C. Donovan found the same organism in blood in July 1903. The name Leishmania donovani (Leishman-Donovan bodies) was later at…
1903
#5005.1
Hypnosis: Its history, practice and theory.
An unexcelled “scholarly, critical, and detailed analysis of hypnosis” (Bliss).
1903
#5999
Histoire de l’ophtalmologie. In. P.F. Lagrange and E. Valude: Encyclopédie française d’ophtalmologie, Paris, 1, 1-86.
1903
#6000
Die Brille und ihre Geschichte.
1903
#5626
Hyperaemie als Heilmittel.
Bier introduced hyperemia, active and passive, as an adjuvant in surgical therapy. English translation, Chicago, A. Robertson, 1905. Digital facsimile of the English translation from the Internet Archive at this link.
1903
#5627
Blood-pressure in surgery.
1903
#5459
La fièvre jaune.
Yellow fever convalescent serum employed. With A. T. Salimbeni and P. L. Simond.
1903
#6210.1
Obstetrics.
The most famous American textbook of obstetrics.
1903
#6624
Der Aberglauben in der Medicin.
English translation, 1905.
1903
#6640
Das Kurpfuschertum. Eine medizin-geschichtliche Studie.
History of quackery in medicine.
1903
#5254
Studien über krankheitserregende Protozoen. II. Plasmodium vivax (Grassi & Feletti), der Erreger des Tertianfiebers beim Menschen.
Confirmation of the work of Ross and of Grassi.
1903 –1904
#6289
Geschichte der Geburtshülfe der Neuzeit. 2 pts.
A supplement to No. 6288.
1903 –1906
#6343
Lehrbuch der Kinderheilkunde. 2 vols.
Heubner was professor of pediatrics at Berlin. With Rubner he determined the caloric requirement of infants and did other important work on infant feeding.
1903
#6344
Ueber Trophodermatoneurose.
First clear description of infantile acrodynia (“pink disease”).
1903
#6608
Die Medizin in der klassischen Malerei.
4th edition, 1950 (a re-impression of 3rd edition, 1923).
1903
#5276
On the discovery of a species of trypanosoma in the cerebrospinal fluid of cases of sleeping sickness.
While in Uganda, Castellani discovered T. gambiense in human cerebrospinal fluid. A paper in Notes Rec. roy. Soc., 1973, 23, 93-110, discounts Castellani’s claim that although he first discovered trypanosomes in the c…
1903 –1919
#5277
Reports of the Sleeping Sickness Commission of the Royal Society, 1903-1912. 17 pts.
Bruce and D.N. Nabarro were sent to Africa by the Royal Society to study sleeping sickness, and in their report they showed that the tsetse fly was the vector of trypanosomiasis. They also found that Gambia fever and …
1903
#5297
Protozoa in a case of tropical ulcer (Delhi sore).
Wright found Leishmania tropica in Delhi sore. He was unaware of Borovskii’s paper (No. 5294).
1903
#241.1
Über mehrpolige Mitosen als Mittel zur Analyse des Zellkerns.
Boveri’s experiments, involving multipolar mitoses in sea urchin eggs fertilized by two sperm, demonstrated that different chromosomes perform different functions in development. English translation in No. 534.3.
1903
#242
Ueber Erblichkeit in Populationen und in reinen Linien.
More support for the Mendelian law of inheritance was provided by Johannsen, a Danish botanist, who showed that in certain self-fertilizing plants a pure line of descendants can be maintained indefinitely, in which ca…
1903
#242.1
The chromosomes in heredity.
Sutton advanced the theory that Mendel’s factors were hereditary particles borne by the chromosomes and that Mendel’s laws for his factors were the direct result of the behaviour of chromosomes in meiosis. Boveri inde…
1903
#5296
On the possibility of the occurrence of typanosomiasis in India.
Leishimania donovani, independently discovered by two British medical officers William Boog Leishman in Netley, England, and Donovan in Madras, India, in 1903. However, the correct taxonomy was provided by Ronald Ross…
1903
#6877
Elektropathologie. Die Erkrankungen durch Blitzschlag und elektrischen Starkstrom in klinischer und forensischer Darstellung.
A pioneering study of diseases and death caused by lightning and electricity. Jellinek specialized in the study of electrical accidents and their prevention. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1903
#7217
Les tumeurs du rein.
Seminal work on renal tumors with unsurpassed descriptions of the clinical semiology of these diseases. In 1903 Albarran was the first "... to diagnose transitional cell carcinoma of the renal pelvis by detecting mali…