1900–1909
957 entries with publication dates in this decade.
1903
#7315
Practical handbook of the pathology of the skin. An introduction to the histology, pathology, and bacteriology of the skin, with special reference to technique.
The first textbook on dermatopathology in English. Digital facsimile from Internet Archive at this link.
1903 –1929
#7338
Opera Omnia. Volume I: Istologia normale—1870-1883 (Con 21 Tavole e ritratto); Volume II: Istologia normale—1883-1902 (Con 21 tavole); Volume III: Patologia generale e isto-patologia—1868-1894 (Con 9 Tavole). Volume IV: Scritti su argomenti varii.
Limited to 325 copies, including material not previously published.
1903
#7382
Man's place in the universe. A study of the results of scientific research in relation to the unity or plurality of worlds.
The first serious attempt by a biologist to evaluate the likelihood of life on other planets. Wallace concluded that the Earth was the only planet in the solar system that could possibly support life, mainly because i…
1903
#8363
Trois traités d'anatomie arabes par Muhammad ibn Zakariyya al-Razi, 'Ali ibn al-'Abbas, et 'Ali ibn Sina. Text inédit de deux traités. Traduction de P. de Koning.
![AVICENNA, [Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Al-Hasan ibn Ali ibn Sīnā] (980 – 1037)](/media/portraits/9572)
Parallel Arabic and French texts. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1903 –1910
#8543
Datos par la materia médica Argentina. 2 vols. (Vol. 2: Trabajos de Instituto de Farmacología de la Facultad de Ciencias Médicas de Buenos Aires No. 25).
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1903
#9029
The geography of disease.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1903
#9100
Turner on birds; a short and succinct history of the principal birds noticed by Pliny and Aristotle, first published by Doctor William Turner, 1544. Edited, with introduction, translation, notes, and appendix by A. H. Evans.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1903
#10101
Anatomie artistique des animaux.
Translated into English by George Haywood as Artistic anatomy of animals (London: Baillière, Tindall & Cox., 1904. Digital facsimile of the 1903 edition from the Hathi Trust at this link, of the English translation fr…
1903
#10606
Grundriss der gesammten Radiotherapie fuer praktische Aerzte.
The first textbook on radiation therapy. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1903
#10633
A sketch of the history of obstetrics in the United States up to 1860.
First published in Dohrn's Geschichte der Geburtshülfe der Neuzeit, zugleich als dritter Band des Versuchs einer Geschichte der Geburtshülfe, von Eduard von Siebold, Erste Abtheilung (Tübingen, 1903) 193-264. Digital …
c. 1903
#10827
The College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, and its founders, officers, instructors, benefactors and alumni: A history. Edited by John Shrady. 2 vols.
A massive history of nearly 1200 pages issued by the publisher of the similarly huge history of the Rush Medical College (No. 10826). Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1903
#11020
The medical annals of Maryland 1799-1899. Prepared for the centennial of the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1903
#11119
Les seins dans l'histoire.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1903
#11132
La pratique des autopsies.
Considered the most beautiful book on autopsies. Digital facsimile from BnFgallica at this link.
1903 –1940
#11251
Catalogue of the books, manuscripts, maps and drawings in the British Museum (Natural History). 5 vols. (1903-1915) + 3 vols. Supplement (1922-1940).
The first 5 vols. of the main author catalogue were written by Bernard B. Woodward; the Supplement was written by various members of the library staff. Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.
1903
#11627
Physiological aspects of the liquor problem. Investigations made by and under the direction of W. O. Atwater, John S. Billings, H. P. Bowditch, R. H. Chittenden, and W. H. Welch Sub-Committee of the Committee of Fifty to Investigate the Liquor Problem. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1903
#11732
Die Arrhythmie, als Austruck bestimmter Funktionsstörungen der Herzens: Eine physiologische-klinische Studie.
This monograph contains Wenckebach's obserations on the physiological bases of arrhythmias, along with accounts of their clinical manifestations. Wenckbach was the first to describe extracystoles in man, demonstrating…
1903
#12166
Collected essays and articles on physiology and medicine. 2 vols.
Flint was one of the founders of laboratory research on physiology in America. Besides the regular trade edition Flint issued a deluxe version of this set limited to 25 copies. Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heri…
1903
#12176
P. Vegeti Renati digestorum artis mulomedicinae libri edidit Ernestus Lommatzsch. Accedit Gargili Martialis de curis boum fragmentum.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link. Includes an edition of the Late Antique Latin writer Quintus Gargilius Martialis's fragmentary treatise on the tending of cattle.
1903
#12247
Analyse des Pulsus irregularis perpetuus.
Later called auricular fibrillation.
1903
#12535
Une version syriaque des aphorismes d'Hippocrate. Texte et traduction par H. Pognon. 2 vols.
![HIPPOCRATES, [Ἱπποκράτης; Hippocrates of Kos] (-460 – -370)](/media/portraits/50)
Edition of Bibliothèque nationale de France, fonds arabe 6734, a Syriac manuscript copied on 10 October 1205 by a physician, probably a Jacobite or Melchite naned Behnam, but nothing in the codex indicates the author/…
1903
#12791
Sterility from obstruction at the epididymis cured by operative means.
The patient described in this paper gave a past history of epididymitis and also of gonococcal urethritis which was known at that time as ‘gleet’ and which had resulted in a urethral stricture. The epididymo-vasostomy…
1903
#13019
Du masque opératoire. Thèse presentée et publiquement soutenue à la Faculté de Médecine du Montpellier....
The medical thesis on medical and surgical masks by a woman medical student at Montpellier, who, as indicated on the title page, was born in Witebsk, Russia in 1876. She was also characterized as "Mlle." The thesis in…
1903
#13067
L'Étude expérimentale de l'intelligence.
Once education was made mandatory for all French children from ages six to fourteen, it became necessary to determine which children might be considered retarded. To do so the question arose concerning what test shoul…
1903
#13133
The zoological gardens of Europe: Their history and chief features.
Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.
1903
#13138
Le livre de l’art du traitement de Najm ad-Dyn Mahmoud: Texte, traduction, glossaires, précédés d’un essai sur la pharmacopée arabe par Pierre Paul Emile Guigues.
Arabic text, with a French translation, of parts 4-5 of “Al-Kitab al-hawi fi ‘ilm al-tadawi” by Najm al-Din Mahmud. Najm al-Din Mahmud ibn Ilyas al-Shirazi was a Persian physician from Shiraz. His major composition wa…
1903
#13384
Hermaphrodismus und Zeugungsunfähigkeit: Eine systematische Darstellung der Missbildungen der menschlichen Geschlechtsorgane. Autorisierte deutsche Ausgabe von Dr. med. R. Teuscher.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1903
#13923
Notes on the treatment of yellow fever at Las Animas Hospital, the hospital of the Sanitary Department, during the epidemic of 1900 at Havana, Cuba.
In 1901 Gorgas was sent to Havana to undertake a special campaign against the yellow fever mosquito Aëdes aegypti. His methods of sanitation were so successful that in three months yellow fever was practically eradica…
1903
#14034
Le passage du virus rabique à travers les filtres.
By demonstrating that the rabies organism is filterable Remlinger proved that rabies is a virus. The rabies virus was the second virus causing disease in humans to be identified. Remlinger made his discovery by follow…
1904
#953
Nouvelle méthode de mesure et d’inscription du débit et des mouvements respiratoires de l’homme et des animaux.
Tissot spirometer.
1904
#347
Morphology and anthropology. A handbook for students.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1904
#4593
Essai de classification de quelques névralgies faciales par les injections de cocaine loco dolenti.
Classification of the neuralgias.
1904
#843
Die unmittelbare Registrierung der Herztöne.
Frank obtained the first perfect pulse curves with special manometers, the so-called “Frank capsules”.
1904
#1043
Physiological economy in nutrition.
Chittenden, founder of the first laboratory of physiological chemistry in the U.S.A., made many important experiments in nutrition, especially in connexion with the low protein diet advocated by him.
1904
#726
Ueber einen in biologischer Beziehung wichtigen Einfluss, den die Kohlensäurespannung des Blutes auf dessen Sauerstoffbindung übt.
Bohr, Hasselbalch, and Krogh showed, in the experimental animal, that the affinity of blood for oxygen depends upon carbon dioxide pressure. This became known as the Bohr effect, though the discovery may have been mad…
1904
#449
Die Anfänge der Anatomie bei den alten Kulturvölkern.
Abhandlungen zur Geschichte der Medizin, Breslau, Heft 9.
1904
#4713
Cerebral degeneration, with symmetrical changes in the maculae, in three members of a family.
“Batten-Mayou disease”, juvenile amaurotic idiocy (see also No. 4712).
1904
#1121
The chemical regulation of the secretory process.
Bayliss and Starling developed the theory of hormonal control of internal secretion.
1904
#1336
On the action of adrenalin.
The first intimation of the chemical mediation of nerve impulses was given in Elliott’s suggestion that when a sympathetic nerve impulse arrives at a smooth-muscle cell it liberates adrenaline, which acts as a chemica…
1904
#1147.1
Ueber Adrenalin und Alkylaminoacetobrenzcatechin.
Synthesis of adrenaline.
1904
#4803
Histologische und histopathologische Arbeiten über die Grosshirnrinde. Vol. 1.
Pages 315-494 contain Nissl’s classic account of the histopathology of general paresis.
1904
#519
Experimental studies on germinal localisation.
1904
#2028.59
Description of a simple and efficient method of performing artificial respiration on the human subject especially in cases of drowning. To which is appended instruction for the treatment of the apparently drowned.
1904
#2041
Geschichte der Pharmazie
Reprinted Hildesheim, 1964.
1904
#1893.1
Ueber Digalen (Digitoxinum solubile).
Introduction of digalen.
1904
#2437
The constituents of chaulmoogra seeds.
Hydnocarpus wightiana or Chaulmoogra is a tree in the Achariaceae family. The oil from seeds of Hydnocarpus wightiana or Chaulmoogra, a tree in the Achariaceae family, was widely used in Indian medicine and Chinese tr…
1904
#2438
The cultivation of the Bacillus leprae.
Rost cultivated the leprosy bacillus, and he prepared leprolin, formerly used in treating leprosy.
1904
#2459
Researches in helminthology and parasitology. With a bibliography of his contributions to science.
In vol. 46 of Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. Leidy was called the greatest descriptive naturalist in mid-19th century America.
1904
#2630
Om Röntgenbehandling af sarkom.
1904 –1905
#2631
Om Röntgenbehandling af maligna svulster.
SeeNo. 2624.