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1900–1909

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1904

#2815

Ueber die syphilitischen Aortenerkrankungen.

1904

#2816

Zur Myocarditisfrage.

In his work on rheumatic myocarditis, Aschoff described the characteristic lesion (Aschoff body or nodule) and presented a histopathological picture of myocarditis that was to exert a great influence on the classifica…

1904

#2558.1

Über paroxysmale Hämoglobinurie.

The first description of an auto-antibody, and of an auto-immune disease, paroxysmal cold hemoglobinuria. See A.M. Silverstein, A history of immunology, New York, Academic Press, 1989, Ch. 8, The Donanth-Landsteiner a…

1904

#2559

Gesammelte Arbeiten über Immunitätsforschung.

Reprints Ehrlich’s writings on immunology to date, as well as three papers by Kyes (Nos. 2111-3). English translation, with two more chapters by Ehrlich and Sachs, and one by Ehrlich, New York, 1906.

1904

#2560

Ueber die Antikörper des Streptokokken- und Pneumokokken-Immunserums.

Bacteriotropins named and described.

1904

#2561

Blood immunity and blood relationship, a demonstration of certain blood relationships amongst animals by means of the precipitin test for blood.

1904

#3075

Die neutrophilen weissen Blutkörperchen bei Infektions-Krankheiten.

“Arneth count”. Arneth distinguished five groups of polymorphonuclear leucocytes and advocated the estimation of these groups as a valuable aid in the determination of bone-marrow reaction to infective and other agent…

1904

#3132.1

Elliptical human red cell corpuscles.

Hereditary elliptocytosis.

1904

#3185

Ueber die physiologischen and physikalischen Grundlagen bei intrathorakalen Eingriffen in meiner pneumatischen Operationskammer.

Sauerbruch’s negative pressure chamber for the prevention of pneumothorax.

1904

#3315

Die submucöse Fensterresektion der Nasenscheidewand.

1904

#3642

The chemistry of the urine in diseases of the pancreas.

Test for diseases of the pancreas.

1904

#3858

Ueber Ostitis deformans ohne osteoides Gewebe.

Askanazy was the first to associate osteitis fibrosa cystica with parathyroid tumors.

1904

#4004

Surla radiothérapie des teignes.

Sabouraud’s method of radiological treatment of ringworm.

1904

#3398

Sulla leptomeningite circonscritta e sulla paralisi dell abducente di origine otitica.

“Gradenigo’s syndrome” – acute otitis media followed by abductor paralysis. Translation of the paper is in the German Arch. Ohrenheilk., 1904, 62, 255-70.

1904

#4265.1

Median perineal prostatectomy.

Complete perineal prostatectomy, September 1891.

1904

#4877.1

Pneumatic tourniquets: With especial reference to their use in craniotomies.

First report of tourniquet with pneumatic pressure of measurable degree. This inflatable cuff was the forerunner of the modern pneumatic tournequet cuff.

1904

#4139

Pityriasis et alopécies pelliculaires.

Classic account of the different varieties of Trichophyton.

1904

#4375

Les scolioses congénitales.

First description of platyspondylia.

1904 –1905

#4191.4

Verwendbarkeit der X-Strahlen für die Diagnose der Blasendifformitäten.

Wulff outlined the bladder with a suspension of bismuth subnitrate.

1904

#4982

Zur Psychopathologie des Alltagslebens.

An exposition of psychoanalytic theory for a popular audience. Includes description and examples of the well-known “Freudian slip”. English translation, London, 1914.

1904

#5298

Note on the nature of the parasitic bodies found in tropical splenomegaly.

1904

#5299

Note on the occurrence of Leishman–Donovan bodies in “cachexial fevers” including kala-azar.

Rogers demonstrated the Leishman–Donovan bodies in kala-azar. See also the same journal, 1904, 2, 645-50. At about the same time Bentley reported similar findings in India.

1904

#5317

“Tick fever”.

Ross and Milne discovered the causative agent in the African variety of relapsing (tick) fever.

1904

#5349.1

The aetiology of a parasitic disease (in Japanese)

First description of Schistosoma japonicum. Translation in Kean (No. 2368.1), p. 518.

1904

#5349.2

Note on a new form of liver cirrhosis due to the presence of the ova of Bilharzia haematobia.

“Symmers’s fibrosis”, pipe stem fibrosis of the liver, occurring in cases of certain forms of schistosomiasis.

1904 –1908

#5947

The pathology of the eye. 4 vols.

1904

#5948

Nuovo metodo conservatore di cura radicale delle suppurazioni croniche del sacco lacrimale (dacriocistorinostomia).

Toti’s account of dacryocystorhinostomy, a procedure he himself introduced.

1904

#5429.1

On experimental variola in the monkey.

Inoculation of smallpox into the monkey. An earlier report of successful inoculation by W. Zuelzer (Zbl. med. Wiss., 1874, 12, 82) is not generally accepted.

1904

#5690

Stovaine, anesthésique locale.

Introduction of stovaine, 1903.

1904

#6117

The formation of an artificial vagina by intestinal transplantation.

Baldwin’s operation.

1904

#6

Beiträge zur Kenntnis der assyrisch-babylonischen Medizin. Texte mit Umschrift, Uebersetzung und Kommentar von Friedrich Küchler.

Cuneiform medical texts from the library of Ashurbanipal, together with German translations. A valuable paper on this subject is M. Jastrow’s "The medicine of the Babylonians and Assyrians," Proceedings Royal Society …

1904

#6290

Die Wochenstube in der Kunst.

1904

#6535

English medicine in the Anglo-Saxon times.

FitzPatrick Lectures, 1903.

1904

#5278

Trypanosomes et trypanosomiases.

Laveran and Mesnil discovered that trypanosomes could be maintained indefinitely in rats and mice by serial passage.

1904

#1

The code of Hammurabi, King of Babylon about 2000 BCE. Autographed text, transliteration, translation, glossary, index of subjects, lists of proper names, signs, numerals, corrections, and erasures, with map, frontispiece, and photograph of text by Robert Francis Harper.

The Code of Hammurabi was found among the cuneiform tablets of the library of Ashurbanipal. It is now in the Louvre. It was first published in Scheil, "Textes élamites-sémitiques. Deuxième série: accompagné de 20 plan…

1904

#242.2

Ergebnisse über die Konstitution der chromatischen Substanz des Zellkerns.

See No. 242.1.

1904

#269.1

Mikrophotographische Untersuchungen mit ultraviolettem Licht.

The ultraviolet light microscope was conceived and designed by Köhler.

1904

#148

Galeni De temperamentis libri III recensuit Georgius Helmreich.

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1904

#7206

Aequanimitas with other addresses to medical students, nurses and practitioners of medicine.

A compilation of 19 addresses given by Osler in various settings. These include many of Osler's most famous essays concerning the philosophical and moral foundations of medicine. Osler wrote, "we are here not to get a…

1904

#7339

Die Entwickelung des menschlichen Gehirns, während der ersten Monate.

"This final summary of brain development, published in the year of his death, contains a wealth of classic illustrations that have been adapted ever since in textbooks" (Larry W. Swanson).

1904

#7652

A descriptive catalogue of pathological specimens in the museum of the Hospital for Consumption and Diseases of the Chest, Brompton.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1904

#7686

Museums: Their history and their use with a bibliography and list of museums in the United Kingdom. 3 vols.

Volumes 2 and 3 are an exhaustive bibliography, thematic and geographic, of the historical literature of museums in Europe and the United States, including catalogues of museums published through the end of the 19th c…

1904 –1905

#8347

Die europäischen Übersetzungen aus dem Arabischen bis Mitte des 17. Jahrhunderts. 2 vols.

Digital facsimile from medadoc.bibliothek.uni-halle.de at this link.

1904 –1912

#9318

The history of the collections contained in the Natural History Departments of the British Museum. 3 vols. [Edited by Albert Carl Ludwig Gotthilf Günther.]

(Now the Natural History Museum, London). Vol. 1: Libraries; The Department of Botany; The Department of Geology; The Department of Minerals. Vol. 2.: Separate historical accounts of the several collections included i…

1904

#9530

Obstetrics for nurses.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1904 –1907

#9991

Atlas der descriptiven Anatomie des Menschen. 3 vols.

I. Abt. Knochen, Bänder, Gelenke und Muskeln. II. Abt. Die Eingeweide der Menschen einschliesslich des Herzens. III. Abt. Die Gefässlehre, die Nervenlehre und die Lehre von den Sinnesorganen der Menschen. Translated i…

1904

#10714

One hundred years of publishing 1804-1904. A brief historical account of the house of William Wood and Company.

1904

#10738

The surgery of the heart and lungs. A history and résumé of surgical conditions found therein, and experimental and clinical research in man and lower animals with reference to pneumonotomy, pneumonectomy and bronchotomy, and cardiotomy and cardiorraphy.

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1904

#10740

The organization, construction, and management of hospitals, with numerous plans and details.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1904

#10826

The Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia: Benefactors, alumni, hospital, etc., its founders, officers, instructors, 1826-1904: A history. Edited by George M. Gould. 2 vols.

A massive history, consisting of nearly 1100 pages. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.