1910–1919
772 entries with publication dates in this decade.
1916
#2692.1
Diaphragming Roentgen rays. Studies and experiments.
Moving grid. "Bucky-Potter grid" invented by Gustav Bucky and improved by radiologist Hollis E. Potter.
1916
#3902
Nanosomia pituitaria
Erdheim made important studies on the pathology of the pituitary. He gave the name “nanosomia pituitaria” to describe pituitary dwarfism. See also his paper in Ergebn. allg. Path, 1926, 21, 482.
1916
#3000
Ueber die konservative Behandlung der Varicen.
Injection treatment of varicose veins was introduced by Linser.
1916
#5043
Ueber die Behandlung von Typhus mit Milchinjektionen.
1916
#4885
De la causalgie envisagée comme une névrite du sympathique et de son traitement par la dénudation et l’excision des plexus nerveux périartériels.
Periarterial sympathectomy.
1916
#4886
The wire gauze brain drain.
Mosher initiated the modern method of trephining and draining inflammatory processes of the brain.
1916
#4887
Les blessures des nerfs.
A study of the effect of gunshot wounds on nerves. English translation, London, 1917.
1916
#4386.3
The physiological method of tendon transplanation.
Mayer’s method of tendon transfer, using tendon sheaths to preserve the gliding surfaces.
1916
#4910
Diagnosis and treatment of surgical diseases of the spinal cord and its membranes.
Elsberg, American pioneer in neurosurgery, made valuable contributions to the surgery of the spinal cord. on tumours of the cord in 1925. His final work was Surgical diseases of the spinal cord, membranes, and nerve r…
1916 –1917
#5006
The institutional care of the insane in the United States and Canada. Edited by Henry M. Hurd. 4 vols.
Hurd was Professor of Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University. The work includes his history of American psychiatry. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1916
#5326
The cause of rat-bite fever.
K. Futaki, I. Takaki, T. Taniguchi, and S. Osumi found a spirillum (Sp. morsus muris) in the lymphatic glands and blood stream in cases of rat-bite fever (sodoku).
1916
#5334
The etiology, mode of infection, and specific therapy of Weil’s disease (Spirochaetosis icterohaemorrhagica)
Inada, Y. Ido, R. Hoki, R. Kaneko, and H. Ito proved that Sp. (Leptospira) icterohaemorrhagiae is the causal organism in Weil’s disease (Leptospirosis). Preliminary report (in Japanese) in Tokyo Ijishinshi, 1915, No. …
1916
#5537
Torula infection in man.
Description of Torula histolytica infection in man, later shown to be identical with Cryptococcus neoformans. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1916
#5387
Ueber eine neue periodische Fiebererkrankung (Febris Wolhynica).
His encountered a form of “trench fever” in Volhynia, Russia, and named it after that district.
1916
#5388
Zur Aetiologie des Fleckfiebers.
Rickettsia prowazeki, cause of epidemic typhus, was first isolated by the Brazilian microbiologist Henrique da Rocha-Lima, who named it after Ricketts and Prowazek, both of whom died of the disease.
1916
#5389
Zur Ursache und Uebertragung des Wolhynischen Fiebers.
Isolation of Rickettsia quintana (now called Bartonella quintana) from lice found on patients suffering from trench fever.
1916
#5390
Zurserologischen Diagnose des Fleckfiebers.
Weil-Felix reaction for the diagnosis of typhus. See also the later paper in the same journal, 1916, 29, 974-78.
1916
#5644
The treatment of infected suppurating war wounds.
Introduction of “BIPP” in the treatment of wounds, an acronym for bismuth iodoform parafin paste.
1916
#5699.3
The advantages of warm anaesthetic vapours, and an apparatus for their administration.
Shipway apparatus.
1916
#6124.1
Embryology, anatomy, and diseases of the umbilicus together with diseases of the urachus
Contains the first reference to what would become known as “Cullen’s sign”, discoloration of the skin about the umbilicus, as a sign of ruptured ectopic gestation. This work contains extraordinary illustrations by Max…
1916
#5474
On the transmission of Australian dengue by the mosquito Stegomyia fasciata.
These workers proved that Aëdes aegypti (Stegomyia fasciata) is capable of transmitting dengue fever. See also J. Hyg. (Camb.), 1918, 16, 317-418. With C. H. Bradley and W. McDonald.
1916
#6219
Ueber die Anlegung der Zange am nicht rotierten Kopf mit Beschreibung eines neuen Zangenmodelles und einer neuen Anlegungsmethode.
Kielland forceps. English translation and historical background in E.P. Jones, Kielland’s forceps, London, 1952.
1916
#6537.1
A history of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and of the Irish schools of medicine, including a medical bibliography and a medical biography. 2nd ed.
First edition, 1886. Digital facsimile of the 1886 edition from the Internet Archive at this link.
1916
#6365
Sur un syndrome caractérisé par l’inflammation simultanée de toutes les muqueuses externes (conjunctivale, nasale, linguale, buccopharyngée, anale et balano-préputiale) coexistant avec une éruption varicelliforme puis purpurique des quatres membres.
First description of the “Stevens–Johnson syndrome” (see No. 4150).
1916
#6370
Contribution à l’étude d’une épidémie de dysenterie dans la Somme (juillet–octobre 1916).
Includes several references to the condition later known as “Reiter’s syndrome” (No. 6371).
1916
#6371
Ueber eine bisher unerkannte Spirochäteninfektion (Spirochaetosis arthritica).
“Reiter’s syndrome”, a disease of males characterized by initial diarrhea, urethritis, conjunctivitis, and arthritis. Reiter was a German Nazi physician and war criminal who conducted medical experiments at Buchenwald…
1916
#6409
Medizin-geschichtliches Hilfsbuch mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Entdeckungsgeschichte und der Biographie.
1916 –1923
#7091
A Bibliography of fishes by Bashford Dean, enlarged and edited by Charles Rochester Eastman. 3 vols. Vol. 3 extended and edited by Eugene Willis Gudger with the cooperation of Arthur Wilbur Henn.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1916
#8154
Plant succession: An analysis of the development of vegetation.
A seminal work of ecological science, establishing a dynamic model of species succession toward an eventual "climax" equilibrium under the influence of climate and other factors in a given habitat. "From his observati…
1916 –1920
#8562
De animalibus libri xxvi. Nach der Cölner Urschrift, herausgegeben von Hermann Stadler. 2 vols. (Beiträge zur Geschichte der Philosophie des Mittelalters 15-16).
1916
#8599
Studies in ethics for nurses.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1916
#9009
Quinti Sereni Liber medicinalis. Edited by Friedrich Vollmer.
1916
#9346
Ethnobotany of the Tewa Indians. Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 55.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1916
#9559
Mikroskopischer Atlas des menschlichen Gehirns: Die Medulla Oblongata: (das verlängerte Mark).
Very large format. Digital facsimile from Universität Heidelberg at this link.
1916
#9590
Die willkürlich bewegbare künstliche Hand: Eine Anleitung für Chirurgen und Techniker. Mit. anatomischen Beiträgen von G. Ruge and W. Felix.
1916
#9615
Theophrastus: Enquiry into plants and minor works on odours and weather signs. With an English translation by Sir Arthur Hort. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1916
#10522
"The path of the destroyer": A history of leprosy in the Hawaiian Islands, and thirty years research into the means by which it has been spread.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1916
#10817
Poetry and the doctors: A catalogue of poetical works written by physicians with biographical notes & An essay on the poetry of certain ancient practitioners of medicine, illustrated with translations from the Latin and by reproductions of the title pages of the rarer works.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1916
#11820
The treatment of diabetes mellitus, with observations upon the disease based upon one thousand cases.
Joslin was the first physician in the United States to specialize in the treatment of diabetes; this was the first textbook on the subject in the English language. The book underwent its 12th edition in 1985. Digital …
1916
#11854
The theory of the free-martin.
Lillie found that sex steroids in the blood controlled differentiation. "Free-martins, sterile female cows born without sex organs, were a perplexing issue for cattle ranchers. Lillie found that free-martins formed wh…
1916
#13329
Instincts of the herd in peace and war.
Trotter, a surgeon, also contributed to social psychology. In this work he popularized in English the concept, first developed by French sociologist, Gustave Le Bon, of an instinct over-riding the will of the individu…
1916
#14094
The differentiation of cells as a criterion for cell identification, considered in relation to the small cortical cells of the thymus.
First use of the term "stem cells" in English. Digital facsimile from rupress.org at this link.
1917
#4476
Eine neue osteoplastische Amputationsmethode des Oberschenkels.
1917
#4601
Tumors of the nervus acusticus and the syndrome of the cerebello-pontile angle.
Reprinted 1963.
1917
#4631
Congenital word-blindness.
1917
#4648
The Australian epidemics of an acute polio-encephalomyelitis (X disease).
Campbell was Australia's first neurologist. This paper described Murray Valley encephalitis (Australian X disease). Cleland and Campbell isolated a virus from the cerebral tissue of three patients.
1917
#4649
Quarante cas d’encéphalo-myélite subaiguë.
Cruchet’s account of epidemic encephalitis was given on 27 April 1917, preceding that of Economo by 13 days. With F. Moutier
1917
#1034
Physiologische und pharmakologische Versuche über die Dünndarmperistaltik.
"Trendelenburg preparation", a preparation used in determining the actions of pharmacological agents on peristalsis.
1917
#742
Die Berechnung der Wasserstoffzahl des Blutes aus der freien und gebundenen Kohlensäure desselben, und die Sauerstoffbindung des Blutes als Funktion der Wasserstoffzahl.
Henderson-Hasselbalch equation for the determination of pH concentration in the blood. English translation in No. 1588.16. For Henderson's papers see No. 9645.
1917
#1182
The existence of a typical oestrus cycle in the guinea-pig; with a study of its histological and physiological changes.
The vaginal smear test for estrus; it demonstrates the histological changes occurring in the vagina during the menstrual cycle.