1910–1919
772 entries with publication dates in this decade.
1918
#12079
Medical contributions to the study of evolution.
"Part I: Adaptation and disease". The Croonian Lectures delivered in June 1917. Includes "Adaptation in the bacteria and the evolution of the infectious diseases" and "Adaptation to disease-producing agencies in the h…
1918 –1922
#12228
A monograph of the pheasants. 4 vols.
Beebe's spectacular work, with 90 colored plates of birds and 88 photogravure plates of habitats and scenery, has been called the greatest ornithological treatise of the 20th century. Illustrators included Henrik Grön…
1918
#13030
The American hospital of the twentieth century: A treatise on the development of medical institutions, both in Europe and in America, since the beginning of the present century.
An architect, Stevens wrote from the hospital designer's point of view. Digital facsimile of the 1921 edition from the U.S. National Library of Medicine at this link.
1918
#13834
La médecine dans notre théâtre comique, depuis ses origines jusqu'au XVIe siècle...
Digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this link.
1918
#13905
Die Stacheldraht-Krankheit: Beiträge zur Psychologie des Kriegsgefangenen. 2 vols.
Translated into English as Barbed wire disease: A psychological study of prisoners of war. Translated from the German, with additions. London: Bale & Danielson, 1919.
1919
#4479
Menders of the maimed.
Gives details of the work of John Hunter, John Hilton, Hugh Owen Thomas, Little, Stromeyer, Marshall Hall, Arbuthnot Lane, Syme, Julius Wolff, etc., in the development of modern orthopaedics. Second edition, 1925. Fac…
1919
#4603
Röntgenography of the brain after the injection of air into the spinal canal.
Introduction of pneumoencephalography.
1919
#1053
Note on the role of the antiscorbutic factor in nutrition.
In 1920 Drummond suggested the term “vitamin”.
1919
#4651
Etiology of epidemic (lethargic) encephalitis. Preliminary note.
Experimental transmission of encephalitis lethargica.
1919
#906
Morphologische Hämatologie. Vol. 1.
1919
#528
The elementary nervous system.
Important studies on the survival of primitive types of neuromuscular mechanism in some of the higher vertebrates.
1919
#1653
The story of English public health.
1919
#1477
Ueber eine nach innen gerichtete Schützfunktion der Haut (Esophylaxie) nebst Bemerkungen über die Entstehung der Paralyse.
Hoffmann stressed the role of the skin as a secretory organ, producing hormone-like substances; he suggested the term “esophylaxis” for this function.
1919
#1907
Chemotherapy of trypanosome and spirochete infections. Chemical series. I. N-phenylglycineamide-p-arsonic acid.
Introduction of tryparsamide.
1919
#1908
A new germicide for use in the genito-urinary tract; “mercurochrome-220”.
Introduction of mercurochrome. With E. C. White and E. O. Swartz.
1919
#2132
Industrial medicine and surgery.
1919
#2137.4
Note préliminaire sur l’étude des effets de la force centrifuge sur l’organisme.
The first anti-blackout device. Proposed the use of the g belt to prevent the flow of blood to the abdomen.
1919
#2137.5
The medical and surgical aspects of aviation by H. Graeme Anderson. With chapters on applied physiology of aviation by Martin Flack, and the aero-neuroses of war pilots by Oliver H. Gotch.
The first textbook on aviation medicine. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1919
#2440
On the value of a skin reaction to a suspension of leprous nodules.
Mitsuda (lepromin) reaction. English translation by the author in Int. J. Leprosy, 1953, 21, 347-58.
1919
#2644
Neoplastic diseases.
Fourth edition, 1940.
1919
#2408
Zur Kritik des serologischen Luesnachweises mittels Ausflockung.
Sachs–Georgi diagnostic reaction.
1919
#2409
Über die Serodiagnostik der Syphilis mittels Ausflockung durch cholesterinierte Extrakte.
Weichardt’s reagent.
1919
#2849
Das Myxödemherz.
First attempt to restore the heart’s action by intracardiac injection.
1919
#3136
Observations on the severe anaemias of pregnancy and the post-partum state.
Osler described his four-part classification of anemias of pregnancy: anemia from post-partum hemorrhage, severe anemia of pregnancy, post-partum anemia, and the acute anemia of post-partum sepsis. This was Osler's la…
1919
#3722
Der Skorbut.
1919
#3608.2
The permanent cure of inguinal and femoral hernia. A modification of the standard operative procedures.
Laroque combined a superior transperitoneal gridiron incision with a Bassini repair.
1919
#3732
Heilung von Rachitis durch künstliche Höhensonne.
Rickets cured by ultraviolet irradiation.
1919
#3734
An experimental investigation on rickets.
In his important experiments on rickets, Mellanby both induced and controlled the disease by diet.
1919
#3321
A case of cardiospasm with dilatation and angulation of the esophagus.
See also his later paper in Minnesota Med., 1922, 5, 107-08. The syndrome of dysphagia, glossitis, and hypochromic anemia has become known as the Plummer-Vinson syndrome (see No. 3320). A. Brown Kelly and D. R. Paters…
1919
#3756
Pellagra.
1919
#3651
Diagnosis and treatment of diseases of the gall-bladder and bilary ducts. Preliminary report on a new method.
See No. 3649.
1919
#3849.1
Some considerations on the operation for exophthalmic goitre.
Dunhill’s operation of exophthalmic goitre is described above. He was a pioneer in thyroid surgery.
1919 –1920
#3850
Epinephrin hypersensitiveness test in the diagnosis of hyperthyroidism.
Goetsch devised a skin reaction test for use in the diagnosis of hyperthyroidism
1919
#3922
A system of blood analysis.
Folin–Wu test for blood sugar.
1919
#4239
Renal efficiency tests in nephritis, and the reaction of the urine.
Alkaline tide of urine.
1919
#3403.1
Essays on the surgery of the temporal bone. 2 vols.
Finely illustrated, and beautifully produced, with several historical chapters. Includes a history of the development of temporal bone surgery.
1919
#5044
A new generation of paratyphoid.
Hirszfeld gave an important description of Salmonella paratyphi C. (“Hirszfeld’s bacillus”).
1919
#4987
Psychology from the standpoint of a behaviorist.
Watson was the principal exponent of behaviorist psychology. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1919
#5757.4
Plastic surgery: Its principles and practice.
Davis was the first surgeon to limit his work exclusively to plastic surgery. This was the first comprehensive textbook on the subject.
1919
#5391
Studies on Rocky Mountain spotted fever.
In his important aetiological and pathological studies of Rocky Mountain spotted fever, Wolbach mentioned the causal agent Dermacentroxenus rickettsi.
1919
#5630
Histamine shock.
Experimental shock produced by histamine and shown to be similar to traumatic and surgical shock.
1919
#6126
Die pathogenese der Meno- und besonders der Metrorrhagien.
First description of metropathia hemorrhagica.
1919
#6220
Bluish discoloration of the umbilicus as a diagnostic sign where ruptured uterine pregnancy exists. In: Contributions to medical and biological research dedicated to Sir William Osler, 1, 420-21.
“Cullen’s sign”.
1919
#6251
The newer methods of cesarean section. Report of 40 cases.
DeLee’s low cervical operation (laparotrachelotomy).
1919
#6280
Die pathologische Anatomie des Puerperalprozesses.
1919
#6538
Medicine in England during the reign of George III.
FitzPatrick Lectures, 1917-18.
1919
#6363
Defects in membranous bones, exophthalmos, and diabetes insipidus; an unusual syndrome of dyspituitarism; a clinical study. IN: Contributions to medical and biological research, dedicated to Sir William Osler, 1, 390-401.
“Hand-Schüller-Christian syndrome”.
1919
#6371.2
Ueber einen Typ multipier Abartungen, vorwiegend am Sklettsystem.
Hurler syndrome (lipochondrodystrophy, gargoylism), earlier described by Hunter (No. 6371.1).
1919 –1929
#7345
Beiträge zur Entwicklungsgeschichte des menschlichen Gehirns. 2 vols.
Considered the most extensive account of human cerebellar development. "Hochstetter carried out detailed work on the embryology of the human brain, and his beautiful figures have been reproduced in textbooks ever sinc…
1919
#7729
La chirurgie esthétique des rides du visage.
Passot was the first surgeon in France to perform facelifts. In this article with 1 illustration, Passot showed "sites of elliptic skin excision of the hairline, the forehead, and the temporal and preauricular areas t…