1910–1919
772 entries with publication dates in this decade.
1911
#4269
Suprapubic intra-urethral enucleation of the prostate.
Squier modified the operation of total suprapubic prostatectomy.
1911
#3013
Embolie fémorale au cours d’un rétrécissement mitral pur. Arteriotomie. Guérison.
First successful embolectomy; operation carried out by G. Labey, November 16, 1911.
1911
#4146
Érythroplasia du gland.
Erythroplasia of Queyrat, a condition similar to the precancerous dermatosis described by Bowen (No. 4148).
1911
#4383
The lumbo-sacral articulation. An explanation of many cases of “lumbago”, “sciatica” and paraplegia.
Goldthwait suggested that lumbago and sciatica might be due to intervertebral disc injury.
1911
#4383.1
An operation for progressive spinal deformities.
Spinal fusion first used for the treatment of scoliosis.
1911
#4384
Injury of the spinal cord due to rupture of an intervertebral disc during muscular effort.
Report of a case of “sciatica” due to rupture of an intervertebral disc.
1911
#4384.1
Transplantation of a portion of the tibia into the spine for Pott’s disease. A preliminary report.
The beginning of bone graft surgery as a planned, carefully designed procedure. Albee was the first to employ living bone grafts as internal splints. See No. 5757.
1911
#5137
La peste de 1720 à Marseille et en France d’après des documents inédits.
1911
#4196.2
Physiologic implantation of the severed ureter or common bile-duct into the intestine.
The modern method of uretero-intestinal anastomosis followed the experimental work of Coffey.
1911
#5171
La precipitina nella diagnosi del carbonchio ematico.
Ascoli’s thermoprecipitin reaction for the diagnosis of anthrax. German translation in Zbl. Bakt., 1911, 1 Abt., 58, Orig., 63-70. Preliminary note in Patbologica, 1910, 3, 101.
1911
#5172
Die bakteriologische Blutuntersuchung beim Milzbrand des Menschen.
Salvarsan first used in the treatment of anthrax.
1911
#5173
A plague-like disease of rodents.
Tularemia first recorded (in rodents).
1911
#4957
Dementia praecox Oder die Gruppe der Schizophrenien.
Bleuler introduced the concept of schizophrenia. He showed that Kraepelin’s “dementia praecox” (No. 4952) should include all the schizophrenic disorders. Translated into English by Joseph Zinkin as Dementia praecox or…
1911
#5189
Experiments undertaken to test the efficacy of the ipecac treatment of dysentery.
Vedder demonstrated the amoebicidal action of emetine; his work led to the general adoption of emetine in the treatment of amoebic dysentery.
1911
#5285.1
Contribuiçao para o estudo da anatomia patolojica da “molestia de Carlos Chagas”.
Demonstration of the mode of reproduction of T. cruzi. Text in Portuguese and German. See also the paper by Chagas in pp. 219-75 of the same journal.
1911
#4985
La mesure du développement de l’intelligence chez les jeunes enfants.
Binet–Simon intelligence tests. As early as 1895 Binet had published a plan for studying intelligence. English translation, 1912.
1911
#4985.2
Wandlungen und Symbole der Libido. Beiträge zur Entwicklungsgeschichte des Denkens.
Reprinted in book form, Leipzig, F. Deuticke, 1912. Jung was among the first to support Freud’s views on psychoanalysis, and was considered by Freud to be his most brilliant pupil. Jung applied psychoanalytic theory t…
1911
#5756.5
Plastic and cosmetic surgery.
First comprehensive work on cosmetic surgery.
1911
#5959
Vacuum fixation of the lens and flap suture in the extraction of a cataract in its capsule.
Hulen devised a vacuum method of cataract extraction.
1911
#5696
Experimentelle Studien über den Einfluss technisch und hygienisch wichtiger Gase und Dämpfe auf den Organismus. Die gechlorten Kohlenwasserstoffe der Fettreihe.
Introduction of trichlorethylene (“trilene”).
1911
#5697
Nitrous oxide-oxygen anaesthesia. With a description of a new apparatus.
Intermittent gas-oxygen machine.
1911
#5448
Experimental measles in the monkey.
Measles transmitted to monkeys.
1911
#5460.1
Fiebre amarilla y fiebre espiroquetal; endemias y epidemias en Muzo, de 1907 a 1910.
Franco, J. Martínez-Santamaria, and G. Toro-Villa described epidemics of yellow fever spread by mosquitoes other than Ae. aegypti. Later F. L. Soper, et al., Amer. J. Hyg., 1933, 18, 555-87, substantiated this.
1911
#6216
Ueber die Anwendung des Roentgenverfahrens bei der Diagnose der Schwangerschaft.
First use of x rays for the diagnosis of pregnancy.
1911
#6646
The king’s evil.
A classic account of the history of touching for the “king’s evil” or scrofula— a practice of kings from ancient times until the 18th century.
1911
#6498
Biblisch-talmudische Medizin.
3rd edition, 1923. Translated as Biblical and Talmudic medicine. Translated by Fred Rosner. New York, Sanhedrin Press, 1978, with enlarged index and expanded references.
1911
#6520
Old time makers of medicine. The story of the students and teachers of the sciences related to medicine during the Middle Ages.
1911
#6573
Norsk medicin i hundrede aar.
1911
#6604.1
Geschichte der Medizin in Japan.
History of Japanese medicine from the earliest times to 1911. Expanded English translation, translated from the German by John Ruhrah, with a chapter on the recent history of medicine in Japan, by Kageyas W. Amano. Ne…
1911
#245.3
Random segregation versus coupling in Mendelian inheritance.
Morgan proposed that what he called Mendelian factors (genes) are arranged in a linear series on chromosomes and that the degree of linkage between two genes on the same chromosome depends upon the distance between th…
1911
#269.2
Das Fluoreszenzmikroskop.
Fluorescence microscopy
1911
#4685
A case of suprarenal apoplexy.
Waterhouse–Friderichsen (WFS) syndrome (see also Nos. 4679, 4686).
1911
#4596
Le liquide céphalo-rachidien normal et pathologique, valeur clinique de l’examen chimique: Syndromes humoraux dans les diverses affections
Mestrezat gave the first exact description of the chemical constitution of the cerebrospinal fluid. Also published at Paris, Maloine, 1912. Digital facsimile of the 1912 edition from the Internet Archive at this link.
1911
#7644
A cross-section anatomy, by Albert C. Eycleshymer and Daniel M. Schoemaker. Average position of organs from eleven reconstructions, by Peter Potter. Sections of the female pelvis, by Carroll Smith. Drawings by Tom Jones.
The historical introduction includes a bibliographical history of cross-sectional anatomies from frozen sections. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1911
#7743
Atlas d'anatomie topographique. 7 parts in 12.
With J.-P. Bouchon and R. Doyen. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1911
#7762
Observations upon the natural history of epidemic diarrhoea.
Diarrhoea was one of the chief causes of child mortality in Great Britain at the turn of the century. Peters begins with a statistical study of age incidence, prevalence, and fatality of the condition and then in succ…
1911
#8598
Hospital management: A handbook for hospital trustees, superintendents, training-school principals, physicians, and all who are actively engaged in promoting hospital work. Edited by Charlotte A. Aikens.
Digital facsimile from the Google Books at this link.
1911
#8692
Les collections artistiques de la Faculté de Médecine de Paris: Inventaire raisonné.
Catalogue raisonné of the collection of paintings, drawings, prints, medals and sculptures belonging to the Faculté de Médecine de Paris. Digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this link.
1911
#9180
The world of life: A manifestation of creative power, directive mind and ultimate purpose.
"Wallace's comments on environment grew more strident later in his career. In The World of Life (1913) he wrote: "These considerations should lead us to look upon all the works of nature, animate or inanimate, as inve…
1911
#9347
The ethno-botany of the Gosiute Indians of Utah.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1911
#9373
Yellow fever: A compilation of various publications. Results of the work of Maj. Walter Reed, Medical Corps, United States Army, and the Yellow Fever Commission. Presented by Mr. Owen.
A convenient compilation of the work of Reed and his associates, including the work of James Carroll published after the death of Walter Reed. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1911
#10318
A medical history of the state of Indiana.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1911
#10719
The control of bleeding in operations for brain tumors. With the description of silver "clips" for the occlusion of vessels inaccessible to the ligature.
Cushing introduced the use of silver clips in neurosurgery to control bleeding.
1911
#10794
The New Sydenham Society: Retrospective memoranda by Jonathan Hutchinson. Subject index and index of names compiled by Charles R. Hewitt.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1911
#11114
Regimen sanitatis. The rule of health. A Gaelic medical manuscript of the early sixteenth century or perhaps older from the vade mecum of the famous Macbeaths physicians to the Lords of the Isles and the Kings of Scotland for several centuries.
Text reproduced in facsimile (15 leaves), transliteration and English translation. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1911
#11330
La publicité suggestive théorie et technique.
Probably the first book on the application of hynosis in advertising. Gérin was professor at the Institut commercial de Paris, and his book was published in a series on "Les procedés modernes de vente." His book inclu…
1911 –1918
#11470
The Bradley Bibliography: A guide to the literature of the woody plants of the world published before the beginning of the twentieth century. Compiled at the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University under the direction of Charles Sprague Sargent by Alfred Rehder. 5 vols.
An attempt at a truly comprehensive bibliography of the world literature in western languages on these subjects to 1900, including more than 100,000 entries. Digital facsimile from the Biodiversity Heritage Library at…
c. 1911 –c. 1916
#11552
The Medical Department of the United States Army in the Civil War.
"The chapters comprising the volume appeared originally as separate articles in the 'Military surgeon.' Upon their compilation a limited number of copies of reprints were obtained by this office and bound together for…
1911
#11661
The doctor's dilemma, getting married, & The shewing-up of Blanco Posnet.
"Historian John Crellin opens his essay on William Osler and George Bernard Shaw with a quotation about this 1911 book that the compilers of the catalogue of Osler's library wrote: 'With a cynical 'Preface on Doctors'…
1911
#11837
Health on the farm: A manual of rural sanitation and hygiene.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.