1910–1919
772 entries with publication dates in this decade.
1911
#12262
On the muscular architecture of the ventricles of the human heart.
1911 –1936
#12412
Nostrums and quackery: Articles on the nostrum evil and quackery reprinted from the Journal of the American Medical Association. 3 vols.
Cramp was director of the AMA's Propaganda for Reform Department. "In 1911, Cramp published the first of three volumes called Nostrums and Quackery,[3] which would become "a veritable encyclopedia on the nostrum evil …
1911 –1913
#12897
L'homme fossile de La Chapelle-aux-Saints.
Originally published in four parts in Vols. 6-8 (1911-13) of the Annales de paléontologie. The La Chapelle-aux-Saints skeleton (La Chapelle-aux-Saints 1), discovered in 1908, was the most complete single Neanderthal s…
1911
#13003
Zur anästhesierung des plexus brachialis.
Kullenkampff performed the first percutaneous supraclavicular block. "Just as his older colleague August Bier (1861–1949) had done with spinal anesthesia in 1898,[24] Kulenkampff subjected himself to the supraclavicul…
1911
#13596
Ūber eigenartige Krankheitsfälle des späteren Alters.
In this record of his continuing research on what in 1910 Kraepelin called Alzheimersche Krankheit (Alzheimer's disease) Alzheimer provided detailed history, clinical signs, symptoms descriptions, pathologic and histo…
1911
#13832
Curiosités sur la médecine et la vie privée aux XVIe, XVIIe, XVIIIe siècles. Bibliothèque de feu M. le Dr. Van den Corput de Bruxelles.
Bibliotheca Osleriana 6989.
1912
#791
The blood pressure fall produced by traction on the carotid artery.
First description of the carotid sinus depressor reflex.
1912
#956
Chemical nature of specific oxygen capacity in haemoglobin.
Peters made accurate determinations of the ratio of iron to oxygen in the blood.
1912
#656.1
The growth of bone.
Throughout his life Macewen devoted much time to the study of bone growth. His researches revolutionized ideas concerning osteogenesis.
1912
#1048
Feeding experiments illustrating the importance of accessory factors in normal dietaries.
In 1929 Hopkins shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Eijkman "for his discovery of the growth-stimulating vitamins."
1912
#4646
Zur Kenntnis der sogenannten diffusen Sklerose (über Encephalitis periaxialis diffusa).
“Schilder’s disease” – encephalitis periaxialis diffusa.
1912
#4670.4
Experimental and pathological investigation. In: Investigations on epidemic infantile paralysis, report from the State Medical Institute of Sweden to the XVth International Congress on Hygiene and Demography.
Kling, A. Pettersson, and W. Wernstedt recovered the poliomyelitis virus from the intestinal wall and contents, disproving the contention of Flexner that it was exclusively neurotropic.
1912 –1913
#1030
Contributions to the physiology of the stomach.
Carlson recorded stomach movements by means of a balloon inserted through a gastric fistula. Much of his important work on gastric physiology was summed up in his book published in 1916. See No. 1033.
1912
#741
Oxidations and reductions in the animal body.
1912
#741.1
A new method for the determination of total nitrogen in urine.
Folin introduced several micro-methods for the determination of nitrogen, urea, creatine, etc.
1912
#4716.1
L’atrophie olivo-ponto-cérébelleuse.
Olivo-ponto-cerebellar atrophy. English translation in Rottenberg & Hochberg, No. 5019.14, pp. 219-51.
1912
#4717
Progressive lenticular degeneration, a familial nervous disease associated with cirrhosis of the liver.
Classic description of progressive familial hepatolenticular degeneration (“Wilson’s disease”), first described by Frerichs in 1861 (see No. 4693), now considered to be a disorder of copper and ceruloplasmin metabolism.
1912 –1913
#4764
Thymektomie bei einem Fall von Morbus Basedowi mit Myasthenie.
Thymectomy for myasthenia gravis. Reported by C. H. Schumacher and – . Roth.
1912
#86
Gesammelte Werke von Robert Koch. Unter Mitwirkung von G. Gaffky and E. Pfuhl. Herausgegeben von J. Schwalbe. 2 vols. [in 3).
For his work on tuberculosis Koch received the Nobel Prize in 1905. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link. See T.D. Brock, Robert Koch: A life in medicine and bacteriology, Madison, WS: Science-Tech…
1912
#1162
Über die Funktion der Hypophyse.
Aschner was able to keep his hypophysectomized dogs alive indefinitely. He found that they developed genital hypoplasia.
1912
#4823
Luminal bei Epilepsie.
Introduction of phenobarbitone in the treatment of epilepsy.
1912
#527
Terminologie der Entwicklungsmechanik.
1912
#135
The mechanistic conception of life.
This work established Loeb's reputation as a researcher who treated organisms as machines. He stated that biologists explain organic phenomena only when they could control those phenomena. Loeb first published the tit…
1912
#2131
Caisson sickness, and the physiology of work in compressed air.
1912
#2424
Aus der Frühgeschichte der Syphilis.
Sudhoff believed in the pre-Columbian existence of syphilis.
1912
#1766.503
Medical education in Europe.
Flexner wrote the first systematic and thorough comparisons of the major systems of medical education.
1912
#2639
Epithelial proliferation induced by the injection of gasworks tar.
Experimental production of cancer by the injection of tar as a byproduct of the manufacture of coal gas.
1912
#2519
Pure cultivation of Spirochaeta refringens.
Noguchi obtained pure cultures of spirochaetae. See also his later papers in the same journal, 1912, 16, 199-210, 620-28.
1912
#2405
Ueber Laboratoriumsversuche und klinische Erprobung von Heilstoffen.
Introduction of neoarsphenamine (neosalvarsan).
1912
#2838
Glomerular lesions of subacute bacterial endocarditis.
Baehr drew attention to the renal lesions in subacute bacterial endocarditis.
1912
#2839
Clinical features of sudden obstruction of the coronary arteries.
Outstanding description of coronary thrombosis. Herrick was the first to describe and diagnose coronary thrombosis in a living person; he showed that sudden coronary occlusion is not necessarily fatal. Reprint in Will…
1912
#2840
Electro-cardiography and its importance in the clinical examination of heart affections.
1912
#2841
A study of the endocardial lesions of subacute bacterial endocarditis.
1912
#2425
Mal Franzoso in Italien in der ersten Hälfte des 15. Jahrhunderts.
Forms Heft 5 of K. Sudhoff & G. Sticker: Zur historischen Biologie der Krankheitserreger.
1912
#2567.1
Die heteroplastiche und homöoplastiche Transplantation.
Schöne coined the term “transplantation immunity”. He set out general rules governing the acceptance or rejection of tumor grafts which are essentially the same as the modern “laws of transplantation”. This is a compr…
1912
#3233
Der primäre Lungenherd bei der Tuberkulose der Kinder.
Ghon described the anatomical distribution and development of the lesions in pulmonary tuberculosis among children – “Ghon’s primary focus”. His book was translated into English in 1916. See also No. 3224.
1912
#3539
Zur Operation der angeborenen Pylorusstenose.
The first pyloromyotomy for pyloric stenosis, incising the pyloric muscle while leaving the mucosa intact and leaving the muscle to heal: “Rammstedt’s operation.” In 1920 Rammstedt discovered that the family name had …
1912
#3192
Primary malignant growths of the lungs and bronchi.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1912
#3320
Diffuse dilatation of the esophagus without anatomic stenosis (cardio spasm): a report of ninety-one cases.
See No. 3321.
1912
#3338
Die Schwebelaryngoscopie.
Introduction of suspension laryngoscopy. English translation in 1914.
1912
#3845
Zur Kenntniss der lymphomatösen Veränderung der Schilddrüse (Struma lymphomatosa).
“Hashimoto’s disease”, struma lymphomatosa, lymphoid infiltration of the thyroid.
1912
#3846
Myxödem und Kretinismus.
1912
#2914
Esclerosis secundaria de la arteria pulmonar y su cuadro clinico (Cardiacos negros).
A classical description of “Ayerza’s syndrome or disease” (cor pulmonale), to which Arrillaga named after Abel Ayerza, who first mentioned the disease in a lecture given in 1901. Corvisart mentioned the condition in 1…
1912
#3896
The pituitary body and its disorders.
The first clinical monograph on the hypophysis. Cushing, outstanding neurological surgeon of the early 20th century, added much to our knowledge of the pituitary body and its disorders. The above work includes a descr…
1912
#3897
Ueber Beziehungen der Hypophyse zum Diabetes insipidus.
Frank was the first definitely to connect the posterior lobe of the pituitary with diabetes insipidus.
1912
#3898
Acromegaly: a personal experience.
Mark, a medical practitioner, suffered from acromegaly from the age of 24. The condition was obvious to his friends, but Mark was 50 before he realized the cause of the symptoms of which he had kept a record for many …
1912
#4883
The treatment of persistent pain of organic origin in the lower part of the body by division of the anterolateral column of the spinal cord.
Cordotomy for the relief of intractable pain.
1912
#4147
Les sporotrichoses.
First complete description of sporotrichosis (“de Beurmann–Gougerot disease”).
1912
#4148
Precancerous dermatosis. A study of two cases of chronic atypical epithelial proliferation.
Bowen, a Boston dermatologist, first described a precancerous dermatosis (“Bowen’s disease”), which is now considered to be a variant of an intra-epidermal basal cell epithelioma.
1912
#4385
Dysostose cranio-faciale héréditaire.
First description of cranio-facial dysostosis, hypertelorism (Crouzon's syndrome).