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1920–1929

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1926

#3004

Die Calorose als Verödungsmittel varikös entarteter Venen.

Nobl used dextrose in the injection treatment of varicose veins.

1926

#3699

Orthodontics; an historical review of its origin and evolution, including an extensive bibliography of orthodontic literature up to the time of specialization. 2 vols.

1926

#4151.1

Über Myome, ausgehend von der quergestreiften willkürlichen Muskulatur.

“Abrikosov’s tumor”, granular-cell myoblastoma.

1926

#4151.2

An unusual type of pemphigus, combining features of lupus erythematosus.

Pemphigus erythematodes. “Senear–Usher syndrome”.

1926

#4897

Die Operationstechnik der Hirntumoren (nach eigenen Erfahrungen).

Puusepp, an Estonian, was the first professor of neurosurgery; he was particularly notable for his method of removing cerebral tumors. The above journal was founded and edited by him, and vol. 16 (1935) is a Festschri…

1926

#5130

A treatise on pneumonic plague.

Publication of the League of Nations, III. Health III, 13.

1926

#5141

Die ersten gedruckten Pestschriften.

Includes descriptions of 130 incunabula.

1926

#5289

Essai de prophylaxie des trypanosomiases par des dérivés phénylarsiniques administré

First attempt to induce prophylaxis by chemical means in trypanosomiasis. With S. Nicolau and I. Galloway.

1926

#5707.1

Some physical factors in the administration of gaseous ether.

McKesson introduced the intermittent flow method.

1926

#5328

Erythema arthriticum epidemicum; preliminary report.

“Haverhill fever” first reported. The writers isolated an organism, later found to be identical with Streptothrix muris ratti and Streptobacillus moniliformis. With L. E. Sutton and O. Willner.

1926

#5782.1

A further report on cancer of the breast, with special reference to its associated antecedent conditions.

First modern case-control study.

1926

#5970

Glaukosantropfen, Glaukomund Akkommodation.

Introduction of glaucosan.

1926

#5971

Studien über Kleinhirncysten. Bau, Pathogenese und Beziehungen zur Angiomatosis retinae.

Lindau’s important histological study of hemangiomatosis retinae (“Lindau’s disease”).

1926

#5395

The Weil-Felix reaction in sporadic tropical typhus.

Bull. Inst. Med. Res., F. M. S., 1926, No. 1. Demonstration that scrub-typhus patients developed agglutinins against the OX-K strain of B. proteus but not the OX-19 strain.

1926

#5396

Clinical observations on endemic typhus (Brill’s disease) in Southern United States.

Maxcy described murine (flea-borne) typhus (“Maxcy’s disease”).

1926

#5433

Studies on variola, vaccinia, and avian molluscum.

Ledingham’s diagnostic test.

1926

#6470

Imhotep: the vizier and physician of Kind Zoser, and afterwards the Egyptian god of medicine.

1926

#6632

Medical numismatics.

An excellent short paper on the subject, with references to the more important previous work.

1926 –1927

#5256

Die Wirkung des Plasmochins auf die Vogelmalaria.

Introduction of plasmoquine (pamaquin) in the treatment of malaria.

1926

#6509

Arabian medicine and its influence on the Middle Ages. 2 vols.

A survey of the Arabian medical writings of the Eastern and Western Caliphates. The first volume includes a survey early Arabic medical manuscripts then known, and a survey of the Arab medical writers of the Eastern a…

1926

#6771

A short-title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, and Ireland and of English books printed abroad, 1475-1640.

This has been completely superseded by the second edition, revised and enlarged. Begun by W. A. Jackson and F. S. Ferguson; completed by K. F. Pantzer. Vol. 1. A-H.; Vol. 2. I-Z. London, Bibliographical Society, 1972-…

1926

#6415

An introduction to the history of medicine from the time of the Pharaohs to the end of the XVIIIth century … With an essay on the relation of history and philosophy to medicine by F.G. Crookshank.

1926

#6417

Die Lehre von der heilkraft der Natur im Wandel der Zeiten.

The standard work on the history of the doctrine of “the healing power of Nature”. English translation, New York, 1932.

1926

#251

The theory of the gene.

1926 –1933

#32

Collectionum medicarum reliquae, libri 1-VIII, libri IX-XVI, libri XXIV-XXV, XLIII-XLVIII, libri XLIX-L, libri incerti ecologae medicamentorum. Synopsis ad Eustathium, Libri ad Eunapium. Edited by Johannes Raeder. 5 vols.

Contains selections from the writings of physicians, the originals of some of whose works no longer exist, and who would have been forgotten, but for the compilations of Oribasius. Writers included are Agathinus, Anty…

1926

#4607

Idiopathic narcolepsy: a disease sui generis; with remarks on the mechanism of sleep.

Adie’s description of narcolepsy is called “maladie d’Adie” by some French writers.

1926

#7031

Het volkomen huwelijk. Een studie omtrent zijn physiologie en zijn techniek: voor den arts en den echtgenoot geschreven.

English translation: Ideal Marriage: Its Physiology and Technique. (1930). The first printing had an insert: "The sale of this book is strictly limited to members of the medical profession, Psychoanalysts, Scholars, a…

1926

#7105

Happiness in marriage.

Full text available from LifeDynamics.com at this link.

1926

#7307

Human origins: A manual of prehistory. 2 vols.

A detailed and extensively illustrated summary, with detailed bibliographical references, of the state of knowledge of prehistory in Europe as of 1926. Appendix 1: "Stratigraphic Study of Paleolithic Sites" is a very …

1926

#7724

La chirurgie esthétique, son rôle social.

Noël was one of the first women to practice cosmetic surgery; her book on the subject was the first written by a woman and one of the earliest books on aesthetic plastic surgery in French.

1926

#8362

Anatomies de Mondino dei Luzzi et de Guido de Vigevano. Par Ernest Wickersheimer.

Facsimile of the 1478 edition of Mondino's Anothomia along with the text and 18 plates from Guido de Vigevano's (fl. 14th century) Anathomia. Vigevano's manuscript, completed in 1345, is MS. 569 in the Musée Condé at …

1926

#8909

Catalogue of an exhibition of early and later medical Americana.

1926

#9513

Ayurvedic medicine in ancient and medieval Ceylon.

1926

#9656

The natural history of ants: From an unpublished manuscript in the Academy of Sciences of Paris. Translated and annotated by William Morton Wheeler.

French and English text. The French text was first published in France as the 7th volume of Reaumur's Mémoires, Paris, 1928.

1926

#10467

Health, wealth and population in the early days of the industrial revolution.

Chapters on water supply, 18th physicians and pioneers of public health, the hospital and dispensary movement, general hygiene and midwifery, rickets and scurvy, antiseptics, smallpox, anti-typhus campaign, malaria, etc.

1926

#10468

Population problems of the age of Malthus.

Includes chapters on birth and marriage rates relating to conditions of employment, also the influence of the Poor Laws on these rates. Other chapters concern agriculture and food and health of towns and factores, and…

1926

#12298

Über den Energieverbrauch bei musikalischer Betätigung.

Specialized study on the energy consumption of musicians.

1926

#12386

Isolation of a crystalline protein with tuberculin activity.

Siebert identified the active agent in tuberculin as a protein.

1926

#12574

Medical report of the Hamilton Rice Seventh expedition to the Amazon In conjunction with the Department of Tropical Medicine of Harvard University, 1924-1925

"The Hamilton Rice Seventh Expedition to Amazonia was undertaken [under the leadership of Richard Pearson Strong] partly for general geographical exploration and partly for medical investigation in a section of the Am…

1926

#12907

The dental assistant.

The first textbook for dental assistants.

1926

#14003

Le bactériophage et son comportement.

In this book d'Hérelle reported on the results of quantitative work based on the plaque-count, and dilution methods of assay that he invented. He described a three-step process for the life history of the bacteriophag…

1926

#14025

The isolation and crystallization of the enzyme urease.

Sumner first isolated and crystallized an enzyme (urease) and proved that enzymes are proteins. One month after publication of the above paper Sumner reinforced his discovery by recrystalizing urease, publishing a fol…

1926

#14313

Studies in intracranial physiology & surgery. The third circulation. The hypophysis. The gliomas. The Cameron Prize Lectures delivered at the University of Edinburgh October 19, 20, 22, 1925.

This series of three lectures was an analytical review by Cushing of the three main categories of scientific work that he had accomplished during the previous 25 years. Remarkably, Cushing completed this review and de…

1926

#14363

A sound economic basis for schools of nursing and other addresses.

Nutting was a member of the first graduating class of the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing in 1891, and by 1894 its superintendent of nurses and principal. She left Hopkins in 1907 for Teachers College at Columbia Univ…

1927

#797

The blood-vessels of the human skin and their responses.

1927 –1943

#563

Handbuch der mikroskopischen Anatomie des Menschen. 7 vols. [in 17.]

1927

#4610

L’encéphalographie artérielle, son importance dans la localisation des tumeurs cérébrales.

Introduction of cerebral arteriography. See also Presse méd., 1928, 36, 689-93. English translation in J. Neurosurg., 1964, 21, 145-56.

1927

#4653

A leukoenkephalitis periaxialis concentricaról.

“Baló’s disease” – encephalitis periaxialis concentrica. Translation in Arch. Neurol. Psychiat. (Chicago), 1928, 19, 242-64.

1927

#910

A new agglutinable factor differentiating individual human bloods.

Discovery of M and N agglutinogens. See also the same journal, pp. 941-42.

1927

#456

Anatomical texts of the earlier Middle Ages: A study in the transmission of culture, with a revised Latin text of Anatomia Cophonis and translations of four texts.

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.