1920–1929
805 entries with publication dates in this decade.
1927
#1138
Chemistry of thyroxine. III. Constitution and synthesis of thyroxine.
Synthesis of thyroxine.
1927
#1148
Further studies on adrenal insufficiency in dogs.
Cortical hormone first obtained.
1927
#1166
The induction of precocious sexual maturity by pituitary homeotransplants.
Smith was able to induce precocious sexual maturity in mice and rats by the implantation of pituitary tissue.
1927
#1167
Experimental evidence regarding the rôle of the anterior pituitary in the development and regulation of the genital system.
Pituitary tissue implanted in the immature mouse was found by these writers to cause precocious sexual maturity. Thus they showed that the activity of the gonads is maintained by the anterior lobe of the pituitary.
1927
#1168
Das Hormon des Hypophysenvorderlappens.
Isolation of the gonadotrophic hormone of the anterior pituitary (Prolan A & B).
1927
#1185
The menstrual cycle of the monkey, Macacus rhesus. Observations on normal animals, the effects of removal of the ovaries and the effects of injection of ovarian and placental extracts into the spayed animals.
This paper marks the beginning of modern knowledge of the menstrual cycle. Allen showed that uterine bleeding occurs as a withdrawal effect when estrogen ceases to act on the endometrium.
1927
#1186
Über das Vorkommen weiblichen Sexualhormons (Menformon) im Harn von Männern.
Discovery of the estrogenic activity of male urine. With E. Dingemanse, P. C. Hart, and S. E. de Jongh.
1927
#1187
The effect of the injection of a lipoid fraction of bull testicle in capons.
McGee prepared the first active male hormone extract from the lipoid fraction of bull testes. His paper includes a preliminary account of the capon-comb test. See No. 1191.
1927
#2008
Discordance des effets des rayons X, d’une part dans la peau, d’autre part dans le testicule, par le fractionnement de la dose: diminution de l’efficacité dans la peau, maintien de l’efficacité dans le testicule.
Dose fractionation.
1927
#1242
Estimation of afferent arteriole and glomerular capillary pressures in the frog kidney.
1927
#1655
The history of heating, ventilation, and lighting.
1927
#1656
Evolution of preventive medicine.
1927
#2052
Four thousand years of pharmacy; an outline history of pharmacy.
First history of pharmacy by an American. Reprinted as The curious lore of drugs and medicines, New York, Garden City Publ. Co., 1936.
1927
#145.65
Animal ecology.
Elton integrated the concepts of food chains, pyramids of numbers, and the “niche” into a useful framework for ecology.
1927
#2086.1
Der Meskalinrausch. Seine Geschichte und Erscheinungsweise.
The most comprehensive treatise on peyote and its active agent, mescaline, which was synthesized in 1919.
1927
#1916
The nature of the vaso-dilator constituents of certain tissue extracts.
Proof that histamine occurs in certain organs in amounts sufficient to account for the depressant action of extracts of these organs. With H. H. Dale, H. W. Dudley, and W. V. Thorpe.
1927
#2255
Contribution to the study of burns, their classification and treatment.
Goldblatt’s classification of burns.
1927
#1528
The action of light on the eye.
On the electrical discharges from the vertebrate optic nerve.
1927
#1529
An introduction to the theory of perception.
1927
#1530
The nature of the intra-ocular fluids.
1927
#2346
Sur la vaccination préventive des enfants nouveau-nés contre la tuberculose par le B.C.G.
1927
#2414
Bismuth arsphenamine sulphate.
Clinical introduction of bismarsen, synthesized by G. W. Raiziss in 1924.
1927
#2856
Congenital cardiac disease by Maude Abbott. IN: Modern medicine: Its theory and practice, edited by Sir William Osler, assisted by Thomas McCrae. 3rd ed., 4, 612-812.
1927
#3242
Die Krankheitslehre der Phthise in den Phasen ihrer geschichtlichen Entwicklung.
1927
#3141
Anemia in children, with splenomegaly and peculiar changes in the bones.
“Cooley’s erythroblastic anemia”, thalassemia. With E. R. Witwer and O. P. Lee. An earlier brief account by Cooley and Lee appeared in Trans. Amer. Pediat. Soc.,1925, 37, 29.
1927
#3142
Familiäre infantile perniziösaartige Anämie (perniziöses Blutbild und Konstitution).
“Fanconi’s syndrome”, congenital hypoplasia of bone marrow with multiple congenital defects occurring as a familial disease.
1927
#3142.1
The pathology of the bone marrow in pernicious anaemia.
Peabody studied the bone marrow in pernicious anemia. He suggested that failure of blood formation rather than hemolysis was the main defect in the disease, and that the benefit from liver feeding was due to a factor …
1927
#2694
Einstellung der Röntgenologie.
1927
#2715
Hypertension of the pulmonary circulation.
1927
#3706
Avitaminosen und verwandte Krankheitszustände. Edited by W. Stepp and P. György.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1927
#3724
The effect of desiccation upon the nutritive properties of egg-white.
Demonstration of the effect of deprivation of biotin.
1927
#3787
Follicular lymphadenopathy with splenomegaly: a newly recognized disease of the lymphatic system.
“Brill-Symmers disease” (see No. 3786).
1927
#3655
Funktionsprüfung der Leber mittels Bilirubinbelastung.
Bilirubin excretion test of liver function. See also his thesis, published in 1925.
1927 –1937
#4006
Handbuch der Haut-und Geschlechtskrankheiten. Hrsg…von J. JADASSOHN. 24 vols.
1927
#3972
Carcinoma of the islands of the pancreas; hyperinsulinism and hypoglycemia.
R. M. Wilder, F. N. Allan, M. H. Power, and H. E. Robertson reported the occurrence of carcinoma with hyperinsulinism. They also reported the first operation for hyperinsulinism performed on December 2, 1926 by Willia…
1927 –1928
#4296
The experimental production of stone-in-the-bladder.
McCarrison’s experiments showed that urinary calculi could follow a diet probably deficient in vitamin A.
1927
#4394
Bone sarcoma. The primary malignant tumors of bone and the giant cell tumor.
Based on material collected by the Registry of Bone Sacrcoma in Boston since its foundation in 1921.
1927
#5142
The plague in Shakespeare’s London.
1927
#4406
Fractures, joints, instruments of reduction. In [Works] with an English translation by E.T. Withington, 3, 83-449.
1927
#4203.9
Aphorisms, Section VII, number 34. In his Works. Ed. W. H. S. JONES and E. T. WITHINGTON
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The first description of the association of proteinuria and chronic renal disease.
1927
#5708
Ueber rektale Narkose mit Avertin (E 107).
Experimental use of “avertin’’ (tribromethanol).
1927
#5709
Klinische Erfahrungen mit Avertin (E 107).
First clinical use of “avertin”.
1927
#4990.1
Einführung in die Technik der Kinderanalyse.
Daughter of Sigmund Freud, Anna Freud made the psychoanalysis of children her own province. This is probably the most famous classic of child analysis.
1927
#5350.8
The insect transmission of Onchocerca volvulus (Leuckart, 1893), the cause of worm nodules in man in Africa.
The fly Simulium damnosum shown to be the vector of onchocerciasis.
1927
#5972
Nouveaux cas de guérison opératoire de décollements rétiniens.
Gonin’s operation of ignipuncture for treatment of detachment of the retina.
1927
#5973
Experimental production of a trachoma-like condition in monkeys by means of a micro-organism isolated from American Indian trachoma.
Isolation of Bact. granulosis, believed by Noguchi to be the causal organism in trachoma. See also his monograph in J. exp. Med., 1928, 48, Suppl. 2.
1927
#5974
A new operation for removing cataracts with their capsules.
Verhoeffs buttonhole iridectomy.
1927
#6009
Sorani Gynaeciorum libri 4. De signis fracturarum. De fasciis. Vita Hippocratis secundum Soranum. Ed. Johannes Ilberg. Corpus medicorum Graecorum, 4.
Standard Greek edition of the works of Soranus. Digital facsimile from the Corpus Medicorum Graecorum at this link.
1927
#5630.2
Mechanism and treatment of experimental shock. I. Shock following hemorrhage.
First of a series of papers in the Archives. See also No. 5630.3.
1927
#6459