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1920–1929

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1925

#3087.1

Familial icterus gravis of the new-born and its treatment.

Successful exchange transfusion.

1925

#211.1

Australopithecus africanus: The man-ape of South Africa.

First report on Dart's discovery in 1924 of the first member of the genus Australopithecus, the first hominin found in Africa. In their 150th anniversary issue published on November 4, 2019 the editors of Nature inclu…

1925

#3137

Ueber Anaemia infectiosa chronica und ihre Aetiologie.

“Edelmann’s disease” – a type of chronic infectious anemia.

1925

#3138

A form of acute hemolytic anemia probably of infectious origin.

“Lederer’s anemia” first described.

1925

#3139

Blood regeneration in severe anaemia. II. Favourable influence of liver, heart and skeletal muscle in diet.

These workers showed the beneficial effect of raw beef liver upon blood regeneration in anemia. Their work paved the way for the liver diet treatment of Minot and Murphy. In 1934 Whipple shared the Nobel Prize in Phys…

1925

#3200

Studies on pneumonia following naso-pharyngeal injections of oil.

Lipoid pneumonia first described.

1925

#3786

Generalized giant lymph follicle hyperplasia of lymph nodes and spleen; a hitherto undescribed type.

See No. 3787. With G. Baehr and N. Rosenthal.

1925

#3654

Ueber eine neue kolloidchemische Liquorreaktion und ihre praktischen Ergebnisse.

Takata-Ara reaction for the diagnosis of liver disease.

1925

#2917

Consideraciones sobre la denominación de “Enfermedad de Ayerza”.

In 1901 Argentinian physician Abel Ayerza (1861-1918) lectured on the syndrome of chronic cyanosis, dyspnoea, erythremia, and sclerosis of the pulmonary artery, “Ayerza’s disease” (cor pulmonale). He did not publish t…

1925 –1926

#2918

Concerning the pathology of some arterial diseases.

Klotz, eminent Canadian pathologist, is particularly remembered for his contributions to the subject of arteriosclerosis.

1925

#3863

Therapeutischer Versuch bei Ostitis fibrosa generalisata mittels Exstirpation eines Epithelkörperchentumors.

Mandl was the first successfully to treat generalized osteitis fibrosa by extirpation of a parathyroid tumor.

1925

#3872

A case of virilism associated with a suprarenal tumour: recovery after its removal.

Records the first removal (by P. Sargent) of an adrenal cortical tumor. This was followed by disappearance of the heterosexual symptoms, thus establishing the relationship of sexual abnormality and adrenal tumors.

1925

#3003

Die Behandlung der Krampfadern mit intravarikösen Kochsalzinjektionen.

Sodium chloride first used in the injection treatment of varicose veins.

1925

#3017

Report of a successful case of embolectomy.

First successful embolectomy in Britain.

1925

#3032

The surgical treatment of mitral stenosis.

Mitral valvotomy; report of a successful case.

1925

#3692

A new kind of x-ray examination for preventive dentistry.

Original description of technique of making “bite-wing” radiographs.

1925

#4150.1

Erythro- et keratodermia variabilis in a mother and daughter.

“Mendes Da Costa’s syndrome” – erythrokeratoderma variabilis.

1925

#4151

A case of relapsing non-suppurative nodular panniculitis, showing phagocytosis of subcutaneous fat-cells by macrophages.

Weber–Christian disease (see No. 4152).

1925

#4895

La sympathectomie hypogastrique a-t-elle sa place dans la thérapeutique gynécologique?

Presacral neurectomy.

1925

#4896

Section of the sensory root of the trigeminal nerve at the pons. Preliminary report of the operative procedure.

Intracranial section for glossopharyngeal neuralgia. For a more detailed account see his paper in Arch. Surg. (Chicago), 1929, 18, 687-734.

1925

#4393

Bone sarcoma, an interpretation of the nomenclature used by the Committee on the Registry of Bone Sarcoma of the American College of Surgeons.

1925

#5103

Studies on Brucella (Alkaligenes) melitensis.

Forms Bulletin No. 143 of the U.S. Public Health Service Hygienic Laboratory. Alice Evans showed that the causal organism of Malta fever was closely related to Brucella abortus, responsible for contagious abortion in …

1925

#5140

Remèdes contre la peste. Facsimilés, notes et liste bibliographique des incunables sur la peste.

Includes facsimile reproduction of “La régime de l’epidémie et remède contre icelle” of Jean Jacme (Johannes Jacobi), [5115], together with the “Remède très utile contre fièvre pestilencieuse” by the same writer. See …

1925

#5176

Tularemia

Francis demonstrated the transmission of tularemia to man from rodents through insects, particularly the deerfly. He gave the disease its present name; it is also called “Francis’s disease” by some writers.

1925

#5707

A lecture on respiration in anaesthesia: Control by carbon dioxide.

Henderson’s important investigations on the physiology of respiration included his demonstration of the relation of acapnia to anesthesia and the recommendation that carbon dioxide inhalation be used to overcome colla…

1925

#5968

Gonioscopy and its clinical applications.

Troncoso’s gonioscope.

1925

#5969

Diseases of the uvea. I. Sympathetic ophthalmia: the use of uveal pigment in diagnosis and treatment.

Intradermal pigment test in sympathetic ophthalmitis.

1925

#5194

The cultivation of Endamoeba histolytica.

Pure cultivation of Entamoeba histolytica was first accomplished by D. W. Cutler (J. Path. Bact., 1918, 22, 22), but Boeck and Drbohlav evolved the first media upon which amoebae could be cultivated for indefinite per…

1925

#5394

Tropical typhus in the Federated Malay States, with a compilation on epidemic typhus.

Bull. Inst. med. Res., F. M. S., No. 2. Drew attention to scrub typhus in Malaya.

1925

#5432

Studies of the viruses of vaccinia and variola.

Medical Research Council Special Report No. 98; a summary of the more important additions to the knowledge of the subject.

1925

#6458

The healing gods of ancient civilizations.

1925

#6612

Le costume du médecin à l’étranger.

1925

#5218

Eine neue Hautreaktion bei “Lymphogranuloma inguinale”.

The Frei skin test for the diagnosis of lymphogranuloma venereum.

1925 –1928

#6725

Profili bio-bibliografici di medici naturalisti celebri Italiani dal sec. XVo al sec. XVIIIo. 2 vols.

1925

#6297

Entwicklund der Gerurtshilfe und Gynäkologie im 19. Jahrhundert.

1925

#6354

Pediatrics of the past: an anthology.

Contains sketches of the lives of the more important pediatricians of the past, with a comprehensive selection of their works, translated where necessary into English. Ruhräh has thrown much light on the important con…

1925

#6355

Erstlinge der pädiatrischen Literatur.

Facsimile reproductions of the three earliest printed works on pediatrics: Bagellardo, Metlinger, and Roelans, together with a valuable prefatory essay on their importance.

1925

#6610

De arts in de caricatuur.

German edition, Berlin, 1927.

1925

#3573.1

Die Handschrift des Schnitt- und Augenarztes Caspar Stromayr in Lindau im Bodensee: In der Lindauer Handschrift (P.1.46) vom 4. Juli 1559. Mit einer historischen Einführung und Wertung von Walter von Brunn.

Stroymayr's manuscript was discovered in Lindau in 1909, and remained unpublished until the above edition, which reproduced his drawings in color. Like Bartisch (No. 5817) Stromayr specialized in hernia repair and eye…

1925

#6831

Hunain ibn Ishaq über die syrischen und arabischen Galen-Übersetzungen zum ersten mal Herausgegeben und Überzetzt von G. Bergsträsser.

Various writings of Galen survived through Arabic and Syriac translations rather than the original Greek. In the ninth century the Assyrian Christian physician and translator into Arabic and Syriac Hunain ibn Ishaq (A…

1925

#7728

La correction esthétique du prolapsus mammaire par le procédé de la transposition du mamelon.

No vertical scar breast lift technique. Translated into English by Schleich et al, "The aesthetic correction of the ptotic breast by the procedure of nipple-areola transposition - a contemporary translation and commen…

1925

#7785

Some unrecognized dangers in the use and handling of radioactive substances.

From autopsies on several young women who had painted radium dials, and ingested large cumulative doses by licking their brushes, Martland, medical examiner of Essex County, New Jersey, provided evidence that ingestio…

1925

#9038

La Société des Nations et la politique sanitaire internationale.

Health work of the League of Nations.

1925

#9445

The Medical Services: Official history of the Canadian forces in the Great War: 1914-1919.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1925

#9587

Practical chiropody.

"The book reached its eighth edition in 1952, and there were seven reprints; a revised, ninth edition was published in 1956, after Runting's death, and there were several American editions as well as one in Spanish. T…

1925

#10197

Arrowsmith.

"This novel has been inspirational for several generations of pre-medical and medical students. There is much agonizing along the way concerning career and life decisions. While detailing Arrowsmith's pursuit of the n…

1925

#10277

The beginnings of California's medical history.

Digital facsimile from PubMedCentral at this link.

1925

#10405

The scalpel under three flags in California.

1925

#10610

The mental growth of the pre-school child: A psychological outline of normal development from birth to the sixth year, including a system of development diagnosis.

"The Maturational Theory of child development was introduced in 1925[1] by Dr. Arnold Gesell, an American educator, pediatrician and clinical psychologist whose studies focused on "the course, the pattern and the rate…

1925

#10615

Bryan and Darrow at Dayton. The Record and documents of the "Bible-Evolution Trial." Edited and compiled by Leslie H. Allen.

Key documents from the Scopes Trial. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.