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Garrison-Morton-Norman History of Medicine

1930–1939

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1936

#1071.1

Über das Bios-Problem. Darstellung von krystallisiertem Biotin aus Eigelb.

KÖGL, Fritz (1897 – 1954) TÖNNIS, Benno

Isolation of biotin (vitamin H).

1936

#1072

Vitamin P: Flavonols as vitamins.

SZENT-GYÖRGYI, Albert (1893 – 1987) RUSZNYAK, Stephan (1886 – 1974)

Discovery of vitamin P (“citrin”).

1936

#1073

Synthesis of vitamin B1.

WILLIAMS, Robert Runnels (1886 – 1965) CLINE, Joseph Kalman (1908 – )

Synthesis of aneurine.

1936

#4659

A virus isolated in 1935 epidemic of summer encephalitis in Japan.

TANIGUCHI, Tenji (1889 – 1961) & et al.

T. Taniguchi, M. Hosokawa, and S. Kuga established a virus etiology for Japanese B encephalitis.

1936

#1086.1

Observations on a substance in pancreas (a fat metabolizing hormone) which permits survival and prevents liver changes in depancreatized dogs.

DRAGSTEDT, Lester Reynold (1893 – 1975) & et al.

Lipocaic. With J. Van Prohaska and H. P. Harms.

1936

#4670.6

Cultivation of poliomyelitis virus in vitro in human embryonic nervous tissue.

SABIN, Albert Bruce (1906 – 1993)
SABIN, Albert Bruce (1906 – 1993) OLITSKY, Peter Kosciusko (1886 – 1964)

Isolation and propagation of the poliomyelitis virus in pure culture.

1936

#911

Über spontane Hämolysinbildung im Blut, unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Physiologie der Milz.

BERGENHEIM, Bengt Ludvig (1898 – ) FÅHRAEUS, Robert (Robin) Sanno (1888 – 1968)

Lysolechtin found in normal blood.

1936

#1309.1

The structure of nerve fibres in cephalopods and crustacea.

YOUNG, John Zachary (1907 – 1997)
YOUNG, John Zachary (1907 – 1997)

Young’s discovery of the giant nerve fibers of the squid (squid giant axon) Loglio forbesi made possible the study of the electrical phenomena of the nervous impulse in the interior as well as on the surface of a nerv…

1936

#4725

Contribution à l’étude des syndromes du globe pâle. La dégénérescence progressive du globe pâle et de la portion réticuléé de la substance noire (maladie d’Hallervorden–Spatz).

VINCENT, Clovis Julien Désiré (1879 – 1947) BOGAERT, Ludo van (1897 – 1989)

Clovis Vincent, a pioneer French neurosurgeon, contributed a valuable study of Hallervorden–Spatz disease.

1936

#1151

A physiologic and chemical investigation of the suprarenal cortex.

KENDALL, Edward Calvin (1886 – 1972)

Isolation of nine closely related steroid hormones from adrenal cortical extracts; one of these was Compound E (C21H28O5) which in 1939 was renamed cortisone. With H. L. Mason, C. S. Myers, and W. D. Allers. See also …

1936

#1153

Über Bestandteile der Nebennieren-Rinde. VI. Trennungsmethoden sowie Isolierung der Substanzen Fa, H, und j.

REICHSTEIN, Tadeusz (1897 – 1996)
REICHSTEIN, Tadeusz (1897 – 1996)

Isolation of Compound Fa, identical with Compounds E and F. "In the mid-1930s Edward Kendall and Tadeus Reichstein succeeded in isolating and analyzing the composition of a number of similar hormones derived from the …

1936

#1353

Reactions of the normal mammalian muscle to acetylcholine and to eserine.

DALE, Sir Henry Hallett (1875 – 1968)
DALE, Sir Henry Hallett (1875 – 1968)
FELDBERG, Wilhelm Siegmund (1900 – 1993)
FELDBERG, Wilhelm Siegmund (1900 – 1993)
BROWN, Sir George Lindor (1903 – 1971)
BROWN, Sir George Lindor (1903 – 1971)

1936 –1939

#1172

The physiology and pharmacology of the pituitary body. 2 vols.

VAN DYKE, Harry Benjamin (1895 – 1971)

Includes an extensive bibliography.

1936

#1202

The isolation of the principal estrogenic substance of liquor folliculi.

MACCORQUODALE, Donald William (1898 – 1986) & et al.

Isolation of oestradiol. With S. A. Thayer and E. A. Doisy.

1936

#2024

A new method of blood transfusion.

HEDENIUS, Per Johannes (1906 – 1981)

Heparin used in blood transfusion. See also the same journal, 88, 443-49.

1936

#2025

Transfusion of cadaver blood.

YUDIN, Sergei Sergeievich (1891 – 1954)
YUDIN, Sergei Sergeievich (1891 – 1954)

Cadaver blood used in human transfusions. Prof. Shamov of Kharkov carried out the first experimental work on transfusion of cadaver blood in 1927.

1936

#1661

The last thirty years in public health.

NEWSHOLME, Sir Arthur (1857 – 1943)
NEWSHOLME, Sir Arthur (1857 – 1943)

1936

#1662

Medical history of contraception.

HIMES, Norman Edwin (1899 – 1949)

Reprinted with updating preface, 1963, 1970.

1936

#1449

The topography and homologies of the hypothalamic nuclei in man.

CLARK, Sir Wilfrid Edward Le Gros (1895 – 1971)

1936

#1450

The motor cortex in man in the light of Hughlings Jackson’s doctrines.

FOERSTER, Otfrid (1873 – 1941)

In this Hughlings Jackson Lecture, Foerster published his famous cytoarchitectonic map of the human cerebral cortex.

1936

#2356

A short history of tuberculosis.

MEACHEN, George Norman (1876 – )

1936

#2357

Tuberculosis.

WEBB, Gerald Bertram (1871 – 1948)

Clio Medica series.

1936

#1766.604

The American medical profession, 1783 to 1850.

SHAFER, Henry Burnell (1906 – )

1936

#2658

Some possible effects of nursing on the mammary gland tumor incidence in mice.

BITTNER, John Joseph (1904 – 1961)

Bittner’s “milk factor,” the murine mammary tumor involved in the transmission of cancer in mice. See also Amer. J. clin. Path., 1937, 7, 430-35.

1936

#2524.6

The Feulgen reaction of the bacteriophage substance.

SCHLESINGER, Max (1906 – 1937)

Schlesinger showed that the fundamental constituents of bacteriophages consist mainly of approximately equal amounts of protein and DNA.

1936

#3037

An experimental method of providing a collateral circulation to the heart.

O’SHAUGHNESSY, Laurence Frederick (1900 – 1940)

By attaching a pedicled omental graft to the surface of the heart (cardio-omentopexy), thus providing a collateral circulation to that organ, O’Shaughnessy made an important advance in the treatment of angina and card…

1936

#3148.1

Mediterranean disease – thalassemia (erythroblastic anemia of Cooley); associated pigment abnormalities simulating hemochromatosis.

WHIPPLE, George Hoyt (1878 – 1976)
WHIPPLE, George Hoyt (1878 – 1976) BRADFORD, William Leslie (1898 – 1983)

Whipple and Bradford contributed a classic paper on the pathology of thalassemia, a name introduced by them.

1936

#2576.4

Immunogenetic studies of species and of species hybrids in doves, and the separation of species-specific substances in the backcross.

IRWIN, M. Robert (1897 – 1987)
COLE, Leon Jacob (1877 – 1948)
COLE, Leon Jacob (1877 – 1948)

Irwin coined the term, “immunogenetics” to describe the union of immunology with genetics. He attempted to determine the genetic control of antigenicity through genetic cross matings.

1936

#2865

Atlas of congenital cardiac disease.

ABBOTT, Maude Elizabeth Seymour (1869 – 1940)
ABBOTT, Maude Elizabeth Seymour (1869 – 1940)

1936

#2865.1

Elektrographische Diagnostik der Herzmuskelerkrankungen.

SCHELLONG, Fritz (1891 – 1953)

Introduction of the vectorcardiogram.

1936

#3209.1

Röntgen-photographia. Processo e apparelho de röntgen-photographia. Tuberculose pulmonar. Cadastra social. Radiographia e radioscopia. Röntgen-photographia collectiva.

ABREU, Manuel Dias de (1894 – 1962)
ABREU, Manuel Dias de (1894 – 1962)

Introduction of chest photofluorography or abreugraphy, also called mass miniature radiography.

1936

#2720

The blood cyanates in the treatment of hypertension.

BARKER, Marion Herbert (1899 – 1947)

Barker made thiocyanate treatment a practical proposition in hypertension.

1936

#3611

Operation for femoral hernia by a midline extraperitoneal approach; with a preliminary note on the use of this route for reducible inguinal hernia.

HENRY, Arnold Kirkpatrick (1886 – 1962)

Henry’s operation for femoral hernia.

1936

#3338.1

Diseases of the air and food passages of foreign-body origin.

JACKSON, Chevalier (1865 – 1958)
JACKSON, Chevalier (1865 – 1958) JACKSON, Chevalier Lawrence (1900 – 1961)

One of the most comprehensive treatises on the subject ever published, with a 636-page appendix describing, and in most cases illustrating, 3266 foreign bodies and how they were removed.

1936

#3659.2

Das Coeliakiesyndrom bei angeborener zysticher Pankreasfibromatose und Bronchiektasien.

FANCONI, Guido (1892 – 1979)
FANCONI, Guido (1892 – 1979) & et al.

Cystic fibrosis (mucoviscidosis) described. With E. Uehlinger and C. Knauer.

1936

#3905

Experimental diabetes insipidus in the monkey.

INGRAM, Walter Robinson (1905 – 1978) & et al.

With C. Fisher and S. W. Ransom.

1936

#3909

The endocrine organs in health and disease. With an historical review.

ROLLESTON, Sir Humphrey Davy (1862 – 1944)

"As a history of the subject, this work is unsurpassed in detail and accuracy" (L.T. Morton).

1936

#4250

Intercapillary lesions in the glomeruli of the kidney.

WILSON, Clifford (1906 – 1997) KIMMELSTIEL, Paul (1900 – 1970)

“Kimmelstiel–Wilson syndrome”. First description of nodular intercapillary glomerulosclerosis, the only known morphological alteration specific, or almost so, for diabetes mellitus.

1936

#4009

Nouvelle pratique dermatologique. 8 vols.

DARIER, Ferdinand-Jean (1856 – 1938)
DARIER, Ferdinand-Jean (1856 – 1938) & et al.

1936

#3974

Protamine insulinate.

HAGEDORN, Hans Christian (1888 – 1971) & et al.

Hagedorn created NPH insulin and founded Nordisk Insulinlaboratorium, known today as Novo Nordisk. NPH insulin is one of the earliest examples of engineering drug delivery. Hagedorn became interested in modifying the …

1936

#3975

Protamine insulin.

KERR, Robert Bews (1908 – 1997) & et al.

R. B. Kerr, C. H. Best, W. R. Campbell, and A. A. Fletcher advocated the combination of zinc with insulin to delay its absorption rate. Later this was combined with protamine to form protamine zinc insulin.

1936

#4904.1

Gefässmissbildungen und Gefässgeschwülste des Gehirns.

OLIVECRONA, Herbert (1891 – 1980)
OLIVECRONA, Herbert (1891 – 1980) BERGSTRAND, Karl Joseph Hilding (1886 – 1867) TÖNNIS, Wilhelm (1898 – 1978)

Olivecrona first successfully removed an intracranial aneurysm in 1932.

1936

#4905

Essai d’un traitement chirurgical de certaines psychoses.

EGAS MONIZ, Antonio Caetano de Abreu Freire (1874 – 1955)

Prefrontal leucotomy (lobotomy). Translation in J. Neurosurg., 1964, 21, 1110-14. See also Egas Moniz's book Tentatives opératoires dans le traitement de certaines psychoses, Paris, 1936. His name was originally Anton…

1936

#4906

Prefrontal lobotomy in agitated depression. Report of a case.

FREEMAN, Walter Jackson II (1895 – 1972)
FREEMAN, Walter Jackson II (1895 – 1972) WATTS, James Winston (1904 – 1994)

See also the book by the same authors, Psychosurgery: Intelligence, emotion, and social behavior following prefrontal lobotomy for mental disorders. Springfield: Charles C Thomas, 1942. By the 1950s lobotomy was large…

1936

#4907

The location of cerebral tumours by electro-encephalography.

WALTER, William Grey (1911 – 1977)

1936

#5480

Cultivation of the viruses of sandfly fever and dengue fever on the chorioallantoic membrane of the chick-embryo.

SHORTT, Henry Edward (1887 – 1987)
SHORTT, Henry Edward (1887 – 1987) & et al.

Cultivation of the virus of phlebotomus fever. With R. S. Rao and C. S. Swaminath.

1936

#5484.2

Propagation of rabies virus in tissue culture and the successful use of culture virus as antirabic vaccine.

WEBSTER, Leslie Tillotson (1894 – 1943) CLOW, Anna D. (1905 – 1992)

Webster and Clow succeeded in growing rabies virus in tissue culture.

1936

#5497

Influenza infection of man from the ferret.

SMITH, Wilson (1897 – 1965)
SMITH, Wilson (1897 – 1965) STUART-HARRIS, Sir Charles Herbert (1909 – 1996)

First record of successful passage of influenza from animal to man. The ferret had previously been infected with a virus from a case of influenza.

1936

#5815

Memorandum book of a tenth-century oculist for the use of modern ophthalmologists. A translation of the Tadhkirat.

WOOD, Casey Albert (1856 – 1942)
WOOD, Casey Albert (1856 – 1942) IBN 'ISÃ AL-KAHHAL, Ali (Jesu Occulist) (980 – )

The Tadhkirat al-Kahhalin was one of the oldest and best of the medieval Arabic works on ophthalmology. It carefully described 130 diseases of the eye and became the standard work on the subject in the Middle East. Ge…

1936

#6463

La médecine chez les peuples primitifs.

CHAUVET, Stephen (1885 – 1950)