1930–1939
895 entries with publication dates in this decade.
1936 –1979
#6736
Dictionnaire biographique des médecins en France au moyen age.By E. Wickersheimer. 2 vols. (1936). Supplement by Danielle Jacquart (1979).
1936
#6281
Treatment of human puerperal infections, and of experimental infections in mice, with prontosil.
Chemotherapeutic treatment of puerperal sepsis.
1936
#6499
Medicine in the Bible. The Pentateuch, Torah.
References to medicine in the Old Testament, with notes and definitions, and references to the Talmud.
1936
#6574.1
Medisinens historic i Norge.
1936 –1949
#6430
Histoire générale de la médecine, de la pharmacie, de l’art dentaire et de l’art véterinaire. 3 vols.
This splendidly produced work, beautifully illustrated, was written by experts in each branch of the subject, with Laignel-Lavastine as general editor.
1936
#6431
A hundred years of medicine.
New edition 1968.
1936
#6432
Disease and destiny.
1936
#6433
The development of modern medicine, an interpretation of the social and scientific factors involved.
Shryock was one of the historians who founded and shaped the technique of writing the social history of medicine. This was his most influential work. Revised edition, 1947, translated into French, German and Japanese.
1936 –1941
#6662.1
MEDICAL CLASSICS. 1-5
Reprints of classic texts, with English translations where necessary. Includes biographical notes and full bibliographies.
1936
#258
The great chain of being: A study of the history of an idea.
1936
#269.6
Microscopy with ultra-violet light. A simplification of method.
1936 –1938
#4481
Die orthopädische Weltliteratur 1903-30. Herausg von A. Blencke und H. Gocht. Ergänzungsband 1931-35 bearbeitet von Erich Witte. 3 vols.
1936
#7035
Encyclopaedia sexualis: A comprehensive encyclopaedia-dictionary of the sexual sciences. Edited by Victor Robinson.
One of the first encyclopedias of sexuality, published when relevant information was difficult to obtain, especially in English.
1936
#7346
Quantitative und qualitative Untersuchungen über den Sympathicusstoff*. Zugleich XIV. Mitteilung über humorale Übertragung der Herznervenwirkung Ausgeführt mit Unterstützung der -Stiftung.
In this paper Loewi proved that the cardioexcitatory neurotransmitter of the sympathetic nerves is adrenaline, or actually noradrenaline.
1936
#7919
Effect of Benzedrine sulfate on mood and fatigue in normal and neurotic persons.
Myerson, an American neurologist, psychiatrist, clinician, pathologist, and researcher, funded by Benedrine manufacturer Smith, Kline and French, promoted Benzedrine (i.e. amphetamine) as an anti-depressant, leading t…
1936
#8456
Johannes de Mirfeld of St. Bartholomew's Smithfield: His life and works, by Percival Horton-Smith Hartley and Harold Richard Aldridge.
Concerns the first writings of a medical nature known to be associated with an English hospital. Includes the original Latin text and English translation of Mirfeld's works including his Breviary, a scrapbook of extra…
1936
#8551
Il "Tractatus de pulsibus," di Alfano Io arcivescovo di Salerno, sec. xi: Trascrizione del codice 1024 della biblioteca dell'Arsenale di Parigi (da carta 16 v. a carta 18 r). Annotazioni e commento con tavoli di riproduzione del testo [di] Pietro Capparoni.
Alfanus I or Alfano I, a physician before he became archbishop, was one of the earliest doctors of the Schola Medica Salernitana. He was Archbishop of Salerno from 1058 to his death. He was famed as a translator, writ…
1936
#8726
Truants: The story of some who deserted medicine yet triumphed.
Discusses the careers of physicians who turned their attention to other pursuits, including Rabelais, Smollett, Doyle, Mitchell, and other writers as well as Livingstone and other explorers, etc.
1936
#8978
Physiologus. Ed. F. Sbordóne.
Physiologus, a didactic Christian text, is thought to have been written or compiled in Greek by an unknown author in Alexandria, 200-275 CE. It describes a "hodgepodge" of animals, real and imaginery, with the fig tre…
1936
#9241
Türkische Turfan-Texte 7 [APAW 12] edited by G. R. Rachmati.
Medieval medical texts from Turfan (Turpan), Central Asia.
1936
#9304
The ethnobiology of the Chiricahua and Mescalero Apache: A. the use of plants for food, beverages and narcotics. Ethnobiological studies in the American Southwest, Vol. 3. Biological series (Vol. 4, No. 5); Bulletin, University of New Mexico, whole, (No. 297).
1936
#9589
Das Ich und die Abwehrmechanismen.
Translated into English by Anna Freud and Cecil Baines, as The ego and the mechanisms of defense. London: Hogarth Press, 1937.
1936
#9893
On certain septicemias due to anaerobic organisms.
"Lemierre's syndrome (or Lemierre's disease, also known as postanginal shock including sepsis and human necrobacillosis) refers to infectious thrombophlebitis of the internal jugular vein. It most often develops as a …
1936
#10640
Rumination number. Historical notes on rumination in man. The first historical monograph on the subject.
The first historical monograph on rumination syndrome or merycism.
1936
#10704
Catalogue of the museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. Part I. Comprehending the preparations illustrative of pathology.
"The letters B.C. ... signify that the preparation is part of an extensive collection purchased by the College from Sir Charles Bell...." Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1936
#11502
Hominidae fossiles. Edited by W. Quenstedt.
Fossilium catalogus, I: Animalia (ed. W. Quenstedt), part 74. “This volume has been prepared under the critical editorship of Dr. Werner Quenstedt, as a work in cooperation with the Cenozoic Research Laboratory of the…
1936
#11637
Bibliography of the writings of Dr. William S. Thayer by Efie Smither Hunley.
1936
#11821
Industrial dust: Hygienic significance, measurement and control.
Includes information on asbestosis.
1936
#11896
Gynäkologische Fragmente aus dem frühen Mittelalter: nach einer Petersburger Handschrift aus dem VIII.-IX. Jahrhundert zum ersten Mal gedruckt.
1936
#12005
Liquid crystalline substances from virus infected plants.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Bawden, Pirie, Bernal, Fankuchen. The authors isolated and crystallized tobacco mosaic virus, finding for the first time that a virus contained nucleic acids, when othe…
1936
#12400
Harvey, iniciador del método experimental.
First edition in Spanish of De motu cordis as well as a facsimile of the first edition. "Contains an important historical review of the circulation with particular reference to Servetus and to the Spanish reception of…
1936
#12974
Catalogue de livres et autographes provenant en majeur partie des bibliothèques d'Antoine, Bernard, Antoine-Laurent et Adrien de Jussieu, démonstrateurs et professeurs au Jardin du Roi, Membres de l'Institut 1686-1853. Voyages - Médecine - Sciences - Litérature - Sciences naturelles et principalement botanique....
Remarkably, many of the treasures of the Jussieu dynastic library, formed starting in the 18th century, remained in the family, and were sold at auction in Paris by Edouard Giard and Georges Andrieux on 10 February 19…
1936
#13044
Collected writings. With a biographical memoir by Abraham Flexner. 2 vols.
1936
#13588
Snakes of Maryland.
1936
#14173
Dermographisme et mastocytose.
Sézary and colleagues first reported systemic mastocytosis.
1936
#14229
The comparative anatomy of the nervous system of vertebrates, including man. 2 vols.
This edition and translation was so extensively reworked and expanded by Kappers, Huber and Crosby that it should be considered a new work. See No. 1247 for the original edition in German. Order of authorship as publi…
1936
#14286
Age and other factors in motor recovery from precentral lesions in monkeys.
This was the first of a series of papers by Kennard that led to what became known as the Kennard Principle, which posits a negative linear relationship between age of a brain lesion and the recovery outcome. The earli…
1937
#1074
A crystalline vitamin A concentration.
1937
#1076
Further studies on the concentration of the antipellagra factor.
Chicken pellagra factor.
1937
#4671
Infantile paralysis and cerebral diplegia: Methods used for the restoration of function.
1937
#4689
The treatment of meningococcic meningitis with sulfanilamide.
With S. Gelman and P. H. Long.
1937
#1075
Studies on vitamin E. The isolation of β-tocopherol from wheat germ oil.
With F. Bergel and T. S. Work.
1937 –1938
#1310
A review of the Golgi apparatus.
1937
#1154
Corticosteron, a crystallized compound with the biological activity of the adrenal-cortical hormone.
Isolation of corticosterone. With E. Laqueur, T. Reichstein, R. W. Spanhoff, and I. E. Uyldert.
1937
#1354
Autonomic neuro-effector systems.
The authors hypothesized the existence of two sympathins, one excitatory and the other inhibitory, now known as epinephrine and norepinephrine. See Nos. 1144 & 1350.
1937
#1173
Permanent experimental diabetes produced by pituitary (anterior lobe) injections.
Anterior pituitary diabetogenic hormone.
1937
#4824
The electro-encephalogram in epilepsy.
Demonstration of the changes in the electro-encephalogram in epilepsy. With S. Graham and W. Grey Walter.
1937
#751.1
Citric acid in intermediate metabolism in animal tissues.
Citric acid cycle (CAC) of aerobic carbohydrate metabolism (Krebs cycle). Three months after his initial publication on CAC Krebs published a supplementary paper aimed at the medical audience, rather than the biochemi…
1937
#2026
The therapy of the Cook County Hospital. Blood preservation.
Described the establishment of the first blood bank (at the Cook County Hospital).
1937
#2057.1
Naturheilkunde in Lebensbildern.
Mainly 19th-20th century: includes hydrotherapy, massage, and dietetics. Second edition, 1951.