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Garrison-Morton-Norman History of Medicine

1930–1939

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1937

#2058

A history of pharmacy.

GRIER, James

1937

#1925

Action protectrice des éthers phénoliques au cours de l’intoxication histaminique.

BOVET, Daniel (1907 – 1992)
BOVET, Daniel (1907 – 1992) STAUB, Anne-Marie (1914 – 2012)

First description of structure and action of an antihistamine. In 1957 Bovet was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine “for his discoveries relating to synthetic compounds that inhibit the action of certai…

1937

#1925.1

The quantitative effect of antagonistic drugs

GADDUM, Sir John Henry (1900 – 1965)
GADDUM, Sir John Henry (1900 – 1965)

Gaddum was the first to formulate the theory of competitive drug antagonism. See also No. 1917.

1937

#2430

Who gave the world syphilis? The Haitian myth.

HOLCOMBE, Richmond Cranston (1874 – 1945)

1937

#2312

Isolation and properties of the factor responsible for increased capillary permeability.

MENKIN, Valy (1901 – 1960)

Leukotaxine isolated.

1937

#2319

Pathology.

KRUMBHAAR, Edward Bell (1882 – 1966)

Krumbhaar edited the Clio Medica series of volumes on the history of medicine, and contributed a history of pathology to it.

1937

#2348

A new tuberculin patch test.

VOLLMER, Hermann (1896 – 1959) GOLDBERGER, Esther White (1905 – )

1937

#2358

The control of tuberculosis in England, past and present.

KAYNE, George Gregory (1901 – 1945)

1937

#2659

The carcinogenic action of oestrone: induction of mammary carcinoma in female mice of a strain refractory to the spontaneous development of mammary tumours.

BONSER, Georgiana May (1898 – 1979)
BONSER, Georgiana May (1898 – 1979)

With L. H. Stickland and K. I. Connal.

1937

#3038

Arterectomy.

LERICHE, Henri Marie René (1879 – 1955) & et al.

Arterectomy in arterial thrombosis. With R. Fontaine and S. M. Dupertuis.

1937

#3096.1

Hemophilia. II. Some properties of a substance obtained from normal human plasma effective in accelerating the coagulation of hemophilic blood.

PATEK, Arthur Jackson Jr. (1904 – 1991) TAYLOR, Francis Henry Laskey (1900 – 1959)

Antihemophilic globulin (factor VIII).

1937

#3157

The history of angina pectoris.

ROLLESTON, Sir Humphrey Davy (1862 – 1944)

1937

#2576.5

The genetic and antigenic basis of tumour transplantation.

GORER, Peter Alfred (1907 – 1961)

Gorer made the initial discoveries which formed the basis of transplantation genetics. He studied mouse blood groups and described an antigen in erythrocytes (antigen II). His studies established the laws of transplan…

1937

#2866

Clinical roentgenology of the cardiovascular system.

ROESLER, Hugo (1899 – 1961)

1937

#3215

Observations on L-organism of Kleineberger.

DIENES, Louis L. (1886 – 1974) EDSALL, Geoffrey (1908 – 1980)

Isolation of a mycoplasma from man.

1937

#2721

Secreción hipertensora del rinón isquemiado.

HOUSSAY, Bernardo Alberto (1887 – 1971)
HOUSSAY, Bernardo Alberto (1887 – 1971) FASCIOLO, Juan Carlos (1911 – )

Houssay and Fasciolo transplanted an ischemic kidney into an animal from which both kidneys had been removed. Hypertension resulted after establishment of circulation, supporting the view that hypertension is due to a…

1937

#3660

Resection of head of pancreas and duodenum for carcinoma – pancreatoduodenectomy.

BRUNSCHWIG, Alexander (1901 – 1969)

See also the same journal, 1943, 77, 581-84.

1937

#3661

Treatment of alcoholic cirrhosis of the liver with high vitamin therapy.

PATEK, Arthur Jackson Jr. (1904 – 1991)

A pioneer paper on the dietary treatment of cirrhosis.

1937

#3876

Genital abnormalities, hermaphroditism and related adrenal diseases.

YOUNG, Hugh Hampton (1870 – 1945)
YOUNG, Hugh Hampton (1870 – 1945)

1937

#3907.1

Post-partum necrosis of the anterior pituitary.

SHEEHAN, Harold Leeming (1900 – 1988)

Sheehan’s syndrome – panhypopituitarism due to pituitary necrosis following post-partum hemorrhage.

1937

#4250.1

A new plastic operation for stricture at the uretero-pelvic junction: report of 20 operations.

FOLEY, Frederic Eugene Basil (1891 – 1966)

Foley’s operation for hydronephrosis.

1937

#3408

New technique in the surgical treatment of severe and progressive deafness from otosclerosis.

SOURDILLE, Maurice Louis Joseph Marie (1885 – 1961)

First successful attempt to restore hearing in otosclerosis by fenestration.

1937

#3019

Heparin and the thrombosis of veins following injury.

BEST, Charles Herbert (1899 – 1978)
BEST, Charles Herbert (1899 – 1978) MURRAY, Donald Walter Gordon (1894 – 1976) & et al.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Murray, Jaques, Perrett, Best. Heparin was discovered by Jay McLean and William Henry Howell in 1916; however it was not tested as an anticoagulant in clinical trials u…

1937

#4908

Eine neue Operationsmethode bei Trigeminusneuralgie: Durchschneidung des Tractus spinalis trigemini.

SJÖQVIST, Carl Olof (1901 – 1954)

Trigeminal tractotomy. See also Acta psychiat. neural. (Kbh.), 1938, Suppl. 17, 1-139.

1937

#4401

Syndrome characterized by osteitis fibrosa disseminata, areas of pigmentation and endocrine dysfunction, with precocious puberty in females. Report of five cases.

ALBRIGHT, Fuller (1900 – 1969)

“Albright’s syndrome”. With A. M. Butler, A. O. Hampton, and P. Smith.

1937

#4402

The effects on bone of the presence of metals; based upon electrolysis. An experimental study.

VENABLE, Charles Scott (1877 – 1961) & et al.

Introduction of vitallium. With W. Stuck and A. Beach.

1937

#4963.1

Galen: De propriorum animi cuiuslibet affectuum dignotione et curatione. De animi cuius libet peccatorum dignotione et curatione ed. W. De Boer. Corpus Medicorum Graecorum V, 4, 1, 1, pp. 1-68.

GALEN, [Κλαύδιος Γαληνός; Galen of Pergamon] (129 – 216)
GALEN, [Κλαύδιος Γαληνός; Galen of Pergamon] (129 – 216) DE BOER, Wilko

English translation by P.W. Harkins, Galen on the passions and errors of the soul. Columbus, Ohio, 1963.

1937

#5329

Sur une nouvelle fièvre par morsure de rat.

LEMIERRE, André (1875 – 1956)
LEMIERRE, André (1875 – 1956) & et al.

A. Lemierre, J. Reilly, A. Laporte, and M. Morin isolated Streptobacillus moniliformis from a case of rat-bite fever.

1937

#5544.1

Granulomatous encephalomyelitis due to an encephalitozoon (encephalitozoic encephalomyelitis), a new protozoon disease of man.

WOLF, Abner (1902 – 1983) COWEN, David (1907 – 2001)

Definite recognition of human toxoplasmosis. See also their later paper in the same journal, 1938, 7, 266-83.

1937

#5987

Developmental abnormalities of the eye.

MANN, Ida Caroline (1893 – 1983)

1937

#5988

Ergebnisse der Diathermiestichelung des Corpus ciliare (Zyklodiathermiestichelung) gegen Glaukom.

VOGT, Alfred (1879 – 1943)
VOGT, Alfred (1879 – 1943)

Vogt’s operation of cyclodiathermy for glaucoma.

1937

#5988.1

Fundus oculi: diagnostica oftalmoscopica…

MARZIO, Qurino di (1883 – 1954)

The first atlas of ophthalmoscopy published in Italy, considered by many to be the most beautiful ever published. German translation, Torino, Rosenberg und Sellier, [1941]. Some copies of that edition contain an Engli…

1937

#5397

“Q” fever, a new fever entity: clinical features and laboratory investigation.

DERRICK, Edward Holbrook (1898 – 1976)

First account of “Q” (query) fever. See also No. 5398.

1937

#5398

Experimental studies on the virus of “Q” fever.

BURNET, Sir Frank Macfarlane (1899 – 1985)
FREEMAN, Mavis Louisa (1907 – 1992)
FREEMAN, Mavis Louisa (1907 – 1992)

Discovery of Rickettsia burneti, causal agent in Q fever.

1937

#5631

Künstliche Scheidenbildung mittels Eihäuten.

BURGER, Karl (1893 – )

Introduction of amnioplastin.

1937

#5467

The use of yellow fever virus modified by in vitro cultivation for human immunization.

THEILER, Max (1899 – 1972)
THEILER, Max (1899 – 1972) SMITH, Hugh Hollingsworth (1902 – 1995)

Immunization without the use of immune serum. In 1951 Theiler was awared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for his discovery of an effective vaccine against yellow fever." This was the first Nobel Prize award…

1937

#6464

Medicina aborigen americana.

PARDAL, Ramón (1896 – 1955)

1937

#6633.1

Katalog der Sammlung Dr. Josef Brettauer Medicina in Nummis.

HOLZMAIR, Eduard (1902 – 1971) BRETTAUER, Joseph (1835 – 1905)

5557 items; references to works on numismatics and medical history.

1937

#6648

I santi nella storia della medicina.

PAZZINI, Adalberto (1898 – 1975)

1937

#5213.1

La toxi-infection gonococcique expérimentale et son traitement chimiothérapique.

LEVADITI, Constantin (1874 – 1953)
LEVADITI, Constantin (1874 – 1953) VAISMAN, A

Levaditi and Vaisman showed that sulfanilamide protected mice against gonococcal infection.

1937

#5214.1

The use of sulfanilamide in gonococcic infections. Preliminary report.

DEES, John Essary (1910 – 1993) COLSTON, John Archibald Campbell (1886 – 1971)

1937

#6303

Geschichte der Frauenheilkunde. 1 Teil. Die Frauenheilkunde der alten Welt.

DIEPGEN, Paul (1878 – 1966)
DIEPGEN, Paul (1878 – 1966)

Forms Bd. 12, Teil 1, of Handbuch der Gynäkologie, hrsg. J. Veit u. Stoeckel. See also No. 6311.4

1937

#6524

Early medieval medicine with special reference to France and Chartres. The Hideyo Noguchi Lectures.

MACKINNEY, Loren Cary (1891 – 1963)

1937

#6567

Russian medicine.

GANTT, William Andrew Horsley (1892 – 1980)

1937

#6775

British periodicals of medicine. A chronological list.

LEFANU, William Richard (1904 – 1995)

Covers British periodicals published in the British Empire. Published in book form, Baltimore, 1938. Supplement, 1938-61, by A. M Shadrake, Bull. med. Libr. Ass., 1963, 51, 181-96, covers Gt Britain and Ireland, but e…

1937

#6374

Über rezidivierende, aphthöse, durch ein Virus verursachte Geschwüre am Mund, am Auge und an den Genitalien.

BEHÇET, Hulusi (1889 – 1948)

Behçet’s disease, previously described by H. Planner and F. Remenovsky, Arch. Derm. Syph. (Berlin), 1922, 140, 162-88.

1937

#6604.4

Occidental therapeutics in the Netherlands East Indies during three centuries of Netherlands settlement. 1600-1900.

SCHOUTE, Dirk (1873 – 1953)

An English summary of two earlier Dutch works by D. Schoute, 1929-1936.

1937

#5264.1

Blackwater fever, a historical survey and summary of observations made over a century.

STEPHENS, John William Watson (1865 – 1946)
STEPHENS, John William Watson (1865 – 1946)

1937

#6465

Heilkunde und Volkstum auf Bali.

WECK, Wolfgang (1881 – )

1937

#254.2

Genetics and the origin of species.

DOBZHANSKY, Theodosius Grygorovych (1900 – 1975)

Dobzhansky, an emigrant from the Soviet Union to the United States, and a postdoctoral worker in Thomas Hunt Morgan's fruit fly lab, was one of the first to apply genetics to natural populations. He worked mostly with…