1930–1939
895 entries with publication dates in this decade.
1938
#3149
Tropical macrocytic anaemia: Its relation to pernicious anaemia.
1938
#2576.7
Recherches sur le phénomène de Twort-d’Hérelle (bactériophage ou autolyse hérédo-contagieuse).
The Wollmans made important contributions to the knowledge on bacteriophage and lysogeny.
1938
#2867
Effects of induced oxygen want in patients with cardiac pain.
Diagnosis of cardiac pain. With A. L. Barach and H. G. Bruenn.
1938
#2868
Praecordial leads in electrocardiography. A joint memorandum of a committee of the Cardiac Society of Gt. Britain and Ireland and the Committee of the American Heart Association.
PRECORDIAL LEADS
Also in Amer. Heart J.,1938, 15,107-08, 235-39. Precordial leads are also called unipolar leads.
1938
#2869
A practical method of visualization of the chambers of the heart, the pulmonary circulation, and the great vessels in man.
Introduction of angiocardiography, which for the first time revealed the internal structure of the living heart. A fuller account by the same authors is in Amer. J. Roentgenol.,1939, 41,1-17.
1938
#2580
The history of bacteriology.
This pioneering and classic history includes brief biographical notes of the more important workers (arranged in a separate section), and an extensive bibliography.
1938
#3211
An acute infection of the respiratory tract with atypical pneumonia: A disease entity probably caused by a filterable virus.
Atypical pneumonia.
1938
#3707
Riboflavin deficiency in man; a preliminary note.
Ariboflavinosis
1938
#3787.1
Hemolysins as the cause of clinical and experimental hemolytic anemias.
Acquired hemolytic anemia was the first condition to be recognized as an auto-immune disease.
1938
#3799
The oestrogenic activity of certain synthetic compounds.
Introduction of stilboestrol, the first synthetic estrogen. With L. Gol[d]berg, W. Lawson,
1938
#3800
Oestrogenic activity of alkylated stilboestrols.
Introduction of dienoestrol. With L. Gol[d]berg, W. Lawson.
1938
#3801
Oestrogenic activity of anol; a highly active phenol isolated from the byproducts.
Isolation of hexoestrol. With E. C. Dodds and W. Lawson.
1938
#3801.1
A syndrome of infantilism, congenital webbed neck, and cubitus valgus.
“Turner’s syndrome”.
1938
#3662
The flocculation of cephalin-cholesterol emulsions by pathological sera.
Cephalin-cholesterol liver-function test.
1938
#3663
Synthesis of hippuric acid in man following intravenous injection of sodium benzoate.
Intravenous hippuric acid test for liver function. With H. N. Ottenstein and H. Weltchek. See also Amer. J. Dis., 1939, 6, 716-17.
1938
#3409
Observations on the pathology of Menière’s syndrome.
Hallpike and Cairns were first to describe the characteristic histological changes in Menière’s disease. Also published in J Laryng. Otol., 1938, 53, 625-55.
1938
#3410
Improvement of hearing in cases of otosclerosis: a new, one-stage surgical technic.
Lempert’s fenestration operation.
1938
#5045.1
The preparation of anti-typhoid serum in the horse for therapeutic use in man.
Typhoid antiserum.
1938
#4909
First surgical sections, in man, of the lemniscus lateralis (pain-temperature path) at the brain stem, for the treatment of diffused rebellious pain.
1938
#4435.01
“Rotules à os” pour la réduction dirigée, non sanglante, des fractures (“ostéotaxis”).
Hoffmann, a Swiss general surgeon with a doctorate in theology and unusual skill in carpentry, developed the versatile Hoffmann system of external fixation devices.
1938
#4435.1
El tratamiento de la fractura de guerra.
During the Spanish Civil War (1935-38) Trueta adopted as standard treatment for gunshot wounds and compound fractures the closed plaster method originated by the American surgeon H. Winnett Orr. Trueta called this the…
1938
#4962
Un nuovo metodo di shockterapia: “L’elettroshock”. (Riassunto.)
Introduction of electric convulsion therapy.
1938
#4962.1
A clinical and genetic study of 1,280 cases of mental defect.
In this exhaustive study Penrose showed (p. 36) the significance of maternal age in the etiology of Down syndrome.
1938
#5506.2
Die Röteln sind eine Viruskrankheit.
Successful transfer of rubella to children by means of filtered nasal washings.
1938
#5308.1
Demonstratión de un treponema en el borde activo un caso de pinto de las manos y pies y en la linfa de ganglios superficiales (reporte preliminar).
B. Saenz, J. Grau Triana, and J. Alfonso Armenteros indicated that pinta is caused by a treponeme, T. carateum.
1938
#5808
The romance of proctology, which is the story of the history and development of this much neglected branch of surgery.
1938
#5449
Culture “in vitro” du virus de la rougeole.
Successful cultivation of measles virus.
1938
#5467.1
Yellow fever virus in jungle mosquitoes.
Haemagogus sp. shown to be vectors of yellow fever. With L. Whitman and M. Frania.
1938
#6133
An operation for the cure of congenital absence of the vagina.
Mclndoe’s operation for the construction of an artificial vagina.
1938
#6650
A history of women in medicine from the earliest times to the beginning of the ninteenth century.
1938
#6473
La médecine en Assyrie et en Babylonie.
1938
#6776
Incunabula scientifica et medica. Short title list.
3,000 editions of 1,000 incunabula. Reprinted from Osiris, vol.IV. Reprinted, Hildesheim, 1963.
1938
#5258
Exo-erythrocytic schizogony in Plasmodium gallinaceum Brumpt, 1935.
The term “exo-erythrocytic stage” introduced to describe the unpigmented schizonts found in tissue cells. The parasite Plasmodium gallincaceum described by Alexandre Joseph Emile Brumpt causes malaria in poultry.
1938
#6915
Das Gleichgewicht zwischen Hämoglobin and Sauerstoff.
Haurowitz discovered that crystalline deoxyhemoglobin changes in shape and color on reaction with oxygen, suggesting that it is a molecular lung.
1938
#6924
Molecular biology: origin of the term.
Perhaps the only mathematician to name a new biological discipline, in 1938, as Director of the Natural Sciences Division of the Rockefeller Foundation, Weaver coined the term molecular biology to describe the use of …
1938
#7016
Chemisch-Pharmazeutisches Bio-und Bibliographikon. Herausgegeben von der Gesellschaft für Geschichte der Pharmazie durch Fritz Ferchl. 2 vols.
1938
#7103
The ape in antiquity.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1938
#7281
The Pleistocene anthropoid apes of South Africa.
Paranthropus robustus, discovered by Broom in Kromdraal, South Africa, in 1938. The species is generally dated from about 2 million to 1.2 million years before present.
1938
#7406
Margaret Sanger: An autobiography.
1938
#8224
A critical bibliography of German literature in English translation, 1481-1927: With supplement embracing the Years 1928-1935. Second edition, completely revised and greatly augmented.
Includes translations of many non-fictional works, including those in biology, etc. It was reprinted several times. The 1938 edition is searchable at Google Books at this link. Digital facsimile of the 1922 first edit…
1938
#9339
Nuclear isomerism in element 43.
Isolation of the metastable isotope technetium-99m, the most commonly used medical radioistope, used in tens of millions of medical diagnostic procedures annually. Segrè discovered the first artifical element Techneti…
1938
#10408
The horse and buggy doctor.
The bestselling work by this Kansas physician documenting the practice of medicine in the rural midwest in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
1938
#11179
Recherches sur l'embryologie du système central de l'homme.
1938
#11187
Intracranial aneurysm of the internal carotid artery cured by operation.
Dandy was the first surgeon to directly clip an intracranial aneurysm.
1938
#11771
Bird books and bird art: An outline of the literary history and iconography of descriptive ornithology, based principally on the collection of books containing plates with figures of birds and their eggs now in the University Library at Copenhagen and including a catalogue of these works.
This bibliography is distinctive for its very detailed annotations.
1938
#11775
Flower and fruit prints of the 18th and Early 19th centuries: Their history, makers and uses, with a catalogue raisonné of the works in which they are found.
1938
#12398
William Harvey, physician and biologist: His precursors, opponents and successors. Parts I-V.
"The most comprehensive bibliographical reference work on the history of the circulation" (Bedford 200).
1938
#12593
A medical survey of the republic of Guatemala, by George Cheever Shattuck. With the collaboration of Joseph C. Bequaert, Margaret M. Hilferty, Jack H. Sandground [and] Samuel Drury Clark.
Organized and directed by the Department of Tropical Medicine, Harvard School of Public Health. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1938
#12621
Biology and pathology of the tooth and its supporting mechanism
1938
#12702
Madam Curie par Ève Curie.
Ève Curie was Marie Curie's younger daughter. This biography was first published simultaneously in many languages. It was translated into English by Vincent Sheean and published in London by William Heinemann Ltd., 19…