1930–1939
895 entries with publication dates in this decade.
1938
#12929
Early dental literature.
A narrative analysis of dental literature up to about 1850, with bibliographical listings of the earliest classics from various countries. Digital facsimile from PubMedCentral at this link.
1938
#13291
The peyote cult.
The history of the study of the cult, the various botanical questions surrounding peyote, its physiological action and the various ethnological, psychological and historical questions involved in its diffusion.
1938
#13328
Bound feet.
The author was assistant superintendent of Massachusetts Memorial Hospitals in Boston and Assistant Professor of Tropical Diseases at Boston University School of Medicine. His book is part travelogue and part memoir o…
1938
#13827
Cystic fibrosis of the pancreas and its relation to celiac disease: A clinical and pathological study.
Andersen was the first to describe the characteristic cystic fibrosis of the pancreas, and to correlate it with the lung and intestinal disease prominent in CF. She also was the first to hypotheize that cystic fibrosi…
1938
#13886
Hieronymus Münzer und seine Bibliothek
1938
#14088
Icterus gravis (erythroblastosis) neonatorum.
Darrow was the first to identify the cause of hemolytic disease of the newborn (HDN). Three years prior to the discovery of antibodies against the Rh antigen, Darrow correctly hypothesized that the disease was caused …
1938
#14110
Artificial fever produced by physical means; its development and application.
Perhaps the most comprehensive study of the application of pyrotherapy in the treatment of a wide variety of diseases, including syphilis. For syphilis in particular the treatment was replaced by penicillin, developed…
1938
#14279
The application of isotopic indicators in biological research.
A summary of Hevesy's research on the topic for which he received the 1943 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference.)
1938
#14335
A new method of measuring nuclear magnetic moment.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Rabi, Zacharais,...Kusch. Followed by: (2) The magnetic moments of 3Li6, 3Li7, and 9F19. Physical Review 53, 1938. (3) The molecular beam resonance method for measuring…
1939
#800
STANDARDIZATION of methods of measuring the arterial blood pressure. A joint report of the committees appointed by the Cardiac Society of Great Britain and Ireland and the American Heart Association.
Digital facsimile from PubMedCentral at this link.
1939
#4660.1
Vesennij (vesenne-letnij) endemiceskij klescevoj encefalit. [Vernal (verno-aestival) endemic tick-borne encephalitis.]
Isolation of the virus of spring–summer (Russian Far East) encephalitis.
1939
#1080
Isolierung des Vitamins K in hochgereinigter Form.
Isolation of vitamin K1 from alfalfa. It was isolated independently by R. W. McKee and his co-workers, J. Amer. chem. Soc., 1939, 61, 1295.
1939
#1081
The isolation of vitamin K1.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Binkley, MacCorquodale, Thayer, Doisy. In 1943 Doisy received half of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for his discovery of the chemical nature of vitamin K."…
1939
#1083
Synthesis of vitamin K1.
1939
#4671.2
Successful transfer of the Lansing strain of poliomyelitis virus from the cotton rat to the white mouse.
Armstrong adapted the Lansing strain of poliomyelitis to the cotton rat and then to the mouse, greatly facilitating experimental work on the disease.
1939
#912
Blood groups.
Boyd showed that blood groups are inherited and not changed by environment.
1939
#912.1
An unusual case of intra-group agglutination.
Discovery of the Rh antigen.
1939
#1092.51
The Englishman’s food. A history of five centuries of English diet.
Revised edition, 1958.
1939
#1310.1
Action potentials recorded from inside a nerve fibre.
Hodgkin and Huxley were the first to succeed in inserting electrodes into a living giant nerve fiber and to measure directly the action potential within it. In 1963 Hodgkin and Huxley shared the Nobel Prize in Physiol…
1939
#459
Das Anatomenbildnis. Seine Entwicklung im Zusammenhang mit der anatomischen Abbildung.
1939
#4771
Myasthenia gravis and tumors of the thymic region. Report of a case in which the tumor was removed.
First deliberate treatment of myasthenia gravis by thymectomy, with M. F. Mason, H. J. Morgan, and S. S. Riven.
1939
#531.1
Gewebeaffinität, ein Mittel der embryonalen Formbildung.
Tissue affinity as a means of embryonic morphogenesis. English translation in No. 534.3.
1939
#534
The rise of embryology.
Includes a fine bibliography.
1939
#2010.1
Ueber die Ausbreitung und Absorption des Ultraschalls im menschlichen Gewebe und seine therapeutische Wirkung an lschias und Plexusneuralgie.
First therapeutic use of ultrasonics. With R. Richter and E. Parow.
1939
#1714
The natural history of population.
1939
#2137.10
Principles and practice of aviation medicine.
Used by all American flight surgeons during World War II.
1939
#1927
Dolantin, ein neuartiges Spasmolytikum und Analgetikum. (Chemisches und pharmakologisches.)
Synthesis of pethidine (dolantin) (Demoral).
1939
#1928
The pharmacological actions and therapeutic uses of some compounds related to adrenaline.
1939
#1933.1
Bactericidal effect of an extract of a soil bacillus on gram-positive cocci.
Isolation of gramicidin.
1939
#1933.2
Studies in the biochemistry of micro-organisms. LX. Griseofulvin, C17H17O6Cl, a metabolic product of Penicillium griseo-fulvum Dierckx.
Isolation of griseofulvin. With H. Raistrick and P. Simonart.
1939
#2268
A history of tropical medicine. 2 vols.
An exhaustive history of the subject to the time of writing.
1939
#3038.1
An oxygenator with a large surface–volume ratio.
First heart–lung machine used successfully on an animal.
1939
#3039
Surgical ligation of a patent ductus arteriosus: Report of first successful case.
One of the earliest successful surgical repairs for congenital heart disease. See also later paper in Ann. Surg.,1939, 110, 321-56.
1939
#2525
The anaerobic bacteria and their activities in nature and disease. A subject bibliography. 2 vols.
Supplements were published: 1938-1975, 8 vols., 1941-82.
1939
#3098
Studies on leukemia with the aid of radioactive phosphorus.
Therapeutic use of radioactive isotopes for the treatment of leukemia. John H. Lawrence was the brother of Ernest Orlando Lawrence, inventor of the cyclotron; John Lawrence also worked at the Lawrence Berkeley Nationa…
1939
#3240
Pulmonary tuberculosis. Pathology, diagnosis, management and prevention.
Third edition, 1953, by W. Pagel, F. A. H. Simmonds, and N. Macdonald.
1939
#2576.8
An electrophoretic study of immune sera and purified antibody preparations.
Antibodies shown to be gamma globulins.
1939
#2870
Studies on the estimation of cardiac output in man, and abnormalities in cardiac function, from the heart’s recoil and the blood’s impacts; the ballistocardiogram.
Introduction of the ballistocardiogram. With A. J. Rawson, H. A. Schroeder, and N. R. Joseph.
1939
#2700
Differential radiography.
Watson first described axial transverse tomography.
1939
#2581
Bacteriology.
A much briefer history than Bulloch’s but with a thorough and accurate bibliography.
1939
#3211.1
Segmental pneumonectomy in bronchiectasis. The lingula segment of the left upper lobe.
1939
#3212
Pneumonia. With special reference to pneumococcus lobar pneumonia.
1939
#3213
Tabakmissbrauch und Lungencarcinom.
In the first case-control epidemiological study of the effects of tobacco Müller recorded a statistically significant correlation between cigarette smoking and lung cancer. See Alfredo Morabia, "Quality, originality, …
1939
#2722
Circulatory diseases of the extremities.
1939
#2723
Diffuse arteriolar disease with hypertension and the associated retinal lesions.
The Keith–Wagener classification of fundal lesions. They classified essential hypertension into four groups.
1939
#2724
Renal changes in malignant hypertension; experimental evidence.
Production of hypertension in rats by constriction of one renal artery, and important studies of the renal changes produced, which included degeneration of the renal arterioles.
1939
#3708
Methods for assessing the level of nutrition of the human subject: estimation of vitamin B1 in urine by the thiochrome test.
Wang’s test for avitaminosis.
1939
#3787.2
Radiotherapy in Hodgkin’s disease (malignant granulomatosis). Anatomic and clinical foundations; governing principles; results.
Gilbert was among the first to achieve durable responses to radiotherapy in Hodgkin’s disease.
1939
#3802
The endocrine glands
Goldzieher dealt very fully with the history, theory, and practice of endocrinology.
1939
#3803