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Garrison-Morton-Norman History of Medicine

1930–1939

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1939

#3664

On aspiration biopsy of the liver, with remarks on its diagnostic significance.

IVERSON, Poul (1889 – ) ROHOLM, Kaj (1902 – 1948)

Modern method of liver puncture.

1939

#3877

Treatment of adrenal insufficiency by means of subcutaneous implants of pellets of desoxycorticosterone acetate (a synthetic adrenal cortical hormone).

THORN, George Widmer (1906 – 2004) & et al.

With L. L. Engel and H. Eisenberg. For treatment of Addison’s disease by the same method, see the same journal, pp. 339-65.

1939

#3907

Experimental diabetes insipidus.

BIGGART, Sir John Henry (1905 – 1979) ALEXANDER, George Lionel (1902 – 1970)

Production of diabetes insipidus in dogs by injury to the hypothalamus.

1939

#4250.2

Architecture of the kidney in chronic Bright’s disease.

OLIVER, Jean Redman (1889 – 1976)

A description of the morphological changes in the nephrons of diseased kidneys. Hypertrophic, atrophic and aglomerular units are described.

1939

#2991

Arteriovenous fistula of the lung associated with polycythemia vera: report of a case in which the diagnosis was made clinically.

SMITH, Harry Leroy (1887 – )
HORTON, Bayard Taylor (1895 – 1980)
HORTON, Bayard Taylor (1895 – 1980)

1939

#4152.1

Familial benign chronic pemphigus.

HAILEY, William Howard (1898 – 1967) HAILEY, Hugh Edward (1909 – 1963)

“Hailey–Hailey disease”, earlier described by H. Gougerot, Arch. derm. – syph. Clin. St Louis, 1933, 5, 255-57.

1939

#5087.2

A study in active immunization against pertussis.

KENDRICK, Pearl Louella (1890 – 1980) ELDERING, Grace (1900 – 1988)

Pertussis vaccine.

1939

#4909.1

A new palliative operation in cases of inoperable occlusion of the Sylvian aqueduct.

TORKILDSEN, Arne (1899 – 1968)

Ventriculocisternostomy for the relief of obstructive hydrocephalus.

1939

#4403

Arthroplasty of the hip. A new method.

SMITH-PETERSEN, Marius Nygaard (1886 – 1953)

Vitallium cup arthroplasty.

1939

#4403.1

Principles involved in the treatment of congenital clubfoot.

KITE, Joseph Hiram (1891 – 1986)

Kite’s method, involving “a series of plaster casts and wedgings, without the use of anesthetics, forcible manipulations, or operative procedures”, became standard practice.

1939

#4403.2

Operative orthopedics.

CAMPBELL, Willis Cohoon (1880 – 1941)

First edition of the most influential American textbook of orthopedics in the twentieth century.

1939

#4403.3

Tendon transplanation in the upper extremity.

STEINDLER, Arthur (1878 – 1959)

Correction to this article in Am. J. Surg., 1939, 44, 534.

1939

#5172.1

The use of anthrax vaccines prepared from avirulent (uncapsulatec) variants of Bacillus anthracis.

STERNE, Max (1905 – 1997)

Nonencapsulated spore vaccine.

1939

#5484.3

Infection of chicks and chick embryos with rabies.

DAWSON, James Robertson Jr. (1908 – 1986)

Cultivation of rabies virus in the chick embryo. Soon afterwards I. J. Kligler and H. Bernkopf, Nature, 1939, 143, 899, made a similar report.

1939

#5721.1

The art of anesthesia. 6th ed.

FLAGG, Paluel Joseph (1886 – 1970)

Flagg had an important influence on American anesthesia. The Flagg can is described on p. 148 of his book.

1939

#5763.1

Calibrated intermediate skin-grafts.

PADGETT, Earl Calvin (1893 – 1946)

Padgett dermatome.

1939

#5645

The local implantation of sulfanilamide in compound fractures.

JENSEN, Nathan Kenneth (1910 – ) & et al.

Sulphonamide dressing of wounds. With L. W. Johnsrud and M. C. Nelson.

1939

#6465.1

Navajo medicine man. Sandpaintings and legends of Miguelito from the John Frederick Huckel Collection

MIGUELITO (1865 – 1936)
REICHARD, Gladys Amanda (1893 – 1955)
REICHARD, Gladys Amanda (1893 – 1955) HUCKEL, John Frederick (1863 – 1936)

Navajo sandpaintings are traditionally made only for the healing ceremony in which they are used, and then destroyed. This book contains superb reproductions on sand-colored paper of watercolor versions of the sandpai…

1939

#6231

Prediction and prevention of late pregnancy accidents in diabetes.

WHITE, Priscilla (1900 – 1989) & et al.

First report of hormone treatment. Written with R.S. Titus, E.P. Joslin, and H. Hunt.

1939

#6304

The evolution of obstetric analgesia.

CLAYE, Sir Andrew Moynihan (1896 – 1977)

1939

#6565

Bibliografia di storia della medicina italiana.

PAZZINI, Adalberto (1898 – 1975)

Classified list of 7451 books and papers, some annotated, on Italian medical history and biography.

1939

#6654

BULLETIN OF THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE. 7-

Vol. 1-6, 1933-38 entitled Bulletin of the Institute of the History of Medicine. Recent issues may be viewed from Project Muse at: http://muse.jhu.edu/journal/24 .

1939

#6594

The first Negro medical society. A history of the Medico-Chirurgical Society of the District of Columbia.

COBB, William Montague (1904 – 1990)

A detailed history of the “first American Negro medical society formed in America and probably in the world”. Cobb was the first black American medical historian of note.

1939

#6599

Brazilian medical contributions.

RIBEIRO, Leonídio (1893 – 1976)

1939

#6914

The nature of the chemical bond and the structure of molecules and crystals: An introduction to modern structural chemistry.

PAULING, Linus Carl (1901 – 1994)
PAULING, Linus Carl (1901 – 1994)

This book set forth in detail Pauling's valence-bond theory based on the quantum-mechanical concept of resonance between two energy states, which led to his highly innovative idea that the hybridization of orbitals (e…

1939

#7158

Fused neurons and synaptic contacts in the giant nerve fibers of cephalopods.

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

Young discovered the squid giant synapse, a chemical synapse found in squid, and the largest chemical junction in nature.

1939

#7174

Grundriss der Luftfahrtmedizin.

STRUGHOLD, Hubertus (1898 – 1986)
STRUGHOLD, Hubertus (1898 – 1986)
RUFF, Siegfried (1907 – 1989)
RUFF, Siegfried (1907 – 1989)

Compendium of aerospace medicine during the Nazi regime. Ruff was director of the Aviation Medicine Department at the German Experimental Institute for Aviation. Though he was later indicted for war crimes, Ruff was n…

1939

#8120

The social function of science.

BERNAL, John Desmond (1901 – 1971)

This pioneering sociological study contained two large folding information graphics. The first was one of the first attempts at a "map of science." It divided science into physical, biological, and social sectors, and…

1939

#8449

Das Arzneidrogenbuch Circa Instans in einer Fassung des XIII. Jahrhunderts aus der Universitätsbibliothek Erlangen. Text und Kommentar als Beitrag zur Pflanzen- und Drogenkunde des Mittelalters by Hans Wölfel.

PLATEARIUS, Matthaeus (1130 – 1180) WÖLFEL, Hans

1939

#8527

Les manuscrits arabes de l'Escurial. Vol. 2, Fascicule 2: Médecine et histoire naturelle. Compiled by Hartwig Derenbourg, edited by Henri Paul Joseph Renaud.

DERENBOURG, Hartwig (1844 – 1908)
DERENBOURG, Hartwig (1844 – 1908) RENAUD, Henri-Paul-Joseph (1881 – 1945)

1939

#9323

Ethnobotany of the Hopi. Bulletin No. 15.

WHITING, Alfred Frank (1912 – 1978)

1939

#9735

La médecine et les médecins dans la littérature française.

CRUCHET, Jean René (1875 – 1959)
CRUCHET, Jean René (1875 – 1959)

1939

#10226

Alcoholics Anonymous: The story of how many thousands of men and women have recovered from alcoholism.

WILSON, William Griffith (1895 – 1971)

"Describes how to recover from alcoholism, primarily written by William G. "Bill W." Wilson, one of the founders of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA). It is the originator of the seminal "twelve-step method" widely used to tr…

1939

#10688

Nutrition and physical degeneration: A comparison of primitive and modern diets and their effects.

PRICE, Weston Andrew Valleau (1870 – 1948)

"The 1939 foreword to the book, written by physical anthropologist Earnest A. Hooton, lauded Price's work for confirming previous research that dental caries were less prevalent in "savages" and attempting to establis…

1939

#11189

A bibliography of the writings of Harvey Cushing prepared on the occasion of his seventieth birthday April 8, 1939 by The Harvey Cushing Society.

CUSHING, Harvey Williams (1869 – 1939)
CUSHING, Harvey Williams (1869 – 1939) THE HARVEY CUSHING SOCIETY LIGHT, Richard Upjohn (1902 – 1994)

Revised and best third edition, Park Ridge, IL: American Association of Neurological Surgeons, 1993. This includes a photographic essay, with extensive captions, by Richard Upjohn Light.

1939

#11239

John Howard (1726-1790) hospital and prison reformer: A bibliography

HOWARD, John (1726 – 1790)
HOWARD, John (1726 – 1790)
BAUMGARTNER, Leona (1902 – 1991)
BAUMGARTNER, Leona (1902 – 1991)

1939

#11670

Heparin: Its chemistry, physiology and application in medicine.

JORPES, Johann Erik (1894 – 1973)

In the early 1930s Jorpes began work on the isolation and structure of heparin. In 1936 he successfully purified heparin and subsequently demonstrated that it was localized in the mast cells of tissues. In the same ye…

1939

#11787

The measurement of adult intelligence.

WECHSLER, David (1896 – 1981)
WECHSLER, David (1896 – 1981)

Wechsler made the first attempt to construct an intelligence scale specifically for adults. Until his effort, most intelligence tests used with adults were not standardized for anyone over 18. "Discusses the construct…

1939

#12448

Sleep and wakefulness as alternating phases in the cycle of existence.

KLEITMAN, Nathaniel (1895 – 1999)

Discusses phases of the sleep cycle, experimental work on sleep and wakefulness, sleep disorders and their treatment, and such sleep-like states as hypnosis and hibernation.

1939 –2015

#12964

The collected letters of Antoni Van Leeuwenhoek / Alle de Brieven van Antoni Van Leeuwenhoek. Edited, illustrated & annotated by a committee of Dutch scientists. 17 vols. through 2015.

LEEUWENHOEK, Antonie van (1632 – 1723)
LEEUWENHOEK, Antonie van (1632 – 1723)

1939

#13305

Jewish magic and superstition: A study in folk religion.

TRACTENBERG, Joshua (1904 – 1959)

1939 –1941

#13432

The Dr. Howard A. Kelly library catalogue

KELLY, Howard Atwood (1858 – 1943)
KELLY, Howard Atwood (1858 – 1943) LANTZ, Walter Dewey (1906 – )

Parts 1-6.

1939

#13462

Das Hospital zu St. Georg in Leipzig durch acht Jahrhunderte 1212–1940. Band 1. Das Hospital zu St. Georg vom Jahre 1212 bis zum Jahre 1631. (Vols. 2 & 3 not published).

SEYFARTH, Paul Carly (1890 – 1950)

1939

#14053

A preliminary atlas of early human fetal activity.

HOOKER, Davenport (1887 – 1965)

The first published photographic study of fetal physiology using live human fetuses. Includes 20 full-age photographic plates, each with 6-12 images (189 total). The fetuses, all between 8.5 and 14 weeks gestation, we…

1939

#14362

Atlas of surgical operations

ZOLLINGER, Robert Milton (1903 – 1992)
CUTLER, Elliott Carr (1888 – 1947)
CUTLER, Elliott Carr (1888 – 1947) CODDING, Mildred B. (1902 – 1991)

Considered a new type of surgical textbook, with particularly remarkable illustrations by Codding. The work, which was initially used as a field guide for American military personnel during World War II, remained in p…