1930–1939
895 entries with publication dates in this decade.
1930
#6223
Amniography; preliminary report.
Introduction of amniography. With J. D. Miller and L. E. Holly.
1930
#6627.1
Amulets and superstitions: the original texts with translations and descriptions.
Reprinted, 1961.
1930
#5220
Meningo-enzephalitische Veränderungen bei Affen nach intra-cerebraler Impfung mit Lymphogranuloma inquinale.
The authors transmitted lymphogranuloma venereum to animals and attributed it to a virus. See also C. R. Soc. Biol. (Paris), 1931, 106, 802-03.
1930
#6729
Roll of the Indian Medical Service 1615-1930.
Appendix and Errata, 1933. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1930
#6730
Plarr’s lives of the Fellows of the Royal College of Surgeons of England; Plarr's lives of the Fellows Online.
Publication began with the first 2 vols. edited after Plarr's death by D'Arcy Power with the assistance of W. G. Spencer and G. E. Gask, 1930. Supplement, 1930-51, by Sir D’Arcy Power and W. R. LeFanu, 1953. Second su…
1930
#6471
The beginnings. Egypt and Assyria.
Clio Medica series.
1930
#6540
Medicine in the British Isles
Clio Medica series.
1930
#6772.1
The printed books in the library of the Hunterian Museum in the University of Glasgow. A catalogue by Mungo Ferguson.
Catalogue of the printed books in the celebrated library formed by William Hunter (1718-83), now called the Hunterian Collection, at the University of Glasgow Library. The catalogue was actually printed in 1916, well …
1930 –1933
#6588
Medicine in Virginia in the seventeenth (eighteenth, nineteenth) century. 3 vols.
1930
#6596.9
History of Haitian medicine.
1930
#253
The genetical theory of natural selection.
The first coherent general algebraic analysis of Mendelian population behavior. The work contains Fisher’s rigorous development of his “fundamental theorem of natural selection”–”the rate of increase in fitness of any…
1930
#45
A treatise on the Canon of Medicine incorporating a translation of the First Book
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This translation of Book I of the Canon accompanied by a large number of valuable notes and comments on the text, which bring out the close connection between Arabic and Chinese medicine, and the influence which Avice…
1930
#7225
Action currents in the auditory nerve in response to acoustical stimulation.
Wever and Bray discovered the electrical activity of the inner ear−then called the coclear microphonic−which enabled the development of the physiology of the ear.
1930
#7308
Mathematische Klimalehre und astronomische Theorie der Klimaschwankungen. Handbuch der Klimatologie, Bd. 1, Teil A.
Milankovitch cycles, first exposition (176 pages). Milankovitch theorized that variations in eccentricity, axial tilt, and precession of the Earth's orbit determined climatic patterns on Earth through orbital forcing,…
1930
#7710
Paleopathologie et pathologie comparative.
Pales described a broad range of diseases and noted relationships between disease, evolution and species extinction.
1930
#7797
Historic artificial limbs.
1930
#7918
Clinical observations on phenylethanolamine sulfate.
In 1929 Alles discovered the sympathomimetic properties of beta-phenyl-isopropylamine (amphetamine). With G. Piness and H. Miller.
1930
#8322
Sexual life in ancient India: A study in the comparative history of Indian Culture.
Extensively revised by the author, with additional notes by the translator (unidentified), from Das Weib im altindischen Epos. Ein Beitrag zur indischen und zur vergleichenden Kulturgeschichte. Von Johann Jacob Meyer.…
1930 –1932
#9240
Zur Heilkinde der Uiguren. Edited by G. R. Rachmati. 2 vols.
Old Uygur medical fragments, some of which are now lost, in the Berlin Turfan collection. Rachmati was the pioneer historian of Islamic Central Asian medicine.
1930 –1943
#9621
Official history of the Australian Army Medical Services in the war of 1914-1918
1930
#9846
Erwin Bälz: Das Leben eines deutschen Arztes im erwachenden Japan. Tagebücher, Briefe, Berichte hrsg. von Toku Bälz.
Bälz was personal physician to the Japanese Imperial Family and cofounder of modern western medicine in Japan. "Bälz taught more than 800 students in Western medicine during his tenure at the Tokyo Imperial University…
1930
#10301
Medical history of Michigan. Compiled and edited by a committee, C. B. Burr, Chairman, and published under the auspices of the Michigan State Medical Society. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile from the U.S. Library of Congress at this link.
1930
#10316
The centennial history of the Tennessee State Medical Association, 1830-1930.
1930
#10333
A brief history of medicine in Massachusetts.
1930
#10847
Sittengeschichte des Weltkrieges. 2 vols.
Sexuality in World War I. Abridged translation into English Sexual History of the World War (New York, Panurge Press, 1934). Only a small sampling of the plates from the German edition were issued as Illustrated Suppl…
1930
#11324
The infant welfare movement in the eighteenth century.
1930
#11495
The William H. Welch Medical Library of The Johns Hopkins University. An account of its origin and development together with a description of the building an an account of the exercises held on the occasion of the dedication of the library and the inauguration of the chair of the history of medicine at The Johns Hopkins University.
A separate edition in book form was also issued.
1930
#11686
Bibliography with synopsis of the original papers of the writings of Sir James Mackenzie. Edited by William Black Rankin Monteith.
1930
#12150
A history of the California Medical Society.
1930
#12158
Seed, a novel of birth control.
1930
#12366
Le cœur dans les textes égyptiens depuis l'ancien jusqu'à la fin du nouvel Empire.
1930
#12459
The African Republic of Liberia and the Belgian Congo based on the observations made and material collected during the Harvard African Expedition, 1926-1927. Edited by Richard P. Strong. 2 vols.
"The Harvard Medical African Expedition of 1926-1927 was an eight-man venture sent by Harvard University for the primary purpose of conducting a medical and biological survey of Liberia; the secondary purpose being to…
1930
#12830
The moving boundary method of studying the electrophoresis of proteins. (Nova Acta Reg. Soc. Scient. Upsaliensis, IV, 7, No. 4.)
Tilesius's doctoral dissertation introduced the laboratory technique of moving-boundary electrophoresis, a technique for separation of chemical compounds by electrophoresis in free solution. For this work, and the wor…
1930
#13255
Human speech. Some observations, experiments, and conclusions as to the nature, origin, purpose and possible improvement of human speech.
Paget believed that speech originated in the "pantomimic action" of the lips and tongue related to the speaker's senses and emotions. This led to his central thesis that hand signs and gestures were the original form …
1930
#13387
What medicine can do for law. The Anniversary Discourse delivered before the New York Academy of Medicine November 1, 1928.
When he delivered this presentation Cardozo was Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals. In 1832 President Herbert Hoover appointed Cardozo to the U.S. Supreme Court to succeed Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
1930
#14322
Les femmes et la progrès des sciences médicales.
1931
#354
An introduction to the literature of vertebrate zoology. Based chiefly on the titles in the Blacker Library of Zoology, the Emma Shearer Wood Library of Ornithology, the Bibliotheca Osleriana and other libraries of McGill University, Montreal.
A comprehensive summary and bibliography of the literature on vertebrate zoology. The first 170 pages are a narrative divided into 19 chapters, plus an index. The remainder is a "partially annotated catalogue" arrange…
1931
#4478.107
Injuries and sport. A general guide for the practitioner.
The first English treatise on sports medicine.
1931
#4611
Pseudo-Argyll Robertson pupils with absent tendon reflexes; a benign disorder simulating tabes dorsalis.
“Adie’s syndrome”; see also his later paper in Brain, 1932, 55, 98-113. It was earlier reported by J. Strasberger, by A. Saenger and by M. Nonne in Neurol. Zbl., 1902, 21, 738, 837, and 1000. See also No. 5950.
1931
#1065
The quantitative estimation of vitamin D by radiography.
Medical Research Council Special Report No. 158. R. B. Bourdillon, H. M. Bruce, C. Fischmann, R. G. C. Jenkins, and T. A. Webster isolated from irradiated ergosterol a crystalline compound, calciferol, which, weight f…
1931
#1066
The vitamins.
1931
#4670.5
Immunological differences between strains of poliomyelitis virus.
1931
#1309
Lebensnerven und Lebenstriebe. 3te. Aufl.
1931
#1346
Studies on conditions of activity in endocrine organs. xxvi. A hormone produced by sympathetic action on smooth muscle.
Cannon and Bacq suggested the name “sympathin” for a substance which they considered to be liberated into the blood stream following nerve stimulation and which acted in the same manner as sympathetic impulses. See al…
1931
#1347
Der humorale Wirkungsmechanismus der Oculomotoriusreizung.
1931
#531
Chemical embryology. 3 vols.
1931
#1195
Ueber die chemische Untersuchung der Sexualhormone.
The male sex hormone, androsterone, was isolated in crystalline form by Butenandt. In 1939 Butenandt received half of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his work on sex hormones." The other half was awarded to Leopold …
1931
#1196
Die Hormone des Ovariums und des Hypophysenvorderlappens.
Second edition, 1935.
1931
#139.2
Pinocytosis.
Discovery of pinocytosis.
1931
#2055