1930–1939
895 entries with publication dates in this decade.
1931
#6424
Einführing in die Medizin.
Traces the evolution of medicine from the stage of superstition and magic to the present time, and shows how our knowledge of the subject has developed through the study of anatomy and physiology. Translated in Englis…
1931
#6804
Die Eigennamen in der Krankheitsterminologie.
This dictionary of medical eponyms gives references to the original publications involved and records wherever possible the first use of the eponym.
1931
#6590
History of medicine in the United States. 2nd. ed. 2 vols.
An authoritative source-book of the history of medicine in the United States. The first edition appeared in 1901. Dr. Packard edited the Annals of Medical History from its commencement in 1917 until its decease in 194…
1931
#5468
Yellow fever: an epidemiological and historical study of its place of origin. Edited by Laura Armistead Carter and Wade Hampton Frost.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1931
#253.1
Evolution in Mendelian populations.
First detailed presentation of Wright’s quantitative theory of the effects of mutation, migration, selection, and population size on changes in gene frequencies in populations. Digital facsimile from Genetics.org at t…
1931
#253.2
The inborn factors in disease.
Garrod argued that chemical individuality could result in individuals having a predisposition to certain diseases. This view has become particularly significant in light of the establishment of recombinant DNA methods…
1931
#4478.108
Training, conditioning, and the care of injuries.
The first American book on sports medicine, co-authored by the legendary football coach, Knute Rockne.
1931
#4611.1
Apparatus and technique for roentgen examination of the skull.
Lysholm–Schönander skull table, allowing precise radiography of the skull.
1931
#4611.2
A clinical study on positional nystagmus in cases of brain tumour.
1931
#7062
A modern herbal. The medicinal, culinary, cosmetic and economic properties, cultivation and folk-lore of herbs, grasses, fungi, shrubs & trees with their modern scientific uses. With an introduction by the editor, Mrs. C. F. Leyel. 2 vols.
![GRIEVE, Sophia Emma Magdalene [Maud Grieve] (1858 – 1941)](/media/portraits/10066)
Online version at Botanical.com at this link.
1931
#7224
Correlations of the differences in the density of innervation of the organ of Corti with differences in the acuity of hearing, including evidence as to the location in the cochlea of the receptors of certain tones.
The first study to relate hair cell and neuron loss to the hearing of patients. It was the first to show that high frequency sound is "heard" at the base of the cochlea and low frequency sound at the apex. With S. J. …
1931
#7730
Chirurgie esthétique pure (technique et résultats).
Describes cosmetic surgery for the face, nose and breasts.
1931
#7788
American martyrs to science through the Roentgen rays.
1931
#7880
The mystery and lore of monsters. With account of some giants, dwarfs and prodigies.
Digital facsimile of the New York 1931 issue from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1931
#8887
International studies of the relation between the private & official practice of medicine with special reference to the prevention of disease. Vol. 1: The Netherlands, Scandinavia, Germany, Austria, Switzerland. Vol. 2: Belgium, France, Italy, Jugo-Slavia, Hungary, Poland, Czecho-Slovakia. Vol. 3: England and Wales, Scotland, Ireland.(3 vols.)
Contains almost no references to prior literature.
1931
#9213
Medical men in the American Revolution 1775-1783.
Digital edition from U.S. Army Medical Department Office of Medical History at this link.
1931
#9449
The physician of the Dance of Death: A historical study of the evolution of the dance of death mythus in art.
"Reprinted with additions and corrections from Annals of medical history (n. s., vol. II, nos. 4, 5, 6, 1930, and vol. III, nos. 1, 2, 1931)."
1931 –1932
#10764
Selected writings of John Hughlings Jackson, edited by James Taylor, with the advice and assistance of Gordon Holmes and F. M. R. Walshe. 2 vols.
1931
#11026
History of medicine in the province of Quebec.
Reprinted, with additions, from "The Storied Province of Quebec". Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1931
#11188
Experiences with the cerebellar astrocytomas. A critical review of seventy-six cases.
Cushing's most extensive contribution to pediatric neurosurgery concerned his operative experience with these tumors (often benign) that most frequently occur in childhood.
1931
#11250
Bibliographia Burtoniana: A study of Robert Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy, with a bibliography of Burton's Writings
1931
#11447
Fra Mand til Kvinde: Lili Elbes Bekendelser.
Posthumously published autobiography of one of the first transgender women, known prior to the sex change as the Danish painter Einar Wegener. Translated into English as Man into woman: An authentic record of a change…
1931
#11570
The factor of infection in the rheumatic state.
Coburn demonstated that streptococcus is the infective agent in rheumatic fever that can lead to rheumatic heart disease.
1931
#11777
Die Werke der Maria Sibylle Merian: bibliographisch Zusammengestellt.
1931
#12985
Das Problem der dentalen Fokalinfektion und ihre Bekämpfung durch die konservierende Zahnheilkunde.
With physicist Fritz Giesel, Walkhoff on December 28, 1895 Walkhoff did the first dental radiograph on his own teeth. Later, Walkhoff was "responsible for the shift to an everyday use of camphorated chlorophenol to st…
1931
#13378
Vénus et Mercure.
"Chapter by Pierre Najac, “L’Institut de science sexuelle à Berlin”; includes numerous illustrations from the archives of Magnus Hirschfeld’s Institute for Sexual Science in Berlin, as well as Najac’s eyewitness descr…
1931
#13561
Die hormonale Sterilisierung des weiblichen Organismus.
Halberlandt, professor of physiology at Innsbruck, invented the first hormonal contraceptive, Infecundin, using corpus luteum extracts from females rich in the hormone progesterone. His initial report on the contracep…
1931
#14209
U. S. Plant patent 1. Climbing or trailing rose. Filed Aug. 6, 1930. Issued Aug. 18, 1931.
This was the first patent granted for a life form. In response to complaints from the nursery industry that the future of the plant breeding industry was jeopardized by the “pirating” of new plant varieties, President…
1931
#14238
Zur Kenntnis des Vitamins-A aus Fischtranen.
In 1930 Karrer established the correct formula for carotene (the chief precursor of vitamin A), the first demonstration of the chemical structure of a vitamin. Shortly thereafter, he was able to determine the formula …
1932
#351
The social life of monkeys and apes.
A study of the relationship of Man to the other primates, from the physiological and biochemical standpoint. Zuckerman’s work is considered the first adequate interpretation of simian society. 2nd ed., 1980.
1932
#970
Ueber ein neues Oxydationsferment und sein Absorptionsspektrum.
1932
#664
The wisdom of the body.
A discussion of the regulation of body fluids, hunger, thirst, temperature, oxygen supply, water, sugar, and proteins of the body, and the role of the sympathetic-adrenal mechanism.
1932
#4611.3
An improved method of encephalography.
Lumbar encephalography. In 1937 the authors published a monograph on the subject entitled The normal encephalogram. After Dyke's premature death in 1943 Davidoff collaborated with radiologist Bernard S. Epstein (1908-…
1932
#1067
Crystalline vitamin D.
Written with R. B. Bourdillon, H. M. Bruce, R. K. Callow, J. St. L. Philpot, and T. A. Webster.
1932
#1092.5
Bibliographical survey of vitamins 1650-1930, with a section on patents by M. H. Wodlinger.
1932
#4766
Myasthenia gravis: a preliminary report on the effect of treatment with glycine.
Introduction of glycine (glycocoll) in the treatment of myasthenia gravis.
1932
#4767
Zur Pathogenese und Therapie der Myasthenie gravis pseudoparalytica.
Introduction of neostigmine in the treatment of myasthenia gravis.
1932
#1348
Die humorale Übertragung der Chorda tympani-Reizung.
Production of acetylcholine on stimulation of the chorda tympani nerve.
1932
#1197
Sex and internal secretions; a survey of recent research.
Second edition, 1939, with C. H. Danforth and E. A. Doisy.
1932
#2028.6
En oplivingsmethode.
Holger Nielsen (“arm-lift”) method of artificial respiration.
1932
#1657.1
The rise of preventive medicine.
1932
#1658
A century of public health in Britain, 1832-1929.
1932
#1446.2
The hypothalamus and heat regulation.
Location of the heat-regulating center in the hypothalamus.
1932
#1448
The structure and connections of the thalamus.
1932
#2056
Physical therapy.
“Clio medica” series.
1932 –1939
#2056.1
Geschichte der Homöopathie. 4 vols.
A comprehensive history, particularly for homeopathy in Germany. Includes extensive bibliographies.
1932
#1683
Epidemiology, historical and experimental.
1932
#1715
Contributions to the history of statistics.
1932
#2135
Die gewerblichen Vergiftungen und ihre Bekämpfung.
1932 –1934
#1921