1930–1939
895 entries with publication dates in this decade.
1932 –1954
#6734
Obituary notices of Fellows of the Royal Society. Vol. 1-9.
Continued as Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society, vol. 1- 1955- See http://www.historyofmedicine.com/id/11216
1932
#6735
Grosse Ärzte: Eine Geschichte der Heilkunde in Lebensbildern.
A series of biographies of the great men in medical history. English translation, New York, 1933, reprinted 1972; second (German) edition, 1954.
1932
#5257
Zur Weiterentwicklung synthetisch dargestellter Malariamittel. I. Ueber die chemotherapeutische Wirkung des Atebrin.
Introduction of atebrin (mepacrine, quinacrine).
1932
#6493
History of Chinese medicine.
The writers spent 15 years in the compilation of this work, the first important contribution to the history of Chinese medicine for Western readers. Beginning with demonology, plant lore and folk medicine, the writers…
1932
#6541
History of Scottish medicine. 2nd. ed. 2 vols.
1932
#6563
Italian medicine. Translated by E.B. Krumbhaar.
Clio Medica series.
1932
#6574
Lappische Heilkunde.
Folk medicine of the Sami people.
1932
#254
The causes of evolution.
Haldane’s summary of his mathematical theory of natural selection. The detailed mathematical theory appeared as Mathematical theory of natural and artificial selection, first published (Pt. I) in Trans. Camb. philos. …
1932
#269.3
Beitrag zur geometrischen Elektronenoptik.
Electron microscope. See also their later paper in Z. Physik. 1932, 78, 318.
1932
#271
The history of the microscope.
A classic history of microscopes up to 1800.
1932
#6918
X-ray studies of the structures of hair, wool, and related fibres. I. General.
Astbury, a student of William Lawrence Bragg, was the first to study proteins by X-ray analysis. He applied X-ray analysis to the structure of hair, wool, and related fibers, of which the protein keratin is the princi…
1932
#7003
The Swimmer manuscript. Cherokee sacred formulas and medicinal prescriptions, by James Mooney, revised, completed and edited by Frans M. Olbrechts. Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 99.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1932 –1957
#7023
British Optical Association Library and Museum catalogue. 3 vols.
Vol. 1 primarlily by Sutcliffe; vol.3 by Mitchell. The 3 volumes describe more than 1000 items; every entry is annotated. The first volume is extensively illustrated.
1932 –1937
#7163
The abridged version of "The book of simple drugs" of Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Ghāfiqī by Gregorius abu l-Faraj (Bar Hebraeus). Edited from the only two known manuscripts with an English translation, commentary and indices by M. Meyerhof and G. P. Sobhy Bey. 2 pts.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1932
#8074
Medical care for the American people. The final report of the Committee on the Costs of Medical Care.
See Gore, "A forgotten landmark medical study from 2932 by the Committee on the Cost of Medical Care," Proc (Bayl Univ Med Cent). 2013 Apr; 26 (2): 142–143. Available from PubMedCentral at this link. See also, Ross, "…
1932 –1934
#8738
The history of St. Thomas's Hospital. Vol. 1: From the earliest times until A.D. 1600. Vol. 2: From 1600 to 1800.
1932
#9283
The ethnobotany of the Acoma and Laguna Indians. M.A. thesis.
1932
#9295
Ethnobotany of the Ojibwe Indians.
Digital facsimile from nwic.edu at this link.
1932
#10279
California's medical story.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1932
#10784
On the specific antibacterial properties of penicillin and potassium tellurite. Incorporating a method of demonstrating some bacterial antagonisms.
In this paper Fleming first described the use of penicillin as an antibacterial agent in man, and reported on experiments using it as a wound dressing for septic wounds. He also corrected the species name from Penicil…
1932
#11025
English-speaking students of medicine at the University of Leiden.
Based upon an examination of the Album of Students at Leiden from 1575 to 1875. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1932
#12051
Le pèlerinage de la Mecque au point de vue religieux, social et sanitaire par le docteur Duguet. Avec un préface de Justin Godart.
"Duguet also served as inspector general of health services of Lebanon and Syria under the French Mandate and was responsible for the medical supervision of the pilgrimage to Mecca. The first part of the book gives so…
1932
#12060
Light and life. Address delivered at the opening meeting of the International Congress on Light Therapy in Copenhagen 15. August 1932.
In 1922 Bohr was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics "for his services in the investigation of the structure of atoms and of the radiation emanating from them." Including Bohr's 1932 address, Light and life, in the Nob…
1932
#12160
Brave new world.
"The novel opens in the World State city of London in AF (After Ford) 632 (AD 2540 in the Gregorian calendar), where citizens are engineered through artificial wombs and childhood indoctrination programmes into predet…
1932
#12278
Studies in the metabolism of sodium r-lactate. 1. Response of normal human subjects to the intravenous injection of sodium r-lactate. 2. Response of human subjects with acidosis to the intravenous injection of sodium r-lactate. 3. Reponse of human subjects with liver damage, disturbed mineral and water balance, and renal insufficiency to the intravenous injection ofsodium r-lactate.
Hartman added sodium lactate to the standard Ringer's solution to form Ringer's lactate solution, also known as Hartmann's solution.
1932
#12311
Manuscripta medica: A descriptive catalogue of the manuscripts in the library of the Medical Society of London.
This manuscript collection was acquired by the Wellcome Trustees in 1984, and is now in the Wellcome Library. It included a number of Byzantine medical manuscripts.
1932
#12586
A study of monkey-malaria, and its experimental transmission to man.
Das Gupta and his supervisor Robert Knowles first described Plasmodium knowlesi as a distinct species, and as a potential cause of human malaria in 1932 when they described the morphology of the parasite in macaque bl…
1932
#12671
Neue Materialen zu Hunain Ibn Ishâk’s Galen-Bibliographie. Abhandlungen für die Kunde des Morgenlandes 19.2.
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1932
#12753
The sexual side of marriage.
A very good advice book for its time by a physician. Initially published by a small publisher, this book was rapidly reprinted, many times by W.W. Norton. The cover reprinted an endorsement by Havelock Ellis: "An admi…
1932
#13289
Sobre in caso de galactorrea y amenorrea.
Ahumada-Del Castillo syndrome: galactorrhoea-amenorrhoea not associated with pregnancy; oestrogen deficiency and decreased urinary gonadotropin levels.
1932
#14038
The process of tendon repair: An experimental study of tendon suture and tendon graft.
1932
#14087
Erythroblastosis fetalis and its association with universal edema of the fetus, icterus gravis neonatorum and anemia of the newborn.
The authors described and named this syndrome/illness of newborns for the first time, including pathological findings, clinical data, lab abnormalities, presentation and course of illness. Order of authorship in the o…
1933
#4478.109
The control of football injuries.
Apparently the first book on the prevention and treatment of injuries in a single sport, written after fifty players were killed in the 1931 American football season. Stevens was an orthopedic surgeon who became head …
1933
#971
Carbonic anhydrase: Its preparation and properties.
Isolation of carbonic anhydrase.
1933
#1068
Synthese der d- und l-Ascorbinsäure (C-Vitamin).
T. Reichstein, A. Grüssner, and R. Oppenauer synthesized vitamin C.
1933
#1068.1
“Pantothenic acid”, a growth determinant of universal biological occurrence.
Discovery of pantothenic acid (vitamin B3). with C. M. Lyman, G. H. Goodyear, J. H. Truesdail, and D. Holaday.
1933
#4656
Encephalitis: studies on experimental transmission.
Isolation of the St. Louis encephalitis virus. With C. Armstrong and H. A. McCordock.
1933
#1114
The quantitative study of lymphocyte production.
1933
#1570.1
Über den Knall und die Theorie des Hörens.
In 1961 Békésy was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for his discoveries of the physical mechanism of stimulation within the cochlea." English translation in Békésy, Experiments in hearing, 1960.
1933
#1349
The mode of action of vasodilator and vasoconstrictor nerves.
1933
#1350
Studies on conditions of activity in endocrine organs, xxix. Sympathin E and sympathin I.
Adrenaline and sympathin were suggested to be unidentical substances, and Cannon and Rosenblueth proposed the terms “sympathin E” and “sympathin I”.
1933
#1351
Ueber humorale Uebertragung der Erregung von einem Neuron suf das andere.
Kibjakow showed that some substance in a muscle perfusate is able to contract muscle during stimulation of nerve.
1933
#1170
The adrenotropic hormone of the anterior pituitary lobe.
Isolation of an impure “adrenotropic hormone” containing adrenocorticotropic principle. With E. M. Anderson and D. L. Thomson.
1933
#1171
The preparation, identification and assay of prolactin – a hormone of the anterior pituitary.
With R. W. Bates and S. W. Dykshorn.
1933
#1377.1
The dermatomes in man.
1933
#1198
Chemical and physiological properties of crystalline oestrogenic hormones.
Estriol obtained from placental tissue.
1933
#1199
Die Behandlung der Amenorrhoë mit hohen Dosen der Ovarialhormone.
First use of estrogenic hormone for the treatment of amenorrhea in ovariectomized women, with production of the typical cyclical endometrial changes.
1933
#2028.41
Origine e vicende della trasfusione del sangue. Considerazioni storico-critche.
1933
#2089
Die wichtigsten Vergiftungen. Fortschritte in deren Erkennung und Behandlung.
1933 –1934
#2137.8
Der Einfluss von Beschleunigungen auf den Kreislaufapparat.
Determination of the effect of high acceleration on blood pressure, establishing that the systolic pressure in arteries going to the head falls progressively as acceleratory forces increase.