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1930–1939

895 entries with publication dates in this decade.

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1933

#5221

A sixth venereal disease. Climatic bubo, lymphogranuloma inguinale, esthioméne, chronic ulcer and elephantiasis of the genito-ano-rectal region, inflammatory stricture of the rectum.

In this exhaustive review of the literature, Stannus considered all the conditions he discussed to be different manifestations of infection by the same organisms – the agent causing lymphogranuloma venereum. Includes …

1933

#6266

Anatomical variations in the female pelvis and their effect in labor, with a suggested classification.

The modern classification of the female pelvis is based on the work of Caldwell and Moloy.

1933

#6300

L’ostretricia e la ginecologia in Italia.

1933

#6513

La médecine en Perse des origines à nos jours. Ses fondements theoriques d’après l’Encyclopédie médicale de Gorgani.

1933

#6773

Revised students’ check-list of texts illustrating the history of medicine, with references for collateral reading.

An expansion of Garrison's original list which appeared in the Index-Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon General’s Office, Washington, 1912, 2 ser. 17, 89-178. Garrison was inspired to draft the 1912 list by a sug…

1933

#6373

Die Reticuloendotheliose - eine neues Krankheitsbild unter den Hepatosplenomegalien.

See No. 6372.

1933

#6584

Medicine in Canada.

1933

#6592

Amerika und die Medizin.

This is not a systematic history of American medicine, but an account of the most important landmarks in the development of medical science and teaching in the United States. An English translation, American Medicine,…

1933

#5264

The history of malaria in the Roman Campagna from ancient times. Edited and enlarged by Anna Celli-Fraentzel.

Reprinted New York, 1977.

1933 –1937

#35.1

Médecine et thérapeutique byzantines: Oeuvres médicales d’Alexander de Tralles, le dernier auteur classique des grands médecins grecs de l’antiquité. Ed. F. Brunet. 4 vols.

1933

#7065

Some notes on the history of the National Medical Association.

Digital facsimile available from PubMedCental (NLM) at this link.

1933

#7829

Pigs born without eyeballs.

Hale demonstrated that pregnant pigs fed a diet deficient in vitamin A gave birth to piglets with a variety of malformations, predominantly a lack of eyes. See also: Hale, F., 'The relation of vitamin A to anophthalmo…

1933

#8075

The costs of medical care: A summary of investigations on the economic aspects of the prevention and care of illness.

1933

#8079

The incidence of illness and the receipt and costs of medical care among representative families. Experiences in twelve consecutive months during 1928-1931. Publications of the Committee on the Costs of Medical Care : No. 26.

Digital facsimile from Hathi Trust at this link.

1933

#9348

Ethnobotany of the Forest Potawatomi Indians.

Digital facsimile from swsbm.com at this link.

1933

#10308

Red medicine: Socialized health in Soviet Russia.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1933 –1934

#10693

Studies on the structure of the cerebral cortex. I. Area entorhinalis. II. Continuation of the study of the Ammonic system.

Lorente de Nó "demonstrated structural evidence that the cortical areas of mammals are organized in a columnar manner rather than in horizontal layers, thus articulating for the first time the basic features of the co…

1933

#11002

Medical women of America: A short history of the pioneer medical women of America and of a few of their colleagues in England.

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1933

#11233

A catalogue of the works of Linnaeus (and publications more immediately relating thereto) perserved in the libraries of the British Museum (Bloomsbury) and the British Museum (Natural History) (South Kennsington). Second edition

Includes a vast number of works theses and orations, of works edited by or supervised by Linnaeus or written with his cooperation. Digital facsimile from the Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.

1933

#11349

Benign tumors in the third ventricle of the brain: Diagnosis and treatment.

1933

#11668

The failing heart of middle life: The myocardiosis syndrome, coronary thrombosis, and angina pectoris with a section upon the medico-legal aspects of sudden death from heart disease.

"This pioneering monograph on the pathophysiology of coronary artery disease includes a detailed discussion of the recently recognized electrocardiographic features of myocardial infarction. Hyman invented a [external…

1933

#11688

Transplantation of the intact mammalian heart.

Mann and colleagues accomplished the first transplantation of an intact mammalian heart.

1933

#12485

Sound motion pictures in obstetrics.

DeLee was one of the pioneers of filmmaking for the purpose of medical teaching. In this paper he described the necessary components of a medical film, including scripts, props, lighting, sound and expert staff member…

1933

#12802

Las plantas medicinales de México.

Contains information on 833 species.

1933

#12910

Die Zahnheilkunde in Russland im 18. und 19. Jahrhundert.

1933

#13200

Sex efficiency through exercises. Special physical culture for women, with 480 cinematographic and 54 full-page illustrations.

Includes a series of 12 "cinematographic" films on 480 flicker cards. In all the photographs frontal nudity of the female model is covered by clothing, though her buttocks are exposed in some views. Having previously …

1933

#13340

L'école médicale de Kairouan aux x et xi siècles.

1933

#14280

Synthesis of ascorbic acid.

Haworth and Hirst successfully synthesized vitamin C in the laboratory. This was the first vitamin to be artificially produced. Their breakthrough made it possible for vitamin C, or ascorbic acid as Haworth called it,…

1934

#1069

The lyochromes: a new group of animal pigments.

Chemical formula of riboflavine (vitamin B2).

1934

#1070

Vital need of the body for certain unsaturated fatty acids.

Isolation of vitamin F (linolenic acid).

1934

#4657

Übertragung des Virus von Encephalitis epidemica auf Affen.

Experimental transmission of Japanese B encephalitis.

1934

#4658

Acute ascending myelitis following a monkey bite, with the isolation of a virus capable of reproducing the disease.

Herpesvirus simiae (B virus) infection; isolation of the virus.

1934

#4688

Experimental lymphocytic choriomeningitis of monkeys and mice produced by a virus encountered in studies of the 1933 St. Louis encephalitis epidemic.

Isolation of the virus of benign lymphocytic choriomeningits.

1934

#1039

Ueber die pharmakodynamischen Wirkungen und chemischen Eigenschaften des Secretins.

Preparation of crystalline secretin.

1934

#1580

The story of the development of our ideas of chemical mediation of nerve impulses.

1934

#4768

Treatment of myasthenia gravis with physostigmine.

Introduction of physostigmine in treatment of myasthenia gravis. She replaced this with neostigmine in 1935 (Proc. roy. Soc. Med., 28, 759-61).

1934

#1150

Isolation in crystalline form of the hormone essential to life from the suprarenal cortex; its chemical nature and physiologic properties.

Together with H. L. Mason, B. F. McKenzie, C. S. Myers, and G. A. Koelsche, Kendall reported the isolation in crystalline form of cortin ('C20H30O5)'

1934

#1352

The chemical transmitter at synapses in a sympathetic ganglion.

These workers produced evidence that a chemical agent (acetylcholine) appears in the transfer of nerve impulses from neuron to neuron in sympathetic ganglia.

1934

#533

A history of embryology.

An exhaustive history of the subject. Deals with embryology from the earliest times to the beginning of the 19th century and includes a valuable bibliography and many illustrations. Second edition, with the assistance…

1934

#1200

Neuere Ergebnisse auf dem Gebiet der Sexualhormone.

Progesterone obtained in crystalline form.

1934

#1201

Über die Synthese des Testikelhormons (Androsteron) und Stereoisomerer desselben durch Abbau hydrierter Sterine.

First complete synthesis of a sex hormone (androsterone). With M. W. Goldberg, J. Meyer, H. Brüngger, and E. Eichenberger. In 1939 Ruzicka shared the 1939 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Butenandt (No. 1195) "for his wo…

1934 –1938

#1781

The patient and the weather. With the assistance of Margaret E. Milliken. 4 vols. in 7.

1934

#2010

Traité de climatologie biologique et médicale. Publié sous la direction de M. Piéry. 3 vols.

1934

#1244

A method for explantation of the kidney.

1934

#1659

A history of food adulteration and analysis.

1934

#1447

The interpretation of potential waves in the cortex.

Confirmation of Berger’s findings (No. 1446). See also Brain, 1934, 57, 355-85.

1934

#145.66

The struggle for existence.

Gause developed the concept of competitive exclusion as formulated by Volterra.

1934

#1924.3

Zur Kenntnis der pharmakologischen Wirkungen der Natursekreten und Extrakten männlicher accessorischer Geschlechtsdrüsen.

Prostaglandins. Von Euler reported that a lipid fraction of human seminal fluid had potent activities on smooth muscle, hence the name. Later, prostaglandins were found to be widely distributed in mammalian tissues an…

1934

#2605.1

Experiments in silk hypersensitivity and the inhalation of allergen in atopic dermatitis (neurodermatitis disseminatus).

Proof that inhaled allergens can reach the skin in a quantity and quality capable of eliciting urticarial reactions. With W.T. Vaughn. Coca and Sulzberger coined the term, “atopic dermatitis.”

1934

#2524.3

The serological classification of Streptococcus pyogenes.

Griffith’s classification of streptococci. Digital facsimile from PubMedCentral at this link.