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Garrison-Morton-Norman History of Medicine

1940–1949

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1948

#5545

An unidentified, filterable agent isolated from the feces of children with paralysis.

DALLDORF, Gilbert Julius (1900 – 1979) SICKLES, Grace Mary (1898 – 1959)

Isolation of the Coxsackie virus from the stool of a patient residing in Coxsackie, New York.

1948

#6006

A short history of ophthalmology. 2nd ed.

SORSBY, Arnold (1900 – 1980)

1948

#6631.1

Music and medicine.

SCHULLIAN, Dorothy May (1906 – 1989)
SCHOEN, Max (1888 – 1959)
SCHOEN, Max (1888 – 1959)

1948

#6639.2

Medicine and science in postage stamps.

BISHOP, William John (1903 – 1961) MATHESON, Norman Murdoch (1897 – 1977)

1948 –1949

#6740

Lives of master surgeons.

LEONARDO, Richard Anthony (1895 – )

One volume and supplement.

1948

#6491

Hindu medicine.

EDELSTEIN, Ludwig (1902 – 1965)
ZIMMER, Heinrich Robert (1890 – 1943)
ZIMMER, Heinrich Robert (1890 – 1943)

1948

#6782

Encyclopedia of medical sources.

KELLY, Emerson Crosby (1899 – 1977)

A valuable list of medical eponyms and original sources, arranged alphabetically by authors’ names.

1948

#6443

Einführung in die Geschichte der Medizin in Einzeldarstellungen.

CREUTZ, Rudolph STEUDEL, Johannes (1901 – 1973)

1948

#5261.2

Pentaquine (Sn-13,276), a therapeutic agent effective in reducing the relapse rate in vivax malaria.

ALVING, Alf Sven (1902 – 1965)

Clinical trials of pentaquine. With B. Craige, R. Jones, C. M. Whorton, T. N. Pullman, and L. Eichelberger.

1948

#5262

The pre-erythrocytic stage of mammalian malaria.

SHORTT, Henry Edward (1887 – 1987)
SHORTT, Henry Edward (1887 – 1987) & et al.

Demonstration of the pre-erythrocytic stage of P. cynomolgi in the monkey. With P. C. C. Garnham and B. Malamos. Preliminary communication in Nature (Lond.), 1948, 161, 126.

1948

#5262.1

The pre-erythrocytic stage of human malaria Plasmodium vivax.

SHORTT, Henry Edward (1887 – 1987)
SHORTT, Henry Edward (1887 – 1987)

With P. C. C. Garnham, G. Covell, and P. G. Shute.

1948

#6992

[Trials of] Burke and Hare, edited by William Roughead. Third edition.

ROUGHEAD, William (1870 – 1952) BURKE, William (1792 – 1829) HARE, William

Notable British Trials Series. Transcripts of the trials of the most famous "resurrection men", with related documents. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1948

#7038

Sexual behavior in the human male.

KINSEY, Alfred Charles (1894 – 1956)
KINSEY, Alfred Charles (1894 – 1956) POMEROY, Wardell Baxter (1913 – 2001)
MARTIN, Clyde E. (1918 – 2014)
MARTIN, Clyde E. (1918 – 2014)

1948

#7786

No place to hide.

BRADLEY, David John (1915 – 2008)

Bradley's autobiographical account of his work in the Radiological Safety Section in the Pacific in the aftermath of the Bikini atomic bomb tests, Operation Crossroads, alerted the world to the dangers of radioactive …

1948

#7802

The estimation of acetanilide and its metabolic products, aniline, N-acetyl p-aminophenol and p-aminophenol (free and total conjugated) in biological fluids and tissues.

AXELROD, Julius (1912 – 2004)
AXELROD, Julius (1912 – 2004)
BRODIE, Bernard Beryl (1907 – 1989)
BRODIE, Bernard Beryl (1907 – 1989)

Brodie and Axelrod confirmed that paracetamol, also known as acetaminophen, was the major metabolite of acetanilide in human blood, and established that it was efficacious an analgesic. Unlike its precursors, paraceta…

1948

#7863

Aureomycin; a product of the continuing search for new antibiotics.

DUGGAR, Benjamin Minge (1872 – 1956)

Discovery of clortetracycline (trade name Aureomycin, Lederle) the first tetracycline antibiotic identified. Duggar,a plant physiologist, identified the antibiotic as the product of an actinomycete he cultured from a …

1948

#9024

The Pan American Sanitary Bureau: Its origin, developments and achievements, 1902-1944.

MOLL, Aristides Alcibiades (1882 – 1964)

1948

#9179

The geographical distribution of cold-blooded vertebrates.

DARLINGTON, Philip Jackson Jr. (1904 – 1983)

"Darlington's most important contribution to science was his theory of the Old World tropical origin of dominant vertebrate groups. He first sketched out this formulation—which would influence research in zoogeography…

1948

#10204

The Ciba collection of medical illustrations. A compilation of pathological and anatomical paintings prepared by Frank H. Netter, M.D.

NETTER, Frank Henry (1906 – 1991)

This was the first collection of anatomical images by Netter published in book form.

1948 –2017

#10356

WMA Declaration of Geneva.

WORLD MEDICAL ASSOCIATION (1947 – )

Modernized version of the Hippocratic Oath, promulgated in response to the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials. https://www.wma.net/policies-post/wma-declaration-of-geneva/ "Adopted by the 2nd General Assembly of the World Me…

1948 –1963

#10981

The Johns Hopkins Hospital and the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine: A chronicle. 3 vols.

CHESNEY, Alan Mason (1888 – 1964)

Vol. 1: Early Years 1867-1893; Vol. 2: 1893-1905; Vol. 3: 1905-1914.

1948

#11620

Urological oddities.

DAKIN, Wirt Bradley (1883 – 1975)

1948

#11766

Congenital anaomies of the heart and great vessels. Clinicopathologic study of 132 ases.

BULBULIAN, Arthur H. (1900 – 1996) DRY, Thomas Jan (1903 – ) EDWARDS, Jesse Efrem (1911 – 2008) PARKER, Robert L. BURCHELL, Howard Bertram (1908 – 2009) ROGERS, H. Milton

An extensively illustrated pathological-anatomical and physiological presentation with an historical approach.

1948 –1949

#11770

Bibliographie ornithologique française: [Vol.1:] Travaux publies en langue française et en latin en France et dans les Colonies Françaises de 1473 a 1944. [Vol. 2:] Abréviations des titres des publications périodiques cités dans la Bibliographie Ornithologique Française et Index méthodiques et systématiques. 2 vols.

RONSIL, René (1908 – 1956)

1948

#11946

La médecine et l'eglise: Contribution à l'histoire de l'exercice médical par les clercs.

DELAUNAY, Paul (1878 – 1958)

1948 –1966

#12191

A bibliographical sourcebook of compressed air, diving and submarine medicine. 3 vols.

HOFF, Ebbe Curtis (1906 – 1985)
HOFF, Ebbe Curtis (1906 – 1985) GREENBAUM, Leon Jack Jr.

Vol. 1 by Hoff; Vols. 2 and 3 by Hoff and Greenbaum, Jr. Digital facsimiles of all three volumes from U.S. National Library of Medicine at this link.

1948

#12359

Orally administered penicillin in patients with rheumatic fever.

MASSELL, Benedict Frank (1906 – 2008) DOW, J. W. JONES, Thomas Duckett (1899 – 1954)

Massell and colleagues demonstrated that rheumatic fever could be prevented by penicillin treatment of streptococcal throat infections. (Order of authorship in the original publication: Massell, Dow, Jones.) See also:…

1949

#10

The Charaka Samhita. 6 vols.

CHARAKA (-600 – -200)

Edited and published with translations in Hindi, Gujerati and English. The Charaka Samhita is the oldest known Hindu text on Ayurveda (life sciences). It was followed by the Sushruta Samhita. Except for some topics an…

1949

#352

History of the primates.

CLARK, Sir Wilfrid Edward Le Gros (1895 – 1971)

1949

#4483

On the contributions of Hugh Owen Thomas of Liverpool, Sir Robert Jones of Liverpool and London, John Ridlon, M.D., of New York and Chicago, to modern orthopedic surgery.

ORR, Hiram Winnett (1877 – 1956)

1949

#4508

The effects of a hormone of the adrenal cortex (17-hydroxy-11-dehydrocorticosterone: compound E) and of pituitary adrenocorticotropic hormone on rheumatoid arthritis.

HENCH, Philip Showalter (1896 – 1965)
HENCH, Philip Showalter (1896 – 1965) KENDALL, Edward Calvin (1886 – 1972)

Introduction of cortisone and A.C.T.H. in treatment of rheumatoid arthritis. With C. H. Slocumb, and H. F. Polley. In 1950 Hench and Kendall shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Tadeusz Reichstein (No…

1949

#4509

The effects of the adrenal cortical hormone 17-hydroxy-11-dehydrocorticosterone (compound E) on the acute phase of rheumatic fever: preliminary report.

HENCH, Philip Showalter (1896 – 1965)
HENCH, Philip Showalter (1896 – 1965) KENDALL, Edward Calvin (1886 – 1972)

Compound E (cortisone) introduced in the treatment of rheumatic fever. With C. H. Slocumb, A. R. Barnes, H. L. Smith, H. F. Polley.

1949

#4671.1

Cultivation of the Lansing strain of poliomyelitis virus in cultures of various human embryonic tissues.

ENDERS, John Franklin (1897 – 1985)
WELLER, Thomas Huckle (1915 – 2008)
WELLER, Thomas Huckle (1915 – 2008)
ROBBINS, Frederick Chapman (1916 – 2003)
ROBBINS, Frederick Chapman (1916 – 2003)

Enders, Weller, and Robbins grew the poliomyelitis virus in cultures of different tissues. Their method proved of great value in virus research, and removed the final obstacles to vaccine production. In 1974 Enders, W…

1949

#4728

Un nouveau médicament symptomatique des syndromes parkinsoniens: le chlorhydrate de [(diéthylamino-2’-methyl-2’) éthyl-1-’] N-dibenzoparathiazine.

SIGWALD, Jean (1903 – )

Introduction of ethopropazine (“lysivane”) in the treatment of Parkinson’s disease.

1949

#4729

Trihexyphenidyl. Evaluation of the new agent in the treatment of parkinsonism.

CORBIN, Kendall Brooks (1907 – 1999)

Clinical introduction of benzhexol (“artane”) in Parkinson’s disease.

1949

#1583

A short history of physiology. 2nd ed.

FRANKLIN, Kenneth James (1897 – 1966)

1949

#1155

Isolation of nor-adrenaline from the adrenal gland.

BERGSTRÖM, Sune (1916 – 2004) & et al.

With U.S. von Euler and U. Hamberg. See also fuller account in Acta physiol. scand., 1950, 20, 101-8. Noradrenaline was independently isolated by B. F. Tullar, Science, 1950, 109, 536-7.

1949

#1175.2

Isolation of pituitary follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH).

EVANS, Herbert McLean (1882 – 1971)
EVANS, Herbert McLean (1882 – 1971)
LI, Choh Hao (1913 – 1987)
LI, Choh Hao (1913 – 1987)
SIMPSON, Miriam Elizabeth (1894 – 1991)
SIMPSON, Miriam Elizabeth (1894 – 1991)

By Choh Hao Li and colleagues.

1949

#2010.4

The microwave linear electron accelerator.

NEWBERRY, G. R.

1949

#2010.5

Therapeutic possibilities of microwaves.

WAKIM, Khalil Georges (1907 – 1985) KRUSEN, Frank Hammond (1898 – 1973) & et al.

Introduction of microwave radiation therapy. With J. F. Herrick, G. M. Martin.

1949

#2064

Histoire illustrée de la pharmacie.

BOUSSEL, Patrice

1949

#2065

A critical review of the basic facts in the history of cinchona.

JARAMILLO-ARANGO, Jaime (1897 – 1962)

1949

#1930

Bradykinin, a hypotensive and smooth muscle stimulating factor releases from plasma globulin by snake venoms and by trypsin.

ROCHA E SILVA, Mauricio (1910 – 1983) & et al.

Discovery of bradykinin. With W. T. Beraldo and G. Rosenfeld.

1949

#1930.1

Lithium salts in the treatment of psychotic excitement.

CADE, John Frederick Joseph (1912 – 1980)
CADE, John Frederick Joseph (1912 – 1980)

The first clinical trial of lithium.

1949

#1944

Neomycin, a new antibiotic active against streptomycin-resistant bacteria, including tuberculosis organisms.

WAKSMAN, Selman Abraham (1888 – 1973)
WAKSMAN, Selman Abraham (1888 – 1973) LECHEVALIER, Hubert Arthur (1926 – 2015)

Isolation of neomycin.

1949

#1945

An antiphage agent isolated from Aspergillus sp.

HANSON, Frederick Reuben (1921 – ) EBLE, Thomas Eugene (1923 – )

Isolation of fumagillin, an antibiotic with amoebicidal activity. See also Science, 1951, 113, 202-3.

1949

#2419

Immobilization of Treponema pallidum in vitro by antibody produced in syphilitic infection.

NELSON, Robert Armstrong (1921 – ) MAYER, Manfred Martin (1916 – 1984)

Nelson’s treponemal immobilization test.

1949

#2526.1

Genetic recombinations leading to production of active bacteriophage from ultraviolet inactivated bacteriophage particles.

DULBECCO, Renato (1914 – 2012)
DULBECCO, Renato (1914 – 2012)
LURIA, Salvador Edward (1912 – 1991)
LURIA, Salvador Edward (1912 – 1991)

In 1969 Luria shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in with Delbrück (No. 2578.5) and A. D. Hershey (No. 256) "for their discoveries concerning the replication mechanism and the genetic structure of viruses."

1949

#3154.1

Sickle cell anemia, a molecular disease.

PAULING, Linus Carl (1901 – 1994)
PAULING, Linus Carl (1901 – 1994)
ITANO, Harvey Akio (1920 – 2010)
ITANO, Harvey Akio (1920 – 2010) SINGER, Seymour Jonathan (1924 – 2017) WELLS, Ibert C. (1921 – 2011)

First recognition, by Pauling and colleagues, of a structural hemoglobin variant, and the beginning of the molecular approach to disease.

1949

#3154.2

The inheritance of sickle cell anemia.

NEEL, James Van Gundia (1915 – 2000)

Genetic evidence that sickle-cell disease is inherited in a simple Mendelian manner.