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Garrison-Morton-Norman History of Medicine

1940–1949

610 entries with publication dates in this decade.

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1949

#3155

Vitamin B12 in pernicious anaemia: parenteral administration.

UNGLEY, Charles Cady (1902 – 1958)

1949

#2578.7

The production of antibodies. 2nd ed.

BURNET, Sir Frank Macfarlane (1899 – 1985) FENNER, Frank John (1914 – 2010)

Burnet and Fenner introduced the “self-marker” concept – natural tolerance to one’s own body constituents depended on their presence at a critical stage of embryonic development.

1949

#3855.1

Imidazoles. IV. The synthesis and antithyroid activity of some 1-substituted-2-mercaptoimidazoles.

JONES, Reuben G.

Synthesis of methimazole (mercazole, thiamazole), an antithyroid drug more potent than methylthiouracil. With E. C. Kornfeld, K. C. McLaughlin, and R. C. Anderson.

1949

#2924.1

Le traitement de l’artérite oblitérante parla greffe veineuse.

KUNLIN, Jean (1904 – 1991)

Kunlin, an associate of R. Leriche, first reported the use of a bypass venous graft for femoropopliteal occlusive arterial disease.

1949

#3412.4

Operative treatment of chronic suppurative otitis media.

DAGGETT, William Ingledew (1900 – 1980)

Tympanoplasty.

1949

#3342

A history of oto-laryngology

STEVENSON, Robert Scott (1889 – 1967) GUTHRIE, Douglas James (1885 – 1975)

From antiquity to the beginning of the 20th century.

1949

#3704

A dental bibliography: British and American, 1692-1880.

CAMPBELL, John Menzies (1887 – 1974)

1949

#4154.2

Concurrent melanosis and hypertrichosis in distribution of nevus unius lateris.

BECKER, Samuel William (1894 – 1964)

“Becker’s nevus”, pigmented hairy epidermal nevus.

1949

#4914

Revascularization of the brain through establishment of a cervical arteriovenous fistula. Effects in children with mental retardation and convulsive disorders.

BECK, Claude Schaeffer (1894 – 1971) & et al.

With C. F. McKhann and W. D. Belnap.

1949

#4914.1

Selective cortical undercutting as a means of modifying and studying frontal lobe function in man. Preliminary report of forty-three operative cases.

SCOVILLE, William Beecher (1906 – 1984)
SCOVILLE, William Beecher (1906 – 1984)

1949

#4404.1

Osteogenesis imperfecta: A study of clinical features and heredity based on 55 Danish families comprising 180 affected members.

SEEDORFF, Knud Stakemann (1915 – 1991)

Includes a translation of Ekman’s thesis (No. 4304.1). Also gives a case reported in 1678.

1949

#4404.2

Control of bone growth by epiphyseal stapling: A preliminary report.

BLOUNT, Walter Putnam (1900 – 1992) CLARKE, George R.

“Blount staple”. Unlike previous processes, epiphyseal stapling permitted subsequent correction.

1949

#4435.2

Evolution of medullary fixation of fractures by the longitudinal pin.

RUSH, Leslie Vaughn (1905 – 1987)
RUSH, Leslie Vaughn (1905 – 1987) RUSH, H. Low (1897 – 1965)

“Rush pins”, made of specially hardened type 316 stainless steel, for fractures of the long bones.

1949

#4962.2

The biology of mental defect.

PENROSE, Lionel Sharples (1898 – 1972)

1949

#5500

Studies on survival of influenza-virus between epidemics and antigenic variants of the virus.

TAYLOR, Richard Moreland (1887 – 1981)

Recovery of influenza C virus.

1949

#5727

The pharmacological actions of polymethylene bistrimethyl-ammonium salts.

PATON, Sir William Drummond Macdonald (1917 – 1993)
PATON, Sir William Drummond Macdonald (1917 – 1993) ZAIMIS, Eleanor (1915 – 1982)

Introduction of hexamethonium bromide.

1949

#5728

Proprietà farmacodinamiche di alcuni derivati della succinilcolina dotati di azione curarica. Esteri di trialchiletanolammonio di acidi bicarbossilici alifatici.

BOVET, Daniel (1907 – 1992)
BOVET, Daniel (1907 – 1992) BOVET-NITTI, Filomena (1909 – 1994) & et al.

Introduction of succinylcholine chloride. With S. Guarino, V. G. Longo, and M. Marotta.

1949

#5515

Pure granulomatous nocardiosis: a new fungus disease distinguished by intracellular parasitism. A description of a new disease in man due to a hitherto undescribed organism, Nocardia intracellularis, n.sp., including a study of the biological and pathogenic properties of this species.

CUTTINO, John Tindal (1912 – 1988) MCCABE, Anne M.

Nocardiosis described.

1949

#5015.1

The mentally ill in America. A history of their care and treatment from colonial times. Second edition, revised and enlarged.

DEUTSCH, Albert (1905 – 1961)

1949

#5766.1

A method of cutting and suturing the lip in the treatment of complete unilateral clefts.

LEMESURIER, Arthur Baker (1889 – 1982)

LeMesurier’s cheiloplasty procedure was based on Hagedorn’s method. He was first to attempt construction of the cupid’s bow of the vermilion.

1949

#5546

Disease resembling nonparalytic poliomyelitis associated with a virus pathogenic for infant mice.

CURNEN, Edward Charles Jr. (1909 – 1997)
MELNICK, Joseph Louis (1914 – 2001)
MELNICK, Joseph Louis (1914 – 2001) & et al.

Isolation of the Coxsackie virus from patients with poliomyelitis. With E. W. Shaw.

1949

#5352.1

Bibliographie des schistosome et des schistosomiases (bilharzioses) humaines et animales de 1931 á 1948.

BOUILLON, Albert

Continues and supplements No. 5352.

1949

#5990.1

Actual técnica de elecciόn en queratoplastia penetrante.

BARRAQUER MONER, José Ignacio (1916 – 1998)

Barraquer’s method of corneal graft fixation by minute direct interrupted stitches.

1949

#5402.1

Serological evidence of Q fever in Great Britain.

STOKER, Sir Michael George Parke (1918 – 2013)
STOKER, Sir Michael George Parke (1918 – 2013)

Relationship of primary atypical pneumonia and Q fever.

1949

#5225

The laboratory diagnosis of lymphogranuloma venereum.

BEDSON, Sir Samuel Phillips (1886 – 1969) & et al.

Skin-test antigen. With C. F. Barwell, E. J. King, and L. W. J. Bishop.

1949

#6310

The development of gynaecological surgery and instruments… from the Hippocratic age to the Antiseptic period.

RICCI, James Vincent (1890 – )

Reprint, San Francisco, Norman Publishing, 1990.

1949

#6485.92

The Charaka Samhita. Edited and published with translations in Hindi, Gujerati and English 6 vols.

CHARAKA (-600 – -200)

1949

#6444

Einführung in die Medizinhistorik. Ihr Wesen, ihre Arbeitsweise und ihre Hilfsmittel.

ARTELT, Walter (1906 – 1976)

1949 –1955

#6445

Geschichte der Medizin. Die historische Entwicklung der Heilkunde und des ärztlichen Lebens. 2 vols. [in 3].

DIEPGEN, Paul (1878 – 1966)
DIEPGEN, Paul (1878 – 1966)

1949

#6596

Aesculapius comes to the Colonies. The story of the early days of medicine in the thirteen original colonies.

GORDON, Maurice Bear (1916 – 2006)

1949

#5262.2

The pre-erythrocytic stage of Plasmodium falciparum. A preliminary note.

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

With N. H. Fairley, G. Covell, P. G. Shute, and P. C. C. Garnham. See also Trans. roy. Soc. trop. Med. Hyg., 1951, 44, 405-19.

1949

#255.5

A morphological distinction between neurones of the male and female, and the behaviour of the nucleolar satellite during accelerated nucleoprotein synthesis.

BARR, Murray Llewellyn (1908 – 1995) BERTRAM, Ewart George (1923 – )

The Barr body, " the inactive X chromosome in a female somatic cell,[2] rendered inactive in a process called lyonization, in those species in which sex is determined by the presence of the Y (including humans) or W c…

1949

#6878

Huang Ti Nei Ching Su Wen: The Yellow Emperor's classic of internal medicine. Translated by Ilza Veith.

VEITH, Ilza (1915 – 2013)

First edition in English of the Yellow Emperor's Inner Classic (Huangdi Neijing,) , the most important ancient text in Chinese medicine as well as a major book of Daoist theory and lifestyle. According to leading scho…

1949

#7084

A Sand County almanac, and sketches here and there.

LEOPOLD, Aldo (1887 – 1948)
LEOPOLD, Aldo (1887 – 1948)

This combination of natural history, philosophy, and poetic writing informed the environmental movement. It is perhaps best known for the following quote, which defines Leopold's land ethic: "A thing is right when it …

1949

#7128

The Texas City disaster; a survey of 3,000 casualties.

BLOCKER, Truman Graves Jr. (1809 – 1984) BLOCKER, Virginia Howard Irvine (1913 – 2005)

After ships anchored in Texas City exploded in 1947, injuring and burning some 3,000 persons, the Blockers published a survey of the casualties. For this and other research studies involving trauma and burns the Block…

1949

#7134

Queratoplastia refractiva.

BARRAQUER MONER, José Ignacio (1916 – 1998)

Barraquer was the first to sculpt corneal stromal tissue to change corneal curvature. He developed a procedure which he called "keratomileusis," (sculpting of the cornea). This involved ressecting a disc of anterior c…

1949

#7297

Age determinations by radiocarbon content: checks with samples of known age.

LIBBY, Willard Frank (1908 – 1980)
LIBBY, Willard Frank (1908 – 1980)

Introduction of radiocarbon dating for dating organic materials, including fossils (maximum 50,000 to 60,000 years old). With J. R. Arnold.

1949

#7316

Histopathology of the skin.

LEVER, Walter F. (1909 – 1992)

1949

#7896

ASCLEPIO. Revista de Historia de la Medicina e cienca. 1-

1949

#7992

The Army Medical Library research project at the Welch Medical Library.

LARKEY, Sanford Vincent (1898 – 1969)

One of the first reports on one of the earliest projects in automating information retrieval, the expression for which was coined by Calvin Mooers the following year. At this early date electronic computers were not y…

1949

#8084

The Negro in the medical profession.

WALKER, Helen Edith

Publications of the University of Virginia, Phelps-Stokes fellowship papers, no. 18.

1949

#8127

La Doctrine classique de la médecine indienne. Ses origines et ses parallèles grecs.

FILLIOZAT, Jean (1906 – 1982)

Second edition, Paris: Ecole Française d'Extêm-Orient, 1975. English translation: The classical doctrine of Indian medicine: Its origins and its Greek parallels. Translated from the original in French by Dev Raj Chana…

1949

#8514

A dictionary of Assyrian botany.

THOMPSON, Reginald Campbell (1876 – 1941)

1949

#8763

The origin of medical terms.

SKINNER, Henry Alan (1899 – )

Revised and enlarged edition, Baltimore, 1961. Digital facsimile of the 1949 edition from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1949

#8885

Group medicine & health insurance in action.

ROTHENBERG, Robert Edward (1909 – 2002) PICKARD, Karl

"The Health Insurance Plan of Greater New York was established in March, 1947 for the specific purpose of accumulating the required experience under carefully controlled conditions. In order to assemble measurable dat…

1949

#9384

Bring out your dead: The great plague of yellow fever in Philadelphia in 1793.

POWELL, John Harvey (1914 – 1971)

Reprinted with a new introduction by Kenneth R. Foster, Mary F. Jenkins, and Anna Coxe Toogood (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1993).

1949

#10654

The surgical treatment of mitral stenosis (mitral commissurotomy).

BAILEY, Charles Philamore (1910 – 1993)

Pioneering work in mitral valve surgery.

1949

#11102

Mushrooms in their natural habitats.

SMITH, Alexander Hanchett (1904 – 1986)

A distinctively published work illustrated stereoscopically with color View-Master slides, and incorporating the View-Master "reels" and a View-Master viewer in a box along with the conventional bound text.

1949

#11228

Bibliotheca chemica et alchemica. An annotated catalogue of printed books on alchemy, chemistry and cognate subjects.

DUVEEN, Denis Ian (1910 – 1992) KLICKSTEIN, Herbert S.

Though he was not credited on the title page, most of this catalogue was written by Herbert S. Klickstein, working for the collector, Denis Duveen.

1949

#11428

The fine library of a surgical historian, sold by order of Alfred Brown, M.D.

BROWN, Alfred Jerome (1878 – 1960)

Auction catalogue of Brown's library, comprising 291 lots.