Entry Nos. 3100–3199

1938

#3149

Tropical macrocytic anaemia: Its relation to pernicious anaemia.

1945

#3150

Observations of the anti-anemic properties of synthetic folic acid.

Hemopoietic properties of folic acid reported. With C. F. Vilter, M. B. Koch, and M. H. Caldwell.

1946

#3151

The structure and synthesis of liver. L. casei factor.

Isolation, determination of structure, and final synthesis of folic acid.

1946

#3152

Observations on the effect of massive doses of iron given intravenously to patients with hypochromic anemia.

1947

#3153

Intravenous administration of iron.

1948

#3154

Activity of vitaminB12 in Addisonian pernicious anemia.

First demonstration of the effectiveness of vitamin B12 in pernicious anemia.

1949

#3155

Vitamin B12 in pernicious anaemia: parenteral administration.

1928

#3156

Cardio-vascular diseases since Harvey’s discovery.

Harveian Oration, 1928.

1937

#3157

The history of angina pectoris.

1941

#3158

Cardiac classics. A collection of classic works on the heart and circulation with comprehensive biographic accounts of the authors.

Covers the literature up to 1912. Reprinted in 2 vols, as Classics of cardiology, New York, Dover, 1961. Reprinted again, with volume 3 by John A. Callahan, Thomas E. Keys & Jack E. Key, Malabar, Florida, Krieger, 198…

1942

#3159

A short history of cardiology.

1948

#3160

A history of the heart and circulation.

1957

#3161

The story of heart disease.

1568

#3164

Pro magni, et illustr. Terraenovae Ducis fistula, ex levi axilla in thoracis concavum pervia, etc. In P. Ingrassia, Quaestio de purgatione per medicamentum

Vesalius’s consilium to Ingrassia, dated Madrid, 1562, in which he clearly described the operation for empyema (pp. 92-98). Although treatment of empyema by surgery was referred to in classical times, it became unfash…

1698

#3166

A treatise of the asthma.

Floyer provided the first clear descriptions of cases of bronchial asthma. Floyer himself suffered from asthma for over 30 years. He recognized the influence of heredity in asthma. The above includes (p. 239) an impor…

1769

#3167

Observations on the asthma and on the hooping cough.

Includes Millar’s original description of laryngismus stridulus (“Millar’s asthma”).

1808

#3168

Observations on the inflammatory affections of the mucous membrane of the bronchiae.

Badham distinguished acute and chronic bronchitis from pneumonia and pleurisy, with which it had previously been confused. He gave the disease its present name. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1856

#3169

Beiträge zur Lehre von den beim Menschen vorkommenden pflanzlichen Parasiten.

First description of pulmonary aspergillosis.

1876

#3170

Thoracentesis: the plan of continuous aspiration.

Hewett introduced a method of continuous aspiration of the thorax for emphysema.

1881

#3172

L’organisme microscopique trouvé par M. Pasteur dans la maladie nouvelle provoquée par la salive d’un enfant mort de la rage.

Probably the earliest record of pneumococcus. Parrot reported the discovery made by Louis Pasteur.

1881

#3173

A fatal form of septicaemia in the rabbit, produced by the subcutaneous injection of human saliva.

In the same year as Pasteur, and independently, Sternberg discovered the pneumococcus (Streptococcus pneumoniae) demonstrating its carriage in the healthy human mouth.

1882

#3174

Ueber die Schizomyceten bei der acuten fibrösen Pneumonie.

Isolation of Klebsiella pneumoniae (“Friedländer bacillus”), which Friedländer regarded as the causal organism in all cases of lobar pneumonia.

1886

#3175

Die Mikrococcen der Pneumonie.

Fraenkel showed definitely that the organism found by Pasteur (No. 3172) and Sternberg (No. 3173) was a cause of pneumonia.

1886

#3176

Ueber die Aetiologie der acuten Lungen- und Rippenfellentzündungen.

Weichselbaum definitely established that Friedländer’s bacillus was responsible for pneumonia in a small percentage of cases.

1889

#3177

Ueber die Grundsätze der Behandlung von Eiterungen in starrwandigen Höhlen, mit besonderer Berücksichtigung des Empyems der Pleura.

First thoracotomy for empyema.

1891

#3178

Versuche über Immunisirung und Heilung bei der Pneumokokkeninfection.

Old antipneumococcal serum.

1893

#3179

A case of thoracoplasty for the removal of a large cicatricial fibrous growth from the interior of the chest, the result of an old empyema.

First thoracoplasty.

1894

#3180

Nouveau traitement des empyèmes chroniques.

The procedure of decortication of the lung for treatment of chronic empyema was introduced by Delorme. For his later work on the subject, see Congr. franç. Chir., 1896, 10, 379.

1896

#3181

Die Specksteinlunge. Ein Beitrag zur pathologischen Anatomie der Staublungen.

Talcosis of lung reported.

1898

#3182

Le microbe de la péripneumonie.

Discovery of the causal organism of bovine pleuropneumonia, also known as lung plague. Nocard and Roux considered it a filterable virus but now known to be a mycoplasma.

1903

#3183

Triangolo paravertebrale opposto nella pleurite essudativa.

“Grocco’s triangle”. Grocco described paravertebral dullness on the opposite side in pleural effusion.

1903

#3184

Pneumothorax; a historical, clinical, and experimental study.

1904

#3185

Ueber die physiologischen and physikalischen Grundlagen bei intrathorakalen Eingriffen in meiner pneumatischen Operationskammer.

Sauerbruch’s negative pressure chamber for the prevention of pneumothorax.

1907

#3186

Bronchoskopie und bronchoskopische Behandlung von Bronchialasthma.

Introduction of therapeutic bronchoscopy, for treatment of asthma.

1909

#3187

Ueber Lungenresektion wegen bronchiektatischer Cavernen.

Körte was the first successfully to remove bronchiectatic lobes.

1908

#3188

The Bradshaw Lecture on massive collapse of the lung.

William Pasteur discovered and described massive collapse of the lung.

1910

#3189

Ueber die Möglichkeit die Zystoscopie bei Untersuchungen seröser Höhlungen anzuwenden.

Jacobaeus adapted the cystoscope for the study of the interior of the body; this led to the introduction of the thoracoscope.

1910

#3190

Weitere Untersuchungen über Pneumokokken-Heilsera. III. Mitteilung. Über Vorkommen und Bedeutung atypischer Varietäten des Pneumokokkus.

New antipneumococcus serum.

1910

#3191

Gangrène pulmonaire ouverte dans les bronches et traitée par décollement pleuro-pariétal, et greffe d’une masse lipomateuse entre la plèvre décollée et les espaces intercostaux.

Tuffier’s method of extrapleural pneumolysis.

1912

#3192

Primary malignant growths of the lungs and bronchi.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1917

#3193

Note sur la “broncho-spirochétose” et les “bronchites mycosiques”, affections simulant quelquefois la tuberculose pulmonaire.

“Castellani’s bronchitis” (bronchospirochetosis).

1917

#3194

Endothelioma of the right bronchus removed by peroral bronchoscopy.

First reported case.

1920 –1925

#3195

Die Chirurgie der Brustorgane. Zugleich zweite Auflage der Technik der Thoraxchirurgie. 2 vols.

Abridged English translation, Baltimore, 1937.

1921

#3196

Un cas d’épithélioma spino-cellulaire de la région latérale du pharynx, avec adénopathie angulo-maxillaire, guéri depuis six mois par la röntgenthérapie.

Carcinoma of pharynx cured by the Coutard method of Röntgen therapy.

1921

#3197

Roentgenographic studies of bronchiectasis and lung abscess after direct injection of bismuth mixture through the bronchoscope.

Important studies on bronchiectasis were carried out by Lynah and Stewart.

1924

#3199

L’exploration radiologique des cavités broncho-pulmonaires par les injections intra-trachéales d’huile iodée.

Bronchography was advanced by the work of Sicard and Forestier on the intratracheal introduction of lipiodol.