Facets

1924

#5082.1

The etiology of scarlet fever.

Proof that streptococcus is the cause of scarlet fever.

1924

#5083

A scarlet fever antitoxin.

Following their successful attempts to establish individual susceptibility to scarlet fever, these workers prepared an antitoxin for immunization.

1924

#5084

The significance of Streptococcus hemolyticus in scarlet fever and the preparation of a specific anti-scarlatinal serum by immunization of the horse to Streptococcus hemolyticus-scarlatinae.

Dochez and Sherman immunized a horse by repeated injections of scarlet fever toxin. A serum obtained from the horse blanched a scarlet fever rash and, when injected subcutaneously, caused marked amelioration of the ea…

1925

#909

Experimental studies on the origin and maturation of avian and mammalian red blood-cells.

1925

#2134

Industrial poisons in the United States.

1925

#3139

Blood regeneration in severe anaemia. II. Favourable influence of liver, heart and skeletal muscle in diet.

These workers showed the beneficial effect of raw beef liver upon blood regeneration in anemia. Their work paved the way for the liver diet treatment of Minot and Murphy. In 1934 Whipple shared the Nobel Prize in Phys…

1925

#5103

Studies on Brucella (Alkaligenes) melitensis.

Forms Bulletin No. 143 of the U.S. Public Health Service Hygienic Laboratory. Alice Evans showed that the causal organism of Malta fever was closely related to Brucella abortus, responsible for contagious abortion in …

1926

#5782.1

A further report on cancer of the breast, with special reference to its associated antecedent conditions.

First modern case-control study.

1926

#7105

Happiness in marriage.

Full text available from LifeDynamics.com at this link.

1926

#7724

La chirurgie esthétique, son rôle social.

Noël was one of the first women to practice cosmetic surgery; her book on the subject was the first written by a woman and one of the earliest books on aesthetic plastic surgery in French.

1926

#12386

Isolation of a crystalline protein with tuberculin activity.

Siebert identified the active agent in tuberculin as a protein.

1926

#14363

A sound economic basis for schools of nursing and other addresses.

Nutting was a member of the first graduating class of the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing in 1891, and by 1894 its superintendent of nurses and principal. She left Hopkins in 1907 for Teachers College at Columbia Univ…

1927

#1528

The action of light on the eye.

On the electrical discharges from the vertebrate optic nerve.

1927

#2856

Congenital cardiac disease by Maude Abbott. IN: Modern medicine: Its theory and practice, edited by Sir William Osler, assisted by Thomas McCrae. 3rd ed., 4, 612-812.

1927

#3724

The effect of desiccation upon the nutritive properties of egg-white.

Demonstration of the effect of deprivation of biotin.

1927

#7842

Certain samaritans.

A first-hand account of the American Women's Hospitals especially in Greece, Turkey and the Balkans helping to relieve the poulations uprooted by World War I and its aftermath. Lovejoy became the second woman to gradu…

1928

#2652

Cancer and heredity.

By selective breeding over a period of 15 years, Slye produced generations of mice absolutely resistant to, or particularly susceptible to, cancer. She demonstrated that resistance is a Mendelian dominant and suscepti…

1928

#4958

Mongolism. A study of the physical and mental characteristics of mongolian imbeciles. Revised by H. G. Brainerd.

Down syndrome.

1928

#5434.1

Cultivation of vaccinia virus without tissue culture.

Introduction of “Maitland’s medium”.

1928

#7392

The development of the human eye.

The first monograph on the subject, illustrated with drawings by the author.

1928

#10118

Coming of age in Samoa: A psychological study of primitive youth for western civilisation.

Mead based her study primarily on adolescent girls on the island of Ta'u in the Samoan Islands. The book detailed the sexual life of teenagers in Samoan society in the early 20th century, and theorized that culture ha…

1928

#10287

History of medicine in Nebraska. Albert F. Tyler, Editor. Ella F. Auerbach, Compiler.

This work was edited by Tyler from the writings of 24 collaborators. Reprinted and augmented, with an index, by Bernice M. Hetzner. Omaha, NE: University fo Nebraska Medical Center, 1977. Digital facsimile of the 1977…

1928

#12605

With a woman's unit in Serbia, Salonika and Sebastopol.

Hutton, a physician who specialized in mental and nervous disorders, began working with the Scottish Women’s Hospitals, a voluntary organisation established by her older colleague Elsie Inglis, in 1915 first in France…

1929

#566.1

The growth, development and phosphatase activity of embryonic avian femora in limb-buds cultivated in vitro.

First modern organ cultures.

1929

#8812

The work of medical women in India.

1929

#12327

Glycogen formation in the liver from d- and 1-lactic acid.

The Cori cycle (also known as the lactic acid cycle), a metabolic pathway in which lactate produced by anaerobic glycolysis in muscles is transported to the liver and converted to glucose, which then returns to the mu…

1930

#1063

On the nature and rôle of the fatty acids essential in nutrition.

Demonstration of the need of the body for certain unsaturated fatty acids (vitamin F).

1930

#4765

A report of progress on the use of ephedrine in a case of myasthenia gravis.

Harriet Edgeworth discovered by accident the beneficial effect of ephedrine in myasthenia gravis. Digital facsimile from jamanetwork.com at this link.

1930

#14322

Les femmes et la progrès des sciences médicales.

1931

#1066

The vitamins.

1931

#4670.5

Immunological differences between strains of poliomyelitis virus.

1931

#2524.1

The susceptibility of the chorio-allantoic membrane of chick embryos to infection with the fowl-pox virus.

By their demonstration of the infection of the chorio-allantoic membrane with the virus of fowl pox, Woodruff and Goodpasture initiated wide-spread adoption of this host for the study of viruses.

1931

#3146

Treatment of “pernicious anaemia of pregnancy” and “tropical anaemia”, with special reference to yeast extract as a curative agent.

First observations of hemopoietic effect of folic acid.

1931

#11026

History of medicine in the province of Quebec.

Reprinted, with additions, from "The Storied Province of Quebec". Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1931

#11777

Die Werke der Maria Sibylle Merian: bibliographisch Zusammengestellt.

1932

#1092.5

Bibliographical survey of vitamins 1650-1930, with a section on patents by M. H. Wodlinger.

1932

#3923.1

A new error of tyrosine metabolism: tyrosinosis, intermediary metabolism of tyrosine and phenylalanine.

1933

#2524.2

A serological differentiation of human and other groups of hemolytic streptococci.

Lancefield determined the principal pathogenic strains of hemolytic streptococci and subdivided them into types. All important strains pathogenic to humans fall into Lancefield’s Group A.

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.

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

#6227

Über eine neue chemische Schwangerschaftsreaktion.

Kapeller-Adler test for diagnosis of pregnancy.

1934

#5045

A new antigen of B. typhosus. Its relation to virulence and to active and passive immunisation.

Vi antigens first described.

1934

#6923

X-Ray photographs of crystalline pepsin.

Bernal and Hodgkin took the first X-ray photograph of a protein structure—crystalline pepsin. They showed that crystals of pepsin give an X-ray diffaction pattern, beginning protein crystallography. This may also be t…

1934

#9340

I. Un nouveau type de radioactivité. II. Séparation chimique des nouveaux radioéléments émetteur d’électrons positifs.

Discovery of artificially produced radionuclides or radioisotopes. In February 1934, the Joliot-Curies reported the first artificial production of radioactive material after discovering radioactivity in aluminum foil …

1934

#12387

The isolation and properties of the purified protein derivative of tuberculin

Purification of tuberculin (PPD). By the 1940s Seibert's PPD was the international standard for tuberculin tests.

1934

#14203

The anemias.

1935

#1950

Activité du p-aminophénylsulfamide sur les infections streptococciques expérimentales de la souris et du lapin.

The Tréfouëls and colleagues assumed that the sulfonamide group was responsible for the results obtained with Domagk’s Prontosil. Their work led them to introduce sulfanilamide.

1935

#2524.4

The natural occurrence of pleuropneumonia-like organisms in apparent symbiosis with Streptobacillus moniliformis and other bacteria.

Klieneberger isolated typical strains of pleuropneumonia-like organisms from Strep, moniliformis.

1935

#2576.3

A protective action of neurotropic against viscerotropic yellow fever virus in Macacus rhesus.

One of the first examples of an animal virus interference phenomenon was demonstrated by Hoskins.

1935

#3759

Kwashiorkor. A nutritional disease of children associated with a maize diet.

First accurate description. “Kwashiorkor” was the local name in Ghana for a nutritional disease of children, associated with a maize diet. The first modern account was probably that of L. Normet in Bull. Soc. Path. ex…