Facets

1913

#1050

The relation of growth to the chemical constituents of the diet.

Like McCollum and Davis, Osborne and Mendel showed the necessity in diet of a factor which was later to be known as vitamin A.

1913

#1640

Sewage disposal by oxidation methods.

1913

#1641

Preventive medicine and hygiene by Milton J. Rosenau. With chapters on sewage and garbage by George C. Whipple...Vital statistics by Cressy L. Wilbur...The prevention of mental diseases by Thomas W. Salmon.

Digital facsimile of the 1913 edition from the Internet Archive at this link. There were numerous later revised editions.

1913

#3745

Beriberi

Important studies of beri-beri are recorded in this book. After its publication the author made many additional contributions to the literature on the subject.

1913

#2915

Ueber experimentelle Cholesterinsteatose und ihre Bedeutung für die Entstehung einiger pathologischer Prozesse.

Anichkov and Chalatov of St. Petersburg, Russia, discovered that atherosclerosis of large arteries is critically dependent on cholesterol. (Translated in Arteriosclerosis, 1983, 3, 178-182). The inflammatory nature of…

1913

#7075

Animal communities in temperate America as illustrated in the Chicago region. A study in animal ecology.

This book represents the beginning of organized theoretical principles for animal ecology, including Shelford's "law of toleration" or "law of tolerance." "Analogous to the physiologists' law of the minimum [developed…

1913

#7436

Our vanishing wild life: Its extermination and reservation.

One of the first books wholly devoted to endangered wild animals. Hornaday revolutionized museum exhibits by displaying wildlife in their natural settings, and is credited with discovering the American crocodile, savi…

1913

#10791

Social work in hospitals: A contribution to progressive medicine.

Cannon, sister of Walter Bradford Cannon, established medical social work as an accepted subspecialty of social work first at Massachusetts General Hospital, and eventually throughout the U.S. Her career was closely a…

1914

#1051

Die Vitamine

A pioneer work in the study of vitamins. Much of the previous literature is reviewed. Funk introduced the term “vitamine”, later changed to “vitamin”. In 1912 (J. State Med., 20, 341) he postulated his theory of the e…

1914

#1664.1

A study in hospital efficiency as demonstrated by the case report of the first two years of a private hospital.

Pioneer application of efficiency engineering principles to hospital administration, made over a two year period. Codman was responsible for the “end result idea”. This revolutionary concept, which seems so obvious to…

1914

#3755

The treatment and prevention of pellagra.

With C. H. Waring and D. G. Willets. A collection of Goldberger’s most important papers with a list of his publications appeared in 1964.

1914

#10520

Sanitary conditions among the Eskimos: A report on conditions in native villages along the Arctic coast of Alaska. Supplement No. 9 to Public Health Reports, December 12, 1913.

In 1912 the U.S. Public Health Service assigned Dr. Emil Krulish to supervise health care in the Territory of Alaska. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1914

#10731

The occupational diseases: Their causation, symptoms, treatment and prevention.

The first general treatise on occupational medicine published in the United States. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1915

#10473

A survey of industrial health-hazards and occupational diseases in Ohio.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1916

#2643

Ueber die künstliche Erzeugung von Karzinom.

First experimental production of tar cancer in rabbits by painting with tar products. This was the first proof of chemical carcinogenesis.

1916

#6537.1

A history of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and of the Irish schools of medicine, including a medical bibliography and a medical biography. 2nd ed.

First edition, 1886. Digital facsimile of the 1886 edition from the Internet Archive at this link.

1916

#8154

Plant succession: An analysis of the development of vegetation.

A seminal work of ecological science, establishing a dynamic model of species succession toward an eventual "climax" equilibrium under the influence of climate and other factors in a given habitat. "From his observati…

1917

#7615

Hygiene of the printing trades.

Industrial Accidents and Hygiene Series: No. 12. Probably the earliest specific study of the hygiene and diseases of workers in the U.S. printing industry. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1917 –1922

#10532

Science et dévouement: Le service de santé, la Croix-Rouge, les oeuvres de solidarité de guerre et d'après-guerre. Publie avec la colloboration de MM. J. Abadie, Jacques Bertillon, Georges Brouardel....Edited by François Albert.

A deluxe, large format, commemorative volume edited by journalist François Albert. It was published by subscription, limited to 5000 copies, and issued in fascicules from 1917-1922. Includes contributions by 50 eminen…

1917

#13144

Dr. Evans' How to keep well: A health book for the home.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1918

#1052

The newer knowledge of nutrition.

1918 –1919

#3733

The part played by an “accessory factor” in the production of experimental rickets.

First convincing experimental evidence that rickets is a deficiency disease, curable by correct diet.

1918

#7099

Married love. A new contribution to the solution of sex difficulties.

One of the first books to discuss the differences between male and female sexual desires, and the first book to note that increased sexual desire in women coincides with ovulation and the period right before menstruat…

1918

#8604

Medical diseases of the war. Second edition

Roughly the first half of this work is on "war neuroses." The second half is on "infective and other disorders," including gas poisoning. Hurst greatly expanded the first section after experience as a neurologist in E…

1918

#11014

The medical report of the Rice Expedition to Brazil.

The expedition was led by Alexander H. Rice, Jr., an American physician, geographer, geologist and explorer noted for his expeditions to the Amazon Basin. "As a geographer and explorer Rice specialized in rivers.[1][7…

1919

#1053

Note on the role of the antiscorbutic factor in nutrition.

In 1920 Drummond suggested the term “vitamin”.

1919

#1653

The story of English public health.

1919

#2132

Industrial medicine and surgery.

1919

#3722

Der Skorbut.

1919

#3732

Heilung von Rachitis durch künstliche Höhensonne.

Rickets cured by ultraviolet irradiation.

1919

#3734

An experimental investigation on rickets.

In his important experiments on rickets, Mellanby both induced and controlled the disease by diet.

1919

#3756

Pellagra.

1919

#11016

Prostitution in Europe. Introduction by John D. Rockefeller, Jr.

"Publications of the Bureau of Social Hygiene". Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1920

#3723

Scurvy, past and present.

Includes a history and bibliography.

1920

#3757

The experimental production of pellagra in human subjects by means of diet.

Goldberger was born in Central Europe in poor circumstances. He migrated to America, and following attendance at a lecture by Austin Flint, decided to study medicine. He entered the U. S. Public Health Service in 1899…

1920

#5492

Report on the pandemic of influenza 1918-19.

Reports on Public Health and Medical Subjects, No. 4. The most widespread and serious pandemic of influenza occurred in 1918-19. It spread throughout Europe, Russia, Canada, S. America, New Zealand, Australia, Africa,…

1921

#1054

Fat-soluble vitamine. VII. The fat-soluble vitamine and yellow pigmentation in animal fats with some observations on its stability to saponification.

Separation of vitamin A from vitamin D. With M. Sell and M. Van R. Buell.

1921

#1654

A half-century of public health. Jubilee historical volume of the American Public Health Association.

1921

#2133

Industrial fatigue and efficiency.

1922

#1054.1

Studies on experimental rickets. XXI. An experimental demonstration of the existence of a vitamin which promotes calcium deposition.

Discovery of vitamin D. with N. Simmonds, J. E. Becker, and P. G. Shipley.

1922

#1055

On the existence of a hitherto unrecognized dietary factor essential for reproduction.

Discovery of vitamin E. See also their later paper in J. Amer. med. Ass.,1923, 81, 889-92.

1922 –1933

#57

Paracelsus: Sämtliche Werke…Herausg. von K. Sudhoff und W. Mathiessen. 14 vols.

Paracelsus was first to write on miners’ diseases, the first to establish the relationship between cretinism and endemic goitre and to note the geographic differences in diseases. Sudhoff was the author of what remain…

1923

#1767

On airs, waters, and places. IN: his [Works] with an English translation by W. H. S. Jones, 1, pp. 65-137

“The first book ever written on medical geography, climatology, and anthropology” (Garrison). The Latin translation of this text was first published in Rhazes’ Liber ad Almansorem, Milan, 1481. See No. 39.1. The stand…

1923

#11008

A history of the Massachusetts Medical Society: With brief biographies of the founders and chief officers, 1781-1922.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1923

#12588

The relation between home conditions and the intelligence of school children. From data collected by the late Mrs. Frances Wood. Privy Council. Medical Report Council. Special reports series No. 74.

1923

#12994

Handwörterbuch der Sexualwissenschaft. Enzyklopädie der natur- und kulturwissenschaftlichen Sexualkunde des Menschen heraugegeben von Max Marcuse.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link. New edition with an introduction by Robert Jütte, Berlin & New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2001.

1924

#6350

The food requirements of malnourished infants with a note on the use of insulin.

Marriott introduced the insulin-fattening method of treatment of malnutrition in infants.

1925

#1056

Fat-soluble vitamin. XXVI. Antirachitic property of milk and its increase by direct irradiation and by irradiation of the animal.

Demonstration that the therapeutic properties of ultra-violet light could be effectively stored in foods and later released after consumption. With E. B. Hart, C. A. Hoppert, and A. Black.

1925

#1642

Fortschritte de Abwasserreinigung.

In 1909 Imhoff devised the system of sewage purification which bears his name.

1925

#145.63

Elements of physical biology.

In this landmark of theoretical population ecology Lotka attempted to provide for parts of biology a basis comparable to that given by theoretical physics to experimental physics. This was the first great exposition a…