Facets

1925

#2134

Industrial poisons in the United States.

1925

#7785

Some unrecognized dangers in the use and handling of radioactive substances.

From autopsies on several young women who had painted radium dials, and ingested large cumulative doses by licking their brushes, Martland, medical examiner of Essex County, New Jersey, provided evidence that ingestio…

1925

#9038

La Société des Nations et la politique sanitaire internationale.

Health work of the League of Nations.

1926

#1057

A further study of butter, fresh beef, and yeast as pellagra preventives, with consideration of the relation of factor P-P of pellagra (and black tongue of dogs) to vitamin B.

Anti-pellagra vitamin (B2, riboflavine). With G. A. Wheeler, R. D. Lillie, and L. M. Rogers.

1926

#1058.1

The anti-rachitic properties of irradiated sterols.

Proof that the irradiation of ergosterol formed vitamin D.

1926

#1227

Die Unfruchtbarkeit als Folge unnatürlicher Lebensweise.

Investigation of the effect of starvation and overfeeding on the gonads and on sexual capacity.

1926

#145.64

Variazioni e fluttuazioni del numero d’individui in specie animali conviventi.

The mathematician Volterra created the basic equations for two species interactions. Abridged English translation as appendix to R. Chapman, Animal ecology, New York, 1931.

1926

#2345

Ueber Versuche, schwere Formen der Tuberkulose durch diätetische Behandlung zu beeinflussen.

Gerson introduced a salt-restricted diet in the treatment of tuberculosis; this was subsequently modified by Sauerbruch and Herrmannsdorfer, becoming known as the “Gerson–Sauerbruch–Hermannsdorfer diet”. The scientifi…

1926

#1058

Antineuritische Vitamine.

Isolation of vitamin B1 (aneurine, thiamine), lack of which is a cause of beri-beri.

1926

#3758

A further study of butter, fresh beef, and yeast as pellagra preventatives, with consideration of the relation of factor P-P of pellagra (and black tongue of dogs) to vitamin B.

Anti-pellagra vitamin. With G. A. Wheeler, R. D. Lillie, and L. M. Rogers.

1926

#7031

Het volkomen huwelijk. Een studie omtrent zijn physiologie en zijn techniek: voor den arts en den echtgenoot geschreven.

English translation: Ideal Marriage: Its Physiology and Technique. (1930). The first printing had an insert: "The sale of this book is strictly limited to members of the medical profession, Psychoanalysts, Scholars, a…

1926

#7105

Happiness in marriage.

Full text available from LifeDynamics.com at this link.

1926

#10467

Health, wealth and population in the early days of the industrial revolution.

Chapters on water supply, 18th physicians and pioneers of public health, the hospital and dispensary movement, general hygiene and midwifery, rickets and scurvy, antiseptics, smallpox, anti-typhus campaign, malaria, etc.

1926

#10468

Population problems of the age of Malthus.

Includes chapters on birth and marriage rates relating to conditions of employment, also the influence of the Poor Laws on these rates. Other chapters concern agriculture and food and health of towns and factores, and…

1927

#1655

The history of heating, ventilation, and lighting.

1927

#1656

Evolution of preventive medicine.

1927

#145.65

Animal ecology.

Elton integrated the concepts of food chains, pyramids of numbers, and the “niche” into a useful framework for ecology.

1927

#3706

Avitaminosen und verwandte Krankheitszustände. Edited by W. Stepp and P. György.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1927

#3724

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

Demonstration of the effect of deprivation of biotin.

1927 –1928

#4296

The experimental production of stone-in-the-bladder.

McCarrison’s experiments showed that urinary calculi could follow a diet probably deficient in vitamin A.

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…

1927

#11595

How to make the periodic health examination: A manual of procedure. Foreward by Major General Merritte W. Ireland, Surgeon General, United States Army.

Fisk was medical director, Life Extension Institute; Crawford was Assistant Medical Director, Life Extension Institute. "This pioneering monograph on the value of periodic health examination includes numbers of photog…

1928

#1059

Observations on the function of peroxidase systems and the chemistry of the adrenal cortex. Description of a new carbohydrate derivative.

Isolation of vitamin C, ascorbic acid. In 1937 Szent-Györgyi was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for his discoveries in connexion with the biological combustion process with special reference to vit…

1928

#1060

The tripartite nature of vitamin B.

Vitamin B3.

1928

#2134.1

A case of pneumoconiosis. Result of the inhalation of asbestos dust.

Seiler established an unequivocal relationship between asbestos and pulmonary fibrosis.

1928

#194.1

Äskulap und Venus. Eine Kultur- und Sittengeschichte im Spiegel des Ärztes.

An exhaustive and well-illustrated survey of medical anthropology with emphasis on sexuality.

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…

1929

#1061

The absorption spectrum of vitamin D.

See No. 1065. With C. Fischmann, R. G. C. Jenkins, and T. A. Webster.

1929

#1062

Cholesterinstoffwechsel in Hühnereiern und Hühnchen.

In 1943 Dam shared the Nobel Prize with Doisy "for discovery of vitamin K, the blood coagulating factor."

1929

#1657

The treatment of the sick poor of this country and the preservation of the health of the poor in this country.

1929

#3735

Rickets, including osteomalacia and tetany.

Hess made numerous clinical observations on rickets and scurvy and discovered that antirachitic properties could be imparted to certain oils and to food by exposing them to ultra-violet rays. His book includes an impo…

1929 –1930

#4396

Further studies in osteomalacia.

Maxwell showed osteomalacia to be due to lack of vitamin D.

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

#1064

Maintenance nutrition in the adult pigeon and its relation to torulin (vitamin B1).

Discovery of vitamin B5, probably identical with nicotinic acid. With H. W. Kinnersley and R. A. Peters.

1930

#4398

Pseudofractures (hunger osteopathy, late rickets, osteomalacia): report of a case.

“Milkman’s syndrome”.

1930

#6730

Plarr’s lives of the Fellows of the Royal College of Surgeons of England; Plarr's lives of the Fellows Online.

Publication began with the first 2 vols. edited after Plarr's death by D'Arcy Power with the assistance of W. G. Spencer and G. E. Gask, 1930. Supplement, 1930-51, by Sir D’Arcy Power and W. R. LeFanu, 1953. Second su…

1930

#7308

Mathematische Klimalehre und astronomische Theorie der Klimaschwankungen. Handbuch der Klimatologie, Bd. 1, Teil A.

Milankovitch cycles, first exposition (176 pages). Milankovitch theorized that variations in eccentricity, axial tilt, and precession of the Earth's orbit determined climatic patterns on Earth through orbital forcing,…

1930

#8322

Sexual life in ancient India: A study in the comparative history of Indian Culture.

Extensively revised by the author, with additional notes by the translator (unidentified), from Das Weib im altindischen Epos. Ein Beitrag zur indischen und zur vergleichenden Kulturgeschichte. Von Johann Jacob Meyer.…

1930

#10301

Medical history of Michigan. Compiled and edited by a committee, C. B. Burr, Chairman, and published under the auspices of the Michigan State Medical Society. 2 vols.

Digital facsimile from the U.S. Library of Congress at this link.

1930

#10847

Sittengeschichte des Weltkrieges. 2 vols.

Sexuality in World War I. Abridged translation into English Sexual History of the World War (New York, Panurge Press, 1934). Only a small sampling of the plates from the German edition were issued as Illustrated Suppl…

1931

#1065

The quantitative estimation of vitamin D by radiography.

Medical Research Council Special Report No. 158. R. B. Bourdillon, H. M. Bruce, C. Fischmann, R. G. C. Jenkins, and T. A. Webster isolated from irradiated ergosterol a crystalline compound, calciferol, which, weight f…

1931

#1066

The vitamins.

1931

#8887

International studies of the relation between the private & official practice of medicine with special reference to the prevention of disease. Vol. 1: The Netherlands, Scandinavia, Germany, Austria, Switzerland. Vol. 2: Belgium, France, Italy, Jugo-Slavia, Hungary, Poland, Czecho-Slovakia. Vol. 3: England and Wales, Scotland, Ireland.(3 vols.)

Contains almost no references to prior literature.

1931

#11447

Fra Mand til Kvinde: Lili Elbes Bekendelser.

Posthumously published autobiography of one of the first transgender women, known prior to the sex change as the Danish painter Einar Wegener. Translated into English as Man into woman: An authentic record of a change…

1931

#13378

Vénus et Mercure.

"Chapter by Pierre Najac, “L’Institut de science sexuelle à Berlin”; includes numerous illustrations from the archives of Magnus Hirschfeld’s Institute for Sexual Science in Berlin, as well as Najac’s eyewitness descr…

1931

#14238

Zur Kenntnis des Vitamins-A aus Fischtranen.

In 1930 Karrer established the correct formula for carotene (the chief precursor of vitamin A), the first demonstration of the chemical structure of a vitamin. Shortly thereafter, he was able to determine the formula …

1932

#1067

Crystalline vitamin D.

Written with R. B. Bourdillon, H. M. Bruce, R. K. Callow, J. St. L. Philpot, and T. A. Webster.

1932

#1092.5

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

1932

#1657.1

The rise of preventive medicine.

1932

#1658

A century of public health in Britain, 1832-1929.