Facets

1932

#2135

Die gewerblichen Vergiftungen und ihre Bekämpfung.

1932

#2257

Elektrische Verletzungen. Klinik und Histopathologie.

Jellinek specialized in the study of injuries and deaths caused by electricity, and their prevention.

1932

#12753

The sexual side of marriage.

A very good advice book for its time by a physician. Initially published by a small publisher, this book was rapidly reprinted, many times by W.W. Norton. The cover reprinted an endorsement by Havelock Ellis: "An admi…

1933

#1068

Synthese der d- und l-Ascorbinsäure (C-Vitamin).

T. Reichstein, A. Grüssner, and R. Oppenauer synthesized vitamin C.

1933

#1068.1

“Pantothenic acid”, a growth determinant of universal biological occurrence.

Discovery of pantothenic acid (vitamin B3). with C. M. Lyman, G. H. Goodyear, J. H. Truesdail, and D. Holaday.

1933

#3725

Scurvy treated with ascorbic acid.

First case of infantile scurvy cured by the administration of ascorbic acid.

1933

#7829

Pigs born without eyeballs.

Hale demonstrated that pregnant pigs fed a diet deficient in vitamin A gave birth to piglets with a variety of malformations, predominantly a lack of eyes. See also: Hale, F., 'The relation of vitamin A to anophthalmo…

1933

#13200

Sex efficiency through exercises. Special physical culture for women, with 480 cinematographic and 54 full-page illustrations.

Includes a series of 12 "cinematographic" films on 480 flicker cards. In all the photographs frontal nudity of the female model is covered by clothing, though her buttocks are exposed in some views. Having previously …

1933

#14280

Synthesis of ascorbic acid.

Haworth and Hirst successfully synthesized vitamin C in the laboratory. This was the first vitamin to be artificially produced. Their breakthrough made it possible for vitamin C, or ascorbic acid as Haworth called it,…

1934

#1069

The lyochromes: a new group of animal pigments.

Chemical formula of riboflavine (vitamin B2).

1934

#1070

Vital need of the body for certain unsaturated fatty acids.

Isolation of vitamin F (linolenic acid).

1934 –1938

#1781

The patient and the weather. With the assistance of Margaret E. Milliken. 4 vols. in 7.

1934

#2010

Traité de climatologie biologique et médicale. Publié sous la direction de M. Piéry. 3 vols.

1934

#1659

A history of food adulteration and analysis.

1934

#145.66

The struggle for existence.

Gause developed the concept of competitive exclusion as formulated by Volterra.

1934

#3747

Das Beriberi-Herz.

Wenckebach wrote a classic account of the heart in beriberi.

1934

#7245

Prolonging the life span.

McCay proved that caloric restriction increases the life span of rats, a discovery that triggered extensive further research and experiments in the field of nutrition and longevity.

1934

#10391

Industrial maladies.

Legge was the first Medical Inspector of Factories and Workshops in the United Kingdom, appointed in 1898.

1935

#1780

A geography of disease.

Published as supplement to Amer. J. trop. Med., 1935, 15, No. 5.

1935

#1660

Fifty years in public health: a personal narrative with comments.

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…

1935

#5403

Rats, lice and history: being a study in biography, which, after 12 preliminary chapters indispensable for the preparation of the lay reader, deals with the life history of typhus fever.

1935

#7476

Noise: A comprehensive survey from every point of view.

Chapter 1: General considerations: behaviour of the ear. Chapter 10: Physiological and psychological effects of noise.

1935

#8619

The doctor's bill. With an introduction by A. Lawrence Powell.

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1935

#12227

Your body and its health.

Cullis was the first woman professor in a British medical school, appointed in 1919 as professor physiology at the University of London. By the time this book was published Cullis was the Sophia Jex-Blake Professor of…

1936

#1071

The isolation from wheat-germ oil of an alcohol, α-tocopherol, having the properties of vitamin E.

Isolation of vitamin E, named by Herbert M. Evans.

1936

#1071.1

Über das Bios-Problem. Darstellung von krystallisiertem Biotin aus Eigelb.

Isolation of biotin (vitamin H).

1936

#1072

Vitamin P: Flavonols as vitamins.

Discovery of vitamin P (“citrin”).

1936

#1073

Synthesis of vitamin B1.

Synthesis of aneurine.

1936

#1661

The last thirty years in public health.

1936

#1662

Medical history of contraception.

Reprinted with updating preface, 1963, 1970.

1936

#7035

Encyclopaedia sexualis: A comprehensive encyclopaedia-dictionary of the sexual sciences. Edited by Victor Robinson.

One of the first encyclopedias of sexuality, published when relevant information was difficult to obtain, especially in English.

1936

#11821

Industrial dust: Hygienic significance, measurement and control.

Includes information on asbestosis.

1936

#13044

Collected writings. With a biographical memoir by Abraham Flexner. 2 vols.

1937

#1074

A crystalline vitamin A concentration.

1937

#1076

Further studies on the concentration of the antipellagra factor.

Chicken pellagra factor.

1937

#1075

Studies on vitamin E. The isolation of β-tocopherol from wheat germ oil.

With F. Bergel and T. S. Work.

1937

#3876

Genital abnormalities, hermaphroditism and related adrenal diseases.

1937

#9832

Socialized medicine in the Soviet Union.

"... Sigerist was influential in the creation of socialized medicine in Canada. He made four trips to Canada in the 1930s and 1940s at the invitation of various medical groups to speak on this topic. Under his influen…

1937

#10198

The Citadel.

This novel was "groundbreaking with its treatment of the contentious theme of medical ethics. It has been credited with laying the foundation in Great Britain for the introduction of the NHS a decade later.[1] "For hi…

1937

#11797

A sex starved world.

A eugenic utopian fantasy, in which we accompany a doctor in his dream journey to the liberated land of Amor. Pritcher presents an impassioned argument for free universal health care, contraception, no-fault divorce, …

1938

#1077

The isolation and identification of the anti-black tongue factor.

Isolation of nicotinic acid, the pellagra-preventing factor (Vitamin B3). With R. J. Madden, F. N. Strong, and D. W. Woolley.

1938

#1078

Vitamins and vitamin deficiencies. Vol. 1.

1938

#1079

α-Tocopherol.

P. Karrer, H. Fritzsche, B. H. Ringier, and H. Salomon synthesized vitamin E (α-tocopherol).

1938

#3707

Riboflavin deficiency in man; a preliminary note.

Ariboflavinosis

1938

#6133

An operation for the cure of congenital absence of the vagina.

Mclndoe’s operation for the construction of an artificial vagina.

1938

#7406

Margaret Sanger: An autobiography.

1938

#12593

A medical survey of the republic of Guatemala, by George Cheever Shattuck. With the collaboration of Joseph C. Bequaert, Margaret M. Hilferty, Jack H. Sandground [and] Samuel Drury Clark.

Organized and directed by the Department of Tropical Medicine, Harvard School of Public Health. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1939

#1080

Isolierung des Vitamins K in hochgereinigter Form.

Isolation of vitamin K1 from alfalfa. It was isolated independently by R. W. McKee and his co-workers, J. Amer. chem. Soc., 1939, 61, 1295.

1939

#1081

The isolation of vitamin K1.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Binkley, MacCorquodale, Thayer, Doisy. In 1943 Doisy received half of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for his discovery of the chemical nature of vitamin K."…