Facets

1939

#1083

Synthesis of vitamin K1.

1939

#1092.51

The Englishman’s food. A history of five centuries of English diet.

Revised edition, 1958.

1939

#3708

Methods for assessing the level of nutrition of the human subject: estimation of vitamin B1 in urine by the thiochrome test.

Wang’s test for avitaminosis.

1939

#6594

The first Negro medical society. A history of the Medico-Chirurgical Society of the District of Columbia.

A detailed history of the “first American Negro medical society formed in America and probably in the world”. Cobb was the first black American medical historian of note.

1939

#10688

Nutrition and physical degeneration: A comparison of primitive and modern diets and their effects.

"The 1939 foreword to the book, written by physical anthropologist Earnest A. Hooton, lauded Price's work for confirming previous research that dental caries were less prevalent in "savages" and attempting to establis…

1939

#11239

John Howard (1726-1790) hospital and prison reformer: A bibliography

1940

#1082

The constitution of vitamin K2.

Structural formula of vitamin K2.

1940

#1085

A further note on the identity of vitamin H with biotin.

Isolation of β-biotin (formerly known as vitamin H). With D. B. Melville, P. György, and C. S. Rose.

1940

#1086

Anemia in chicks caused by a vitamin deficiency.

Isolation of vitamin Bc (folic acid, pteroylglutamic acid). Preliminary communication in J. biol. Chem., 1939, 128, xlvi-xlvii.

1940

#1664

The development of public health in Canada: a review of the history and organization of public health in the provinces of Canada, with an outline of the present organization of the National Health Section of the Department of Pensions and National Health, Canada. Edited by R. D. Defries.

CANADIAN PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOCIATION

1940

#13352

The patient’s dilemma: The quest for medical security in America.

Cabot advocated the group practice of medicine and for budgeted prepayment systems for healthcare.

1941

#1084

p-Aminobenzoic acid, a vitamin.

Recognition of β-amenobenzoic acid as a member of the vitamin-B complex.

1941

#10769

Jak zapobiegać chorobom zakaźnym i jak je zwalczać? Biblioteczka Zydowskiej Samopomocy Spolecznej. Nr. 1.

A 14-page pamphlet on epidemiology published by the Żydowska Samopomoc Społeczna, Prezydium (Jewish Social Self-Help Organization) in the Kraków Ghetto to educate Jewish activists and physicians. The author perished a…

1941

#13027

Kanon der Erdbestrahlung und seine Anwendung auf das Eiszeitenproblem.

Milanković’s masterwork on his astronomical theory of climate, which brought together all the mathematical elements underlying the theory of “Milanković cycles.” Milanković cycles are cyclical changes in a planet’s cl…

1942

#1087

The isolation of a new oxidation-reduction enzyme from lemon peel (vitamin P).

Isolation of vitamin P (hespendin chalcone).

1942

#145.67

The trophic-dynamic aspect of ecology.

“The birth of ecosystem ecology” (McIntosh). Lindeman described energy flow in ecosystems in a form amenable to productive abstract analysis. This paper introduced what came to be known as the "Ten percent law."

1942

#13615

Social insurance and allied services.

Beveridge's "... report to Parliament on Social Insurance and Allied Services was published in November 1942. It proposed that all people of working age should pay a weekly national insurance contribution. In return, …

1943

#1088

Synthetic biotin.

Synthesis of biotin. With D. E. Wolf, R. Mozingo, and K. Folkers.

1943

#1089

Zur Kenntnis des β-Biotins. 34. Mitteilung über pflanzliche Wachstumstoffe.

Isolation of α-biotin.

1943

#1665

Cleanliness and godliness.

A history of sewage disposal, the privy, and related matters.

1943

#1666

The conquest of epidemic diseases. A chapter in the history of ideas.

Reprinted 1980.

1943

#2136

The history of miners’ diseases. A medical and social interpretation.

1943

#8180

Kaiser wakes the doctors.

The first book on what became the Kaiser Permanente health plan, initially set up by Henry J. Kaiser to provide health care for his 200,000 workers.

1943

#8590

Exploring the dangerous trades: The autobiography of Alice Hamilton.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1944

#9032

Global Epidemiology: A geography of disease and sanitation. Vol. 1: India and the Far East/The Pacific Area; Vol. 2: Africa and the Adjacent Islands; Vol. 3: The Near and Middle East. Edited by James Stevens Simmons, Tom F. Whayne, Gaylord West Anderson, Harold Maclachlan Horack... and United States. Surgeon-General's Office. Preventive Medicine Service.

1945

#1782.1

Medical geographies.

A historical survey of the classical works.

1945

#8057

Bibliography of the technical work of the Health Organisation of the League of Nations, 1920-1945.

1945

#9891

On the use of matrices in certain population mathematics.

"... the Leslie matrix is a discrete, age-structured model of population growth that is very popular in population ecology.... The Leslie matrix (also called the Leslie model) is one of the most well known ways to des…

1946

#1667

The story of water supply.

1946

#3709

The vitamins in medicine.

4th edition, 2 vols, 1980.

1946

#7236

Choroba glodowa: Badania kliniczne nad glodem wykonane w getcie warszawskim z roku 1942.

A series of articles by Jewish physicians working in the Bersohn and Bauman Jewish Children's Hospital and "Czyste" Hospital in the Warsaw ghetto, who conducted independent research between November 1941 and August 19…

1946

#11819

The common sense book of baby and child care.

One of the best-selling books of the twentieth century, selling 500,000 copies in the six months after its initial publication in 1946, and 50 million by the time of Spock's death in 1998. As of 2011, the book had bee…

1946

#13085

Self: A study in ethics and endocrinology.

An early work on transexualism. Dillon was the first trans man to undergo phalloplasty. Between 1946 and 1949 Dillon underent at least 13 surgeries performed by Harold Gillies for sex-reassignment surgery.

1947

#1090

Unidentified growth factors for Lactobacillus lactis in refined liver extract.

Mary Shorb provided a method of biological assay of liver extracts that made possible the isolation of vitamin B12.

1947

#1668

A guide to the history of physical education. 3rd edition, revised and enlarged by George Affleck.

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1947

#8644

A history of the American Medical Association 1847 to 1947.

1948

#1091

Crystalline vitamin B12.

With N. G. Brink, F. R. Koniuszy, T. R. Wood, and K. Folkers.

1948

#1092

Presence of cobalt in the anti-pernicious anaemia factor.

Independently of Rickes et al., Lester Smith isolated vitamin B12 in Britain. See also Nature (Lond.), 1948, 161, 638.

1948

#1669

The dawn of Scottish social welfare. A survey from medieval times to 1863.

1948

#2135.1

Occupational marks and other physical signs. A guide to personal identification.

Calluses, other dermatological and physical signs of professions and occupations illustrated and described, with an annotated bibliography that includes some historical references.

1948

#2137

History of factory and mine hygiene.

1948

#7038

Sexual behavior in the human male.

1948

#7786

No place to hide.

Bradley's autobiographical account of his work in the Radiological Safety Section in the Pacific in the aftermath of the Bikini atomic bomb tests, Operation Crossroads, alerted the world to the dangers of radioactive …

1948

#9024

The Pan American Sanitary Bureau: Its origin, developments and achievements, 1902-1944.

1949

#7084

A Sand County almanac, and sketches here and there.

This combination of natural history, philosophy, and poetic writing informed the environmental movement. It is perhaps best known for the following quote, which defines Leopold's land ethic: "A thing is right when it …

1949

#8885

Group medicine & health insurance in action.

"The Health Insurance Plan of Greater New York was established in March, 1947 for the specific purpose of accumulating the required experience under carefully controlled conditions. In order to assemble measurable dat…

1950

#1670

A history of English public health, 1834-1939.

1950

#3692.1

Studies on mass control of dental caries through fluoridation of the public water supply.

It has not been conclusively demonstrated whether fluoride serves a specific physiological role, but fluoridation of public water supplies was followed by a reduction in the incidence of dental caries. One of the firs…

1950

#8779

The biology of human starvation. 2 vols.

"To gain insight into the physiology of starvation, in 1944 [Ancel] Keys carried out a starvation study with 36 conscientious objectors as test subjects in the Minnesota Starvation Experiment. At the time, conscientio…

1950

#9030

La demogenia Peruana y sus problemas medico-sociales.