Facets

1932

#2863

The electrocardiographic diagnosis of coronary occlusion by the use of chest leads.

Introduction of chest leads.

1932

#5351.1

Precipitin and skin tests as aids in diagnosing trichinosis.

Intradermal test for trichinosis.

1932

#6493

History of Chinese medicine.

The writers spent 15 years in the compilation of this work, the first important contribution to the history of Chinese medicine for Western readers. Beginning with demonology, plant lore and folk medicine, the writers…

1932

#269.3

Beitrag zur geometrischen Elektronenoptik.

Electron microscope. See also their later paper in Z. Physik. 1932, 78, 318.

1932

#271

The history of the microscope.

A classic history of microscopes up to 1800.

1933

#6373

Die Reticuloendotheliose - eine neues Krankheitsbild unter den Hepatosplenomegalien.

See No. 6372.

1934

#2864

Electrocardiograms that represent the potential variations of a single electrode.

Unipolar leads. With F. D. Johnston, A. G. MacLeod, and P. S. Barker.

1934

#6564

The renaissance of medicine in Italy … The Hideyo Noguchi Lectures.

1934

#269.4

Die Methoden der Fluoreszenzmikroskopie. In: Abderhalden, Handbuch der biologischen Arbeitsmethoden, Abt. II, Teil 3, pp. 3307-37.

Modern methods of fluorescence microscopy were developed by Haitinger.

1934

#7700

Who shall survive? A new approach to the problem of human interrelations.

Moreno founded psychodrama, and pioneered group psychotherapy. Apart from its psychiatric and sociological significance, this work contained some of the earliest graphic depictions of social networks— data visualizati…

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.

1935

#3096

A standardized technique for the blood sedimentation test.

Wintrobe’s method for the determination of the erythrocyte sedimentation rate.

1935

#269.5

Das Phasenkontrastverfahren b.d. mikroskopischen Beobachtung.

Zernicke invented phase contrast microscopy. In 1953 Zernike was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics "for his demonstration of the phase contrast method, especially for his invention of the phase contrast microscope."

1936

#2865.1

Elektrographische Diagnostik der Herzmuskelerkrankungen.

Introduction of the vectorcardiogram.

1936

#269.6

Microscopy with ultra-violet light. A simplification of method.

1937

#1076

Further studies on the concentration of the antipellagra factor.

Chicken pellagra factor.

1937

#4824

The electro-encephalogram in epilepsy.

Demonstration of the changes in the electro-encephalogram in epilepsy. With S. Graham and W. Grey Walter.

1937

#2348

A new tuberculin patch test.

1937

#12831

A new apparatus for electrophoretic analysis of colloidal mixtures.

Between 1931 and 1937, with financial support from the Rockefeller Foundation, Tiselius developed his "Tiselius apparatus" for moving boundary electrophoresis. In this paper he demonstrated that electrophoresis separa…

1937

#12832

Electrophoresis of serum globulin. II- Electrophoretic analysis of normal and immune sera.

Tiselius showed that an antibody that he produced in a rabbit by immunizing it with albumin (ovalbumin) was clearly located in the gamma globulin fraction. He summarized the paper with this statement: "Investigation o…

1938

#2868

Praecordial leads in electrocardiography. A joint memorandum of a committee of the Cardiac Society of Gt. Britain and Ireland and the Committee of the American Heart Association.

PRECORDIAL LEADS

Also in Amer. Heart J.,1938, 15,107-08, 235-39. Precordial leads are also called unipolar leads.

1939

#2870

Studies on the estimation of cardiac output in man, and abnormalities in cardiac function, from the heart’s recoil and the blood’s impacts; the ballistocardiogram.

Introduction of the ballistocardiogram. With A. J. Rawson, H. A. Schroeder, and N. R. Joseph.

1939 –2015

#12964

The collected letters of Antoni Van Leeuwenhoek / Alle de Brieven van Antoni Van Leeuwenhoek. Edited, illustrated & annotated by a committee of Dutch scientists. 17 vols. through 2015.

1940

#13073

Psychiatric nursing technic.

1941

#1533

Continuous and reproducible records of the electrical activity of the human retina.

Electroretinography

1941

#2577

The agglutination of red cells by allantoic fluid of chick embryos infected with influenza virus.

Discovery of virus hemagglutination. Between 1941 and 1942 Hirst developed the hemagglutination assay for quantifying the relative concentration of viruses, bacteria or antibodies.

1941

#5301.2

The transmission of Leishmania tropica by the bite of Phlebotomus papatasii.

Proof of the transmission of L. tropica by P. papatasii.

1942

#2261

The treatment of burns.

Contains some history of the subject and includes a valuable bibliography of 1,320 entries.

1942

#2875

A simple indifferent electrocardiographic electrode of zero potential and a technique of obtaining augmented, unipolar, extremity leads.

Augmented unipolar leads.

1942

#5302

Transmission of Indian kala-azar to man by the bites of Phlebotomus argentipes, Ann. and Brun.

Successful transmission of kala-azar to man by the bite of Phlebotomus argentipes reported, showing it to be the vector of Leishmania. With H. E. Shortt and L. A. P. Anderson.

1943

#6636

History of nursing.

Second edition, History and trends of professional nursing, 1950.

1943

#8096

A bio-bibliography of Andreas Vesalius.

The standard annotated bibliography of Vesalius's works, known for its unusual system of numbering entries. Posthumously edited for publication by John F. Fulton and Arturo Castiglioni. Digital facsimile of the 1943 e…

1945

#3104

Detection of weak and “incomplete” Rh agglutinins: a new test.

Coombs’s test for detecting antibodies in various clinical scenarios, such as Rh disease and blood transfusion. With A. E. Mourant and R. R. Race. A fuller description appears in Brit. J. exp. Path.,1945, 26, 255-66.

1945

#3105

Conglutination test for Rh sensitization.

Conglutination test.

1946

#2418.1

A microflocculation test for syphilis using cardiolipin antigen: preliminary report.

V. D. Research Laboratory test (Harris test). With A. A. Rosenberg and L. M. Riedel.

1946

#8899

White caps: The story of nursing.

1949

#6878

Huang Ti Nei Ching Su Wen: The Yellow Emperor's classic of internal medicine. Translated by Ilza Veith.

First edition in English of the Yellow Emperor's Inner Classic (Huangdi Neijing,) , the most important ancient text in Chinese medicine as well as a major book of Daoist theory and lifestyle. According to leading scho…

1949

#8763

The origin of medical terms.

Revised and enlarged edition, Baltimore, 1961. Digital facsimile of the 1949 edition from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1950

#2352

A new and practical B.C.G. skin test (the B.C.G. scarification test) for the detection of the total tuberculous allergy.

1950

#7568

An inferometer microscope.

Dyson designed one of the first usable interference microscopes This optical system achieved interference imaging without requiring polarizing elements in the beam path.

1951

#2352.1

The multiple-puncture tuberculin test.

The Heaf multiple-puncture tuberculin test.

1951

#269.7

X-ray shadow microscope.

1951

#269.8

An electrostatic focusing system and its application to a fine focus x-ray tube.

X-ray microscopy.

1951

#14367

Rehabilitation nursing. Foreward by Howard A. Rusk.

The first book on rehabilitation nursing, including a historical survey of rehabilitation and a study of the incidence of disability in the U.S. Morrissey conducted her research in association with the Institute of Ph…

1952

#366

Leonardo da Vinci on the human body. The anatomical, physiological, and embryological drawings of Leonardo da Vinci. With translations, emendations, and biographical introduction by Charles D. O'Malley and J. B. de C. M. Saunders.

Includes 215 plates.

1952 –1961

#9033

World-atlas of epidemic diseases. Welt-Seuchen-Atlas: Weltatlas der Seuchenverbreitung und Seuchenbeweng. In collaboration with Richard-Ernst Bader ... [et al.]. Edited by Ernst Rodenwaldt; assistant scientific editors: Ludwig Bachmann, Helmut J. Jusatz. Organization, Heinz Dörrfuss. Cartography, Konrad Voppel, in cooperation with Fritz Hölzel and Henry Petersen. Sponsorship, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, Navy Dept., Washington, D.C. 3 vols.

In English and German.

1953

#14369

Nursing team organization and functioning.

Lambertsen developed "team nursing," a system of integrated care distributing the care of a patient among a team working together. In team nursing the registered nurse (RN) functions as a team leader, and coordinates …

1954

#11268

The Johns Hopkins Hospital school of nursing, 1889-1949.

1955

#7757

The serum lipoprotein transport system in health, metabolic disorders, atherosclerosis and coronary artery disease.

Gofman, a nuclear and physical chemist as well as a physician, has been called the "father of clinical lipidology." He discovered and described the major classes of plasma lipoproteins: intermediate-density lipoprotei…

1956

#8957

Lexique des termes de botanique en latin.