Facets

1927

#4610.1

Injections intracarotidiennes et substances injectables opaques aux rayons X.

Carotid arteriography.

1927

#9335

Studies on the velocity of blood flow: I. The method utilized.

Reports the first diagnostic procedure, done in 1925, using radioactive indicators on humans. "Less well recognized is the fact that Blumgart and his coworker Otto C. Yens, then a medical student, developed the first …

1928

#2856.1

Beiträge zur Lehre von den angeborenen Herzfehlern.

Roesler described the most important roentgenologic sign of aortic coarctation.

1928 –1929

#4246

Studies of urea excretion.

Blood urea clearance test. With J. F. Mcintosh and D. D. Van Slyke.

1928

#5434

The reaction of the skin of the normal rabbit following intradermal injection of material from smallpox lesions: the specificity of this reaction and its application as a diagnostic test.

McKinnon’s diagnostic test.

1929

#1446

Über das Elektrenkephalogramm des Menschen.

First recording of human brain activity, which Berger called electroencephalography. Berger actually recorded his first EEG in 1924, but did not publish the technique until 1929. He showed that the electrical activity…

1929

#2859

L’artériographie des membres de l’aorte et de ses branches abdominales.

Aortography. With A. C. Lamas and J. Pereira Caldas. Also published in Bull. Soc.méd.chir. Paris, 1929, 55,587-601.

1929

#3548

Ueber Gastrophotographie.

Introduction of gastrophotography.

1929

#2695

Eine neue Methode zur röntgenologischen Darstellung der Milz.

Thorium dioxide (“thorotrast”) first used in radiological diagnosis.

1930

#3407

Otologische Röntgendiagnostik.

Includes a brief history of the subject.

1930

#6223

Amniography; preliminary report.

Introduction of amniography. With J. D. Miller and L. E. Holly.

1930

#12830

The moving boundary method of studying the electrophoresis of proteins. (Nova Acta Reg. Soc. Scient. Upsaliensis, IV, 7, No. 4.)

Tilesius's doctoral dissertation introduced the laboratory technique of moving-boundary electrophoresis, a technique for separation of chemical compounds by electrophoresis in free solution. For this work, and the wor…

1931

#2524

A new series of graded collodion membranes suitable for general bacteriological use, especially in filterable virus studies.

In his important studies on the filtration of virus preparations, Elford showed that different viruses possessed different and characteristic sizes.

1931

#2696

Archiv und Atlas der normalen und pathologischen Anatomie in typischen Röntgenbildern. Das röntgenographische Bewegungsbild und seine Anwendung (Flachenkymographie und Kymoskopie).

Introduction of roentgen kymography.

1931

#3658

Über ein neues Röntgensymptom der Gallensteinkrankheit.

Star-shaped radiolucencies caused by gas in gallstones.

1931

#2919.1

The roentgenographic visualization of the arteries of the extremities in peripheral vascular disease.

1931

#2920

Les dérivés du thorium dans l’artériographie des membres.

Thorotrast first used in arteriography.

1931

#3923

The analysis of whole-blood. II. The determination of sugar and of saccharoids (non-fermentable copper-reducing substances).

Benedict’s test for blood-sugar.

1931

#4611.1

Apparatus and technique for roentgen examination of the skull.

Lysholm–Schönander skull table, allowing precise radiography of the skull.

1931

#7788

American martyrs to science through the Roentgen rays.

1931

#12985

Das Problem der dentalen Fokalinfektion und ihre Bekämpfung durch die konservierende Zahnheilkunde.

With physicist Fritz Giesel, Walkhoff on December 28, 1895 Walkhoff did the first dental radiograph on his own teeth. Later, Walkhoff was "responsible for the shift to an everyday use of camphorated chlorophenol to st…

1932

#4611.3

An improved method of encephalography.

Lumbar encephalography. In 1937 the authors published a monograph on the subject entitled The normal encephalogram. After Dyke's premature death in 1943 Davidoff collaborated with radiologist Bernard S. Epstein (1908-…

1932

#2414.1

Studies in the serology of syphilis. VII. A new flocculation test for the serum diagnosis of syphilis.

Eagle flocculation test.

1932

#2863

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

Introduction of chest leads.

1932

#2697

Roentgen ray motion pictures of the stomach.

Camera used for direct Roentgen-cinematography.

1932

#5351.1

Precipitin and skin tests as aids in diagnosing trichinosis.

Intradermal test for trichinosis.

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.

1932

#6918

X-ray studies of the structures of hair, wool, and related fibres. I. General.

Astbury, a student of William Lawrence Bragg, was the first to study proteins by X-ray analysis. He applied X-ray analysis to the structure of hair, wool, and related fibers, of which the protein keratin is the princi…

1933

#2698

Röntgenschnitte.

Tomography first described.

1933

#2702

Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen and the early history of the Roentgen rays.

The standard biography of Röntgen with a detailed history of the discovery of X-rays and the early period of roentgenology. Includes a bibliography of 1044 items on the subject published during the first year after Rö…

1933

#12485

Sound motion pictures in obstetrics.

DeLee was one of the pioneers of filmmaking for the purpose of medical teaching. In this paper he described the necessary components of a medical film, including scripts, props, lighting, sound and expert staff member…

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 …

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

#6229

Roentgen visualization of the placenta.

Direct radiography of the placenta. "Clilan (C.B.) Powell, longtime owner of the Amsterdam News, was born in 1894 to former Virginia slaves. Very little is known about his childhood. He received his medical degree in …

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

#6923

X-Ray photographs of crystalline pepsin.

Bernal and Hodgkin took the first X-ray photograph of a protein structure—crystalline pepsin. They showed that crystals of pepsin give an X-ray diffaction pattern, beginning protein crystallography. This may also be t…

1934

#7766

L'angiographie cérébrale, ses applications et résultats en anatomic, physiologie et clinique.

1934

#9340

I. Un nouveau type de radioactivité. II. Séparation chimique des nouveaux radioéléments émetteur d’électrons positifs.

Discovery of artificially produced radionuclides or radioisotopes. In February 1934, the Joliot-Curies reported the first artificial production of radioactive material after discovering radioactivity in aluminum foil …

1934

#10609

An atlas of infant behavior: A systematic delineation of the forms and early growth of human behavior patterns... illustrated with 3,200 action photographs. Vol. l: Normative series, in collaboration with Helen Thompson and Catherine S. Amatruda. Selected bibliographies (p. 45). Vol. 2: Naturalistic series, in collaboration with Alice V. Keliher, Frances L. Ilg, and Jessie J. Carlson. (2 vols.)

Gesell, who originated the Child Study Center at Yale University, was the founder of the study of child development in the United States. He is best known for his groundbreaking studies of normal child development: be…

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

#2524.5

Isolation of a crystalline protein possessing the properties of tobacco-mosaic virus.

Stanley first crystallized a virus— tobacco mosaic virus. The following year Bawden, Pirie, Bernal and Fankuchen (No. 12005) showed that tobacco mosaic virus molecules are asnisometric and consist of ribonucleoprotein…

1935

#3096

A standardized technique for the blood sedimentation test.

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

1935

#2699

Tomographie.

Grossmann's tomograph was able to image a single slice through the body. He was influential in establishing the word "tomographie" in its radiological context.

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

#3209.1

Röntgen-photographia. Processo e apparelho de röntgen-photographia. Tuberculose pulmonar. Cadastra social. Radiographia e radioscopia. Röntgen-photographia collectiva.

Introduction of chest photofluorography or abreugraphy, also called mass miniature radiography.

1936

#269.6

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

1936

#12005

Liquid crystalline substances from virus infected plants.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Bawden, Pirie, Bernal, Fankuchen. The authors isolated and crystallized tobacco mosaic virus, finding for the first time that a virus contained nucleic acids, when othe…

1937

#4824

The electro-encephalogram in epilepsy.

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