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1927
#12266
Paroxysmal hypertension with tumor of retroperitoneal nerve. Report of a case.
First resection of a pheochromocytoma in America, and the second in the world, by the co-founder of the Mayo Clinic. In 1926 César Roux of Lausanne did the first resection of this rare type of tumor.
1935
#12265
The two-step test of myocardial function.
The “Master TwoStep” exercise tolerance test for the diagnosis of heart disease. Abstract "A simple quantitative “two-step” test of myocardial function is described, and tables of climbs are given for normal individua…
1882
#12264
Observations on the mean pressure and the characters of the pulse wave in the coronary arteries of the heart.
1902
#12263
Principles of sanitary science and the public health, with special reference to the causation and prevention of infectious diseases.
Digital facsimile of the 1902 first edition from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1911
#12262
On the muscular architecture of the ventricles of the human heart.
1873
#12261
Eine periodische Function des isolirten Froschherzen.
"Using an isolated frog heart preparation with ligatures around the atria, Luigi Luciani, an Italian physiologist working in 1873 in Carl Ludwig’s famous laboratory in Leipzig, was the first to demonstrate cardiac gro…
2000 –2015
#12260
Ladies in the laboratory. 4 vols. 1: American and British women in science, 1800-1900: A survey of their contributions to research. 2: West European women in science, 1800-1900: A survey of their contributions (2004). 3: South African, Australian, New Zealand, and Canadian women in science: Nineteenth and early twentieth centuries (2010). 4: Imperial Russia's women in science, 1800-1900: A survey of their contributions to research (2015).
1963
#12259
"Cardioversion" of atrial fibrillation: A report on the treatment of 65 episodes in 50 patients.
"In 1959 Bernard Lown commenced research in his animal laboratory in collaboration with engineer Barouh Berkovits into a technique which involved charging of a bank of capacitors to approximately 1000 volts with an en…
1914
#12258
The excitatory process in the dog's heart. Part 1. The auricles.
Experiments designed to identify the "origin of the contraction wave in the mammalian heart." Three photographic plates depict numerous electrocardiographic recordings. "From 1910 to 1916, Lewis and his associates per…
1878
#12257
Weitere Beiträge zur Entstehungsgeschichte der Endocarditis.
Klebs "concluded that most cases of acute endocarditis were caused by 'monads' or by 'septic cocci' " (Bloomfield, Bibliography of internal medicine, selected diseases, 43-44). Klebs believed that all cases of endocar…
1858
#12256
Des appareils l'electriques des poissons l'electriques. 2 vols. (Text and atlas).
Digital facsimile of the text from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1910
#12255
The electrocardiogram in clinical medicine: The string galvanometer and the electrocardiogram in health.
The first clinical paper on electrocardiography to appear in an American journal (Burch & DePasquale, A History of Electrocardiography,1990, 163.) James and Williams "published the first ECG recordings in the western …
1921
#12254
Organon der Heilkunst. 6th edition.
Hahnemann completed his work for the 6th edition in 1842, a year before his death. After Hahnemann’s death in 1843, his widow, Mélanie Hahnemann, had a hand-written copy made of Hahnemann’s volume and notes. In 1920, …
1907
#12253
On herpetic inflammations of the geniculate ganglion: A new syndrome and its complications.
Herpes zoster oticus, also known as Ramsay Hunt syndrome type 2.
1914
#12252
The role of the carotid arteries in the causation of vascular lesions of the brain, with remarks on certain special features of the symptomatology.
"In 1914, J. Ramsay Hunt, in an article considered to be another historical landmark in the recognition of the causes of cerebral ischemia, emphasized that strokes could be caused by extracranial occlusion of the cere…
1964
#12251
Clinical observations using the Electrocardiocorder-AVSEP continuous electrocardiographic system. Tentative standards and typical patterns.
Documentation of the value of the Holter monitor in clinical work. Abstract "We have described characteristic patterns observed using the Electrocardiocorder-AVSEP system for recording continuous electrocardiograms on…
1961
#12250
New method for heart studies.
Probably the first publication on the Holter Monitor, which was released for commercial production in 1962. Abstract "I have proposed that orthodox electrocardiography be implemented, both for research and medical pur…
1902
#12249
A report of a case of successful suturing of the heart, and table of thirty-seven other cases of suturing by different operations with various terminations, and the conclusions drawn.
Hill reported his successful suturing of a knife wound in the left ventricle. His patient, a thirteen-year-old boy recovered. This was the first successful suture of the heart performed in America. Hill argued "that a…
1919
#12248
Thrombosis of the coronary arteries.
"...includes electrocardiographic tracings of a 42-year-old physician who died "after coronary obstructive symptoms" and of a dog following experimental ligation of a coronary artery. This finding "led Herrick to conc…
1903
#12247
Analyse des Pulsus irregularis perpetuus.
Later called auricular fibrillation.
1974
#12246
A sector scanner for real time two-dimensional echocardiography.
Abstract "During the past several years one-dimensional pulse-echo ultrasound techniques have proven extremely useful in cardiac diagnosis. A one-dimensional system, however, only visualizes structures lying along a s…
1974
#12245
Diagnosis of cyanotic congenital heart malformations in infants by real-time, two-dimensional echocardiography.
Two-dimensional (cross-sectional) echocardiography.
1982
#12244
Doppler ultrasound in cardiology: Physical principles and clinical applications.
1978
#12243
Noninvasive assessment of pressure drop in mitral stenosis by Doppler ultrasound.
Order of authorship in the original paper: Hatle, Brubakk, Tromsdal, Angelsen. "Hatle (born 1936) was the pioneer of continuous wave Doppler echocardiography. "Today, Doppler echocardiography is central to our ability…
1967
#12242
Clinical experiences with a new implantable demand pacemaker.
Harken and colleagues reported "the first clinical use of an implantable noncompetitive pacer" (Jeffrey, Machines in Our Hearts. Baltimore, 2001, 134.) Berkovits, an engineer working for Medtronic, was an inventor of …
2003
#12241
Transplant: From myth to reality.
"... organ transplantation has become a generally effective and routine treatment for patients with organ failure. In this book, a well-known expert in the fields of clinical transplantation and transplantation resear…
2011
#12240
Invasion of the body: Revolutions in surgery.
1979
#12239
Nonoperative dilatation of coronary-artery stenosis: Percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty.
Grüntzig developed the first successful balloon angioplasty for expanding lumens of narrowed arteries. Abstract "In percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty, a catheter system is introduced through a systemic ar…
1951
#12238
Hydraulic formula for calculation of the area of the stenotic mitral valve; other cardiac valves, and central circulatory shunts.
In collaboration with his father, S. G. Gorlin, a mechanical engineer who designed hydraulic systems for gasoline engines at the beginning of the century, Richard Gorlin developed a formula to calculate the area of st…
1987
#12237
Compensatory enlargement of human atherosclerotic coronary arteries.
"Glagov remodeling" or the "Glagov phenomenon." In 1987 Glagov showed that as atherosclerotic plaque began to build up within an artery, the arterial wall would expand enough to maintain normal blood flow. Only after …
1982
#12236
Catheter technique for closed-chest ablation of the atrioventricular conduction system.
The catheter ablation technique, pioneered by Gallagher and team. Abstract "This report describes a catheter technique for ablating the His bundle and its application in nine patients with recurrent supraventricular t…
1875
#12235
On the interpretation of cardiographic tracings, and the evidence which they afford as to the causation of the murmurs attendant upon mitral stenosis.
"The first case of heart block in a human documented graphically was reported in 1875 by British physician Alfred Galabin. He published an apical pulse tracing from a 34-year-old man with a two-year history of lighthe…
2016
#12234
A century of telemedicine: Curatio sine distantia et tempora.
345 pages. Available online from isfteh.org at this link.
1972
#12233
Selbstversuch. Erinnerungen eines Chirurgen.
Translated into English by Hilary Davies as Experiments on myself. Memoirs of a surgeon in Germany (London: St. Martin's Press, 1974).
1975
#12232
Cardiac catheterization: Development of the technique, its contributions to experimental medicine, and its initial applications in man.
1984
#12231
Clinical use of the total artificial heart.
"Abstract "We report here our first experience with the use of a total artificial heart in a human being. The heart [Jarvik-7] was developed at the University of Utah, and the patient was a 61-year-old man with chroni…
1983
#12230
The artificial heart.
First published report on the first successful "permanent" artificial heart operation, in which DeVries implanted the Jarvik-7 artifical heart in Barney Clark, a patient affected with end-stage congestive heart failur…
1951
#12229
Development of a pump-oxygenator to replace the heart and lungs: An apparatus applicable to human patients, and application to one case.
Dennis and colleagues performed the first human cardiac operation with total heart-lung bypass. The patient was a 6-year old girl with a huge atrial septal defect. Though she did not survive, this report encouraged ot…
1918 –1922
#12228
A monograph of the pheasants. 4 vols.
Beebe's spectacular work, with 90 colored plates of birds and 88 photogravure plates of habitats and scenery, has been called the greatest ornithological treatise of the 20th century. Illustrators included Henrik Grön…
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…
1927
#12226
A study of the electrical field surrounding active heart muscle.
At Johns Hopkins Hospital Craib evolved his fundamental theory of the doublet hypothesis which revolutionized electrocardiographic thinking. Until then, it was held that electricity in the heart differed from electric…
1872
#12225
Der Mechanismus der halbmondformigen Herzklappen.
Using an excised pig heart preparation with tubes, a manometer, and a visualizing apparatus, Ceradini working in Carl Ludwig’s laboratory, illustrated the mechanism of closure of the semilunar valves. He was the first …
1914
#12224
The four common types of heart disease: An analysis of 600 cases.
"The first appearance of Cabot's innovative classification of cardiac disease that was widely adopted" (W. Bruce Fye, American Cardiology. Baltimore, 1995, 49-50.)
1534
#12223
The castel of helth gathered and made by Syr Thomas Elyot knyghte, out of the chiefe authors of physyke, wherby euery manne may knowe the state of his owne body, the preseruatio[n] of helthe, and how to instructe welle his physytion in syckenes that he be not deceyued.
A few copies are dated 1534, but by internal evidence they cannot be dated before 1536. The next printing was in 1539. Digital text from Old English Books Online at this link.
1839
#12222
Cases of spasmodic disease accompanying affections of the pericardium.
Digital facsimile of the separate offprint from wellcomecollection.org at this link.
1960
#12221
Complete replacement of the mitral valve. Successful clinical application of a flexible polyurethane prosthesis.
Braunwald was the first woman to perform open heart surgery. She was the first woman surgeon certified by the American Board of Thoracic Surgery, and the first woman elected to the American Association for Thoracic Su…
1876
#12220
Contribution a l’étude du phénomène respiratoire de Cheyne-Stokes.
Biot's respiration, "an abnormal pattern of breathing characterized by groups of quick, shallow inspirations followed by regular or irregular periods of apnea"
2013
#12219
Partnership for excellence: Medicine at the University of Toronto and academic hospitals.
A history of medicine and medical discoveries made at these Canadian hospitals.
1897
#12218
Application de la méthode Roentgen à l'examen d'un anéurisme de la crosse aortique. Présentation du malade et de la preuve radiographique.
With the help of Oudin and Barthélemy Béclère established the first laboratory of radiology in Paris. This was among the first applications of x-rays for the diagnosis of aortic disease, and also one of the first pape…
1963
#12217
The significance of late systolic murmurs and mid-late systolic clicks.
See also J. B. Barlow, W.A. Pocock P. Marchand, M. Denny, "The significance of late systolic murmurs," Am Heart J., 66 (1963) 443- 452 Barlow revolutionized thinking about the pathophysiology of mitral regurgitation w…