1900–1909
957 entries with publication dates in this decade.
1735 –1756
#6113
Ueber die Vortheile der suprasymphysären Fascienquerschnitts für die gynäkologischen Koeliotomieen.
“Pfannenstiel’s incision”.
1898
#3639
Chirurgische Oeffnung neuer Seitenbahnen für das Blut der Vena portae.
Talma’s operation for the relief of ascites in cirrhosis of the liver.
1899
#1428
Einleitung in die vergleichende Gehirnphysiologie und vergleichende Psychologie.
1899
#3011
Thrombosis and embolism. In Allbutt, C., System of medicine, 4, 284-310; and in 2nd ed., 6, 691-821
1899
#4129
Le trophoedème chronique héréditaire.
“Meige’s disease” – first described by Nonne (No. 4106).
1900 –1909
#345
A treatise on zoology. Edited by Sir Ray Lankester. 9 vols.
Digital facsimiles from the Internet Archive at this link.
1900
#4588
Das Krankheitsbild der Apraxie (motorischen Asymbolie) auf Grund eines Falles von einseitiger Apraxie.
First adequate description of apraxia.
1900
#839
On the muscular architecture and growth of the ventricles of the heart.
A classic account of the development and architecture of the muscular wall of the heart.
1900
#4644
The pathology of herpes zoster and its bearing on sensory localisation.
Head and Campbell showed herpes zoster to be a hemorrhagic inflammation of the posterior nerve roots and the homologous spinal ganglia.
1900
#889
Zur Kenntniss der antifermentativen, lytischen und agglutinierenden Wirkungen des Blutserums und der Lymphe.
Also: Landsteiner, "Ueber Agglutinationsercheinungen normalen menschlichen Blutes," Wiener klinische Wochenschrift, 14, 1901, 1132-1134. Landsteiner discovered that human blood contains iso-agglutinins capable of aggl…
1900
#890
Ein einfaches Verfahren zur directen Schätzung der Färbestärke des Blutes.
Tallqvist’s hemoglobin scale.
1900
#722
Concerning lipase, the fat-splitting enzyme, and the reversibility of its action.
Demonstration of the reversible action of lipase.
1900
#4710
Subacute combined degeneration of the spinal cord.
First full description. Order of authorship in the original publication: Russell, Batten, Collier.
1900
#4711
A case of unilateral progressive ascending paralysis, probably representing a new form of degenerative disease.
First description of unilateral progressive ascending paralysis (“Mills’s disease”).
1900
#4760
Ueber allgemeine und localisierte Atonie der Muskulatur (Myatonie) im frühen Kindesalter.
First description of “Oppenheim’s disease” – amyotonia congenita.
1900 –1908
#516
Contributions to the study of the pathology of early human embryos. 3 pts. : (1). A contribution to the study of the pathology of early human embryos. Welch Festschrift, Johns Hopkins Hospital Reports, IX (1900). (2). Second contribution to the study of the pathology of early human embryos. Contributions to medical research. Dedicated to Victor C. Vaughan. Ann Arbor (1903). (3). A study of the causes underlying the origin of human monsters. Third contribution to the study of the pathology of human embryos. Reprinted from Journal of morphology, 29, No. 1 (1908).
Part 3, with 365 pages and illustrations was the main work of this series. Mall began the introduction to the third part as follows: "The present communication is the outcome of a study of 163 pathological human embry…
1900
#2040
Histoire de la pharmacie.
1900
#2336
Les maladies qu’on soigne à Berck.
An account of the work of the Rothschild Hospital at Berck-sur-Mer, where Calot specialized in the treatment of surgical tuberculosis in children.
1900
#2515
Ueber die nach Gram färbbaren Bacillen des Säuglingsstuhles.
Isolation of Lactobacillus acidophilus.
1900
#2516
Morbid conditions caused by Bacillus aërogenes capsulatus.
Welch grouped together the diseases caused by Cl. perfringens, earlier discovered by him in association with Nuttall (see No. 2508).
1900
#189
Classification and uses of finger prints.
The Henry system of fingerprint classification, developed when Henry served as Inspector-General of Police in Bengal, is the basis for the system presently in use worldwide.
1900
#2552
Les sérums hémolytiques, leurs antitoxines et les théories des serums cytolytiques.
English translation in T. Bordet et al., Studies in immunity, New York, 1909, p. 186.
1900 –1901
#3521
Ueber Magenspiegelung.
Describes the first clinical use of the oesophagoscope by Kussmaul in 1867-68. The latter made only brief mention of it himself in his paper on the stomach pump, Dtsch. Arch. klin. Med., 1869, 6, 456.
1900
#3522
Malignant diseases of the stomach and pylorus.
Mayo’s operation of partial gastrectomy. Mayo was co-founder of the Mayo Clinic.
1900
#2687.2
The use of the Röntgen ray by the Medical Department of the United States Army in the war with Spain (1898).
The Spanish-American War was the first war in which X rays were used for diagnostic purposes. This is the first report on the application of X rays in military medicine. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at …
1900 –1901
#3640
Experimental bacillary cirrhosis of the liver.
Hektoen produced experimental cirrhosis of the liver. His notable work in pathology includes the foundation of the Archives of Pathology.
1900
#3779
Ueber eine hereditäre, unter dem Bilde eines chronischen Icterus mit Urobilinurie Splenomegalie, und Nierensiderosis verlaufende Affection.
“Minkowski–Chauffard disease”, familial hemolytic jaundice. See also No. 3781.
1900
#3887
Tumeur du corps pituitaire sans acromégalie et avec arrêt de développement des organes génitaux.
Babinski preceded Fröhlich in describing dystrophia adiposo-genitalis.
1900
#3888
Beiträge zur normalen und pathologischen Histologie der menschlichen Hypophysis cerebri.
Benda showed that the pituitary tumor in acromegaly consists of chromophil cells.
1900 –1910
#3919
Sammlung klinischer Abhandlungen über Pathologie und Therapie der Stoffwechsel- und Ernährungsstörungen. 9 pts.
Noorden succeeded Nothnagel at Vienna. He made important studies of metabolism and its disorders. His section on obesity was translated into English as Obesity: the indications for reduction cures. Part 1 of Clinical …
1900 –1901
#3955
On the relation of chronic interstitial pancreatitis to the islands of Langerhans and to diabetes mellitus.
1900 –1901
#3956
The relation of diabetes mellitus to lesions of the pancreas. Hyaline degeneration of the islands of Langerhans.
Mering and Minkowski had focused attention upon the pancreas as the seat of diabetes, Opie’s work was another important step forward; he established the association between failure of the islets of Langerhans and the …
1900
#3024
Chirurgie du grand sympathique et du corps thyroïde.
Jaboulay was the first to perform the operation of sympathectomy for the relief of vascular disease.
1900
#4875
A method of total extirpation of the Gasserian ganglion for trigeminal neuralgia, by a route through the temporal fossa and beneath the middle meningeal artery.
1900
#4130
Ueber Scleroedem.
Scleroedemaadultorum syndrome of Buschke.
1900
#4131
Du naevus variqueux ostéo-hypertrophique.
“Klippel–Trenaunay syndrome”.
1900
#5039
Remarks on the results which have been obtained by the antityphoid inoculations.
The active inoculation of man against typhoid was first performed by Wright in 1896. For a preliminary note see Lancet, 1896, 2, 807.
1900
#5092
Ueber die Ruhr als Volkskrankheit und ihren Erreger.
Further work on dysentery by Kruse led to the coupling of his name with Shiga to designate both the “Shiga–Kruse bacillus” and “Shiga–Kruse disease”.
1900
#5093
On the etiology of tropical dysentery.
The organism isolated by Flexner was at first thought to be identical with Shiga’s bacillus. Later Martini and Lentz, Z. Hyg., 1902, 41, 540, showed it to be different; it was named Bact. flexneri, and later Shigella …
1900
#4980
Die Traumdeutung.
Freud’s greatest work, the influence of which has been felt far beyond the psychiatric and medical community. Here he refined his understanding of the operation of the unconscious, interpreted dreams on the basis of w…
1900 –1928
#4981
Studies in the psychology of sex. 7 vols.
Ellis's Studies represent a lifetime of research devoted to the subject, at first in the face of bitter opposition.
1900
#5505
On the confusion of two different diseases under the name of rubella (rose-rash).
Dukes described a condition similar to that noted earlier by Filatov (No. 5503). Dukes called it the “fourth disease”, distinguishing it from scarlet fever, measles, and rubella on the ground that an attack of any of …
1900
#5005
Die Literatur der Psychiatrie, Neurologie und Psychologie von 1459-1799. 3 vols.
1900
#5530.2
Au sujet de l’hématozoaire endoglobulaire de Padda oryzivora.
Toxoplasma described.
1900
#5530.3
A new pathogenic mould (formerly described as a protozoon: Coccidioides immitis pyogenes). Preliminary report.
Recognition that the protozoan was the pathogenic phase of a mycelial fungus.
1900
#5349
A recent observation on Filaria nocturna in Culex. probable mode of infection of man.
Demonstration of the complete chain of filarial infection from man-to-mosquito-to-man.
1900
#5945
Allgemeine Theorie der monochromatischen Aberrationen und ihre nächsten Ergebnisse für die Ophthalmologie.
The above work is the exposition of Gullstrand's general theory of monochromatic aberrations. This is an offprint from Nova Acta Reg. Soc. Sci. Ups., 1900-01, ser. 3, 20. In 1911 Gullstrand was awarded the Nobel Prize…
1900
#5946
Extractions of cataract in the capsule.
Smith, an officer in the Indian Medical Service, had remarkable success with his method of extraction of cataract within the capsule. He modified his operation in 1926 (Arch. Ophthal. N.Y., 55, 213-24). See also Smith…
1900
#5623
Diffuse septic peritonitis, with special reference to a new method of treatment, namely, the elevated head and trunk posture, to facilitate drainage into the pelvis, with a report of nine consecutive cases of recovery.
First description of the “Fowler position”. Reprinted in Med. Classics, 1940, 4, 551-80. Fowler was preceded in this innovation by Charles White. See No. 6270.
1900
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