1900–1909
957 entries with publication dates in this decade.
1900
#6110
Cancer of the uterus: Its pathology, symptomatology, diagnosis, and treatment. Also the pathology of diseases of the endometrium.
Includes first clinical and pathological study of hyperplasia of the endometrium. Cullen is remembered eponymically for “Cullen’s sign”, a discoloration of the skin about the umbilicus, regarded as a sign of ruptured …
1900
#6111
Round-ligament ventrosuspension of the uterus: a new method.
Gilliam’s operation for prolapse.
1900
#6112
Aflap operation for atresia of the vagina.
Noble introduced a flap operation for atresia of the vagina.
1900
#5456
A note on the interval between infecting and secondary cases of yellow fever from the records of yellow fever at Orwood and Taylor, Mississippi, in 1898.
Carter's determination of the incubation period yellow fever influenced the direction of Reed’s researches, and was instrumental in the discovery of the mode of transmission of the yellow fever virus.
1900
#6114
Zur Frage der Radical operation beim Uteruskrebs.
Wertheim’s radical operation for cancer of the uterus.
1900
#5457
The etiology of yellow fever. A preliminary note.
First definite proof that the organism causing yellow fever is transmitted to man by the mosquito Aëdes aegypti. During the period spent by these workers in the investigation of the disease in Cuba Lazear and Carroll …
1900
#6207
On the treatment of eclampsia.
The first of Stroganoff s important papers on the pathogenesis and treatment of eclampsia.
1900
#6649.93
Histoire des femmes médecins depuis l’antiquité jusqu’à nos jours.
1900
#6721
Disciples of Aesculapius, with a life of the author by his daughter, Mrs. George Martin. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1900
#5252.1
Studi di uno zoologo sulla malaria.
Includes the best illustrations of the various stages of the malaria parasite published up to that time.
1900
#5252.2
Experimental proof of the mosquito-malaria theory.
In a classic demonstration Manson allowed infected mosquitoes from Rome to bite a volunteer (his son) in London, who developed malaria 15 days later with tertian parasites in the blood, and who was cured by quinine.
1900 –1904
#6265
Die pathologischen Beckenformen.
Classic description and classification of pelvic deformities.
1900
#6344.1
Le nourrisson. Alimentation et hygiène.
Pioneer treatise on the care and feeding of premature and newborn infants. Budin sponsored the idea that an infant should be given milk equal in amount to one-tenth of its body weight. English translation, London, 1907.
1900
#6766
Bibliographia medica Hungariae, 1472-1899,
1900
#6367
Dark sclerotics and fragilitas ossium.
“Eddowes’s syndrome” – blue sclerotics and fragility of the bones, occurring as a familial syndrome; osteogenesis imperfecta. See also No. 6358.1.
1900
#239.01
Das Spaltungsgesetz der Bastarde.
De Vries and Correns independently rediscovered and confirmed Mendel’s laws. This is De Vries’s most important paper on the subject. De Vries’s first published paper on the topic is “Sur la loi de disjonction des hybr…
1900
#239.1
G. Mendel’s Regel über das Verhalten der Nachkommenschaft der Rassenbastarde.
Correns had come to the same conclusions as Mendel before seeing the latter’s 1865 paper. Of the three “rediscoverers” of Mendel’s laws, Correns showed the greatest understanding of them. English translation in No. 25…
1900
#4131.1
Un nuevo esporozoario parásito del hombre. Dos casos encontrados en pólipos nasales: Tesis presentada para optar al grado de doctor en medicina.
Rhinosporidiosis first described. Digital facsimile from bibliomedicinadigital.fmed.uba.ar at this link.
1900
#239.2
Über künstliche Kreuzung von Pisum sativum.
With Correns and de Vries, Tschermak brought Mendel’s work into prominence and confirmed it, although Tschermak may not have fully understood the Mendelian laws before he had read Mendel’s work. See also Tschermak’s f…
1900
#4505
The etiology of rheumatic fever.
After extensive bacteriological researches, Poynton and Paine considered that a diplococcus was the cause of rheumatic fever.
1900
#6881
The logic of figures, or comparative results of homoeopathic and other treatments.
A comparison of mortality rates in institutions and private practice between homeopathic and other modes of treatment. Digital facsimile from The Medical Heritage Library at the Internet Archive at this link.
1900
#7588
Catalogue of the anatomical and pathological preparations of Dr. William Hunter in the Hunterian Museum, University of Glasgow.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1900
#8740
Der Arzt und die Heilkunst in der deutschen Vergangenheit.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1900
#9421
The surgical history of the naval war between Japan & China during 1894-95. Translated from the original Japanese report under the supervision of Baron Y. Saneyoshi by S. Suzuki.
Surgical history of the naval aspects of the First Sino-Japanese War. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1900
#9475
The ethno-botany of the Coahuilla Indians.
"The ʔívil̃uqaletem (or Ivilyuqaletem) are Native Americans of the inland areas of southern California.[2] Their original territory included an area of about 2,400 square miles (6,200 km2). The traditional Cahuilla te…
1900
#10314
One hundred years of medicine and surgery in Missouri: Historical and biographical review of the careers of the physicians and surgeons of the state of Missouri, and sketches of some of its notable medical institutions. Edited by Max A. Goldstein.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1900
#10588
Anatomy in its relation to art. An exposition of the bones and muscles of the human body with especial reference to their influence upon its actions and external form.
The work was offered for sale by J. B. Lippincott with title pages dated 1901. Digital facsimile of the Lippincott issue from Google Books at this link.
1900
#11136
De la prostatectomie périnéale totale. Thèse de doctorat en médecine.
Proust performed the first radical perineal prostatectomy. He was the younger brother of the writer Marcel Proust. Digital facsimile from BnFgallica at this link.
1900
#11289
Cancer of the stomach: A clinical study.
This was Osler's first collaboration with Thomas McCrae. Osler and McCrae reviewed 150 cases of cancer of the stomach seen at Johns Hopkins in an encyclopedic fashion. Surgery was often recommended for definitive diag…
1900
#11360
Cases with symmetrical congenital notches in the outer part of each lid and defective development of the malar bones.
Treacher Collins syndrome (TCS), a genetic disorder characterized by deformities of the ears, eyes, cheekbones, and chin. Also known as mandibulofacial dysostosis.
1900
#11891
The botanical origin of coca leaves.
1900
#12007
A comparative study of the biological characters and pathogenesis of bacillus X (Sternberg), bacillus icteroides (Sanarelli), and the Hog Cholera Bacillus (Salmon and Smith).
Order of authorship in the original publication: Reed, Carroll. In this paper of monograph length the authors irrefutably proved that yellow fever was not caused by a bacterial infection, allowing them to concentrate …
1900
#12317
Physicians and surgeons of the West. Illinois edition.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1900
#12816
Superstition, crime et misère en Chine.
Pages 275-288 are titled "Note sur la médecine des Mongols." Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1900
#13204
As nature shows them. Moths and butterflies of the United States east of the Rocky Mountains. With over 400 photographic illustrations in the text and many transfers of species from life. 2 vols.
Includes 56 nature-printed and handcolored plates produced from impressions of the wings of the actual insects pressed onto the paper. Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.
1900
#14160
Histologie du pancreas. In Traité d'anatomie humaine, edited by Paul Julien Poirier & Adrien Charpy, vol. 4, pp. 821-831.
Laguesse, who in 1893 named the islets of Langerhans, established in this work that the islets of Langerhans were the seat of internal secretion of the pancreas. On figures 425 and 427 he drew that are now called "the…
1900
#14167
The Croonian lecture. -- On immunity with special reference to cell life.
Ehrlich's "lock and key" theory of antibody antigen relationship, or interaction, in which the toxin molecule (i.e the antigen) binds to the cell receptor, and then the antibody binds in a lock and key manner to the t…
1901 –1907
#6485.9
The Ayurvedic system of medicine, or an exposition, in English, of Hindu medicine as occuring in Charaka, Susruta, Bagbhata, and othe rauthoritative works, ancient and modern, in Sanskrit. 3 vols.
Ayurveda is the most ancient system of Hindu medicine; only fragments of the original remain. The early Hindus believed it to be of divine origin and ascribed it to Brahma. It dates from circa 1400-1200 BCE. Digital f…
1901
#16.2
Die Fragmente der sikelischen Ärzte Akron, Philistion und des Diokles von Karystos. Herausgegeben von M. Wellmann.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1901
#951.2
Sur la cause de l’apnée.
Fredericq “established that chemical changes in the blood acting somewhere in the head were the major factor in the regulation of breathing” (Kellogg). English translation in No. 1588.16.
1901 –1910
#346
A monograph of the Culicidae, or mosquitoes. Mainly compiled from the collections received at the British Museum from various parts of the world in connection with the cause of malaria conducted by the Colonial Office and the Royal Society. 4 vols. and atlas.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1901 –1911
#652
Fisiologia dell’uomo. 4 vols.
5th edition (5 vols.), 1919-21; English translation (5 vols.), London, 1911-21. Luciani was professor of physiology successively at Siena, Florence, and Rome.
1901
#651
The human figure in motion. An electro-photographic investigation of consecutive phases of muscular actions.
Muybridge, an Englishman, made exhaustive photographic investigations of consecutive animal movements while he was in America. More than 100,000 photographs were embodied in his Animal locomotion. An electro-photograp…
1901
#840
Un nouveau galvanomètre.
Einthoven directed much of his research to the development and perfection of recording instruments. His most famous work was in connexion with his string galvanometer, a perfection of the instrument invented by J. S. …
1901
#891
The colorimetric determination of haemoglobin.
Haldane’s hemoglobinometer and method for determination of hemoglobin.
1901
#723
A contribution to the chemistry of proteids. I. A preliminary study of a hitherto undescribed product of tryptic digestion.
Isolation of tryptophan.
1901 –1903
#725.1
Darstellung und Analyse einiger Nucleinsäuren. I.-VI. Mittheilung.
Chemical distinction between DNA and RNA. Levene elucidated the fundamentals of nucleic acid chemistry. His work led to the tetranucleotide hypothesis.
1901
#2182
Grundriss einer Geschichte der Kriegschirurgie.
1901
#1575
Lectures on the history of physiology.
Reprinted 1924 and (Dover Pubs.), 1970.
1901
#4761
Pathologisch-anatomischer Beitrag zur Erb’schen Krankheit (Myasthenia gravis).
Weigert noted the connection of myasthenia gravis with hypertrophy of the thymus.