1920–1929

1920

#51

The school of Salernum. Regimen sanitatis Salernitanum, the English version by Sir John Harrington. History of the School of Salernum by Francis R. Packard and a note on the prehistory of the Regimen Sanitatis by Fielding H. Garrison.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1920 –1921

#960

The partition of CO2, between plasma and corpuscles in oxygenated and reduced blood.

1920

#659

The four phases of heat-production of muscle.

Hill and Hartree made valuable contributions to the knowledge of the thermodynamics of muscle. See also Physiol. Rev., 1922, 2, 310-41, and Hill, A. V., Trails and trials in physiology: a bibliography 1909-1964, 1965.…

1920

#1304

Studies in neurology. By Henry Head in conjunction with W.H.R. Rivers, James Sherren, Gordon Holmes, Theodore Thompson, George Riddoch. 2 vols.

Reprint, with modifications and additions, of seven papers published in the journal Brain between 1905 and 1918. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1920

#743

The action of the boiled pancreas extract on yeast nucleic acid.

Ribonudease.

1920

#744

Rapid colorimetric methods for the determination of phosphorus in urine and blood.

1920

#4719.1

Ueber eine eigenartige herdförmige Erkrankung des Zentralnervensystems.

Creutzfeld-Jakob disease, spatic pseudoschlerosis, independently discovered by Jakob. (see No. 4722). English translation in No. 5019.14, pp. 97-112. Creutzfeld described a single case and later reported that "his cas…

1920

#4720

Zur Lehre der Erkrankungen des striären Systems.

“Vogt syndrome”, disease of the corpora striata.

1920

#4721

Les lésions anatomiques de la maladie de Parkinson.

Foix and his colleagues showed that the specific lesion in Parkinson’s disease is in the substantia nigra of the mid-brain.

1920

#86.2

Papers and addresses by William Henry Welch. [Edited by Walter C. Burket]. 3 vols.

Vol. 1: Pathology and preventive medicine. Vol. 2: Bacteriology. Vol. 3: Medical education, history, miscellaneous subjects, and Welch's bibliography. Introduction by Simon Flexner. Digital facsimile from the Internet…

1920

#529

Mechanismus und Physiologie der Geschlechtsbestimmung.

Translated into English William J. Dakin as The Mechanism and Physiology of Sex Determination (London: Methuen & Co., 1923). Digital facsimile of the 1920 edition from Google Books at this link. Digital facsimile of t…

1920 –1921

#1247

Die vergleichende Anatomie des Nervensystems der Wirbeltiere und des Menschen. 2 vols.

Ariëns Kappers was Professor of Neuroanatomy at Amsterdam. See also No. 14229.

1920 –1939

#136

Handbuch der biologischen Arbeitsmethoden. Edited by Emil Abderhalden. 14 vols. in 107.

The Hathi Trust maintains versions of all 107 parts, most of which are searchable to a limited extent, at this link.

1920

#1712

On the rate of growth of the population of the United States since 1790 and its mathematical representation.

1920

#2116

Die Gifte in der Weltgeschichte.

Lewin was a prolific writer, producing more than 200 books and papers. The above is perhaps his best work, and contains a history of poisonings from the most ancient times to the present century, enhanced by innumerab…

1920

#1909

Handbuch der experimentellen Pharmakologie … Hrsg. von A. HEFFTER. Vol. 1-.

1920

#2645

Squamous-cell epithelioma of the lip. A study of five hundred and thirty-seven cases.

Broders’s classification of tumors, an index of malignancy.

1920

#2645.1

A preliminary report on the experimental production of sarcoma of the liver of rats.

Proof that cancer can be caused by a parasite, Cysticercus fasciolaris, the larval stage of Taenia crassicolis. With M. R. Curtis and G. L. Rohdenberg. See also Proc. N.Y. path. Soc., 1920, 20, 149-75.

1920

#2410

A more rapid and improved method of demonstrating spirochetes in tissues (Warthin and Starry’s cover-glass method).

Warthin and Starry’s method.

1920

#4836

Die Beeinflussung der Tetanie durch Ultraviolettlicht.

Treatment of tetany with ultraviolet light.

1920

#2852

An electrocardiographic sign of coronary artery obstruction.

First description of the typical changes in the electrocardiogram in coronary thrombosis.

1920

#2853

Verhandlungen ärtzlicher Gesellschaften und Kongressberichte.

Saxl injected a mercurial compound (Novasurol), a powerful diuretic, for the treatment of cardiac failure.

1920

#2853.1

A method of analyzing the electrocardiogram.

Mann developed the monocardiogram while a fourth-year medical student. This was the first vector loop and the beginning of modern vectorcardiography.

1920

#2572.1

Exsudats leucocytaires et autolyse microbienne transmissible.

Lysogeny

1920 –1925

#3195

Die Chirurgie der Brustorgane. Zugleich zweite Auflage der Technik der Thoraxchirurgie. 2 vols.

Abridged English translation, Baltimore, 1937.

1920

#2895

Angine de poitrine guérie par la résection du sympathique cervicothoracique.

Cervical sympathectomy for the treatment of angina pectoris was first carried out by Jonnesco in 1916.

1920

#3723

Scurvy, past and present.

Includes a history and bibliography.

1920

#3608.3

An operation for the radical cure of inguinal and femoral hernia.

First preperitoneal approach to hernia repair.

1920

#3757

The experimental production of pellagra in human subjects by means of diet.

Goldberger was born in Central Europe in poor circumstances. He migrated to America, and following attendance at a lecture by Austin Flint, decided to study medicine. He entered the U. S. Public Health Service in 1899…

1920

#3796

Verjüngung durch experimentelle Neubelebung der alternden Pubertätsdrüse

Steinach rejuvenation operation, ligation of the vas deferens, later discredited.

1920

#4240

On the testing of renal efficiency, with observations on the “urea coefficient”.

Urea concentration test.

1920

#3964

The relation of the islets of Langerhans to diabetes with special reference to cases of pancreatic lithiasis.

Barron confirmed the experimental work of Sobolew. It was whilst reading the above paper that Banting first formulated the hypothesis upon which he based his successful experiments.

1920

#4271

Infiltration anesthesia of the internal vesical orifice for the removal of minor obstructions: presentation of a cautery punch.

Caulk’s cautery punch.

1920

#4890

Puncture of the cistema magna.

Introduction of cisternal puncture.

1920

#4891

La meccanica del cervello e la funzione dei lobi frontale.

Bianchi showed that bilateral destruction of the frontal lobes caused character changes, a finding put to practical use by Egas Moniz and others. English translation, Edinburgh, 1922.

1920

#4892

Algievélo-pharyngée essentielle. Traitement chirurgical.

Idiopathic glossopharyngeal neuralgia described and treated.

1920

#4387

Eine typische Erkrankung des 2. Metatarsophalangealgelenkes.

“Köhler’s second disease” – juvenile deforming metatarsophalangeal Osteochondritis. English translation in Amer. J. Roentgenol., 1923, 10,705-10. Also known as “Freiberg’s infraction” or “Freiberg–Köhler disease”.

1920

#4198

X-ray studies of the seminal vesicles and vasa deferentia after urethroscopic injection of the ejaculatory ducts with thorium – a new diagnostic method.

Vesiculography first demonstrated.

1920

#5286

Ueber chemotherapeutische Versuche mit “205 Bayer”, einen neuen trypanoziden Mittel von besonderer Wirkung.

Introduction of “Bayer 205” (germanin, suramin, naphuride).

1920

#5701

Zur Technik der Splanchnicusanästhesie.

Splanchnic anesthesia. See also Dtsch. med. Wschr., 1920, 46, 535.

1920

#5486.1

Mononucleosis leukocytosis in reaction to acute infections (“infectious mononucleosis”).

Classic account, with first use of the term “infectious mononucleosis”.

1920

#5492

Report on the pandemic of influenza 1918-19.

Reports on Public Health and Medical Subjects, No. 4. The most widespread and serious pandemic of influenza occurred in 1918-19. It spread throughout Europe, Russia, Canada, S. America, New Zealand, Australia, Africa,…

1920

#5758

Plastic surgery of the face.

Gillies introduced a tubed pedical flap in 1917.

1920

#5538

Herpetic sore throat.

First description of herpangina, an acute infection associated with Coxsackie viruses.

1920

#6127

Nonoperative determination of patency of Fallopian tubes in sterility. Intra-uterine inflation with oxygen, and production of an artificial pneumoperitoneum.

Tubal insufflation method for the diagnosis and treatment of sterility due to occlusion of the Fallopian tubes.

1920

#6521

Medieval medicine.

1920

#6539

Early English magic and medicine.

Reprinted from Proc. Brit. Acad., 1919-20, 9, 341-74.

1920

#7000

The growth and shedding of the antlers of the deer. The histological phenomena and their relation to the growth of bone.

The first study of the unusual and dramatic physiology of the annual growth and shedding of the antlers of deer. "The amount of bony matter annually secreted to form antlers of the larger deer is enormous, antlers of …

1920

#7157

Women as army surgeons. Being the history of the Women's Hospital Corps in Paris, Wimereux & Endell Street, September 1914 - October 1919

Together with Louisa Garrett Anderson (1873-1943), to whom the book was dedicated, Murray co-founded the Women's Hospital for Children in 1912. The hospital provided health care for working-class children of the area,…

1920 –1938

#8898

Medical life. Edited by Victor Robinson. (214 issues were published, beginning with vol. 27 and ending with vol. 45 because Robinson considered this a merger of five earlier medical periodicals.)

"the first monthly journal in English to be devoted to the history of medicine. Robinson opened the pages of Medical Life to eminent historians and beginners. A number of outstanding European medical historians contri…