1920–1929
805 entries with publication dates in this decade.
1920
#11295
A physician's anthology of English and American poetry. Selected and arranged by Casey A. Wood and Fielding H. Garrison.
Prepared for William Osler's seventieth birthday but not completed in time. Selections were approved by Osler, and the anthology was in publication when Osler died. Osler looked forward to the volume. Less than a mont…
1920
#11483
American medical biographies.
This is the extensively revised second edition of Kelly's A cyclopaedia of American medical biography, comprising the lives of eminent deceased physicians and surgeons from 1610 to 1910. (Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders, …
1920
#11921
Special tables of mortality from influenza and pneumonia in Indiana, Kansas, and Philadelphia, Pa., September 1 to December 31, 1918.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1920
#12067
The lethal war gases, physiology and experimental treatment. An Investigation by the section on intermediary metabolism of the Medical Division of the Chemical Warfare Service at Yale University under the direction of Frank P. Underhill. Published with the permission of the Chemical Warfare Service.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1920
#12068
Mortality Statistics 1918. Nineteenth Annual Report.
From Causes of Death, p. 27: "Influenza and pneumonia (All forms). "In 1918 the registration area (exclusive of Hawaii) 477,467 deaths wee assigned to influenza and pneumonia (all forms). In the latter part of that ye…
1920
#12162
Aviation medicine in the A. E. F.
"This publication contains an account written by Col.William H. Wilmer, Medical Corps, who was in charge of the Air Service Medical Research Laboratories in Issoudon, France, from September, 1918, until the armistice.…
1920
#12489
The prophylactic forceps operation.
DeLee's advocacy of prophylactic forceps delivery made forceps deliveries more common. It remains probably his most controversial contribution to obstetrics. "At a meeting of the American Gynecological Society in 1920…
1920
#12558
Religion and health.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1920
#12577
Goulstonian Lectures on the principles of science as applied to military aviation. Lecture I; Lecture II: War flying at high altitudes; Lecture III: War flying and high altitudes, cont.
"Fatigue was the most universal complaint of pilots. Major Birley attributed its occurrence to the bombardment of the senses by the constant stream of stimuli in the air, many of which were of a peculiar character.75 …
1920
#12592
The medical problems of flying. Including Reports Nos. I-VII of the Air Medical Investigation Committee. Privy Council Medical Research Council.
1920 –1924
#13463
McGill Library. William Osler Letter Index.
https://osler-letters.library.mcgill.ca/about "About the William Osler Letter Collection "Sir William Osler (1849-1919) is one of the most renowned and respected physicians in medical history. Born in Bond Head, Ontar…
1920
#13563
The nature of animal light.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link. Harvey later published Living light (1940) and Bioluminescence (1952). The 1952 book extended over 600 pages, and was his definitive study. (Thanks to Malcolm Jay Kott…
1920
#13824
Die Kohlenoxydvergiftung. Ein Handbuch für Mediziner, Techniker und Unfallrichter.
On carbon monoxide poisoning. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1921
#4604
Zur Analyse und Pathophysiologie der striären Bewegungsstörungen.
Foerster made a most important contribution to the literature on extra pyramidal diseases.
1921
#2693
Méthode radiographique d’exploration de la cavité épidurale par la lipiodol.
Positive contrast myelography with iodized oil (lipiodol). This paper records the first use of lipiodol in radiology.
1921
#4605.1
Über die diagnostische Bedeutung der intraspinalen Luftinjektionen bei Rückenmarksleiden, besonders bei Geschwülsten.
Myelography by air injection into spinal subarachnoid space.
1921
#1054
Fat-soluble vitamine. VII. The fat-soluble vitamine and yellow pigmentation in animal fats with some observations on its stability to saponification.
Separation of vitamin A from vitamin D. With M. Sell and M. Van R. Buell.
1921
#855
The blood supply to the heart.
Coronary arterial anatomy studied by radiography of the injected arteries by a standard technique.
1921
#4722
Ueber eigenartige Erkrankungen der Zentralnervensystems mit bemerkenswertem anatomischem Befunde. (Spastische Pseudosklerose — Encephalomyclopathie mit disseminirrten Degenerationsherden.)
“Creutzfeld-Jakob disease”, spastic pseudosclerosis. Traditionally considered to have been independently discovered by Creutzfeld, but in the 21st century recognized as a discovery by Jakob alone. See also No. 4719.1.
1921
#4723
Rapport sur les syndromes parkinsoniens.
Souques recognized the importance of encephalitis lethargica as a cause of Parkinsonism; more than any other neurologist he was responsible for unifying its diverse manifestations.
1921 –1929
#2178
History of the Great War Medical Services. Edited by William Grant MacPherson. 12 vols.
GREAT BRITAIN. War Office. Medical Services
1921 –1929
#2179
The medical department of the U.S. Army in the First World War. Prepared under the direction of Merritte W. Ireland. Editor-in-chief: Col. Charles Lynch. 15 vols. in 17.
UNITED STATES. War Dept. Surgeon General
pt. 1. Demobilization, 1919, by C.B. Davenport and A.G. Love. 1921. pt. 2. Medical and casualty statistics based on the medical records of the United States Army, April 1, 1917, to December 31, 1919, inclusive, by A.G…
1921
#1332
The autonomic nervous system.
Langley divided the autonomic nervous system into (1) the orthosympathetic, and (2) the parasympathetic; he defined it as an efferent system.
1921 –1922
#1343
Ueber humorale Uebertragbarkeit der Herznervenwirkung.
Loewi’s important experiments firmly established the theory of chemical intermediaries in nervous reactions. In 1936 Loewi shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Dale "for discoveries related to chemica…
1921
#1163
The effect of the anterior lobe administered intraperitoneally upon growth, maturity and oestrus cycles of the rat.
Evans and Long discovered the growth hormone of the anterior pituitary, showing that continued injections of an anterior pituitary extract produced an acceleration in the growth-rate of laboratory animals.
1921
#745
On an autoxidisable constituent of the cell.
Isolation of glutathione.
1921 –1922
#1205
The internal secretion of the pancreas.
This paper reports the isolation of insulin. An extract from the pancreas of a dog, removed after ligation of the excretory duct, was found to exercise a reducing influence on the percentage of sugar in the blood. Dig…
1921
#1654
A half-century of public health. Jubilee historical volume of the American Public Health Association.
1921
#1441
The form and functions of the central nervous system.
1921
#1910
Ueber die wirksamen Substanzen des Mutterkorns.
Isolation of ergotamine.
1921
#2133
Industrial fatigue and efficiency.
1921
#1527
Atlas der Spaltlampenmikroskopie des lebenden Auges.
An important work on the biomicroscopy of the eye. Second ed. greatly revised and enlarged, vol. 1-2, Springer, 1930-31; vol. 3, Stuttgart, F. Enke, 1942; vol. 3 (English translation) Zurich, 1947. Second ed. reprinte…
1921
#2312.2
Studies in the palaeopathology of Egypt. Edited by Roy Lee Moodie.
A collection of papers published previously in various journals. Ruffer spent many years in Egypt in the study of palaeopathology. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1921
#2601.1
Studien über die Ueberempfindlichkeit.
Prausnitz–Küstner reaction. These workers demonstrated antibodies in the blood of persons suffering from atopic allergic diseases. They produced local passive sensitization by intracutaneous injection of serum from a …
1921
#1756
Medicolegal application of human blood grouping.
An important series of papers on blood-grouping and the jurisprudence of paternity. Ottenberg performed the first matched-blood transfusion.
1921
#2521.1
Untersuchungen über die Ätiologie der Krankheiten der Herpesgruppe (Herpes zoster, Herpes genitalis, Herpes febrilis).
Lipschütz’s account of herpes virus diseases included identification of the characteristic inclusion bodies (“Zosterkörperchen”).
1921
#2411
Traitement de la syphilis par le bismuth.
Introduction of sodium-potassium bismuth tartrate in the treatment of syphilis.
1921
#2573
Results of experimental studies on focal infection and elective localization.
Rosenow showed that focal infection could by caused by bacteria in teeth, etc.
1921
#3085
Studies of the suspension stability of the blood in pulmonary tuberculosis.
Westergren’s method of measuring the erythrocyte sedimentation rate.
1921
#3544
Studies in gastric secretion. Introduction.
Ryle’s tube, for obtaining specimens of gastric juice.
1921
#3196
Un cas d’épithélioma spino-cellulaire de la région latérale du pharynx, avec adénopathie angulo-maxillaire, guéri depuis six mois par la röntgenthérapie.
Carcinoma of pharynx cured by the Coutard method of Röntgen therapy.
1921
#3197
Roentgenographic studies of bronchiectasis and lung abscess after direct injection of bismuth mixture through the bronchoscope.
Important studies on bronchiectasis were carried out by Lynah and Stewart.
1921
#3197.1
A study of antispasmodic drugs on the bronchus.
Laboratory demonstration of the antispasmodic action of theophylline on bronchial smooth muscle.
1921
#3322
Operations on the frontal sinus.
Conservative treatment of sinusitis.
1921
#3870
La virilisme pilaire et son association à l’insuffisance glycolytique (Diabète des femmes à barbe).
“Achard–Thiers syndrome”. These writers established as a definite syndrome the combination of hirsutism with diabetes.
1921
#2970
Ligation (partial occlusion) of the abdominal aorta for aneurism.
First successful ligation of the abdominal aorta.
1921
#4241
Un nuevo procedimiento para explorar al riñón.
Perirenal insufflation of oxygen, for the roentgenological study of the kidney.
1921
#3965
Recherches sur le rôle du pancréas dans l’assimilation nutritive.
Paulesco isolated the anti-diabetic hormone of the pancreas before Banting and Best. He named it “pancréine”.
1921
#3001
Du traitement des varices par les injection coagulantes, concentrées de sels de quinine.
Injection of quinine urethane for the treatment of varicose veins.
1921
#3030
Un cas de cardiolyse.
First pericardiectomy, for constrictive pericarditis.