1920–1929

1921

#3697

Geschichte der Zahnheilkunde

Second edition, 1926 (reprinted 1964).

1921 –1969

#3698

Index of the periodical dental literature in the English language.

Retrospective from 1839; discontinued in 1969. Later known as Index to dental literature. Digital facsimile of the early volumes from the Hathi Trust at this link. Black spearheaded the project and supervised the comp…

1921

#4388

Diffuse endothelioma of bone.

Ewing described a form of bone sarcoma (“Ewing’s sarcoma”), usually involving the shaft of long bones.

1921

#4388.1

Une maladie congénitale et héréditaire de l’ossification: la pléonostéose familiale.

“Léri’s pleonosteosis” first described.

1921

#4388.2

Die Arthroendoskopie.

First published account of the use of the laparoscope for arthroscopy.

1921

#4389

Kyphosis dorsalis juvenilis.

“Scheuermann’s disease” – necrosis of the epiphyses of the vertebrae, causing kyphosis.

1921

#5287

Studies on the treatment of human trypanosomiasis with tryparsamide (the sodium salt of N-phenylglycineamide-p-arsonic acid).

Introduction of tryparsamide in the treatment of trypanosomiasis.

1921

#5702

Anestesia metamérica.

Introduction of epidural anesthesia.

1921

#5703

Anaesthetics in the plastic surgery of the face and jaws.

Intratracheal insufflation method of anesthetization. See also Magill, I. W., Lancet, 1921, 1, 918; 1923, 2, 229.

1921

#4988

Körperbau und Charakter.

Kretschmer has attempted to correlate body build and constitution with character and mentality.

1921

#4988.1

Psychodiagnostik. 1 vol & atlas of test cards.

Rorschach test. 2nd ed., Bern, 1932. English translation, Bern, Huber, 1942. See the biography of Rorschach in Bull. Menninger Clin., 1954, 18, 173-219.

1921

#5759

A new principle in the surgical treatment of “congenital cleft palate”, and its mechanical counterpart.

Gillies’s operation for cleft palate.

1921

#5350.7

On the life cycle of Fasciolopsis buski Lankester.

1921

#5368

The use of carbon tetrachloride for the removal of hookworms.

Introduction of the carbon tetrachloride treatment of ankylostomiasis.

1921

#5192

Ueber Behandlungsversuche der chronischen Amoebenruhr mit Yatren.

Introduction of Yatren.

1921

#6003

Die Erfindung der Augengläser.

1921

#5392

Cultivation of rickettsia-like bodies in typhus fever.

Isolation of Rickettsia prowazeki from the blood. With S. A. Ritter and G. Baehr.

1921

#6128

Perforating hemorrhagic (chocolate) cysts of the ovary.

The true nature of ovarian endometriomata was elucidated by Sampson.

1921

#6221

Version.

Potter’s operation of podalic version.

1921

#6611

Le costume du médecin en France des origines au XVIIe siècle.

1921

#6479

Greek medicine in Rome.

FitzPatrick Lectures, 1909-10. Allbutt was Regius Professor of Physic at Cambridge and a great literary stylist. Underwood described him as the most learned and distinguished physician of the last hundred years.

1921

#6507

Arabian medicine. Being the Fitzpatrick lectures delivered at the Royal College of Physicians in November 1919 and November 1920.

Browne, an eminent authority on oriental languages, became professor of Arabic in the University of Cambridge. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1921

#6528

Das alte medizinische Wien in zeitgenössischen Schilderungen.

1921

#6579

Historia de la medicina en España.

1921

#6413

Geschichte der Medizin im Überblick.

5th edition, 1965, under the title Illustrierte Geschichte der Medizin.

1921

#6414

The evolution of modern medicine. A series of lectures delivered at Yale University on the Silliman Foundation in April, 1913.

The final text of these lectures, which Osler characterized as "an aeroplane flight over the progress of medicine through the ages," remained unfinished at Osler’s death, and Osler requested in his will that this and …

1921 –1924

#37

Paulus Aegeneta [Opera] ed. J.L. Heiberg. Corpus Medicorum Graecorum IX. 2 vols.

Standard Greek text.

1921

#7309

A new cave man from Rhodesia, South Africa.

The first fossil human discovered in Africa: Homo rhodesiensis, commonly referred to as the Broken Hill Skull or the Kabwe Cranium.The skull, which most current experts classify as Homo heidelbergensis, was discovered…

1921

#7746

Wunder in uns. Ein Bch von menschlichen Körper für Jedermann von Hanns Günther [Walter de Haas].

Remarkable illustrations in the 1920's "modernizing" industrial style later, made more famous by Fritz Kahn (1888-1968) who got his start by contributing an essay to this work. Günther was the pseudonym of the popular…

1921

#9580

La radiologie et la guerre.

Digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this link.

1921

#10196

Le bactériophage: Son rôle dans l'immunité.

D'Hérrelle cited several actual reports of successful treatment of bacterial infections by the injection of bacteriophages in animals and humans. These may be considered early attempts at direct gene transfer in vivo …

1921

#10823

Early diagnosis of the acute abdomen.

The classic treatise on the initial approach to abdominal pain. This work underwent its 22nd edition in 2011.

1921

#11010

Diagnosis of protozoa and worms parasitic in man.

1921

#11677

Traité des maladies congenitales du coeur.

1921

#11762

On a form of swine fever occurring in British East Africa (Kenya Colony).

First description of African Swine Fever. Montgomery was "Veterinary Adviser to the Government of Uganda, formerly Veterinary Pathologist to the East Africa Protectorate."

1921

#11920

Influenza: An epidemiological study. The American Journal of Hygiene. Monographic Series No. 1.

A comprehensive survey written two years after the pandemic, including historical information back to 1893. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1921

#12069

Mortality statistics 1919. Twentieth annual report.

From "Influenza and pneumonia (All forms)" p. 28: "In the later part of 1918 a pandemic of influenza swept over the country and did not fully spend its force until well into 1919.... "In the registration area (exclusi…

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, …

1921

#12446

Origin and history of all the pharmacopeial vegetable drugs, chemicals and preparations with bibliography... Prepared under the auspices of and published by the American Drug Manufacturers' Association, Washington, D.C. Vol. 1 Vegetable drugs

Lloyd comprehensively collected and studied the historical literature, citing it throughout the text and in the numerous bibliographies of specific drugs in this work. The book includes a bibliography of historical so…

1921

#12620

A contribution to the histology and pathogenesis of pyorrhea alveolaris.

Gottlieb was "the major periodontal investigator of the early 20th century. He extended the histopathologic studies of Znamensky.... His major contributions were in the nature of the epithelial attachment to the tooth…

1921

#12923

A century of dental art. A centenary memoir 1820-1921.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1922

#793

The anatomy and physiology of the capillaries.

Silliman Lectures. Krogh was first to describe the adaptation of blood perfusion in muscle and other organs according to demands through opening and closing the arterioles and capillaries. In 1920 Krogh received the N…

1922

#961

Respiration.

An account of the work of the Oxford School of Physiology, in particular the Pike’s Peak expedition (No. 957). Second edition, 1935, with J. G. Priestley.

1922

#660

Correlation of basal metabolic rate with pulse rate and pulse pressure.

Read’s formula for computation of basal metabolic rate.

1922

#4605.2

Right-sided hemi-hypertrophy resulting from right-sided congenital spastic hemiplegia, with a morbid condition of the left side of the brain, revealed by radiograms.

Sturge–Weber syndrome (see No. 4560.1).

1922

#1054.1

Studies on experimental rickets. XXI. An experimental demonstration of the existence of a vitamin which promotes calcium deposition.

Discovery of vitamin D. with N. Simmonds, J. E. Becker, and P. G. Shipley.

1922

#1055

On the existence of a hitherto unrecognized dietary factor essential for reproduction.

Discovery of vitamin E. See also their later paper in J. Amer. med. Ass.,1923, 81, 889-92.

1922

#1035

The mechanics of the digestive tract.

Includes (p. 111) his smooth diet for duodenal ulcer. Fourth edition entitled Introduction to gastro-enterology, 1950.

1922

#4724

Eigenartige Erkrankung in extrapyramidalen System mit besonderer Beteiligung des Globus pallidus und der Substantia nigra.

The (extrapyramidal) syndrome of Hallervorden and Spatz.

1922

#2185

Notes on the history of military medicine.