1920–1929

1923

#5760

Die Operation der atrophischen und hypertrophischen Hängebrust.

Plastic operation for enlarged breasts.

1923

#5538.1

On Rhinosporidium seeberi (Wernicke, 1903), with special reference to its sporulation and affinities.

Ashworth was the first to show that Rhinosporidium was a fungus.

1923

#5193

Le stovarsol guérit rapidement la dysenterie amibienne.

Introduction of stovarsol (oxyaminophenylarsenic acid) in the treatment of amoebiasis.

1923

#6456

The medicine man: A sociological study of the character and evolution of shamanism.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1923

#6647

Hippocrates and his successors in relation to the philosophy of their time.

1923

#5228

Epidemics I and III. In [Works] with English translation by W.H.S. Jones, 1, 139-287

Hippocrates may be regarded as the first malariologist; he clearly and fully described the intermittent fevers; he was acquainted with seasonal and topographical variations in the distribution of malaria; and he recog…

1923

#6471.92

Assyrian medical texts. From the originals in the British Museum.

Facsimiles of the texts of 660 cuneiform medical tablets, many of which were hitherto unpublished, from the library of Ashurbanipal. The tablets date back to the seventh century B.C. No translations are included, but …

1923

#6267

Epidemics 1, case 4. In: [Works] with an English translation by W.H. Jones.

The earliest known description of puerperal fever.

1923 –1929

#6488.1

History of Indian medicine. Containing notices, biographical, of the Ayurvedic physicians and their works on medicine, from the earliest ages to the present time. 3 vols.

Reprinted New Delhi, 1974.

1923

#6349

Eine eigenartige Neurose des vegetativen Systems beim Kleinkinde.

Feer described a vegetative neurosis (“Feer’s disease”) affecting infants and characterized by cyanosis of the extremities, recurrent sweating, tremor, motor weakness, rapid pulse, and insomnia. It was first described…

1923

#6353

History of pediatrics. In I. Abt, System of pediatrics, 1, 1-170.

Re-issued separately with an appendix on the history of pediatrics in recent times by A. F. Abt, Philadelphia, W. B. Saunders, 1965.

1923

#6769

Incunabula medica. A study of the earliest printed medical books, 1467-1480.

Bibliographical Society Publication. Based on Osler’s presidential address to the Bibliographical Society in 1914, with minor editing for posthumous publication by Archibald Malloch and W. W. Francis. Introduction by …

1923 –1958

#6422

A history of magic and experimental science. 8 vols.

Vols. 1-2 deal with the first 13 centuries of the Christian era; vols. 3-4 with the 14th and 15th centuries, vols. 5-6 with the 16th century, and vols. 7-8 with the 17th century.

1923 –1929

#6724

Die Medizin der Gegenwart in Selbstdarstellungen. Hrsg. von L. R. Grote. 8 vols.

1923

#1672

Epidemics I and III. In: [Works] with an English translation by W.H.S. Jones.

Hippocrates introduced the inductive method of studying epidemics.

1923

#4807

The sacred disease. In [Works]…edited with an English translation by W.H.S. Jones. 2, 127-83

This includes the first mention of epilepsy in children. Hippocrates grouped all convulsive attacks together as ερα νο̂σος, the sacred disease. He did not employ the word έπίληψις, (which seems first to have been used…

1923

#7407

The elephant man and other reminiscences.

The story of Treves's patient, Joseph Carey Merrick (1862-1890), incorrected identified by Treves in these reminiscences as "John Merrick." The story was retold in The elephant man, Bernard Pomerance's 1977 play about…

1923

#7709

The antiquity of disease.

An account intended for general audiences, as compared to Moodie's Palaeopathology published the same year. Digital facsimile of The Antiquity of Disease from the Internet Archive at this link.

1923

#8552

"Magistri Salernitani nondum cogniti": A contribution to the history of the Medical School of Salerno. By Pietro Capparoni. With a foreward by D'Arcy Power. (Wellcome Historical medical Museum. Research Studies in Medical History No. 2).

Physicans from the medical school at Salerno who were unknown to de Renzi (No. 6518). Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1923

#9077

American homeopathy in the world war. Edited by Frederick M. Dearborn.

Reflective of the extent to which homeopathy remained in mainstream American medicine in the period immediately after World War I. Reproduces at the front of the book a letter from President Warren G. Harding congratu…

1923

#9294

Ethnobotany of the Menomini Indians.

Digital facsimile from spiritoftherivers.wikispaces.com at this link.

1923 –2005

#9321

Handbuch der Zoologie / Handbook of Zoology. Eine Naturgeschichte der Stämme des Tierreichs / A natural history of the phyla of the animal kingdom. Gegründet von / Founded by Willy Kükenthal. 8 vols., each expanded into many parts.

The Handbuch der Zoologie/Handbook of Zoology was founded by Willi Kükenthal in Berlin, and treated the complete animal kingdom from single cell organisms to mammals in eight thematic volumes: Volume I: Protozoa, Pori…

1923

#9333

The absorption and translocation of lead by plants: A contribution to the application of the method of radioactive indicators in the investigation of the change of substance in plants.

The first application of radioactive tracers in biological studies. Digital facsimile from PubMedCentral at this link. Hevesy received the 1943 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his work on the use of isotopes as tracers …

1923

#11008

A history of the Massachusetts Medical Society: With brief biographies of the founders and chief officers, 1781-1922.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1923

#11567

Traumatic shock.

"In the fall of 1916, before the United States entered World War I, the National Research Council named Cannon a member of a committee on traumatic shock. Later he joined the Harvard University Hospital Unit. On his w…

1923

#11685

Cyanosis.

"In their monumental 1945 paper on the surgical treatment of malformations of the heart, Alfred Blalock and Helen Taussig refer to this monograph: 'Lundsgaard and Van Slyke in their classic studies on the causes of cy…

1923

#11695

The transplantation of tissues. By Harold Neuhof with the collaboration of Samuel Hirshfeld.

Covers experimental and clinical transplantation with an extensive bibliography.

1923

#12109

A treatise on influenza, with special reference to the pandemic of 1918.

Sen, company doctor on the Hurmutty Tea Estate in Assam, estimated that the pandemic killed about 15,000,000 people in India.

1923

#12116

Acute lymphadenosis compared with acute lymphatic leukemia, Part II - Hematologic studies.

Downey characterized reactive lymphocytes, usually associated with viral illnesses, such as Epstein-Barr virus, but which can also be caused by drug reactions or other pathogens. He classified the cells into type 1, t…

1923

#12588

The relation between home conditions and the intelligence of school children. From data collected by the late Mrs. Frances Wood. Privy Council. Medical Report Council. Special reports series No. 74.

1923

#12594

Die Extrapyramidalen Erkrankungen: Mit Besonderer Berücksichtigung der pathologischen Anatomie und Histologie und der Pathophysiologie der Bewegungsstörungen.

Pages 218-245 represent Jakob's full clinical-pathologic description of the fifth patient that he first described in this work.The symptoms of this patient and the histopathopathologic illustrations correspond fully w…

1923

#12756

Chronologia medica: A handlist of persons, periods and events in the history of medicine.

An illustrated outline of people and events the authors considered significant in 1923. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1923

#12994

Handwörterbuch der Sexualwissenschaft. Enzyklopädie der natur- und kulturwissenschaftlichen Sexualkunde des Menschen heraugegeben von Max Marcuse.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link. New edition with an introduction by Robert Jütte, Berlin & New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2001.

1923

#14164

Vocabularium anatomiae latine-arabice.[Qāmūs al-tašrīḥ Lātīnī-‘Arabī].

1924

#963.1

The determination of gases in blood and other solutions by vacuum extraction and manometric measurement.

Method for the manometric analysis of gases in blood and other solutions.

1924

#562

Das reticulo-endotheliale System.

In an earlier paper on this subject (Münch, med. Wschr., 1922, 69, 1352-56) Aschoff introduced the term “reticulo-endothelial system”; as early as 1914 he grouped certain phagocytic cells into his system.

1924

#4506

Chronic arthritis in the adult, associated with splenomegaly and leucopenia.

“Felty syndrome”.

1924

#661

Körperstellung.

A classic work on muscle tone and posture, a subject upon which Magnus spent many years of study. He demonstrated among other things that the labyrinth is the one sense organ entirely concerned with posture and equili…

1924

#4605.3

Fingeragnosie. Eine umschriebene Störung der Orientierung am eigenen Körper.

Gerstmann’s syndrome, due to cerebral lesion. Translation in Arch. Neurol. Psychiat., 1971, 24, 475-76.

1924

#4606

Some problems in neurology. No. 2. Pathological laughing and crying.

An important paper on the pathology of facial movements.

1924

#795

Die Aenderung der Herzschlagzahl durch Aenderung des arteriellen Blutdruckes erfolgt aus reflektorischem Wege; gleichzeitig eine Mitteilung über die Funktion des Sinus caroticus, beziehungsweise der Sinusnerven.

First description of the structure and function of the sinus nerve and the reflex character of carotid pressure.

1924

#856

Die Arterien der Herzwand.

1924

#1036

Basal metabolism in health and disease.

1924

#907.1

Ergebniss einer biostatischen zusammenfassenden Betrachtung über die erblichen Blutstrukturen des Menschen.

Bernstein, a mathematician, determined the correct blood group inheritance pattern of multiple alleles at one locus through statistical analysis.

1924

#908

Relation of blood cells to connective tissues and endothelium.

Maximow’s blood regeneration theory.

1924

#1305

The compound nature of the action current of nerve as disclosed by the cathode ray oscillograph.

In 1944 Erlanger and Gasser shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for their discoveries regarding the highly differentiated functions of single nerve fibers."

1924

#1306

The theory of decrementless conduction in narcotised region of nerve.

Kato made valuable investigations on nerve conduction. A second volume, Further studies, appeared in 1926.

1924

#1570

The mechanism of the cochlea. A restatement of the resonance theory of hearing.

1924

#86.3

Surgical papers.[Edited by Walter C. Burket]. 2 vols.

In spite of an addiction to cocaine hydrochlorate from experimentation with it as a surgical anesthetic in 1884 until his death, Halsted was among the greatest of all surgical innovators and teachers. While pioneering…

1924

#1184

The induction of a sexually mature condition in immature females by injection of the ovarian follicular hormone.

Test for recognition of the estrus hormone.