1930–1939

1929

#2857

Medionecrosis aortae idiopathica (cystica).

Classic description of aortic medionecrosis.

1930

#4507

The relationship of throat infection to acute rheumatism in childhood.

Schlesinger showed that hemolytic streptococcal infection was a cause of acute rheumatism in children.

1930

#1063

On the nature and rôle of the fatty acids essential in nutrition.

Demonstration of the need of the body for certain unsaturated fatty acids (vitamin F).

1930

#1064

Maintenance nutrition in the adult pigeon and its relation to torulin (vitamin B1).

Discovery of vitamin B5, probably identical with nicotinic acid. With H. W. Kinnersley and R. A. Peters.

1930

#1038

Demonstration of the humoral agent in fat inhibition of gastric secretion.

The work of Kosaka and Lim led to the discovery of a hormone inhibiting gastric secretion (“enterogastrone”).

1930

#1038.1

Crystalline pepsin.

Crystallization of pepsin and its identity as a protein. In 1946 Northrop shared half of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Wendell Meredith Stanley "for their preparation of enzymes and virus proteins in a pure form."…

1930

#1577

Reflex action. A study in the history of physiological psychology.

Reprinted, New York, Hafner, 1964.

1930

#4765

A report of progress on the use of ephedrine in a case of myasthenia gravis.

Harriet Edgeworth discovered by accident the beneficial effect of ephedrine in myasthenia gravis. Digital facsimile from jamanetwork.com at this link.

1930

#1169

La diabetes pancreática de los perros hipofisoprivos.

Houssay’s depancreatized hypophysectomized dog. This work led to Houssay’s demonstration of the importance of the anterior pituitary in sugar metabolism. See also Endocrinology, 1931,15, 511-23. In 1947 Houssay shared…

1930

#532.9

Early theories of sexual generation.

1930

#1192

The ovary-stimulating hormone of the placenta.

Collip’s anterior-pituitary-like (A-L-P) factor.

1930

#1193

The preparation of the crystalline ovarian hormone from the urine of pregnant women.

First isolation of a pure crystalline hormone (estrone). Preliminary communication in Amer. J. Physiol., 1929, 90, 329-30.

1930

#1194

The chemistry of oestrin. III. An improved method of preparation and the isolation of active crystalline material.

Crystalline estriol obtained.

1930 –1938

#1782

Handbuch der Klimatologie. Vol. 1-5.

1930

#2009

Therapeutische Versuche im elektrischen Kurzwellenfeld.

Introduction of short-wave diathermy.

1930

#1918

Ephedrine and related substances.

A digest of the literature, together with an excellent bibliography. By their earlier work (J. Pharmacol., 1924, 24, 339-57) Chen and Schmidt aroused worldwide interest in ephedrine.

1930

#1919

Histamin: seine Pharmakologie und Bedeutung für die Humoralphysiologie.

1930

#1920

Digoxin, a new digitalis glucoside.

Isolation of digoxin from Digitalis lanata.

1930

#2256

Burns. Types, pathology and management.

1930

#2603.1

Arsphenamine hypersensitiveness in guinea pigs. II. Experiments demonstrating the role of the skin, both as originator and as site of the hypersensitiveness.

Sulzberger showed that allergens gaining access to the epidermis are processed there in some manner (Langerhans cells?) that determines their allergenicity. See No. 2576.02

1930

#2653

Allergie des Lebensalters, die bösartigen Geschwülste.

Important study of the age and sex incidence of cancer.

1930

#2860

Bundle-branch block with short P-R interval in healthy young people prone to paroxysmal tachycardia.

Wolff–Parkinson–White syndrome, the best-known of the “pre-excitation syndromes”.

1930

#2239

Nosography, the evolution of clinical medicine in modern times. 2nd ed.

A well-illustrated and reliable account.

1930

#3144.1

Ein hochwirksamer, injizierbarer Leberextrakt.

Gänsslen introduced an injectable liver extract in the treatment of pernicious anemia.

1930

#3145

Classification of the anemias on the basis of differences in the size and hemoglobin content of the red corpuscles.

Wintrobe’s classification of the anemias.

1930

#2576.1

Chemische Untersuchung des Präzipitates aus Hämoglobin und AntiHämoglobin-Serum und Bemerkungen über die Natur der Antikörper.

Template or instruction theory of antibody formation.

1930

#3326

Cancer of the larynx.

Thomson’s technique in the laryngofissure procedure for intrinsic cancer of the larynx was published in his Diseases of the nose and throat, London, 1911, pp. 732-37.

1930

#18.2

Die griechische Empirikerschule: Sammlung der Fragmente und Darstellung der Lehre von Karl Deichgräber.

The writings of Heraclides are frequently quoted by Galen, who regarded Heraclides as a reliable authority. Unfortunately, only a few fragments of Heraclides's works survived; his work is mainly known through quotatio…

1930

#2919

Intracranial aneurysms.

Temporal arteritis is first described in Case 24 (p. 532). Schmidt’s paper also appeared in Bibl. Laeger, 1930, 122,269 (Case 24, p. 320). Temporal arteritis was also described as a new condition by B. T. Horton, T. B…

1930

#3407

Otologische Röntgendiagnostik.

Includes a brief history of the subject.

1930

#3973

Contribución al estudio sobre la composición quimica de la insulina. Estudio de algunos cuerpos sintéticos solfurados con acción hypoglucemiante.

Discovery of the hypoglycemic effect of certain sulphonamide derivatives. With L. L. Silva and L. Libenson.

1930

#5071

Insoluble precipitates in diphtheria and tetanus immunization.

Alum-precipitated toxoid for active immunization.

1930

#4398

Pseudofractures (hunger osteopathy, late rickets, osteomalacia): report of a case.

“Milkman’s syndrome”.

1930

#5177

Ueber Identität von “Yato-Byo” (Ohara’s disease) und “Tularämie”, sowie ihren Erreger.

In Japan tularemia is known as “Ohara’s disease”.

1930

#5712.1

The intravenous use of the barbituric acid hypnotics in surgery.

Intravenous use of pentobarbitone sodium.

1930

#5713

The anesthetic properties of certain unsaturated ethers.

Demonstration of the anesthetic properties of divinyl ether.

1930

#5010

Les malades de l’esprit et leurs médecins du XVIe siècle. Les étapes des connaissances psychiatriques de la Renaissance à Pinel.

1930

#5012

Les pionniers de la psychiatrie française avant et après Pinel. 2 vols.

A history of French psychiatry from Fernel to the end of the 19th century, focused around the work of each pioneer. Semelaigne was the great grand-nephew of Pinel.

1930

#5762

Mirault operation for single harelip.

Modern refinement of Mirault’s precedure for repair of cleft lip.

1930

#5538.3

Tick-borne infections in Colorado. I. The diagnosis and management of infections transmitted by the wood tick.

Becker first clearly described Colorado tick fever as a separate entity and suggested that the causal organism was transmitted by the tick, Dermacentor andersoni.

1930

#5539

Die Ätiologie der Psittakosis.

Discovery of the causal agent of psittacosis, Chlamydia psittaci. Simultaneously A. C. Coles (Lancet, 1930, 1, 1011-12) and R. D. Lillie (Publ. Hlth. Rep., Wash., 1930, 45, 773-78) made the same discovery, and the ele…

1930

#5540

En Bornholmsk epidemi-myositis epidemica.

First full description of epidemic myositis, “Bornholm disease”. See also Sylvest’s monograph on the subject, London, 1934.

1930

#4850

The Edwin Smith surgical papyrus. Published in facsimile and hieroglyphic transliteration with translation and commentary by James Henry Breasted. 2 vols.

At Luxor, Egypt, in 1862 the American collector and dealer in papyri Edwin Smith purchased the papyrus which bears his name. It is preserved at the New York Academy of Medicine. The original text was written about 300…

1930

#5975

Keratoplasty.

Elschnig developed the method of corneal grafting introduced by von Hippel (No. 5933) and produced good results on the human eye.

1930

#5976

Ueber den Ausgleich sämtlicher Brechungsfehler des Auges durch geschliffene Haftgläser (unter den Lidern getragene Schalen).

The manufacture of modern contact lenses was made possible by the work of Heine. See also his paper in Lancet, 1931, 1, 631-32. For a brief history of this subject, see Schweiz, med. Wschr., 1946, 76, 719.

1930

#5977

Operative Behandlung von Netzhautabhebung mit Elektroendothermie und Trepanation; vorläufige Mitteilung.

Superficial diathermy treatment of retinal detachment. See also Arch Ophthal. (N.Y.), 1932, 7, 661-80.

1930

#5978

Choroidal sarcoma treated by the intra-ocular insertion of radon needles.

Foster Moore’s technique for the radiation treatment of choroidal neoplasms.

1930

#5979

Transplantation of cornea: a preliminary report on a series of experiments on rabbits.

See also his paper in Brit. J. Ophthal., 1934, 18, 129-42.

1930

#5630.3

Experimental shock. The cause of the low blood pressure produced by muscle injury.

Blalock “demonstrated that surgical shock is not due to the elaboration of toxins nor to reflex neurologic mechanisms, but … to decrease in circulating the blood volume” (M.M. Ravitch). He wrote many papers on the sub…

1930

#5463

Studies on the action of yellow fever virus in mice.

The intracerebral protection test in mice, a test for the diagnosis of yellow fever and for the determination of its past existence in a community, was made possible by Theiler’s discovery that white mice are suscepti…