1940–1949
610 entries with publication dates in this decade.
1908
#86.5
Corpus Medicorum Graecorum. Ediderunt Academiae Berolinensis Hauniensis Lipsiensis
CORPUS MEDICORUM GRAECORUM
This series sets as its goal the scholarly edition of all extant ancient Greek medical texts, including those lost in the original language but preserved in medieval translations. These are numbered as follows: I. Hip…
1915
#86.6
Corpus Medicorum Latinorum. Editum consilio et auctoritate Instituti Puschmanniani Lipsiensis.
CORPUS MEDICORUM LATINORUM
As of 1990 eight volumes were published (*). The completed series would include: I. Celsus*; II. Scribonius Largus, Quintus Serenus* etc.: III. Plinius Secundus Iunior*; IV. Antonius Musa, Pseudo-Apuleius, Sextus Plac…
1940
#4661
Virus filtrant pathogène pour l’homme et les animaux de laboratoire, et à affinité meningée et pulmonaire.
“Durand’s disease” – D virus infection. Durand isolated the virus from his own blood. See also the paper by G. M. Findlay, Trans. roy. Soc. trop. Med., 1942, 35, 303-18.
1940
#4661.1
Studies of a murine strain of poliomyelitis virus in cotton rats and white mice.
Isolation of encephalomyocarditis virus.
1940
#1082
The constitution of vitamin K2.
Structural formula of vitamin K2.
1940
#1085
A further note on the identity of vitamin H with biotin.
Isolation of β-biotin (formerly known as vitamin H). With D. B. Melville, P. György, and C. S. Rose.
1940
#1086
Anemia in chicks caused by a vitamin deficiency.
Isolation of vitamin Bc (folic acid, pteroylglutamic acid). Preliminary communication in J. biol. Chem., 1939, 128, xlvi-xlvii.
1940
#912.2
An agglutinable factor in human blood recognized by immune sera for Rhesus blood.
Recognition of the Rh antigen
1940
#1173.1
Interstitial cell stimulating hormone. II. Method of preparation and some physico-chemical studies.
Choh Hao Li and colleagues isolated of the interstitial cell stimulating (luteinizing) hormone.
1940
#1811.1
The Badianus manuscript. (Codex Barberini, Latin, 241) Vatican Library. An Aztec herbal of 1552. Edited and translated by Emily W. Emmart.
The earliest complete Mexican medical text and the only medical text known to be the work of native Aztecs. Written by an Aztec physician named by the Spanish Martin de la Cruz, and translated into Latin by another na…
1940
#1664
The development of public health in Canada: a review of the history and organization of public health in the provinces of Canada, with an outline of the present organization of the National Health Section of the Department of Pensions and National Health, Canada. Edited by R. D. Defries.
CANADIAN PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOCIATION
1940
#1933.3
An enzyme from bacteria able to destroy penicillin.
Penicillinase.
1940
#1934
Penicillin as a chemotherapeutic agent.
Proof of the therapeutic action in vivo of penicillin against streptococcal and other bacterial infections. Building upon Fleming’s work (No. 1933 and 10784), the consequences of which had originally been widely unapp…
1940
#2260
Envelope method of treating burns.
Bunyan bag.
1940
#1953
Chemotherapie akuter Infektionskrankheiten durch Ciba 3714 (Sulfanilamidothiazol).
First important clinical trial of sulfathiazole.
1940
#1954
Sulfanilylguanidine: a chemotherapeutic agent for intestinal infections.
Sulphaguanidine was introduced by E. K. Marshall, A. C. Bratton, H. J. White, and J. T. Litchfield.
1940
#1955
Chemotherapy, II. Some sulfanilamido heterocycles.
Synthesis of sulphamerazine, by R. O. Roblin, J. H. Williams, P. S. Winnek, and J. P. English.
1940
#1955.1
The relation of p-amniobenzoic acid to the mechanism of the action of sulphanilamide.
Isolation of p-aminobenzoic acid, a structural analog of sulfanilamide.
1940
#2431
Syphilis in earlier days.
1940
#2349
The effect of promin (sodium salt of P. P’-diamino-diphenyl-sulfone-N, N’-dextrose sulfonate) on experimental tuberculosis: a preliminary report.
Experimental evidence of the value of promin (sodium glucosulphone) in tuberculosis. With H. C. Hinshaw and H.E. Moses. See also Amer. Rev. Tuberc., 1942, 45, 303-33.
1940
#2010.2
Acceleration of electrons by magnetic induction.
Betatron. Continued as Kerst, "The acceleration of elecrons by magnetic induction," Phys. Rev., 60 (1941) 47-52. Digital facsimile of the 1941 paper at this link.
1940
#3040
De la résection du carrefour aortico-iliaque avec double sympathectomie lombaire pour thrombose artéritique de l’aorte; le syndrome de l’oblitération termino-aortique par artérite.
Obliteration of the abdominal aorta.
1940
#3041
A technique for splanchnic resection for hypertension; preliminary report.
Smithwick operation for hypertension.
1940
#1983
Rapid absorption of substance injected into the bone marrow.
Tocantins demonstrated the possibility of transfusion of fluids via the bone marrow. See also later paper with J. F. O’Neill, Surg. Gynec. Obstet., 1941, 73, 281-87.
1940
#3099
Nuclear physics and therapy: preliminary report on a new method for the treatment of leukemia and polycythemia.
Radio-phosphorus in treatment of leukemia.
1940
#2724.1
The substance causing renal hypertension.
Angiotensin. With J. C. Fasciolo, L. F. Leloir, and J. M. Muñoz. Independently isolated by Page and Helmer (see No. 2724.2) and later named angiotensin.
1940
#2724.2
A crystalline pressor substance (angiotonin) resulting from the reaction between renin and renin-activator.
Isolation of angiotonin (angiotensin).
1940
#2923
Grosse pulmonaire. Petite aorte. Affection congénitale.
Idiopathic dilatation of the pulmonary artery reported. With D. Routier and R. Heim de Balsac.
1940
#4251
A practical method for the measurement of glomerular filtration rate (inulin clearance) with an evaluation of the clinical significance of this determination.
Inulin clearance test.
1940
#5722
A method of continous spinal anesthesia. A preliminary note.
Continous spinal analgesia introduced.
1940
#5498
A new type of virus from epidemic influenza.
Recovery of influenza B virus.
1940
#5499
A virus from cases of influenza-like upper-respiratory infection.
Recovery of influenza B virus.
1940
#5398.1
Epidemic and endemic typhus. Protective value for guinea pigs of vaccines prepared from infected tissues of the developing chick embryo.
Typhus vaccine.
1940
#5398.2
Rickettsia disease of Malaya. Identity of tsutsugamushi and rural typhus.
Lewthwaite and Savoor showed scrub typhus to be identical to tsutsugamushi fever.
1940
#6649
Faiths that healed.
1940
#5224
Complement-fixation test in lymphogranuloma venereum.
Diagnosis of lymphogranuloma venereum by complement-fixation test. With G. W. Rake and M. F. Shaffer.
1940
#6495
The Chinese way in medicine.
1940
#6435
Progress in medicine: a critical review of the last hundred years.
1940
#5259
Klinische und parasitologische Befunde und chemotherapeutische Ergebnisse bei der Hühnermalaria.
Discovery of the developmental forms of P. gallinaceum in the incubation period.
1940
#5259.1
The form of Plasmodium, gallinaceum present in the incubation period of the infection.
Independently of Mudrow, H. E. Shortt, K. P. Menon, and P. V. Seetharama Iyer found pre-erythrocytic forms of P. gallinaceum in the tissues.
1940
#4614
Neurology 2 pts. Edited by A.N. Bruce.
Wilson died before this monumental work was completed, and it was edited by A. N. Bruce. It includes a vast amount of history and hundreds of references. Second edition, 1954.
1940
#7063
Obesity and leanness.
The first American book specifically devoted to obesity research.
1940
#7719
Adaptive coloration in animals. With an introduction by Julian S. Huxley.
Published during WWII, Cott's book was the first major work on camouflage in zoology, appreciated by zoologists for its scientific information and carried by many allied soldiers during the war for survival purposes. …
1940
#7727
Esser inlay (Epithethelial inlay).
Though he developed the "skin graft inlay technique" or epithelial inlay during World War I, Esser did not fully publish it until this very extensively illustrated monograph, with about 1500 images, issued in 1940.
1940
#7830
Appearance of skeletal abnormalities in the offspring of rats on a deficient diet.
Warkany was the first to prove that congenital developmental disorders can be induced by exogenous factors in mammals. His studies led to the definition of both genetic and environmentally induced structural defects. …
1940
#9278
Plants used as curatives by certain Southeastern tribes.
Digital facsimile from herablstudies.net at this link.
1940
#9483
A preliminary report on the use of fast neutrons in the treatment of malignant disease.
First report on the introduction of neutron therapy for cancer. See Hans Svensson & Torsten Landberg, "Neutron therapy--the historical background," Acta Oncologica, 33:3 (1984) 227-231. In 1938 Stone began clinical tr…
1940
#10324
Medicine and its development in Kentucky. Medical Historical Research Project of the Work Projects Administration for the Commonwealth of Kentucky.
1940
#10706
On the occurrence of a factor in human serum activating the specific agglutination of sheep blood corpuscles.
Discovery of the Rheumatoid factor.
1940 –1993
#10743
Bibliography of fossil vertebrates: The indexed published literature of vertebrate paleontology, 1509-1993.
http://vertpaleo.org/Publications/Bibliography-of-Fossil-Vertebrates.aspx "The Bibliography of Fossil Vertebrates (BFV) aimed to index the world literature of vertebrate paleontology. Although no compilation can ever …