1940–1949

1940

#10951

A neurotropic virus isolated from the blood of a native in Uganda.

Order of authorship in the original paper: Smithburn, Hughes, Burke. In 1937 the authors isolated a virus from the blood of an adult female with fever from the Omogo West Nile district of Uganda, and named it West Nil…

1940

#11241

Sarh Asma Al-Uqqar (L'Explication des noms de drogues) Un glossaire de matière medicale composé par Maïmonide. Texte publié pour la première fois d'après le manuscrit unique

1940

#11401

Découverte d'une remarkable grotte ornée, au domaine de Lascaux, Montignac (Dordogne).

Lascaux, which has been called "The Sistine Chapel of the Paleolithic", was discovered on September 12, 1940 by 18-year-old Marcel Ravidat when his dog, Robot, fell into a hole. Ravidar returned to the cave with three…

1940

#11638

Medical works of the Knights Hospitallers of Saint John of Jerusalem.

1940

#11654

Fractures and other bone and joint injuries.

Watson-Jones's textbook became known as "the bible." It was reprinted 15 times during the author's lifetime and translated into Spanish, French, German, Portuguese and Polish. "Throughout its publication, Watson-Jones…

1940

#12541

Medicine and health in New Zealand: A retrospect and a prospect.

Medical education, the hospital system, the relationship between specialists and general practitioners, and the brain drain of doctors to Britain.

1940

#12933

Root canal therapy.

1940

#13073

Psychiatric nursing technic.

1940

#13090

Field surgery in total war.

This book " became required reading in the US Army Medical Service during the Second World War. According to one US authority, C.E. Welch, Jolly’s methods ‘undoubtedly contributed more to the saving of lives of patien…

1940

#13352

The patient’s dilemma: The quest for medical security in America.

Cabot advocated the group practice of medicine and for budgeted prepayment systems for healthcare.

1941

#4614.1

Encephalography.

Robertson improved the accuracy and reliability of encephalography and reduced its discomforts.

1941

#1084

p-Aminobenzoic acid, a vitamin.

Recognition of β-amenobenzoic acid as a member of the vitamin-B complex.

1941

#912.3

Recherches sur un nouvel hémo-agglutinogéne du sang humain.

Moureau discovered the Rh factor independently of Levine and others whose work was not known to him owing to the military occupation of Belgium. See also his paper in Amer. J. clin. Path., 1946, 16, 373-79.

1941

#2187

A short history of nautical medicine.

1941

#1244.1

Methods for the collection of fluid from single glomeruli and tubules of the mammalian kidney, and the collection and analysis of fluid from single nephrons of the mammalian kidney.

This was the first (and for many years) the only application of the Wearn-Richards procedure (No. 1239) to the mammalian kidney.

1941

#2060

Fundamental errors in the early history of cinchona.

1941

#1684

War and disease.

1941

#1934.1

Further observations on penicillin.

First report of the chemotherapeutic action of penicillin on humans (10 cases).

1941

#1956

Sulfadiazine. Therapeutic evaluation and toxic effects on four hundred and forty-six patients.

Introduction of sulphadiazine. With E. Strauss and O. L. Peterson.

1941

#1957

Succinyl sulfathiazole, a new bacteriostatic agent locally active in the gastrointestinal tract.

Introduction of sulfasuxidine.

1941

#1533

Continuous and reproducible records of the electrical activity of the human retina.

Electroretinography

1941

#1533.1

The anatomy and the histology of the retina in man, ape, and monkey.

A scholarly tour-de-force with a bibliography of over 700 references.

1941

#2417

A new serologically active phospholipid from beef heart.

Cardiolipin antigen for serological diagnosis of syphilis. For isolation and purification see J. biol. Chem., 1942, 143, 247-56.

1941

#3042

Surgery of the heart.

Includes valuable information regarding the history of the subject.

1941

#3100

The rôle of iso-immunization in the pathogenesis of erythroblastosis fetalis.

Erythroblastosis fetalis due to rhesus incompatibility (Rh disease) between mother and child. With L. Burnham, E. M. Katzin, and P. Vogel.

1941

#3102

Studies on the hemorrhagic sweet clover disease. V. Identification and synthesis of the hemorrhagic agent.

Isolation of dicoumarol (3:3-methylene-bis-4-hydroxycoumarin). With C. F. Huebner.

1941

#3243

The story of clinical pulmonary tuberculosis.

1941

#3556

Congenital atresia of the esophagus with tracheoesophageal fistula. Report of successful extrapleural ligation of fistulous communication and cervical esophagostomy.

1941

#3158

Cardiac classics. A collection of classic works on the heart and circulation with comprehensive biographic accounts of the authors.

Covers the literature up to 1912. Reprinted in 2 vols, as Classics of cardiology, New York, Dover, 1961. Reprinted again, with volume 3 by John A. Callahan, Thomas E. Keys & Jack E. Key, Malabar, Florida, Krieger, 198…

1941

#2577

The agglutination of red cells by allantoic fluid of chick embryos infected with influenza virus.

Discovery of virus hemagglutination. Between 1941 and 1942 Hirst developed the hemagglutination assay for quantifying the relative concentration of viruses, bacteria or antibodies.

1941

#2578

The absorption of influenza virus by red cells and a new in vitro method of measuring antibodies for influenza virus.

Independently of Hirst, McClelland and Hare discovered virus hemagglutination.

1941

#2871

Catheterization of the right auricle in man.

First investigations with the cardiac catheter as a clinical method of investigation. In 1956 Cournand in 1956 shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Forssmann (No. 2858) and Richards (No. 2883.2) "for …

1941

#2873

Studies on congestive heart failure. I. The importance of restriction of salt as compared to water.

Low-sodium diet in heart failure.

1941

#4252

Crush injuries with impairment of renal function.

Bywaters and Beali encountered cases of the “crush syndrome” among victims of the London air-raids of 1940-41.

1941

#4253

The vicious circle in chronic Bright’s disease. Experimental evidence from the hypertensive rat.

1941

#3411

History and present status of operations on the labyrinthine capsule for otosclerosis.

Kopetzky improved the technique of the fenestration operation. The above has a useful history of the development of this operation. See also his earlier papers in Ann. Otol. (St. Louis), 1930, 39, 996; 1931, 40, 157.

1941

#4276

Studies on prostatic cancer. I. The effect of castration, of estrogen, and of androgen injection on serum phosphatases in metastatic carcinoma of the prostate.

In 1966 Huggins was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for discovering in 1941 "for his discoveries concerning hormonal treatment of prostatic cancer."

1941

#4153

En ny og spesifikk kutan-reaksjon ved Boecks sarcoid. En foreløbig meddelelse.

Kveim’s test for sarcoidosis.

1941

#4910.1

Epilepsy and cerebral localization: A study of the mechanism, treatment and prevention of epileptic seizures.

Penfield’s most widely recognized contribution was the gradual development of cortical excision as an accepted and valuable method of treating medically refractory focal epilepsy. See also No. 4914.2.

1941

#5096

Sulfanilylguanidine in the treatment of acute bacillary dysentery in children.

E. K. Marshall, A. C. Bratton, L. B. Edwards, and E. L. Walker were the first to use sulphaguanidine in the treatment of bacillary dysentery.

1941

#4404

Chondrodystrophic dwarfs in Denmark (supplemented with investigations from Sweden and Norway) with special reference to the inheritance of chondrodystrophy.

Morch established the fact that chondrodystrophy may be inherited.

1941

#5723

The Oxford vaporiser No. 1.

With R. R. Macintosh and K. Mendelssohn. The Oxford vaporiser No. 2 is described in the same journal, pp. 64-66 by S. L. Cowan, R. D. Scott, and S. F. Suffolk.

1941

#5507

Congenital cataract following German measles in the mother.

Gregg drew attention to congenital defects in infants following rubella in the mother during the early part of pregnancy.

1941

#5301.2

The transmission of Leishmania tropica by the bite of Phlebotomus papatasii.

Proof of the transmission of L. tropica by P. papatasii.

1941

#5013

A history of medical psychology.

1941

#6466

Native African medicine: With special reference to Its practice in the Mano tribe of Liberia.

1941

#6467

La medicina primitiva.

1941

#6135

The diagnostic value of vaginal smears in carcinoma of the uterus.

The first cytopathology test, smear diagnosis of carcinoma of the cervix: the "Pap" test. Papanicolaou first reported in 1928 that he could recognize cancer cells (Proc. Third Race Betterment Conf., p. 528) but the im…

1941

#5224.1

The vesicular test. Diagnostic method of infection by poradenic (lymphogranuloma inguinale)virus.

Vesicular test for diagnosis of lymphogranuloma venereum.

1941

#6232

Maternal pulmonary embolism by amniotic fluid as a cause of obstetric shock and unexpected deaths in obstetrics.

Amniotic fluid embolism described.