1940–1949

1941

#6483

Hippocratic medicine. Its spirit and method.

1941

#6357.57

Abdominal surgery of infancy and childhood.

Ladd pioneered the development of pediatric surgery in the United States. Robert E. Gross, his chief resident, succeeded to his position at Boston Children’s Hospital.

1941 –1959

#6777

Current List of Medical Literature. Vols. 1-36.

Published weekly until June, 1950, then monthly, with author and subject indexes. Cumulated indexes semi-annually. Issued by the Army Medical Library prior to its naming as the National Library of Medicine. Superseded…

1941

#254.3

Genetic control of biochemical reactions in Neurospora.

Beadle and Tatum proposed the "one gene, one enzyme" hypothesis in 1941. This was a restatement of ideas originally proposed by Archibald Garrod (No. 244.1) in 1908. 1958 Beadle and Tatum shared the Nobel Prize in Phy…

1941

#6898

Metabolic generation and utilization of phosphate bond energy.

In this paper about group potential and the transfer of acetyl and phosphoryl groups Lipmann proposed that acetyl phosphate acted as an acetyl door in the biosynthesis of essential metabolites and that ATP functioned …

1941

#9281

Navajo Indian medical ethnobotany. University of New Mexico Bulletin, Anthropological Series, Vol. 3, No. 5.

Digital facsimile from herbaltherapeutics.net at this link.

1941

#10581

Vāgbhaṭa's Aṣṭāngahṛdayasaṃhitā: Ein altindisches Lehrbuch der Heilkunde. Aus dem Sanskrit ins Deutsche Übertragen mit Einleitung, Anmerkungen, und Indices von Luise Hilgenberg und Willibald Kirfel.

"The Aṣṭāṅgahṛdayasaṃhitā (Ah, "Heart of Medicine") is written in poetic language. The Aṣṭāṅgasaṅgraha (As, "Compendium of Medicine") is a longer and less concise work, containing many parallel passages and extensive …

1941

#10769

Jak zapobiegać chorobom zakaźnym i jak je zwalczać? Biblioteczka Zydowskiej Samopomocy Spolecznej. Nr. 1.

A 14-page pamphlet on epidemiology published by the Żydowska Samopomoc Społeczna, Prezydium (Jewish Social Self-Help Organization) in the Kraków Ghetto to educate Jewish activists and physicians. The author perished a…

1941

#11000

The medical reports of John Y. Bassett, M.D., the Alabama student. Edited by Daniel C. Elkin.

Bassett was the subject of William Osler's famous essay, "An Alabama Student."

1941

#12379

Physical medicine: The employment of physical agents for diagnosis and therapy.

1941

#12823

Report of the Blood Transfusion Association concerning the Project for Supplying Blood Plasma to England, which has been carried on jointly with the American Red Cross from August, 1940, to January, 1941. Narrative account of work and medical report.

Drew discovered the method for long-term storage of blood plasma, and organized America's first large-scale blood bank. Drew's thesis for his medical degree at Columbia was entitled "Banked Blood: A Study in Blood Pre…

1941

#13027

Kanon der Erdbestrahlung und seine Anwendung auf das Eiszeitenproblem.

Milanković’s masterwork on his astronomical theory of climate, which brought together all the mathematical elements underlying the theory of “Milanković cycles.” Milanković cycles are cyclical changes in a planet’s cl…

1941

#13183

Bibliografia delle opere di Francesco Redi; segue la riproduzione della Lettera intorno all'invenzione degli occhiali scritta a Paolo Falconieri. Dall'edizione delle "Lettere" 1779-1795

1941

#13361

Bibliographie générale et méthodique d'Haiti. 2 vols.

Vol. 2, pp. 169-208 contains a comprehensive chronological account of medical publications printed in Haiti, or about medicine in Haiti, from the earliest imprints to 1941. Digital facsimile from ufdc.ufl.edu at this …

1941

#13881

Focus on Africa.

Includes the first aerial photographs of Africa taken by Mary Light. This was the second book to reproduce aerial photographs. Richard Light was an American neurosurgeon, a noted aviator, and a photographer and cinema…

1941

#13889

Library of Dr. S. Weir Mitchell author of Hugh Wynne. Books autographs, prints, and historical relics. To be sold at unrestricted public sale on Monday, May 19th, 1941.

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1941

#14330

Bio-Bibliography of XVI. century medical authors. Fasciculus 1, Abarbanel-Albert, S.

1942

#4614.2

L’acropathie ulcéro-mutilante familiale.

“Thévenard’s disease” – hereditary sensory neuropathy, earlier reported by Auguste Nélaton: Affection singulière des os du pied. Gaz. Hôp. Paris, 1852, 4, 13.

1942

#1087

The isolation of a new oxidation-reduction enzyme from lemon peel (vitamin P).

Isolation of vitamin P (hespendin chalcone).

1942

#532

Some aspects of early human development.

Report of the youngest normal implanted fertilized human ovum, fertilization age about 7 1/2 days. Hertig and Rock published a more detailed study in Contr. Embryol. Carneg. Instn. 1945, 31, 65-84.

1942

#2137.30

A bibliography of aviation medicine.

1942

#145.67

The trophic-dynamic aspect of ecology.

“The birth of ecosystem ecology” (McIntosh). Lindeman described energy flow in ecosystems in a form amenable to productive abstract analysis. This paper introduced what came to be known as the "Ten percent law."

1942

#2261

The treatment of burns.

Contains some history of the subject and includes a valuable bibliography of 1,320 entries.

1942

#1958

Sulphamethazine: Clinical trial of a new sulphonamide.

Sulfadimidine (also spelled Sulphadimidine) with G. S. Smith, R. W. Luxton, W. A. Ramsay, and J. Goldman. [Also designated as Vol. 239 by publishers of The Lancet.]

1942

#2237

Diffuse collagen disease; acute disseminated lupus erythematosus and diffuse scleroderma.

P. Klemperer, A. D. Pollack, and G. Baehr combined a number of diseases, hitherto regarded as unrelated, into an entity which they termed diffuse collagen disease.

1942

#3159

A short history of cardiology.

1942

#2578.1

Sensitization to horse serum by means of adjuvants.

Freund’s adjuvant. Freund’s procedure allowed adjuvants to be used for any antigen.

1942

#2578.2

Pneumococcus polysaccharide as a paralyzing agent on the mechanism of immunity in white mice.

1942

#2578.3

Experiments on transfer of cutaneous sensitivity to simple compounds.

Cellular transfer of delayed hypersensitivity, establishing the criticial role of mononuclear cells in cellular immunity.

1942

#2875

A simple indifferent electrocardiographic electrode of zero potential and a technique of obtaining augmented, unipolar, extremity leads.

Augmented unipolar leads.

1942

#2700.01

Metabolic studies on neoplasm of bone with the aid of radioactive strontium.

Radioisotopic bone scanning. With B. Low-Beer, H. Friedell, and J. Lawrence.

1942

#3611.1

A ‘slide’ operation for inguinal and femoral hernia.

The Tanner slide operation as a relaxing incision.

1942

#3804

Syndrome characterized by gynecomastia, aspermatogenesis without A-Leydigism, and increased excretion of follicle-stimulating hormone.

Klinefelter syndrome. With E. C. Reifenstein and F. Albright.

1942

#3664.1

Zur Aetiologie der Hepatitis epidemica.

Transmission of infective hepatitis agent.

1942

#3853

Application of radioactive iodine in therapy of Graves’s disease.

1942

#2924

The rôle of hypersensitivity in periarteritis nodosa; as indicated by seven cases developing during serum sickness and sulfonamide therapy.

Rich considered hypersensitivity to be an important factor in the aetiology of periarteritis nodosa.

1942

#4254

Natural history of Bright’s disease. Clinical, histological and experimental observations.

Ellis’s classification of nephritis.

1942

#3412

The surgical treatment of deafness.

Shambaugh improved the technique of the fenestration operation. See also Ann. Otol. (St. Louis), 1942, 51, 817-25.

1942

#2992

Successful removal of hemangioma of the lung followed by the disappearance of polycythemia.

First successful excision of arteriovenous aneurysm of the lung.

1942

#4154

Dermatite papulo-squameuse atrophiante.

“Degos’s disease”, malignant atrophic papulosis. With J. Delort and R. Tricot. Earlier described by W. Köhlmeier, Frankf. Z. Path., 1940, 54, 413.

1942

#4404.01

The use of preserved bone grafts in orthopaedic surgery.

These studies form the basis of the modern use of bone preserved by refrigeration.

1942

#5724

The use of curare in general anesthesia.

Introduction of curare in anesthesia.

1942

#5508

Transmission of rubella to Macacus mulatta monkeys.

Successful transmission of rubella.

1942

#5302

Transmission of Indian kala-azar to man by the bites of Phlebotomus argentipes, Ann. and Brun.

Successful transmission of kala-azar to man by the bite of Phlebotomus argentipes reported, showing it to be the vector of Leishmania. With H. E. Shortt and L. A. P. Anderson.

1942

#5766

Plastic surgery of the breast and abdominal wall.

1942

#5811

The history and evolution of surgical instruments.

1942

#5989

Extreme prematurity and fibroblastic overgrowth of persistent vascular sheath behind each crystalline lens. I. Preliminary report.

Retrolental fibroplasia first described. See also the same volume, pp. 1409-23, and Trans. Sect. Ophthal. Amer. med. Ass., 1942, 213-29, for later papers.

1942

#6232.1

Continuous caudal anesthesia during labor and delivery.

1942

#6436

Source book of medical history.

Reprinted, Dover Publications, 1960.

1942

#6651

ACTA HISTORICA SCIENTIARUM NATURALIUM ET MEDICINALIUM. 1-, Kobenhavn, Odense,

Monographic series.