1940–1949

1943

#6657

GESNERUS: Vierteljahrsschrift für Geschichte der Medizin und der Naturwissenschaften. 1-

The latest issue may viewed at www.gesnerus.ch.

1943

#214

The skull of Sinanthropus pekinensis: A comparative study on a primitive hominid skull.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1943

#6937

La raccolta Vittorio Putti; antiche opere di medicina manoscritte e stampate lasciate all'Istituto Rizzoli di Bologna, compiled by Tamarro de Marinis.

Description of the 1158 manuscripts and printed volumes, particularly concerning medieval and renaissance medicine and surgery, donated by Putti to the Rizzoli Institute, followed by a listing of the collection of med…

1943

#7347

An atlas of the basal ganglia, brain stem and spinal cord, Based on myelin-stained material.

"Classic atlas of the human brain (excluding the cerebral and cerebellar cortex). Each structure has a blurb with varying amounts of useful historical and factual information. There is also a very useful bibliography …

1943

#7357

A logical calculus of the ideas immanent in nervous activity.

This paper described the McCulloch-Pitts neuron, the first mathematical model of a neural network. Digital text available at this link.

1943

#7625

Autistic disturbances of affective contact.

The first description of “early infantile autism” as a disorder marked by extreme detachment, self-isolation, inability to form relationships, frequent failure to acquire communicative abilities, and preoccupation wit…

1943

#7895

GESNERUS: Revue Trimestrielle publiée par la Société d'Histoire de la Médecine et des Sciences Naturelles. Current title: GESNERUS: Swiss Journal of the History of Medicine and Sciences. 1-

1943

#8096

A bio-bibliography of Andreas Vesalius.

The standard annotated bibliography of Vesalius's works, known for its unusual system of numbering entries. Posthumously edited for publication by John F. Fulton and Arturo Castiglioni. Digital facsimile of the 1943 e…

1943

#8180

Kaiser wakes the doctors.

The first book on what became the Kaiser Permanente health plan, initially set up by Henry J. Kaiser to provide health care for his 200,000 workers.

1943

#8554

Women healers in medieval life and literature.

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1943

#8590

Exploring the dangerous trades: The autobiography of Alice Hamilton.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1943

#8762

Civilization and disease.

Study of the effect of disease on economics, law, religion and science.

1943

#9216

Victories of army medicine: Scientific accomplishments of the Medical Department of the United States Army.

1943

#9352

The art of falconry, being the De arte venandi cum avibus of Frederick II of Hohenstaufen.

English translation of the six-book version of Frederick's work, edited, with numerous appendices, illustrations, and an annotated bibliography of ancient, medieval and modern falconry, by Casey A. Wood and F. Marjori…

1943

#9379

Shipwreck-survivors: A medical study.

Probably one of the first books on the medical aspects of this particular subject. "In this lecture it will be our purpose, first to describe the various ordeals which befall men after their ship has been lost, the cl…

1943

#10952

Transmission of West Nile virus by infected Aedes albopictus.

The authors demonstrated that the Aedes albopictus mosquito is the vector of West Nile virus. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.)

1943

#11259

The psychiatric novels of Oliver Wendell Holmes

A classically trained Freudian psychoanalyst reviewed the psychiatric insights - advanced for his time - that Holmes expressed in his novels.

1943

#11284

One hundred years, 1843-1943.

A relatively brief anonymous account of the first century of activity the medical publisher, Blakiston.

1943 –1955

#11332

Catalogue of the Ferguson collection of books mainly relating to alchemy, chemistry, witchcraft and gypsies in the Library of the University of Glasgow. 2 vols. including Supplement (1955).

Due to wartime paper rationing only 40 copies of the first printing of the catalogue were published when it was issued in 1943; it was reprinted in the 21st century. Ferguson is best known as the author of the extensi…

1943

#11669

Aviation medicine.

1943

#12123

Correspondence inédite entre Réaumur et Abraham Trembley, comprenant 113 lettres, recueillies et annotées par Maurice Trembley. Introduction par Emile Guyenot.

1943

#12192

Barometric pressure: Researches in experimental physiology. Translated from the French by Mary Alice Hitchcock and Fred A. Hitchcock. [Foreward by John F. Fulton].

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1943

#13597

Diagnosis of uterine cancer by the vaginal smear.

"In 1943, after a three-year period of concentrated collaborative experience with the vaginal smear for the diagnosis of gynecologic cancer, Papanicolaou and Traut published their widely heralded monograph, Diagnosis …

1943

#13709

A new laryngoscope.

Macintosh larygnoscope.

1943

#14005

Electron microscope studies of bacterial viruses.

This work demonstrated the absorption of the phages on the host cell, and the lysis of the host cell and the liberation of a hundred or so daughter paritcles from each cell. It also showed that the particles multiply …

1944

#356

A history of comparative anatomy: From Aristotle to the eighteenth century.

Reprinted, Dover Publications, 1978.

1944

#4615

Iodinated organic compounds as contrast media for radiographic diagnoses. III. Experimental and clinical myelography with ethyl iodophenylundecylate (pantopaque).

Introduction of “pantopaque” for diagnosis of cerebral tumors. With C. E. Dungan, J. B. Furst, J. T. Plati, S. W. Smith, A. P. Darling, and E. C. Wolcott.

1944

#859

Cardiac output in man by a direct Fick method.

1944

#4689.1

Penicillin in the treatment of meningitis.

1944

#2189

Galen on medical experience. First edition of the Arabic version with English translation and notes, by R. Walzer.

1944

#532.1

In vitro ferilization and cleavage of human ovarian eggs.

First in vitro fertilization of human eggs.

1944

#751.2

Chemical, clinical, and immunological studies on the products of human plasma fractionation. I. The characterization of the protein fractions of human plasma.

Cohn invented fractionation of plasma proteins, also called blood fractionation. (Order of authorship in the original publication: Cohn, Oncley, Strong, Hughes, Armstrong.) Digital facsimile from PubMedCentral at this…

1944

#2028

Untersuchungen über Dextran und sein Verhalten bei parenteraler Zufuhr.

Introduction of dextran as plasma substitute.

1944

#1928.2

The in vitro bacteriostatic action of some simple furan derivatives.

Nitrofuran (nitrofurazone).

1944

#1928.3

Über Konstitution und toxische Wirkung von natürlichen und neuen synthetischen insektentötenden Stoffen.

Müller introduced Dichlordiphenyltrichlorethane (DDT) as an insecticide. With H. Martin and P. Läuger. In 1948 Müller received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for his discovery of the high efficiency of DDT…

1944

#1935

Streptomycin, a substance exhibiting antibiotic activity against Grampositive and Gram-negative bacteria.

Introduction of streptomycin. Order of authorship: Schatz, Gregory, Waksman. In 1952 Waksman was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for ingenious, systematic, and successful studies of the soil microbe…

1944

#2432

Notable contributors to the knowledge of syphilis.

1944

#2442

Preliminary report on diasone in the treatment of leprosy.

Muir found diasone (a sulphone) valuable in the treatment of leprosy.

1944 –1948

#2447

Indice bibliográfico de lepra, 1560-1943. 3 vols.

Supplements 1-5, 1952-62.

1944

#2605.2

Penetration of allergens into the human skin.

Proof that allergens that produce urticarial reactions can penetrate the skin from external contact and thus produce the reaction that the authors named “contact urticaria.” With F. Herrmann and R. Baer.

1944

#2349.1

The pathogenesis of tuberculosis.

Classic work on the pathogenesis of tuberculosis and its immunology and hypersensitivity.

1944

#1766.605

Medical education in the United States before the Civil War.

Reprint, New York, Arno Press, 1971.

1944

#2659.2

“Folic acid” a tumor growth inhibitor.

Inhibition of tumor growth by a folic acid concentrate. With R. Lewisohn, D. Laszlo. These workers later (Proc. Soc. exp. Biol. N. Y., 1944, 56, 144-45) obtained similar results with xanthopterin.

1944

#2659.3

Influence of synthetic oestrogens upon advanced malignant disease.

Administration of synthetic estrogens in advanced mammary cancer caused regression of tumors. With J. M. Watkinson, E. Paterson, and P. C. Koller.

1944

#3213.1

Studies on the etiology of primary atypical pneumonia. A filterable agent transmissible to cotton rats, hamsters, and chick embryos.

The Eaton agent, isolated from primary atypical pneumonia. With G. Meiklejohn and W. van Herick.

1944

#2725

Treatment of kidney disease and hypertensive vascular disease with rice diet.

Kempner rice diet for the treatment of hypertension.

1944

#3664.2

Transmission of infective hepatitis to human volunteers.

MacCallum and Bradley finally proved the nature of both serum and infective hepatitis.

1944

#3664.3

Homologous serum jaundice. Transmission experiments with human volunteers.

1944

#3665

The serum colloidal gold reactions as a liver function test.

1944

#3666

The thymol turbidity test as an indicator of liver dysfunction.