1940–1949

1944

#3924.1

Incipient myelomatosis or “essential” hyperglobulinemia with fibrino-genopenia – a new syndrome?

“Waldenström’s macroglobulinemia”.

1944

#4255

The artificial kidney: Dialyser with great area.

The Kolff artificial kidney. With H. T. J. Berk and others. Kolff first published his discovery in a neutral country (Sweden) since in 1944 Holland was occupied by the Germans. See also No. 1976.

1944

#3412.1

The ascertainment of deafness in infancy and early childhood.

Tests of hearing in children.

1944

#2992.1

Aortectomy for thoracic aneurysm.

Resection of saccular aneurysm of thoracic aorta.

1944

#3976.1

Analyse du mécanisme de l’action hypoglycémiante de p-aminobenzène-sulfamido-isopropylthiodiazol (2254 RP).

Loubatières initiated work on the hypoglycaemic sulphonamides. See his historical account in Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci., 1957, 71, 4-11.

1944

#4404.02

Surgery of the hand.

Bunnell originated hand surgery as a specialty.

1944

#5014

Studies in reflexes. History, psychology, synthesis and nomenclature.

Also published in book form, Chicago, 1945.

1944

#5398.3

The therapeutic effect of para-aminobenzic acid in louse-borne typhus fever.

With J. C. Snyder, E. S. Murray, C. J. D. Zarafonetis, and R. S. Ecke.

1944

#5449.1

Chemical, clinical, and immunological studies on the products of human plasma fractionation. XII. The use of concentrated normal human serum gamma globulin (human immune serum globulin) in the prevention and attenuation of measles.

Gamma globulin used for passive immunization against measles. With C. G. Jennings and C. A. Janeway.

1944

#6737

Notable names in medicine and surgery.

Biographical notes and portraits of men and women whose names are perpetuated in well-known medical eponyms. 3rd. edition 1959.

1944

#6306

History of gynecology.

1944

#6307

Caesarean section. The history and development of the operation from earliest times.

1944

#6600

Aesculapius in Latin America.

1944

#5259.2

The development of Plasmodium gallinaceum from sporozoite to erythrocytic trophozoite.

First detailed account of the full cycle of development of the avian malaria parasite P. gallinaceum.

1944

#255.2

Tempo and mode in evolution.

Simpson's seminal contribution to the modern evolutionary synthesis integrated the facts of paleontology with those of genetics and natural selection. "Simpson argued that the microevolution of population genetics was…

1944

#255.3

Studies on the chemical nature of the substance inducing transformation of pneumococcal types. Induction of transformation by a deoxyribonucleic acid fraction isolated from pneumococcus type III.

Demonstration that deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is the basic material responsible for genetic transformation. Digital facsimile from PubMedCentral at this link. Followed by: McCarty & Avery, "Studies on the chemical na…

1944

#6897

What is life? The physical aspect of the living cell.

This work about the physical basis of natural phenomena influenced the young James D. Watson and others. The book was a popularization of ideas developed by Max Delbrück in his paper with Timofeeff-Ressovsky in 1935. …

1944

#7626

Die "Autistischen Psychopathen" im Kindesalter.

Early infantile autism (Asperberger's syndrome).

1944

#8385

An American dilemma: The Negro problem and modern democracy. By Gunnar Myrdal with the assistance of Richard Sterner and Arnold Rose.

Includes considerable anthropological, biological, and health data. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1944

#8470

Une maladie Égyptienne: l'hématurie parasitaire.

1944

#9032

Global Epidemiology: A geography of disease and sanitation. Vol. 1: India and the Far East/The Pacific Area; Vol. 2: Africa and the Adjacent Islands; Vol. 3: The Near and Middle East. Edited by James Stevens Simmons, Tom F. Whayne, Gaylord West Anderson, Harold Maclachlan Horack... and United States. Surgeon-General's Office. Preventive Medicine Service.

1944

#9282

Ethnobotany of the Navajo. Monographs of the School of American Research, No. 8.

Digital facsimile from uair.library.arizona.edu at this link.

1944

#10810

A catalogue of the medieval and renaissance manuscripts and incunabula in the Boston Medical Library.

1944

#11352

Intracranial arterial aneurysms.

1944

#11548

The foetal circulation and cardiovascular system, and the changes that they undergo at birth.

The authors describe the first direct recording of the blood flow in an intact fetus, a fetal lamb. The authors performed this experiment cooperation with Sir Joseph Bancroft and Dr. D. H. Barron.

1944 –1960

#11603

Medical physics. Edited by Otto Glasser. 3 vols.

This nearly 4000 page work in three unusually thick volumes, written by hundreds of authors, was an encyclopedia of medical physics for its time.

1944

#11859

Congenital cardiac disease: Bibliography of 1000 cases analyzed in Maude Abbott's Atlas. Edited by Donald deF. Bauer and Effie C. Astbury.

Provides all the references used in Abbott, Atlas of congenital cardiac disease. New York: American Heart Association, 1936, but not included in the 1936 work.

1944

#12365

The diagnosis of rheumatic fever.

The Jones criteria (later revised in 1992 and 2015) for the diagnosis of acute rheumatic fever.

1944

#12598

Micro-methods of estimating penicillin blood serum and other bodily fluids.

Fleming was the first to measure blood levels of penicillin after intramuscular, intradermal, inravenous and continuous drip administration in order to determine the correct dosage. He described his micro-measurement …

1944

#12599

Penicillin content of blood serum after various doses of penicillin by various routes.

In this paper Fleming and colleagues explained how to choose routes of administration of penicillin as well as dosage, and reproduced the graphs/figures that showed blood levels achieved with different doses and route…

1944

#12606

A century of service to dentistry 1844 -1944. Published by S. S. White Dental Mfg. Co. in commemoration of its one hundredth anniversary. Edited by Harry C. Keane.

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1945

#1175.1

Isolation and properties of the anterior hypophyseal growth hormone.

Choh Hao Li and colleagues isolated the anterior pituitary growth hormone.

1945

#1782.1

Medical geographies.

A historical survey of the classical works.

1945

#2061

Cinchona in Java: The story of quinine.

1945

#1928.4

Streptococcal fibrinolysis. A proteolytic reaction due to a serum enzyme activated by streptococcal fibrinolysin.

Purification and concentration of Tillett and Garner’s (No. 1924.1) substance to produce streptokinase.

1945

#1929

British anti-lewisite (BAL).

British Anti-Lewisite BAL (dimercaprol), a medication used to treat acute poisoning by arsenic, mercury, gold, and lead, was discovered during the 1939-45 war. With L. A. Stocken and R. H. S. Thompson.

1945

#1929.1

Effectiveness of a nitrofuran in the treatment of infected wounds.

First clinical use of “furacin” (nitrofuran). With C. L. Kiehn and J. W. Christopherson.

1945

#1936

Bacitracin: a new antibiotic produced by a member of the B, subtilis group.

With H. Anker and F. L. Meleney.

1945

#2350

Streptomycin in treatment of clinical tuberculosis: a preliminary report.

1945

#2659.4

The synchrotron: a proposed high energy particle accelerator.

In 1951 McMillan shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Glenn Theodore Seaborg "for their discoveries in the chemistry of the transuranium elements."

1945

#3043

The surgical treatment of malformations of the heart in which there is pulmonary stenosis or pulmonary atresia.

The “Blalock-Taussig operation” for the relief of congenital defects of the pulmonary artery, Tetralogy of Fallot ("blue baby syndrome"). "The first surgical repair was carried out in 1944 at Johns Hopkins.[70] The pr…

1945

#3044

Congenital coarctation of the aorta and its surgical treatment.

Crafoord and Gross (No. 3044.1) pioneered this basic operation in cardiac and pediatric surgery.

1945

#3044.1

Surgical correction for coarctation of the aorta.

Resection of coarctation and direct anastomosis of remaining ends. See also his report of 60 cases in J. Amer.med.Assoc.,1949, 139,285-92.

1945

#3103

Cyanosis in infants caused by nitrates in well water.

Methemoglobinemia. Comly first suggested the above hypothesis, since proved valid.

1945

#3104

Detection of weak and “incomplete” Rh agglutinins: a new test.

Coombs’s test for detecting antibodies in various clinical scenarios, such as Rh disease and blood transfusion. With A. E. Mourant and R. R. Race. A fuller description appears in Brit. J. exp. Path.,1945, 26, 255-66.

1945

#3105

Conglutination test for Rh sensitization.

Conglutination test.

1945

#3150

Observations of the anti-anemic properties of synthetic folic acid.

Hemopoietic properties of folic acid reported. With C. F. Vilter, M. B. Koch, and M. H. Caldwell.

1945

#3214

Transmission of primary atypical pneumonia to human volunteers.

COMMISSION ON ACUTE RESPIRATORY DISEASES

1945

#2900

Thiouracil treatment of angina pectoris; rationale and results.

1945

#3855

Some observations on the use of thiobarbital as an antithyroid agent in the treatment of Graves’s disease.

Clinical introduction of thiobarbital.