1940–1949
610 entries with publication dates in this decade.
1946
#3924.2
Heredopathia atactica polyneuritiformis; a familial syndrome not hitherto described.
“Refsum’s syndrome”, an inherited disorder of lipid metabolism.
1946
#4256
The treatment of acute renal failure by peritoneal irrigation.
With H. A. Frank and A. M. Seligman.
1946
#3412.2
The acoustic impedance measured on normal and pathological ears. Orientating studies on the applicability of impedance measurement.
The modern impedance test was developed by Metz.
1946
#5180
Streptomycin treatment of tularemia.
1946
#5725
Propriétés curarisantes du di-iodoéthylate de bis-[quinoléyloxy-8’] 1.5-pentane.
Introduction of gallamine triethiodide (“flaxedil”). With S. Courvoisier, R. Ducrot, And R. Horclois. See also the same journal, 1947, 225, 74.
1946
#5732.1
The centennial of surgical anesthesia. An annotated catalogue of books and pamphlets bearing on the early history of surgical anesthesia exibited at the Yale Medical Library.
1946
#5544.2
Immunity in mumps. VI. Experiments on the vaccination of human beings with formolized mumps virus.
With E. P. Maris, and L. W. Kane.
1946
#5351.2
Miracil, ein neues Chemotherapeuticum gegen die Darmbilharziose.
Lucanthone hydrochloride (Miracil D). With R. Gönnert and H. Mauss.
1946
#5400
Rickettsialpox. A newly recognized rickettsial disease. IV. Isolation of a rickettsia apparently identical with the causative agent of rickettsialpox from Allodermanyssus sanguineus, a rodent mite.
Isolation of Rickettsia akari, aetiologic agent of rickettsialpox. With W. L. Jellison and C. Pomerantz.
1946
#5401
Kew Gardens spotted fever.
Rickettsialpox described.
1946
#6631.02
Musical sons of Aesculapius.
1946
#6510
Outline of Arabic contributions to medicine and the allied sciences.
1946 –1947
#6569.1
Istoriia meditsiny v Armenii s drevneishikh vremen do nashikh dnei. 5 vols.
Supplement, Illustratskii k istorii meditsiny v Armenii, Erevan, 1958. A version of this work was edited and translated as Histoire de la médicine en Arménie des origines au debut du XIX siècle (!962).
1946
#6662
JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE AND ALLIED SCIENCES. 1-
The latest issue may be viewed at http://jhmas.oxfordjournals.org .
1946
#6652
ANNALS OF MEDICAL HISTORY. 1-10; New series, 1-10; 3rd series, 1-4, 1917-42. Index (1917-42),
1946
#5261.1
Chloroquine for treatment of acute attacks of vivax malaria.
Harry Most led the development of chloroquine for use in treating American troops suffering from malaria. At the beginning of the American involvement in the war there were more American casualties from malaria than f…
1946
#255.4
Gene recombination in Escherichia coli.
Discovery of sexual processes in the reproduction of bacteria. In 1958 Lederberg shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Tatum and Beadle (No. 254.3) "for his discoveries concerning genetic recombination…
1946
#7236
Choroba glodowa: Badania kliniczne nad glodem wykonane w getcie warszawskim z roku 1942.
A series of articles by Jewish physicians working in the Bersohn and Bauman Jewish Children's Hospital and "Czyste" Hospital in the Warsaw ghetto, who conducted independent research between November 1941 and August 19…
1946
#7641
The Hunterian Museum yesterday and to-morrow, being the Hunterian Oration for 1945 delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Remains one of the best accounts of the development of John Hunter's museum, and its development after Hunter's death, its partial destruction from bombing in World War II, and plans for reconstruction developed in th…
1946
#8634
Ancient anodynes: Primitive anaesthesia and allied conditions.
1946
#8741
The midwest pioneer: His ills, cures, & doctors.
The first general history of frontier or pioneer medicine in America, covering mainly the first half of the 19th century, and including many folk medicine treatments. First published privately in Crawfordsville, India…
1946
#8899
White caps: The story of nursing.
1946
#8901
Victory over pain: A history of anesthesia.
1946
#9338
Radioactive iodine therapy: Effect on functioning metastases of adenocarcinoma of the thyroid.
Seidlin and Marinelli described the first successful treatment of a patient with thyroid cancer metastases using radioiodine (I-131). This paper demonstrated the potential of nuclear medicine as a medical specialty.
1946
#9504
The medical story of early Texas 1528-1853. Foreward by Chauncey D. Leake.
1946
#10133
Nitrogen mustard therapy. Use of methyl-bis(beta-chloroethyl)amine hydrochloride and tris(beta-chloroethyl)amine hydrochloride for Hodgkin's disease, lymphosarcoma, leukemia and certain allied and miscellaneous disorders.
Widely considered the first uses of chemotherapy for the treatment of malignant diseases.
1946
#10996
Medical interchange between the British Isles and America before 1801. Based on the FitzPatrick Lectures for 1939.
1946
#11018
Harvey Cushing: A biography.
Remains the most comprehensive biography of Cushing, by his student Fulton.
1946
#11231
John Hunter: A list of his books. Compiled by W. R. LeFanu.
Unlike Lefanu's other bibliographical writings, this is a basic 31 page booklist.
1946
#11510
Die kunstmatige Nier.
Kolff's first book on the artificial kidney. This was his doctoral dissertation. There were two versions published. The first was designated Proefschrift and credited Kolff as Willem Johan Kolff on the title page. It …
1946
#11725
Western Reserve University centennial history of the School of medicine.
1946
#11819
The common sense book of baby and child care.
One of the best-selling books of the twentieth century, selling 500,000 copies in the six months after its initial publication in 1946, and 50 million by the time of Spock's death in 1998. As of 2011, the book had bee…
1946
#12623
Penicillin: Its practical application. Edited by Sir Alexander Fleming.
This was the only book that Fleming ever published on penicillin. American issue, Philadelphia: Blakiston, 1946.
1946
#12822
Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis (1818-1865), an annotated bibliography
1946
#13085
Self: A study in ethics and endocrinology.
An early work on transexualism. Dillon was the first trans man to undergo phalloplasty. Between 1946 and 1949 Dillon underent at least 13 surgeries performed by Harold Gillies for sex-reassignment surgery.
1946
#13638
The Huxley papers: A descriptive catalogue of the correspondence, manuscripts and miscellaneous papers of the Rt. Hon. Thomas Henry Huxley ... preserved in the Imperial College of Science and Technology, London
1946
#14138
Die Tänze der Bienen.
Von Frisch discovered the waggle dance, a particular figure-eight dance of honey bees by which successful foragers can communicate information with other members of their colony about the direction and distance to pat…
1946
#14317
Radioactive Element 94 from deuterons on uranium.
"This letter was received for publication on the date indicated (January 28, 1941), but was voluntarily withheld from publication until the end of the war." Seaborg and McMillan discovered element 94, which they named…
1947
#5
Le papyrus médical Chester Beatty, par le Dr. Frans Jonckheere.
A hieratic papyrus of the 13th-12th century BCE. It is a fragment of a monograph on diseases of the anus. The papyrus was reproduced with transcription by A. H. Gardiner in 1935. See No. 8318.
1947
#356.1
English naturalists from Neckham to Ray.
1947
#971.1
Analyzer for accurate estimate of respiratory gases in one-half cubic centimeter samples.
An improvement on the classic Haldane method for analyzing oxygen and carbon dioxide in respiratory gases. It provides comparable accuracy over a wider range of gas concentrations with a gas sample of only 0.5 ml inst…
1947
#4615.1
Fluorescein as an agent in the differentiation of normal and malignant tissues.
Radioactive isotopes used in neuroradiology. See also Science, 1948, 107, 569-71.
1947
#1090
Unidentified growth factors for Lactobacillus lactis in refined liver extract.
Mary Shorb provided a method of biological assay of liver extracts that made possible the isolation of vitamin B12.
1947
#912.5
The coagulation of blood. Investigations on a new clotting factor.
Discovery of the Factor V. Preliminary account in Proc. Norwegian Acad. Sci., 1941, 17, 21.
1947
#913
A new human iso-agglutinin subdividing the MN blood groups.
S blood-group antigen.
1947
#751.4
Enzymatic reactions in carbohydrate metabolism.
In 1947 Carl Cori and his wife Gerty Cori (1896-1957) shared the Nobel Prize (with Houssay) “for their discovery of the course of the catalytic conversion of glycogen.” They are more often remembered for the Cori cycl…
1947
#1244.2
The antidiuretic hormone and the factors which determine its release.
Verney elucidated the factors that determine the release of antidiuretic hormone, and introduced the osmoreceptor concept.
1947
#1245
Studies of the renal circulation.
With A. E. Barclay, P. M. Daniel, K. J. Franklin, and M. M. L. Prichard. In studying the anurias which follow injury, especially crushing injuries and burns, Trueta’s team demonstrated that both the processes of filtr…
1947
#1668
A guide to the history of physical education. 3rd edition, revised and enlarged by George Affleck.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1947
#2063