1940–1949

1947

#2090

Curare, its history, nature, and clinical use.

1947

#1937

“Aerosporin”, an antibiotic produced by Bacillus aerosporus Greer.

Discovery of aerosporin (polymyxin). With A. M. Brown and G. Brownlee.

1947

#1938

Chloromycetin, a new antibiotic from a soil actinomycete.

Production of chloramphenicol from Streptomyces venezuelae. With Q. R. Bartz, R. M. Smith, D. A. Joslyn and P. R. Burkholder.

1947

#1939

Procaine penicillin G (duracillin); a new salt of penicillin which prolongs the action of penicillin.

Procaine benzylpenicillin also known as penicillin G procaine was developed by Herrell and colleagues. With D.R. Nichols.

1947

#1941

Polymyxin: a new chemotherapeutic agent.

With R. G. Shepherd and H. J. White.

1947

#1534

Sensory mechanisms of the retina: with an appendix on electroretinography.

An account of twenty years’ work on the electrical responses of the retina, a discussion of visual purple and visual violet, and an exposition of Granit’s hypothesis of colour vision. His researches have done much to …

1947

#2660

Effect of intraperitoneal injection of malignant urine extracts in normal and hypophysectomized rats.

Test for diagnosis of cancer. With B. Halperin and S. H. Libert.

1947

#195

The use of blood groups in anthropology.

1947

#3107

Action hypoprothrombinémiante (anti-K) de la phényl-indanedione étudiée expérimentalement chez le lapin. Son application chez l’homme.

Introduction of phenylindanedione.

1947

#3153

Intravenous administration of iron.

1947

#3558

Atresia of the ileum. First successful case cured by enterostomy alone.

1947

#2876

Electrokymograph for recording heart motion, improved type.

With B. R. Boone and W. E. Chamberlain.

1947

#2877

Circulatory failure studied by means of venous catheterization.

1947

#2878

Congenital malformations of the heart.

This 618-page work, which required ten years to write, was the first "definitive textbook" of congenital heart defects, a subspecialty of pediatrics that Taussig created. The second edition, published in 1960, was ess…

1947

#2878.1

Ventricular fibrillation of long duration abolished by electric shock.

The first successful defibrillation of a surgical patient, with the chest opened, and the paddles applied directly to the heart. With H.S. Feil.

1947

#3412.3

A new audiometer.

Semi-automatic (Békésy) audiometer.

1947

#3019.1

Sur la désobstruction des thromboses artérielles anciennes.

In 1946 Santos removed a thrombus and atheroma plaque from an artery in order to unblock it, and, using the knowledge acquired from Gordon Murray, placed the patient on heparin in order to avoid re-thrombosis. Called …

1947

#4912.1

Stereotaxic apparatus for operations on the human brain.

"The first successful cranial application of stereotactic surgery in humans is credited to the team of Ernest Spiegel and Henry Wycis in the Department of Experimental Neurology at Temple University in Philadelphia (S…

1947

#5733

The development of inhalation anaesthesia, with special reference to the years 1846-1900.

Publications of the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, New series, No. 2. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1947

#5351.3

Experimental chemotherapy of filariasis. III. Effect of 1-diethylcarbamyl-4-methyl-piperazine hydrochloride against naturally acquired filarial infections in cotton rats and dogs.

Proof of antifilarial action of diethylcarbarmazine citrate (hetrazan). With S. Kushner, H. W. Stewart, E. White, W. S. Wallace, and Y. Subbarow.

1947

#5351.4

Sur la chimiothérapie de l’onchocercose. (Note préliminaire).

First effective chemotherapy (suramin) for onchocerciasis. With C. Heurard, E. Peel, and M. Wanson.

1947

#6629

Magic and healing.

1947

#6650.1

Frauen in der abendländischen Heilkunde, vom klassischen Altertum bis zum Ausgang des 19. Jahrhunderts.

1947

#6739

Wayfarers in medicine.

1947

#6234

Reacción diagnóstica del embarazo en la que se usa el sapo macho como animal reactivo.

Male toad test. An English account is in J. clin. Endocr., 1947, 7, 653-58.

1947

#6311

The secret instrument. The birth of the midwifery forceps.

Reprinted with No. 6311.5, San Francisco, Norman Publishing, 1989.

1947

#6529

Das medizinische Wien: Geschichte, Werden, Würdigung. 2nd ed.

1947

#6556

Histoire de la médecine française: son passé, son présent, son avenir.

1947

#6569

Medicine and health in the Soviet Union.

1947

#6579.1

História da medicina portuguesa.

1947

#6781

A check-list of medical books published in English before 1600.

1947

#6440

History of medicine. A correlative text arranged according to subjects by Cecilia Mettler. Edited by Fred A Mettler.

Posthumously published after the author died three days after childbirth.

1947

#6441

Storia della medicina. 2 vols.

1947

#6595

American medical research, past and present.

1947

#6601

Historia da medicina no Brasil. (Do século XVI ao século XIX). 2 vols.

1947

#6601.1

Bosquejo histórico de la farmacia y la medicina en Honduras.

1947

#1940

Chloromycetin, an antibiotic with chemotherapeutic activity in experimental rickettsial and viral infections.

Introduction of chloramphenicol, used in treatment of typhus.

1947

#6940

Nicolaus Pol Doctor 1494 by Max H. Fisch. With a critical text of his guaiac tract, edited with a translation by Dorothy M. Schullian.

The 1494 in the title comes from the year in which Pol became a physician, and his habit of writing his name and that date in his books. The volume includes a study of books from Nicolaus Pol's library in Cleveland an…

1947

#7396

A treatise on gonioscopy.

The first comprehensive book on gonioscopy.

1947

#7892

Das Diktat der Menschenverachtung. Der Nürnberger Ärzteprozeß und seine Quellen.

English version: Doctors of infamy. The story of the Nazi medical crimes, translated from German by Heinz Norden. With statements of 3 American authorities identified with the Nuremberg medical trial and a note on med…

1947

#8644

A history of the American Medical Association 1847 to 1947.

1947

#9080

The medical writings of Anonymus Londinensis.

The text edited by Diels, with an English translation, introduction and notes by Jones, together with essays on the nature of Greek thought and medicine.

1947

#9343

Healing herbs of the upper Rio Grande.

Revised and edited by Michael Moore as Healing herbs of the upper Rio Grande: Traditional medicine of the Southwest (Sante Fe: Western Edge Press, 1997).

1947

#10216

The ranks of death: A medical history of the conquest of America

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1947

#10284

The doctor in Oregon: A medical history.

1947

#10692

A study of nerve physiology. 2 vols.

See, Jorge A. Larriva-Sahd, "Some predictions of Rafael Lorente de Nó 80 years later," Frontiers in neuoranatomy, 8 (2014) 147.

1947

#10822

The diagnosis of the acute abdomen in rhyme by Zeta.

Cope published this humorous version of his Early diagnosis of the acute abdomen under the pseudonym Zeta.

1947

#11066

Nos hôpitaux Parisiens. Un siècle d'histoire hospitalière. Deux siècles d'histoire hôpitalière de Henri IV à Louis-Philippe (1602-1836). 2 vols.

1947

#11392

Research and writings on training, conditioning, treatment of athletic injuries, and corrective work. 2 vols.

Bohm was probably the first full-time professional physician in professional sports.

1947

#11511

Development of an artificial kidney: Experimental and clinical experiences.

".... a significant contribution to renal therapies was made by Canadian surgeon Gordon Murray with the assistance of two doctors, an undergraduate chemistry student, and research staff. Murray's work was conducted si…