Facets

1989 CE

#11198

A bibliography of the writings of Dr. William Harvey 1578-1657. Third edition, revised by Gweneth Whitteridge and Christine English.

This is the definitive edition of a bibliography first published by Sir Geoffrey Keynes in 1928 on the three hundredth anniversary of De motu cordis, and revised by him for a second edition in 1953. It contains a new …

1947 CE

#913

A new human iso-agglutinin subdividing the MN blood groups.

S blood-group antigen.

1968 CE

#3108.9

Arabinosyl cytosine: A useful agent in the treatment of acute leukemia in adults.

Cytosine arabinoside. With J. P. Holland, M. Weil, et al.

1936 CE

#2865

Atlas of congenital cardiac disease.

1925 CE

#3139

Blood regeneration in severe anaemia. II. Favourable influence of liver, heart and skeletal muscle in diet.

These workers showed the beneficial effect of raw beef liver upon blood regeneration in anemia. Their work paved the way for the liver diet treatment of Minot and Murphy. In 1934 Whipple shared the Nobel Prize in Phys…

1952 CE

#3108.1

Christmas disease, a condition previously mistaken for haemophilia.

Christmas disease, hemophilia B, due to lack of Factor IX. Named after the patient whose case was the first recorded example. With six co-authors.

1960 CE

#12221

Complete replacement of the mitral valve. Successful clinical application of a flexible polyurethane prosthesis.

Braunwald was the first woman to perform open heart surgery. She was the first woman surgeon certified by the American Board of Thoracic Surgery, and the first woman elected to the American Association for Thoracic Su…

1927 CE

#2856

Congenital cardiac disease by Maude Abbott. IN: Modern medicine: Its theory and practice, edited by Sir William Osler, assisted by Thomas McCrae. 3rd ed., 4, 612-812.

1947 CE

#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…

1948 CE

#1929.3

Curare-like action of polymethylene bis-quaternary ammonium salts.

Methonium compounds. See also the same journal, 1948, 162, 810.

1925 CE

#909

Experimental studies on the origin and maturation of avian and mammalian red blood-cells.

1946 CE

#3106

Leukaemia treated with urethane compared with deep x-ray therapy.

Urethane in treatment of leukemia. With A. Haddow, I. Ap Thomas, and J. M. Watkinson.

1957 CE

#2578.23

Leukocyte agglutinins in human sera. Correlations between blood transfusions and their development.

Leucocyte typing.

1978 CE

#12243

Noninvasive assessment of pressure drop in mitral stenosis by Doppler ultrasound.

Order of authorship in the original paper: Hatle, Brubakk, Tromsdal, Angelsen. "Hatle (born 1936) was the pioneer of continuous wave Doppler echocardiography. "Today, Doppler echocardiography is central to our ability…

1890 CE

#884

Nouvelle théorie chimique de la coagulation du sang.

First demonstration of the essential role of calcium in the mechanism of blood coagulation.

1946 CE

#3152

Observations on the effect of massive doses of iron given intravenously to patients with hypochromic anemia.

1950 CE

#2028.1

Prevention of haemolysis during freezing and thawing red blood-cells.

Demonstration that human blood diluted with equal volumes of 30% glycerol in Ringer’s lactate solution could be frozen at -79° C and thawed after eight weeks without damage.

1934 CE

#14203

The anemias.

1949 CE

#5727

The pharmacological actions of polymethylene bistrimethyl-ammonium salts.

Introduction of hexamethonium bromide.

1945 CE

#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…

1948 CE

#3046.1

The surgical treatment of mitral stenosis. 1. Valvuloplasty.

Valvuloplasty for mitral stenosis. Harken reported the first successful intracardiac operation for treatment of this lesion--a procedure was first attempted in the 1920s. Charles Bailey in Philadelphia undertook a sim…

1931 CE

#3146

Treatment of “pernicious anaemia of pregnancy” and “tropical anaemia”, with special reference to yeast extract as a curative agent.

First observations of hemopoietic effect of folic acid.

1938 CE

#3149

Tropical macrocytic anaemia: Its relation to pernicious anaemia.