Facets

1875 CE

#943.1

Influence de la pression de l’air sur la vie de l’homme. Climats d'altitude et climats du montagne. 2 vols.

Jourdanet’s observational work in remote areas of Latin America and Asia produced important evidence for Bert’s proof that altitude sickness is due to anoxemia. In La pression barométrique (No. 944)…

1955 CE

#10995

Intracardiac surgery with the aid of a mechanical pump oxygenator system (Gibbon type): Report of eight cases.

Co-authored with JW Dushane, RT Patrick, DE Donald, PS Hetzel and EH Wood, "Kirklin refined the heart-lung machine (screen type) originally developed by Gibbon, to the point that it allowed the person to receive oxyge…

1981 CE

#6995

Kaposi's sarcoma and pneumocystis pneumonia among homosexual men--New York City and California.

The second published report on what later became the AIDS epidemic. The report described 26 homosexual men in New York and California with Kaposi's sarcoma, and 10 more Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP) cases in ho…

1922 CE

#3197.2

Klinische und experimentelle Beitrag zur krampflösenden Wirkung der Purinderivate.

Hirsch established the value of theophylline in the management of asthma.

1924 CE

#3199

L’exploration radiologique des cavités broncho-pulmonaires par les injections intra-trachéales d’huile iodée.

Bronchography was advanced by the work of Sicard and Forestier on the intratracheal introduction of lipiodol.

1881 CE

#3172

L’organisme microscopique trouvé par M. Pasteur dans la maladie nouvelle provoquée par la salive d’un enfant mort de la rage.

Probably the earliest record of pneumococcus. Parrot reported the discovery made by Louis Pasteur.

1903 CE–1904 CE

#952

La physiologie de l’apnée étudiée chez l’homme.

First studies of the physiology of apnea in man.

1878 CE

#944

La pression barométrique. Recherches de physiologie expérimentale.

The most famous work in the history of altitude physiology, in which Bert proved that the principal symptoms of altitude sickness arise from reduced partial pressure of oxygen and not from diminution of total pressure…

1982 CE

#11055

Laennec: Catalogue des manuscrits scientifiques

Documents manuscripts by Laennec preserved in the Archives de l'Académie des Sciences, and Musée Laennec de la Bibliothèque Universitaire de Nantes, Section médecine-pharmacie.

1801 CE

#1118

Le sang, est-il identique dans tous les vaisseaux qu’il parcourt?

Like de Bordeu, and more definitely, Legallois anticipated the conception of internal secretions. He surmised from the identity in composition of all varieties of arterial blood and the diversity of venous blood in di…

1929 CE

#967

Le sinus carotidienet la zone homologue cardio-aortique.

In 1938 Heymans was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for the discovery of the role played by the sinus and aortic mechanisms in the regulation of respiration."

1977 CE

#3215.7

Legionnaires’ disease. Description of an epidemic of pneumonia.

First major scientific account. With 11 co-authors. Legionnaire's disease acquired its name after an outbreak of a then-unknown "mystery disease" sickened 221 persons, causing 34 deaths. The people affected were atten…

1977 CE

#3215.8

Legionnaires’ disease. Isolation of a bacterium and demonstration of its role in other respiratory disease.

Order of authorship in the original publication: McDade, Shepard, Fraser.... See also p. 1218.

1935 CE

#3238

Lobectomy in pulmonary tuberculosis. Report of a case.

The modern era in lung resection for tuberculosis begins with the work of Freedlander. He performed the first planned lobectomy for pulmonary tuberculosis.

1785 CE

#924

Mémoire sur l’affinité du principe oxygine avec les différentes substances auxquelles il est susceptible de s’unir.

1784 CE

#592

Mémoire sur la chaleur.

These workers invented an ice calorimeter, with it measured the respiratory quotient of a pig, and demonstrated the analogy between respiration and combustion.

1784 CE

#923

Mémoire sur la formation de l’acide, nommé air fixe ou acide crayeux, et que je désignerai désormais sous le nom d’acid du charbon.

1778 CE

#922

Mémoire sur la nature du principe qui se combine avec les métaux pendantleur calcination, et qui en augmente le poids.

Although Priestley isolated oxygen, it was Lavoisier who discovered its real significance. He showed the true nature of the interchange of gases in the lungs and exploded Stahl’s phlogiston theory. Lavoisier was…

1803 CE

#11709

Mémoires sur la respiration par Lazare Spallanzani, traduits en français, d'après son manuscrit inédit, par Jean Senebier.

Spallanzani's experimental data laid the groundwork for modern conceptions of respiratory physiology. In concluding that the blood transported carbon dioxide as a product of tissue oxidation, Spallanzani discovered pa…

1961 CE

#3047.16

Mitral replacement: The shielded ball valve prothesis.

On September 21, 1960, Starr successfully inserted a “ball-in-cage” prosthetic valve (the Starr-Edwards heart valve) into a patient’s mitral valve, which was severely diseased as a result of rheumati…

1894 CE

#949

Neue Versuche zur Bestimmung der Sauerstoffcapacität des Blutfarbstoffs.

Hüfner showed that 1 gm. hemoglobin combines with 1.34 cc oxygen.

1660 CE

#914

New experiments physico-mechanical touching the spring of the air.

Boyle showed the effects of the elasticity, compressibility, and weight of air. He investigated the function of air in respiration, combustion, and conveyance of sound. Most significantly Boyle demonstrated that air i…

1953 CE

#3215.3

Newborn virus pneumonitis (type Sendai). II. The isolation of a new virus possessing hemagglutinin activity.

M. Kuroya, N. Ishida, and T. Shiratori isolated the first recognized Sendai (para-influenza) virus.

1882 CE–1892 CE

#946

Normale und pathologische Anatomie der Nasenhöhle und ihrer pneumatischen Anhänge.

1917 CE

#3193

Note sur la “broncho-spirochétose” et les “bronchites mycosiques”, affections simulant quelquefois la tuberculose pulmonaire.

“Castellani’s bronchitis” (bronchospirochetosis).

1894 CE

#3180

Nouveau traitement des empyèmes chroniques.

The procedure of decortication of the lung for treatment of chronic empyema was introduced by Delorme. For his later work on the subject, see Congr. franç. Chir., 1896, 10, 379.

1904 CE

#953

Nouvelle méthode de mesure et d’inscription du débit et des mouvements respiratoires de l’homme et des animaux.

Tissot spirometer.

1933 CE

#3236

Ob das Pneumoperitoneum in der Kollapstherapie der beiderseitigen Lungentuberkulose angewandt werden kann?

Introduction of artificial pneumoperitoneum for the treatment of bilateral pulmonary tuberculosis.

1937 CE

#3215

Observations on L-organism of Kleineberger.

Isolation of a mycoplasma from man.

1769 CE

#3167

Observations on the asthma and on the hooping cough.

Includes Millar’s original description of laryngismus stridulus (“Millar’s asthma”).

1772 CE

#920

Observations on the different kinds of air.

The isolation of oxygen was first achieved by Priestley. He also demonstrated that plants immersed in water give off oxygen and that this gas is essential for animal life.

1808 CE

#3168

Observations on the inflammatory affections of the mucous membrane of the bronchiae.

Badham distinguished acute and chronic bronchitis from pneumonia and pleurisy, with which it had previously been confused. He gave the disease its present name. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1868 CE

#2981

Om Haemoptyse navnlig den lethale, i anatomisk og klinisk Henseende.

Tuberculous aneurysm of the lung (“Rasmussen’s aneurysm”). English translation in Edinb.med.J.,1868, 14,385-401, 486-503; 1869, 15,97-104, 228-36.

1856 CE

#2028.56

On a new mode of effecting artificial respiration.

Marshall Hall’s method of artificial respiration.

1863 CE

#10894

On Australasian climates and their influence in the prevention and arrest of pulmonary consumption.

Digital facsimile from wellcomecollection.org at this link.

1852 CE

#3168.1

On pleuritic effusions, and the necessity of paracentesis for their removal.

Bowditch pioneered the operation for removal of pleural effusions with trocar and a suction pump devised by Morrill Wyman (1812-1903). See Bowditch’s earlier paper on the subject in the same journal volume, pp. …

1906 CE

#3229

On some points in the surgery of the lung.

Removal of left lung for tuberculosis, April 24, 1895. The patient was alive in 1940; see Bowman, Life and teaching of Sir William Macewen (London, 1942), p. 344.

1846 CE

#930

On the capacity of the lungs, and on the respiratory functions, with a view of establishing a precise and easy method of detecting disease by the spirometer.

Invention of the spirometer, making possible the determination of the vital capacity of the lungs. Hutchinson used the spirometer while evaluating candidates for life insurance as a physician for Brittania Life. Parti…

1889 CE

#947

On the regulation of respiration.

Demonstration of the action of the vagus in respiration.

1879 CE–1880 CE

#945

On the respiratory function of the internal intercostal muscles.

The important work of Martin and Hartwell on the intercostal muscles settled the controversy regarding their function.

1969 CE

#7810

Orthotopic cardiac prosthesis for two-staged cardiac replacement.

The first total artificial heart implant, performed by Colley using a device developed by Liotta on April 4, 1969. The device, known as the Liotta-Cooley artificial heart, was implanted in a 47-year-old patient with s…

1946 CE

#3241

Para-aminosalicylic acid in the treatment of tuberculosis.

p-Aminosalicylic acid used in pulmonary tuberculosis. See also his earlier paper in Svenska LäkT., 1946, 43, 2029-40.

1689 CE

#3216

Phthisiologia, seu exercitationes de phthisi.

The first application of the principles of pathology to the study of pulmonary tuberculosis. Morton showed that the formation of tubercles is a necessary part of the development of this lung disease, and pointed out t…

1869 CE

#2028.58

Plain rules for the restoration of persons apparently dead from drowning.

Howard’s method of artificial respiration is taught for resuscitation from drowning.

1933 CE

#3207

Pneumonectomy for sarcoma of the lung in a tuberculous patient.

Total pneumonectomy.

1939 CE

#3212

Pneumonia. With special reference to pneumococcus lobar pneumonia.

1903 CE

#3184

Pneumothorax; a historical, clinical, and experimental study.

1844 CE

#3448

Practical observations on organic obstruction of the oesophagus; preceded by a case which called for oesophagotomy and subsequent opening of the trachea.

First esophagotomy for relief of stricture of the esophagus.

1793 CE

#594

Premier mémoire sur la respiration des animaux.

Séguin and Lavoisier measured the metabolism of a man (Séguin himself). They made three observations of fundamental importance in this respect; that the intensity of oxidation in man is dependent upon (1…

1912 CE

#3192

Primary malignant growths of the lungs and bronchi.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.