1900–1909
957 entries with publication dates in this decade.
1735 CE–1756 CE
#6113
Ueber die Vortheile der suprasymphysären Fascienquerschnitts für die gynäkologischen Koeliotomieen.
“Pfannenstiel’s incision”.
1898 CE
#3639
Chirurgische Oeffnung neuer Seitenbahnen für das Blut der Vena portae.
Talma’s operation for the relief of ascites in cirrhosis of the liver.
1899 CE
#1428
Einleitung in die vergleichende Gehirnphysiologie und vergleichende Psychologie.
1899 CE
#4129
Le trophoedème chronique héréditaire.
“Meige’s disease” – first described by Nonne (No. 4106).
1899 CE
#3011
Thrombosis and embolism. In Allbutt, C., System of medicine, 4, 284-310; and in 2nd ed., 6, 691-821
1900 CE
#6110
Cancer of the uterus: Its pathology, symptomatology, diagnosis, and treatment. Also the pathology of diseases of the endometrium.
Includes first clinical and pathological study of hyperplasia of the endometrium. Cullen is remembered eponymically for “Cullen’s sign”, a discoloration of the skin about the umbilicus, regarded as a…
1900 CE
#4711
A case of unilateral progressive ascending paralysis, probably representing a new form of degenerative disease.
First description of unilateral progressive ascending paralysis (“Mills’s disease”).
1900 CE
#12007
A comparative study of the biological characters and pathogenesis of bacillus X (Sternberg), bacillus icteroides (Sanarelli), and the Hog Cholera Bacillus (Salmon and Smith).
Order of authorship in the original publication: Reed, Carroll. In this paper of monograph length the authors irrefutably proved that yellow fever was not caused by a bacterial infection, allowing them to concentrate …
1900 CE
#4875
A method of total extirpation of the Gasserian ganglion for trigeminal neuralgia, by a route through the temporal fossa and beneath the middle meningeal artery.
1900 CE
#5530.3
A new pathogenic mould (formerly described as a protozoon: Coccidioides immitis pyogenes). Preliminary report.
Recognition that the protozoan was the pathogenic phase of a mycelial fungus.
1900 CE
#5456
A note on the interval between infecting and secondary cases of yellow fever from the records of yellow fever at Orwood and Taylor, Mississippi, in 1898.
Carter's determination of the incubation period yellow fever influenced the direction of Reed’s researches, and was instrumental in the discovery of the mode of transmission of the yellow fever virus.
1900 CE
#5349
A recent observation on Filaria nocturna in Culex. probable mode of infection of man.
Demonstration of the complete chain of filarial infection from man-to-mosquito-to-man.
1900 CE
#6112
Aflap operation for atresia of the vagina.
Noble introduced a flap operation for atresia of the vagina.
1900 CE
#5945
Allgemeine Theorie der monochromatischen Aberrationen und ihre nächsten Ergebnisse für die Ophthalmologie.
The above work is the exposition of Gullstrand's general theory of monochromatic aberrations. This is an offprint from Nova Acta Reg. Soc. Sci. Ups., 1900-01, ser. 3, 20. In 1911 Gullstrand was awarded the Nobel Prize…
1900 CE
#10588
Anatomy in its relation to art. An exposition of the bones and muscles of the human body with especial reference to their influence upon its actions and external form.
The work was offered for sale by J. B. Lippincott with title pages dated 1901. Digital facsimile of the Lippincott issue from Google Books at this link.
1900 CE
#13204
As nature shows them. Moths and butterflies of the United States east of the Rocky Mountains. With over 400 photographic illustrations in the text and many transfers of species from life. 2 vols.
Includes 56 nature-printed and handcolored plates produced from impressions of the wings of the actual insects pressed onto the paper. Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.
1900 CE
#5530.2
Au sujet de l’hématozoaire endoglobulaire de Padda oryzivora.
Toxoplasma described.
1900 CE
#3888
Beiträge zur normalen und pathologischen Histologie der menschlichen Hypophysis cerebri.
Benda showed that the pituitary tumor in acromegaly consists of chromophil cells.
1900 CE
#6766
Bibliographia medica Hungariae, 1472-1899,
1900 CE
#11289
Cancer of the stomach: A clinical study.
This was Osler's first collaboration with Thomas McCrae. Osler and McCrae reviewed 150 cases of cancer of the stomach seen at Johns Hopkins in an encyclopedic fashion. Surgery was often recommended for definitive diag…
1900 CE
#11360
Cases with symmetrical congenital notches in the outer part of each lid and defective development of the malar bones.
Treacher Collins syndrome (TCS), a genetic disorder characterized by deformities of the ears, eyes, cheekbones, and chin. Also known as mandibulofacial dysostosis.
1900 CE
#7588
Catalogue of the anatomical and pathological preparations of Dr. William Hunter in the Hunterian Museum, University of Glasgow.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1900 CE
#3024
Chirurgie du grand sympathique et du corps thyroïde.
Jaboulay was the first to perform the operation of sympathectomy for the relief of vascular disease.
1900 CE
#189
Classification and uses of finger prints.
The Henry system of fingerprint classification, developed when Henry served as Inspector-General of Police in Bengal, is the basis for the system presently in use worldwide.
1900 CE
#722
Concerning lipase, the fat-splitting enzyme, and the reversibility of its action.
Demonstration of the reversible action of lipase.
1900 CE
#6367
Dark sclerotics and fragilitas ossium.
“Eddowes’s syndrome” – blue sclerotics and fragility of the bones, occurring as a familial syndrome; osteogenesis imperfecta. See also No. 6358.1.
1900 CE
#4588
Das Krankheitsbild der Apraxie (motorischen Asymbolie) auf Grund eines Falles von einseitiger Apraxie.
First adequate description of apraxia.
1900 CE
#239.01
Das Spaltungsgesetz der Bastarde.
De Vries and Correns independently rediscovered and confirmed Mendel’s laws. This is De Vries’s most important paper on the subject. De Vries’s first published paper on the topic is “Sur la loi…
1900 CE
#11136
De la prostatectomie périnéale totale. Thèse de doctorat en médecine.
Proust performed the first radical perineal prostatectomy. He was the younger brother of the writer Marcel Proust. Digital facsimile from BnFgallica at this link.
1900 CE
#8740
Der Arzt und die Heilkunst in der deutschen Vergangenheit.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1900 CE
#5005
Die Literatur der Psychiatrie, Neurologie und Psychologie von 1459-1799. 3 vols.
1900 CE
#4980
Die Traumdeutung.
Freud’s greatest work, the influence of which has been felt far beyond the psychiatric and medical community. Here he refined his understanding of the operation of the unconscious, interpreted dreams on the basi…
1900 CE
#5623
Diffuse septic peritonitis, with special reference to a new method of treatment, namely, the elevated head and trunk posture, to facilitate drainage into the pelvis, with a report of nine consecutive cases of recovery.
First description of the “Fowler position”. Reprinted in Med. Classics, 1940, 4, 551-80. Fowler was preceded in this innovation by Charles White. See No. 6270.
1900 CE
#6721
Disciples of Aesculapius, with a life of the author by his daughter, Mrs. George Martin. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1900 CE
#4131
Du naevus variqueux ostéo-hypertrophique.
“Klippel–Trenaunay syndrome”.
1900 CE
#890
Ein einfaches Verfahren zur directen Schätzung der Färbestärke des Blutes.
Tallqvist’s hemoglobin scale.
1900 CE
#5252.2
Experimental proof of the mosquito-malaria theory.
In a classic demonstration Manson allowed infected mosquitoes from Rome to bite a volunteer (his son) in London, who developed malaria 15 days later with tertian parasites in the blood, and who was cured by quinine.
1900 CE
#5946
Extractions of cataract in the capsule.
Smith, an officer in the Indian Medical Service, had remarkable success with his method of extraction of cataract within the capsule. He modified his operation in 1926 (Arch. Ophthal. N.Y., 55, 213-24). See also Smith…
1900 CE
#239.1
G. Mendel’s Regel über das Verhalten der Nachkommenschaft der Rassenbastarde.
Correns had come to the same conclusions as Mendel before seeing the latter’s 1865 paper. Of the three “rediscoverers” of Mendel’s laws, Correns showed the greatest understanding of them. Engli…
1900 CE
#2040
Histoire de la pharmacie.
1900 CE
#6649.93
Histoire des femmes médecins depuis l’antiquité jusqu’à nos jours.
1900 CE
#14160
Histologie du pancreas. In Traité d'anatomie humaine, edited by Paul Julien Poirier & Adrien Charpy, vol. 4, pp. 821-831.
Laguesse, who in 1893 named the islets of Langerhans, established in this work that the islets of Langerhans were the seat of internal secretion of the pancreas. On figures 425 and 427 he drew that are now called "the…
1900 CE
#6344.1
Le nourrisson. Alimentation et hygiène.
Pioneer treatise on the care and feeding of premature and newborn infants. Budin sponsored the idea that an infant should be given milk equal in amount to one-tenth of its body weight. English translation, London, 1907.
1900 CE
#2336
Les maladies qu’on soigne à Berck.
An account of the work of the Rothschild Hospital at Berck-sur-Mer, where Calot specialized in the treatment of surgical tuberculosis in children.
1900 CE
#2552
Les sérums hémolytiques, leurs antitoxines et les théories des serums cytolytiques.
English translation in T. Bordet et al., Studies in immunity, New York, 1909, p. 186.
1900 CE
#3522
Malignant diseases of the stomach and pylorus.
Mayo’s operation of partial gastrectomy. Mayo was co-founder of the Mayo Clinic.
1900 CE
#2516
Morbid conditions caused by Bacillus aërogenes capsulatus.
Welch grouped together the diseases caused by Cl. perfringens, earlier discovered by him in association with Nuttall (see No. 2508).
1900 CE
#5505
On the confusion of two different diseases under the name of rubella (rose-rash).
Dukes described a condition similar to that noted earlier by Filatov (No. 5503). Dukes called it the “fourth disease”, distinguishing it from scarlet fever, measles, and rubella on the ground that an attac…
1900 CE
#5093
On the etiology of tropical dysentery.
The organism isolated by Flexner was at first thought to be identical with Shiga’s bacillus. Later Martini and Lentz, Z. Hyg., 1902, 41, 540, showed it to be different; it was named Bact. flexneri, and later Shi…
1900 CE
#839
On the muscular architecture and growth of the ventricles of the heart.
A classic account of the development and architecture of the muscular wall of the heart.