1920–1929
804 entries with publication dates in this decade.
1920 CE
#2853.1
A method of analyzing the electrocardiogram.
Mann developed the monocardiogram while a fourth-year medical student. This was the first vector loop and the beginning of modern vectorcardiography.
1920 CE
#2410
A more rapid and improved method of demonstrating spirochetes in tissues (Warthin and Starry’s cover-glass method).
Warthin and Starry’s method.
1920 CE
#11295
A physician's anthology of English and American poetry. Selected and arranged by Casey A. Wood and Fielding H. Garrison.
Prepared for William Osler's seventieth birthday but not completed in time. Selections were approved by Osler, and the anthology was in publication when Osler died. Osler looked forward to the volume. Less than a mont…
1920 CE
#2645.1
A preliminary report on the experimental production of sarcoma of the liver of rats.
Proof that cancer can be caused by a parasite, Cysticercus fasciolaris, the larval stage of Taenia crassicolis. With M. R. Curtis and G. L. Rohdenberg. See also Proc. N.Y. path. Soc., 1920, 20, 149-75.
1920 CE
#4892
Algievélo-pharyngée essentielle. Traitement chirurgical.
Idiopathic glossopharyngeal neuralgia described and treated.
1920 CE
#11483
American medical biographies.
This is the extensively revised second edition of Kelly's A cyclopaedia of American medical biography, comprising the lives of eminent deceased physicians and surgeons from 1610 to 1910. (Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders, …
1920 CE
#2852
An electrocardiographic sign of coronary artery obstruction.
First description of the typical changes in the electrocardiogram in coronary thrombosis.
1920 CE
#3608.3
An operation for the radical cure of inguinal and femoral hernia.
First preperitoneal approach to hernia repair.
1920 CE
#2895
Angine de poitrine guérie par la résection du sympathique cervicothoracique.
Cervical sympathectomy for the treatment of angina pectoris was first carried out by Jonnesco in 1916.
1920 CE
#12162
Aviation medicine in the A. E. F.
"This publication contains an account written by Col.William H. Wilmer, Medical Corps, who was in charge of the Air Service Medical Research Laboratories in Issoudon, France, from September, 1918, until the armistice.…
1920 CE
#4836
Die Beeinflussung der Tetanie durch Ultraviolettlicht.
Treatment of tetany with ultraviolet light.
1920 CE
#2116
Die Gifte in der Weltgeschichte.
Lewin was a prolific writer, producing more than 200 books and papers. The above is perhaps his best work, and contains a history of poisonings from the most ancient times to the present century, enhanced by innumerab…
1920 CE
#13824
Die Kohlenoxydvergiftung. Ein Handbuch für Mediziner, Techniker und Unfallrichter.
On carbon monoxide poisoning. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1920 CE
#6539
Early English magic and medicine.
Reprinted from Proc. Brit. Acad., 1919-20, 9, 341-74.
1920 CE
#4387
Eine typische Erkrankung des 2. Metatarsophalangealgelenkes.
“Köhler’s second disease” – juvenile deforming metatarsophalangeal Osteochondritis. English translation in Amer. J. Roentgenol., 1923, 10,705-10. Also known as “Freiberg’s infr…
1920 CE
#2572.1
Exsudats leucocytaires et autolyse microbienne transmissible.
Lysogeny
1920 CE
#12577
Goulstonian Lectures on the principles of science as applied to military aviation. Lecture I; Lecture II: War flying at high altitudes; Lecture III: War flying and high altitudes, cont.
"Fatigue was the most universal complaint of pilots. Major Birley attributed its occurrence to the bombardment of the senses by the constant stream of stimuli in the air, many of which were of a peculiar character.75 …
1920 CE
#1909
Handbuch der experimentellen Pharmakologie … Hrsg. von A. HEFFTER. Vol. 1-.
1920 CE
#5538
Herpetic sore throat.
First description of herpangina, an acute infection associated with Coxsackie viruses.
1920 CE
#4271
Infiltration anesthesia of the internal vesical orifice for the removal of minor obstructions: presentation of a cautery punch.
Caulk’s cautery punch.
1920 CE
#4891
La meccanica del cervello e la funzione dei lobi frontale.
Bianchi showed that bilateral destruction of the frontal lobes caused character changes, a finding put to practical use by Egas Moniz and others. English translation, Edinburgh, 1922.
1920 CE
#4721
Les lésions anatomiques de la maladie de Parkinson.
Foix and his colleagues showed that the specific lesion in Parkinson’s disease is in the substantia nigra of the mid-brain.
1920 CE
#529
Mechanismus und Physiologie der Geschlechtsbestimmung.
Translated into English William J. Dakin as The Mechanism and Physiology of Sex Determination (London: Methuen & Co., 1923). Digital facsimile of the 1920 edition from Google Books at this link. Digital facsimile of t…
1920 CE
#6521
Medieval medicine.
1920 CE
#5486.1
Mononucleosis leukocytosis in reaction to acute infections (“infectious mononucleosis”).
Classic account, with first use of the term “infectious mononucleosis”.
1920 CE
#12068
Mortality Statistics 1918. Nineteenth Annual Report.
From Causes of Death, p. 27: "Influenza and pneumonia (All forms). "In 1918 the registration area (exclusive of Hawaii) 477,467 deaths wee assigned to influenza and pneumonia (all forms). In the latter part of that ye…
1920 CE
#6127
Nonoperative determination of patency of Fallopian tubes in sterility. Intra-uterine inflation with oxygen, and production of an artificial pneumoperitoneum.
Tubal insufflation method for the diagnosis and treatment of sterility due to occlusion of the Fallopian tubes.
1920 CE
#1712
On the rate of growth of the population of the United States since 1790 and its mathematical representation.
1920 CE
#4240
On the testing of renal efficiency, with observations on the “urea coefficient”.
Urea concentration test.
1920 CE
#86.2
Papers and addresses by William Henry Welch. [Edited by Walter C. Burket]. 3 vols.
Vol. 1: Pathology and preventive medicine. Vol. 2: Bacteriology. Vol. 3: Medical education, history, miscellaneous subjects, and Welch's bibliography. Introduction by Simon Flexner. Digital facsimile from the Internet…
1920 CE
#5758
Plastic surgery of the face.
Gillies introduced a tubed pedical flap in 1917.
1920 CE
#4890
Puncture of the cistema magna.
Introduction of cisternal puncture.
1920 CE
#744
Rapid colorimetric methods for the determination of phosphorus in urine and blood.
1920 CE
#12558
Religion and health.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1920 CE
#5492
Report on the pandemic of influenza 1918-19.
Reports on Public Health and Medical Subjects, No. 4. The most widespread and serious pandemic of influenza occurred in 1918-19. It spread throughout Europe, Russia, Canada, S. America, New Zealand, Australia, Africa,…
1920 CE
#3723
Scurvy, past and present.
Includes a history and bibliography.
1920 CE
#11921
Special tables of mortality from influenza and pneumonia in Indiana, Kansas, and Philadelphia, Pa., September 1 to December 31, 1918.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1920 CE
#2645
Squamous-cell epithelioma of the lip. A study of five hundred and thirty-seven cases.
Broders’s classification of tumors, an index of malignancy.
1920 CE
#1304
Studies in neurology. By Henry Head in conjunction with W.H.R. Rivers, James Sherren, Gordon Holmes, Theodore Thompson, George Riddoch. 2 vols.
Reprint, with modifications and additions, of seven papers published in the journal Brain between 1905 and 1918. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1920 CE
#743
The action of the boiled pancreas extract on yeast nucleic acid.
Ribonudease.
1920 CE
#3757
The experimental production of pellagra in human subjects by means of diet.
Goldberger was born in Central Europe in poor circumstances. He migrated to America, and following attendance at a lecture by Austin Flint, decided to study medicine. He entered the U. S. Public Health Service in 1899…
1920 CE
#659
The four phases of heat-production of muscle.
Hill and Hartree made valuable contributions to the knowledge of the thermodynamics of muscle. See also Physiol. Rev., 1922, 2, 310-41, and Hill, A. V., Trails and trials in physiology: a bibliography 1909-1964, 1965.…
1920 CE
#7000
The growth and shedding of the antlers of the deer. The histological phenomena and their relation to the growth of bone.
The first study of the unusual and dramatic physiology of the annual growth and shedding of the antlers of deer. "The amount of bony matter annually secreted to form antlers of the larger deer is enormous, antlers of …
1920 CE
#12067
The lethal war gases, physiology and experimental treatment. An Investigation by the section on intermediary metabolism of the Medical Division of the Chemical Warfare Service at Yale University under the direction of Frank P. Underhill. Published with the permission of the Chemical Warfare Service.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1920 CE
#12592
The medical problems of flying. Including Reports Nos. I-VII of the Air Medical Investigation Committee. Privy Council Medical Research Council.
1920 CE
#13563
The nature of animal light.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link. Harvey later published Living light (1940) and Bioluminescence (1952). The 1952 book extended over 600 pages, and was his definitive study. (Thanks to Malcolm Jay Kott…
1920 CE
#12489
The prophylactic forceps operation.
DeLee's advocacy of prophylactic forceps delivery made forceps deliveries more common. It remains probably his most controversial contribution to obstetrics. "At a meeting of the American Gynecological Society in 1920…
1920 CE
#3964
The relation of the islets of Langerhans to diabetes with special reference to cases of pancreatic lithiasis.
Barron confirmed the experimental work of Sobolew. It was whilst reading the above paper that Banting first formulated the hypothesis upon which he based his successful experiments.
1920 CE
#51
The school of Salernum. Regimen sanitatis Salernitanum, the English version by Sir John Harrington. History of the School of Salernum by Francis R. Packard and a note on the prehistory of the Regimen Sanitatis by Fielding H. Garrison.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1920 CE
#5286
Ueber chemotherapeutische Versuche mit “205 Bayer”, einen neuen trypanoziden Mittel von besonderer Wirkung.
Introduction of “Bayer 205” (germanin, suramin, naphuride).