1940–1949

1908 CE

#86.5

Corpus Medicorum Graecorum. Ediderunt Academiae Berolinensis Hauniensis Lipsiensis

CORPUS MEDICORUM GRAECORUM

This series sets as its goal the scholarly edition of all extant ancient Greek medical texts, including those lost in the original language but preserved in medieval translations. These are numbered as follows: I. Hip…

1915 CE

#86.6

Corpus Medicorum Latinorum. Editum consilio et auctoritate Instituti Puschmanniani Lipsiensis.

CORPUS MEDICORUM LATINORUM

As of 1990 eight volumes were published (*). The completed series would include: I. Celsus*; II. Scribonius Largus, Quintus Serenus* etc.: III. Plinius Secundus Iunior*; IV. Antonius Musa, Pseudo-Apuleius, Sextus Plac…

1940 CE

#2724.2

A crystalline pressor substance (angiotonin) resulting from the reaction between renin and renin-activator.

Isolation of angiotonin (angiotensin).

1940 CE

#1085

A further note on the identity of vitamin H with biotin.

Isolation of β-biotin (formerly known as vitamin H). With D. B. Melville, P. György, and C. S. Rose.

1940 CE

#5722

A method of continous spinal anesthesia. A preliminary note.

Continous spinal analgesia introduced.

1940 CE

#10951

A neurotropic virus isolated from the blood of a native in Uganda.

Order of authorship in the original paper: Smithburn, Hughes, Burke. In 1937 the authors isolated a virus from the blood of an adult female with fever from the Omogo West Nile district of Uganda, and named it West Nil…

1940 CE

#5498

A new type of virus from epidemic influenza.

Recovery of influenza B virus.

1940 CE

#4251

A practical method for the measurement of glomerular filtration rate (inulin clearance) with an evaluation of the clinical significance of this determination.

Inulin clearance test.

1940 CE

#9483

A preliminary report on the use of fast neutrons in the treatment of malignant disease.

First report on the introduction of neutron therapy for cancer. See Hans Svensson & Torsten Landberg, "Neutron therapy--the historical background," Acta Oncologica, 33:3 (1984) 227-231. In 1938 Stone began clinical tr…

1940 CE

#3041

A technique for splanchnic resection for hypertension; preliminary report.

Smithwick operation for hypertension.

1940 CE

#5499

A virus from cases of influenza-like upper-respiratory infection.

Recovery of influenza B virus.

1940 CE

#2010.2

Acceleration of electrons by magnetic induction.

Betatron. Continued as Kerst, "The acceleration of elecrons by magnetic induction," Phys. Rev., 60 (1941) 47-52. Digital facsimile of the 1941 paper at this link.

1940 CE

#7719

Adaptive coloration in animals. With an introduction by Julian S. Huxley.

Published during WWII, Cott's book was the first major work on camouflage in zoology, appreciated by zoologists for its scientific information and carried by many allied soldiers during the war for survival purposes. …

1940 CE

#912.2

An agglutinable factor in human blood recognized by immune sera for Rhesus blood.

Recognition of the Rh antigen

1940 CE

#1933.3

An enzyme from bacteria able to destroy penicillin.

Penicillinase.

1940 CE

#1086

Anemia in chicks caused by a vitamin deficiency.

Isolation of vitamin Bc (folic acid, pteroylglutamic acid). Preliminary communication in J. biol. Chem., 1939, 128, xlvi-xlvii.

1940 CE

#7830

Appearance of skeletal abnormalities in the offspring of rats on a deficient diet.

Warkany was the first to prove that congenital developmental disorders can be induced by exogenous factors in mammals. His studies led to the definition of both genetic and environmentally induced structural defects. …

1940 CE

#1953

Chemotherapie akuter Infektionskrankheiten durch Ciba 3714 (Sulfanilamidothiazol).

First important clinical trial of sulfathiazole.

1940 CE

#1955

Chemotherapy, II. Some sulfanilamido heterocycles.

Synthesis of sulphamerazine, by R. O. Roblin, J. H. Williams, P. S. Winnek, and J. P. English.

1940 CE

#5224

Complement-fixation test in lymphogranuloma venereum.

Diagnosis of lymphogranuloma venereum by complement-fixation test. With G. W. Rake and M. F. Shaffer.

1940 CE

#3040

De la résection du carrefour aortico-iliaque avec double sympathectomie lombaire pour thrombose artéritique de l’aorte; le syndrome de l’oblitération termino-aortique par artérite.

Obliteration of the abdominal aorta.

1940 CE

#11401

Découverte d'une remarkable grotte ornée, au domaine de Lascaux, Montignac (Dordogne).

Lascaux, which has been called "The Sistine Chapel of the Paleolithic", was discovered on September 12, 1940 by 18-year-old Marcel Ravidat when his dog, Robot, fell into a hole. Ravidar returned to the cave with three…

1940 CE

#2260

Envelope method of treating burns.

Bunyan bag.

1940 CE

#5398.1

Epidemic and endemic typhus. Protective value for guinea pigs of vaccines prepared from infected tissues of the developing chick embryo.

Typhus vaccine.

1940 CE

#7727

Esser inlay (Epithethelial inlay).

Though he developed the "skin graft inlay technique" or epithelial inlay during World War I, Esser did not fully publish it until this very extensively illustrated monograph, with about 1500 images, issued in 1940.

1940 CE

#6649

Faiths that healed.

1940 CE

#13090

Field surgery in total war.

This book " became required reading in the US Army Medical Service during the Second World War. According to one US authority, C.E. Welch, Jolly’s methods ‘undoubtedly contributed more to the saving of liv…

1940 CE

#11654

Fractures and other bone and joint injuries.

Watson-Jones's textbook became known as "the bible." It was reprinted 15 times during the author's lifetime and translated into Spanish, French, German, Portuguese and Polish. "Throughout its publication, Watson-Jones…

1940 CE

#2923

Grosse pulmonaire. Petite aorte. Affection congénitale.

Idiopathic dilatation of the pulmonary artery reported. With D. Routier and R. Heim de Balsac.

1940 CE

#1173.1

Interstitial cell stimulating hormone. II. Method of preparation and some physico-chemical studies.

Choh Hao Li and colleagues isolated of the interstitial cell stimulating (luteinizing) hormone.

1940 CE

#5259

Klinische und parasitologische Befunde und chemotherapeutische Ergebnisse bei der Hühnermalaria.

Discovery of the developmental forms of P. gallinaceum in the incubation period.

1940 CE

#11638

Medical works of the Knights Hospitallers of Saint John of Jerusalem.

1940 CE

#12541

Medicine and health in New Zealand: A retrospect and a prospect.

Medical education, the hospital system, the relationship between specialists and general practitioners, and the brain drain of doctors to Britain.

1940 CE

#10324

Medicine and its development in Kentucky. Medical Historical Research Project of the Work Projects Administration for the Commonwealth of Kentucky.

1940 CE

#4614

Neurology 2 pts. Edited by A.N. Bruce.

Wilson died before this monumental work was completed, and it was edited by A. N. Bruce. It includes a vast amount of history and hundreds of references. Second edition, 1954.

1940 CE

#3099

Nuclear physics and therapy: preliminary report on a new method for the treatment of leukemia and polycythemia.

Radio-phosphorus in treatment of leukemia.

1940 CE

#7063

Obesity and leanness.

The first American book specifically devoted to obesity research.

1940 CE

#10706

On the occurrence of a factor in human serum activating the specific agglutination of sheep blood corpuscles.

Discovery of the Rheumatoid factor.

1940 CE

#1934

Penicillin as a chemotherapeutic agent.

Proof of the therapeutic action in vivo of penicillin against streptococcal and other bacterial infections. Building upon Fleming’s work (No. 1933 and 10784), the consequences of which had originally been widely…

1940 CE

#9278

Plants used as curatives by certain Southeastern tribes.

Digital facsimile from herablstudies.net at this link.

1940 CE

#6435

Progress in medicine: a critical review of the last hundred years.

1940 CE

#13073

Psychiatric nursing technic.

1940 CE

#1983

Rapid absorption of substance injected into the bone marrow.

Tocantins demonstrated the possibility of transfusion of fluids via the bone marrow. See also later paper with J. F. O’Neill, Surg. Gynec. Obstet., 1941, 73, 281-87.

1940 CE

#5398.2

Rickettsia disease of Malaya. Identity of tsutsugamushi and rural typhus.

Lewthwaite and Savoor showed scrub typhus to be identical to tsutsugamushi fever.

1940 CE

#12933

Root canal therapy.

1940 CE

#11241

Sarh Asma Al-Uqqar (L'Explication des noms de drogues) Un glossaire de matière medicale composé par Maïmonide. Texte publié pour la première fois d'après le manuscrit unique

1940 CE

#4661.1

Studies of a murine strain of poliomyelitis virus in cotton rats and white mice.

Isolation of encephalomyocarditis virus.

1940 CE

#1954

Sulfanilylguanidine: a chemotherapeutic agent for intestinal infections.

Sulphaguanidine was introduced by E. K. Marshall, A. C. Bratton, H. J. White, and J. T. Litchfield.

1940 CE

#2431

Syphilis in earlier days.

1940 CE

#1811.1

The Badianus manuscript. (Codex Barberini, Latin, 241) Vatican Library. An Aztec herbal of 1552. Edited and translated by Emily W. Emmart.

The earliest complete Mexican medical text and the only medical text known to be the work of native Aztecs. Written by an Aztec physician named by the Spanish Martin de la Cruz, and translated into Latin by another na…