1940–1949

1941 CE

#1956

Sulfadiazine. Therapeutic evaluation and toxic effects on four hundred and forty-six patients.

Introduction of sulphadiazine. With E. Strauss and O. L. Peterson.

1941 CE

#5096

Sulfanilylguanidine in the treatment of acute bacillary dysentery in children.

E. K. Marshall, A. C. Bratton, L. B. Edwards, and E. L. Walker were the first to use sulphaguanidine in the treatment of bacillary dysentery.

1941 CE

#3042

Surgery of the heart.

Includes valuable information regarding the history of the subject.

1941 CE

#2578

The absorption of influenza virus by red cells and a new in vitro method of measuring antibodies for influenza virus.

Independently of Hirst, McClelland and Hare discovered virus hemagglutination.

1941 CE

#2577

The agglutination of red cells by allantoic fluid of chick embryos infected with influenza virus.

Discovery of virus hemagglutination. Between 1941 and 1942 Hirst developed the hemagglutination assay for quantifying the relative concentration of viruses, bacteria or antibodies.

1941 CE

#1533.1

The anatomy and the histology of the retina in man, ape, and monkey.

A scholarly tour-de-force with a bibliography of over 700 references.

1941 CE

#6135

The diagnostic value of vaginal smears in carcinoma of the uterus.

The first cytopathology test, smear diagnosis of carcinoma of the cervix: the "Pap" test. Papanicolaou first reported in 1928 that he could recognize cancer cells (Proc. Third Race Betterment Conf., p. 528) but the im…

1941 CE

#11000

The medical reports of John Y. Bassett, M.D., the Alabama student. Edited by Daniel C. Elkin.

Bassett was the subject of William Osler's famous essay, "An Alabama Student."

1941 CE

#5723

The Oxford vaporiser No. 1.

With R. R. Macintosh and K. Mendelssohn. The Oxford vaporiser No. 2 is described in the same journal, pp. 64-66 by S. L. Cowan, R. D. Scott, and S. F. Suffolk.

1941 CE

#3100

The rôle of iso-immunization in the pathogenesis of erythroblastosis fetalis.

Erythroblastosis fetalis due to rhesus incompatibility (Rh disease) between mother and child. With L. Burnham, E. M. Katzin, and P. Vogel.

1941 CE

#3243

The story of clinical pulmonary tuberculosis.

1941 CE

#5301.2

The transmission of Leishmania tropica by the bite of Phlebotomus papatasii.

Proof of the transmission of L. tropica by P. papatasii.

1941 CE

#5224.1

The vesicular test. Diagnostic method of infection by poradenic (lymphogranuloma inguinale)virus.

Vesicular test for diagnosis of lymphogranuloma venereum.

1941 CE

#4253

The vicious circle in chronic Bright’s disease. Experimental evidence from the hypertensive rat.

1941 CE

#10581

Vāgbhaṭa's Aṣṭāngahṛdayasaṃhitā: Ein altindisches Lehrbuch der Heilkunde. Aus dem Sanskrit ins Deutsche Übertragen mit Einleitung, Anmerkungen, und Indices von Luise Hilgenberg und Willibald Kirfel.

"The Aṣṭāṅgahṛdayasaṃhitā (Ah, "Heart of Medicine") is written in poetic language. The Aṣṭāṅgasaṅgraha (As, "Compendium of Medicine") is a longer and less concise work, containing many parallel passages and extensive …

1941 CE

#1684

War and disease.

1941 CE–1959 CE

#6777

Current List of Medical Literature. Vols. 1-36.

Published weekly until June, 1950, then monthly, with author and subject indexes. Cumulated indexes semi-annually. Issued by the Army Medical Library prior to its naming as the National Library of Medicine. Superseded…

1942 CE

#3611.1

A ‘slide’ operation for inguinal and femoral hernia.

The Tanner slide operation as a relaxing incision.

1942 CE

#2137.30

A bibliography of aviation medicine.

1942 CE

#3159

A short history of cardiology.

1942 CE

#2875

A simple indifferent electrocardiographic electrode of zero potential and a technique of obtaining augmented, unipolar, extremity leads.

Augmented unipolar leads.

1942 CE

#9284

A study of Delaware Indian medicine practice and folk beliefs.

In this publication Delaware refers to the name of the Native American people known as Lenape, or Leni Lenape, or Delaware people, rather than the U.S. state. In terms of geographical scope, the book covers traditiona…

1942 CE

#6651

ACTA HISTORICA SCIENTIARUM NATURALIUM ET MEDICINALIUM. 1-, Kobenhavn, Odense,

Monographic series.

1942 CE

#3853

Application of radioactive iodine in therapy of Graves’s disease.

1942 CE

#8946

Catálogo das obras da colecção portuguesa anteriores a fundação das Regias Escolas de Cirurgia (1825). 2 vols.

(Thanks to Richard Ramer for this reference.)

1942 CE

#7400

Contact lenses.

The first book on contact lenses, recording attempts over the previous hundred years to fit a lens in direct contact with the eye. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1942 CE

#6232.1

Continuous caudal anesthesia during labor and delivery.

1942 CE

#4154

Dermatite papulo-squameuse atrophiante.

“Degos’s disease”, malignant atrophic papulosis. With J. Delort and R. Tricot. Earlier described by W. Köhlmeier, Frankf. Z. Path., 1940, 54, 413.

1942 CE

#2237

Diffuse collagen disease; acute disseminated lupus erythematosus and diffuse scleroderma.

P. Klemperer, A. D. Pollack, and G. Baehr combined a number of diseases, hitherto regarded as unrelated, into an entity which they termed diffuse collagen disease.

1942 CE

#255

Evolution: The modern synthesis.

The work which defined the modern synthesis of evolutionary biology of the early 20th century.

1942 CE

#2578.3

Experiments on transfer of cutaneous sensitivity to simple compounds.

Cellular transfer of delayed hypersensitivity, establishing the criticial role of mononuclear cells in cellular immunity.

1942 CE

#5989

Extreme prematurity and fibroblastic overgrowth of persistent vascular sheath behind each crystalline lens. I. Preliminary report.

Retrolental fibroplasia first described. See also the same volume, pp. 1409-23, and Trans. Sect. Ophthal. Amer. med. Ass., 1942, 213-29, for later papers.

1942 CE

#12108

Influenza: A survey of the last fifty years in the light of modern work on the virus of epidemic influenza.

1942 CE

#4614.2

L’acropathie ulcéro-mutilante familiale.

“Thévenard’s disease” – hereditary sensory neuropathy, earlier reported by Auguste Nélaton: Affection singulière des os du pied. Gaz. Hôp. Paris, 1852, 4, 13.

1942 CE

#2700.01

Metabolic studies on neoplasm of bone with the aid of radioactive strontium.

Radioisotopic bone scanning. With B. Low-Beer, H. Friedell, and J. Lawrence.

1942 CE

#4254

Natural history of Bright’s disease. Clinical, histological and experimental observations.

Ellis’s classification of nephritis.

1942 CE

#12392

Of time and the physician. The autobiography of Lewellys F. Barker.

Barker succeeded William Osler as physician-in-chief of the Johns Hopkins Hospital. His autobiography provides insight into a keyt period in the history of Johns Hopkins. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this…

1942 CE

#14239

On the utilization of acetic acid for cholesterol formation.

See also, Rittenberg & Bloch, "The Utilization of Acetic Acid for the Synthesis of Fatty Acids," J. Biol. Chem. 160, 1945, 417-424. Bloch, "The Biological Conversion of Cholesterol to Pregnanediol," J. Biol. Chem. 157…

1942 CE

#9217

Ornithologists of the United States Army Medical Corps, thirty-six biographies.

1942 CE

#5766

Plastic surgery of the breast and abdominal wall.

1942 CE

#2578.2

Pneumococcus polysaccharide as a paralyzing agent on the mechanism of immunity in white mice.

1942 CE

#14282

Purification of penicillin.

Abraham and Chain first announced the purification of penicillin, a critical step before production of the drug could begin, in a two paragraph paper published on a single page of Nature on March 21, 1942. The method,…

1942 CE

#2578.1

Sensitization to horse serum by means of adjuvants.

Freund’s adjuvant. Freund’s procedure allowed adjuvants to be used for any antigen.

1942 CE

#13615

Social insurance and allied services.

Beveridge's "... report to Parliament on Social Insurance and Allied Services was published in November 1942. It proposed that all people of working age should pay a weekly national insurance contribution. In return, …

1942 CE

#532

Some aspects of early human development.

Report of the youngest normal implanted fertilized human ovum, fertilization age about 7 1/2 days. Hertig and Rock published a more detailed study in Contr. Embryol. Carneg. Instn. 1945, 31, 65-84.

1942 CE

#6436

Source book of medical history.

Reprinted, Dover Publications, 1960.

1942 CE

#2992

Successful removal of hemangioma of the lung followed by the disappearance of polycythemia.

First successful excision of arteriovenous aneurysm of the lung.

1942 CE

#1958

Sulphamethazine: Clinical trial of a new sulphonamide.

Sulfadimidine (also spelled Sulphadimidine) with G. S. Smith, R. W. Luxton, W. A. Ramsay, and J. Goldman. [Also designated as Vol. 239 by publishers of The Lancet.]

1942 CE

#3804

Syndrome characterized by gynecomastia, aspermatogenesis without A-Leydigism, and increased excretion of follicle-stimulating hormone.

Klinefelter syndrome. With E. C. Reifenstein and F. Albright.

1942 CE

#255.1

Systematics and the origin of species.

One of the canonical publications of the modern evolutionary synthesis. Mayr discussed the different ways different investigators identify species, and he characterized these different approaches as different species …