1940–1949

1943 CE

#5768.1

Reconstructive surgery of the eyelids.

Most of this work is a very carefully documented history of the subject. Bibliography of 451 references.

1943 CE

#9379

Shipwreck-survivors: A medical study.

Probably one of the first books on the medical aspects of this particular subject. "In this lecture it will be our purpose, first to describe the various ordeals which befall men after their ship has been lost, the cl…

1943 CE

#5765

Skin grafting. A new method based on the principles of tissue culture.

First use of fibrin glue for skin grafting. See also Surg. Gynec. Obstet., 1943, 77, 510-13.

1943 CE

#3557

Supra-diaphragmatic section of the vagus nerves in treatment of duodenal ulcer.

Vagotomy for peptic ulcer.

1943 CE

#1088

Synthetic biotin.

Synthesis of biotin. With D. E. Wolf, R. Mozingo, and K. Folkers.

1943 CE

#4010

Technique de traitement du lupus tuberculeux.

Introduction of calciferol in the treatment of lupus. A more extensive report, “Le traitement des tuberculoses cutanées par la vitamine D2 à hautes doses”, appeared in the same journal, 1946,…

1943 CE

#9352

The art of falconry, being the De arte venandi cum avibus of Frederick II of Hohenstaufen.

English translation of the six-book version of Frederick's work, edited, with numerous appendices, illustrations, and an annotated bibliography of ancient, medieval and modern falconry, by Casey A. Wood and F. Marjori…

1943 CE

#1666

The conquest of epidemic diseases. A chapter in the history of ideas.

Reprinted 1980.

1943 CE

#567

The discovery of the uses of colouring agents in biological microtechnique.

1943 CE

#2578.4

The fate of skin homografts in man.

Gibson and Medawar placed the laws of transplantation on a firm scientific basis. A later paper by Medawar (J. Anat. [Lond.], 1944, 78, 176- 99) demonstrated that the mechanism of rejection of transplanted tissues is …

1943 CE

#6305

The genealogy of gynaecology. History of the development of gynaecology throughout the ages 2000 B.C.-A.D. 1800.

Second edition, 1950.

1943 CE

#6779

The Harvey Cushing collection of books and manuscripts.

Catalogue, without annotations, of the books and manuscripts bequeathed by Cushing to the Historical Library in the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library at Yale University School of Medicine. Much like Osler, Cushing colle…

1943 CE

#2136

The history of miners’ diseases. A medical and social interpretation.

1943 CE

#2441

The promin treatment of leprosy. A progress report.

Promin (sodium glucosulphone) introduced in the treatment of leprosy. With R. C. Pogge, F. A. Johansen, J. F. Dinan, B. M. Prejean, and C. G. Eccles.

1943 CE

#11259

The psychiatric novels of Oliver Wendell Holmes

A classically trained Freudian psychoanalyst reviewed the psychiatric insights - advanced for his time - that Holmes expressed in his novels.

1943 CE

#214

The skull of Sinanthropus pekinensis: A comparative study on a primitive hominid skull.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1943 CE

#6544

The state of medicine in Ireland. Carmichael prize essay.

1943 CE

#4911

Three types of nerve injury.

Seddon’s classification of nerve injuries.

1943 CE

#10952

Transmission of West Nile virus by infected Aedes albopictus.

The authors demonstrated that the Aedes albopictus mosquito is the vector of West Nile virus. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.)

1943 CE

#3854

Treatment of hyperthyroidism with thiourea and thiouracil.

Astwood was the first to treat human cases of hyperthyroidism with thiourea and thiouracil.

1943 CE

#5214.1

Use of penicillin in sulfonamide resistant gonorrheal infections.

With E. N. Cook and L. Thompson.

1943 CE

#9216

Victories of army medicine: Scientific accomplishments of the Medical Department of the United States Army.

1943 CE

#8554

Women healers in medieval life and literature.

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1943 CE

#1089

Zur Kenntnis des β-Biotins. 34. Mitteilung über pflanzliche Wachstumstoffe.

Isolation of α-biotin.

1943 CE–1955 CE

#11332

Catalogue of the Ferguson collection of books mainly relating to alchemy, chemistry, witchcraft and gypsies in the Library of the University of Glasgow. 2 vols. including Supplement (1955).

Due to wartime paper rationing only 40 copies of the first printing of the catalogue were published when it was issued in 1943; it was reprinted in the 21st century. Ferguson is best known as the author of the extensi…

1944 CE

#2659.2

“Folic acid” a tumor growth inhibitor.

Inhibition of tumor growth by a folic acid concentrate. With R. Lewisohn, D. Laszlo. These workers later (Proc. Soc. exp. Biol. N. Y., 1944, 56, 144-45) obtained similar results with xanthopterin.

1944 CE

#10810

A catalogue of the medieval and renaissance manuscripts and incunabula in the Boston Medical Library.

1944 CE

#12606

A century of service to dentistry 1844 -1944. Published by S. S. White Dental Mfg. Co. in commemoration of its one hundredth anniversary. Edited by Harry C. Keane.

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1944 CE

#356

A history of comparative anatomy: From Aristotle to the eighteenth century.

Reprinted, Dover Publications, 1978.

1944 CE

#6600

Aesculapius in Latin America.

1944 CE

#8385

An American dilemma: The Negro problem and modern democracy. By Gunnar Myrdal with the assistance of Richard Sterner and Arnold Rose.

Includes considerable anthropological, biological, and health data. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1944 CE

#3976.1

Analyse du mécanisme de l’action hypoglycémiante de p-aminobenzène-sulfamido-isopropylthiodiazol (2254 RP).

Loubatières initiated work on the hypoglycaemic sulphonamides. See his historical account in Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci., 1957, 71, 4-11.

1944 CE

#2992.1

Aortectomy for thoracic aneurysm.

Resection of saccular aneurysm of thoracic aorta.

1944 CE

#6307

Caesarean section. The history and development of the operation from earliest times.

1944 CE

#859

Cardiac output in man by a direct Fick method.

1944 CE

#751.2

Chemical, clinical, and immunological studies on the products of human plasma fractionation. I. The characterization of the protein fractions of human plasma.

Cohn invented fractionation of plasma proteins, also called blood fractionation. (Order of authorship in the original publication: Cohn, Oncley, Strong, Hughes, Armstrong.) Digital facsimile from PubMedCentral at this…

1944 CE

#5449.1

Chemical, clinical, and immunological studies on the products of human plasma fractionation. XII. The use of concentrated normal human serum gamma globulin (human immune serum globulin) in the prevention and attenuation of measles.

Gamma globulin used for passive immunization against measles. With C. G. Jennings and C. A. Janeway.

1944 CE

#11859

Congenital cardiac disease: Bibliography of 1000 cases analyzed in Maude Abbott's Atlas. Edited by Donald deF. Bauer and Effie C. Astbury.

Provides all the references used in Abbott, Atlas of congenital cardiac disease. New York: American Heart Association, 1936, but not included in the 1936 work.

1944 CE

#7626

Die "Autistischen Psychopathen" im Kindesalter.

Early infantile autism (Asperberger's syndrome).

1944 CE

#9282

Ethnobotany of the Navajo. Monographs of the School of American Research, No. 8.

Digital facsimile from uair.library.arizona.edu at this link.

1944 CE

#2189

Galen on medical experience. First edition of the Arabic version with English translation and notes, by R. Walzer.

1944 CE

#9032

Global Epidemiology: A geography of disease and sanitation. Vol. 1: India and the Far East/The Pacific Area; Vol. 2: Africa and the Adjacent Islands; Vol. 3: The Near and Middle East. Edited by James Stevens Simmons, Tom F. Whayne, Gaylord West Anderson, Harold Maclachlan Horack... and United States. Surgeon-General's Office. Preventive Medicine Service.

1944 CE

#6306

History of gynecology.

1944 CE

#3664.3

Homologous serum jaundice. Transmission experiments with human volunteers.

1944 CE

#532.1

In vitro ferilization and cleavage of human ovarian eggs.

First in vitro fertilization of human eggs.

1944 CE

#3924.1

Incipient myelomatosis or “essential” hyperglobulinemia with fibrino-genopenia – a new syndrome?

“Waldenström’s macroglobulinemia”.

1944 CE

#2659.3

Influence of synthetic oestrogens upon advanced malignant disease.

Administration of synthetic estrogens in advanced mammary cancer caused regression of tumors. With J. M. Watkinson, E. Paterson, and P. C. Koller.

1944 CE

#11352

Intracranial arterial aneurysms.

1944 CE

#4615

Iodinated organic compounds as contrast media for radiographic diagnoses. III. Experimental and clinical myelography with ethyl iodophenylundecylate (pantopaque).

Introduction of “pantopaque” for diagnosis of cerebral tumors. With C. E. Dungan, J. B. Furst, J. T. Plati, S. W. Smith, A. P. Darling, and E. C. Wolcott.

1944 CE

#1766.605

Medical education in the United States before the Civil War.

Reprint, New York, Arno Press, 1971.