Context

Dramatic effects

• Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus (c. 1550 BCE) Case 25. Instruction for a dislocation of his mandible. [Original in the Rare Book Room, New York Academy of Medicine. Facsimile in Breasted JH (1930).
• de Fontaney F (1703) Letter to F de la Chaise, from Cheu-Chan (a port in the Province of ‘Chekian’), dated 15 February. [Edifying and curious letters, written from the foreign missions by some missionaries of the Company of Jesus].
• Stone E (1764) An account of the success of the bark of the willow in the cure of agues.
• Jenner E (1798) An enquiry into the causes and effects of the variolae vaccinae.
• Cooper A (1801) Farther observations on the effects which take place from the destruction of the Membrana Tympani of the ear; with an account of the operation for the removal of a particular species of deafness.
• Pearson G, Nihell L, Nelson T, Keate T, Forster T, Carpue JC, Doratt J, Rivers F, Brand EA, de Bruyn P, Heaviside J, Payne T, Sancho W (1805) Original Vaccine Pock Institution.
• Cumming R (1805) On the use of aqua frigida in scalds, in epidemic ophthalmia, and the effects of cold on the human body.
• Simpson JY (1847) Account of a new anesthetic agent.
• McShane C (1856) Medical Statistical Returns of the African Station.
• Liebreich O (1869) Das Chloral, ein neues Hypnoticum und Anaesthetikum.
• Lister J (1870) Effects of the antiseptic system of treatment upon the salubrity of a surgical hospital.
• Maclagan T (1876) The treatment of acute rheumatism by salicin.
• O’Dwyer J (1887) Fifty cases of croup in private practice treated by intubation of the larynx, with a description of the method and of the dangers incident thereto.
• Murray GR (1891) Note on the treatment of myxoedema by hypodermic injections of an extract of the thyroid gland of a sheep.
• Bettencourt R, Serrano J-A (1891) Un cas de myxœdème (cachexie pachydermique) traité par la greffe hypodermique du corps thyroïde d’un mouton. [A case of myxœdema (pachydermous cachexia) treated with hypodermic transplant of sheep thyroid gland].
• Behring EA, Boer, Kossel H (1893) Zur Behandlung diphtheriekranker Menschen mit Diphtherieheilserum.
• Finsen J (1896) Om Anvendelse I Medicinen af koncentrerede kemiske Lysstraaler. [On the application in medicine of concentrated chemical rays of light].
• Alt K (1909) Behandlungsversuche mit Arsenophenylglyzin bei Paralytikern.
• Wechselmann W (1910) Über die Behandlung der Syphilis mit Dioxydiamido-arseno-benzol.
• McDonagh JER (1912) Salvarsan in syphilis and allied diseases.
• De Quervain JF (1913) Die Behandlung der akute Appendicitis auf Grund einer schweizerischen Sammelstatistik.
• Marine D, Kimball OP (1920) The prevention of simple goiter in man: fourth paper.
• Chick H, Dalyell EJ (1921) Observations on the influence of foods in stimulating development in backward children.
• Banting FG, Best CH, Collip JB, Campell WR, Fletcher AA (1922) Pancreatic extracts in the treatment of diabetes mellitus.
• Goldberger J, Waring CH, Tanner WF (1923) Pellagra prevention by diet among inmates.
• Minot GR, Murphy WP (1926) Treatment of pernicious anaemia by a special diet.
• Lewis T (1930) Angina pectoris associated with high blood pressure and its relief by amyl nitrate.
• Walker MB (1934) Treatment of myasthenia gravis with physostigmine.
• Lennox WG, Von Storch TJC (1935) Experiences with ergotamine tartrate in 120 patients with migraine.
• Colebrook L, Kenny M (1936b) Treatment with prontosil of puerperal infections due to haemolytic streptococci.
• Colebrook L, Kenny M (1936a) Treatment of human puerperal infections, and of experimental infections in mice, with prontosil.
• O’Sullivan ME (1936) Termination of 1000 attacks of migraine with ergotamine tartrate.
• Colebrook L, Purdie AW (1937) Treatment of 106 cases of puerperal fever by sulphanilamide.
• Banks HS (1939) Chemotherapy of meningococcal meningitis.
• Bowie FJ (1939) Chemotherapy in gonorrhoea: a preliminary report on the use of 2-(p-aminobenzenesulphonamido)pyridine, M & B 693.
• Abraham EP, Chain E, Fletcher CM, Gardner AD, Heatley NG, Jennings AM, Florey HW (1941) Further observations on penicillin.
• Pulvertaft RJPV (1943) Local therapy of war wounds.
• Florey ME, Florey HW (1943) General and local administration of penicillin.
• Goodman LS, Wintrobe MM, Dameshek W, Goodman MJ, Gilman A and McLennan MT (1946) Nitrogen mustard therapy. Use of methyl-bis(beta-chloroethyl)amine hydrochloride and tris(beta-chloroethyl)amine hydrochloride for Hodgkin's disease, lymphosarcoma, leukemia and certain allied and miscellaneous disorders.
• Christie RV (1946) Penicillin in subacute bacterial endocarditis.
• Merk R (1948) Die Stickstoffsenfgasbehandlung der Lymphogranulomatose [Nitrogen Mustard Treatment of Lymphogranulomatosis].
• Farber S, Diamond LK, Mercer RD, Sylvester RF, Wolff JA (1948) Temporary remissions in acute leukaemia in children produced by folic acide antagonist, 4-aminopteroyl-glutamic acid (aminopterin).
• Christie RV (1948) Penicillin in subacute bacterial endocarditis.
• Medical Research Council (1948a) Streptomycin treatment of tuberculous meningitis.
• Appelbaum E, Nelson J, Albin MB (1949) The treatment of penumococcic meningitis with penicillin; a study of 125 consecutive cases, with 73% recovery.
• McBride WG (1961) Thalidomide and congenital abnormalities.
• Pennington E, Pennington S (1991) Modifying chickenpox.