An Interactive Annotated World Bibliography of Printed and Digital Works in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences from Circa 2000 BCE to 2024 by Fielding H. Garrison (1870-1935), Leslie T. Morton (1907-2004), and Jeremy M. Norman (1945- ) Traditionally Known as “Garrison-Morton”

16061 entries, 14144 authors and 1947 subjects. Updated: December 10, 2024

DOISY, Edward Adelbert

7 entries
  • 744

Rapid colorimetric methods for the determination of phosphorus in urine and blood.

J. biol. Chem., 44, 55-67, 1920.


Subjects: BIOCHEMISTRY, BIOCHEMISTRY › Clinical Chemistry
  • 1183

An ovarian hormone.

J. Amer. med. Ass., 81, 819-21, 1923.

Isolation of the active principle of the ovarian hormone (oestrin). More detailed account in J. biol. Chem., 1924, 61, 711-23.



Subjects: Ductless Glands: Internal Secretion › Gonads: Sex Hormones
  • 1184

The induction of a sexually mature condition in immature females by injection of the ovarian follicular hormone.

Amer. J. Physiol., 69,577-88, 1924.

Test for recognition of the estrus hormone.



Subjects: Ductless Glands: Internal Secretion › Gonads: Sex Hormones
  • 1185

The menstrual cycle of the monkey, Macacus rhesus. Observations on normal animals, the effects of removal of the ovaries and the effects of injection of ovarian and placental extracts into the spayed animals.

Contr. Embryol. Carneg. Instn., 19,1-44, 1927.

This paper marks the beginning of modern knowledge of the menstrual cycle. Allen showed that uterine bleeding occurs as a withdrawal effect when estrogen ceases to act on the endometrium.



Subjects: Ductless Glands: Internal Secretion › Gonads: Sex Hormones
  • 1193

The preparation of the crystalline ovarian hormone from the urine of pregnant women.

J. biol. Chem., 86, 499-509, 1930.

First isolation of a pure crystalline hormone (estrone). Preliminary communication in Amer. J. Physiol., 1929, 90, 329-30.



Subjects: Ductless Glands: Internal Secretion › Gonads: Sex Hormones
  • 1081

The isolation of vitamin K1.

J. biol. Chem., 130, 219-34, 1939.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Binkley, MacCorquodale, Thayer, Doisy.

In 1943 Doisy received half of  the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine  "for his discovery of the chemical nature of vitamin K."  Henrik Dam received the other half "for his discovery of Vitamin K." See also No. 1082.



Subjects: NOBEL PRIZES › Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine , NUTRITION / DIET › Vitamins
  • 1082

The constitution of vitamin K2.

J. biol. Chem., 133, 721-29, 1940.

Structural formula of vitamin K2.



Subjects: NUTRITION / DIET › Vitamins