An Interactive Annotated World Bibliography of Printed and Digital Works in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences from Circa 2000 BCE to 2022 by Fielding H. Garrison (1870-1935), Leslie T. Morton (1907-2004), and Jeremy M. Norman (1945- ) Traditionally Known as “Garrison-Morton”

15961 entries, 13944 authors and 1935 subjects. Updated: March 22, 2024

DOISY, Edward Adelbert

5 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.

Isolation for the first time of a pure crystalline hormone (estrone). Doisy shared the Nobel Prize with Dam in 1943. Preliminary communication in Amer. J. Physiol., 1929, 90, 329-30.



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