The Johns Hopkins Medical Journal Explained

The Johns Hopkins Medical Journal
Formernames:	The Johns Hopkins Hospital Bulletin; Bulletin of the Johns Hopkins Hospital
Discipline:	Medicine
Abbreviation:	Johns Hopkins Med. J.
Publisher:	Johns Hopkins Press
Country:	United States
History:	1889-1982
Website:	http://www.medicalarchives.jhmi.edu/jhbullindex/jhhb-drv.htm
Oclc:	2240006
Lccn:	74647460
Coden:	JHMJAX
Issn:	0021-7263

The Johns Hopkins Medical Journal was a medical journal published by the Johns Hopkins University that ceased publication in 1982.^[1] It was established in December 1889 as The Johns Hopkins Hospital Bulletin. It was renamed Bulletin of the Johns Hopkins Hospital in 1924, before obtaining its final title in 1967. The journal is abstracted and indexed in Index Medicus/MEDLINE/PubMed.^[2]

Notable articles

The journal published several landmark papers. Examples are:

• Cushing . Harvey . Harvey Cushing . Concerning a definite regulatory mechanism of the vaso-motor center which controls blood pressure during cerebral compression . Bull. Johns Hopkins Hosp. . 1901 . 12 . 290–292. First description of what is now known as the Cushing reflex
• Cushing . Harvey . The basophil adenomas of the pituitary body and their clinical manifestations (pituitary basophilism) . Bull. Johns Hopkins. Hosp.. 1932 . 50 . 137. First description of what is now known as Cushing's disease

Editors

The following persons have been editor-in-chief of the journal:

Notes and References

1. Web site: Cumulative Index Bulletin of the Johns Hopkins Hospital. 2015-02-08 . Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions .
2. Web site: The Johns Hopkins Medical Journal . NLM Catalog . . 2015-02-08.