Entry Nos. 1600–1699

1788 CE

#1600

Mémoires sur les hôpitaux de Paris.

Reforms quickly followed Tenon’s disclosures of the dreadful conditions prevailing in the hospitals of Paris in the 18th century. He was also instrumental in the foundation of a special hospital for children. En…

1789 CE

#1601

An account of the principle lazarettos in Europe. With various papers relative to the plague: Together with further observations on some foreign prisons and hospitals and additional remarks on the present state of those in Great Britain and Ireland.

Following on his work for the improvement of the conditions in prisons, Howard travelled extensively in Europe, carrying out an elaborate investigation into the conditions of hospitals. Digital facsimile of the second…

1797 CE

#1602

Die Kunst das menschliche Leben zu verlängern

Hufeland’s “Makrobiotik”, one of the most popular books of its time on personal hygiene. It was translated into all European languages. Hufeland was court physician at Weimar. English translation, 1797.

1809 CE

#1603

A treatise on medical police, and on diet, regimen, &c. In which the permanent and regularly recurring causes of disease in general, and those of Edinburgh and London in particular, are described; with a general plan of medical police to obviate them, and a particular one adapted to the local circumstances of these cities. 2 vols.

First notable work on the subject in English. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1814 CE

#1604

An essay on dew.

For this work Wells was awarded the Rumford Medal of the Royal Society. His researches on the subject were of major importance in the development of the science of ventilation, particularly in its relation to relative…

1822 CE–1824 CE

#1605

Leçons sur les épidémies et l’hygiène publique. 4 vols.

1836 CE

#1606

Hygiène publique. 2 vols.

The first volume reprints the author's Essai sur les cloaques ou égouts de la ville de Paris (1824). Parent-Duchâtelet wrote that he had visited all the places which he described in the text: ”J&rsq…

1836 CE

#1607

De la prostitution dans la ville de Paris. 2 vols.

Traditionally viewed as a classic in public health, this work has also been characterized as the first scientific study in sexology. Third and most complete edition "complétée par des documents nouvelles…

1842 CE

#1608

Report…from the Poor Law Commissioners on an inquiry into the sanitary conditions of the labouring population of Great Britain.

Chadwick devoted his life to social reform. He was secretary to the Poor Law Commission when he made the above report to Parliament. In it he included a careful analysis of causes of death in 1838 and 1839 and gave a …

1850 CE

#1609

Report of a general plan for the promotion of public and personal health, devised, prepared, and recommended by the commissioners appointed under a resolve of the legislature of Massachusetts relating to a sanitary survey of the State.

Compiled by a team, but entirely written by Shattuck, this report was the first general blueprint for the promotion of public health presented to an American governmental body. Its first proposal was for the creation …

1850 CE

#1610

Dictionnaire des altérations et falsifications des substances alimentaires, médicamenteuses et commerciales. 2 vols.

Chevallier, a chemist, was a prolific writer. Above is probably his most important publication.

1859 CE

#1611

Notes on hospitals.

Includes four plans of hospitals. A third edition, completely revised, was published by Longmans, Green & Co., London, 1863.

1860 CE

#1612

Notes on nursing: what it is, and what it is not.

After receiving training in Germany and France, Florence Nightingale had some nursing experience in England. The Crimean war gave her an opportunity to demonstrate the value of trained nurses. Within a few months of h…

1862 CE

#1613

Ueber eine Methode die Kohlensäure in der atmosphärischen Luft zu bestimmen.

Pettenkofer was the founder of experimental hygiene; he was the first to institute a laboratory for hygienic investigation.

1864 CE

#1614

A manual of practical hygiene.

First important English treatise on hygiene.

1866 CE–1869 CE

#1615

Metropolitan Board of Works Report on experiments with respect to the ventilation of sewers. 3 parts.

Bazalgette planned the sewers of London.

1868 CE

#1616

Ueber die Canalisation von Berlin.

Virchow advocated a canal sewer system for Berlin. Such a system was constructed by Hobrecht. See No. 1624.

1869 CE

#1617

Ueber gewisse, die Gesundheit benachtheiligende Einflüsse der Schulen.

Improvements in school hygiene and the regular inspection of school children were brought about by the efforts of Virchow. English translation, New York, 1871. Virchow’s papers on public health were collected, a…

1869 CE

#1618

Das Kanal- Oder Siel-System in München.

Pettenkofer was responsible for the installation of the modern system of sewage disposal in Munich, and thus succeeded in almost completely ridding that city of typhoid.

1870 CE

#1619

On the effects of the antiseptic system of treatment upon the salubrity of a surgical hospital.

1872 CE–1887 CE

#1620

La Seine. Etudes hydrologiques. Régime de la pluie, des sources, des eaux courantes. (Les travaux souterrains de Paris.) 4 vols. and atlas.

Belgrand designed the Paris sewers.

1880 CE

#1621

Observations on the construction of healthy dwellings.

Galton spent some years in the army; he had a variety of interests, chief among them being railways, education and sanitary science. He designed the Herbert Hospital at Woolwich and he invented a ventilating fire grate.

1883 CE

#1622

Die Hygiene des Auges in den Schulen.

Cohn did much to promote school hygiene. He advocated regular examination of the eyes of school children, an idea which was put into practice in 1885. An English translation of the book appeared in 1886.

1884 CE

#1623

London water supply, including a history and description of the London waterworks.

1884 CE

#1624

Die Canalisation von Berlin.

Hobrecht was responsible for the construction of the Berlin sewers.

1887 CE

#1625

The health of nations: A review of the works of Edwin Chadwick, with a biographical dissertation by Benjamin Ward Richardson. 2 vols.

Chadwick may be said to have initiated the public health era. Largely through his efforts the Public Health Act 1848 came into existence in England. He was the greatest sanitarian of the 19th century; among other thin…

1887 CE

#1626

Public health reports by John Simon. Edited for the Sanitary Institute of Great Britain by Edward Seaton. 2 vols.

Simon was the first medical officer for the City of London. Together with his English sanitary institutions, the above work played a great part in paving the way for modern reforms in the sphere of hygiene and public …

1890 CE

#1627

Description of the Johns Hopkins Hospital.

Billings was responsible for the designing of the Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore. “It marked a new departure in hospital construction…It was the most perfect and best equipped institution of its time&r…

1891 CE–1893 CE

#1628

Hospitals and asylums of the world. 4 vols. and atlas.

This great work deals with the history, administration, and planning of hospitals, and includes a bibliography. The author was an English financier and philanthropist rather than a professional historian or hospital a…

1892 CE–1894 CE

#1629

A treatise on hygiene and public health. Edited by T. Stevenson and S. F. Murphy. 3 vols.

1897 CE

#1631

The purification of sewage and water.

Dibdin introduced the bacterial system of sewage purification. Previously he had devised the contact system.

1901 CE

#1632

Some points in the construction of the continuous sewage filter.

1902 CE–1912 CE

#1633

Royal Commission on sewage disposal. Reports 1-8.

1905 CE–1908 CE

#1634

Recherches sur l’épuration biologique et chimique des eaux d’égout. 8 vols.

1905 CE

#1635

Die sexuelle Frage.

Forel’s best work; translated into 16 languages; 16th edition in 1931.

1905 CE

#1636

Die Bedeutung der Bakterien für die Gesundheitspflege.

1906 CE

#1637

Investigation on the purification of Boston sewage, with a history of the sewage-disposal problem.

1910 CE

#1638

Stérilisation de grandes quantités d’eau par les rayons ultraviolets.

With A. Helbronner and M. de Recklinghausen.

1911 CE–1913 CE

#1639

Handbuch der Hygiene. 6 vols.

With Max Gruber and P. M. Ficker.

1913 CE

#1640

Sewage disposal by oxidation methods.

1913 CE

#1641

Preventive medicine and hygiene by Milton J. Rosenau. With chapters on sewage and garbage by George C. Whipple...Vital statistics by Cressy L. Wilbur...The prevention of mental diseases by Thomas W. Salmon.

Digital facsimile of the 1913 edition from the Internet Archive at this link. There were numerous later revised editions.

1925 CE

#1642

Fortschritte de Abwasserreinigung.

In 1909 Imhoff devised the system of sewage purification which bears his name.

1875 CE

#1646

Histoire de l’habitation humaine depuis les temps préhistoriques jusqu'à nos jours.

Viollet-Le-Duc traced the history of domestic architecture among the different "races" of mankind. Translated into English by Benjamin Bucknall as Habitations of man in all ages (1876). Digital facsimile of the French…

1881 CE

#1647

Die öffentliche Hygiene im alten Rom.

1883 CE

#1648

Medical economy during the Middle Ages; a contribution to the history of European morals, from the time of the Roman Empire to the close of the 14th century.

1890 CE

#1650

English sanitary institutions, reviewed in their course of development, and in some of their political and social relations.

Simon "viewed the state as provider of the basic conditions needed for subsistence (without interfering in the iron law of wages) through sanitary reform of the environment, prevention of epidemic diseases, and the re…

1890 CE

#1650

Gesundheitspflege im Mittelalter.

1905 CE

#1651

Zur Vorgeschichte der modernen Hygiene.

1906 CE

#1652

L’hygiène publique à travers les âges.

1919 CE

#1653

The story of English public health.