Facets

1762 CE

#305

Traité anatomique de la chénille, qui ronge le bois de saule. Augmenté d'une explication abrégée des planches, et d'une description de l'instrument et des outils dont l'auteur s'est servi pour anatomiser à la loupe et au microscope, & pour déterminer la forcer de ses verres, suivant les règles de l'optique, & méchaniquement.

Lyonet’s monograph on the goat moth caterpillar remains a famous example of anatomical examination. It is also a thorough treatise on the microscope and lenses that Lyonet used. Digital facsimile from Biodiversi…

1942 CE

#5302

Transmission of Indian kala-azar to man by the bites of Phlebotomus argentipes, Ann. and Brun.

Successful transmission of kala-azar to man by the bite of Phlebotomus argentipes reported, showing it to be the vector of Leishmania. With H. E. Shortt and L. A. P. Anderson.

1929 CE

#1446

Über das Elektrenkephalogramm des Menschen.

First recording of human brain activity, which Berger called electroencephalography. Berger actually recorded his first EEG in 1924, but did not publish the technique until 1929. He showed that the electrical activity…

1897 CE

#2550.1

Über specifische Reactionen im keimfreien Filtraten aus Cholera, Typhus und Pestbouillonculturen, erzeugt durch homologes Serum.

The precipitin reaction, employed for the qualitative identification of antigens and antibodies. English translation in Bibel, Milestones in immunology,(1988) pp. 265-68.

1924 CE

#5069

Ueber cutane Hautreaktion mittels Diphtherie-Toxin zum Nachweis der Diphtherie-Immunität.

The “scratch test”, a cutaneous reaction for determination of susceptibility to diphtheria.

1884 CE

#2499

Ueber die isolirte Färbung der Schizomyceten in Schnitt- und Trocken-präparaten.

Gram’s method of staining bacteria (Gram stain). While not all bacteria may be definitively classified in this way, it is almost always the first step in the preliminary identification of a bacterial organism.

1915 CE–1916 CE

#6362

Ueber eigenartige Schädeldefekte im Jugendalter.

Schüller described two more cases of the condition to which his name, with those of Hand and Christian, has been attached.

1916 CE

#6371

Ueber eine bisher unerkannte Spirochäteninfektion (Spirochaetosis arthritica).

“Reiter’s syndrome”, a disease of males characterized by initial diarrhea, urethritis, conjunctivitis, and arthritis. Reiter was a German Nazi physician and war criminal who conducted medical experim…

1908 CE

#2339

Ueber eine diagnostische verwertbare Reaktion der Haul auf Einreibung mit Tuberkulinsalbe.

Moro’s percutaneous tuberculin reaction, employed as a diagnostic measure.

1886 CE

#269

Ueber neue Mikroskope.

Fundamental improvements in the microscope were made by Abbe, who was a mathematician. In 1878 he introduced the oil immersion lens; in 1886 he made an apochromatic objective corrected for three colors in which the se…

1891 CE

#2506.1

Ueber Wasserfiltration durch Filter aus gebrannter Infusorienerde.

Berkefeld kieselguhr filter.

2014 CE

#12839

Unseen enemy: The English, disease, and medicine in colonial Bengal, 1617–1847.

1782 CE

#14120

Unterricht für Krankenwärter zum Gebrauch öffentlicher Vorlesungen.

The first German book on nursing--a manual of instructions for male nurses. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link. (Thanks for Webb Dordick for this reference.)

1881 CE

#1413

Untersuchungen über die Localisation der Funktionen in der Grosshirnrinde des Menschen.

Exner identified the superficial tangential fibers of the molecular layer of the cerebral cortex, known eponymically as “Exner’s plexus”. Exner’s book of 1881 on cortical localization contained…

1883 CE

#8176

Upon the electrical experiments to determine the location of the bullet in the body of the late President Garfield; and upon a successful form of induction balance for the painless detection of metallic masses in the human body.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1685 CE

#11718

Variarum observationum liber.

Vossius, a Dutch scholar and manuscript collector, was one of the first European writers to suggest that the Chinese had anticipated William Harvey's discovery of the circulation of the blood. In his chapter on Chines…

1996 CE

#6985

Views of the cell. A pictorial history.

Sixty images (reproduced in color where appropriate) with detailed commentary and bibliographical references, arranged in chronological order, from the first images viewed through the microscope to electron micrographs.

2011 CE

#10563

Visual complexity: Mapping patterns of information.

An exceptionally beautiful graphic work with many historical examples showing how data in many fields, including medicine and biology, can be mapped and visualized.

1923 CE

#14164

Vocabularium anatomiae latine-arabice.[Qāmūs al-tašrīḥ Lātīnī-‘Arabī].

1566 CE

#13060

Vocum, quae apud Hippocratem sunt, collectio. Cum annotationibus Bartholomaei Eustachii . . . Eiusdemque Libellus de Multitudine.

First edition in Latin edited by Eustachi of the glossary to Hippocrates by the first century Greek grammarian Erotianus. Erotianus's work contains the earliest list of the writings of Hippocrates, including some now …

1890 CE

#2332

Weitere Mittheilungen über ein Heilmittel gegen Tuberkulose.

In 1890, Koch announced the discovery of tuberculin, a substance derived from tubercle bacilli, which he thought was capable of arresting bacterial development in-vitro and in animals. This news gave rise to tremendou…

2012 CE

#12805

Well-Mannered medicine: Medical ethics and etiquette in classical Ayurveda.

1946 CE

#8899

White caps: The story of nursing.

1934 CE

#7700

Who shall survive? A new approach to the problem of human interrelations.

Moreno founded psychodrama, and pioneered group psychotherapy. Apart from its psychiatric and sociological significance, this work contained some of the earliest graphic depictions of social networks— data visua…

2016 CE

#7861

Wombs with a view: Illustrations of the gravid uterus from the Renaissance through the Nineteenth century.

1952 CE–1961 CE

#9033

World-atlas of epidemic diseases. Welt-Seuchen-Atlas: Weltatlas der Seuchenverbreitung und Seuchenbeweng. In collaboration with Richard-Ernst Bader ... [et al.]. Edited by Ernst Rodenwaldt; assistant scientific editors: Ludwig Bachmann, Helmut J. Jusatz. Organization, Heinz Dörrfuss. Cartography, Konrad Voppel, in cooperation with Fritz Hölzel and Henry Petersen. Sponsorship, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, Navy Dept., Washington, D.C. 3 vols.

In English and German.

1963 CE

#6805

Wörtenbuch der klinischen Syndrome. 3te. Auflage.

5th ed., 1972.

1887 CE

#5932

Wörterbuch der Augenheilkunde.

1951 CE

#269.7

X-ray shadow microscope.

1928 CE

#6366

Xanthomatosis and the reticulo-endothelial system.

“Rowland collected 14 cases of the Hand–Schüller–Christian syndrome, and made the important generalization that it was due to xanthomatosis” (Rolleston).