Facets

1862 CE

#3269

Beiträge zur Laryngoscopie.

Lewin was probably the first to extirpate a laryngeal growth with the aid of the laryngoscope. Bruns claimed this distinction, but may not have heard of Lewin.

1851 CE

#5866

Beschreibung eines Augen-Spiegels zur Untersuchung der Netzhaut im lebenden Auge.

Invention of the ophthalmoscope, one of the greatest events in the history of ophthalmology. English translation by T. H. Shastid, Chicago, Cleveland Press, 1916.

1967 CE

#6942

Biomedical aspects of the laser: The introduction of laser applications into biology and medicine.

The first book on the use of lasers in medicine and biology.

1998 CE

#11591

Blood pressure measurement: An illustrated history.

1979 CE

#2682.54

Bloodletting instruments in the National Museum of History and Technology.

Digital facsimile from Smithsonian Research Online at this link.

2017 CE

#10555

Cancer, radiation therapy, and the market.

1734 CE

#6156.3

Cases in midwifry. Revised by Edward Hody.

Giffard was one of the first, after the Chamberlens, to use the forceps. His book contains, under case 14, the earliest published record of the use of the hitherto secret Chamberlen forceps, in 1726, together with ill…

1867 CE

#11641

Catalogue and report of obstetrical and other instruments exhibited at the Conversazione of the Obstetrical Society of London...held, by permission, at the Royal College of Physicians, March 28th, 1866.

“ A key reference source for mid-19th century [obstetrical] instruments. Many of these instruments became incorporated into the Museum of the Obstetrical Society of London, the contents of which became the prope…

1876 CE

#10494

Catalogue of dental materials, furniture, instruments, etc.

White, who characterized himself as "Manufacturer, importer, and wholesale dealer in all articles appertaining to dentistry," was the leading U.S. manufacturer of dental supplies during the 19th century. His 1876 cata…

1966 CE

#12912

Catalogue of the Menzies Campbell collection of dental instruments, pictures, appliances, ornaments, etc.

1478 CE

#3666.83

Chirurgia [French]. Translated by Nicolaus Panis.

Guy de Chauliac studied medicine and surgery in Montpellier and Paris, and served as the personal physician to Popes Clement VI, Innocent VI and Urban V. His Chirurgia magna, written in the early 1360s, remained a sta…

1500 CE–1501 CE

#3666.82

Chirurgia cum formis instrumentorum (Tr: Gerardus Cremonensis). IN: Guy de Chauliac: Chirurgia parva. Add: Albulcasis: Chirurgia cum formis instrumentorum. Jesus filius Hali: De oculis (Tr: Dominicus Marrochinus). Canamusali de Baldach: De oculis.

The surgical section of Albucasis’s Altasrif, the first rational, complete and illustrated treatise on surgery and surgical instruments. The author was an Arab Muslim physician and surgeon who lived in Al-Andalu…

1667 CE

#1963

Chirurgia infusoria.

Major, the first Professor of Medicine at Kiel, was the first to make successful intravenous injections of drugs into the human body, in 1662. Sir Christopher Wren in 1656 had injected wine and ale into the veins of a…

1573 CE

#4850.4

Chirurgiae Ioannis Andrea a Cruce, Veneti medici libri septem, Quamplurimis instrumentorum imaginibus arti chirurgicae opportunis suis locis exornati, theoricam, practicam ac verissimam experientiam continentes....

Croce improved the instruments for trephination, and published classic woodcuts depicting the operation, including the first illustration of a neurological surgery operation actually taking place. The work is also imp…

1913 CE

#11679

Clinical electrocardiography.

The first textbook of electrocardiography.

1866 CE

#6057

Clinical notes on uterine surgery, with reference to the management of the sterile condition.

A revolutionary and controversial work, written in Paris while Sims was in voluntary exile because of the U.S. Civil War, and first serialized in Lancet 2 (1864) and 1 (1865). Includes, pp. 16-18, the description of S…

1984 CE

#12333

Cold hearts: The story of hypothermia and the pacemaker in heart surgery.

1869 CE

#5610

Collezione della memorie chirurgiche ed ostetriche. 2 vols.

Rizzoli was Professor of Surgery at Bologna and an outstanding operative surgeon. He introduced a compressor for aneurysms, a tracheotome, cystotome, lithotrite, enterotome, osteoclast, and performed acupressure as ea…

1612 CE

#572.2

Commentaria in artem medicinalem Galeni.

First printed mention of the air thermometer, an instrument that played a vital part in the creation of static medicine. This device was similar to Galileo’s open-air thermoscope, of which Santorio may have know…

1625 CE

#2668

Commentaria in primam fen primi libri canonis Avicennae.

The chief value of this work is in its cautious revelation of the principles of construction of various instruments that Santorio had invented, including a hygrometer, a pendulum for measuring pulse rate, a syringe fo…

1823 CE

#1492.1

Commentatio de examine physiologico organi visus et systematis cutanei.

Purkynĕ was first to examine the interior of the human eye and the dog eye, using only a candle and a concave spherical lens. He thus invented the ophthalmoscope three decades before Helmholtz (1851; No. 5866). Reprin…

1955 CE

#3047.7

Controlled cross circulation for direct-vision intracardiac surgery; correction of ventricular septal defects, atrioventricularis communis, and tetralogy of Fallot.

Controlled cross circulation (human heart–lung “machine”) for intracardiac surgery.

1987 CE

#7136

Correction of astigmatism with the excimer laser.

In 1985 Seiler performed the first large area ablation in a human eye to remove a corneal scar, having previously performed T-incisions with an excimer laser to correct for astigmatism.

1910 CE

#11674

Das Elektrokardiogramm des gesunden and kranken Menschen.

The first comprehensive monograph on electrocardiography in any language.

1868 CE

#2677

Das Verhalten der Eigenwärme in Krankheiten.

This work on temperature in disease laid the foundation of modern knowledge regarding clinical thermometry. Wunderlich reportedly took over a million measurements from 25,000 people. Temperatures ranged from 97.2 to 9…

1819 CE

#2673

De l’auscultation médiate, ou traité du diagnostic des maladies des poumons et du coeur. 2 vols.

This book revolutionized the study of diseases of the chest. Auscultation in the instrumental sense dates from Laennec’s invention of the stethoscope (at first merely a roll of stiff paper) with a view to amplif…

1865 CE

#4172

De l’endoscope et de ses applications au diagnostic et au traitement des affections de l’urèthre et de la vessie.

Desormeaux was a pioneer of endoscopy. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1873 CE

#876

De la numération des globules rouges du sang I. Des méthodes de numération. II. De la richesse du sang en globules rouges dans les différentes parties de l'arbre circulatoire.

The beginning of blood-counting techniques. In his thesis Malassez provided the initial description of the hemocytometer, which he invented, but which was named by Gowers, who modified it in 1877. The trade issue of t…

1828 CE

#2675

De la percussion médiate.

Piorry, pioneer of mediate percussion, introduced the percussor and the pleximeter in 1826. He also developed refinements to Laennec’s stethoscope.

1958 CE

#3558.3

Demonstration of the new gastroscope, the “fiberscope”.

The Hirschowitz fiber optic endoscope, the "Fiberscope." In February 1957 Hirschowitz passed the first prototype instrument down his own throat and, a few days later, down that of a patient. Hirschowitz gave the first…

1852 CE

#5866.1

Der Augenspiegel und des Optometer für practische Aerzte.

Ruete introduced a practical lens system for examining the inverted image, and improved the illumination, producing the first practical ophthalmoscope.

1885 CE

#5927

Der Electromagnet in der Augenheilkunde.

The introduction of the electromagnet into ophthalmology. A pupil of Helmholtz, Hirschberg was one of the most voluminous writers in the field of ophthalmology. Besides his dictionary (see No. 5932) he wrote a classic…

1858 CE

#3330

Der Kehlkopfrachenspiegel und die Methode seines Gebrauches.

Türck, at first sceptical of Garcia’s laryngoscope, later adopted it and claimed from Czermak priority in its clinical employment; these two gentlemen fought one another bitterly for some years over this po…

1668 CE

#6147

Des maladies des femmes grosses et accouchées.

The outstanding textbook of the time. Mauriceau, leading obstetrician of his day, introduced the practice of delivering his patients in bed instead of in the obstetrical chair. It was to Mauriceau that Hugh Chamberlen…

1877 CE

#6192

Description de deux nouveaux forceps.

Tarnier invented the axis-traction forceps. See also Ann. Gynéc., 1877, 7, 241-64

1828 CE

#3255

Description of a forceps, employed to facilitate the extirpation of the tonsil.

Invention of the modern tonsillotome.

1867 CE

#5668

Description of a new apparatus for administering narcotic vapors.

Junker’s chloroform inhaler.

1873 CE

#5671

Description of a new double current inhaler for administering ether.

Clover’s gas-ether inhaler.

1766 CE

#7808

Descrizione degl'instrumenti, delle macchine, e delle suppellettili raccolte ad uso chirurgico e medico dal P. Don Ippolito Rondinelli...

Catalogue of the private museum of surgical and medical instruments established by Father Ippolito Rondinelli in Ravenna, which Soldo described as “the first museum of medicine and surgery.” Extensively il…

1986 CE

#13185

Development of the ion X-ray tube: With a description of the Collection in the Medical Historical Museum, University of Copenhagen.

1921 CE

#4388.2

Die Arthroendoskopie.

First published account of the use of the laparoscope for arthroscopy.

1868 CE

#779

Die Ausmessung der strömenden Blutvolumina.

Invention of the Stromuhr, for measurement of the velocity of the blood. Dogiel was a pupil of Ludwig.

1865 CE

#3378

Die Beleuchtungsbilder des Trommelfells im gesunden und kranken Zustande.

Politzer was the first to obtain pictures of the membrana tympani by means of illumination. English translation, New York, 1869.

1854 CE

#2759

Die bildliche Darstellung des menschlichen Arterienpulses.

Vierordt invented a sphygmograph which acted on the principle that indirect estimation of blood-pressure could be accomplished by measuring the counter-pressure necessary to obliterate the arterial pulsation. This was…

2014 CE

#10489

Die Erfindung der Ophthalmoskopie dargestellt in den Originalbeschreibungen der Augenspiegel von Helmholtz, Ruete und Giraud-Teulon. Eingeleitet und erläutert von Wolfgang Jaeger.

1858 CE

#775

Die Erscheinungen und Gesetze der Stromgeschwindigkeiten des Blutes.

Vierordt estimated, by means of a “hemotachometer” of his own invention, the rate of the blood flow in various arteries, and also the influence of the blood volume, pulse rate and respiratory rate upon it.

1854 CE

#5604

Die Galvanokaustik.

Middeldorpf improved the galvano-cautery and introduced it in major surgery.

1911 CE

#3535.1

Die Gastroskopie.

Elsner designed a straight gastroscope with a rubber tip and an optical system to be pushed into the outer tube, which had a lamp at its tip.

1965 CE

#13189

Die Geschichte der Hersteller und Verkäufer zahnärztlicher Bedarfsartikel bis um 1900: eine historische Sammlung unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der ältesten deutschen Dentaldepots.

1925 CE

#3573.1

Die Handschrift des Schnitt- und Augenarztes Caspar Stromayr in Lindau im Bodensee: In der Lindauer Handschrift (P.1.46) vom 4. Juli 1559. Mit einer historischen Einführung und Wertung von Walter von Brunn.

Stroymayr's manuscript was discovered in Lindau in 1909, and remained unpublished until the above edition, which reproduced his drawings in color. Like Bartisch (No. 5817) Stromayr specialized in hernia repair and eye…