Facets

1686 CE

#1355

Circulus anatomico-physiologicus.

Bohn's approach was mechanistic in that he grave predominately physical interpretations of vital processes. He experimented on the decapitated frog, declaring the reflex phenomena to be entirely material and mechanica…

1872 CE

#2706

Clinical lecture on certain painful affections of the feet.

Mitchell suggested the name “erythromelalgia” for this condition, which is also known as “Weir Mitchell’s disease”. He records four earlier writers on the subject, the first being Graves …

1930 CE

#7918

Clinical observations on phenylethanolamine sulfate.

In 1929 Alles discovered the sympathomimetic properties of beta-phenyl-isopropylamine (amphetamine). With G. Piness and H. Miller.

1838 CE

#13150

Clinique des maladies des enfants nouveau-nes.

The first work on the diseases of newborns and the first work on child neurology and pediatric neurosurgery.

1861 CE

#2221

Clinique médicale de l’Hôtel Dieu de Paris. 2 vols.

Trousseau, clinician of the Hôtel-Dieu, made important advances in the treatment of diphtheria, typhoid, scarlet fever and other conditions. In his book he emphasized the value of bedside observation. He support…

1987 CE

#14116

Cognitive and neurologic findings in subjects with diffuse white matter lucencies on computed tomographic scan (Leuko-Araiosis).

"Abstract: As part of a prospective clinicopathologic study, a cohort of 105 "normal" elderly volunteers was investigated with computed tomographic scans, psychometric testing (Extended Scale for Dementia [ESD]) and n…

1825 CE

#2210

Collections from the unpublished writings of the late Caleb Hillier Parry. 3 vols.

Includes Parry’s interesting description of eight cases of exophthalmic goitre, the first of which was observed in 1786, and his notes on four cases of angina pectoris. Parry's paper, "Enlargement of the thyroid…

1815 CE

#4825

Commentaries on some of the most important diseases of children. Part the first.

First account of infantile tetany is given on pp. 86-97. Clarke died before this work was published. In it he also gave a clear description of laryngismus stridulus. This disease, which consists in a sudden onset of d…

1883 CE

#4941

Compendium der Psychiatrie.

Later editions of this book were called Lehrbuch. The sixth edition is notable in that in it manic-depressive psychoses were first mentioned as such. Ninth edition in 1927. Kraepelin, Professor of Psychiatry successiv…

1907 CE

#4683

Concerning a serum therapy for experimental infection with Diplococcus intracellularis.

Flexner prepared an antiserum for use in cerebrospinal meningitis.

1884 CE

#4625

Considérations sur l’agraphie à propos d’une observation nouvelle d’agraphie motrice pure.

Classic account of agraphia.

1863 CE

#1401.1

Considérations sur les localisations cérébrales et en particulier sur le siège de la faculté du langage articulé.

Auburtin did much to establish the principle of cerebral localization. He demonstrated on a patient whose frontal lobe was exposed following a gunshot wound that merely touching the uninjured lobe with a spatula would…

1824 CE

#4796

Considérations sur une espèce de paralysie qui affecte particulièrement les aliénés. Thèse [pour le doctorat en médecin] No. 224.

Delaye, a pupil of Esquirol, selected for his thesis the subject of “incomplete general paralysis of the insane”, which he differentiated from other forms of paralysis. He recorded the early signs of the d…

1881 CE

#4563

Contribution à l’étude clinique de la sciatique.

“Lasègue’s sign” in sciatica. Although discovered by E. C. Lasègue, it was first reported by his pupil Forst.

1895 CE

#4758

Contribution à l’étude de l’atrophie musculaire progressive type Duchenne–Aran.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1880 CE

#4700

Contribution à l’étude de l’idiotàie.

“Bourneville’s disease”, tuberous sclerosis, epiloia (p. 81). Digital facsimile from biuSante.parisdescartes.fr at this link. For the history of the understanding of this disease see the remarkable W…

1886 CE

#4752

Contribution à l’étude de la myopathie atrophique progressive (myopathie atrophique progressive, à type scapulo-huméral).

“Landouzy–Dejerine type” of progressive muscular dystrophy.

1885 CE

#4748

Contribution à l’étude des paralysies radiculaires du plexus brachial.

First description of atrophic paralysis of the muscles of the hand following lesion of the brachial plexus and eighth cervical and first dorsal nerves (“Klumpke’s paralysis”).

1936 CE

#4725

Contribution à l’étude des syndromes du globe pâle. La dégénérescence progressive du globe pâle et de la portion réticuléé de la substance noire (maladie d’Hallervorden–Spatz).

Clovis Vincent, a pioneer French neurosurgeon, contributed a valuable study of Hallervorden–Spatz disease.

1914 CE

#4596.2

Contribution à l’étude des troubles mentaux dans l’hémiplégie organique cérébrale (anosognosie).

Babinski drew attention to anosognosia, a name he gave to unconcern or denial of striking neurological disorders.

1883 CE

#4566.1

Contribution to the study of spina bifida, encephalocele, and anencephalus.

Early description of the Arnold–Chiari malformation (see Nos. 4577.1, 4581.1).

1980 CE

#366.1

Corpus of the anatomical studies in the collection…at Windsor Castle. Edited by K.D. Keele and C. Pedretti. 3 vols.

Splendid edition reproducing all of the drawings in color, and with the original chronology and integrity of the drawings restored. Text provides transliteration of Leonardo’s notes in the original Italian plus …

1843 CE–1844 CE

#4691.1

Course of lectures on the deformities of the human frame. Lecture IX.

Little’s description of congenital cerebral spastic diplegia resulted in the condition being named “Little’s disease”. See also No. 4735.

1968 CE

#11751

Crime and insanity in England. Volume one: The historical perspective. (All published.)

1955 CE

#2527.1

Crystallization of purified MEF-1 poliomyelitis virus particles.

First crystallization of an animal virus.

1936 CE

#4670.6

Cultivation of poliomyelitis virus in vitro in human embryonic nervous tissue.

Isolation and propagation of the poliomyelitis virus in pure culture.

1949 CE

#4671.1

Cultivation of the Lansing strain of poliomyelitis virus in cultures of various human embryonic tissues.

Enders, Weller, and Robbins grew the poliomyelitis virus in cultures of different tissues. Their method proved of great value in virus research, and removed the final obstacles to vaccine production. In 1974 Enders, W…

1993 CE

#8313

Cuneiform Monographs II: Epilepsy in Babylonia.

1948 CE

#4991.1

Cybernetics: or control and communication in the animal and the machine.

Foundation of "the science of control and communication theory, named ‘cybernetics’ by Wiener, from the Greek word ‘kubernetes’ or steersman. Automation, information feedback, regulators in eng…

1957 CE

#12450

Cyclic variation in EEG during sleep and their relation to eye movements, body motility and dreaming.

The authors conducted the first intensive study of the relationship between rapid eye movement (REM) sleep and dreaming.

2013 CE

#13295

Dangerously sleepy: Overworked Americans and the cult of manly wakefulness.

The first book to track the longtime association of overwork and sleep deprivation from the nineteenth century to the present.

1977 CE

#7074

Daniel McNaughton: His trial and the aftermath, edited by Donald J. West and Alexander Walk.

A collective work edited by West and Walk.

1998 CE

#14251

DARPP-32: Regulator of the efficacy of dopaminergic neurotransmission.

"Greengard's research focused on events inside the neuron caused by neurotransmitters. Specifically, Greengard and his fellow researchers studied the behavior of second messenger cascades that transform the docking of…

1869 CE

#1869

Das Chloral, ein neues Hypnoticum.

Demonstration of the value of chloral hydrate as a hypnotic. See also his monograph Das Chloralhydrat, Berlin, 1869.

1936 CE

#9589

Das Ich und die Abwehrmechanismen.

Translated into English by Anna Freud and Cecil Baines, as The ego and the mechanisms of defense. London: Hogarth Press, 1937.

1900 CE

#4588

Das Krankheitsbild der Apraxie (motorischen Asymbolie) auf Grund eines Falles von einseitiger Apraxie.

First adequate description of apraxia.

1896 CE

#1426

Das Menschenhirn. Studien in der makroskopischen Morphologie. 2 vols.

Retzius studied a large series of subprimate, simian, and human brains, and clarified some of the more difficult problems of cerebral morphology.

1870 CE

#4541

Das Rankenneurom.

Original description of plexiform neurofibroma.

1672 CE

#1544

De anima brutorum

Chap. XIV is devoted to the sense of hearing; in it Willis described the “paracusis of Willis” (p. 73). English translation, 1683. A probable description of myasthenia gravis is given in Pars. 2, Cap. IX. …

1538 CE

#4963.2

De anima et vita libri tres.

Vives anticipated Bacon and Descartes in developing an empirical psychology in which the mind was to be studied both through introspection and observation of others. From his exhaustive analysis of memory he developed…

1549 CE

#4511.02

De cerebri morbis…

The first book devoted entirely to brain disorders, including tremor, tetanus, vertigo, epilepsy and hemicrania.

1662 CE

#574

De homine figuris et latinitate donatus a Florentio Schuyl.

Descartes considered the human body a material machine, directed by a rational soul located in the pineal body. This book was the first attempt to cover the whole field of “animal physiology”. The work is …

1587 CE

#7337

De humano foetu liber tertio editus, ac recognitus. Eiusdem anatomicarum observationum liber: ac De tumoribus secundum locos affectos liber nunc primum editi.

First edition of Aranzi's Anatomicarum observationum published with the third edition of De humano foetu. In the Anatomicarum observationum Aranzi pointed out that the eye muscles arise from the margin of the optic ca…

1764 CE

#1382

De ischiade nervosa commentarius.

Cotugno published a classic description of sciatica, which is useful even today. He recognized two types – arthritic and nervous; the latter has been called “Cotugno’s disease”, and his book is…

1882 CE

#4782

De l’ataxie locomotrice d’origine syphilitique.

Fournier advanced the doctrine of the syphilitic origin of tabes, a hypothesis which was opposed for a time.

1858 CE–1859 CE

#4774

De l’ataxie locomotrice progressive.

Although far from being the first to describe tabes dorsalis, Duchenne gave a classic account of the condition, earning the eponym “Duchenne’s disease”.

1872 CE

#4543

De l’électrisation localisée et de son application à la pathologie et à la thérapeutique. 3me. éd.

Early description, page 357, of partial brachial plexus paralysis, upper type (“Duchenne-Erb palsy”: see No. 4548). An English translation of the 3rd ed., by H. Tibbitts, actually appeared London in 1871, …

1860 CE

#4535

De l’état nerveue aigu et chronique ou nervosisme.

First adequate description of neurasthenia.

1856 CE

#4531

De l’hémiplégie alterne envisagée comme signe de lésion de la protrubérance annulaire et comme preuve de la décussation des nerfs faciaux.

“Gubler’s paralysis” – crossed hemiplegia. English translation in Wolf, The classical brain stem syndromes, Springfield: Charles C Thomas, 1971.

1882 CE

#11160

De l’homicide commis par les enfants.

Digital facsimile from BnFgallica at this link.