Facets

1858 CE

#774

De l’influence de deux ordres de nerfs qui déterminent les variations de couleur du sang veineux dans les organes glondulaires.

Discovery of the vasoconstrictor and vasodilator nerves and description of their function of regulating the blood supply to the different parts of the body.

1852 CE

#4829

De la contracture des extrémités ou tétanie. Thèse pour le doctorat en médecine. No. 223

In his graduation thesis, Lucien Corvisart, nephew of the more famous Baron Corvisart (No. 2737), introduced the term “tétanie”. Digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this link.

1880 CE

#4561

De la narcolepsie.

Narcolepsy first fully described.

1826 CE

#4797

De la paralysie consideree chez les aliénés.

Classic description of general paralysis. Calmeil’s work complements Bayle’s earlier delineation of general paralysis (No. 4795). Between the two of them they established the clinical picture of general pa…

1883 CE

#4701

De la parésie analgésique à panaris des extrémités supérieures ou paréso-analgésie des extrémités supérieures.

First description of “Morvan’s disease” – a form of syringomyelia.

1851 CE

#4530

De la transmission croisée des impressions sensitives par la moëlle épinière.

“Brown-Séquard’s paralysis”. Lesion of one lateral half of the spinal cord causes paralysis of motion on one side and of sensation on the other. See also the writer’s later paper on pp. …

1689 CE

#6321

De morbis acutis infantum.

Harris was physician to William and Mary. His book served for nearly a century as a standard work on pediatrics. He anticipated the modern treatment of tetany by using calcium salts in infantile convulsions. For a stu…

1817 CE

#4772

De myelophthisi chronica vera et notha.

First important account of tabes dorsalis.

1481 CE

#6929

De natura hominis. Add: De victu; De tuenda valetudine; Medicinae lex; Iusiurandum; Demonstratio quod artes sunt; Invectiva in obtrectatores medicinae. Tr: Andreas Brentius.

The writings of Hippocrates began to appear in print in the 1480s, and only a few of the works attributed to Hippocrates were printed in the 15th century. Though the date of this edition is unstated within the book it…

1823 CE

#1317

De nervi sympathetici humani fabrica usu et morbis.

Includes description of “Lobstein’s ganglion”, an accessory ganglion of the sympathetic nerve above the diaphragm. English translation, 1831.

1573 CE

#1377.2

De nervis opticis nonnulisque aliis praeter communem opinionem in humano capite observatis.

Varolio described a new method of dissection which enabled him to observe and describe the pons for the first time. By this new method Varolio was able to make some contributions to the knowledge of the course and ter…

1491 CE

#4511.01

De omnibus ingeniis augendae memoriae.

An early work on memory disorders and aids to memory. ISTC no. ia00210000. Digital facsimile from the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek at this link.

1536 CE

#11748

De palpitationes, tremore, rigore, convulsione. Intreprete Nicolao Lauachio, medico Florentino.

First separately published printed edition of Galen's writings on neuropathology. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1797 CE

#4519

De paralysi musculorum faciei rheumatici.

Facial paralysis first described.

1753 CE

#587

De partibus corporis humani sensibilibus et irritabilibus.

Glisson in 1677 had introduced the concept of “irritability” as a specific property of all tissues. Haller, in the above work, recorded his experimental proof of this, and distinguished between nerve impul…

1782 CE

#1384

De peculiari structura cerebri, nonnulisque ejus morbis.

Gennari was the first to demonstrate the laminar structure of the cerebral cortex when he discovered the line of Gennari, a macroscopically white band in the cerebral cortex of the occipital lobe. This he observed on …

1563 CE

#4916

De praestigiis daemonum.

Weyer was the first European physician to take an empirical, scientific approach to the study of mental illness. At the height of the witchcraft delusion he argued that witches were mentally ill women who deserved hum…

1632 CE

#2273

De recondita abscessuum natura.

The first textbook of surgical pathology. It treats of all kinds of swelling under the term “abscess” and describes neoplasms of the genital organs and sarcoma of bones. Tumors of the breast are classified…

1570 CE

#4916.2

De spectris…

This work on ghosts is one of the earliest works on psychic experiences illusions, hallucinations, and delusions. The English translation, London 1572, probably gave Shakespeare some pointers on the behavior of the gh…

1827 CE

#4773

De tabe dorsuali praelusio.

Gives the views of his father, Ernst Horn (1744-1848), on tabes.

1824 CE

#4511

De tremore, palpitatione, convulsione, et rigore. IN: Opera omnia ed. cur. C.G. Kühn, cur 7, 584-642.

Complete English translation by D. Sider and M. McVaugh in Trans. stud. Coll. Phys. Phila., 1979, 1, 183-210.

1792 CE

#4518

De vertebralis columnae in morbis dignitate. In his Delectus opusculorum medicorum, 11, 1-50

Frank, best remembered for his great services to public health, was the first physician to emphasize the gravity of diseases of the spinal cord.

1957 CE

#4729.1

Degenerative disease of the central nervous system in New Guinea. The endemic occurrence of “Kuru” in the native population.

First description of Kuru, a disease occurring in natives of New Guinea. Cause of the disease was unknown. "It is now widely accepted that kuru was transmitted among members of the Fore tribe of Papua New Guinea via f…

1792 CE

#13154

Del coraggio nelle malattie. Trattato.

Pasta was a pioneer in promoting the value of psychological support for treating patients with severe physical disaease. His paper, printed by the celebrated Giambattista Bodoni, promotes courage and philosophical tol…

1793 CE–1794 CE

#4921

Della pazzia in genere, e in specie, trattato medico-analitico, con una centuri di osservatzioni. 3 vols.

Chiarugi was the first in Europe to abandon chains and fetters in a mental hospital. He required a case history for each patient, hygienic rooms with segregation of the sexes, no restraint beyond strait jacket and cot…

1829 CE

#1394

Della struttura degli emisferi cerebrali.

1911 CE

#4957

Dementia praecox Oder die Gruppe der Schizophrenien.

Bleuler introduced the concept of schizophrenia. He showed that Kraepelin’s “dementia praecox” (No. 4952) should include all the schizophrenic disorders. Translated into English by Joseph Zinkin as D…

1874 CE

#4623

Der aphasische Symptomencomplex.

Sensory aphasia (“Wernicke’s aphasia”). Wernicke did important work on the localization of aphasia; he included in his book accounts of alexia and agraphia. English translation in Boston Studies in t…

1867 CE

#1403

Der Bau der Gross-Hirnrinde und seine örtlichen Verschiedenheiten, nebst einem pathologisch-anatomischen Corollarium.

Meynert noticed regional variations in the histological structure of different parts of the gray matter in the cerebral hemispheres. He is credited with beginning the study of cytoarchitecture. Meynert described the f…

1908 CE

#1301

Der Bau der Spinalganglien des Menschen und der Säugetiere.

1589 CE–1591 CE

#8466

Der Bücher und Schriften des Edlen, Hochgelehrten und Bewehrten Philosophi und Medici, Philipi Thephrasti Bombast von Hohen hem, Paracelsi genannt. Edited by Johannes Huser. 10 vols.

First edition of Paracelsus's collected works. Though all the autographs of Paracelsus's writings were later lost, Huber, who was born shortly after Paracelsus's death, was able to collect a great number of autographs…

1931 CE

#1347

Der humorale Wirkungsmechanismus der Oculomotoriusreizung.

1896 CE

#1371

Der Hund mit verkürtzen Rückenmark.

Goltz and Ewald succeeded in impregnating a bitch after its spinal cord had been severed.

1892 CE

#1370

Der Hund ohne Grosshirn.

Goltz was able to keep dogs alive for eight months after he had performed subtotal decerebration. He found them incapable of purposive movements but able to walk with adequate co-ordination. Frontal decortication caus…

1927 CE

#2086.1

Der Meskalinrausch. Seine Geschichte und Erscheinungsweise.

The most comprehensive treatise on peyote and its active agent, mescaline, which was synthesized in 1919.

1896 CE

#4950

Der psychologische Versuch in der Psychiatrie.

1909 CE

#1375

Der rote Kern, die Haube und die Regio hypothalamica bei einigen Säugetieren und beim Menschen.

“Monakow’s bundle”, the rubrospinal tract.

1541 CE

#373.1

Des aller fürtrefflichsten…erschaffen. Das is des menchen…warhafftige beschreibung oder Anatomi…

This plagiarism of Vesalius’s Tabulae anatomicae sex contains 25 woodcuts by Hans Baldung Grien (1484/1485-1545), and represents the artist’s only contribution to medical illustration. The woodcuts include…

1874 CE

#4742

Des amyotrophies spinales chroniques.

Charcot differentiated between the ordinary (Aran–Duchenne) type of muscular atrophy and the rarer amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, (ALS), at one time called “Charcot’s disease,” but more frequen…

1853 CE

#1398

Des granulations méningiennes. Thèse pour le doctorat en médecine.

Digital facsimile from wellcomecollection.org at this link. See also his paper in Ann. Sci. nat., 1853, 20, 321-33 (Zool.).

1845 CE

#10459

Des hallucinations, ou histoire raisonnée des apparitions, des visions, des songes, de l'extase, du magnétisme et du somnambulisme.

This study underwent at least three editions in French and also appeared in several English translations, the first of which appears to have been translated anonymously and publlished in Philadelphia in 1853 from the …

1838 CE

#4798

Des maladies mentales. 2 vols. and atlas.

Esquirol succeeded Pinel at the Salpêtrière, and was the first lecturer on psychiatry. After Pinel he was a founder of the French School. This is the first modern textbook on psychiatry. It is notable for…

1889 CE

#2100

Des polynévrites en général et des paralysies et atrophies saturnines en particulier.

Madame Dejerine-Klumpke, famous neurologist, contributed an important work on lead palsies.

1866 CE

#4776

Des troubles gastriques dans l’ataxie locomotrice progressive. Thèse pour le doctorat en médecine. No. 250.

Tabetic gastric crises first described. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1813 CE

#4925.1

Description of The Retreat, an institution near York, for insane persons…

The pioneer work by an Englishman advocating humane treatment of the mentally ill. Tuke set out in this work the successful results of his experience with the “mild system of treatment” which had been inst…

1869 CE

#4740

Deux cas d’atrophie musculaire progressive avec lésions de la substance grise et des faisceaux antéro-latéraux de la moëlle épinière.

Description of the lesions of the spinal cord in muscular atrophy.

1952 CE

#13047

Diagnostic and statistical manual: Mental disorders with special supplement on plans for revision.

The first edition was known as DSM-1; DSM-5 was published in 2013.

1944 CE

#7626

Die "Autistischen Psychopathen" im Kindesalter.

Early infantile autism (Asperberger's syndrome).

1924 CE

#795

Die Aenderung der Herzschlagzahl durch Aenderung des arteriellen Blutdruckes erfolgt aus reflektorischem Wege; gleichzeitig eine Mitteilung über die Funktion des Sinus caroticus, beziehungsweise der Sinusnerven.

First description of the structure and function of the sinus nerve and the reflex character of carotid pressure.

1892 CE

#4789

Die Aetiologieder Tabes.

English translation, 1900.