Austria
162 entries published in Austria. 5 publication places.
1845 CE
#4929.1
Lehrbuch der ärztlichen Seelenkunde.
Feuchtersleben introduced the terms psychosis, psychiatrics, and psychopathology. The book includes a short history of psychiatry. English translation, Sydenham Society, 1847.
1845 CE
#9546
Necrose der Kieferknochen, in Folge der Einwikrung von Phosphor-Dämpfen. Ein Beitrag zur Ätiologie der Knochen-Krankheiten.
The production of matches with white phosphorus in German-speaking countries started in 1833. Between 1839 and 1845 Lorinser saw nine cases of what he called "phosphorimus chronicus" in workers with white phosphorus, …
1847 CE
#414
Handbuch der topographischen Anatomie. 2 vols.
Hyrtl, professor of anatomy at Vienna, published the first text on topographical anatomy in German. He was for 30 years the most popular lecturer on the subject in Europe, and ranks as one of the greatest of medical s…
1847 CE–1848 CE
#6275
Höchst wichtige Erfahrungen über die Aetiologie der in Gebäranstalten epidemischen Puerperalfieber.
Semmelweis, pioneer of antisepsis in obstetrics, was the first to recognize that puerperal fever is a septicemia. He concluded that the doctors and students of Vienna’s First Obstetrical Clinic carried the infec…
1850 CE–1853 CE
#6335
Die Krankheiten der Neugebomen und Säuglinge. 4 vols.
Bednaŕ was a famous Viennese pediatrician. His description of aphthae of the palate in the newborn (“Bednaŕ’s aphthae”) is in vol. 1, p. 104 of his book.
1851 CE
#10748
Entwicklungsgeschichte der Seele der Kindes.
Digital facsimile from Bayerische StaatsBibliothek at this link.
1851 CE
#9515
Früchte aus dem Morgenlande oder Reise-Erlebnisse. Nebst naturhistorisch-medicinischen Erfahrungen, einigen hundert erprobten Arzneimitteln und einer neuen Heilart dem Medial-Systeme. Mit vierzig lithographirten Tafeln: Porträte, Pflanzenabbildungen, sonstige Natur- und Kunstprodukte, Facsimile, Landkarte und Ansicht der Citadelle von Lahor; endlich als Anhang ein medizinisches Wörterbuch in mehreren europäischen und orientalischen Sprachen.
Digital facsimile from the Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link. Translated into English (1852) as Thirty-five years in the East. Adventures, discoveries, experiments, and historical sketches, relating to the Pu…
1856 CE
#1461
Grundzüge der Physiologie und Systematik der Sprachlaute für Linguisten und Taubstummenlehrer.
1856 CE–1876 CE
#3992
Atlas der Hautkrankheiten. 10 parts.
Hebra's work includes 104 spectacular folio-sized chromolithographed plates reproducing paintings by Anton Elfinger and Carl Heitzmann.
1858 CE
#14181
Compendium der Biochemie. 2 vols.
Kletzinsky coined the term "Biochemie" (biochemistry). Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1860 CE
#4291
Die Harnconcretionen.
Heller introduced several urine tests and wrote (above) an important work on urinary calculi.
1860 CE
#3333
Praktische Anleitung zur Laryngoscopie.
1860 CE
#5887
Schriftskalen. 3te. Aufl.
Jaeger first introduced his test types in 1854; Emil Fuchs improved them in 1895.
1862 CE
#6525
Compendium der Geschichte der Medicin von den Urzeiten bis auf die Gegenwart, mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Neuzeit und der Wiener Schule. 2te Aufl.
1865 CE
#13848
Das vergleichend-anatomische Museum an der Wiener medicinischen Facultät im Jubiläumsjahre 1865. Nebst einem Anhang: Catalog der, in der Privatsammlung des herausgebers befindlichen Skelete, Gehörorgane, und mikroskopischen Injections-Präparate.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
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.
1866 CE
#3273
Klinik der Krankheiten des Kehlkopfes und der Luftröhre. 1 vol. and atlas.
On p. 295 is a classic description of laryngitis sicca – “Türck’s trachoma”.
1867 CE
#3275
Die Anwendung der Galvanokaustik im Innern des Kehlkopfes und Schlundkopfes.
Voltolini was the first to use the galvanocautery in laryngeal surgery.
1867 CE
#11705
Sketches of the inhabitants, animal life and vegetation in the lowlands and high mountains of Ceylon: As well as of the submarine scenery near the coast taken from a diving bell.
This work was illustrated with 26 tinted lithographs of natives and scenery in Sri Lanka after drawings from nature by the author, of which four were colored reproductions of underwater scenes made by the author using…
1869 CE
#5904
Opthalmoskopischer Hand-Atlas.
A fine atlas which was for many years unsurpassed. The illustrations were reproduced from Jaeger’s own paintings, each of which required from 20 to 50 sittings of from two to three hours each. English translatio…
1870 CE
#423
Die descriptive und topographische Anatomie des Menschen.
1873 CE
#425
Die Corrosions-Anatomie und ihre Ergebnisse: mit 18 chromolithographirten Tafeln.
Hyrtl significantly enhanced the techniques of corrosion anatomy, a technique of preparing anatomical specimens invented by Frederik Ruysch. He built up a collection unsurpassed in Europe. In this work Hyrtl described…
1873 CE
#1701
Plan einer Mortalitäts-Statistik für Grossstädte.
The modern methods of interpreting vital statistics of large cities were devised by von Körösi.
1874 CE–1878 CE
#11619
Atlas der pathologischen Topographie des Auges. 3 vols.
1875 CE
#2778
Die Defecte der Scheidewände des Herzens.
Rokitansky’s memoir on defects of the septum of the heart was his last work, and possibly his greatest. It represented 14 years’ study of the subject.
1875 CE
#5912
Ueber die Verletzungen des Auges mit besonderer Rücksicht auf deren gerichtsärztliche Würdigung.
English translation by Charles S. Turnbull as Injuries of the eye and their medico-legal aspect. (Philadelpha. 1878). Digital facsimile of the 1875 edition from the Internet Archive at this link; of the 1878 edition f…
1877 CE
#1998
Die Hydrotherapie. 2 vols.
1877 CE–1878 CE
#1749
Lehrbuch der gerichtlichen Medicin.
An important German work on the subject. Hofmann’s book went through many editions and was translated into several European languages.
1878 CE–1879 CE
#8966
Alexander von Tralles. Original-Text und Übersetzung nebst einer einleitenden Abhandlung. Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Medicin. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1879 CE
#443
Das Arabische un Hebräische in der Anatomie.
Hyrtl, professor of anatomy at Prague and Vienna, retired in 1874 and devoted his leisure to the writing of this and his Onomatologia anatomica. Garrison considered Hyrtl, along with Littré, among the greatest …
1880 CE
#444
Onomatologia anatomica. Geschichte und Kritik der anatomischen Sprache der Gegenwart, mit besonderer Berücksichtigung ihrer Barbarismen, Widersinnigkeiten, Tropen und grammatikalischen Fehler.
A classic work on anatomical terminology. Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.
1880 CE
#3995
Pathologie und Therapie der Hautkrankheiten.
English translation by J. C. Johnston in 1895.
1881 CE
#6073
Ueber die Enukleation subperitonealer Fibrome der Gebärmutter durch das Scheidengewölbe; vaginale Myoniotomie.
The operation of enucleation of subperitoneal uterine fibroids by the vaginal route was introduced by Czerny. In the second paper the words “Fibromyome” and “Myomotomie” replace “Fibrome&…
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…
1882 CE–1892 CE
#946
Normale und pathologische Anatomie der Nasenhöhle und ihrer pneumatischen Anhänge.
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
#6526
Die Medicin in Wien während der letzten 100 Jahre.
1884 CE
#4942
Psychiatrie. Klinik der Erkrankungen der Vorderhirns.
Meynert, Professor of Neurology at Vienna, made many contributions to the study of the cellular architecture of the brain, and is often considered the founder of cerebral cortex cytoarchitectonics. English translation…
1884 CE–1888 CE
#6716
Biographisches Lexikon der hervorragenden Ärzte aller Zeiten und Völker. Edited by August Hirsch, with the assistance of Ernest Gurlt and A. Wernich. 6 vols.
This is one of the best sources of medical biography up to 1880, with useful bibliographical notes. Articles were written by many physicians, whose names were mentioned on the title page. Gurlt and Wernich assisted Hi…
1885 CE–1888 CE
#180
Völkerkunde. 2 vols.
Ratzel emphasized the importance of the investigation of the history of primitive peoples in the study of ethnology.
1888 CE
#5211
Die Blenorrhöe der Sexualorgane und ihre Complicationen.
1889 CE
#9041
Geschichte des Physiologus.
The most comprehensive survey of the general background of the Physiologus, and the later influence of this text. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1889 CE
#5935
Lehrbuch der Augenheilkunde.
Fuchs’s textbook was an outstanding contribution to the literature, and was translated into many languages. The last English edition appeared in 1933.
1891 CE
#4819
Die Myoclonie.
First description of “Unverricht’s disease” – familial myoclonus epilepsy.
1891 CE
#185
Schönheit und Fehler der menschlichen Gestalt.
1892 CE
#6202
Das tuberöse subchoriale Hämatom der Decidua. Eine typische Form der Molenschwangerschaft.
Tuberous (“Breus”) mole first described.
1893 CE–1897 CE
#2799
Die Krankheiten des Herzens und ihre Behandlung.
1895 CE
#4978
Studien über Hysterie.
The foundation of psychoanalysis. Using what they called the cathartic method, in which hysterical patients were made to describe the manifestations of their symptoms in detail, with or without hypnosis, Breuer and Fr…
1896 CE
#5088
Der Keuchhusten.
An important history of whooping cough.
1896 CE
#5491
Influenza und Dengue.
Forms Bd. IV, Teil 1 of Nothnagel’s Specielle Pathologie und Therapie.