Jena

1681 CE

#5161

Epistola… qua simul de anthrace, carbunculo, bubone et altauna, philologice disseritur.

1727 CE

#918

De respirationis mechanismo atque usu genuino. [Praeses:] Georgius Erh. Hamberger. [Defendet:] Justinus Gerhardus Duising.

"Recent data on intercostal muscle function, largely electromyographic, tend to confirm the ideas of Hamberger, who, in 1748 (recte 1727), proposed a theory of intercostals muscle action upon the rib cage. Hamberger's…

1731 CE

#6746.1

Anleitung zur Historie der medicinischen Gelahrheit.

A pioneer history of medical writing, for which the historian, Stolle, collaborated with the medical historian/biographer/bibliographer Kestner. Digital facsimile from the Google Books at this link.

1746 CE

#3424

De ruptura intestini duodeni.

First description of duodenal ulcer.

1752 CE

#3424.1

De tumore scirrhoso trium cum quadrante librarum glandulae parotidis extirpato.

First description of parotid tumor.

1796 CE

#6849

Versuch über ein neues Prinzip zur Auffindung der Heilkräfte der Arzneisubstanzen, nebst einigen Blicken auf die bishberigan.

Hahnemann's first presentation of his new system of medicine. English translation in The Lesser Writings of Samuel Hahnemann, Collected and Translated by R. E. Dudgeon, London: W. Headland, 1851, 195-357.

1797 CE

#1602

Die Kunst das menschliche Leben zu verlängern

Hufeland’s “Makrobiotik”, one of the most popular books of its time on personal hygiene. It was translated into all European languages. Hufeland was court physician at Weimar. English translation, 1797.

1804 CE

#5481

Neue Ansichten der Hundswuth, ihrer Ursachen und Folgen, nebst einer sichem ehandlungsart der von tollen Thieren gebissenen Menschen.

Zinke transmitted rabies from a rabid dog to a normal one, and to a rabbit and a hen, by injection of saliva and proved the disease to be infectious. Digital facsimile from wellcomecollection.org at this link.

1807 CE

#199

Ueber die Bedeutung der Schädelknochen.

Oken’s vertebral theory of the skull.

1816 CE

#1990

Anleitung zur Darstellung und Anwendung aller Arten der kräftigsten Bäder und Heilwässer welche von Gesunden und Kranken gebraucht werden.

Döbereiner was the first to treat the subject of light therapy on a scientific basis.

1817 CE–1848 CE

#107

Isis, oder encyclopädische Zeitung (verzüglich für Naturgeschichte, vergleichende Anatomie und Physiologie), VON OKEN. 41 vols.

Lorenz Oken, a leading light in the Nature-Philosophical School in Germany, produced important work in the field of biology. He founded the journal Isis, which published articles of great value; its incursion into the…

1832 CE

#8951

Aeliani de natura animalium libri septemdecim. Verba ad fidem librorum manuscriptorum constituit et annotationibus illustravit Fridericus Jacobs.

The first modern critical edition of the text, which collated medieval manuscripts against the previous printed editions. Digital facsimile of the 1832 edition from the Internet Archive at this link

1835 CE

#1717

Kaiser Karl’s des Fünften Peinlich Gerichtsordnung … Hrsg. von R. Schmid.

CONSTITUTIO CRIMINALIS CAROLINA

The Constitutio Criminalis of the Emperor Charles V (circa 1533) is probably the oldest European document of any importance dealing with medical jurisprudence. It authorized judges to call expert witnesses in medico-l…

1842 CE

#30

Antylli veteris chirurgi quae apud Oribasium libro xliv, xlv et L leguntur fragmenta. Dissertatio inauguralis chirurgico-historica....By Friedrich C. F. Wolz.

Antyllus, a Greek surgeon who lived in Rome during the second century CE. is particularly remembered for his work on the surgery of aneurysm. He was first to recognize two forms of aneurysm–one caused by dilatat…

1843 CE

#1677

Bibliotheca epidemiographica.

A second edition was published in 1862. Digital facsimile of the second edition from the Medical Heritage Library at the Internet Archive, at this link.

1845 CE

#6384

Lehrbuch der Geschichte der Medicin und der Volkskrankheiten.

As an historian, Haeser was eclipsed only by his fellow-countryman Sudhoff. A third edition, in three volumes, appeared in 1875-82 and was reprinted, Hildesheim, G.Olms, 1971.

1846 CE

#14337

Disquisitiones de structura protuberantia annularis sive pontis Varolii. Untersuchungen über den Bau des Hirnknotens oder der Varoli’schen Brucke. Text and atlas.

Stilling’s great work on the pons Varolii, the structure that links the brain to the spinal cord, includes the first accurate description of the red nucleus (superior olive), a structure in the midbrain involved…

1847 CE

#5524

Scriptores de sudore anglico superstites. Colliget C. G. Gruner. Post mortem auctoris adomavit et edidit H. Haeser.

A collection of all the important earlier writings on sweating sickness.

1861 CE

#534.63

Die Missbildungen des Menschen, systematisch dargestellt. 2 vols.

An encyclopedia of cases from the literature and from Forster’s personal experience. It contains an extremely useful bibliography of teratology, which served as the basis for all subsequent bibliographies of the…

1871 CE

#874

Die Blutkrystalle.

1880 CE

#123

Ueber Zellbildung und Zelltheilung. 3te. Aufl.

A pioneer work on the formation and division of cells. In this third edition Strasburger established one of the principles of modern cytology, i.e., that independent cell formation does not occur but that fresh nuclei…

1881 CE

#502

Die Coelomtheorie. Versuch einer Erklärung des mittleren Keimblattes.

The Hertwig brothers formulated the “coelom” theory to account for the classification and phylogeny of metazoan animals. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1881 CE–1882 CE

#2305

Lehrbuch de allgemeinen und speciellen pathologischen Anatomie und Pathogenese.

An outstanding textbook which today remains of value to pathologists. Ziegler was Professor of Pathology at Freiburg, and founded the Beiträge zur pathologischen Anatomie (“Ziegler’s Beiträge&rdq…

1882 CE

#1679

Geschichte der epidemischen Krankheiten.

Forms vol. 3 of his Lehrbuch der Geschichte der Medizin und der epidemischen Krankheiten, 3te. Aufl.

1883 CE

#343

Lehrbuch der vergleichenden Anatomie der Wirbelthiere.

English translation, London, 1886. Digital facsimile of the 1883 edition from the Biodiversity Heritage Library, Internet Archive, at this link.

1884 CE

#229.1

Neue Untersuchungen über den Befruchtungsvorgang bei den Phanerogamen als Gründlage für eine Theorie der Zeugung.

Like Roux, Strasburger hypothesized that the cell nucleus contained the material basis of heredity, and developed the idea with evidence from microscopical observations.

1884 CE–1890 CE

#555

Untersuchungen zur Morphologie und Physiologie der Zelle.

1886 CE

#10450

Beiträge zur Analyse der Empfindungen.

Translated into English by C. M .Williams and Sydney Waterlow as The Analysis of Sensations (1897). Revised and supplemented from the Fifth German edition by Sydney Waterlow (1914). Digital facsimile of the 1886 editi…

1886 CE

#504

Lehrbuch der Entwicklungsgeschichte des Menschen und der Wirbelthiere.

1887 CE

#12295

Sphygmographische Untersuchungen an Geisteskranken.

Ziehen, a student of Hermann Munk, wrote his habiltation thesis on sphygmographic studies of psychiatric patients. This was the first monograph on the subject.

1891 CE

#234

Amphimixis, oder die Vermischung der Individuen.

By “amphimixis” Weismann meant the union of the two parent germs, which he considered the principal source of heritable variation in evolution by natural selection. English translation in Weismann’s …

1892 CE

#235

Aufsätze über Vererbung und verwandte biologische Fragen.

Weismann produced experimental evidence that acquired characters are not transmitted.

1892 CE

#236

Das Keimplasma.

Weismann elaborated the theory of the continuity of the germ plasm. English edition, 1893.

1893 CE–1898 CE

#556

Die Zelle und die Gewebe.

Part 1 was translated as The cell: outlines of general anatomy and physiology, London, 1895.

1894 CE

#1567

Die Lehren von den Funktionen der einzelnen Theile des Ohrlabyrinths.

Stein studied the functions of separate parts of the labyrinth. This is a translation from the Russian.

1895 CE

#644

Elektrophysiologie.

First exhaustive treatise on electrophysiology. English translation, 2 vols., London, 1896-98.

1896 CE–1934 CE

#433

Handbuch der Anatomie des Menschen. 32 parts.

An important collective work.

1897 CE–1938 CE

#513

Normentafeln zur Entwicklungsgeschichte der Wirbelthiere. 16 pts.

1898 CE

#12932

Die Krankheiten des Mundes.

1898 CE

#8536

Pflanzengeographie auf Physiologischer Grundlage.

In this work on the geographical distribution of plants Schimper coined the terms tropical rainforest and sclerophyll. English translation by William R. Fisher, revised and edited by Percy Groom and Isaac Bayley Balfo…

1898 CE

#838

Ueber Herzbewegung und Herzstoss.

First employment of cinematograph to record the cardiac changes during all phases of heart contraction.

1901 CE

#5688

Studien über die Narkose.

Overton developed the lipid theory of narcosis.

1901 CE–1905 CE

#13226

Topographischer Atlas der medizinisch-chirurgischen Diagnostik. Topographic Atlas medico-surgical diagnosis. Atlas Topographique de diagnostic médico-chirurgical. 5 parts.

Contains 30 chromolithographed plates of cross-sectional anatomy made from frozen sections, with accompanying uncolored outline plates and text, published in German, English and French. Digital facsimile from biusante…

1901 CE–1911 CE

#2423

Der Ursprung der Syphilis. 2 pts.

Bloch was a chief modern supporter of the theory of the Columbian origin of syphilis.

1902 CE–1905 CE

#6398

Handbuch der Geschichte der Medizin. Begründet von Theodore Puschmann. Herausgegeben von Max Neuburger und Julius Pagel. 3 vols.

Puschmann died before the completion of this work, and it was then edited by Pagel and Neuburger. It ranks with the work of Haeser; many authorities collaborated in the writing of the histories of the various subjects…

1902 CE–1909 CE

#517

Lehrbuch der vergleichenden Entwicklungsgeschichte der wirbellosen Thiere.

1903 CE

#2629

Die Verbreitungswege der Karzinome und die Beziehung generalisierter Sarkome zu den leukämischen Neubildungen.

Schmidt supported the theory of the hematogenous origin of carcinoma metastases.

1903 CE

#242

Ueber Erblichkeit in Populationen und in reinen Linien.

More support for the Mendelian law of inheritance was provided by Johannsen, a Danish botanist, who showed that in certain self-fertilizing plants a pure line of descendants can be maintained indefinitely, in which ca…

1903 CE

#2557

Zur Lehre von der Unterscheidung verschiedener Eiweissarten mit Hilfe spezifischer Sera.

Demonstration of organ-specific antigens, in this case in the proteins of the lens of the eye.

1903 CE–1909 CE

#2517

Handbuch der pathogenen Mikroorganismen. 6 vols.

Third edition, 10 vols. [in 19], 1929-31.