Göttingen

1743 CE

#765.1

Dissertationem inauguralem de vera nervi intercostalis origine.

Taube described the carotid body and named it “ganglion minutum”, See J. Pick, J. Hist. Med., 1959, 14, 61-73.

1743 CE–1756 CE

#397

Icones anatomicae. 8 pts.

Accurate and beautiful engravings of the diaphragm, uterus, ovaries, vagina, arteries, with explanatory observations. About fifty years after they were originally published the most visually spectacular versions of Ha…

1746 CE–1747 CE

#917

De respiratione experimenta anatomica, quibus aëris inter pulmonem etpleuram absentia demonstratur et musculorum intercostalium internorum officium adseritur. 2 pts.

First investigation of the action of the intercostal muscles in respiration.

1747 CE

#585

Primae lineae physiologiae in usum praelectionum academicarum.

Haller was one of the most imposing figures in the whole of medicine, besides being a superb bibliographer and the founder of medical bibliography. As a physiologist he was the greatest of his time. Many apparently &l…

1748 CE

#1249

Tractatus anatomico-physiologicus de quinto pare nervorum cerebri.

Meckel’s graduation thesis contains the first really detailed account of the trigeminal nerve’s distribution (along with a meticulous treatment of the earlier literature), and in it he describes for the fi…

1749 CE

#2732

De aortae venaeque cavae gravioribus quibusdam morbis.

1753 CE

#1483

De ligamentis ciliaribus.

1755 CE

#1484

Descriptio anatomica oculi humani.

The first complete study of the anatomy of the eye, including the first description of the “zonule of Zinn” and the “annulus of Zinn”.

1762 CE

#5021

De morbo mucoso.

An exhaustive study of typhoid, which the writers confused with dysentery and relapsing fever.

1775 CE

#156

De generis humani varietate nativa.

Blumenbach was the founder of anthropology. In this, his doctoral dissertation, he classified mankind into four races, based on selected combinations of head shape, skin color and hair form. In the second edition (178…

1777 CE

#1252

Observationes anatomicae de quinto pare nervorum encephali.

Wrisberg, Professor of Anatomy at Göttingen, is remembered for his discovery of the nervus intermedius (“nerve of Wrisberg”), described in the above treatise.

1778 CE

#1383

Dissertatio inauguralis anatomica de basi encephali et originibus nervorum cranio egredientium libri quinque.

The first accurate enumeration of the 12 cranial nerves, superseding that of Willis (No. 1378). Soemmerring is notable for his accuracy in anatomical illustration. This was his thesis. The same publisher issued an edi…

1778 CE–1779 CE

#3578

Abhandlung von den Brüchen.

Richter, lecturer on surgery at Göttingen, in his classic treatise on hernia, first described partial enterocele, or “Richter’s hernia” (Chap. 24).

1781 CE

#104

Ueber den Bildungstrieb und das Zeugungsgeschäft.

Blumenbach, Professor of Medicine at Göttingen, was the founder of modern anthropology. In the above work he rejected the “preformation” theory and advanced the theory of epigenesis as the true explan…

1783 CE–1795 CE

#6748

Medicinische Bibliothek. 3 vols.

Includes detailed abstracts of periodical literature.

1786 CE

#6749

Introductio in historiam medicinae litterarium.

An annotated subject bibliography of the history of medicine, arranged chronologically from antiquity to Blumenbach’s time.

1788 CE–1789 CE

#5199

Abhandlung über die venerische Krankheit. 3 vols.

Girtanner’s important textbook on the venereal diseases contains some history.

1790 CE–1811 CE

#157

Beyträge zur Naturgeschichte. 2 pts.

English translation, London, 1865.

1790 CE–1828 CE

#198

Decas collectionis suae craniorum diversarum gentium illustrata. 6 parts plus supplement.

Blumenbach was the founder of craniology, and his craniological collection served as the principal foundation for his investigations into the natural history of mankind. He used the norma verticalis, the shape of the …

1796 CE

#13243

De corporis humani viribus conservatricibus dissertatio.

Young's thesis for his medical degree from Göttingen on the conservation of strength in the human body, which also contains, on the final four pages, the only extant fragment of Young's brief thesis on the human …

1801 CE–1821 CE

#6750.3

Repertorium commentationum a societatibus litterariis editarum. 16 vols.

A classified subject index to the contents of learned society journals to the end of the 18th century. Vols. 10-16 deal with medicine and surgery. Reprinted, New York, Franklin, 1961.

1802 CE–1822 CE

#105.1

Biologie: oder Philosophie der lebenden Natur für Naturforscher und Aerzte. 6 vols.

Simultaneously with Lamarck, Treviranus coined the term “biology” for the study of living things, and he was the first to use it in a book title. This massive work was a summary of all basic knowledge abou…

1805 CE

#312

Handbuch der vergleichenden Anatomie.

Blumenbach, physiologist and anthropologist, was Professor of Medicine at Göttingen. He was the first to show the value of comparative anatomy in the study of anthropology; his classic text went through many edit…

1811 CE

#5841

Prüfung der Keratonyxis, einer neuen Methode den grauen Staar durch die Homhaut zu recliniren oder zu zerstückeln.

Langenbeck’s operation of iridencleisis for construction of artificial pupil. He was Professor of Anatomy and Surgery at Göttingen.

1825 CE

#14177

Commentatio de vera materiae sanguini purpureum colorem impertientis natura.

Engelhart’s dissertation, presented before the medical faculty at the University of Göttingen, contains the first determination of the molecular mass of a protein (hemoglobin). Engelhart proved that the rat…

1826 CE

#10037

De euthanasia medica prolusio.

The first "modern" discussion of medical euthanasia. Translated into English by Walter Crane as "Medical euthanasia: A paper published in Latin in 1826, translated and reintorduced to the medical Profession," J. Hist.…

1836 CE

#604

Mechanik der menschlichen Gehwerkzeuge. 1 vol. and atlas.

A pioneering study of the physiology and biomechanics of motion and locomotion. The atlas contains four illustrations that were printed directly from actual bones embedded in plaster of Paris. This is one of the only …

1840 CE

#6502

Geschichte der arabischen Aerzte und Naturforscher.

This has traditionally been considered the first major history of Arab medicine. It was written mostly in the form of a chronological series of bio-bibliographies, and should also be considered a pioneering bibliograp…

1840 CE

#6946

Verzeichniss der vom weil. Obermedicinalrath Blumbach nachgelassen Bucher. . . .

Catalogue of the library of Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, prepared for its sale at auction. Books were listed for sale individually, organized by size. Author and title and place published were listed, as were the numb…

1843 CE

#2420

Die ältesten Schriftseller über die Lustseuche in Deutschland, von 1495 bis 1510.

Gives texts of German tracts on syphilis published between 1495 and 1510.

1845 CE

#1503

Beitrag zur physiologischen Optik.

1851 CE

#5338.1

Beobachtungen über Trichina spiralis in Betriff der Uebertragung der Eingeweidewürmer.

Herbst was the first to demonstrate that an animal eating trichinous flesh would thereby develop trichinae in its own muscles. English translation of part I in Kean (No. 2268.1).

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.

1857 CE

#10427

Der Staat Californien in medicinisch-geographischer Hinsicht.

Dr. Praslow practiced medicine in San Francisco from 1849-1856, after which he returned to Germany. His book provides information concerning health and epidemics in San Francisco during this early period. Translated i…

1860 CE

#1865

Ueber eine neue organische Base in den Cocablättern.

Isolation of cocaine, 1859, from the coca leaf, brought from Peru by Scherzer.

1861 CE

#10039

Ueber die Beziehungen der darstellenden Kunst zur Heilkunst. Aus dem zehnten Bande der Abhandlungen der Königlichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1877 CE

#6761.1

Die Uebersetzungen arabischer Werke in das Lateinische seit dem XI. Jahrhundert.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1895 CE

#10353

Das Recht auf den Tod. Sociale Studie.

This work is considered the starting point for a broad philosophical discussion on euthanasia in the German-speaking world. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1966 CE

#8419

Medicinalia Arabica. Studien über arabische medizinische Handschriften in türkischen und syrischen Bibliotheken. (Abhandlungen der Akademie der Wissenschaftern in Göttingen. phil. hist. Klasse, Dritte Folge, No. 66).

1988 CE

#13357

Dioscurides triumphans: Ein anonymer arabischer Kommentar (Ende 12. Jh. n. Chr.) zur Materia medica. Arabischer Text nebst kommentierter deutscher Übersetzung. 2 vols.

1989 CE

#8423

Index Hippocraticus Cui elaborando interfuerunt sodales Thesauri Linguae Graecae Hamburgensis. Edited by Joseph-Hans Kühn and Ulrich Fleischer.

There have been several supplements, etc. "This index contains the entire vocabulary (with the exception of the article and a few particles) of the complete writings constituting the Corpus Hippocraticum. Quotations a…

1991 CE

#12521

Die Dioskurides-Erklärung des Ibn-al-Baitār: Ein Beitrag zur arabischen Pfanzensynonymik des Mittelalters. Edited and translated by Albert Dietrich. (Abhandlungen der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Göttingen, phil.-hist. Kl., fol. 3, no. 191).

1993 CE

#12522

Die Erganzung Ibn Gulgul's zur Materia Medica des Dioskurides: Arabischer Text nebst kommentierter deutscher Ubersetzung herausgegeben von Albert Dietrich.

2005 CE

#9945

Hirnströme: Eine Kulturgeschichte der Elektroenzephalographie.

Translated into English by Ann M. Hentschel as Brainwaves: A cultural history of electroencephalography. Abingdon, Oxford and New York: Routledge, 2018.

2009 CE

#12012

Bacterien in Krieg und Frieden: Eine Geschichte der medizinischen Bakteriologie in Deutschland 1890-1933.

2010 CE

#13443

Johann Friedrich Blumenbach: Bibliographie seiner Schriften