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1,103 entries published in Germany. 28 publication places.

1885 CE

#3731

Untersuchungen über Osteomalacie und Rachitis.

Hess considered this the foremost contribution to the subject during the 19th century.

1885 CE

#10383

Untersuchungen über staubinhalation und staubmetastase.

On the effects of dust inhalation. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1885 CE

#2500

Vorlesungen über Bacterien.

1885 CE

#3770

Zur Symptomatologie der sog. Pseudo-Leukämie

“Pel-Ebstein disease”, a remittant pyrexia occurring in Hodgkin’s disease (see also No. 3771).

1885 CE–1886 CE

#705

Ueber Ptomaine. 3 vols.

Brieger isolated and determined the composition of a number of the ptomaines.

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.

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

#9111

Die Bevölkerung der griechisch-römischen Welt.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1886 CE

#1017

Die Darmbakterien des Säuglings und ihre Beziehungen zur Physiologie der Verdauung.

Includes the first account of Bact. coli infection. The organism was later renamed Escherichia coli (E.coli).

1886 CE

#1883

Ichthyol und Resorcin als Repräsentanten der Gruppe reduzierender Heilmittel.

Unna introduced ichthyol and resorcinol into medicine. Supplement to Mh. prakt. Derm., No. 1.

1886 CE

#504

Lehrbuch der Entwicklungsgeschichte des Menschen und der Wirbelthiere.

1886 CE

#427

Plastische Anatomie des menschlichen Körpers.

“Illustrated with lithographs from hand-drawings, photographs from the nude, ethnic studies of facial features…The text…is of unusual historic interest, and includes special chapters on the anatomy…

1886 CE

#4944

Psychopathia sexualis; eine klinisch-forensische Studie.

Krafft-Ebing revised the book through 12 editions. Digital facsimile of the first edition from wellcomecollection.org at this link. English translation as Psychopathia sexualis, with special reference to contrary sexu…

1887 CE

#6197

Beiträge zur Anatomie und zur operativen Behandlung der Extrauterinschwangerschaft.

1887 CE

#3771

Das chronische Rückfallsfieber, eine neue Infektionskrankheit.

1887 CE

#4859

Die chirurgische Behandlung von Hirnkrankheiten.

Bergmann was the first in Germany to undertake an intensive study of the surgical aspects of brain diseases. From his experience as a military surgeon he learned that increased intracranial pressure was a consequence …

1887 CE

#7796

Die psychischen Störungen des Kindesalters. IN: Carl Gerhardt's Handbuch der Kinderkrankheiten, Nachtrag II.

The first systematic monograph on child psychiatry. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1887 CE

#4627

Eine besondere Art der Wortblindheit.

Berlin first suggested the term “dyslexia”. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1887 CE

#710

Lehrbuch der physiologischen und pathologischen Chemie.

1887 CE

#13259

Meine Wasser-Kur, durch mehr als 30 Jahre erprobt und geschrieben zur Heilung der Krankheiten und Erhaltung der Gesundheit.

Kneipp was a Bavarian priest and not a physician. He learned about hydrotherapy and other methods of treatment later called naturopathic during the time he suffered from tuberculosis. Digital facsimile of the 1889 10t…

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.

1887 CE

#7917

Über einige Derivate der Phenylmethacrylsäure und der Phenylisobuttersäure.

Synthesis of phenylisopropylamine, later known as amphetamine. Its stimulant effects were unknown until it was independently resynthesized by Gordon Alles.

1887 CE

#2579

Vorlesungen über die geschichtliche Entwickelung der Lehre von den Bacterien. Teil l.[All published].

Loeffler, Professor of Hygiene at Greifswald, made many discoveries in bacteriology. His history of the subject was the first and only history of bacteriology prior to the publication of Bulloch's History of bacteriol…

1887 CE

#5932

Wörterbuch der Augenheilkunde.

1888 CE

#4996

Der Hypnotismus und die suggestive Psychotherapie.

1888 CE

#5211

Die Blenorrhöe der Sexualorgane und ihre Complicationen.

1889 CE

#362

Die Anatomie des Heinrich von Mondeville. Nach einer Handschrift der Königlichen Bibliothek zu Berlin von Jahre 1304 zum ersten Male herausgegeben von J. Pagel.

Mondeville was the first teacher known to have lectured with the aid of illustrations, using 13 charts of human anatomy. He lectured at Montpellier. Digital facsimile from the Medical Heritage Library, Internet Archiv…

1889 CE

#14299

Die Haut Arterien des menschlichen Körpers.

Manchot was the first to describe the vasular terrirtories of the human skin. This work was translated into English by J. Ristic with an introduction by William.D. Morain as The cutaneous arteries of the human body (N…

1889 CE

#6088

Die Tripperansteckung beim weiblichen Geschlechte.

1889 CE

#1766.601

Geschichte des medizinischen Unterrichtes von den ältesten Zeiten bis zur Gegenwart.

The only comprehensive multinational study of the development of medical education, and of limited value for coverage of the 19th century. Translated into English by Evan H. Hare as A history of medical education from…

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.

1889 CE

#4184

Lehrbuch der Kystoskopie.

Nitze introduced the cystoscope in 1877 (see No. 4175) and in 1889 published his important monograph on cystoscopy.

1889 CE

#8330

Marcelli De medicamentis liber. Edited Georgius Helmreich.

Marcellus's compendium of pharmacological preparations drawing on the work of multiple medical and scientific writers as well as folk remedies and magic. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1889 CE

#12646

Über den Schwerpunkt des menschlichen Körpers mit Rücksicht auf die Ausrüstung des deutschen Infanteristen.

Translated into English by P.G.J. Maquet and R. Furlong as On the centre of gravity of the human body as related to the equipment of the German infantry soldier. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1985.

1889 CE–1891 CE

#2036

Aus pharmazeutischer Vorzeit in Bild und Wort. 2 vols.

Digital facsimile of the 1889 edition from the Internet Archive at this link. Translated into English by William Netter as Pictorial history of ancient pharmacy; with sketches of early medical practice (Chicago, G. P.…

1890 CE

#126

Die Elementarorganismen und ihre Beziehungen zu den Zellen.

Mitochondria described, p. 145.

1890 CE

#1650

Gesundheitspflege im Mittelalter.

1890 CE

#203.4

Grundzüge einer systematischen Kraniometrie. Methodische Anleitung zur kraniometrischen Analyse der Schädelform für die Zwecke der physischen Anthropologie, der vergleichenden Anatomie sowie für die Zwecke der medizinischen Disziplinen (Pyschiatrie, Okulistik, Zahnheilkunde, Geburtshilfe, gerichtliche Medizin) und der bildenden Künste (plastische Anatomie) ein Handbuch fürs Laboratorium.

Török made an exhaustive study of craniometry as applied to an unusually wide range of fields in medicine, and art, and proposed 5,000 different measurements of a single skull. Digital facsimile from the Int…

1890 CE

#13386

Neue Forschungen auf dem Gebiet der Psychopathia sexualis. Ein medicinisch-psychologische Studie.

Among other things, Krafft-Ebing introduced the terms sadism and masochism in this work. Digital facsimile from wellcomecollection.org at this link.

1890 CE

#715

Ueber den Einfluss der Alkalien auf den menschlichen Stoffwechsel.

1890 CE

#6089

Ueber die Pseudomucine der cystischen Ovariengeschwülste.

1890 CE–1893 CE

#3497

Diagnostik und Therapie der Magenkrankheiten. 2 pts.

Boas, who devised the test breakfast, became the foremost gastroenterologist in Europe. He founded the Archivfür Verdauungskrankheiten, the first journal devoted to the subject of gastroenterology.

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 …

1891 CE

#3633

Der Icterus und seine verschiedenen Formen.

1891 CE

#4358

Die fibröse oder deformirende Ostitis, die Osteomalacie und die osteoplastische Carcinose in ihren gegenseitigen Beziehungen. In: Festschrift R. Virchow.

Recklinghausen gave an important description of generalized osteitis fibrosa. His reference to the earlier case reported by Engel (see No. 4335) has led to this condition being sometimes referred to as “Engel&nd…

1891 CE

#4834

Die Tetanie.

1891 CE

#3069.1

Farbenanalytische Untersuchungen zur Histologie und Klinik des Blutes.

Extension of Ehrlich’s work on the differential blood count. By means of his methods of staining blood cells Ehrlich differentiated two types of leukemia, lymphatic and myelogenous.

1891 CE

#4356

Lehrbuch der orthopädischen Chirurgie .

Hoffa, a leading German orthopedist, made important contributions to the subject and founded the Zeitschrift für orthopädische Chirurgie.

1891 CE

#3791

Ueber eine Geschwulst der sogen. Glandula carotica oder des Nodulus caroticus. In Festschrift Rudolf Virchow, 1, 547-54.

First account of the pathology of carotid body tumors.

1891 CE

#4627.1

Zur Auffassung der Aphasien.

Freud refuted the Wernicke–Lichtheim doctrine (Nos. 4623 & 4626) that the losses of function in aphasia were due to lesions to anatomically circumscribed centers corresponding to the various functions involved i…