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1,132 entries published in France. 8 publication places.

1889 CE

#2796

Maladies du coeur et des vaisseaux.

In his important monograph on disorders of the cardiovascular system, Huchard was apparently the first to use the designation “Stokes–Adams disease”.

1889 CE

#4785

Sur l’atrophie musculaire des ataxiques.

Dejerine ranks high in French neurology. He became clinical chief at the Salpêtrière. He separated peripheral from medullary tabes, wrote on the tabetic muscular atrophies, on the parietal lobe syndrome, …

1889 CE

#11541

Traité des maladies des pays chauds: Région prétropicale.

1889 CE–1892 CE

#428

Traité d’anatomie humaine. 3 vols.

7th edition, 1921-23.

1890 CE

#10600

Anatomie artistique: Decription des formes extérieures du corps human au repos et dans les principaux mouvements. Avec 100 planches renfermant plus de 300 figures dessinées par l'auteur. 2 vols.

Digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this link.

1890 CE

#4754

Étude clinique sur la maladie de Thomsen (myotonie congénitale).

First description of dystrophia myotonica (“Déléage’s disease”).

1890 CE

#6999

La grande chirurgie de Guy de Chauliac...composée en l'an 1363, revue et collationnée sur les manuscrits et imprimes Latins et Français, ornée de gravures avec des notes, une introduction sur le moyen age, sur la vie et les oeuvres de Guy de Chauliac, un glossaire et une table alphabétique by E. Nicaise.

The standard edition in French includes a very extensive bibliography of both manuscript and printed versions. English translation of sections on wounds and fractures, Chicago, 1923.

1891 CE

#14234

Anatomie pathologique de la moelle épinière.

1891 CE

#638

Le travail musculaire et l’énergie qu’il représente.

Important studies on thermodynamics of muscular work.

1891 CE

#4185

Les tumeurs de la vessie.

Includes description of “Albarran’s glands”, subtrigonal glands in the bladder. He introduced a classification based on embryological origin. See also No. 4195.

1891 CE

#4998

Thérapeutique suggestive.

1892 CE

#2307

Leçons sur la pathologie comparée de l'inflammation, faites à l'institut Pasteur en Avril et Mai 1891.

Metchnikoff delivered his classic lectures on inflammation in French at the Pasteur Institute. They were translated into Russian as Lektsii o sravnitelnoi patologii vospaleniy, and published in St. Petersburg by K. L.…

1893 CE

#9540

Centenaire de la fondation de Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle 10 juin 1793 - 10 juin 1893. Volume commemoratif publiée par les professeurs du muséum.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1893 CE

#8094

La photographie médicale: Application aux sciences médicales et physiologiques.

The first book on medical photography. Digital facsimile from http://jubilotheque.upmc.fr at this link.

1893 CE

#93

Leonardo da Vinci: Codice sul volo degli uccelli e varie altre materie. Pubblicato da Teodoro Sabachnikoff. Transcrizione e note di Giovanni Piumati; traduzione francese di Carlo Ravaisson-Mollien.

The scientific study of the mechanics of flight begins with Leonardo’s investigations on birds, undertaken during his attempts to build a flying machine. At the time of publication Sabachnikoff owned the manuscr…

1894 CE

#5639

De l’asepsie et antisepsie en obstétrique.

Tarnier was the first to adopt Listerism in obstetrics. In the discussion following a paper in Trans. int. med. Congr., London, 1881, 4, 390-391, he showed that he was the first to employ carbolic acid solution in obs…

1894 CE

#13770

La faune des cadavres: Application de l'entomologie à la médecine légale.

Digital facsimile from U.S. National Library of Medicine at this link.

1894 CE

#5125

La peste bubonique à Hong-Kong.

Yersin discovered the plague bacillus Pasteurella (Yersinia) pestis, isolating it from excised buboes. He published the first account of this organism. Preliminary note in C. R. Acad. Sci. (Paris), 1894, 119, 356.

1894 CE

#4116

La teigne trichophytique et la teigne spéciale de Grüby.

1894 CE

#643

Le mouvement.

Marey, like Muybridge (No. 650-51), was a pioneer in the use of serial pictures as a method of studying the mechanics of locomotion. English translation, 1895.

1894 CE

#11121

Les accouchements dans les beaux-arts, dans la littérature et au théatre.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1894 CE

#4800

Les affections parasyphilitiques.

Fournier, great French venereologist, introduced the concept of “parasyphilis”. He showed statistically the causal relationship of syphilis to paresis and tabes.

1894 CE

#3999

Les tricophyties humaines.

In his extensive studies of the role of fungi in skin diseases, Sabouraud revived and elaborated the discoveries of Gruby (Nos. 4030, 4034-36), which had remained neglected for half a century. See also No. 4116.

1894 CE–1895 CE

#11390

Chirurgie opératoire du système nerveux. 2 vols.

Among the innovations that Chipault made in neurosurgery were the removal of the underlyling dura in meningiomas, a new laminectomy technique, development of small clamps for closing a scalp incision, the treatment of…

1895 CE

#4758

Contribution à l’étude de l’atrophie musculaire progressive type Duchenne–Aran.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1895 CE

#12876

La cocaine en chirurgie.

The first French book on local anesthesia.

1895 CE

#1751

La mort et la mort subite.

Brouardel was professor of forensic medicine, Paris. He was to a great extent responsible for the development of that subject in France; he instituted courses of practical instruction at the Paris morgue, and wrote se…

1895 CE

#1423

Les centres moteurs corticaux chez l’homme.

Three papers by Charcot and Pitres in 1877, 1878, and 1883 left no doubt as to the existence of cortical motor centres in man. These were later published in book form (above).

1895 CE

#13330

Psychologie des foules.

"Le Bon theorised that the new entity, the "psychological crowd", which emerges from incorporating the assembled population not only forms a new body but also creates a collective "unconsciousness". As a group of peop…

1895 CE–1901 CE

#1424

Anatomie des centres nerveux. 2 vols.

Classic summary of neuroanatomy at the end of the nineteenth century—comprehensive, beautifully illustrated, and scholarly. It is a goldmine of historical information with an outstanding bibliography.

1895 CE–1928 CE

#646

Dictionnaire de physiologie. Vols. 1 - 10, pt. 1. (All published).

By Richet, Langlois, Lapique and numerous co-authors. Covers "A" - Moelle épinière only. Digital facsimile from the Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.

1896 CE

#14309

Centenaire de la faculté de médecine de Paris (1794-1894).

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1896 CE

#12454

Le sommeil, tiers de notre vie. Pathologie, physiologie, hygiène, psychologie. Traduit de Russe avec l'autorisation de l'auteur par Ernest Jaubert.

Perhaps the first book on the physiology of sleep. The author examines the physiology, pathology, hygiene, and psychology of sleep, including the differences between the waking and sleeping states, the general phenome…

1896 CE

#2109

Le vénin des serpents.

1896 CE

#9905

Les asphyxies par les gaz, les vapeurs et les anesthésiques.

1897 CE

#3228

Chirurgie du poumon en particulier dans les cavernes tuberculeuses et la gangrène pulmonaire.

Describes (p. 31) first cure of tuberculosis by removal of lung apex.

1897 CE

#1752

L’infanticide.

1897 CE

#11127

La foi qui guérit.

As one of his last works Charcot published this 38-page pamphlet on faith healing.

1897 CE

#1753

La pendaison, la strangulation, la suffocation, la submersion.

1897 CE

#2037

La thérapeutique des vieux maîtres.

1897 CE

#2395

Les chancres extra-génitaux.

1897 CE

#9903

Les explosifs, les explosions au point de vue médico-légal.

1897 CE

#9906

Les intoxications.

1897 CE–1901 CE

#13232

Principes de la phonétique expérimentale. 2 vols.

Rousselot is considered the founder of experimental phonetics, both theoretical and applied.

1898 CE

#13857

Considérations sanitaires sur l'expédition de Madagascar et quelques autres expéditions coloniales, françaises et anglaises.

Digital facsimile from wellcomecollection.org at this link.

1898 CE

#446

Histoire d’anatomie plastique: Les maitres, les livres et les écorchés.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1898 CE

#10497

L'art dentaire en médecine légale.

The first comprehensive text on forensic dentistry, dedicated by Amoëdo to his teacher, Brouardel. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1898 CE

#11152

Les cancers épithéliaux. Histologie - Histogenèse - Etiologie - Applications thérapeutiques.

1898 CE

#10269

Traité des maladies chirurgicales d'origine congénitale.

The first book entirely devoted to the surgical treatment of congenital abnormalities. The work also contains pp. 593-698 an exposition of Kirmisson's staged reduction of congenital dislocations of the hip, and discus…

1898 CE

#5248

Traité du paludisme.