1830–1839
385 entries with publication dates in this decade.
1832 CE
#10395
The moral and physical condition of the working classes employed in the cotton manufacture in Manchester
"At first engaged in a Rochdale bank, in 1824 he [Kay-Shuttleworth] became a medical student at the University of Edinburgh. Settling in Manchester about 1827, he was instrumental in setting up the Manchester Statisti…
1832 CE
#10462
The substance of the official medical reports upon the epidemic, called cholera: Which prevailed among the poor at Dantzick, between the end of May and the first part of September, 1831, as transmitted to their lordships; being an analysis of the said epidemic disease in that city--founded upon actual observation and accurate inquiry: With important and well-authenticated facts relative to the same disease, as it prevailed among the poor in other parts of the North of Europe.
Hamett privately published this report after it was rejected for publication by the British government. He included hospital admission tables in his book and produced perhaps the first map based on hospital reports of…
1832 CE
#14180
Traité theorique et pratique de la ligature des artères.
Manec was head of anatomy at the Facultè de Médecine de Paris and a surgeon at the Salpetrière. He wrote text of his atlas on ligations of arteries in the first person based upon his experience pe…
1832 CE
#1852
Ueber die Verbindungen, welche durch die Einwirkung des Chlors auf Alkohol, Aether, ölbildenes Gas und Essiggeist entstehen.
Discovery, in 1831, of chloroform and chloral. Independently chloroform was discovered by Souberian and by Guthrie.
1832 CE–1833 CE
#480
Abhandlungen zur Bildungs-und Entwicklungs-Geschichte der Menschen und der Thiere. 2 pts.
Rathke’s most notable discovery was of structures homologous with gill slits in bird and mammalian embryos. He discredited the vertebral theory of the skull.
1832 CE–1834 CE
#7773
A manual of the ornithology of the United States and of Canada. Vol. 1: The land birds. Vol. 2: The water birds.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1832 CE–1834 CE
#2247
Leçons orales de clinique chirurgicale. 4 vols.
Dupuytren was born in poverty and died a millionaire. He became the best surgeon of his time in France. He was a “shrewd diagnostician, an operator of unrivaled aplomb, a wonderful clinical teacher, and a good e…
1832 CE–1837 CE
#534.58
Histoire générale et particulière des anomalies de l’organisation chez l’homme et les animaux. 3 vols. and atlas.
Isidore, the son of Étienne (See No. 534.57) organized all known human and animal malformations taxonomically. Many principles governing abnormal development were enunciated for the first time in this work. It …
1832 CE–1854 CE
#12745
Encyclographie des sciences médicales. Réimpression générale des ouvrages periodiques sur ces sciences, publies en France.
From 1845 to 1854 this enigmatically titled work was pubished under the title, Nouvelle encyclographie des sciences médicales. Rather than an encyclopedia, it was a series of reprints of books and periodicals t…
1832 CE–1858 CE
#6800
A dictionary of practical medicine. 3 vols.
1832 CE–1862 CE
#14348
Atlas der pathologischen Anatomie für praktische Aerzte. 4 parts in 1. With: Erläuterung zu dem Atlasse der pathologischen Anatomie für praktischen Aertze. 4 vols. in 5.
Albers' atlas of pathology, with 257 lithographed plates (93 hand-colored) covers diseases of the brain and spinal cord (Part 1), the throat (Part 2), the thorax (Part 3) and the abdomen (part 4); the five text volume…
1833 CE
#11308
A catalogue descriptive chiefly of the morbid preparations contained in the museum of Manchester Theatre of Anatomy and Medicine, Marsden Street. With occasional explanatory remarks.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1833 CE
#3586
A memoir on the advantages and practicability of dividing the stricture in strangulated hernia on the outside of the sac.
Introduction of the principle of dividing a stricture outside the sac in cases of strangulated hernia.
1833 CE
#5849
A treatise on the diseases of the eye.
Based on lectures delivered by Lawrence at the London Ophthalmic Infirmary. He was a surgeon to St. Bartholomew’s Hospital; he succeeded Abernethy as lecturer on surgery and did much to advance the surgery of th…
1833 CE
#5215
A treatise on the venereal disease and its varieties.
On p. 371 commences the first description of lymphogranuloma venereum, which Wallace called “indolent primary syphilitic bubo”.
1833 CE
#3616
Abscess of the liver, with hydatids. – Operation.
Diagnostic liver puncture.
1833 CE
#411
Anatomical studies of the bones and muscles, for the use of artists. From drawings by the late John Flaxman, Esq. R.A. Engraved by Henry Landseer. With two additional plates, and explanatory notes, by William Robertson.
Digital facsimile from digitalcollections.nypl.org at this link.
1833 CE
#2953
Case of aneurism of the right subclavian artery, in which that vessel was tied within the scaleni muscles.
In his day Mott was the ablest exponent of vascular surgery in the U.S.A. This was the first attempt in America to ligate the subclavian within the scaleni muscles. The procedure had been tried at least twice previous…
1833 CE
#13664
Compte rendu des travaux de l'École de Médecine d'Abou-Zabel (Égypte), et de l'examen général des élèves pour les 1re, 2e, 3e, 4e, et 5e années da sa fondation 1242-1243 (1827-1828)....Suivi de l'exposé de la conduite et des travaux de l'auteur lui-même en Égypte, depuis 1240 à 1248 (Hégyre) 1825 à 1832, et de diverses pièces relatives à son voyage en France.
"During the French occupation of Egypt, Napoleon designated Kasr al-Aini a hospital for his troops in 1799, and then afterwards proposed the opening of a school to teach local Egyptian students the medicine required t…
1833 CE
#12866
Dentologia, a poem on the diseases of the teeth and their proper remedies. With notes, practical, historical, illustrative, and explanatory, by Eleazar Parmly.
Brown founded the first US dental school, the first US national dental society, called The American Association of Dental Surgeons, and the first US dental journal, entitled the American Journal and Library of Dental …
1833 CE
#4320
Die Durchschneidung der Achillessehne, als Heilmethode des Klumpfusses, durch zwei Fälle erläutert.
Successful tenotomy for clubfoot established the reputation of Stromeyer as an orthopedic surgeon.
1833 CE
#3366
Erfahrungen über die Erkenntniss und Heilung der langwierigen Schwerhörigkeit.
Kramer’s first and best work. English translation, 1837.
1833 CE
#6604.93
Essai sur l’iconologie médicale, ou sur les rapports d’utilité qui existent entre l’art du dessin et l’étude de la médecine.
Pioneering study of art and medicine based on collections at Montpellier.
1833 CE
#989
Experiments and observations on the gastric juice, and the physiology of digestion.
Alexis St. Martin, a Canadian half-breed who had sustained a gastric fistula, was treated and investigated by Beaumont. With his human medium, Beaumont as the first to study digestion and the movements of the stomach …
1833 CE
#13149
Hunterian reminiscences; being the substance of a course of lectures on the principles and practice of surgery, delivered by the late John Hunter, in the year 1785: Taken in short-hand, and afterwards fairly transcribed by the late James Parkinson ... Edited by his son, J.W.K. Parkinson ..., by whom are appended illustrative notes.
Digital facsimile from wellcomecollection.org at this link.
1833 CE
#4290
Lithotripsie. Mémoires sur la lithotripsie par percussion.
Heurteloup designed the best lithotrite of the time. He was one of several claimants to the distinction of having introduced modern lithotrity. See Lancet, 1831-32, 2, 567-70.
1833 CE
#6754.1
Medical bibliography, A and B.
Although of limited scientific value, this extensively annotated work is the most humorous bibliography of medical literature ever published, even if the humor is of a "rarified" nature. Atkinson, surgeon to the Duke …
1833 CE
#5054
Mémoire sur un cas de trachéotomie pratiquée dans la période extréme de croup.
Trousseau popularized tracheotomy.
1833 CE
#5336.5
Notes of a peculiar appearance observed in human muscle, probably depending upon the formation of very small cysticerci.
Hilton described Trichinella spiralis and suggested its parasitic nature.
1833 CE
#1359
On the reflex function of the medulla oblongata and medulla spinalis.
“Hall showed that reflex activity could be distinguished from other types of movement, that it produced what today we call ‘muscle tone,’ that it included sneezing coughing, and vomiting, and that it…
1833 CE
#6855
Systematisches Alphabetisches Repertorium der antipsorischen Arzneien mit Einschluss der antisyphilitic und antipsorischen Arzneien.
Foreward by Hahnemann. Translated into English from the second German edition by C. M. Roger, as A Systematic, Alphabetic Repertory of Homoeopathic Remedies. Part First. Embracing the Antisporic, Antisyphilitic, and A…
1833 CE
#10824
The dispensatory of the United States of America.
Digital facsimile of this, the first, and later editions from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1833 CE
#411.1
The hand: Its mechanism and vital endowments as evincing design.
Classic work on the anatomy, physiology, bio-mechanics, comparative anatomy, and adaptive importance of the hand. Issued as a volume in a series entitled the "Bridgewater Treatises." The first edition has 288pp. An en…
1833 CE
#10389
The manufacturing population of England, its moral, social, and physical conditions, and the changes which have arisen from the use of steam machinery; with an examination of infant labour.
Gaskell, a physician, addressed social, political and public health problems that resulted from the Industrial Revolution. Gaskell issued a revised edition of this work in 1836 under a different title: Artisans and Ma…
1833 CE
#8208
The Taleef shereef, or Indian materia medica translated from the original by George Playfair, Superintending Surgeon, Bengal Service. Published by The Medical and Physical Society of Calcutta.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1833 CE
#6028
Traité pratique des maladies de l’utérus et de ses annexes. 2 vols. and atlas.
Boivin and Dugès practiced amputation of the cervix for chronic ulceration. On page 648 of vol. 2 is the first recorded case of cancer of the female urethra. English translation, 1834.
1833 CE
#9668
Ueber das Gift der Fische: mit vergleichender Berücksichtigung des Giftes von Muscheln, Käse, Gehirn, Fleisch, Fett und Würsten, so wie der sogenannten mechanischen Gifte.
Discusses all then known posionsous and venomous fishes, including freshwater and marine species, and includes a "thorough review of practically all the early literature on poisonous and venomous fishes, a list of all…
1833 CE
#7260
Ueber den Zustand der Heilkunde und über die Volkskrankheiten in der europäischen und asiatischen Türkei. Ein Beitrag zur Kultur- und Sittengeschichte.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1833 CE
#1854
Ueber die Darstellung des Atropins in weissen Krystallen.
Mein isolated atropine in pure form in 1831. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1833 CE–1834 CE
#203.8
Recherches sur les ossemens fossiles découvertes dans les cavernes de la province de Liège. 2 vols. and atlas.
A physician from Delft, Schmerling found extensive human remains and artifacts associated with the remains of extinct animals in the caverns around Liège. These human remains were distinctively different anatom…
1833 CE–1840 CE
#326
Descriptive and illustrated catalogue of the physiological series of comparative anatomy contained in the Museum [of the Royal College of Surgeons of England]. 5 vols.
I. Organs of motion and digestion. 1833.--II. Absorbent, circulating, respiratory, and urinary systems. 1834.--III. pt. I. Nervous system and organs of sense. pt. II. Connective and tegumentary systems and peculiariti…
1833 CE–1866 CE
#10177
The naturalist's library. Edited by Sir William Jardine. 40 vols.
"1833, Natural History of Humming Birds, Part I, (Ornithology Vol. VI) by William Jardine, with memoir of Carl Linnaeus. (online) 1833, Monkeys, (Mammalia Vol. I) by William Jardine, with a memoir of Comte de Buffon (…
1834 CE
#12275
A history of Egyptian mummies, and an account of the worship and embalming of the sacred animals of the Egyptians; with remarks on the funeral ceremonies of different nations, and observations on the mummies of the Canary islands, of the ancient Peruvians, Burman priests, &c
"One of the most valuable works on the subject extant. It is a monument of exact observation, and considering the state of archaeological knowledge at the time, it is in every way admirable" (Dawson, Bibliography of w…
1834 CE
#12395
An inquiry into the claims of Doctor William Harvey to the discovery of the circulation of the blood; with a more equitable retrospect of that event. To which is added an introductory lecture delivered on the third of November, 18929, in vindication of Hippocrates from sundry charges of ignorance preferred against him by the late professor Rush.
Perhaps the earliest American monograph on the history of circulation. Keynes characterized this volume as "an elaborate and very learned attempt to belittle Harvey's achievement" Keynes, Life of William Harvey, p. 42…
1834 CE
#8420
Apollonii, Citiensis, Stephani, Palladii, Theophili, Meletii, Damascii, Ioannis, aliorum: Scholia in Hippocratem et Galenum e codicibus Mss. Vindobonens. Monacens. Florentin. Mediolanens. Escorialens, etc. Primum Graece edidit Fridericus Reinholdus Dietz.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1834 CE
#4319
Aufsätze und Abhandlungen aus dem Gebiete der Medizin, Chirurgie und Staatsarzneikunde. 1, 196.
First description of “Rust’s disease” – tuberculous spondylitis of the cervical vertebrae.
1834 CE
#11151
Biographie des sages-femmes célèbres, anciennes, modernes et contemporaines. Avec 20 portraits.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1834 CE
#6028.1
Calculus in the bladder. Incontinence of urine. Vesico-vaginal fistula. Advantages of the gilt-wire suture.
Gosset repaired a vesicovaginal fistula of eleven years’ duration, using silver gilt-wire, removed after 9, 12 and 21 days respectively.
1834 CE
#4636
Cerebral affections of children.
Accurate clinical description of tuberculous meningitis.
1834 CE
#481
De necessitate aëris atmosphaerici ad evolutionem pulli in ovo incubito. Dissertatio inauguralis physiologica....
Proof that air is necessary in the development of the embryo. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.