1830–1839
385 entries with publication dates in this decade.
1835 CE
#11750
Systematisches Handbuch der gerichtlichen Psychologie für Medicinalbeamte, Richter und Vertheidiger.
A comprehensive manual on forensic psychiatry, preceding Isaac Ray's book by three years. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1835 CE
#1992
The coldwater cure, its principles, theory, and practice.
Priessnitz, a peasant farmer in Gräfenberg, Austrian Silesia, is generally considered the founder of modern hydrotherapy, which is used in alternative and orthodox medicine. Priessnitz stressed remedies such as s…
1835 CE
#4027
Thèse inaugurale sur la découverte de l’insecte qui produit la contagion de la gale, du prurigo et du phlyzacia.
Demonstration of the human itch-mite, Sarcoptes scabiei. It was due to Renucci that the Sarcoptes was recognized as the one cause of scabies and its parasitic nature finally accepted.
1835 CE
#2749
Traité cliniques des maladies du coeur. 2 vols.
Bouillaud applied Laennec's technique of auscultation to diseases of the heart. Vol. 2, page 238: “Bouillaud’s disease” – rheumatic endocarditis. Although not first to note the cardiac manifest…
1835 CE
#14133
Ueber die Vermehrung der Pflanzen-Zellen durch Theilung. Eine Inaugural-Dissertation welche zur Erlangung der Doctor-Würde in der Medicin und Chirurgie welche / unter dem Präsidium von Hugo Mohl; vorlegt August Wilhelm Winter.
In his doctoral thesis Mohl reported his discovery of the multiplication of cells by division, later known as mitosis. Digital facsimile from Bayerische StaatsBibliothek at this link.
1835 CE–1836 CE
#2532
Del mal del segno calcinaccio o moscardino malattia che affligge i bachi da seta e sul modo di liberarne le bigattaje anche le piu infestate. 2 vols.
Bassi preceded Louis Pasteur in the discovery that microorganisms can be the cause of disease (the germ theory of disease). He discovered that the muscardine disease of silkworms--a disease that was destroying the sil…
1835 CE–1836 CE
#2379
Treatment of the venereal disease by the hydriodate of potash, or iodide of potassium.
Wallace introduced potassium iodide in the treatment of syphilis, reporting good results in 139 patients.
1835 CE–1837 CE
#78
The works of John Hunter. With notes. Edited by J.F. Palmer. 4 vols. and atlas.
Hunter gave a great impetus to the study of morbid anatomy; he was the veritable founder of experimental and surgical pathology. He was responsible for the commencement of some of the greatest medical museums; the Hun…
1835 CE–1838 CE
#6864
The homoeopathist, or domestic physician. 2 vols.
The first book on domestic homeopathy published in the United States. The names of the medicines are not given, but are referred to by numbers. Digital facsimile from the National Library of Medicine at this link.
1835 CE–1859 CE
#603
The cyclopaedia of anatomy and physiology. Edited by Robert Bentley Todd. 5 vols.
Contributors included Richard Owen and Thomas Huxley, and physicians James Paget, James Young Simpson, and William Bowman.The discoveries of Purkynĕ and Valentin, together with additional observations by William Sharp…
1836 CE
#2077
Account of a method of separating small quantities of arsenic from substances with which it may be mixed.
Marsh method for the detection of arsenic.
1836 CE
#2955
Account of the first successful operation, performed on the carotid artery, for aneurism, in the year 1808; with the post-mortem examination in 1821.
See No. 2929.
1836 CE
#5207
Animalcules observés dans les matières purulentes et le produit des sécrétions des organes génitaux de l’homme et de la femme.
First description of Trichomonas vaginalis, which Donné at first believed to be the pernicious agent in gonorrhoea. He later recognized that the organism is a normal inhabitant of the female genital tract. By t…
1836 CE
#5743.1
Autoplastie, ou restauration des parties du corps, qui ont été détruites, à la faveur d’un emprunt fait à d’autres parties plus ou mains éloigneés.
The first treatise on plastic surgery in general, criticised by Zeis (No. 5743.4) for its bias against the achievements of German surgeons. This is the first commerical edition. The work was published slightly earlier…
1836 CE
#2954
Case of a femoral aneurism, for which the external iliac artery was tied, with an account of the preparation of the limb, dissected at the extirpation of eighteen years.
The artery was tied in 1808, and the patient died in 1826.
1836 CE
#4207
Cases and observations, illustrative of renal disease accompanied with the secretion of albuminous urine.
As a result of greater experience on renal disease, Bright rounded off his work on the subject with the above paper, wherein he recorded his extended observations; by this time he had come to more definite conclusions…
1836 CE
#13037
Catalogue des oiseaux.
Catalogue of the collection of over 3400 New World, Africa, Asian, Australian and European stuffed birds gather by the ornithologist, botanist and politican, following the order of the display of these specimens in La…
1836 CE
#3763
Commentatio de splenis hypertrophia et historia extirpationis splenis hypertrophici cum fortuna adversa.
While most people in Germany still considered splenectomy beyond the bounds of possibility, Quittenbaum performed the operation in 1829, establishing it as a surgical procedure.
1836 CE
#3115
Das Blut in mehrfacher Beziehung physiologisch und pathologisch untersucht.
Nasse gave the first clear description of anemia in pregnancy; he also noticed erythrocyte sedimentation in certain pathological conditions.
1836 CE
#1607
De la prostitution dans la ville de Paris. 2 vols.
Traditionally viewed as a classic in public health, this work has also been characterized as the first scientific study in sexology. Third and most complete edition "complétée par des documents nouvelles…
1836 CE
#3679.8
Der Schiefstand der Zähne.
The first specialized orthodontic work in German, on anomalous positions of the teeth. A French translation was issued simultaneously by the same publisher.
1836 CE
#3717
Der Scorbut in geschichtlich-literarischer, pathologischer, prophylactischer und therapeutischer Beziehung.
1836 CE
#11430
Discoveries in light and vision; with a short memoir containing discoveries in the mental faculties.
The first work on vision written by a woman and published in the United States. Griffith published the work anonymously. "Griffith’s work had its start in print in 1834, when she published two articles on vision…
1836 CE
#1738
Elements of medical jurisprudence.
The standard English work on the subject for generations, translated, expanded and used worldwide; thirteenth edition, Principles and practice of medical jurisprudence, appeared in 1984. Digital facsimile of the first…
1836 CE
#10352
Enchiridion medicum, oder Anleitung zur medizinischen Praxis. Vermächtniss einer fünfzigjärigen erfahrung.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link. Translated into English by Caspar Bruchhausen and Robert Nelson as Manual of the practice of medicine: The result of fifty years' experience. London: Hippolyte Baii…
1836 CE
#4811
Fatal epilepsy, from suppuration between the dura mater and arachnoid, in consequence of blood having been effused in that situation.
Bright was the first to describe unilateral (“Jacksonian”) epilepsy.
1836 CE
#2957
Femoral aneurism successfully treated by a ligature of the external iliac artery.
Successful ligation of external iliac artery for femoral aneurysm, 1822.
1836 CE
#3441
Glückliche Heilung nach Ausscheidung eines Theiles des Darms und Netzes.
First account of a resection in which Lembert’s suture was successfully employed.
1836 CE
#3679.7
Guide to sound teeth or a popular treatise on the teeth, illustrating the whole judicious management of these organs from infancy to old age: In which the author will attempt to show that the teeth of all persons which are constitutionally well formed, and who enjoy good health may, by proper management and care, be preserved to the end of life.
An expansion of Shearhashub Spooner's 32-page dissertation, An inaugural dissertation on the pysiology [sic] and diseases of the teeth. Submitted to the examination of John Augustus Smith, M.D, president, and the trus…
1836 CE
#1606
Hygiène publique. 2 vols.
The first volume reprints the author's Essai sur les cloaques ou égouts de la ville de Paris (1824). Parent-Duchâtelet wrote that he had visited all the places which he described in the text: ”J&rsq…
1836 CE
#2290
Lectures on the morbid anatomy of the serous and mucous membranes. 2 vols.
Important work which stimulated the study of tissue pathology in England. Hodgkin was the first in England to give a regular lecture course in morbid anatomy, which he began at Guy’s in 1827. Vol. 2, pt. 2 was n…
1836 CE
#7374
Ledetraad til Nordisk Oldkyndighed.
Thomsen's work established the "Three-Age system," according to which artifacts were first made of stone, then bronze, and then iron. This basic chronology underpins the archaeology of most of the "Old World.”
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 …
1836 CE
#4290.1
Mémoire sur une manière nouvelle de pratiquer l’opération de la pierre… Terminé et publié par J.L. Sanson et par L.J. Bégin…
Posthumously published by Sanson, whose method of rectovesical lithotomy is considered here along with the controversial method of lithotrity. Dupuytren tried both but dropped them in favor of continuing the method of…
1836 CE
#11556
Nouvelles recherches sur le rhumatisme articulaire en général, et spécialement sur la loi de coincidence de la péricardite et de l'endocardite avec cette maladie, ainsi que sur l'efficacité de la formule des émissions sanguines coup sur coup dans son traitement.
"In this volume he [Bouillaud] irrevocably established the etiologic relationship between rheumatic fever and heart disease. Early reports on this relationship had been contributed by Pitcairn, Jenner, and Wells, but …
1836 CE
#5023.1
Observations on continued fever, as it occurs in the city of Glasgow hospitals.
Perry correctly described many of the distinctions between typhus and typhoid.
1836 CE
#3617
Observations on jaundice.
Original description of acute yellow atrophy of the liver.
1836 CE
#1737
Observations on manual strangulation, illustrated by cases and experiments.
After performing an autopsy on a strangulation case, Gross set out to study the physiology involved in manual strangulation. He set up a series of experiments on dogs for this purpose and provides autopsy reports on e…
1836 CE
#1126
Observations on the thyroid gland, with notes on the same subject by Sir Astley Cooper.
King, sometimes referred to as the “father of endocrinology”, antici-pated the endocrine action of the thyroid.
1836 CE
#11309
On the brain of the negro, compared with that of the European and the orang-outang.
In this very thoroughly researched, highly documented, and well-illustrated paper Tiedemann demonstrated that there are no significant anatomical differences between the brains and mental capacities of Black people an…
1836 CE
#2956
Some experiments and observations on tying the carotid and vertebral arteries, and the pneumo-gastric, phrenic, and sympathetic nerves.
1836 CE
#7674
The anatomist's instructor, and museum companion; being practical directions for the formation and subsequent management of anatomical museums.
"Dr Frederick Knox was the librarian of New Zealand's first public library. He emigrated from Scotland in July 1840 and within days of arriving in Port Nicholson became involved in establishing the country's first pub…
1836 CE
#9524
The Indian vegetable family instructer: Containing the names and descriptions of all the most useful herbs and plants that grow in this country, with their medicinal qualities annexed; also, a treatise on many of the lingering diseases to which mankind are subject, ... with a large list of recipes, which have been carefully selected from Indian prescriptions ... Designed for the use of families in the United States.
1836 CE
#991
Ueber das Wesen des Verdauungsprocesses.
William Beaumont recognized that the gastric juice contained some other active chemical substance besides hydrochloric acid. Schwann proved this to be pepsin. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1836 CE
#3257
Ueber eine Form von Halsentzündung.
“Ludwig’s angina” first described. English translation and biographical note. Bull. Hist. Med., 1939, 7, 1115-26.
1836 CE
#990
Versuche über die künstliche Verdauung des geronnenen Eiweisses.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1836 CE
#1260
Vorläufige Mittheilungen microscopischer Beobachtungen über den inner Bau der Cerebrospinalnerven und über die Entwickelung ihrer Formelemente.
Remak identified for the first time the myelinated fiber with its central “band of Remak” (the axon), and the unmyelinated axon or “fiber of Remak.” Fuller account in his Observationes anatomic…
1836 CE
#11645
What is the use of the double brain?
1836 CE–1837 CE
#2123.1
On the influence of trades, professions, and occupations, in the United States in the production of disease.
The first American work devoted entirely to occupational diseases. Reprinted with introduction, Baltimore, Johns Hopkins Press, 1943.
1836 CE–1838 CE
#2217
Leçons sur les phénomènes physiques de la vie. 4 vols.
Magendie, pioneer experimental physiologist, regarded pathology as only a modification of physiology, “medicine the physiology of the sick man”. By him clinical medicine was reconstructed on physiological …