1840–1849

1843 CE

#1677

Bibliotheca epidemiographica.

A second edition was published in 1862. Digital facsimile of the second edition from the Medical Heritage Library at the Internet Archive, at this link.

1843 CE

#6034

Case of ovarian tumors – both the right and the left being removed at the same operation.

First successful double oöphorectomy. Communicated in a letter to the editor by J. M. Foltz.

1843 CE

#6176

Cases of puerperal convulsions, with remarks.

Lever, of Guy’s Hospital, was the first to report the finding of albuminous urine in connection with puerperal convulsions.

1843 CE

#2977.1

Cases.

An important account of dissecting aneurysm. Peacock collected all previously published cases and added a few of his own to a total of 19.

1843 CE

#10377

Catalogue of Reptiles contained in the Museum of the Medical Department of the Army, Fort Pitt, Chatham.

Chiefly specimens collected by medical officers stationed in Canada, Australia, and India, as well as other colonies. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1843 CE

#6035

Contributions to the pathology and treatment of disease of the uterus.

Simpson introduced many important procedures into gynecology and obstetrics; among them may be mentioned his use of the uterine sound for diagnosing retro-positions of the uterus

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.

1843 CE

#5857

Die Krankheiten und Missbildungen des menschlichen Auges und deren Heilung. 2 vols.

Himly was professor of ophthalmology at Jena and later at Göttingen. He introduced clinical teaching in ophthalmology.

1843 CE

#12749

Die rheumatische Schweile. Ein Beitrag zur Pathologie und Therapie des Rheumatismus.

Froriep described what would later be known as fibromyalgia, describing it as "rheumatism with painful, hard places" that could be felt in many locations on the body. He characterized the condition as muskelschwiele (…

1843 CE

#10390

Diseases of the lungs from mechanical causes; and inquiries into the condition of the artisans exposed to the inhalation of dust.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1843 CE

#992.3

Du suc gastrique et de son rôle dans la nutrition.

Bernard showed that if sucrose is injected directly into the blood it is eliminated by the kidneys while glucose is retained, and that gastric juice transforms sucrose into assimilable sugar. See F. J. Holmes, Claude …

1843 CE

#10234

Ensaio sobre a topographia medica de Lisboa. ou consideraçoens especiaes relativas a' sua historia; meteorologia; geognosia; agoas potaveis; zoologia, quanto aos animaes mais utei, e em quanto ao homem sua parte hygienica e medica; a população, e suas respectivas observaçoens, &c.

1843 CE

#3060

Essai d’hématologie pathologique.

The first monograph on hematology in its "modern" sense. Andral established analysis of the blood on the basis of exact knowledge of the blood components. He analysed the blood fibrin and albumin. He recognized severa…

1843 CE

#3059

Experimental and practical researches on inflammation and on the origin and nature of tubercles of the lungs.

Addison made important observations on the blood corpuscles. He is by some considered “the world’s first hematologist”. He gave the first description of leucocytosis, so named by Virchow in 1858, and…

1843 CE

#2294

Experimental and practical researches on the structure and function of blood corpuscles; on inflammation; and on the origin and nature of tubercles in the lungs.

Addison gave an important account of the process of inflammation. See L.J. Rather, Addison and the white corpuscles: An aspect of nineteenth-century biology. London, Wellcome Institute, 1972. See also No. 3059.

1843 CE

#2219

Lectures on the principles and practice of physic. 2 vols.

First published in the Medical Times & Gazette, 1840-42, Watson’s famous lectures appeared in book form and formed the most important treatise of medicine for a quarter-century. Watson wrote in a fine style, and…

1843 CE

#10737

Medical history of the expedition to the Niger during the years 1841-42, comprising an account of the fever which led to its abrupt termination.

McWilliam included a history of yellow fever, pathology, description of symptoms, sequences, causes, treatment. He also described the state of medicine among the Africans. He specifically described the ventilation of …

1843 CE

#2754

Mémoire sur les signes stethoscopiques du rétrécissement de l’orifice auriculo-ventriculaire gauches du coeur.

First description of the presystolic murmur in mitral stenosis. Partial English translation in No. 2241.

1843 CE

#13612

Memorial. To the Legislature of Massachusetts.

Dorothea Dix played an instrumental role in the founding or expansion of more than 30 hospitals for the treatment of the mentally ill in various U.S. states. This was probably the first of her many publications advoca…

1843 CE

#5310

Natural history, pathology and treatment of the epidemic fever at present prevailing in Edinburgh and other towns.

The epidemic of relapsing fever in Edinburgh in 1843 was well described by Cormack. He was first editor of the Association Medical Journal which later became the British Medical Journal.

1843 CE

#4993

Neurypnology, or, the rationale of nervous sleep.

Braid inaugurated modern hypnotism, the word itself being introduced by him. His theories were adopted by Broca, Charcot, Liébeault, and Bernheim; thus he founded the French School. New edition, edited with an …

1843 CE

#5311

Notice of a febrile disorder which has prevailed at Edinburgh during the summer of 1843.

Relapsing fever was given its name by Craigie, in his description of the Edinburgh epidemic.

1843 CE

#3681.2

Nouveaux éléments complets de la science et de l’art du dentiste. Suivis d’une notice historique et chronologique des travaux imprimés sur l’art du dentiste. 2 vols

Desirabode may have been the first to discuss the use of fluoride compounds for caries prevention. See No. 3692.1. English translation of 2nd ed., Baltimore, 1847.

1843 CE

#5650.2

Numerous cases of surgical operation without pain in the mesmeric state.

Elliotson was one of the first in England to perform surgical operations with the aid of hypnotism. He was a great friend of Dickens and Thackeray, but his views on hypnotism were bitterly opposed by Thomas Wakley, ed…

1843 CE

#5353

Nuovo verme intestinale umano (Agchylostoma duodenale), constituente un sesto genere dei nematoidei proprii dell’uomo.

Dubini first found the hookworm of ankylostomiasis in 1838. His account of 1843, describing it, named it Agchylostoma duodenale, a name etymologically erroneous. Partial English translation in Kean (No. 2268.1).

1843 CE

#8807

Practical observations on the principal diseases affecting the health of the European and native soldiers in the north-western provinces of India with a supplement on dysentery.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1843 CE

#5268

Recherches et observations sur une nouvelle espèce d’hématozoaire, Trypanosoma sanguinis.

Gruby discovered trypanosomes in the frog. He first suggested the name “trypanosome” to describe the parasite.

1843 CE

#4035

Recherches sur la nature, le siège et le développement du Porrigo decalvans ou phytoalopécie.

First accurate description of Microsporon audouini, the fungus of Willan’s porrigo decalvans, tinea tonsurans, “Gruby’s disease”.

1843 CE

#5858

Schriftnummerprobe für Gesichtsleidende.

Küchler introduced test readings of print at a distance, for examination of patients.

1843 CE

#12660

Sierra Leone: A Description of the manners and customs of the liberated Africans; with observations upon the natural history of the colony, and a notice of the native tribes.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1843 CE

#7696

Six ethnographic maps illustrative of "The natural history of man".

An atlas of six large hand-colored folding maps originally issued to accompany Prichard's popular work, The natural history of man, first issued in 1843. The maps were revised and re-issued in 1851 and 1861.

1843 CE

#484.1

Spermatozoa observed within the mammiferous ovum.

Barry was the first to observe the spermatozoon within the ovum.

1843 CE

#608

Sur le courant électrique des muscles des animaux vivants ou récemment tués.

Matteucci’s “rheoscopic frog” effect.

1843 CE

#13250

The plea of insanity in criminal cases.

One of the first attempts to outline criteria through which to determine the legitimacy of an insanity plea. The was resolved later in 1843 with the establishment of the M'Naghten Rules, (McNaghten) which this work un…

1843 CE

#9168

The regions of vegetation; being an analysis of the distribution of vegetable forms over the surface of the globe in connexion with climate and physical agents.

Digital facsimile of the copy presented by Hinds to Charles Darwin, with Darwin's annotations, from the Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link. This work also appeared as a section of Edward Belcher's Narrative of…

1843 CE

#992.2

Traité analytique de la digestion considérée particulièrement dans l’homme et dans les animaux.

Gastric fistula for experimental purposes.

1843 CE

#6333

Traité clinique et pratique des maladies des enfants. 3 vols.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1843 CE

#609

Ueber den sogennanten Froschstrom.

First description and definition of electrotonus.

1843 CE

#14213

Ueber die Textur und Function der Medulla oblongata. 2 vols. (Text and atlas).

“In this book, there are many transverse section figures from the origin of the 2nd cervical nerve pair up to the pons. Stilling aimed to reveal the difference between the spinal cord and medulla oblongata by pr…

1843 CE

#992.1

Voie artificielle dans l’estomac des animaux.

First gastric fistula established specially for the purpose of experimentation.

1843 CE–1844 CE

#4691.1

Course of lectures on the deformities of the human frame. Lecture IX.

Little’s description of congenital cerebral spastic diplegia resulted in the condition being named “Little’s disease”. See also No. 4735.

1843 CE–1844 CE

#9167

The zoology of the voyage of the H.M.S. Sulphur, under the command of Captain Sir Edward Belcher during the years 1836-42. Edited and superintended by Richard Brinsley Hinds. Vol. 1: Mammalia by J.E. Gray; Birds by J. Gould; Fish by J. Richardson. Vol. 2.: Mollusca by R. B. Hinds.

Digital facsimile from the Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.

1843 CE–1856 CE

#12941

A history of British birds. 3 vols. plus 2 Supplements. (5 vols.)

According to its preface, Yarrell's British Birds was first published "in thirty-seven parts of three sheets each, at intervals of two months; the first Part was issued in July 1837 and the last in May 1843. The sheet…

1843 CE–1856 CE

#9256

The Zoist: A journal of cerebral physiology & mesmerism, and their applications to human welfare. Edited by John Elliotson. 13 vols.

The most comprehensive source about British mesmerism of the period, and an invaluable reference for contemporary ideas and developments not only in mesmerism (hypnosis) but also in phrenology, neurology and psychiatr…

1843 CE–1859 CE

#7448

The botany of the Antarctic voyage of H. M. Discovery Ships Erebus and Terror in the years 1839-1843.

Part 1: Flora of Lord Auckland and Campbell's Islands (1843-45); Part 2: Flora of Fuegia, the Falklands, Karguellen's land, etc. (1845-47); Part 3: Flora of New Zealand. 2 vols. (1851-53); Part 4: Flora of Tasmania. 2…

1844 CE

#11646

A new view of insanity: The duality of the mind proved by the structure, functions and diseases of the brain and by the phenomena of mental derangement and shown to be essential to moral responsibility. With an appendix: 1. On the influence of religion on insanity. 2. Conjectures on the nature of the mental operations. 3. On the management of lunatic asylums.

"From the seventeenth century there were shifts in some of the basic assumptions about how the brain and mind functioned, and there are some useful markers along the way to an era of more systematic studies. Descartes…

1844 CE

#5598

A treatise on operative surgery.

Pancoast was Professor of Anatomy and Surgery at Jefferson Medical College. He was a fine operator and devised a number of new surgical operations and instruments. This was work contains 80 fine lithographed plates, a…

1844 CE

#7300

Comparative analysis of recent and fossil bones.

The presence of fluorine in fossil bones was first reported in 1803 by Italian chemist Domenico Morichini, and by the 1840s scientists had determined that (a) fluorine occurs in teeth and bone; (b) the fluorine conten…

1844 CE

#13608

Considérations médico-légales sur l'avortement suivies de quelques réflexions sur la liberté de l'enseignement médical à propos d'un procès en cour d'assises, mémoire adressé a l'Académie Royale de Médecine de Paris.

Digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this link.

1844 CE

#8832

Crania Aegyptiaca: or, observations on Egyptian ethnography, derived from anatomy, history and the monuments. From the Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. IX.

Morton argued that blacks and whites had been racially distinct since the Egyptian First Dynasty and drew the following conclusions, long since debunked: "Conclusions. "1. The valley of the Nile, both in Egypt and in …