1840–1849

1845 CE

#1503

Beitrag zur physiologischen Optik.

1845 CE

#5354

Bericht über die Leistungen im Gebiete der Helminthologie während des Jahres 1843 und 1844.

Siebold classified the hookworm as belonging to the Strongyloidae (pp. 220-21).

1845 CE

#3061

Case of hypertrophy of the spleen and liver, in which death took place from suppuration of the blood.

First definite description of leukemia as a blood disorder; a case under the care of Sir R. Christison but reported by Bennett. On p. 400 of the same journal is a report of a case by D. Craigie, referring to a patient…

1845 CE

#13424

Catalogue des livres de sciences particulièrement de zoologie, d'anatomie comparée et d'anatomie philosophique composant la bibliothèque de feu M. Etienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire,...: dont la vente se fera le jeudi 20 novembre 1845, et jours suivants, à midi précis, au Jardin des Plantes, rue Cuvier, n° 33.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1845 CE

#7169

Commentary on the Hindu system of medicine.

Wise was a physician and surgeon in the Bengal Medical Service. Digital facsimile from The Medical Heritage Library, Internet Archive, at this link.

1845 CE

#10349

Déontologie médicale ou des devoirs et des droits des médecins dans l'état actuel de la civilisation.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1845 CE

#10459

Des hallucinations, ou histoire raisonnée des apparitions, des visions, des songes, de l'extase, du magnétisme et du somnambulisme.

This study underwent at least three editions in French and also appeared in several English translations, the first of which appears to have been translated anonymously and publlished in Philadelphia in 1853 from the …

1845 CE

#13862

Descriptive and illustrated catalogue of the fossil organic remains of mammalia and aves contained in the museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.

This is the catalogue of John Hunter's collection, with a very few additions from other sources. Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.

1845 CE

#1502

Die Farbenerscheinungen im Grunde des menschlichen Auges.

An important description of colour phenomena in the fundus oculi. This paper won for Kussmaul the Karl Friedrich Medal of the University of Heidelberg.

1845 CE

#4930

Die Pathologie und Therapie der psychischen Krankheiten.

Griesinger put an end to the moralistic theory of insanity as advanced by Heinroth. He was the first in Germany to abandon violence in the treatment of the insane; his book remained an authority on the subject for 30 …

1845 CE

#5746.4

Die plastische Chirurgie.

Fritze and Reich studied under Dieffenbach. This is the first extensively illustrated general treatise on plastic surgery published in Europe. Some copies have the plates hand-colored.

1845 CE

#2077.2

Du hachische et de l’aliénation mentale: Études psychologiques.

Moreau's experments may have been the first medical experiments with a psychotropic agent in the treatment of mental illness. English translation by G. J. Barnett as Hashish and mental illness (New York: Raven Press, …

1845 CE

#10479

Entstehung, Berlauf und Behandlung der Krankheiten der Künstler und Gewerbetreibenden. Nach dem neuesten Standpunkte der Medizin, Chemie, Mechanik und Technologie, so wie nach den Mittheilungen berühmter Gewertsärzte des In-und Auslandes und eigenen Forschungen bearbeitet.

See Karbe, "The significance of A.C.L. Halfort's work on The development, course and treatment of diseases in artists and tradesmen (Berlin 1845)," Z. Gesamte Hyg. 21 (1975) 74-8. Digital facsimile from Google Books a…

1845 CE

#807

Experimenta, quibus probatur nervos vagos rotatione machinae galvanomagneticae irritatos, motum cordis retardare et adeo intercipare.

The discovery of the inhibitory power of the vagus. Also published in Wagner’s Handwörterbuch der Physiologie, 1846, 3, 45-51. Partial translation in J. F. Fulton’s Selected readings in the history of…

1845 CE

#2421

Geschichte der Lustseuche. Erster Theil. Die Lustseuche im Alterthume.

French translation, 1847; English translation as The plague of lust, being a history of venereal disease in classical antiquity, and including: Detailed investigations into the cult of Venus, and phallic worship, brot…

1845 CE

#11960

Hortus cantabrigiensis, or, An accented catalogue of indigenous and exotic plants, cultivated in the Cambridge Botanical Garden. By the late James Donn, curator....With the additions and improvements of the successive editors, F. Pursh, J. Lindley, G. Sinclair. The thirteenth century, now further enlarged improved, and brought down to the present time by P. N. Don.

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1845 CE

#10760

Hortus suburbanus Calcuttensis. A catalog of the plants which were cultivated in the Hon. East India Company's Botanical Garden, Calcutta and in the Serampore Botanical Garden, known as Dr. Carey's Garden, from the beginning of both establishments (1786 and 1800) to the end of August 1841; drawn up according to the Jussieuan arrangement, and mostly in conformity with the second edition (1836) of Lindsay 's Natural System of Botany.

Catalogue of the thousands of plants which were cultivated in the East India Company’s Royal Botanical Garden in Shibpur (near Calcutta, founded in 1786) and ‘Dr. William Carey’s’ botanical gar…

1845 CE

#6517

Kinderfahrten, eine historisch-pathologische Skizze.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1845 CE

#4929.1

Lehrbuch der ärztlichen Seelenkunde.

Feuchtersleben introduced the terms psychosis, psychiatrics, and psychopathology. The book includes a short history of psychiatry. English translation, Sydenham Society, 1847.

1845 CE

#6384

Lehrbuch der Geschichte der Medicin und der Volkskrankheiten.

As an historian, Haeser was eclipsed only by his fellow-countryman Sudhoff. A third edition, in three volumes, appeared in 1875-82 and was reprinted, Hildesheim, G.Olms, 1971.

1845 CE

#1860

Mémoire sur la digitale pourprée.

Isolation of an active principle in digitalis, amorphous digitalin, more potent than the plant itself.

1845 CE

#4168

Mémoire sur un moyen très simple et très sur de pratiquer le cathétérisme dans les cas même les plus difficiles.

Maisonneuve introduced a hair catheter.

1845 CE

#9546

Necrose der Kieferknochen, in Folge der Einwikrung von Phosphor-Dämpfen. Ein Beitrag zur Ätiologie der Knochen-Krankheiten.

The production of matches with white phosphorus in German-speaking countries started in 1833. Between 1839 and 1845 Lorinser saw nine cases of what he called "phosphorimus chronicus" in workers with white phosphorus, …

1845 CE

#1968

Neuralgia - introduction of fluid to the nerve.

Rynd, an Irish physician, invented the hollow needle used in hypodermic syringes. The description of his instrument is given in Dublin Quart. J. med. Sci., 1861, 32, 13.

1845 CE

#7330

Nuove ricerche microscopiche sulla tessiture intima della retina nell’ uomo, nei vertebrati, nei cefalapodi, e negli insetti precedute da alcune riflessioni sugli elementi morfologici globulari del sisteme nervoso.

Pacini was the first to provide an accurate description of all the layers of the retina. Digital facsimile of the separate (offprint) edition from the Internet Archive at this link.

1845 CE

#412

On a hitherto undescribed structure in the human hair sheath.

“Huxley’s layer” and “membrane” of the root sheath of hair follicles.

1845 CE

#3619

On diseases of the liver.

Budd was Professor of Medicine at King’s College, London. Section III of the above book includes a description of that form of cirrhosis to which the name “Budd’s disease” has been applied. In …

1845 CE

#865

On the coagulation of blood and other fibriniferous liquids.

Buchanan extracted the fibrin ferment of blood. He showed that it was capable of coagulating blood and other serous fluids not in themselves coagulable.

1845 CE

#1504

On the vision of objects on and in the eye.

An introduction to the then little-known subject of catoptrics.

1845 CE

#543.1

Physiologie pathologique. 2 vols. & atlas.

One of the earliest atlases of pathological histology. Lebert’s work played an important role in introducing the cellular idea of pathology, laying the groundwork for Virchow’s theories.

1845 CE

#13543

Recherches historiques, zoologiques, anatomiques et paléontologiques sur la girafe, (Camelopardalis giraffa, Gmelin).

First comprehensive (124pp., 17 plates) anatomical study of the giraffe, conducted during a 20 day dissection of the huge animal in Toulouse. The authors entrusted the dissection to the Toulouse taxidermist, H. Traver…

1845 CE

#145.58

Recherches mathématiques sur la loi d’accroissement de la population.

In his second paper on population growth Verhulst introduced the term, logistic. He modified his equation so its early part is exponential and becomes logistic only after a definite length of time. Verhulst published …

1845 CE

#4168.1

Sur les cathéters coudés, sur la manière de les introduire et sur les avantages qu’on peut rétirer de leur emploi.

Mercier introduced the coudé catheter in 1836 and the bicoudé about 1841.

1845 CE

#4324

The knee-joint anchylosed at a right angle – restored nearly to a straight position after the excision of a wedge-shaped portion of bone, consisting of the patella, condyles and articular surface of the tibia.

Buck’s operation, “one of the more spectacular surgical feats by an American surgeon in the first half of the nineteenth century” (Rutkow). The paper is reprinted in Med. Classics, 1939, 3, 791-99.

1845 CE

#13761

The origin of life: A popular treatise on the philosophy and physiology of reproduction, in plants and animals, including the details of human generation with a full description of the male and female organs. Illustrated by fine colored engravings on stone.

Digital facsimile of the 20th edition from Google Books at this link.

1845 CE

#9556

The sanitary condition of the laboring population of New York with suggestions for its improvement.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1845 CE

#5860

Ueber die Hornhautflecken.

First description of corneal opacity.

1845 CE

#3991

Versuch einer auf pathologische Anatomie gegründeten Eintheilung der Hautkrankheiten.

Hebra’s classification of skin diseases was based upon their pathological anatomy.

1845 CE

#3062

Weisses Blut.

Only six weeks after Bennett, Virchow independently published a report on the necropsy of a case of leukemia. He gave the condition its present name. For translation, see Major, Classic descriptions of disease, 3rd. e…

1845 CE–1848 CE

#5598.1

Die operative Chirurgie. 2 vols.

Dieffenbach’s most comprehensive work, covering in addition to reconstructive procedures, virtually all other types of procedures including amputations, paracentesis, laparotomy, hysterectomy, dental extractions…

1845 CE–1848 CE

#6561

Storia della medicina italiana. 5 vols.

Reprinted Bologna, 1966.

1845 CE–1849 CE

#7694

Dr. Heinrich Berghaus’ Physikalischer Atlas: oder, Sammlung von Karten, auf denen die hauptsächlichsten Erscheinungen der anorganischen und organischen Natur nach ihrer geographischen Verbreitung und Vertheilung bildlich dargestellt sind. 2 vols.

Berghaus created a new genre of thematic atlases. He issued this work gradually in eighteen installments from 1837 to1848. The first edition of the complete atlas consists of ninety maps in two vols., dated 1845 and 1…

1845 CE–1854 CE

#7769

The viviparous quadrupeds of North America. 2 vols. of plates in folio; 3 vols. 8vo text.

The largest and most significant color plate book produced in America during the 19th century.

1845 CE–1862 CE

#8223

Kosmos. Entwurf einer physischen Weltbeschreibung. 5 vols. and atlas.

This work includes founding material in geography, plant geography, orography, climatology and meterology, among other sciences, and citations to 9,000 sources. The atlas was issued without Humboldt's participation, a…

1846 CE

#7600

A descriptive catalogue of the anatomical museum of St. Bartholomew's Hospital. 2 vols.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1846 CE

#3589

A practical treatise on abdominal hernia.

1846 CE

#3261

A treatise on diseases of the air-passages.

Green was the “father of laryngology” in America, and this is the first American treatise in otorhinolaryngology. He was the first successfully to introduce medicaments into the larynx, trachea, and bronch…

1846 CE

#11734

A treatise on the motive powers which produce the circulation of the blood.

The author was an American women's rights activist and educator rather than a physician or physiologist. Digital facsimile from U.S. National Library of Medicine at this link.

1846 CE

#11914

Animal magnetism superceded: Discovery of a new hypnopoietic.

The first publication in England of the discovery of ether anesthesia appeared in the "Medical Intelligence" section of the London Medical Gazette on December 18, 1846. Prior to Fulton & Stanton's discovery of this ar…

1846 CE

#12461

Bibliotheca historico-naturalis. Verzeichniss der bücher über naturgeschichte, welche in Deutschland, Scandinavien, Holland, England, Frankreich, Italien und Spanien in den jahren 1700-1846 erschienen sind.

Digital facsimile from the Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.