1840–1849
472 entries with publication dates in this decade.
1848 CE
#7314
Die Hautkrankheiten durch anatomische Untersuchungen erläutert.
The first textbook of dermatopathology. "Simon dated the preface of his book April 1st, 1848 and wrote (p. vi and vii) that much has been achieved by meticulous clinical description of diseases of the skin but now att…
1848 CE
#5662
Die Versuche mit dem Schwefeläther, Salzäther und Chloroform.
Introduction of ethyl chloride in anesthesia.
1848 CE
#3563
Disease of the appendix caeci cured by operation.
First recorded successful operation for peritonitis due to abscess in the appendix. Hancock was surgeon to Charing Cross Hospital, London.
1848 CE
#5730
Ether and chloroform: a compendium of their history, surgical use, dangers and discovery.
Bigelow’s speedy publication of Morton’s discovery (No. 5651), and his subsequent advocacy of ether as an anesthetic assured its adoption throughout the civilized world. The above work deals with the prior…
1848 CE
#11727
Etherization: With surgical remarks.
Warren performed the first surgical operation under anesthesia at Massachusetts General Hospital on October 16, 1846. This work presents his experience with anesthesia in the year following. Digital facsimile from U.S…
1848 CE
#6334
Lectures on the diseases of infancy and childhood.
In its day this was the best English work on the subject, and was translated into several languages. West was one of the founders of the Hospital for Sick Children, Gt. Ormond Street, London.
1848 CE
#12083
Mittheilungen über die in Oberschlesien herrschende Typhus-Epidemie.
Virchow was one of the first to identify medicine as a social science. He developed a theory of epidemics that emphasized the social circumstances permitting spread of illness. This approach has been called sociologic…
1848 CE
#4495
Observations on certain pathological conditions of the blood and urine in gout, rheumatism and Bright’s disease.
The “thread test” in gout was introduced by Garrod. Later he wrote more fully on gout and rheumatism (see No. 4497).
1848 CE
#4326
On a new substance occurring in the urine of a patient with mollities ossium.
Bence Jones described the myelopathic albumosuria (Bence Jones proteinuria) seen in Macintyre’s patient (No. 4327). Preliminary notes in Lancet, 1847, 2, 88, and Proc. roy. Soc. Lond., 1847, 5, 673.
1848 CE
#330
On the archetype and homologies of the vertebrate skeleton.
Owen’s vertebral theory of the origin of the skull, later refuted by Thomas Huxley and others. "Owen began working systematically on problems of transcendental morphology in 1841, as part of his curatorial task …
1848 CE
#5663
On the inhalation of chloroform and ether. With description of an apparatus.
Snow’s chloroform inhaler.
1848 CE
#10729
Poisons in relation to medical jurisprudence and medicine.
Taylor was the leading English toxicologist and medical witness of his time, and his works were revised, edited, and translated into other languages. He "performed an invaluable service in codifying legal precedents a…
1848 CE
#680
Quantitative Bestimmung des Zuckers im Harn.
Fehling’s test for sugar in the urine.
1848 CE
#10176
The dodo and its kindred; Or, the history, affinities, and osteology of the dodo, solitaire, and other extinct birds of the islands Mauritius, Rodriguez and Bourbon.
The first separate monograph on the dodo, an extinct flightless bird that was endemic to the island of Mauritius, east of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean. "The closest genetic relative to the dodo was the also extinct …
1848 CE
#809
Über die Herznerven des Frosches.
1848 CE
#612
Ueber die Wärmeentwickelung bei der Muskelaction.
Helmholtz showed the muscles to be the principal source of animal heat.
1848 CE
#681
Untersuchung der Ochsengalle.
1848 CE
#2979
Untersuchungen über die Natur der krankhaften Veränderungen der Arterienwände, die als Ursachen der spontanen Aneurysmen zu betrachten sind.
1848 CE
#1861
Vorläufige Notiz über eine neue organische Base im Opium.
Isolation of papaverine.
1848 CE
#5454
Yellow fever contrasted with bilious fever – reasons for believing it a disease sui generis – its mode of propagation – remote cause – probable insect or animalcular origin.
Nott advanced the theory that yellow fever was caused by minute animalcula. Reproduced in part in R. H. Major, Classic descriptions of disease, 3rd ed., 1945, p. 122.
1848 CE–1849 CE
#3450
On the existence of Entophyta in healthy animals, as a natural condition.
Discovery of the bacterial flora of the intestines.
1848 CE–1850 CE
#64
The works of Thomas Sydenham. Translated from the Latin edition of Dr. Greenhill with a life of the author by R.G. Latham. 2 vols.
Best English translation of Sydenham’s works.
1848 CE–1851 CE
#7495
Selecta praxis medico-chirurgicae quam Mosquae exercet Alexander Auvert, ...Typis et figuris expressa Parisiis, moderante Ambroise Tardieu.
Auvert was professor in Moscow. This folio atlas includes 120 folio plates of pathology subjects, drawn by Schtschegoleff in Moscow. The text is in Latin throughout. The drawings were engraved in Paris by Oudet, print…
1848 CE–1854 CE
#7092
Bibliographia zoologiae et geologiae. A general catalogue of all books, tracts, and memoirs on zoology and geology by Louis Agassiz. Corrected, enlarged and edited by H. E. Strickland. 4 vols. Vol. 4 edited by Strickland and Jardine.
Digital facsimile of the 4 vols. from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1848 CE–1854 CE
#270
Het mikroskoop, deszelfs gebruik, Geschiedenis en tegewoordige Toestand. Eeen handbooek voor natuur - en geneeskundigen. 4 vols.
Exhaustive history of the microscope. The work was translated into German, appearing (second edition) in 1866; this last was reprinted Amsterdam, 3 vols., 1970. Digital facsimile of the first edition in Dutch from wel…
1848 CE–1884 CE
#610
Untersuchungen über thierische Elektricität. 2 vols.
A pupil of J. Müller, Emil du Bois-Reymond was the founder of modern electrophysiology. He introduced faradic stimulation and made an exhaustive investigation of physiological tetanus. Above is a collective editi…
1849 CE
#12893
A dictionary of dental science, biography, bibliography, and medical terminology.
An encyclopedia in dictionary form, combining all the elements described in the title in one alphabetical sequence. This work underwent numerous later editions. Digital facsimile of the 1849 edition from Google Books …
1849 CE
#13167
A practical treatise on the domestic management and most important diseases of advanced life. With an appendix, containing a series of cases illustrative of a new and successful mode of treating lumbago and other forms of chronic rheumatism, sciatica and other neuralgic affections, and certain forms of paralysis.
Digital facsimile from wellcomelibrary.org at this link.
1849 CE
#4529
A treatise on the pathology, diagnosis, and treatment of neuroma.
Smith’s large and beautifully illustrated atlas contains the first clear description and illustration of neurofibromatosis, published 33 years before von Recklinghausen’s account of the disorder (see No. 4…
1849 CE
#5664
An account of the first use of sulphuric ether by inhalation as an anaesthetic in surgical operations.
There is no doubt that Long was the first successfully to use ether vapor as an anesthetic. This was on 30 March 1842, at Jefferson, Georgia. Unfortunately he did not publish his results until others, notably Morton, …
1849 CE
#13868
An atlas of anatomical plates of the human body, with descriptive letter-press in English and Hindustani.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1849 CE
#10746
An inquiry concerning the diseases and functions of the brain, spinal cord, and the nerves.
The first American book on neurology, with a lengthy discussion of neuropathology. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1849 CE
#3118
Anaemia; disease of the supra-renal capsules.
Addison included a classic description of pernicious (Addisonian) anemia in his papers on the condition later known as “Addison’s disease”. Although preceded by Combe, his account was more important …
1849 CE
#13440
Catalogus librorum cum medicorum, anatom., chirurg., artis obstetr., materiei medicae et chemiae, tum historiae natural., geogr, itin. litteraturae, historiae, item effigierum, nec non praeparatorum ad anatomen tum sanam tum morbosam pertinentium, et partem musei efficientium, quibus usus est ... Gerardus Sandifort ... quorum publica fiet auctio ... die XXIX Octobris MDCCCXLIX et seqq. Lugduni Batavorum per E.J. Brill ...
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1849 CE
#13666
Compte-rendu de l'état del'enseignement médical et du service de santé civil et militaire de l'Égypte au commencement de mars 1849.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1849 CE
#1106
De cursu lymphae in vasis lymphaticis.
Noll advanced the theory that lymph is formed by the diffusion of fluids from the blood through the vessel walls into the surrounding tissues.
1849 CE
#996
Du sue pancréatique et de son rôle dans les phénomenès de la digestion.
Discovery of the digestive action of the pancreatic juice, especially its role in the digestion and absorption of fats. Reprinted, with translation, in Med. Classics, 1939, 3, 581-617.
1849 CE
#14327
Effects of chloroform and of strong chloric ether, as narcotic agents.
“On October 16, 1846, at Massachusetts General Hospital, Warren participated in the first public demonstration of anesthesia for surgery. He was the surgeon for the first surgical patient given ether anesthesia,…
1849 CE
#5183.1
Fragments d’helminthologie et de physiologie microscopique.
First observations of entozoic amoebae.
1849 CE
#11432
Friedrich Tiedemann’s Bücher-Sammlung.
"After resigning his professorship of anatomy and physiology at Heidelberg due to deteriorating eyesight, Friedrich Tiedemann (1781-1861) sold his extensive personal library—over 4,600 volumes, assembled over fi…
1849 CE
#1505
Lectures on the parts concerned in the operations on the eye, and on the structure of the retina.
Bowman did more than any other man to advance ophthalmic surgery in England. The above work is the first to include a sound description of the microscopical anatomy of the eye and the ciliary (“Bowman’s&rd…
1849 CE
#12533
Lehrbuch der pharmaceutischen Technik.
The first textbook of pharmacy.
1849 CE
#3368.2
Mémoire sur l’emploi de la fourchette tonique ou du diapason, pour distinguer une dureté d’ouïe nerveuse de celle que est causée par une obstruction.
Schwabach’s hearing test (see No. 3389) was earlier employed by Schmalz.
1849 CE
#5216
Mémoire sur l’esthioméne, ou dartre rongeante de la région vulvo-anale.
Huguier gave the name esthiomène to the characteristic induration and discoloration of the affected parts in lymphogranuloma venereum.
1849 CE
#2123.2
Mémoire sur les modifications physiques et chimiques que détermine dans certaines parties du corps l’exercice des diverse professions, pour servir à la recherche médico-légale de l’identité.
In this comprehensive work on occupational marks, Tardieu states that Corvisart, Dupuytren, and Trousseau would take pride in identifying the professions of their patients at first sight, using knowledge of occupation…
1849 CE
#11757
Notes on the influence exercised by trees in inducing rain and preserving moisture.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1849 CE
#4460
On amputation at the ankle-joint by internal lateral flap.
“Mackenzie’s operation”, a modification of Syme’s amputation (No. 4459). Mackenzie volunteered for service in the Crimean War and died of Asiatic cholera near Sebastopol.
1849 CE
#13704
On parthenogenesis, or the successive production of procreating individuals from a single ovum. A discourse introductory to the Hunterian Lectures on Generation and Development for the year 1849, delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1849 CE
#5234
On the cryptogamous origin of malarious and epidemic fevers.
Although Hensinger in 1844 had suggested a parasite as the cause of malaria, Mitchell was the first to approach this theory in a scientific spirit. He was Professor of Medicine at Jefferson College, and the father of …
1849 CE
#9981
On the mode of communication of cholera.
Publication of Snow's 31-page pamphlet on cholera preceded his paper in the London Medical Gazette by about one month.