1850–1859
501 entries with publication dates in this decade.
1838 CE
#1498
Contributions to the physiology of vision.
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).
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…
1850 CE
#4853
Abscess in the substance of the brain; the lateral ventricles opened by an operation.
Lateral ventricles of the brain first opened for the treatment of cerebral abscess.
1850 CE
#10295
An historical sketch of the state of medicine in the American Colonies, from their first settlement to the period of the Revolution.
A pioneering historical interpretation of the development of medicine in the 13 colonies up to the American Revolution. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link. This is the second, significantly expan…
1850 CE
#4327
Case of mollities and fragilitas ossium.
Multiple myeloma first described.
1850 CE
#13417
Catalogue des livres de géologie, botanique, zoologie, médecine, anatomie, physiologie, physique, littérature, histoire, français et étrangers … de Feu M. H. D. de Blainville.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1850 CE
#3933
Chiens rendus diabétiques.
By experimental puncture (piqûre) of the fourth ventricle of the brain, Claude Bernard produced temporary glycosuria.
1850 CE
#11306
Constitution, by-laws and fee bill of the San Francisco Medical Society: Organized June 22, 1850.
This 8-page pamphlet is one of the earliest separate publications relating to medicine printed in the State of California. The "Society" disbanded shortly after this was published, perhaps over disputes concerning the…
1850 CE
#4040
Des principales formes du lupus et de son traitement.
Lupus erythematosus – “Cazenave’s disease”.
1850 CE
#10426
Diary of a physician in California; being the results of actual experience, including notes of the journey by land and water, and observations on the climate, soil, resources of the country, etc.
Tyson sailed from Baltimore for California in January 1849, crossing the Isthmus and sailing on to San Francisco. His book recounts his 1849 tour of the Northern Mines in search of a likely place for his medical pract…
1850 CE
#1610
Dictionnaire des altérations et falsifications des substances alimentaires, médicamenteuses et commerciales. 2 vols.
Chevallier, a chemist, was a prolific writer. Above is probably his most important publication.
1850 CE
#771
Die Hämodynamik nach Versuchen.
1850 CE
#997
Die Physiologie der Nahrungsmittel.
1850 CE
#810
Einige neue Versuche über Herzbewegung.
Experimental ventricular fibrillation.
1850 CE
#3817
Existence de l’iode dans les plantes d’eau douce. Conséquences de ce fait pour la géognosie, la physiologie végétale, la thérapeutique et peut-être pour l’industrie.
Chatin was the first to show that iodine could prevent endemic goitre and cretinism.
1850 CE
#1266
Experiments on the section of the glossopharyngeal and hypoglossal nerves of the frog, and observations of the alterations produced thereby in the structure of their primitive fibres.
The “law of Wallerian degeneration”. The experiments recorded in the above paper were the starting-point of the neuron theory. Waller showed that if glosso-pharyngeal and hypoglossal nerves are severed, th…
1850 CE
#1741
Gerichtliche Leichenöffnungen.
Casper was a great authority on forensic medicine. He also wrote on medical statistics. Above is an important compilation on judicial autopsies.
1850 CE
#4326.1
Grosses Enchondrom (Gallertknorpel-Geschwulst) des Schulterblattes; Exstirpation des ganzen Schulterblattes mit Ausnahme des Processus coracoides am 6 Febr.; Tod am 7 Febr.
Complete excision of the scapula.
1850 CE
#6351
Grundlage der Literatur der Pädiatrik.
An extensive bibliography of pediatric literature, containing about 7,000 references.
1850 CE
#5163
Inoculation du sang de rate.
Rayer inoculated sheep with blood of other sheep dead of anthrax. Microscopically he saw the anthrax bacillus in the blood of the inoculated sheep. Rayer was associated with Davaine, who later, in Bull. Acad. Mé…
1850 CE
#5665
On narcotism by the inhalation of vapours.
Snow attempted carbon dioxide absorption.
1850 CE
#5864
Opérations qui se pratiquent sur les yeux.
1850 CE
#4733
Recherches sur une maladie non encore décrite du système musculaire. (Atrophie musculaire progressive).
“Aran–Duchenne disease” (see No. 4732)
1850 CE
#1609
Report of a general plan for the promotion of public and personal health, devised, prepared, and recommended by the commissioners appointed under a resolve of the legislature of Massachusetts relating to a sanitary survey of the State.
Compiled by a team, but entirely written by Shattuck, this report was the first general blueprint for the promotion of public health presented to an American governmental body. Its first proposal was for the creation …
1850 CE
#8808
The historical relations of ancient Hindu with Greek medicine in connection with the study of modern medical science in India: Being a general introductory lecture delivered June 1850, at the Calcutta Medical College.
Webb was surgeon in the Bengal Army, and later Professor of Anatomy at the Calcutta Medical College. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1850 CE
#13760
The marriage guide, or natural history of generation; a private instructor for married persons and those about to marry, both male and female, in every thing concerning the physiology and relations of the sexual system and production or prevention of offspring; including all the new discoveries, never before given in the English language.
Digital facsimile of the 196th edition, much enlarged and improved from Google Books at this link. Sappol (2002) estimated that Hollick's works on sexuality and reproduction underwent at least 500 editions of between …
1850 CE
#161
The races of men.
Knox, anatomist at Edinburgh, and notorious for his association with the resurrectionists, made important researches in the field of ethnology while serving as an army surgeon at the Cape of Good Hope.
1850 CE
#9383
Traité théorique et pratique de la méthode anesthésique appliquée a la chirurgie et aux différentes branches de l'art de guérir.
Of particular interest for the introductory chapter 2 on pain produced in surgical operations and chapter 3 on the history of the understanding and attempts at treatment of pain, surgical and otherwise, before ether a…
1850 CE
#3818
Two cases of absence of the thyroid body and symmetrical swellings of fat tissue at the sides of the neck, connected with defective cerebral development.
Curling, of the London Hospital, was the first accurately to note the clinical picture of cretinism, which Ord was later to name “myxedema”. Curling was also the first to suggest deficiency of the thyroid …
1850 CE
#933
Ueber den Einfluss der Vagusdurchschneidung auf das Lungengewebe.
See No. 931.
1850 CE
#1265
Vorläufiger Bericht über die Fortpflanzungsgeschwindigkeit der Nervenreizung.
Helmholtz succeeded in measuring the velocity of the nervous impulse, by applying the knowledge and techniques of ballistics to the problem. In 1852, using a pendulum-myograph of his own invention, he measured the dur…
1850 CE
#1222
Zur Anatomie der männlichen Geschlechtsorgane un Analdrüsen der Säugethiere.
Leydig was the first to describe the interstitial cells of the testis (“Leydig cells”).
1850 CE–1851 CE
#10517
Southern medical reports: Consisting of general and special reports, on the medical topography, meteorology, and prevalent diseases, in the following states: Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Arkansas, Tennessee, Texas. Edited by E. D. Fenner. 2 vols.
Regarding Fenner see, John Duffy, "Erasmus Darwin Fenner (1807–1866) Journalist, Educator, and Sanitarian," Academic Medicine. 35 (1960) 819-831. Digital facsimile of the 1850-51 edition from the Internet Archiv…
1850 CE–1852 CE
#13648
Maladies de l'Algérie. Des causes, de la symptômatologie, de la nature et du traitement des maladies endémo-épidémiques de la province d'Oran. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1850 CE–1853 CE
#6335
Die Krankheiten der Neugebomen und Säuglinge. 4 vols.
Bednaŕ was a famous Viennese pediatrician. His description of aphthae of the palate in the newborn (“Bednaŕ’s aphthae”) is in vol. 1, p. 104 of his book.
1850 CE–1854 CE
#1777
A systematic treatise, historical, etiological, and practical, on the principal diseases of the interior valley of North America as they appear in the Causcasian, African, Indian, and Esquimaux varieties of Its population. 2 vols.
This classical contribution to the social / medical history of North America includes the most important work on the natural history of malaria published up to that time. Digital facsimile of vol. 1 from the Internet …
1850 CE–1855 CE
#13157
Descriptive and illustrated catalogue of the histological series contained in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. Vol. I. Elementary tissues of vegetables and animals; Vol. II. Structure of the skeleton of vertebrate animals. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1850 CE–1863 CE
#13001
Museum Heineanum: Verzeichniss der ornithologischen Sammlung des Oberamtmann Ferdinand Heine, auf Gut St. Burchard vor Halberstadt, mit kritischen Anmerkungen und Beschreibung der neuen Arten, systematisch bearbeitet von Jean Cabanis. 4 vols.
Heine collected the largest private collection of birds in the mid-19th century. His collection of 27,000 specimens and 15,000 books is preserved the Heineanum Halberstadt Museum in Halberstadt. Digital facsimile from…
1850 CE–1866 CE
#6385
Storia della medicina. 3 vols. in 4.
Vol. 2 was in 2 parts. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1851 CE
#2757
A practical treatise on the diseases of the lungs and heart, including the principles of physical diagnosis.
Walshe, physician to University College Hospital, London, was one of the first to recognize the presystolic character of the direct mitral murmur in mitral stenosis.
1851 CE
#11754
A practical treatise on the treatment of the diseases of the elephant, camel, and horned cattle, with instructions for preserving their efficiency.
1851 CE
#6038
A table of all the known operations of ovariotomy. From 1701-1851.
Atlee is said to have performed ovariotomy 387 times; with his brother John he firmly established the operation in the U.S.A.
1851 CE
#5338.1
Beobachtungen über Trichina spiralis in Betriff der Uebertragung der Eingeweidewürmer.
Herbst was the first to demonstrate that an animal eating trichinous flesh would thereby develop trichinae in its own muscles. English translation of part I in Kean (No. 2268.1).
1851 CE
#5866
Beschreibung eines Augen-Spiegels zur Untersuchung der Netzhaut im lebenden Auge.
Invention of the ophthalmoscope, one of the greatest events in the history of ophthalmology. English translation by T. H. Shastid, Chicago, Cleveland Press, 1916.
1851 CE
#9068
Catalogus plantarum horti botanici medicocirurgicae Scholae Olisponensis anno MDCCCLII.
Lists 1,863 plants in the botanical garden at the Escola Medico-Cirurgica of Lisbon, arranged by genus and species according to Decandolle’s classification. The authors note in which part of Europe, India, the A…
1851 CE
#4169
Cystitis; lateral operation on the bladder, death; tuberculous kidney.
First cystotomy for inflammation and rupture of the bladder.
1851 CE
#6259
Das enge Becken: nach eigenen Beobachtungen und Untersuchungen.
First important work dealing with pelvic deformities since the time of van Deventer. It is a pioneer work in the literature dealing with pelvic architecture; Michaelis was one of the first to differentiate between the…
1851 CE
#1560
De auris internae formatione.
Description of the vestibular membrane (“Reissner’s membrane”).
1851 CE
#5600