1850–1859
501 entries with publication dates in this decade.
1851 CE
#4530
De la transmission croisée des impressions sensitives par la moëlle épinière.
“Brown-Séquard’s paralysis”. Lesion of one lateral half of the spinal cord causes paralysis of motion on one side and of sensation on the other. See also the writer’s later paper on pp. …
1851 CE
#4209
Die Bright’sche Nierenkrankheit.
Frerichs divided the progression of renal disease into three stages: initial hyperemia, fatty infiltration and exudation, and organization leading to fibrosis and atrophy. This is one of the earliest works on kidney d…
1851 CE
#8942
Die metallurgischen Krankheiten des Oberharzes.
Brockmann's book on the pulmonary disease of miners, including black lung disease, was first book on occupational health published in Germany. Brockmann published a preliminary paper on the subject in 1845. Digital fa…
1851 CE
#12872
Die Zahnheilkunde nach ihrem neuesten Standpunkte. Ein Lehrbuch fur Zahnarzte und Aerzte.
Pages 343-480 concern the history and literature of dentistry from ancient Egypt to the time of publication. This was Joseph Linderer's final book form publication. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1851 CE
#10748
Entwicklungsgeschichte der Seele der Kindes.
Digital facsimile from Bayerische StaatsBibliothek at this link.
1851 CE
#9577
Études historiques et critiques sur les médecins numismatistes: Contenant leur biographie et l'analyse de leurs écrits.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1851 CE
#9515
Früchte aus dem Morgenlande oder Reise-Erlebnisse. Nebst naturhistorisch-medicinischen Erfahrungen, einigen hundert erprobten Arzneimitteln und einer neuen Heilart dem Medial-Systeme. Mit vierzig lithographirten Tafeln: Porträte, Pflanzenabbildungen, sonstige Natur- und Kunstprodukte, Facsimile, Landkarte und Ansicht der Citadelle von Lahor; endlich als Anhang ein medizinisches Wörterbuch in mehreren europäischen und orientalischen Sprachen.
Digital facsimile from the Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link. Translated into English (1852) as Thirty-five years in the East. Adventures, discoveries, experiments, and historical sketches, relating to the Pu…
1851 CE
#114
Grundzüge der Anatomie und Physiologie der vegetabilischen Zelle. In: Rudolph Wagner’s Handwörterbuch der Physiologie.
Von Mohl saw and described cell division. English translation, London, 1852.
1851 CE
#10102
History of medical education and institutions in the United States: From the first settlement of the British colonies to the year 1850; with a chapter on the present condition and wants of the profession, and the means necessary for supplying those wants, and elevating the character and extending the usefulness of the whole profession.
Davis instrumental in the establishment of the American Medical Association and was twice elected its president. He became the first editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association. He was a founder of the C…
1851 CE
#10416
Ladies' indispensable assistant: Being a companion for the sister, mother, and wife ... Here are the very best directions for the behavior and etiquette of ladies and gentlemen ... ; also, safe directions for the management of children ... a great variety of valuable recipes, forming a complete system of family medicine ... : to which is added one of the best systems of cookery ever published ....
In spite of the verbose title, the Table of Contents of this work indicates that roughly the first half of the book concerns home remedies for the widest range of complaints and illnesses, and medical properties of pl…
1851 CE
#6178
Leçons sur l’hématocèle rétro-utérine.
Classic description of pelvic hematocele.
1851 CE
#12285
Methode für den Unterricht der Taub-Stummen in der Laut-Sprache im Rechnen und in der Religion. Verfasst von …. Gezeichnet von Ant. Jarisch.
An illustrated manual of sign language for the deaf and dumb specifically for education in mathematics and religion. The book has a particularly distinctive title page. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1851 CE
#998
Neue Versuche über die Beihilfe der Nerven zur Speichelabsonderung.
The innervation of the salivary glands first elucidated.
1851 CE
#11622
Notices of ancient Roman medicine-stamps, &c., found in Great Britain.
Digital facsimile of the first part from PubMedCentral at this link, and of the second part at this link. Concluded with Simpson's "General observations on the Roman medicine-stamps found in Great Britain," Mon. J. Me…
1851 CE
#12086
Observations on the medical topography and diseases (especially diarrhoea) of the Sacramento Valley, California, during the Years 1849, 1850.
Stillman was personal physician to Leland Stanford, the first governor of California, and was a partner of railroad magnate Mark Hopkins from their days on board a ship to California in 1849. Stillman was also co-foun…
1851 CE
#4041
On a certain affection of the skin, vitiligoidea: α Plana, β tuberosa.
In their classic account of xanthoma multiplex, Addison and Gull believed they were describing a new disease, but Rayer had been the first to mention it. (See No. 3989; see also the later paper by Gull, Guy’s Ho…
1851 CE
#613
Physiologie des Stoffwechsels in Pflanzen und Thieren.
1851 CE
#13313
Quan ti xin lun [New Treatise Concerning the Whole Body.]
The earliest treatise on Western medicine published in Chinese for the use of Chinese medical staff. The work primarily concerns anatomy and physiology, with most illustrations derived from Cheselden's Anatomy of the …
1851 CE
#1559
Recherches sur l’organe de l’ouïe des mammifères.
Corti made important investigations on the finer anatomy of the mammalian cochlea. The “organ of Corti” in the cochlea is named after him.
1851 CE
#1267
Recherches sur la système nerveux.
1851 CE
#1360
Researches into the structure of the spinal cord.
Clarke made important researches on the spinal cord. He described the nucleus dorsalis. He introduced the method of mounting sections with Canada balsam.
1851 CE
#13302
Surgical anatomy.
"The drawings of Maclise for Quain's Anatomy of the arteries and for his own Surgical anatomy are indeed done, as Quain wrote, with spirit and effect. These figures of anatomical dissection seem lifelike; in many plat…
1851 CE
#4812
Synopsis of cerebral and spinal seizures of inorganic origin and of paroxysmal form as a class; and of their pathology as involved in the structures and actions of the neck.
Hall was the first to suggest that the paroxysmal nervous discharges in epilepsy were produced by the spinal nervous system, first to notice the connection of anemia with epilepsy, and first to deduce that epilepsy wa…
1851 CE
#4260
The anatomy and diseases of the prostate gland.
Adams was the first to distinguish between hypertrophy and carcinoma of the prostate. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1851 CE
#12424
The Mesmeric mania of 1851, with a physiological explanation of the phenomena produced. A lecture.
Bennett provided a scientific explanation for then current mass hysteria or group hypnosis in Edinburgh. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1851 CE
#9166
The scale of medicines with which merchant vessels are to be furnished ... with observations on the means of preserving the health and increasing the comforts of merchant seamen.
Digital facsimile of the second edition (1861) from Google Books at this link.
1851 CE
#14130
Traité complet des maladies vénériennes. Clinique iconographique de l'Hôpital des vénériens. Recueil d'observations, suivies de considérations pratiques sur les maladies qui ont été traitées dans cet hôpital.
Ricord's extensive work with veneral diseases at the Hopital du Midi includes 66 hand-colored ithographs illustrating a multitude of conditions at various levels of infection in both sexes. The illustrations were draw…
1851 CE
#6965
Traité pratique des maladies cancéreuses et des affections curables confondues avec le cancer.
Lebert studied cancer cells under high magnification to discover the specific elements distinguishing them from normal cells. He classified tumors as either homeomorphous (composed of elements analogous to those of th…
1851 CE
#2614
Transplantation of malignant tumors.
First experimental transplantation of tumors.
1851 CE
#1267.1
Ueber den Zustand der Sensibilität nach theilweiser Trennung des Rückenmarkes.
Türck showed that degeneration in a nerve track corresponds to the direction in which it conducts nerve impulses – ascending tracks degenerate above the lesion and descending tracks below it.
1851 CE
#7872
Vergleichende Untersuchungen der Keimung, Entfaltung und Fruchtbildung höherer Kryptogamen (Moose, Farrn, Equisetaceen, Rhizocarpeen und Lycopodiaceen) und der Samenbildung der Coniferen.
Hofmeister described the process of fertilization in non-flowering plants as an alternation of sexual and asexual generations in the mosses, ferns, horsetails and liverworts. He showed that asexual generation propagat…
1851 CE
#1506
Zur Histologie der Netzhaut.
Discovery of visual purple.
1851 CE–1852 CE
#4418
Dislocation of the femur on the dorsum ilii, reducible without pulleys, or any other mechanical power, three cases.
Reduction of dislocation without manipulation. Reid demonstrated the futility of attempting to reduce a dorsal dislocation of the hip by forcible longitudinal traction with pulleys.
1851 CE–1853 CE
#1654.1
Histoire de la prostitution chez tous les peuples du monde depuis l'antiquité la plus reculée jusqu'a nos jours, par Paul Dufour. 6 vols.
Dufour was a pseudonym of the writer Paul Lacroix. Translated into English by Samuel Putnam as History of prostitution among all the peoples of the world, from the most remote antiquity to the present day, 3 vols., Ch…
1851 CE–1854 CE
#5601
Klinische Chirurgie. 3 pts.
Pirogov is considered the greatest Russian surgeon and one of the greatest military surgeons of all time. He was among the first in Europe to employ ether anesthesia. He served in the Crimean campaign and was responsi…
1851 CE–1856 CE
#5865
Die Krankheiten des Auges. 3 vols.
Arlt described granular conjunctivitis (“Arlt’s trachoma”) and an operation for transplantation of the ciliary bulbs in the treatment of distichiasis.
1851 CE–1876 CE
#31
Oeuvres d’Oribase, texte grec, en grande partie inédit…traduit pour la première fois en français; par les Drs. Bussemaker et Daremberg. 6 vols.
Oribasius was a compiler of existing knowledge rather than an original writer. His output was immense; he compiled the Synagoge, an encyclopedic digest of medicine, hygiene, therapeutics, and surgery from Hippocrates …
1852 CE
#12047
A curious dance round a curious tree.
Dickens' account of his visit on the day after Christmas, 1851 to the wards at St. Luke's Hospital for Lunatics, founded in 1751 to provide free care to the impoverished and incurable mentally ill. "The inhabitants of…
1852 CE
#415
A manual of artistic anatomy.
Knox, remembered because of his indiscreet association with the Edinburgh “resurrectionists”, was one of the best teachers of anatomy during the 19th century.
1852 CE
#5489
Annals of influenza or epidemic catarrhal fever in Great Britain from 1510-1837.
1852 CE
#6179
Considérations sur l’avortement provoqué dans les cas de vomissements.
Classic description of hyperemesis gravidarum.
1852 CE
#4829
De la contracture des extrémités ou tétanie. Thèse pour le doctorat en médecine. No. 223
In his graduation thesis, Lucien Corvisart, nephew of the more famous Baron Corvisart (No. 2737), introduced the term “tétanie”. Digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this link.
1852 CE
#5866.1
Der Augenspiegel und des Optometer für practische Aerzte.
Ruete introduced a practical lens system for examining the inverted image, and improved the illumination, producing the first practical ophthalmoscope.
1852 CE
#115
Der Kreislauf des Lebens.
This work attacked Liebig’s theories, although courteously. Moleschott, a Dutch physiologist, evolved a purely materialistic conception of the world. He considered life a magnificent metabolic process, and thoug…
1852 CE
#10471
Die regeneration des unterkiefers nach totaler necrose durch phosphordampfe.
Geist and von Bibra proved that the phosphorus necrosis of the lower jaw of matchmakers was caused by phosphorus fumes and that carious teeth ormed the starting point for this typical industrial disease. Digital facsi…
1852 CE
#999
Die Verdauungssäfte und der Stoffwechsel.
Even after the work of Prout and Beaumont, some physiologists thought that the free acid of the gastric juice was lactic acid; Bidder and Schmidt finally proved that normally the gastric juice always contains HCl in e…
1852 CE
#4931
Du délire des persécutions.
“Lasègue’s disease” – persecution mania.
1852 CE
#4169.1
Ectropia vesicae (absence of the anterior walls of the bladder and pubic abdominal parietes); operation for directing the orifices of the ureters into the rectum; temporary success; subsequent death; autopsy.
First uretero-intestinal anastomosis.
1852 CE
#5339
Ein Beitrag zur Helminthographia humana aus brieflichen Mittheilungen des Dr. Bilharz in Cairo, nebst Bemerkungen von C. T. v. Siebold.
Discovery, in 1851, of Schistosoma haematobium, the parasite of bilharziasis. Bilharz was Professor of Zoology at Cairo. English translation in Rev. infect. Dis., 1984, 4, 727-32, and in Kean (No. 2268.1).
1852 CE
#1322
Experimental researches applied to physiology and pathology.
By applying a galvanic current to the superior part of the divided sympathetic nerve and causing vascular contraction and a fall in temperature, Brown-Séquard inferred that section of the sympathetic paralysed …