1850–1859

1858 CE

#935

De sanguine oxydo carbonico infesto.

Investigation of the blood gases.

1858 CE

#6045

Der Gebärmutterkrebs.

In this work Wagner presented the first important contribution to the knowledge of the gross pathology of uterine cancer.

1858 CE

#3330

Der Kehlkopfrachenspiegel und die Methode seines Gebrauches.

Türck, at first sceptical of Garcia’s laryngoscope, later adopted it and claimed from Czermak priority in its clinical employment; these two gentlemen fought one another bitterly for some years over this po…

1858 CE

#12256

Des appareils l'electriques des poissons l'electriques. 2 vols. (Text and atlas).

Digital facsimile of the text from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1858 CE

#420

Des moyens chirurgicaux de favoriser la reproduction des os après les résections.

“Ollier’s layer”, the osteogenetic layer of the periosteum.

1858 CE

#3457

Description of the operation of gastrotomy.

First gastrostomy in Britain.

1858 CE

#2299

Die Cellularpathologie in ihrer Begründung auf physiologische und pathologische Gewebelehre.

Virchow was the greatest figure in the history of pathology. His best work, Die Cellularpathologie, is one of the most important books in the history of medicine and the foundation stone of cellular pathology. The Eng…

1858 CE

#13339

Die Entwicklungsgeschichte des menschlichen Auges.

"Ammon's Scleral Prominence - prominence of the postero-external aspect of the globe of the eye of the foetus which appears at the third month of foetal life." Jessie Dobson, eponyms, 2nd. Ed. (1962), p.13 . The artic…

1858 CE

#775

Die Erscheinungen und Gesetze der Stromgeschwindigkeiten des Blutes.

Vierordt estimated, by means of a “hemotachometer” of his own invention, the rate of the blood flow in various arteries, and also the influence of the blood volume, pulse rate and respiratory rate upon it.

1858 CE

#12152

Diphtheritis: A concise historical and critical essay on the late epidemic pseudo-membranous sore throat of California (1856-7), with a few remarks illustrating the diagnosis, pathology, and treatment of the disease.

For publishing this 46-page pamphlet Fourgeaud has been called "California's first medical historian." Digital facsimile from U.S. National Library of Medicine at this link.

1858 CE

#6614

Etudes médicales sur les poètes latins.

1858 CE

#4854

Exsection of the trunk of the second branch of the fifth pair of nerves, beyond the ganglion of Meckel, for severe neuralgia of the face; with three cases.

First excision of the superior maxillary nerve for the treatment of trigeminal neuralgia.

1858 CE

#1996.1

Galvanotherapie der Nerven- und Muskelkrankheiten.

Remak was a pioneer of galvanotherapy. Having treated some 700 patients with galvanic current, he believed that it was superior to faradic current for electrotherapy.

1858 CE

#6757

Graphische lncunabeln für Naturgeschichte und Medicin. Enthaltend Geschichte und Bibliographie der ersten naturhistorischen und medicinischen Drucke des XV. und XVI. Jahrhunderts, welche mit illustrirenden Abbildungen versehen sind.

Reprint, Munich, 1924, Hildesheim, 1963.

1858 CE

#10218

Histoire du Collegium Medicum Antverpiense.

Text in French. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1858 CE

#5525

Historia de la verrugas.

Verruga peruana.

1858 CE

#12482

Impressions of Western Africa. With remarks on the diseases of the climate and a report on the peculiarities of trade up the rivers in the Bight of Biafra.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1858 CE

#5883

Klinische Analyse der Motilitätsstörungendes Auges.

Alfred Carl Graefe, cousin of Albrecht, made a careful clinical analysis of disordered movements of the eye. He also invented a special “localization ophthalmoscope”, and, with Saemisch, edited the great H…

1858 CE

#1399

Leçons sur la physiologie et la pathologie du système nerveux. 2 vols.

1858 CE

#2165

Medical and surgical history of the British Army which served in Turkey and the Crimea during the war against Russia, in the years 1854-56. 2 vols.

GREAT BRITAIN. War Office. Medical Services

First official medical and surgical history of a war.

1858 CE

#10278

Mémoire sur les vers intestinaux.

Beneden's treatise on the development, transformation, and life-histories of parasitic worms won the Grand prix des sciences physiques of the Institut de France. It was published in the "International Scientific Serie…

1858 CE

#13500

Memorias biographicas dos medicos e cirurgiões Portuguezes, que no presente seculo se teem feito conhecidos por sous escriptos.

1858 CE

#548

Mikroskopische Studien aus dem Gebiete der menschlichen Morphologie.

Gerlach introduced several staining methods, the most important of which (a transparent solution of ammonia carmine and gelatin) is called “Gerlach’s stain”; it was the first satisfactory histologica…

1858 CE

#4533

Note sur une paralysie peu connue de certains muscles de l’oeil, et sa liaison avec quelques points de l’anatomie et la physiologie de la protubérance annulaire.

“Foville’s syndrome”– crossed paralysis of the limbs on one side of the body and of the face on the other side, together with loss of ability to rotate the eyes to that side. English translatio…

1858 CE

#7481

Notes on matters affecting the health, efficiency, and hospital administration of the British Army. Founded chiefly on the experience of the late war. Presented by request to the Secretary of State for War.

This privately printed pamphlet contained a color statistical graphic entitled "Diagram of the causes of mortality in the Army of the East" which showed that epidemic disease, which was responsible for more British de…

1858 CE

#9312

Notes on the surgery of the war in the Crimea, with remarks on the treatment of gunshot wounds.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link. Reprinted in Richmond, Virginia in 1862 during the American Civil War for the Confederate States Army by J. W. Randolph; digital facsimile of the Richmond edition from…

1858 CE

#999.1

Nouvelles recherches expérimentales sur les phénomènes glycogéniques du foie.

Isolation of glycogen. See also C. R. Acad. Sci. (Paris), 1857, 44, 578-86, 1325-31.

1858 CE

#4467

On amputation by a long and a short rectangular flap.

Teale’s method of amputation.

1858 CE

#3684

On certain irregularities of the teeth with cases illustrative of a novel method of successful treatment.

First work devoted exclusively to irregularities of the teeth.

1858 CE

#5666

On chloroform and other anaesthetics: Their action and administration. Edited, with a memoir of the author, by Benjamin W. Richardson.

Snow, the first specialist in anesthesiology, delivered Queen Victoria with the aid of chloroform in 1853 and 1857. This work was edited for publication after Snow's premature death by Richardson, who included a biogr…

1858 CE

#6044

On epicystotomy.

Noeggerath, who devised the operation of epicystotomy, spent many years in America, where he became a leading gynecologist and obstetrician.

1858 CE

#2761

On malformations, etc., of the human heart.

Includes an account of the “tetralogy of Fallot” (see No. 2792). Peacock’s book was “the first comprehensive study covering the whole field” (Maude Abbott). Reprinted, Boston, Mass., 1973.

1858 CE

#2298

On the early stages of inflammation.

This paper reports the results of one of Lister’s most valuable researches; his conclusions still hold today.

1858 CE

#9178

On the general geographical distribution of the members of the class Aves.

Sclater defined and named six zoological regions: the Palaearctic, Aethiopian, Indian, Australasian, Nearctic and Neotropical. With some name revision (Afrotropic for Aethiopian, and Indomalayan for Indian,) these zoo…

1858 CE

#3331

Physiologie Untersuchungen mit Garcia’s Kehlkopfspiegel.

Czermak was the first to demonstrate the utility of the laryngoscope invented by Garcia. He substituted artificial light for sunlight and made other improvements.

1858 CE

#2386

Report on the effects of infantile syphilis in marring the development of the teeth.

Hutchinson of St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, is memorable for his original description of the notched incisors (“Hutchinson’s teeth”) in congenital syphilis. His name is also associated with &ldqu…

1858 CE

#5605

Silver sutures in surgery.

Sims, famous American gynecologist, introduced a silver wire suture, in order to avoid sepsis. See No. 6037.

1858 CE

#12065

Speech of Charles Dickens, Esq., on behalf of The Hospital for Sick Children, 49, Great Ormond Street. Patron, - Her Majesty the Queen. The objects of the institution are - I. The medical and surgical treatment of poor children. II. The attainment and diffusion of knowledge regarding the diseases of children. 3. The training of nurses for children.

Speech of Charles Dickens as Chairman at the Dinner on Behalf of the Hospital for Sick Children, February 9th, 1858. This 10-page pamphlet was first published in 1858 and reprinted in 1864, in 1865, and in 1874 to rai…

1858 CE

#11133

Traité de la folie des femmes enceintes, des nouvelles accouchées et des nourrices et considérations médico-légales qui se rattachent à ce sujet.

The first work on psychiatric illnesses of women during and after pregnancy. Marcé provided extensive clinical descriptions of syndromes, with 79 case examples, and summarized etiological theories and treatment…

1858 CE

#1561

Ueber die Endigungsweise des Hörnerven im Labyrinth.

Schultze’s great monographs on the nerve-endings of the sense organs were of prime importance in the development of the science of histology. Besides that dealing with the internal ear, he wrote others dealing w…

1858 CE

#2385

Ueber die Natur der constitutionell-syphilitischen Affectionen.

Virchow’s great work on the pathology of syphilis confirmed the fact that it was a disease which involved all organs and tissues of the body and showed that the causal organism was transferred through the blood …

1858 CE

#204

Zur Kenntniss der ältesten Rassenschädel.

The first comprehensive description of the Neanderthal skull, following Schaaffhausen’s and Fuhlrott’s preliminary announcements of the discovery in the Verhandlungen des naturhistorischen Vereines der pre…

1858 CE–1859 CE

#4774

De l’ataxie locomotrice progressive.

Although far from being the first to describe tabes dorsalis, Duchenne gave a classic account of the condition, earning the eponym “Duchenne’s disease”.

1858 CE–1861 CE

#3620

Klinik der Leberkrankheiten. 2 vols. and atlas.

Frerichs’s classic monograph on diseases of the liver summarized the existing knowledge and included his own important work on the subject. He discovered leucine and tyrosine in the liver in acute yellow atrophy…

1858 CE–1882 CE

#11660

Horae subsecivae. Locke and Sydenham with other occasional papers. [Vol. 2:] Rab and his friends and other papers.

William Osler promoted the value of the writings of the popular medical essayist John Brown to the medical community. He wrote: "To the medical student the writings of Dr. John Brown have this special value - they imp…

1859 CE

#11364

A manual of operative surgery on the dead body.

Smith's concept was the teaching of surgery in a manner analogous to the teaching of anatomy--i.e. from a cadaver. His book organizes and explains the operations that student surgeons could practice on a cadaver. Digi…

1859 CE

#7935

A practical treatise on diseases, pathology, and treatment of diseases of the heart.

The first major American textbook on cardiology. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1859 CE

#5607

A system of surgery; pathological, diagnostic, therapeutic, and operative. 2 vols.

A profound intellect in 19th-century American surgery, Gross was both a surgical innovator and an outstanding author of numerous works that became classics. This massive treatise containing nearly 2500 pages was inten…

1859 CE

#4815

Bau und Functionen der Medulla spinalis und oblongata, und nächste Ursache und rationelle Behandlung der Epilepsie.

The work of Schroeder van der Kolk brought histological examination to the forefront in connection with theories on the localization of function. His careful microscopical studies confirmed the medulla as being the ul…

1859 CE

#3459

Commentatio de fistulis ventriculi externis et chirurgica earum sanatione.

First operation for gastric fistula.