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1860–1869

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1867 CE

#2125.1

Ueber Staubinhalationskrankheiten der Lungen.

Zenker described siderosis and suggested the term “pneumonokoniosis” as a suitable general title for diseases due to inhaled dust.

1867 CE

#7748

Woman's work in the Civil War: A record of heroism, patriotism and patience.

Details the work of women in the American Civil War in the fields of nursing, supply and sanitary organization (i.e. the Sanitary Commission) with biographies of notable women. Digital facsimile from the Internet Arch…

1867 CE

#2705

Zur Lehre von den vasomotorischen Neurosen.

Nothnagel described the vasomotor type of acroparaesthesia, sometimes called after him.

1867 CE–1868 CE

#625

Untersuchungen über den Stoffwechsel der Muskeln, ausgehend vom Gaswechsel derselben. 3 vols.

Hermann’s views on nitrogen metabolism in muscular work correctly anticipated the later conclusions of Fletcher, Hopkins, and others.

1867 CE–1872 CE

#14321

Arsenal de la chirurgie contemporaine. Description, mode d'emploi et appréciation des appareils et instruments en usage pour le diagnostic et le traitement des maladies chirurgicales, l'orthopédie, la prothèse, les opérations simples, générales, spéciales et obstétricales. 2 vols.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1867 CE–1925 CE

#6760

Catalogue of scientific papers. Compiled and published by the Royal Society of London. 19 vols.

An author index to scientific papers contained in the transactions of societies, journals, and other periodical works, published from 1800 to 1900. Continued by the international catalogue of scientific literature, wh…

1868 CE

#13197

The birds of Berkshire and Buckinghamshire: A contribution to the natural history of the two counties.

The first book on ornithology illustrated with original photogaphs. In this case the four photographs were also hand-tinted. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1868 CE

#2223

A collection of the published writings.

Addison was a contemporary of Bright at Guy’s Hospital and a fine lecturer.

1868 CE

#6060

A practical treatise on diseases of women.

The most complete and systematic treatise on the subject in its day.

1868 CE

#9470

Accidents et maladies: Premier soins a donner avant l'arrivée du médecin.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1868 CE

#693

Beitrag zur Kenntniss der Gallen-und Harnpigmente.

Jaffe discovered urobilin in the urine.

1868 CE

#1008

Beiträge zur Lehre von der Speichelsecretion.

1868 CE

#4778

Case of cerebral disease in a syphilitic patient.

Syphilitic endarteritis of cerebral arteries described.

1868 CE

#3621

Case of lithotomy of the gall-bladder.

First cholecystotomy for the removal of gallstones.

1868 CE

#13492

Catalogue des livres de la bibliothèque de feu M. de Docteur E. Follin.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1868 CE

#3622

Clinical lectures on diseases of the liver.

1868 CE

#4173

Clinical lectures on diseases of the urinary organs.

Thompson was Professor of Clinical Surgery at University College, London, and an eminent genito-urinary surgeon. He performed the operation of lithotrity upon Leopold I and Napoleon III; he also developed the two-glas…

1868 CE

#6872

Clinique photographique de l'hôpital Saint-Louis.

The first French dermatologic book illustrated with photographs. Originally issued in fascicules, 1867-68. The first edition includes 49 or 50 albumin photographs; second edition, entitled Clinique photographique des …

1868 CE

#2677

Das Verhalten der Eigenwärme in Krankheiten.

This work on temperature in disease laid the foundation of modern knowledge regarding clinical thermometry. Wunderlich reportedly took over a million measurements from 25,000 people. Temperatures ranged from 97.2 to 9…

1868 CE

#12887

Dental materia medica. Compiled by James W. White.

The first American treatise on materia medica written specifically for dentists. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1868 CE

#779

Die Ausmessung der strömenden Blutvolumina.

Invention of the Stromuhr, for measurement of the velocity of the blood. Dogiel was a pupil of Ludwig.

1868 CE

#1746

Die gerichtlich-chemische Ermittelung von Giften in Nahrungsmitteln, Luftgemischen, Speiseresten, Körpertheilen, etc.

Dragendorff, Professor of Pharmacy at Dorpat, Marburg, and Vienna, contributed an important book on forensic chemistry. He was responsible for the introduction of several methods for the detection of poisons in the hu…

1868 CE

#5902

Die intraocularen Geschwülste nach eigenen klinischen Beobachtungen und anatomischen Untersuchungen.

English translation, New York, 1869.

1868 CE

#1513.1

Die Lehre vom binokularen Sehen.

Hering’s law: that the corresponding muscles of the two eyes are always equally innervated. The book includes classic experiments and observations on eye movement control. English translation by B. Bridgeman and…

1868 CE

#1563

Die Mechanik der Gehörknöchelchen und des Trommelfells.

Helmholtz’s study of the mechanism of the tympanum and ossicles of the middle ear did much to elucidate the phenomenon of audition. It includes a description of “Helmholtz’s ligament” of the ma…

1868 CE

#4974

Die Schnelligkeit psychischer Prozesse.

Donders was the first to measure the reaction-time of a psychical process.

1868 CE

#941

Die Selbststeuerung der Athmung durch den Nervus vagus.

1868 CE

#942

Die Selbststeuerung der Athmung durch den Nervus vagus.

“Hering-Breuer reflex”; see also the previous entry. English translation of both papers in R. Porter (ed.), Hering–Breuer Centenary Symposium, London, Churchill, 1970. Digital facsimile of the 1868 e…

1868 CE

#9020

Donnolo. Pharmakologische Fragmente aus dem zehnten Jahrhundert, nebst Beiträgen zur Literatur der Salternitaner hauptsächlich nach handschriftlichen hebräischen Quellen. (Sonderabdruck in 50 Expl. aus d, "Archiv f. patholog. Anatomie u.s.w. "herausg. von Rud. Virchow, Bd. 38-42). Als Beilagen: Constantinus Africanus und seine arabischen Quellen (aus demselben Archiv, Bd. 37)., Donnolo, Fragment des ältesten medicinischen Werkes in hebräischer Sprache, zum ersten Mal herausgegeben von M. Steinschneider.

1868 CE

#4539

Drunkard’s or alcoholic paraplegia.

Classic account of alcoholic paraplegia.

1868 CE

#2324

Etudes sur la tuberculose; preuves rationelles et expérimentales de sa spécifité et de son inoculabilité.

Villemin inoculated guinea-pigs and rabbits with sputum, caseous material, and miliary tubercles, with resulting development of tuberculosis. His brilliant experimental work proved tuberculosis to be a specific infect…

1868 CE

#2480

Études sur le vinaigre.

Pasteur proved that a microorganism was essential to acetification and developed a patented method which greatly increased the efficiency of production.

1868 CE

#4698

Histologie de la sclérose en plaques.

An important description of multiple sclerosis. Digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this link.

1868 CE

#8998

Hospital days.

Woolsey participated in the first meetings of the Women's Central Relief Association, which preceded the U.S. Sanitary Commission. In 1863 she became Superintendent of Nurses at Fairfax Seminary Hospital, and served t…

1868 CE

#12404

Memoir of Valentine Mott, M.D., LL.D., Professor of surgery in the University of the City of New York; member of the Institute of France.

An insightful biography written by a colleague in surgery. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1868 CE

#7252

Mémoire sur une sépulture des anciens troglodytes du Périgord.

In March 1868, railway workers clearing away debris from a rock shelter known locally as the Abri de Crô-Magnon (shelter of Crô-Magnon) at Les Eyzies, Dordogne, noticed stone tools and pieces of skeleton i…

1868 CE

#5749

Mittheilungen aus der chirurgischen Klinik des Rostocker Krankenhauses während der Jahre 1861-65. I. Abtheilung: Summarische Berichte. Chirurgische Mittheilungen mit Beschreibung interessanter Krankheitsfälle. (Separat-Abdruck aus der 'Deutschen Klinik' vom Jahre 1866 und 1867.) II. Abtheilung. Beiträge zur plastischen Chirurgie, vorzugsweise zu den plastischen Operationen an den Wandungen der zugängigen Körperhölen. Separat-Abdruck aus der 'Prager Viertelhahrschrift für prakt. Heilkunde' vom J. 1866 u. 1867.

Subtitle of II Abtheilung: ..."zugängigen Körperhöhlen: des Mundes, der Scheide und des Mastdarmes verbunden mit einem Berichte über meine plastischen Operationen von Ostern 1861 - Ostern 1866." Si…

1868 CE

#5425.1

Nature des virus vaccin. Détermination expérimentale des éléments qui constituent le principe virulent dans le pus varioleux et le pus morveux.

Chauveau first used the term “elementary bodies” to describe the minute bodies inside the inclusions and which were the infective particles.

1868 CE

#224

Natürliche Schöpfungsgeschichte. Gemeinverständlich wissenschaftliche Vorträge über die Entwickelungslehre im Allgemeinen und diejenige von Darwin, Goethe und Lamarck im Besonderen, über die Anwendung derselben auf den Ursprung des Menschen . . .

Haeckel constructed the first of the now commonplace ancestral trees, depicting the evolution of life from the simplest organisms through 21 stages of development to modern man – the 22nd and final stage. Within…

1868 CE

#13493

Notice de livres d'histoire naturelle, de médecine et de la litérature composant la bibliothèque de fe M. E. R. A. Serres.

1868 CE

#5344.6

Noticiar preliminar sobre vermes de uma especie ainda nao descripta, encontrados na urina de doentes de hematuria intertropical no Brazil.

In 1866 Wucherer saw the embryo form of the filaria worm. Later the name Wuchereria bancrofti was applied to it. English translation in Kean (No. 2268.1).

1868 CE

#3276

Om adenoide Vegetationer i Naesesvaelgrummet.

First clinical description of adenoid growths. For an English translation of the paper see Med. -chir. Trans., 1870, 53, 191-215

1868 CE

#2981

Om Haemoptyse navnlig den lethale, i anatomisk og klinisk Henseende.

Tuberculous aneurysm of the lung (“Rasmussen’s aneurysm”). English translation in Edinb.med.J.,1868, 14,385-401, 486-503; 1869, 15,97-104, 228-36.

1868 CE

#9351

On the animals which are most nearly intermediate between birds and reptiles.

Huxley proposed a close relationship between birds and dinosaurs after the discovery in Germany of the primitive fossil bird Archaeopteryx. He made detailed comparisons of Archaeopteryx with various prehistoric reptil…

1868 CE

#6187

On the condition of the uterus in obstructed labour.

1868 CE

#14093

Palaeontological memoirs and notes of the late Hugh Falconer. For many years superintendent of the H.E.I. Company's botanical gardens at Suharunpoor and Calcutta. With a biographical sketch of the author. Compiled and edited by Charles Murchison. Vol. 1. Fauna Antiqua Sivalensis. Vol. II. Mastodon, elephant, rhinoceros, ossiferous caves, primeval man and his cotemporaries. 2 vols.

Falconer's writings on human antiquity appear in Vol. 2 of his Palaeontogical memoirs. Together with William Pengelly, Falconer was one of the first two scientists to visit Brixham Cave after its discovery in 1858, an…

1868 CE

#5558

Pfolspeundt: Buch der Bündth-Ertznei. Hrsg. von H. Haeser und A. Middeldorpf.

Although not printed until 1868, this treatise was written about 1460, and is the first work of the early German surgeons. Pfolspeundt was a Bavarian army surgeon; his book includes the first allusion to the extractio…

1868 CE

#8817

Pharmacopoeia of India, prepared under the authority of Her Majesty's Secretary of State for India in Council

Waring was "Surgeon in Her Majesty's Indian Army." Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1868 CE

#1868

Recherches chimiques et physiologiques sur l’erythroxylum coca du Pérou et la cocaïne.

The author, formerly a surgeon in the Peruvian army, issued the first study of the pharmacological action of cocaine, containing the earliest suggestion of its use as a local anesthetic. Leclerc issued the commercial …

1868 CE

#4739

Recherches sur la paralysie musculaire pseudo-hypertrophique, ou paralysie myo-sclérosique.

“Duchenne muscular dystrophy”. English translation of first portion in Bick, Classics of orthopaedics, 72-75.