1860–1869
571 entries with publication dates in this decade.
1868 CE
#873.1
Sulla funzione ematopoietica del midollo delle ossa.
Bizzozero demonstrated that erythropoiesis and leucopoiesis take place in the bone marrow.
1868 CE
#13813
Sur la paralysie agitante et la sclérose en plaques généralisée.
In his doctoral thesis Ordenstein, a pupil of Charcot, first defined the clinical features of multiple schlerosis in detail, with pathologic confirmation, and distinguished the main symptoms and pathologic findings of…
1868 CE
#4337
Sur quelques arthropathies qui paraissent dépendre d’une lésion du cerveau ou de la moëlle épinière.
Charcot called attention to tabetic arthropathy, a condition which has since borne his name, while the tabetic joints he so well described are now known as “Charcot’s joints”.
1868 CE
#13221
The anatomical memoirs of John Goodsir F.R.S. Edited by William Turner. With a biographical memoir by Henry Lonsdale. 2 vols.
1868 CE
#5669
The oxygen mixture; a new anesthetic combination.
Andrews advocated the use of an oxygen-nitrous mixture.
1868 CE
#224.1
The variation of animals and plants under domestication. 2 vols.
Darwin carried out numerous investigations with pigeons and various plants. He recognized continuous and discontinuous variation; he concluded that crossing tends to keep populations uniform.
1868 CE
#819.1
Über den zeitlichen Verlauf der negativen Schwankung des Nervenstroms.
Bernstein introduced the differential rheotome, and the first electrocardiograms were obtained with it by Marchand in 1877 (No. 823.1).
1868 CE
#3065
Über den Zusammenhang von Purpura und Intestinalstörungen.
“Henoch’s purpura”. Henoch described a form of purpura with abdominal symptoms first mentioned by Heberden (No. 3053). See also the same journal, 1874, 11,622, 641-43. This paper is translated into E…
1868 CE
#4056.1
Ueber Cataracten in Verbindung mit einer eigenthümlichen Haut-de-generation.
Poikiloderma congenitale (Rothmund).
1868 CE
#5900
Ueber Ceratoconus.
Classic description of conical cornea (keratoconus).
1868 CE
#5376
Ueber den Hungertyphus und einige verwandte Krankheitsformen.
Virchow was instrumental in introducing into Germany an epidemiology based on the study of multiple factors – sociological as well as bacteriological. In the above report on the reappearance of typhus in Berlin …
1868 CE
#873.2
Ueber die Bedeutung des Knochenmarkes für die Blutbildung.
Independently of Bizzozero (No. 873.1), Neumann showed that erythropoiesis and leucopoiesis take place in the bone marrow.
1868 CE
#1616
Ueber die Canalisation von Berlin.
Virchow advocated a canal sewer system for Berlin. Such a system was constructed by Hobrecht. See No. 1624.
1868 CE
#1466
Ueber die Haut-Sensibilitätsbezirke der einzelnen Rückenmarks-nervenpaare.
Investigation of the cutaneous distribution of the separate pairs of spinal nerves.
1868 CE
#940
Ueber die Ursache der Athembewegungen, sowie der Dyspnoë und Apnoë.
Pflüger investigated the cause of the initiation of respiration in newborn animals. English translation in No. 1588.16.
1868 CE
#6058
Vesico-vaginal fistula from parturition and other causes: with cases of recto-vaginal fistula.
A comprehensive account of the management of vesicovaginal fistula based on Sims’s technique.
1868 CE
#10180
Zakarīyā b. Muḥammad al-Qazwīnī's Kosmographie. Nach der Wüstenfeldschen Textausgabe, mit Benutzung und Beifügung der reichhaltigen Anmerkungen und Verbesserungen des Herrn Prof. Dr. Fleischer in Leipzig, aus dem Arabischen zum ersten Male vollständig übersetzt von Dr. Hermann Ethé. Die Wunder der Schöpfung. 1. Halbband
Digital facsimile from Bayerische StaatsBibliothek at this link.
1868 CE–1869 CE
#4338
Case of osteoporosis, or spongy hypertrophy of the bones (calvaria, clavicle, os femoris, and rib).
A classic account of osteitis deformans. Wilks was associated with Guy’s Hospital all his life. A kindly, charming man, he was described by Osler as one of the handsomest men in London in his time, even until th…
1868 CE–1869 CE
#1867
On the connection between chemical constitution and physiological action.
Brown and Fraser were the first to investigate the relationship between the chemical constitution of substances and their action upon the body. "Although Crum Brown apparently never contemplated the practice of medici…
1868 CE–1874 CE
#13444
Recherches pour servir à l'histoire naturelle des mammifères comprenant des considérations sur la classification de ces animaux. 2 vols.
Concerns primarily the mammals of China and Tibet. Volume 2 is an atlas of 108 plates. Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.
1869 CE
#3684.1
A treatise on the diseases and surgery of the mouth, jaws, and associated parts.
The first modern textbook of oral surgery. Garretson received the first official hospital appointment as “oral surgeon”. He helped to establish oral surgery as a specialty.
1869 CE
#6876
Atlas zur Pathologie der Zahne . . . Atlas to the Pathology of the Teeth [in German and English].
The first atlas of dental pathology, a "beautifully made, richly illustrated work" (Hoffmann-Axthelm, p. 399). "In these plates we find numerous anomalies of the teeth and jaw in delicate, clear drawings. . . . Occasi…
1869 CE
#1364
Beiträge zur Lehre von den Functionen der Nervencentren des Frosches.
Goltz made important observations on the decerebrate frog. He showed it to possess no volitional powers except after stimulation, no memory and no intelligence. His experiments on frogs deprived of their spinal cords …
1869 CE
#1009
Beiträge zur mikroskopischen Anatomie der Bauchspeicheldrüse. Inaugural-Dissertation.
First account of the islets of Langerhans. In 1893 Édouard Laguesse attached the name of Langerhans to the structures. Langerhans did not suggest any function for them. The book was reprinted with an English tr…
1869 CE
#2017.1
Cases of transfusion, with some remarks on a new method of performing the operation.
Sodium phosphate used as anticoagulant in blood transfusion.
1869 CE
#13430
Catalogue de la bibliotheque delaissé par Mr. J. van der Hoeven.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1869 CE
#4057
Chronic urticaria leaving brown stains: nearly two years’ duration.
Urticaria pigmentosa (Mastocytosis of the skin) described by Nettleship, was named eponymically “Nettleship’s disease”.
1869 CE
#5610
Collezione della memorie chirurgiche ed ostetriche. 2 vols.
Rizzoli was Professor of Surgery at Bologna and an outstanding operative surgeon. He introduced a compressor for aneurysms, a tracheotome, cystotome, lithotrite, enterotome, osteoclast, and performed acupressure as ea…
1869 CE
#1869
Das Chloral, ein neues Hypnoticum.
Demonstration of the value of chloral hydrate as a hypnotic. See also his monograph Das Chloralhydrat, Berlin, 1869.
1869 CE
#1618
Das Kanal- Oder Siel-System in München.
Pettenkofer was responsible for the installation of the modern system of sewage disposal in Munich, and thus succeeded in almost completely ridding that city of typhoid.
1869 CE
#9473
De l'espèce et de la classification en zoologie. Traduction de l'anglais par Félix Vogeli. Édition revue et agumentée par l'auteur.
While Agassiz often wrote in general terms regarding his virulent opposition to Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection, he provided his scientific rationale for that opposition only in an appendix to the Fr…
1869 CE
#2168
Der erste Verband auf dem Schlachtfelde.
Esmarch introduced the first-aid bandage on the battlefield.
1869 CE
#11144
Des difformités congénitales et acquises des doigts et des moyens d’y remédier. Thèse présentée au concours pour l’agrégation (section de chirurgie).
This exceptionally long and comprehensive (246pp., 39 text illustrations) thesis was the first French work on hand surgery. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1869 CE
#4740
Deux cas d’atrophie musculaire progressive avec lésions de la substance grise et des faisceaux antéro-latéraux de la moëlle épinière.
Description of the lesions of the spinal cord in muscular atrophy.
1869 CE
#549
Die Einschmelzungs-Methode, ein Beitrag zur mikroskopischen Technik.
Introduction of paraffin embedding
1869 CE
#7076
Die Konträre Sexualempfindung.
The first "scientific" paper on homosexuality. In this paper the psychiatrist Westphal described two cases at length: "The first was of a young woman who from her earliest years liked to dress as a boy and engage in b…
1869 CE
#6475
État de la médecine entre Homère et Hippocrate: Anatomie, physiologie, pathologie, médecine militaire, histoire des écoles médicales pour fair suite à la médecine dans Homère.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1869 CE
#5312
Fièvre à rechutes. (Thesis.)
Silliau gave a good account of the epidemic of relapsing fever at Réunion, 1865. He showed the contagious nature of the disease.
1869 CE
#226
Hereditary genius.
Galton investigated the families of great men and suggested that genius was hereditary, and thus founded the science of Eugenics, although he did not coin the word until 1883 (see No. 230). Karl Pearson’s, The l…
1869 CE
#13817
Histoire médicale du tatouage. Anatomie - Physiologie - Médecine légale - Pathologie - Applications chirurgicales.
Médecin Principal de la Marine, Berchon based his research on the increasing numbers of tattooed sailors in the French navy. In 1861 he observed the transmission of syphilis from one sailor to another, who clai…
1869 CE
#9660
Leçons cliniques sur les maladies chirurgicales des enfants, professées par M. J. Giraldès. Recueillies et publiées par MM. Bourneville et E. Bourgeois; revues par le professeur.
1869 CE
#11305
Medical history of the year 1868, in California. A paper read before the "Sacramento Society for Medical Improvement," February 16th, 1869. And published by order of the society.
Digital facsimile from the U.S. National Library of Medicine at this link.
1869 CE
#2767
Mycosis endocardii.
Winge first suggested that endocarditis was due to microbial infection. A translation of part of his paper is in Major, Classic descriptions of disease, 3rd ed., 1945, p. 472.
1869 CE
#4843
Neurasthenia, or nervous exhaustion.
“Beard’s disease” (neurasthenia) first described. See also No. 4846.
1869 CE
#2964
Observations on ligature of arteries on the antiseptic system.
Lister evolved a carbolized catgut ligature, better than any previously produced. He was able to cut short the ends of his ligature, closing the wound tightly and eliminating the necessity for bringing the ends of lig…
1869 CE
#4058
On a diseased condition of the hairs of the axilla, probably of parasitic origin.
Tinea nodosa (trichorrhexis nodosa, “Paxton’s disease”) first described.
1869 CE
#4540
On an interesting series of eye symptoms in a case of spinal disease, with remarks on the action of belladonna on the iris.
“Argyll Robertson pupil” first described. See also his later paper in the same journal, 1869, 15, 487-93. Reprinted in Med. Classics, 1937, 1, 851-76.
1869 CE
#2678
On markings of furrows on the nails as the result of illness.
1869 CE
#1272
On the changes in the nervous system which follow the amputation of limbs.
Demonstration that the proximal end of a severed nerve eventually atrophies.
1869 CE
#4622
On the various forms of loss of speech in cerebral disease.
Bastian’s first important paper on aphasia. His axiom “We think in words” explains his whole work on the subject. See also his later paper on pp. 470-92 of the same volume.