1860–1869

1863 CE

#10531

Geregtelijke geneeskunde, uit het Chineesch vertaald.

Translation into Dutch of the 13th century Chinese text on forensic medicine entitled Xiyuan lu jizheng huizuan. de Grijs's translation was retranslated into German by Henry Breitenstein as Gerichtliche Medizin der Ch…

1863 CE

#4332

Hochgradige Dislocation der Scapula.

First description of congenital high-scapula “Sprengel’s deformity”; see also No. 4359.

1863 CE

#7419

Hospital sketches.

Digital facsimile of the 1863 edition from the Internet Archive at this link. Alcott expanded the work for the edition of 1869. Edited, with an extensive introduction by Bessie Z. Jones (Cambridge: Harvard University …

1863 CE

#13754

Hospital transports: A memoir of the embarkation of the sick and wounded from the peninsula of Virginia in the summer of 1862.

During the U.S. Civil War Olmsted, a landscape architect, journalist, social critic and public administrator, was Executive Secretary of the U.S. Sanitary Commision. Digital facsimile from U.S. National Library of Med…

1863 CE

#1744

Klinische Novellen zur gerichtlichen Medizin.

1863 CE

#6492.2

La médecine chez les Chinois par Le capitaine P. Dabry. Ouvrage corrigé et précédé d’une préface par J. Léon Soubeiran.

The best account of Chinese medicine published in Europe during the 19th century, including translations from original Chinese medical texts. Dabry was French consul at Hang-Keou. Soubeiran, a pharmacist, edited his w…

1863 CE

#3914

Letter on corpulence; address to the public.

Banting, a prominent English undertaker, and formerly obese, was the first to popularize a weight loss diet based on limiting intake of refined and easily digestible carbohydrates. He changed his diet at the suggestio…

1863 CE

#12657

Monograph on the Aye-Aye (Chiromys madagascariensis, Cuvier).

For the first 100 years after the first aye-aye was brought to Europe from Madagascar in the 1780s, debate persisted over whether it was a rodent, a primate, or most closely related to the kangaroo. Classification of …

1863 CE

#5344.3

Note sur une tumeur des bourses contenant un liquide laiteux (galactocèle de Vidal) et renfermant de petits êtres vermiformes que l’on peut considérer comme les helminthes hèmatoïdes à l’étatd’embryon.

Description of the embryonic stage of Wuchereria bancrofti in hydrocele fluid.

1863 CE

#7813

Notes and observations on army surgery.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1863 CE

#2476

Nouvel exemple de fermentation determinée par des animalcules infusoires pouvant vivre sans gaz oxygène libre, et en dehors de tout contact avec l’air de l’atmosphere.

Pasteur confirmed the fact, established by Schwann (No. 674) that putrefaction was a biological process.

1863 CE

#488

Observationes nonnulae de ovorum ranarum segmentatione, quae “Furchungsprocess” dicitur.

Best contemporary description of the segmentation furrowing of the egg.

1863 CE

#14136

Observations in midwifery. As also The countrey midwifes opusculum or vade mecum

First edition of this work written in English in the 17th century, privately published in 1863, supposedly in an edition of 100 copies, from a manuscript then owned by Blenkinsop. Willughby has been characterized as "…

1863 CE

#10894

On Australasian climates and their influence in the prevention and arrest of pulmonary consumption.

Digital facsimile from wellcomecollection.org at this link.

1863 CE

#871

On the coagulation of the blood.

In his Croonian Lecture Lister exploded the theory that blood coagulation is due to ammonia and showed that, in the blood vessels, it depends upon their injury. He further showed that by carrying out the strictest pre…

1863 CE

#5609

On the influence of mechanical and physiological rest in the treatment of accidents and surgical diseases, and the diagnostic value of pain.

Hilton, surgeon to Guy’s Hospital, suggested that symptoms are disordered reflexes. He advocated complete rest in the treatment of surgical disorders of all parts of the body. Second and later editions were enti…

1863 CE

#5344.2

On the structure and nature of the Dracunculus or Guinea worm.

First detailed description.

1863 CE

#2389

On the syphilitic affections of internal organs.

Wilks’s outstanding work was on visceral syphilis, a subject which he was one of the first to study.

1863 CE

#7738

Outlines of the chief camp diseases of the United States Army as observed during the present war.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1863 CE

#11690

Physiologie médicale de la circulation du sang basée sur l'étude graphique des mouvements du coeur et du pouls artériel avec application aux maladies du l'appareil circulatoire.

Marey first recorded atrial fibrillation in this work work in which he used pulse tracings to establish the interelationship of heart rate and blood pressure. The work also includes the first detailed description of t…

1863 CE

#1362

Physiologische Studien über die Hemmungsmechanischen für die Reflexthätigkeit des Rückenmarks im Gehirn des Frosches.

Sechenov discovered the cerebral inhibition of spinal reflexes. He was Professor of Physiology at St. Petersburg and Moscow, and the “father of Russian physiology”.

1863 CE

#2478

Recherches sur la putréfaction.

Pasteur was the first to differentiate between aerobic and anaerobic organisms. (See also Nos. 2476-77.)

1863 CE

#1465

Recherches sur la transmission des impressions de tact, de chatouillement, de douleur, de température et de contraction (sens musculaire) dans la moëlle épinière.

Among Brown-Séquard’s best work was his study of the pathways of conduction in the spinal cord.

1863 CE

#5165

Recherches sur les infusoires du sang dans la maladie connue sous le nom de sang de rate.

Davaine showed that anthrax could be transmitted to sheep, horses, cattle, guinea-pigs, and mice, and that in such animals the bacilli did not appear in the blood until 4-5 hours before death.

1863 CE

#5097

Report on fever (Malta).

Marston wrote the first description of Malta fever as a distinct disease. He contracted the disease while serving in the Mediterranean area and described his own case. Marston was apparently the first to describe &ldq…

1863 CE

#1865.1

Resources of the southern fields and forests, medical, economical, and agricultural: Being also a medical botany of the Confederate States; with practical information on the useful properties of the trees, plants and shrubs.

The first extensive treatise on the botany of the Southern States of the US and the only Confederate manual of materia medica. This is also a manual of “survival information”, teaching how live off the lan…

1863 CE

#3270

Studien und Beobachtungen über Stimmbandlähmung.

An important study of paralysis of the vocal cords was made by Gerhardt. He diagnosed the growth in the larynx of Friedrich III, Emperor of Germany, whose eventual death from this condition was to have such disastrous…

1863 CE

#204.1

The geological evidences of the antiquity of man with remarks on theories of the origin of species by variation.

Lyell’s summary discussion of the evidence for human antiquity “introduced a wide readership to the new view and to the facts that supported it, thus laying the synthetic foundation for future work” …

1863 CE

#13431

The Humboldt Library. A catalogue of the library of Alexander von Humboldt. With a bibliographical and biographical memoir by Henry Stevens.

1863 CE

#7442

The naturalist on the river Amazons, a record of adventures, habits of animals, sketches of Brazilian and Indian life, and aspects of nature under the equator, during eleven years of travel. 2 vols.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1863 CE

#14228

The principles and practice of surgery, embracing minor and oeprative surgery; with a bibliographical index of American surgical writers from the year 1783 to 1860. Illustrated by 400 wood-cuts and nearly 1000 engravings on steel. 2 vols.

The most extensively illustrated American manual of surgery issued during the U.S. Civil War.

1863 CE

#1109

Ueber das Epithel der Lymphgefässwurzeln und über die von Recklinghausen’schen Saftcanälchen.

1863 CE

#4696

Ueber degenerative Atrophie der spinalen Hinterstränge.

Friedreich was the first to describe a form of ataxia (“Friedreich’s ataxia”), hereditary, attended with impairment of speech, lateral curvature of the spine, and with paralysis of the muscles of the…

1863 CE

#3377

Ueber ein neues Heilverfahren gegen Schwerhörigkeit in Folge von Unwegsamkeit der Eustachischen Ohrtrompete.

Politzer’s method of effecting permeability of the Eustachian tube.

1863 CE

#3592

Ueber einen Fall nicht incarcerierter, aber mit Incarceration des Ileum durch das Omentum complicirter Hernia interna mesogastrica.

“Gruber’s hernia” – internal mesogastric hernia.

1863 CE

#1006

Ueber einen Plexus gangliosus myogastricus.

Auerbach’s plexus and ganglion. See also his book Ueber einen Plexus myentericus, Breslau, Morgenstern, 1862.

1863 CE

#548.1

Ueber Eiter- und Bindegewebskörperchen.

Recklinghausen described granular cells in the frog mesentery, later named “mast cells” by Ehrlich (No. 553.1).

1863 CE

#4816

Unilateral epileptiform seizures, attended by temporary defect of sight.

“Jacksonian epilepsy” is so called from the excellent account of unilateral epilepsy with spasm given by Jackson. Actually, Bravais (No. 4810) was first to note the condition.

1863 CE

#1223

Untersuchungen über die Erection des Penis beim Hunde.

Important studies of the erector mechanism.

1863 CE

#815

Untersuchungen über die Innervation des Herzens

Discovery of the accelerator or excitatory nerve fibres of the heart (pp. 191-232), “Bezold’s ganglia”.

1863 CE

#690

Zur Kenntnis der zuckerbildenden Fermente.

Investigation of the sugar-forming ferments.

1863 CE–1864 CE

#872

On the reduction and oxidation of the colouring matter of the blood.

Discovery that oxygen can be removed from hemoglobin by reducing agents.

1863 CE–1865 CE

#4537

Observations on defects of sight in brain disease.

In this work Jackson showed the importance of the ophthalmoscope in the investigation of diseases of the nervous system. Reprinted in Med. Classics, 1939, 3, 918-26.

1863 CE–1867 CE

#2617

Die krankhaften Geschwülste. Vol. 1-3, Heft 1.

Although tumours were perhaps his greatest interest, Virchow never completed this work which was intended to have 30 lectures. Instead he stopped with the 25th lecture, on carcinoma, probably because of the vigorous a…

1863 CE–1878 CE

#9172

Flora Australiensis: A description of the plants of the Australian territory by George Bentham, assisted by Ferdinand Mueller. 7 vols.

The first comprehensive flora of any large continental area. It included descriptions of 8125 species. "Bentham prepared the flora from Kew; with Mueller, the first plant taxonomist residing permanently in Australia, …

1864 CE

#1614

A manual of practical hygiene.

First important English treatise on hygiene.

1864 CE

#11617

Acupressure: A new method of arresting surgical haemorrhage and of accelerating the healing of wounds.

In 1858 Simpson described a new method of controlling blood loss during surgical operations – acupressure, not to be confused with the traditional Chinese medical technique similarly named. Simpson's technique, …

1864 CE

#1866

British pharmacopoeia, published under the direction of the General Council of Medical Education and Registration of the United Kingdom, pursuant to the Medical Act, 1858.

PHARMACOPOEIA

First official British pharmacopoeia.

1864 CE

#7258

Cavernes du Périgord. Objets gravés et sculptés des temps pré-historiques dans l’Europe occidentale.

In 1863 Lartet and Christy began systematically examining the caves in the Périgord (Dordogne) region of France. This study of mobiliary or portable art, such as carved stones, carved ivory, carved bones, or ca…

1864 CE

#4498

Contributions à l’étude des altérations anatomiques de la goutte.

Charcot and Cornil gave an important description of the renal lesions in gout.