1860–1869
571 entries with publication dates in this decade.
1865 CE
#2618
Der Epithelialkrebs namentlich der Haut. 1 vol. and atlas.
Thiersch, Professor of Surgery at Erlangen, and inventor of the method of skin grafting which bears his name, also made an important contribution to the knowledge of the histogenesis of cancer. He disproved Virchow&rs…
1865 CE
#3937
Diabetes mellitus und Aceton.
Gerhard’s iron-chloride reaction for aceto-acetic acid in acetonaemic urine.
1865 CE
#3378
Die Beleuchtungsbilder des Trommelfells im gesunden und kranken Zustande.
Politzer was the first to obtain pictures of the membrana tympani by means of illumination. English translation, New York, 1869.
1865 CE
#1678
Die grossen Volkskrankheiten des Mittelalters. Historischpathologische Untersuchungen. Von J. F. K. Hecker. Gesammelt und in erweiteter Bearbeitung hrsg. von A. Hirsch.
A collection of essays on the Black Death, the dancing mania, and the English sweat, published 1832-34 and later in a collective English edition, The epidemics of the Middle Ages, 2 pts., London, 1833-35; reprinted 18…
1865 CE
#490
Die Häute und Höhlen des Körpers.
A new classification of tissues based on histogenesis.
1865 CE
#3271
Die Laryngoskopie und die laryngoskopische Chirurgie. 1 vol. and atlas.
Bruns claimed to have been the first to remove a tumor from the larynx with the aid of the laryngoscope.
1865 CE
#778
Die physiologischen Leistungen des Blutdrucks.
Ludwig’s inaugural address at Leipzig, in which he introduced the idea of keeping alive excised portions of organs by means of artificial circulation, or perfusion. He suggested that the blood-pressure had a sti…
1865 CE
#534.64
Diploteratology.
Includes a valuable history of teratology with a detailed bibliography. Fisher assembled one of the largest of all libraries on teratology. Digital facsimile from U.S. National Library of Medicine at this link.
1865 CE
#6056
Diseases of the ovaries.
Wells was perhaps the greatest of the pioneer ovariotomists; he performed his first ovariotomy in 1858. The title page to this work states that a second volume would be published. By the time Wells issued the intended…
1865 CE
#6053
Documents pour servir à l’histoire de l’extirpation des tumeurs fibreuses de la matrice par la méthode suspubienne.
1865 CE
#1996.2
Gimnástica, hygiénica, medica, y ortopédica.
Busqué developed the modern concept of rehabilitation.
1865 CE
#3915
Glycosurie, diabète sucré. In his Clinique médicale de l’Hôtel-Dieu, 2me. éd., 2, 663-98.
First description of hemochromatosis.
1865 CE
#3064.2
Hereditary epistaxis.
1865 CE
#12357
History of the discoveries of the circulation of the blood, of the ganglia and nerves, and of the action of the heart.
Lee, an obstetrician, published one of the earliest studies of the history of the circulation of the blood in English. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1865 CE
#4211.1
Hydronephrosis in a boy four years old, repeatedly tapped; recovery.
Hillier performed the first therapeutic percutaneous nephrostomy for giant hydronephrosis with ureteropelvic junction obstruction in a four-year old boy.
1865 CE
#1766.501
Introduction à l’étude de la médecine expérimentale.
Probably the greatest classic on the principles of physiological investigation and of the scientific method as applied to the life sciences. English translation, New York, 1927. See P.F. Cranefield, Claude Bernard&rsq…
1865 CE
#11384
La Commission Sanitaire des États-Unis, son origine, son organisation et ses résultats avec une notice sur les hôpitaux militaires aux États-Unis et sur la réforme sanitaire dans les armées Europénnes.
Digital facsimile from BnFGallica at this link.
1865 CE
#6474
La médecine dans Homère, our études d'archéologique sur les médecins, l'anatomie, la physiologie, la chirugie et la médecine dans les poèmes Homériques.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1865 CE
#11493
Medicinische Blumenlese aus Shakespeare zu eigener und seiner Collegen Kurzweil gesammelt von Georg Cless.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1865 CE
#7612
Memoir on the Gorilla (Troglodytes Gorilla, Savage).
This reset monograph version of Owen's paper consists of revised and augmented portions of Owen's "Contributions to the natural history of the Anthropoid Apes," which appeared in the Transactions of the Zoological Soc…
1865 CE
#1511.1
Method att objectivera effecten av ljusintryck pa retina.
Discovery of the electroretinogram, the beginning of the use of electrophysiological methods for studying visual systems.
1865 CE
#1271.1
Mikroskopischische Analyse der Anastomosen der Kopfnerven: gekrönte Beantwortung der von der medizinischen Fakultät zu München im Jahre 1863 ausgesetzten Preisfrage. Mit 43 Steindrucktafeln.
Bischoff demonstrated conclusively that there are many interconnections between the trigeminal, facial, nervus intermedius, acoustico-vestibular complex, glosso-pharyngeal, vagus, spinal-accessory, hypoglossal and the…
1865 CE
#11300
Musée Vrolik. Catalogue de la collection d'anatomie humaine, comparée et pathologique de M.M. Ger. et W. Vrolik. par J. L. Dusseau.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1865 CE
#4469
On excision of the wrist for caries.
1865 CE
#4171
On intermittent haematuria; with remarks upon its pathology and treatment.
Harley’s classic description of paroxysmal hemoglobinuria, “Harley’s disease”.
1865 CE
#8910
On the movements and habits of climbing plants.
Darwin's report on his discoveries concerning the adaptive value of climbing for certain plants, including the development of circumnutation. Darwin waited ten years to publish the first edition in book form (1875) wi…
1865 CE
#6055
On the treatment of dysmenorrhoea and sterility, resulting from anteflexion of the uterus.
Emmet, a disciple of Sims, was an outstanding gynecological surgeon.
1865 CE
#11562
Organization of nursing: An account of the Liverpool Nurses' Training School, its foundation, progress, and operation in hospital, district, and private nursing by a member of the Committee of the Home & Training School. With an introduction, and notes, by Florence Nightingale.
The Liverpool Training School and Home for Nurses was established in 1865, from which a district nursing system was implemented in Liverpool through the 1860s. This system eventually spread throughout England. Digital…
1865 CE
#14037
Persien. Das Land und seine Bewohner. Ethnographische Schilderungen. 2 vols.
In this wide-ranging ethnographic study Polak provided the most authoritative account of his introduction of western medicine into Iran as well as the state of medicine in Iran generally. "Polak (1865, II, pp. 192-348…
1865 CE
#6873
Photographs (coloured from life) of the diseases of the skin.
The first dermatologic publication illustrated with photographs.
1865 CE
#7257
Pre-historic times, as illustrated by ancient remains, and the manners and customs of modern savages.
Lubbock introduced the terms "Paleolithic" and "Neolithic". His work addressed not only the topic of human antiquity but also the lives and cultures of people in the Stone Age. In contrast to researchers who focused o…
1865 CE
#13516
Principles of psychology.
"Spencer's second book, Principles of Psychology, published in 1855, explored a physiological basis for psychology, and was the fruit of his friendship with Evans and Lewes. The book was founded on the fundamental ass…
1865 CE
#5166
Recherches sur la nature et la constitution anatomique de la pustule maligne.
Davaine was the first conclusively to prove that a definite disease (anthrax) was due to a definite micro-organism (B. anthracis), and was thus one of the first to prove the germ theory of disease. He showed that the …
1865 CE
#1402
Recherches sur le système nerveux cérébro-spinal; sa structure, ses fonctions, et ses maladies. 1 vol. and atlas.
The beginning of knowledge of thalamic function. This work contains Luys’s descriptions of the two structures which bear his name: the subthalamic nucleus and the center median of the thalamus.
1865 CE
#9529
Reports on the extent and nature of the materials available for the preparation of a medical and surgical history of the Rebellion.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1865 CE
#6359
Skull-cap showing congenital deficiencies of bone.
1865 CE
#2390
Sulla sifilide per allattamento.
Profeta’s law – a non-syphilitic child born of syphilitic parents is immune.
1865 CE
#12659
The North-West passage by land. Being the narrative of an expedition from the Atlantic to the Pacific, undertaken with the view of exploring a route across the continent to British Columbia through British territory, by one of the northern passes in the Rocky Mountains.
Together with William Fitzwilliam (Viscount Milton), Cheadle travelled up the Athabasca River and in 1863 they became the first "tourists" to travel through the Yellowhead Pass. Arriving in Quebec City in July 1862, t…
1865 CE
#3334
The use of the laryngoscope in diseases of the throat; with an appendix on rhinoscopy.
1865 CE
#1224
Ueber die Samenkörperchen und ihre Entwicklung.
Proof that the spermatozöon possesses a nucleus and cytoplasm.
1865 CE
#1007
Ueber eine neue Methode den Dünndarm zu isolieren.
Thiry-Vella fistula. See also No. 1014.
1865 CE
#5897
Ueber mordificirte Linearextraction.
Graefe’s improvement of the operation for cataract by the modified linear extraction reduced the incidence of eye loss from 10 to 2.3 per cent.
1865 CE
#4738
Ueber Muskelhypertrophie.
Progressive muscular dystrophy with pseudo-hypertrophy. From the description given later by Duchenne (No. 4739) the condition has been named “Duchenne-Griesinger disease”.
1865 CE
#818
Ueber periodische Thätigkeits-Aeusserungen des vasomotorischen und Hemmungs-Nervencentrums.
First description of the rhythmic variations in tone of the vasoconstrictor center (Traube-Hering waves).
1865 CE
#1271
Untersuchungen über Gehirn und Rückenmark des Menschen und der Säugethiere. Nach dem Tode des Verfassers Herausgegeben und Bevortwortet von Max Schultze.
Deiters showed that each nerve-cell possesses an axis-cylinder or nerve-fiber process. His name is perpetuated in “Deiters’ cells” and “nucleus”. Dieters died of typhus in 1863 at the age…
1865 CE
#10273
Wandtafeln zur Schwangerschafts- und Geburtskunde. Text volume in quarto format plus atlas in double elephant folio format (915 x 650mm.)
This huge atlas of obstetric wall charts contains 20 chromolithographed plates measuring over 3 feet by 2 feet, illustrating the female reproductive anatomy, stages of pregnancy, normal and breech presentations of the…
1865 CE–1866 CE
#817
Ueber mechanische Vagus-Reizung beim Menschen.
“Czermak’s vagus pressure”. Czermak found that mechanical pressure on a spot of the carotid triangle in the neck produced lowering of the heart rate.
1865 CE–1872 CE
#5894
A method of operating for divergent squint.
Agnew devised an operation for the treatment of divergent squint.
1865 CE–1872 CE
#5895
Suture of the flap, after extraction of cataract.
A method of suturing the flap after cataract extraction was introduced by Williams.
1865 CE–1889 CE
#8071
Dictionnaire encyclopédique des sciences médicales. Directeur: A. Dechambre. 100 vols.
A massive encyclopedia based on historical principles, written by the leading authorities, and with detailed bibliographical references. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.