1860–1869

1866 CE

#13706

A journal of hospital life in the Confederate Army of Tennessee from the Battle of Shiloh to the end of the war: With sketches of life and character, and brief notices of current events during that period.

"[B]y far the fullest and most informative of narratives of the Confederate women who served as nurses" (In Tall Cotton). Cumming responded to calls for volunteers and worked as a field nurse from 1862 through the end…

1866 CE

#13196

A treatise on the principles and practice of medicine.

Digital facsimile of the 1868 third edition from Google Books at this link.

1866 CE

#4621.1

Aphasie, aphémie, alalie.

Includes a history of aphasia.

1866 CE

#11487

Asiatic cholera: Its origin, history, and progress, for over two hundred years, and the devastations it has caused in the East and West; Its ravages in Europe and America in 1831-2, in 1848-9, in 1854-5, and in 1865-6 with a full description of the causes, nature, and character of the disease, its means of propagation, whether by the atmosphere or by contagion; its premonitory and distinctive symptoms; the best known means of preventing its attack both in communities and individuals; and the most effectual remedies for it according to the celebrated physicians who have treated It; Together with simple and plain directions for the care of those who from any cause can not obtain medical aid.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1866 CE

#8963

Botanik der spaeteren Griechen vom dritten bis dreizehnten Jahrhuntert.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1866 CE

#10378

Catalogue of the pathological museum of St. George's Hospital.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1866 CE

#10375

Catalogue of the surgical section of the United States Army Medical Museum.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1866 CE

#6057

Clinical notes on uterine surgery, with reference to the management of the sterile condition.

A revolutionary and controversial work, written in Paris while Sims was in voluntary exile because of the U.S. Civil War, and first serialized in Lancet 2 (1864) and 1 (1865). Includes, pp. 16-18, the description of S…

1866 CE

#5204

Coincidence du chancre syphilitique primitif avec la gale, la blénorrhagie, le chancre simple et la vaccine.

Rollet recognized the possibility of mixed infection of one sore with syphilis and chancroid, thus establishing the dualist theory of venereal infection. The mixed chancre is named “Rollet’s disease”.

1866 CE

#4056

Das Colloid-Milium der Haut.

Colloid degeneration of the skin (“Wagner’s disease”) was first described by Wagner who gave it the name “Colloid milium”.

1866 CE

#5792

De veterum Indorum chirurgia. Dissertatio inauguralis.

Trendelenburg’s graduation thesis on the ancient Hindu systems of medicine. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1866 CE

#4776

Des troubles gastriques dans l’ataxie locomotrice progressive. Thèse pour le doctorat en médecine. No. 250.

Tabetic gastric crises first described. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1866 CE

#12347

Die Meningitis cerebro-spinalis epidemica vom historisch-geographischen und pathologisch-therapeutischen Standpunkte.

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1866 CE

#4775

Douleurs fulgurantes de l’ataxie sans incoordination des mouvements; sclérose commençante des cordons postérieurs de la moëlle épinière.

First clinical description of the electric pains in tabes.

1866 CE

#3119

Ein Fall von Anaemia splenica bei einem Kinde

First reported case of (infantile) splenic anemia.

1866 CE

#13278

Ein Fall von Sprachstörung, anatomisch begründet.

"Carl Wernicke (1848-1905) is traditionally considered the first to have described the features of, and the brain pathology underlying, impaired auditory comprehension and related symptoms. Although Wernicke (1874) cl…

1866 CE

#2479

Études sur le vin.

Although Pasteur’s method of preserving wine by partial heat sterilization (“pasteurization”) turned out to be a revival of Appert’s invention (No. 2467.1), Pasteur did rescue the method from o…

1866 CE

#6368

Four cases of “retinitis pigmentosa”, occurring in the same family, and accompanied by general imperfections of development.

Laurence–Moon (–Biedl) syndrome first described. See also No. 6369.

1866 CE

#223

Generelle Morphologie der Organismen. 2 vols.

Haeckel accepted the general principles of Darwinism, disagreeing on some points. He was the first to promote Darwin’s theories in Germany. This work contains the first statement of his theory that “ontoge…

1866 CE

#5502

History of an epidemic of rötheln, with observations on its pathology.

Veale introduced the term “rubella” to describe German measles.

1866 CE

#7799

History of the United States Sanitary Commission: being the general report of its work during the War of the Rebellion.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1866 CE

#3273

Klinik der Krankheiten des Kehlkopfes und der Luftröhre. 1 vol. and atlas.

On p. 295 is a classic description of laryngitis sicca – “Türck’s trachoma”.

1866 CE

#4994

Le sommeil et les états analogues considérés sur au point du vue de I’action du moral et de physique.

The substitution of psychotherapy for hypnotic suggestion starts with the work of Liébeault. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1866 CE

#9214

Medical recollections of the Army of the Potomac.

Letterman originated modern methods for medical organization in armies and on the battlefield. His system of organization enabled thousands of wounded men to be recovered and treated during the American Civil War. Dig…

1866 CE

#7378

Notes bibliographiques pour servir à l'histoire du magnétisme animal: Analyse de tous les livres, brochures, articles de journaux publiés sur le magnétisme animal, en France et à l'étranger, à partir de 1766 jusqu'en 1866.

Later issue: Paris: chez l'auteur, Joubert, 1869.

1866 CE

#4621

Notes on the physiology and pathology of language.

1866 CE

#4936

Observations on an ethnic classification of idiots.

Langdon Down suggested that the physiognomical features of certain defectives enabled them to be arranged in ethnic groups; of these he differentiated Mongolian, Ethiopian, Caucasian, and American Indian. Such an ethn…

1866 CE

#2996

On gouty and some other forms of phlebitis

Paget-Schroetter syndrome, venous obstruction in the upper extremity.

1866 CE

#4538.1

On railway and other injuries of the nervous system.

The first book to discuss the injuries now widely known as whiplash, which first appeared as the by-product of the increased speed of railway travel. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1866 CE

#13251

On uncontrollable drunkenness considered as a form of mental disorder. With suggestions for its treatment, and the organization of sanitoria for dipsomanics.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1866 CE

#12358

Recopilación histórico-bibliográfica de la circulación de la sangre en el hombre y los animales.

Digital facsimile from bdh-rd.bne.es at this link.

1866 CE

#2963

Successful operation for subclavian aneurism.

First successful ligation of the innominate artery, 1864. A report on the condition of the patient in 1869 is given in New Orleans J. Med.,1869, 22,464-69.

1866 CE

#11761

The cattle plague; with office reports of the International Veterinary Comgresses, held in Hamburg, 1863, and in Vienna, 1865.

"Druing the cattle plague crisis of 1865-66, Gamgee was one of the prtincipal witnesses called to give evidence by the Cattle Plague Commissioners and amongst the first to recommend a policy of restriction of movement…

1866 CE

#3753

Traité de la pellagre et des pseudo-pellagres.

Roussel was awarded a prize of 5,000 francs for this work.

1866 CE

#2390.1

Traité historique et pratique de la syphilis.

A complete review of contemporary knowledge. English translation, 2 vols., 1868-69.

1866 CE

#1363

Ueber die Erweiterung von Arterien in Folge einer Nervenerregung.

The “Lovén reflex”, vasodilatation of an organ when its afferent nerve is stimulated.

1866 CE

#5896

Ueber die Extraktion des grauen Staares bei uneröffneter Kapsel durch den Scleralschnitt. IN Klinische Beobachtungen aus der Augenheilanstalt zu Wiesbaden, hrsg. von E.H. Pagenstecher u. T. Saemisch, Heft 3.

Extraction of the lens in the closed capsule through a scleral incision, for the treatment of cataract.

1866 CE

#2906

Ueber eine bisher noch nicht beschriebene eigenthümliche Arterienerkrankung (Periarteritis nodosa), die mit Morbus Brightii und rapid fortschreitender allgemeiner Muskellähmung einhergeht.

First description of periarteritis nodosa.

1866 CE

#2764.1

Ueber einen sehr seltenen Fall von Insufficienz der Valvula tricuspidalis, bedingt durch eine angeborene hochgradige Missbildung derselben.

“Ebstein’s anomaly,” a congenital abnormality of the tricuspid valve. Translation in Amer. J. Cardiol, 1968, 22, 867-72.

1866 CE

#222

Versuche über Pflanzen-Hybriden.

Discovery of the Mendelian ratios, the most significant single achievement in the history of genetics. The story of how Mendel published his paper in this relatively obscure journal only to have his discovery ignored …

1866 CE

#1512

Zur Anatomie und Physiologie der Retina.

One of the greatest of all histologists, Max Schultze is remembered by ophthalmologists for his monograph on the nerve-endings in the retina.

1866 CE

#939

Zur Gasometrie des Blutes.

Pflüger showed that respiratory changes take place in the tissues.

1866 CE

#5898

Zur Lehre der sympathischen Ophthalmie.

A classic contribution to the literature of sympathetic ophthalmia.

1866 CE–1868 CE

#336

On the anatomy and physiology of the vertebrates. 3 vols.

Vol. 1. Fishes and reptiles; Vol. 2. Birds; Vol. 3. Mammals. The most important work on the subject after Cuvier, based entirely on personal observations. Owen entitled his 40th and concluding chapter "Derivative hypo…

1866 CE–1868 CE

#12476

The new and heretofore unfigured species of the birds of North America. 2 vols.

Elliot described his aims for this work in the preface: "Since the time of Wilson and Audubon, no work has been published upon American Ornithology, containing life-size representations of the various species that hav…

1866 CE–1869 CE

#1615

Metropolitan Board of Works Report on experiments with respect to the ventilation of sewers. 3 parts.

Bazalgette planned the sewers of London.

1866 CE–1880 CE

#9969

Diseases of the skin, including the exanthemata by Ferdinand Hebra. Vol. 1: Translated and edited by C. Hilton Fagge. Vol. 2: Tr. and ed

Digital facsimile of vol. 1 from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1867 CE

#1792

Alberti Magni ex ordine praedicatorum de vegetabilibus libri VII: Historiae naturalis pars XVIII. Editionem criticam ab Ernesto Meyero coeptam: Absolvit Carolus Jessen.

One of the best works on natural history produced during the Middle Ages, and, like most of Albertus's works, influential throughout the medieval period, though it does not appear to have been published in print until…

1867 CE

#3564

An operation for abscess of the appendix vermiformis caeci.

Parker was the first American to operate for appendicitis. In this paper he described a case from 1864, but mentioned a case he had operated on as early as 1843. He advocated the opening of the appendicular abscesses …

1867 CE

#2891

Angina pectoris vasomotoria.

Nothnagel, himself a victim of angina, described the vasomotor form of the disease.