1860–1869
571 entries with publication dates in this decade.
1867 CE
#3120
Beiträge zur Pathologie und Therapie der Chlorose.
Duncan showed that the essential feature in chlorosis is a quantitative change in the hemoglobin content and not a great reduction in the number of red blood cells.
1867 CE
#7704
Cas singulier de trépanation chez le Incas.
Broca attributed a defect in an ancient Peruvian skull to antemortem trepanation; prior to this paleopathologists and paleoanthropologists were unaware that the Incas practiced trepanation.
1867 CE
#11641
Catalogue and report of obstetrical and other instruments exhibited at the Conversazione of the Obstetrical Society of London...held, by permission, at the Royal College of Physicians, March 28th, 1866.
“ A key reference source for mid-19th century [obstetrical] instruments. Many of these instruments became incorporated into the Museum of the Obstetrical Society of London, the contents of which became the prope…
1867 CE
#10369
Catalogue of the medical and microscopical sections of the United States Army Medical Museum. Catalogue of the medical section... prepared under the direction of the Surgeon General, U.S. Army by Brevet Lieutenant Colonel J. J. Woodward. Catalogue of the microscopical section...by Brevet Major Edward Curtis.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1867 CE
#13481
Catalogue of the very extensive and valuable library of works on anatomy, physiology, medicine, natural history, and relative sciences, which belonged to the late Professor Goodsir, comprising ... to be sold by auction, by Mr. Dowell, within his book rooms, 18 George Street, Edinburgh, on Thursday and Friday, 28th and 29th November, 1867. Commencing at twelve o'clock each day. On view on Tuesday and Wednesday, 26th and 27th November.
Digital facsimile from wellcomecollection.org at this link.
1867 CE
#11596
Contributions relating to the causation and prevention of disease, and to camp diseases; together with a report of the diseases, etc., among the prisoners at Andersonville, GA. Edited by Austin Flint.
Includes contributions by Roberts Bartholow, Jacob Mendez DaCosta, Paul Eve, Frank Hamilton, Joseph Jones, S. Wier Mitchell, etc. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1867 CE
#2125
De maxillarum necrosi phosphorica.
Classical description of phosphorus necrosis of the jaw, or "phossy jaw".
1867 CE
#1403
Der Bau der Gross-Hirnrinde und seine örtlichen Verschiedenheiten, nebst einem pathologisch-anatomischen Corollarium.
Meynert noticed regional variations in the histological structure of different parts of the gray matter in the cerebral hemispheres. He is credited with beginning the study of cytoarchitecture. Meynert described the f…
1867 CE
#2766
Des mouvements et des bruits qui se passent dans les veines jugulaires.
Classic account of the movements and murmurs in the jugular veins, important in the diagnosis of heart diseases. Potain’s writings were models of clarity and style. A translation of this paper is to be found in …
1867 CE
#5668
Description of a new apparatus for administering narcotic vapors.
Junker’s chloroform inhaler.
1867 CE
#3379
Die akute Entzündung des heutigen Labyrinthes, gewöhnlich für Meningitis cerebro-spinalis gehalten.
First description of “Voltolini’s disease” – an acute painful inflammation of the internal ear, followed by fever, delirium, and loss of consciousness. Voltolini was the founder of the Monatssc…
1867 CE
#3275
Die Anwendung der Galvanokaustik im Innern des Kehlkopfes und Schlundkopfes.
Voltolini was the first to use the galvanocautery in laryngeal surgery.
1867 CE
#2620
Die Entwicklung der Carcinome.
Waldeyer confirmed the work of Thiersch (No. 2618) on the epithelial origin of cancer, disproving Virchow’s theory (No. 2617). So great was the authority of the latter that it was not until the appearance of the…
1867 CE
#819
Die Reflexe eines der sensiblen Nerven des Herzens auf die motorischen der Blutgefässe.
Discovery of the vasomotor reflexes.
1867 CE
#10603
Diseases of the heart: Their diagnosis and treatment.
The first medical book, as distinct from a pamphlet, that was written and published in California. See Shapiro, "California's 'first' medical book. David Wooster's Diseases of the heart (1867)," Calif. Med., 108 (1968…
1867 CE
#9019
Donnolo, Fragment des ältesten medicinischen Werkes in hebräischer Sprache.... von M. Steinschneider.
Written about 970 CE, this is the earliest surviving medical treatise written in Hebrew to which an approximate date can be assigned. Donnolo, who was at one time Byzantine court physician, is one of the earliest Jewi…
1867 CE
#1745
Etude médico-légale et clinique sur l’empoisonnement.
1867 CE
#692
Experimente zur Theorie der Zellenbildung und Endosmose.
Employing, for the first time, copper ferrocyanide as a semi-permeable membrane, Traube investigated osmosis and the permeability of membranes.
1867 CE
#1513
Handbuch der physiologischen Optik. 1 vol. and atlas.
Includes Helmholtz’s revival of the Young theory of color vision. English translation by J.P.C. Southall of 3rd German edition, 3 vols., Menasha, Wis., 1924-25.
1867 CE
#3462
Intestinal obstruction.
1867 CE
#2765
Krankheiten des Herzens. 2te. Aufl.
First appeared in Virchow’s Handbuch der speciellen Pathologie und Therapie, Erlangen, 1854, 5, 1 Abt., 385-530.
1867 CE
#2222
Leçons sur les maladies des vieillards et les maladies chroniques.
Charcot inaugurated a course of study of geriatrics, at the Salpêtrière, in 1866; his lectures are embodied in the above work. English translation, 1881.
1867 CE
#5793
Lectures on the progress of anatomy and surgery during the present century.
1867 CE
#11883
Lois de la nomenclature botanique rédigées et commentées par M. Alph. de Candolle. Texte préparé sur la demande da Comité d'organisation du Congrès international de botanique de Paris, du 16 août 1867, pour servir de base aux discussions sur les points controversés en nomenclature.
This was the first system of botanical nomenclature adopted by an international governing body. Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link. Translated into English as Laws of botanical nomenclat…
1867 CE
#10718
Mechanical therapeutics. A practical treatise on surgical apparatus, appliances, and elementary operations; embracing bandaging, minor surgery, orthopraxy, and the treatment of fractures and dislocations.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1867 CE
#2080
Micro-chemistry of poisons.
The first American book entirely devoted to toxicology and an important contribution to the identification of poisons.
1867 CE
#4697
On a case of muscular atrophy, with disease of the spinal cord and medulla oblongata.
First important account of syringomyelia.
1867 CE
#4423.1
On a new method of treating compound fracture, abscess, etc., with observations on the conditions of suppuration.
Lister’s work on the antiseptic principle in surgery. He believed that bacteria could enter wounds and cause suppuration and putrefaction and that it was necessary to kill the bacteria already in wounds and to a…
1867 CE
#3914.1
On researches intended to promote an improved chemical identification of diseases.
Discovery of the first porphyrin, hematoporphyrin (p. 227). Hematoporphyrin has also been used as an antidepressant and antipsychotic since the 1920s,
1867 CE
#5635
On the antiseptic principle in the practice of surgery.
Having realized the significance of Pasteur’s work on fermentation, Lister evolved the idea of the antiseptic prevention of wound infection. This and the preceding entry represent two of the most epoch-making co…
1867 CE
#1996.3
On the electrolytic treatment of tumors, and other surgical diseases.
Althaus introduced Duchenne’s methods into England. He was the first to employ electrolysis for medical purposes. Greatly expanded third edition, 1873.
1867 CE
#2619
On the influence of inadequate operations on the theory of cancer.
Modern surgical treatment of cancer is based upon principles laid down by Moore. For cancer of the breast he showed that recurrence was not due to the development of an entirely new tumor because of constitutional sus…
1867 CE
#1866.1
On the physiological action of the Calabar bean (Physostigma venenosum, Balf).
Isolation of eserine (physostigmine).
1867 CE
#2890
On the use of nitrite of amyl in angina pectoris.
Lauder Brunton was responsible for the introduction of amyl nitrite for the alleviation of angina. Reprinted in F. A. Willius & T. E. Keys: Cardiac classics, 1941, pp. 561-64.
1867 CE
#624
Physiologie des mouvements demontrée à l’aide de l’expérimentation électrique et de l’observation clinique, et applicable à l’étude des paralysies et des déformations.
A monumental work, the result of twenty years’ study of electro-muscular stimulation “to determine the proper action which the muscles possess in life”. The book contains an excellent record of the k…
1867 CE
#9869
Prize essay. Ancient transfusion and infusion compared with modern transfusion, infusion, and hypodermic or subcutaneous injections. Translated by Charles F. Wittig.
A comprehensive review, for the time, of the historical literature on these subjects. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1867 CE
#3274
Removal of a fibrous polyp from the inferior anterior surface of the right vocal cord with the aid of the laryngoscope.
First successful operation for cancer of the larynx.
1867 CE
#8210
Review of the history of medicine. 2 vols.
Vol. 1, Part 1: "Primitive period among the Asiatic nations," i.e. Hindus. Vol. 2, Part 1: "Ancient state of medicine among the Hindus (continued)". Part 1: "Review of the Buddhist systems of medicine." Part 3: "Revie…
1867 CE
#3380
Sechs Fälle von Myringomykosis (Aspergillus glaucus Lk.).
Wreden, otologist to the Czar, was the first to call special attention to otomycosis.
1867 CE
#11705
Sketches of the inhabitants, animal life and vegetation in the lowlands and high mountains of Ceylon: As well as of the submarine scenery near the coast taken from a diving bell.
This work was illustrated with 26 tinted lithographs of natives and scenery in Sri Lanka after drawings from nature by the author, of which four were colored reproductions of underwater scenes made by the author using…
1867 CE
#5901
Sur un nouvel instrument pour la détermination de l’astigmatisme.
Javal invented the astigmometer, and described it in the above paper.
1867 CE
#5899
Symptomenlehre der Augenmuskellähmungen.
The first thorough account of paralysis of the eye muscles, and the basis for their surgical treatment. The first section describes conditions resulting from injuries to the eye muscles. The second part outlines physi…
1867 CE
#6862
The application of the principles and practice of homoeopathy to obstetrics, and the disorders peculiar to women and young children.
Digital facsimile from the Medical Heritage Library at the Internet Archive at this link.
1867 CE
#5001
The mad folk of Shakespeare. 2nd ed.
First published as The psychology of Shakespeare, London, 1859.
1867 CE
#13345
Three years in field hospitals of the Army of the Potomac.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1867 CE
#12508
Traité de la carie dentaire: Recherches expérimentales et thérapeutiques.
From the English translation: "The proceding considerations tend to establish that dental caries results from a purely chemical alteration of the enamel and ivory of the teeth either by the products of acid fermentati…
1867 CE
#4336.1
Traité expérimentale et clinique de la régenération des os. 2 vols.
Ollier pioneered research in bone allografting.
1867 CE
#4423
Treatment of fractures of the lower extremity, by use of the anterior suspensory apparatus.
1867 CE
#3821
Ueber die totale Exstirpation einer kropfig entarteten Schilddrüse, und über die Rückwirkung dieser Operation auf die Circulationsverhältnisse im Kopfe.
Sick is credited with being the first to notice symptoms of loss of thyroid function following thyroidectomy. According to Halsted, the above is the first report of total thyroidectomy and “the first report of t…
1867 CE
#3378.2
Ueber eine neue Methode zur Untersuchung des Gehörorgans zu physiologischen und diagnostischen Zwecken mit Hülfe des Interferenz Otoscopes.
Lucae described an interference otoscope, precursor of auditory impedance devices.