1870–1879
662 entries with publication dates in this decade.
1877 CE
#631
A text-book of physiology.
Foster was one of the greatest of the modern teachers of physiology. He became professor at Cambridge in 1883. Many great scientists are numbered among his pupils. See G.L. Geisen, Michael Foster and the Cambridge Sch…
1877 CE
#6069
Anatomische Bedeutung der Erosionen am Scheidentheil.
1877 CE
#11096
Art anatomy.
Perhaps the first great American anatomy for artists by an American painter and sculptor. Rimmer not only drew the 900 drawings on the 81 heliotype plates, but he also wrote in the explanatory text on the sheets along…
1877 CE
#2487
Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Anilinfärbungen und ihrer Verwendung in der mikroskopischen Technik.
Ehrlich’s first paper on the staining of specific granulation in white blood corpuscles by means of aniline dyes. His work immensely affected subsequent technical methods of staining.
1877 CE
#823.1
Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Reizwell und Contractionswelle des Herzmuskels.
Marchand obtained the first electrocardiogram. Using the differential rheotome he measured the time course of the potential variations from the frog’s heart.
1877 CE
#176
Beiträge zur physischen Anthropologie der Deutschen. Mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Friesen.
Virchow made an important survey of the physical characters of the German people. Outside pathology of which he was the Master, Virchow’s greatest scientific interest was anthropology.
1877 CE
#498
Beobachtungen über die Beschaffenheit des Zellkerns.
Discovery of the centrosome.
1877 CE
#5915
Beziehungen der Allgemein-Leiden und Organ-Erkrankungen zu Veränderungen und Krankheiten des Sehorgans. In: GRAEFE and SAEMISCH, Handbuch der gesammten Augenheilkunde, 7, Theil 5, 59-234
Förster was among the first to study the relationship between eye disease and general and organic disease of the body.
1877 CE
#12318
Catalogue of physicians and surgeons who have presented their diplomas and other credentials to the Board of Examiners of the Medical Society of the State of California and received therefrom a license to practice medicine and surgery in said state, in obedience to an "Act to regulate the practice of medicine in the State of California, approved April 3, 1876. Compiled by W. A. Grover.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link. At the same link the Hathi Trust offers facsimiles of the same directory published from 1899 to 1921.
1877 CE
#1932.1
Charbon et septicémie.
Discovery of Vibrion septique (Cl. septicum), the first pathogenic anerobe to be found. Pasteur and Joubert were probably the first to realize the practical implications of antibiosis. They noted the antagonism betwee…
1877 CE
#7118
De observatione ciborum epistula ad Theudericum Regem Francorum. Iterum edidit Valentinus Rose.
De observatione ciborum ("On the Observance of Foods") by Anthimus, a Byzantine physician at the court of the Ostrogoth king Theodoric, concerns foods and their preparations as well as the use of foods for selected ai…
1877 CE
#6192
Description de deux nouveaux forceps.
Tarnier invented the axis-traction forceps. See also Ann. Gynéc., 1877, 7, 241-64
1877 CE
#145.61
Die Auster und die Austernwirtschaft.
In this study of oyster culture precipitated by the impoverishment of natural oyster beds, Möbius provided the earliest description of a marine animal community maintained in a state of equilibrium by limitations…
1877 CE
#1998
Die Hydrotherapie. 2 vols.
1877 CE
#4624
Die Störungen der Sprache.
Kussmaul termed aphasia “word-blindness”. The book was issued as a supplement to vol. 12 of Ziemssen’s Handbuch der speciellen Pathologie und Therapie. English translation in Ziemssen’s Cyclope…
1877 CE
#6761.1
Die Uebersetzungen arabischer Werke in das Lateinische seit dem XI. Jahrhundert.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1877 CE
#5614
Du cautére Paquelin.
Paquelin introduced a thermocautery (“Paquelin’s cautery”).
1877 CE
#2780
Du rétrécissement mitral pur.
First description of congenital mitral stenosis, “Duroziez’s disease.”
1877 CE
#8980
Early recollections and life of Dr. James Still.
Still's autobiography is probably the first biography or autobiography of an African American physician. "James Still, medical doctor and herbalist, was born on April 9, 1812 in Burlington County, New Jersey. Still wa…
1877 CE
#4216.1
Eine eigenthümliche Nierenexstirpation.
First nephrectomy for malignant disease.
1877 CE
#3386
Erkrankungen des Warzentheiles.
First clear description of mastoiditis.
1877 CE
#5168
Étude sur la maladie charbonneuse.
Pasteur confirmed Koch’s results regarding anthrax; with Joubert he carried the bacillus through 100 generations and succeeded in producing anthrax from the last, thus disposing of the idea of a separate virus.
1877 CE
#4554
Fat and blood and how to make them.
Includes full account of Weir Mitchell’s rest cure for nervous disorders.
1877 CE
#2491
Fermentation and its bearings on the phenomena of disease.
See No. 2495.
1877 CE
#5345
Filaria sanguinis hominis.
1877 CE
#10787
Filiaria sanguinis hominis - mature form.
Lewis made the critical connection/association of the worm, Filaria sanguinis,(Wuchereria bancrofti ) to Elephantiasis. This brief account appears to be a third person account summarizing Lewis's work written by an ed…
1877 CE
#5345.1
Further observations on Filaria sanguinis hominis.
Manson showed that Wuchereria bancrofti, the cause of filarial elephantiasis in man, develops in, and is transmitted by, the Culex mosquito. This was the first proof that infective diseases are spread by animal vector…
1877 CE
#5994
Geschichte der Ophthalmologie. In: GRAEFE and SAEMISCH, Handbuch der gesammten Augenheilkunde 7, Theil 5, 235-554
The first systematic history of the subject.
1877 CE
#2033
Hauptmomente in der geschichtlichen Entwickelung der medicinischen Therapie.
Reprinted Hildesheim, 1966.
1877 CE
#12504
Igiene dell' amore
Digital facsimile of the Milan, 1891 edition from the Internet Archive at this link.
1877 CE
#630
K voprosu o perevyazkie vorotnoi veni. Predvaritelnoye soobshtshenize. [On the ligature of the portal vein.]
Eck developed the “Eck fistula” for the experimental study of diseases of the liver and the relation of the liver to metabolism. English translation in Surg. Gynec. Obstet., 1953, 96, 375.
1877 CE
#8417
L'ancienne faculté de médecine de Paris.
Digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this link.
1877 CE
#3942
Leçons sur le diabète et la glycogenèse animale.
Bernard showed that in diabetes there is primarily glycemia followed by glycosuria.
1877 CE
#4216.2
Leçons sur les maladies du foie, des voies biliaires et des reins.
Charcot defined “scarlatinous nephritis” and “amyloid kidney” as distinct pathological entities. English translation, New York, 1878.
1877 CE
#10722
Leprosy in India. A report.
The first quantitative study of leprosy in India. Leprosy first appeared in India at least 2,000 years ago and continued to exist throughout the subcontinent over the succeeding centuries. Upon the establishment of th…
1877 CE
#12948
Les oiseaux de la Chine. Avec un atlas de 124 planches, dessinées et lithographiées par M. Arnoul et coloriées au pinceau. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1877 CE
#13837
Los médicos de antaño en el reino de Chile: La ciencia, la caridad, la beneficencia, la hijiene, los hospitales, los asilos, las maravillas i las barbaridades de nuestros mayores en materia de medicos i de medicina; reseña histórica i crítica que comprende desde la fundación del Hospital del Socorro, 1556, hasta el establecimiento del Tribunal del Protomedicato en 27 de abril de 1830.
Digital facsimile from wellcomecollection.org at this link.
1877 CE
#13781
Materia medica of the Hindus compiled from Sanskrit medical works. With a glossary of Indian plants.
1877 CE
#3943
Notes et reflexions à propos de 2 cas de diabète sucré avec altération du pancreas.
Lancereaux was the first definitely to claim a causal relationship between lesions of the pancreas and diabetes.
1877 CE
#6068
Noveau procédé pour la guérison du prolapsus utérin.
Le Fort’s operation for prolapse.
1877 CE
#4343
On a form of chronic inflammation of bones (osteitis deformans).
Paget was at one time Sergeant Surgeon to Queen Victoria. His classic description of osteitis deformans led that condition to be called “Paget’s disease”. Reprinted in Med. Classics, 1936, 1, 29-71.
1877 CE
#4745
On cerebritis, hysteria, and bulbar paralysis, as illustrative of arrest of function of the cerebro-spinal centres.
The case of “bulbar paralysis” (pp. 45-55) is believed to be the first definite record of myasthenia gravis.
1877 CE
#4342
On the formation of synovial cysts in the leg in connection with disease of the knee joint.
“Baker’s cysts” of the knee-joint. Reprinted in Med. Classics, 1941, 5, 785-820.
1877 CE
#698
Osmotische Untersuchungen.
The osmotic pressures of solutions were found by Pfeffer to be directly in proportion to the concentration of the solute and to the absolute temperature. English translation, 1895.
1877 CE
#9160
Public hygiene in America: Being the centennial discourse delivered before the International Medical Congress, Philadelphia, September, 1876 by Henry I. Bowditch. With extracts from correspondence from the various states. Together with a digest of American sanitary law by Henry G. Pickering.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1877 CE
#534.65
Récherches sur la production artificielle des monstruosités, ou essais de teratologénie expérimentale.
Dareste devoted his career to experimental teratology, and in this work established the field as a science. The second edition (1891) was greatly revised and enlarged. Contains a valuable history of experimental terat…
1877 CE
#1997
Researches on the effect of light upon bacteria and other organisms.
Downes and Blunt were the first to demonstrate the bactericidal action of sunlight; they regarded the germicidal property of light as depending on oxidation.
1877 CE
#12324
Seeking the golden fleece: A record of pioneer life in California, to which is annexed footprints of early navigators, other than Spanish, in California, with an account of the voyage of the schooner Dolphin.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1877 CE
#4344.1
Spinal disease and spinal curvature, their treatment by suspension and the use of the plaster of Paris bandage.
Sayre’s monograph on his methods of treating tuberculosis of the spine and scoliosis is the first American surgical textbook to contain actual mounted photographs, some of which are remarkable for their artistic…
1877 CE
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