1870–1879

1877 CE

#13110

The cottage hospital: Its origin, progress, management and work. With an alphabetical list of every cottage hospital at present opened, and a chapter on hospitalism in cottage hospital practice.

Digital facsimile of the first edition from Google Books at this link. Much expanded second edition: Cottage hospitals general, fever, and convalescent : their progress, management, and work with an alphabetical list …

1877 CE

#3693

The history of the reform movement in the dental profession in Great Britain during the last twenty years.

The history of the beginnings of an organized dental profession in Britain.

1877 CE

#9532

The mortality of surgical operations in the upper lake states, compared with that of other regions.

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1877 CE

#11912

The question of rest for women during menstruation.The Boylston Prize Essay of Harvard University for 1876.

"Jacobi's paper was a response to Dr. Edward H. Clarke's earlier publication, Sex in Education; or, A Fair Chance for the Girls (1875), a book claiming that any physical or mental exertion during menstruation could le…

1877 CE

#4555

The relation of pain to weather, being a study of the natural history of a case of traumatic neuralgia.

First study of the subject.

1877 CE

#7484

The voyage of the "Challenger": The Atlantic: A preliminary account of the general results of th exploring voyage of H.M.S. "Challenger" during the year 1873 and the early part of the year 1876. 2 vols.

Digital facsimile of the first American edition (1878) from the Biodiversity Heritage Library, Internet Archive, at this link.

1877 CE

#12920

Traité des anomalies du système dentaire chez l'homme et les mammifères. Avec un atlas de 20 planches dessinées et gravées par C. Nicolet.

Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.

1877 CE

#6066.1

Uber drei Fälle von primärem Carcinom im Fundus und Corpus des Uterus.

Choriocarcinoma first reported.

1877 CE

#697

Ueber die Ausscheidung des Indicans unter physiologischen und pathologischen Verhältnissen.

Isolation of indican in the urine.

1877 CE

#1274

Ueber die Ermüdung und Erholung der Nerven.

After successfully tetanizing a nerve-muscle preparation, Bernstein inferred, from this and additional data, that nerve is exhausted in the process. This conflicted with the findings of Bowditch (No. 1281-82) and Vved…

1877 CE

#6067

Ueber die Exstirpation normaler und nicht zu umfänglichen Tumoren degenerirter Eierstöcke.

Hegar developed Battey’s operation (No. 6062) and employed it for the treatment of various ovarian conditions.

1877 CE

#5510

Ueber eine neue Pilzkrankheit beim Rinde.

First effective description of Actinomyces bovis.

1877 CE

#3387.1

Ueber einen einheitlichen Hörmesser.

Politzer described an acumeter.

1877 CE

#1411

Untersuchungen über die Haubenregion und ihre oberen Verknüpfungen im Gehirne des Menschen und einiger Säugethiere, mit Beiträgen zu den Methoden der Gehirnuntersuchung.

Forel elucidated the subthalamic region, “campus Foreli”.

1877 CE

#699

Untersuchungen über die Wirkung der Säuren auf den thierischen Organismus.

1877 CE

#2488

Verfahrungen zur Untersuchung, zum Conserviren und Photographiren der Bacterien.

Koch greatly improved staining methods; he laid the foundations of the technical procedures employed in bacteriology today. In the above paper he described his method of slide preparation, making films of bacteria on …

1877 CE

#1517

Zur Physiologie des Sehens und der Farbenempfindung.

Boll noted that visual purple is bleached on exposure to light.

1877 CE–1878 CE

#4850.1

Chirurgie d’Hippocrate. 2 vols

A Greek-French edition with extensive notes and commentaries by J. E. Pétrequin, surgeon-in-chief of the Hôtel-Dieu of Lyon. Operations attributed to Hippocrates included trephination and paracentesis; hi…

1877 CE–1878 CE

#1749

Lehrbuch der gerichtlichen Medicin.

An important German work on the subject. Hofmann’s book went through many editions and was translated into several European languages.

1877 CE–1878 CE

#2489

On the lactic fermentation and its bearings on pathology.

Lister was the first to obtain a pure culture of a bacterium (Bact. lactis). Lister first presented the results of this research in an address to the Royal Society on December 18, 1877. Because of its historic signifi…

1877 CE–1878 CE

#4073

The minute anatomy of dysidrosis.

1877 CE–1879 CE

#11147

Catalogue des pièces du Musée Dupuytren, publié sous les auspices de la Faculté de Médecine de Paris. 5 vols. text plus 4 vols. atlas.

Detailed catalogue, illustrated by photography, of the Musée Dupuytren, a museum of gross pathology. When this catalogue was published the museum contained about 6000 items.

1877 CE–1880 CE

#632

Observations on the locomotor system of Medusae. 3 pts.

Charles Sherrington described the significance of Romanes' research on jellyfish in terms of its impact on cardiac physiology: "Romanes's observations carried out with simple means were novel and fundamental. The ques…

1877 CE–1880 CE

#1779

Traité de climatologie médicale, 4 vols. and 1 atlas.

1877 CE–1880 CE

#2303

Vorlesungen über allgemeine Pathologie. 2 vols.

Apart from Virchow’s Cellularpathologie, this was the most influential textbook of pathology during the 19th century. It includes (vol. 1, p. 38) a report on the experimental production of heart murmurs. English…

1877 CE–1882 CE

#9640

Bibliographie analytique des principaux phénomènes subjectifs de la vision, depuis les temps anciens jusqu'a la fin du XVIIIe siècle, suivie d'une bibliographie simple pour la partie écoulée du siècle actuel.

Première section: Persistance des impressions sur la rétine. Deuxième section: couleurs accidentelles ordinaires du succession. Troisième section: images qui succèdent à la co…

1877 CE–1883 CE

#8528

Traité des simples. 3 vols. Notices et extraits des manuscrits de la Bibliothèque nationale et autres bibliothèques, 1877, tome 23,1; tome 25,1; tome 26,1. Traduit par Lucien Leclerc.

Ibn al-Baytar systematically recorded the additions to pharmacy made by medieval Islamic physicians, who added between 300 and 400 types of medicines to the roughly one thousand known since antiquity. "Ibn al-Baitar&r…

1877 CE–1888 CE

#5613

Mémoires de chirurgie. 5 vols.

Verneuil, Paris surgeon, introduced forcipressure in hemorrhage (see No. 5612), dry bandaging, and iodoform in the treatment of abscesses. All his works are included in his Mémoires.

1877 CE–1893 CE

#6337

Handbuch der Kinderkrankheiten. Hrsg. von C. GERHARDT. 9 vols.

Gerhardt edited this great work, which was written by the foremost pediatricians of the time and which gives a close-up view of pediatric knowledge at the end of the 19th century.

1877 CE–1907 CE

#14349

An atlas of illustrations of pathology [and] An atlas of illustrations of clinical medicine, surgery and pathology ... a continuation of the "Atlas of Pathology." 30 fascicules numbered I - XXIV, XXIVbis, XXIVter, XXV, XXVbis, XXVI - XXVII.

1877 CE–2021 CE

#12940

Biographical memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences. Personal and scholarly views of America's most distinguished scientists.

http://www.nasonline.org/publications/biographical-memoirs/ "Published since 1877, Biographical Memoirs provide the life histories and selected bibliographies of deceased National Academy of Sciences members. Colleagu…

1878 CE

#11538

A hand-book of nursing for family and general use. Published under the direction of the Connecticut Training-School for Nurses, State Hospital, New Haven, Connecticut.

The Connecticut Training-School for Nurses opened in 1873, and the first edition of this manual was copyright 1878, the same year as the Bellevue manual. However, it is believed that the first copies of this work were…

1878 CE

#11536

A manual of nursing prepared for the Training School for Nurses attached to Bellevue Hospital. [Compiled and edited by Dr. Victoria White.]

The Training School for Nurses attached to Bellevue Hospital opened in 1873, the first school in United States run according to Florence Nightingale's nursing principles. Among other things, these principles called fo…

1878 CE

#5346

Cases of filarious disease.

Discovery (1876) of Wuchereria bancrofti. Bancroft’s first report on this was in the form of a letter to T. S. Cobbold, who published it in Lancet, 1877, 2, 70-71.

1878 CE

#11427

Catalogue des livres composant la bibliothèque scientifique de Claude Bernard.

Auction catalogue of Bernard's library conducted by Bernard's publisher and bookseller, J.-B Baillière et Fils. The sale, conducted over 4 days, included 1077 lots. Most were books published during Bernard's li…

1878 CE

#11078

De l'influence des découvertes de M. Pasteur sur les progrès de la chirurgie.

Sedillot, a surgeon, first used the word "microbe" on p. 634, third paragraph, of this paper. He coined the term after consulting with lexicographer Émile Littré, to ascertain etymological appropriatenes…

1878 CE

#13475

Der Alkoholismus seine Verbreitung und Wirkung auf den Individuellen und sozialen Organismus, sowie die Mittel Ihn zu Bekämpfen.

1878 CE

#3125.3

Die progressive perniziöse Anämie.

Comprehensive account.

1878 CE

#4345

Die spontane Subluxation der Hand nach vorne.

“Madelung’s deformity” of the wrist. Madelung regarded the condition as a defect of growth of the wrist joint.

1878 CE

#2781

Ein Fall von thrombotischen Verschlusse einer der Kranzarterien des Herzens.

First description of coronary thrombosis with diagnosis before death. English translation of original report, Amer. J. Cardiol, 1978, 42, 849-52.

1878 CE

#6070

Eine neue Methode der Exstirpation des ganzen Uterus.

Freund performed the first successful abdominal hysterectomy for cancer. Although removal of the uterus by the abdominal route had been carried out earlier, to Freund belongs the credit for the invention of the operat…

1878 CE

#10721

Elephants and their treatment in health and disease.

Expanded from a "small" edition issued in 1873 at the request of the Conservator of Forests, British Burma to "answer the purpose of a guide for the management of those animals, in a more direct and complete form; and…

1878 CE

#7706

Etude historique et clinique sur la trépanation du crâne; la trépanation guidée par les localisations cérébrales.

Lucas-Chamionnière asserted that the operation was performed by ancient surgeons for both magical and therepeutic reasons, and noted that ancient surgeons prevented lethal hemorrhage from the sagittal sinus by …

1878 CE

#3826

Exstirpation einer Struma retroesophagea.

Kocher, a pupil of Billroth, was a pioneer of thyroidectomy for goitre. Before his time the operation was seldom performed. Garrison says that Kocher performed this difficult operation 2,000 times, with a mortality ra…

1878 CE

#203.3

Finska kranier: Jämte några natur- och literatur-studier, inom andra områden af finsk antropologi.

1878 CE

#5357

Intornoall’Anchilostoma duodenale (Dubini).

Fecal diagnosis of hookworm disease. Before this time hookworm had been diagnosed only post mortem. With C. Parona and E. Parona. English translation in Kean (No. 2268.1).

1878 CE

#700

La fermentation alcoolique.

Bernard disbelieved Pasteur’s definition of a ferment as “a living form originating from a germ”.

1878 CE

#7294

La méthode graphique dans les sciences expérimentales et particulièrement en physiologie et en médecine.

Marey pioneered the use of graphical recording in the experimental sciences, using instruments (many of his own invention) to capture and display data impossible to observe with the senses alone, and to record the pro…

1878 CE

#944

La pression barométrique. Recherches de physiologie expérimentale.

The most famous work in the history of altitude physiology, in which Bert proved that the principal symptoms of altitude sickness arise from reduced partial pressure of oxygen and not from diminution of total pressure…

1878 CE

#14194

La théorie des germes et ses applications à la médecine et à la chirurgie. Lecture faite à l'Académie de médecine par M. Pasteur en son nom et au nom de MM. Joubert et Chamberland ....

In this speech Pasteur first introduced the term "germ theory" and defined its applications in medicine, surgery, and infectious disease. The speech was first published in condensed form in Comptes rendus...de l'Acad&…