1870–1879
662 entries with publication dates in this decade.
1879 CE
#9012
Cassius Felicis De medicina ex Graecis logicae sectae auctoribus liber translatus sub Artabure et Calepio consulibus (anno 447) nunc primu editus a Valentino Rose.
Editio princeps. Cassius Felix was a Roman African medical writer, probably native of Constantina (now Algeria). His De medicina is a simple handbook for practical use, drawing on Greek medical sources. Digital facsim…
1879 CE
#11954
Catalogue of the plants under cultivation in the botanical gardens, Singapore, Straits Settlements.
The first published catalogue of plants in the Singapore Botanic Gardens. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1879 CE
#6194
Clinical lecture on hepatic disease in gynaecology and obstetrics.
Matthews Duncan pointed out that pernicious vomiting in pregnancy may be associated with hepatic lesions.
1879 CE
#443
Das Arabische un Hebräische in der Anatomie.
Hyrtl, professor of anatomy at Prague and Vienna, retired in 1874 and devoted his leisure to the writing of this and his Onomatologia anatomica. Garrison considered Hyrtl, along with Littré, among the greatest …
1879 CE
#5376.1
Das japanische Fluss- oder Ueberschwemmings-fieber, eine acute Infectionskrankheit.
Early scientific account of tsutsugamushi fever.
1879 CE
#3472
De l’ablation des tumeurs de l’estomac par la gastrectomie.
First gastrectomy for carcinoma; unsuccessful.
1879 CE
#3685.01
Die antiseptische Behandlung der Pulpakrankheiten des Zahnes. Mit Beiträgen sur Lehre von den Neubildungen in der Paulpa.
Witzel used histological methods to analyze pulp diseases, and applied antiseptic principles to their treatment. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1879 CE
#4217
Die Bright’sche Nierenkrankung vom pathologisch-anatomischen Standpunkte.
Classic study of the pathological anatomy of Bright’s disease.
1879 CE
#12274
Die Diagnostik des Pulses in Bezug auf die localen Veränderungen desselben.
Bedford 56: "Pulse reporting by hydrosphygmograph by Italian physiologist Angelo Mosso (1846-1910), who was professor of pharmacology at Turin University." Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1879 CE
#4346.1
Ein Fall von sogenannter Myositis ossificans progressiver.
Helferich described the association of microdactyly with myositis ossificans progressiva.
1879 CE
#4175
Eine neue Beobachtungs- und Untersuchungsmethode für Harnröhre, Harnblase und Rectum.
Nitze devised an electrically lighted cystoscope in 1877, which made possible great improvements in the surgery of the bladder.
1879 CE
#8919
Erasmus Darwin. By Ernst Krause. Translated from the German by W. S. Dallas. With a preliminary notice by Charles Darwin.
Krause's short biography originally appeared in the German evolutionary periodical Kosmos in February 1879. In this translation Darwin added a biographical contribution that is longer than Krause's, i.e. 127pp by Darw…
1879 CE
#5481.2
Études sur la rage.
Galtier demonstrated the transmissibility of rabies from dog to rabbit to rabbit in a series, a matter of considerable interest to Pasteur.
1879 CE
#14295
Fasting girls: their physiology and pathology.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1879 CE
#12084
Gesammelte Abhandlungen aus dem Gebiete der öffentlichen Medicin und der Seuchenlehre. 2 vols.
Virchow "articulated that the moral goal of the political role of medicine was to become an active agent in eliminating social inequality" (Dorothy Porter, Doctors, the state and the ethics of political medical practi…
1879 CE
#7703
Gesammelte Schriften. 2 vols.
In "Beschreibung und mikroskopische Untersuchungen von Mumien", published in I, 114-156, Czermak used histology to identify arterioschlerosis in an Egyptian mummy. Digital facsimile of this specific paper from ECHO at…
1879 CE
#8852
Gold as a remedy in disease, notably in some forms of organic heart disease, angina pectoris, melancholy, tedium vitae, scrofula, syphilis, skin disease, & as an antidote to the ill effects of mercury.
Burnett, a homeopath, provided an excellent summary of the history of gold as it was used in medicine, with extensive references to the historical literature. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1879 CE
#13869
History of medicine in New Jersey, and of Its medical men, from the settlement of the province to A.D. 1800.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1879 CE
#5358
L’anchilostomiasi e l’anemia che ne conseguita (anchilostomanemia).
Introduction of thymol as a hookworm vermifuge.
1879 CE
#634
Leçons de physiologie opératoire.
In this, his last work, Bernard showed himself “the unapproachable master in the technique of experimental procedure” (Garrison).
1879 CE
#4075
Lectures on clinical surgery. Pt. 2.
On p. 298 is the first description of hydradenitis destruens suppurativa, later named “Pollitzer’s disease” from the latter’s important description of it in J. cutan. gen.-urin. Dis., 1892, 10,…
1879 CE
#4940
Lehrbuch der Psychiatrie auf klinischer Grundlage.
English translation, Philadelphia, 1905.
1879 CE
#5315
Materialien zur Pathologie und Therapie des Rückfallstyphus.
By inoculating healthy subjects with blood of patients suffering from replapsing fever, and producing the fever in the former, Mochutkovski demonstrated not only the communicability of the disease but also the specifi…
1879 CE
#13078
Naval hygiene. Human health and the means of preventing disease. With illustrative incidents principally derived from naval experience.
Includes chromolithographed plates. Digital facsimile of the second edition (1879) from Google Books at this link. WorldCat cites only this second edition with this title and Wilson's work of 1870 (No. 13077). Therefo…
1879 CE
#2892
Nitro-glycerine as a remedy for angina pectoris.
Murrell introduced trinitrin (nitroglycerin, glyceryl trinitrate) in the treatment of angina.
1879 CE
#9627
Notes by a naturalist on the Challenger; being an account of observations made during the Voyage of H.M.S.Challenger round the world in the years 1872-1876. Under the Command of Capt. Sir G. S.Nares and Capt. F. T. Thomson.
Includes descriptions of the natural history of Teneriffe, St. Thomas, Bermuda; Azores, Madeira, Cape Verdes; St. Paul’s Rocks and Fernando Do Norhona; Bahia; Tristan Da Cunha, Inaccessible Island; Nightingale I…
1879 CE
#4077
Notes on unusual or rare forms of skin disease. IV. Congenital ulceration of skin (two cases) with pemphigus eruption and arrest of development generally.
First description of epidermolysis bullosa.
1879 CE
#24
Oeuvres, texte collationné sur les manuscrits, traduit pour la première fois en français avec une introduction. Publication commencée par Ch. Daremberg, continuée et terminée par Ch. Émile Ruelle.
Greek–French edition containing all the extant works of Rufus, as well as fragments collected from a wide range of ancient and medieval sources. Digital facsimile fro the BnF at this link. The treatise On the in…
1879 CE
#5917
On astigmatism as a cause for persistent headache and other nervous symptoms.
Thomson was a pioneer in the study of refraction. He was much interested in color-blindness and modified Holmgren’s wool-skein test. Himself affected with hypermetropia, he made important investigations on this …
1879 CE
#10397
On health and occupation. Manuals of Health. Published under the direction of the Committee of General Literature and Education appointed by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1879 CE
#2782
Recherches cliniques sur la communication congénitales des deux coeurs par inocclusion du septum intervenniculare.
Roger drew attention to an important anomaly of the septum, interventricular patency (“maladie de Roger”), demonstrating the presence of a murmur in this condition. This is sometimes called “Roger&rs…
1879 CE
#5615
Remarks on forcipressure and the use of pressure-forceps in surgery.
Spencer Wells forceps.
1879 CE
#6071
Removal of normal ovaries.
Lawson Tait reported that he had performed Battey’s operation on 1 August 1872, 16 days before Battey. See No. 6062.
1879 CE
#4346
Sarcoma of the long bones; based upon a study of one hundred and sixty-five cases.
First comprehensive work on bone sarcoma.
1879 CE
#6278
Septicémie puerpérale.
Description of the streptococcus of puerperal sepsis.
1879 CE
#782.1
Sur la contractilité capillaires sanguins.
Rouget made an important investigation of the control of capillary circulation. He described cells (“Rouget’s cells”) on the outer surfaces of capillary walls, considered to be contractile. English t…
1879 CE
#553
Technique de l’emploi du collodion humide pour la pratique des coupes microscopiques.
Introduction of collodion for embedding.
1879 CE
#10524
The epidemic of 1878 in Mississippi: Report of the yellow fever relief work.
Digital facsimile from the U.S. National Library of Medicine at this link.
1879 CE
#9028
The laws relating to quarantine of Her Majesty's dominions at home and abroad, and of the principal foreign states, including the sections of the Public health act, 1875, which bear upon measures of prevention
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1879 CE
#1766.6
The medical profession. Being the essay to which was awarded the first Carmichael Prize of £200 by the Council of the Royal College of Surgeons, Ireland, 1879.
A history of the organization of the medical profession with particular reference to Britain. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1879 CE
#8240
The practice of medicine among the Burmese, translated from original manuscripts, with an historical sketch of the progress of medicine, from the earliest times.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1879 CE
#11826
The study and practice of medicine by women.
Probably the first study of how women physicians used their medical training. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1879 CE
#4560
Topische Diagnostik der Gehirnkrankheiten.
On p. 220 is the description of unilateral oculomotor paralysis combined with cerebellar ataxia, “Nothnagel’s syndrome”.
1879 CE
#11626
Traité des corps étrangers en chirurgie. Voies naturelles pharynx et oesophage - estomac - intestin - rectum - voies respiratoire - organes génito-urinaires de l'homme et de la femme conduit auditif - fosses nasales - conduits glandulaires. Avec figures dans le texte, desinées par H. Dauphin.
A comprehensive treatise on an astounding variety of foreign bodies that surgeons had recorded removing from various and sometimes amazing parts of the body. Digital facsimile of the 1879 edition from Google Books at …
1879 CE
#4856
Tumour of the dura mater–convulsions–removal of tumour by trephining–recovery.
1879 CE
#2436.1
Über die Ätiologie des Aussatzes.
Neisser obtained leprosy tissue from Hansen and, using aniline dyes for staining Myco. leprae, was able to demonstrate it more convincingly than Hansen.
1879 CE
#6072
Ueber die Ausrottung des Gebärmutterkrebses.
First total hysterectomy by the vaginal route.
1879 CE
#6338
Ueber eine bisher nicht beschriebene endemisch aufgetretene Erkrankung Neugeborener.
First description of “Winckel’s disease” of the newborn, characterized by icterus, hemorrhage, hemoglobinuria, and cyanosis.
1879 CE
#5208
Ueber eine der Gonorrhoe eigentümliche Micrococcusform.
Discovery of the gonococcus – causal organism in gonorrhoea.
1879 CE
#2907
Ueber eine eigenthümliche Form von Endarteriitis und Endophlebitis mit Gangrän des Fusses.
Early description of thromboangiitis obliterans (Buerger’s disease, No. 2912).