1870–1879

1872 CE

#6649.91

Medical women: Two essays. I. Medicine as a profession for women. II. Medical education for women

From the time of her admission to medical school Jex-Blake became virtually the leader of the movement in Great Britain to open the medical profession to women. Greatly expanded second edition, Edinburgh, 1886.

1872 CE

#6062

Normal ovariotomy.

Battey’s ovariotomy operation for the treatment of non-ovarian conditions. This operation later acquired a greater significance in connection with more modern work on endocrinology. Preliminary communication in …

1872 CE

#13901

Notice sur le musée d'histoire naturelle de Colmar et aperçu historique sur le musée des Unterlinden en général.

1872 CE

#4547

On a case of paralysis of the tongue from haemorrhage in the medulla oblongata.

Jackson here described the syndrome consisting of paralysis of half the tongue, the same half of the palate, and of one vocal cord – “Jackson’s syndrome”.

1872 CE

#4699

On chorea.

The classic description by Huntington of the chronic degenerative hereditary type of chorea led to the eponym “Huntington’s chorea”. Earlier accounts of the disease were given by John Elliotson (Lanc…

1872 CE

#6189

On the contractions of the uterus throughout pregnancy: Their physiological effects and their value in the diagnosis of pregnancy.

“Braxton Hicks’s sign”.

1872 CE

#4215

On the pathology of the morbid state commonly called chronic Bright’s disease with contracted kidney (“arterio-capillary fibrosis”).

First clear description of arteriosclerotic atrophy of the kidney (“Gull–Sutton disease”), and probably the first description of hypertensive nephrosclerosis.

1872 CE

#7609

Origen, naturaleza y antigüedad del hombre.

The first book on human origins or human evolution published in Spanish. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1872 CE

#13380

Question médico-légale de l’identité dans ses rapport avec les vices de conformation des organes sexuels contenant les souvenirs et impressions d’un individu dont le sexe avait été méconnu.

Includes the first printing of the memoirs of "Alexina B" a French intersex person whose actual name was Herculine Barbin. Digital facsimile of the revised second edition (1874) from Google Books at this link. Transla…

1872 CE

#5670

Sur l’action combinée de la morphine et du chloroforme.

Labbe and Guyon developed pre-anesthetic medication.

1872 CE

#13171

The detection of criminal abortion, and a study of foeticidal drugs.

Digital facsimile from U.S. National Library of Medicine at this link.

1872 CE

#4975

The expression of the emotions in man and animals.

Darwin examined the causes, physiological and psychological, of all the fundamental emotions in man and animals. He concluded that “the chief expressive actions exhibited by man and by the lower animals are now …

1872 CE

#2105

The thanatophidia of India. Being a Description of the venomous snakes of the Indian Peninsula, with an account of the influence of their poison on life and a series of experiments

Considered the first systematic work on venomous snakes. Describes all the venomous snakes of India. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1872 CE

#2250

Thermic fever, or sunstroke.

A study of the pathology of sunstroke. Wood held the chairs of botany, therapeutics, and neurology at the University of Pennsylvania.

1872 CE

#424

Topographisch-anatomischer Atlas. Nach Durchschnitten angefrornen Cadavern.

Fine illustrations of frozen sections. Translated into English by Edward Bellamy as An atlas of topographical anatomy after plane sections of frozen bodies. (Philadelphia: Lindsay and Blakiston, 1877).

1872 CE

#13353

Tortoises, terrapins, and turtles drawn from life

Though not credited on the title page, Thomas Bell was superintendent of the plates and the intended author of this work. James de Carle Sowerby created the original paintings. Edward Lear drew the plates on stone. Fo…

1872 CE

#3279

Ueber Diagnose und Behandlung der Stimmbandlähmung.

See No. 3270. Continuing his study of laryngeal paralysis. Gerhardt proposed the term “cadaveric position” to indicate the position of the vocal cord in total paralysis of the larynx.

1872 CE

#627

Ueber die Diffusion des Sauerstoffs, den Ort und die Gesetze der Oxydationsprocesse im thierischen Organismus.

1872 CE

#822

Ueber die Eigenthümlichkeiten der Reizbarkeit, welche die Muskelfasern des Herzens zeigen.

Bowditch was the first to research the relationship between the strength of the heart beat and the interval between beats. He established the “all-or-nothing” principle of heart muscle contraction. He foun…

1872 CE

#3465

Ueber die Resection des Oesophagus.

First resection of the esophagus.

1872 CE

#1011

Ueber die Wirkung einiger Gifte auf die Nerven der glandula submaxillaris.

Study of the effect of poisons on the nerves of the submaxillary gland.

1872 CE

#4062

Ueber einzelne während der Schwangerschaft, dem Wochenbette und bei Uterinalkrankheiten der Frauen zu beobachtende Hautkrankheiten.

Hebra was the first to describe impetigo herpetiformis, more fully dealt with by Kaposi, his son-in-law.

1872 CE

#2773

Ueber zwei seltene Herzaffektionen, mit Bezugnahme auf die Theorie des ersten Herztons.

“Bamberger’s disease” (Pick’s disease, No. 2803).

1872 CE

#2483

Untersuchungen über Bacterien.

Cohn’s morphological classification of bacteria. He founded the Beiträge.

1872 CE

#3010

Untersuchungen über die embolischen Processe.

Cohnheim developed the doctrine of infarction as a result of occlusion of terminal arteries. He explained the haemorrhagic nature of certain infarcts on the basis of a reflux flow and diapedesis through the altered ca…

1872 CE

#4831

Zur Lehre von der Tetanie.

Important observations on gastric tetany were made by Kussmaul. He called attention to the convulsions sometimes accompanying dilatation of the stomach. He first mentioned “gastric tetany” in 1869 in his p…

1872 CE–1875 CE

#1515

Zur Lehre vom Lichtsinne. 6 parts.

Hering’s theory of color sense. First edition in book form (Vienna, 1878). Hering expanded this work in Grundzüge der Lehre vom Lichtsinn (1905-11; 1920) English translation of that expanded work by Leo M. …

1872 CE–1877 CE

#9069

Thesaurus literaturae botanicae omnium gentium inde a rerum botanicarum initiis ad nostra usque tempora. Quindecim millia operum recensens. Editionem novam reformatam.

First published in 1851, this documents literature from ancient times to publication date. Research involved examination of 40,000 works in libraries at Vienna, Geneva, London, Paris and various German locations. Digi…

1872 CE–1887 CE

#1620

La Seine. Etudes hydrologiques. Régime de la pluie, des sources, des eaux courantes. (Les travaux souterrains de Paris.) 4 vols. and atlas.

Belgrand designed the Paris sewers.

1872 CE–1887 CE

#4546

Leçons sur les maladies du système nerveux faites à La Salpêtrière.

An excellent idea of Charcot’s work is gained by perusal of his Leçons, dealing with his teaching on nervous disorders. In the second volume, pp. 1-72, is a classic account of the anomalies of tabes dorsa…

1872 CE–1887 CE

#4995

Leçons sur les maladies du système nerveux faites à La Salpêtrière. 3 vols.

Charcot’s pioneering research on the application of hypnosis to the psychoneuroses brought this subject to the attention of the scientific community.

1873 CE

#12261

Eine periodische Function des isolirten Froschherzen.

"Using an isolated frog heart preparation with ligatures around the atria, Luigi Luciani, an Italian physiologist working in 1873 in Carl Ludwig’s famous laboratory in Leipzig, was the first to demonstrate cardi…

1873 CE

#2484

A further contribution to the natural history of bacteria and the germ theory of fermentative changes.

Isolation of Bacterium lactis, the specific micro-organism responsible for the lactic acid fermentation of milk.

1873 CE

#12879

A monograph of the Paradiseidae or birds of paradise.

This work contains 36 plates by lithographed Joseph Smit from drawings by Joseph Wolf, and handcolored by J.D. White. Wolf was regarded as the greatest bird artist of his time. Among the birds of paradise there are so…

1873 CE

#11212

Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon General's Office, United States Army. 3 vols.

The first formal published catalogue of the ancestor of the US National Library of Medicine, prepared under the supervision of John Shaw Billings. Vols. 1-2 represented an author catalogue A-Z. Vol. 3: Supplement: Ano…

1873 CE

#11444

Cleave's Biographical cyclopaedia of homoeopathic physicians and surgeons.

The first biographical encyclopedia of American homeopathic physicians and surgeons. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1873 CE

#6570

Danmarks Laeger og Laegevaesen fra de aeldste Tider indtil Aar 1800. 2 vols.

1873 CE

#2326

De l’unité de la phthisie. Thèse pour le doctorat en médecine. No. 50

Confirmation of Villemin. Grancher in 1903 instituted the “Grancher system” – the boarding out of children from tuberculous households in France. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this l…

1873 CE

#876

De la numération des globules rouges du sang I. Des méthodes de numération. II. De la richesse du sang en globules rouges dans les différentes parties de l'arbre circulatoire.

The beginning of blood-counting techniques. In his thesis Malassez provided the initial description of the hemocytometer, which he invented, but which was named by Gowers, who modified it in 1877. The trade issue of t…

1873 CE

#11333

Découverte d’un squelette humain de l’époque paléolithique dans les cavernes des Baoussé-Roussé dites grottes de Menton.

In March 1872 Rivière discovered an entire fossil human skeleton in a cave at Menton, in the south of France near the Italian border. The skeleton, later known as “Menton man,” closely resembles the…

1873 CE

#5671

Description of a new double current inhaler for administering ether.

Clover’s gas-ether inhaler.

1873 CE

#425

Die Corrosions-Anatomie und ihre Ergebnisse: mit 18 chromolithographirten Tafeln.

Hyrtl significantly enhanced the techniques of corrosion anatomy, a technique of preparing anatomical specimens invented by Frederik Ruysch. He built up a collection unsurpassed in Europe. In this work Hyrtl described…

1873 CE

#2327

Die künstliche Erzeugung der Tuberkulose.

Klebs was the first to produce experimental bovine tuberculosis (by feeding cattle with infected milk). His work confirmed the earlier researches of Villemin.

1873 CE

#4064

Erythema serpens.

First description of erythema serpens, usually called “erysipeloid of Rosenbach”, following the latter’s paper in Arch. klin. Chir., 1887, 36, 346.

1873 CE

#7803

Experimental researches in cerebral physiology and pathology.

Using a variety of experimental animals, Ferrier demonstrated that various neurologic functions were controlled by separate parts of the cerebrum and that damage or loss of that part created an irrevocable and particu…

1873 CE

#2588

Experimental researches on the causes and nature of catarrhus aestivus.

Blackley showed that pollen can produce hay fever in both the asthmatic and catarrhal forms; he also showed that skin reactions were evoked in sensitive persons.

1873 CE

#3281

Fall von gutartiger Mycosis des Pharynx.

Mycosis pharyngitis first reported.

1873 CE

#11749

Heart studies in Australia, with observations on aneurism of the aorta.

The first book on heart disease written by an Australian physician and published in Australia.

1873 CE

#6393

Histoire de la médecine et des doctrines médicales. 2 vols.

1873 CE

#1406.01

Iconographie photographique des centres nerveux.

Contains 70 photographs of brain sections taken by Luys himself, with 64 lithographed schemas based on his drawings. Luys undertook this work when the evidence of his lithographs published in 1865 (No. 4012) was dispu…