1870–1879
662 entries with publication dates in this decade.
1873 CE
#2017.2
Immediate transfusion in England: seven cases, and the author’s method of operating.
Portable transfusion apparatus.
1873 CE
#4215.1
Lectures on Bright’s disease: with special reference to pathology, diagnosis, and treatment.
Johnson showed that fatty infiltrations of the renal tubules are reflected by the presence of fatty casts and droplets in the urine, thus introducing the concept of lipoid nephrosis associated with nephrotic syndrome.
1873 CE
#11388
Letter of Johns Hopkins to the trustees of "The Johns Hopkins Hospital".
The letter published in this 12-page pamphlet was dated March 10th, 1873. It outlined financier and philanthropist Johns Hopkins' planned bequest and general plans for the Johns Hopkins Hospital. Hopkins died in Decem…
1873 CE
#5909
Light for the blind: A history of the origin and success of Moon’s system of reading (embossed in various languages) for the blind.
Moon became totally blind at the age of 22. He taught other blind people and devised a simplified form of roman letters, embossed on paper, for use by blind readers. This was in 1845, and two years later he published …
1873 CE
#2302
Neue Untersuchungen über die Entzündung.
Cohnheim was the master experimental pathologist of the 19th century. He was a pupil of Virchow and Kölliker; in contradiction of the former, he showed the essential feature of inflammation to be the passage of l…
1873 CE
#4065
On dysidrosis (an undescribed eruption).
Original description of dysidrosis (pompholyx).
1873 CE
#2587
On megrim, sick-headache, and some allied disorders.
Liveing’s classic account of migraine showed the close association of this condition with tetany, asthma, and false angina pectoris, with epilepsy, and the alternation of all these conditions in the same subject…
1873 CE
#1701
Plan einer Mortalitäts-Statistik für Grossstädte.
The modern methods of interpreting vital statistics of large cities were devised by von Körösi.
1873 CE
#628
Principles of animal mechanics.
Haughton stated that the muscular mechanism is so arranged that its work is carried out with the minimum of muscular contraction. This he called the “principle of least action”. His opposition to Darwinism…
1873 CE
#2328
Recherches sur l’anatomie pathologique de la tuberculose. Thèse No. 45.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1873 CE
#11565
Removal of a needle from the heart. Recovery of the patient.
"The first occasion on which a surgeon deliberately operated on an injured heart was in October 1872. This followed a brawl in a public house in East London, after which a 31-year-old man could not find a needle he us…
1873 CE
#1515.1
Studien über den Flüssigkeitswechsel im Auge.
Leber discovered how the ciliary body excretes intraocular fluid.
1873 CE
#7483
The depths of the sea. An account of the general results of the dredging cruises of H. M. SS. 'Porcupine' and 'Lightning during the summers of 1868, 1869, and 1870, under the scientific direction of Dr. Carpenter, F.R.S., J. Gwyn Jeffreys, F.R.S., and Dr. Wyville Thomson, F.R.S.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1873 CE
#10482
The effects of high atmospheric pressure, including the caisson disease.
Classic study of caisson disease. Smith was "Late Surgeon to the New York Bridge Co. (Caisson Work)", treating workmen who built the Brooklyn Bridge. The Eads Bridge (St. Louis) and the Brooklyn Bridge (New York City)…
1873 CE
#10796
The medical department of the United States army from 1775 to 1873. Compiled under the direction of the Surgeon General by Harvey E. Brown.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1873 CE
#5029
Typhoid fever; its nature, mode of spreading, and prevention.
Budd insisted that typhoid fever was spread by contagion and established the fact that infection with typhoid came from the dejecta of the patients; he strengthened the theory of water-born infection. See also his ear…
1873 CE
#3382
Ueber die künstliche Eröffnung des Warzenfortsatzes.
These workers helped to revive the mastoid operation (which had fallen into disuse), placing it on a modern basis. They described the method of opening the ear by chiselling, “Schwartze’s operation”.
1873 CE
#5611
Ueber künstliche Blutleere bei Operationen.
Esmarch bandage for surgical hemostasis. English translation New Sydenham Society, 1876.
1873 CE
#2776
Ueber schwielige Mediastino-Pericarditis und den paradoxen Puls.
Kussmaul introduced the concept of the “paradoxical pulse.”
1873 CE
#2225
Untersuchungen über den fieberhaften Process und seine Behandlung.
Senator was a director of the Charité Hospital in Berlin and later at the university polyclinic. His study of fever represents his best work.
1873 CE
#5314
Vorkommen feinster, eine Eigenbewegung zeigender Fäden im Blute von Recurrenskranken.
Discovery (in 1868) of Borrelia recurrentis, causative agent in relapsing fever.
1873 CE
#5907
Zur sogenannten Commotio retinae.
Berlin, professor of ophthalmology at Rostock, described the traumatic edema of the retina which is sometimes referred to as “Berlin’s edema”.
1873 CE–1874 CE
#4976
Grundzüge der physiologischen Psychologie. 2 pts.
Wundt made experimental investigations of normal individual reactions, reflex responses, and general behavior, and interpreted them in terms of neural mechanisms. He was the founder of experimental psychology, and his…
1873 CE–1874 CE
#5908
Kératoscopie.
Introduction of the shadow test (retinoscopy), sometimes called “Cuignet’s method”.
1873 CE–1874 CE
#3823
On a cretinoid state supervening in adult life in women.
Gull was among the first to point out the cause of myxedema, of which the above paper gives a classic description. Gull was associated with Guy’s Hospital, London, for most of his life.
1873 CE–1874 CE
#4832
Zur Lehre von der Tetanie nebst Bemerkungen über die Prufung der electrischen Erregbarkeit motorischer Nerven.
“Erb’s sign”.
1873 CE–1875 CE
#5910
Atlas der pathologischen Anatomie des Augapfels. Atlas of the pathological anatomy of the eyeball
Text in German and English; Sir W. R. Gowers was responsible for the English translation. Digital facsimile from the Bayerische StaatsBibliothek at this link.
1873 CE–1877 CE
#4548
Ueber eine eigenthümliche Localisation von Lähmungen im Plexus brachialis.
“Erb’s palsy”, first described by Smellie in 1763 and later by Duchenne (No. 4543).
1873 CE–1881 CE
#173
Descriptive sociology: A cyclopaedia of facts; representing the constitution of every type and grade of human society, past and present, stationary and progressive; classified and tabulated for easy comparison and convenient study of the relations of social phenomena. 8 pts.
Spencer founded and edited this series.
1873 CE–1892 CE
#7473
La scienza e la pratica della anatomia patologica.
Divided into six parts, as follows: Book I: Delle alterazioni di prima formazione (on teratology) Book II: Delle ipertrofie Book III: Delle atrofie Book IV: Dell’infiammazione e della mortificazione Book V: Dei …
1874 CE
#9643
Shadows from the walls of death: Facts and inferences prefacing a book of specimens of arsenical wall papers.
To drive home the dangers of arsenic in wallpaper Kedzie took the step of publishing one of the most unusual books ever issued: Shadows from the Walls of Death: Facts and Inferences Prefacing a Book of Specimens of Ar…
1874 CE
#7479
Statistical atlas of the United States based on the results of the ninth census 1870, with contributions from many eminent men of science and several departments of the government.
This oversized compendium of maps, graphs, statistical tables, and essays was the first comprehensive thematic atlas produced by any nation. It was hailed both at home and abroad for its innovative use of graphic elem…
1874 CE
#3466
A successful case of abdominal section for intussusception.
In 1871 Hutchinson was the first successfully to operate on a case of intussusception in a two year-old infant. Preliminary account in Med. chir. Trans., 1876, 41 (2nd ser.), 99-102.
1874 CE
#1972
A treatise on therapeutics.
Wood was a professor of botany (1866-76), therapeutics (1875-1907) and nervous diseases (1875-1901) in the University of Pennsylvania. In his book the effects of various drugs in small doses was first discussed; it al…
1874 CE
#875
An account of certain organisms occurring in the liquor sanguinis.
One of the best early descriptions of the blood platelets was given by Osler. He noticed that white thrombi were almost entirely composed of them.
1874 CE
#1407
Anatomischer Nachweis zweier Gehirncentra.
Discovery of the giant pyramidal cells of the motor cortex.
1874 CE
#4845
Anorexia nervosa (apepsia hysterica, anorexia hysterica).
Classic description of anorexia nervosa.
1874 CE
#493
Anthropogenie oder Entwicklungsgeschichte des Menschen.
1874 CE
#3384
Atlas of the membrana tympani.
1874 CE
#2018
Auflösung der rothen Blutzellen.
Landois discovered the hemolyzing effect of blood serum of one species when transfused into another.
1874 CE
#823
Beiträge zur Theorie der Herz-und Arterientöne.
1874 CE
#6760.1
Bibliographie des sciences médicales.
Cites books and articles. Author index. Begun by Daremberg and completed by Pauly.
1874 CE
#7498
Catalogue of the preparations of comparative anatomy in the Museum of Guy's Hospital.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1874 CE
#2174
Chirurgische Beobachtungen aus dem Kriege.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1874 CE
#3623
Contribution à l’étude de l’hépatite interstitielle chronique avec hypertrophie (sclérose ou cirrhose hypertrophique du foie).
Classic description of chronic interstitial hepatitis.
1874 CE
#6585
Contributions to the annals of medical progress and medical education in the United States before and during the War of Independence.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1874 CE
#5672
De l’anesthésie produite chez l’homme par les injections de chloral dans des veines.
First successful human intravenous anesthesia. Oré, professor of physiology at Bordeaux, reported the successful use of this method in animals in Bull. Soc. Chir. Paris, 1872, 3 sér., 1, 400-12. See also…
1874 CE
#5235
De la fièvre bilieuse mélanurique des pays chauds comparée avec la fièvre jaune.
An important description of blackwater fever. Berenger-Féraud had experience with the disease in French West Africa.
1874 CE
#4623
Der aphasische Symptomencomplex.
Sensory aphasia (“Wernicke’s aphasia”). Wernicke did important work on the localization of aphasia; he included in his book accounts of alexia and agraphia. English translation in Boston Studies in t…
1874 CE
#4742
Des amyotrophies spinales chroniques.
Charcot differentiated between the ordinary (Aran–Duchenne) type of muscular atrophy and the rarer amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, (ALS), at one time called “Charcot’s disease,” but more frequen…