1870–1879

1874 CE

#4261

Di un nuovo cauterizzatore ed incisore termo-galvanico contro le iscurie da ipertrofia prostatica.

Bottini’s galvano-cautery for relief of prostatic obstruction.

1874 CE

#120

Die Gastraea-Theorie, die phylogenetische Classification des Thierreichs und die Homologie der Keimblätter.

Haeckel’s gastraea theory, which considers the two-layered gastrula the ancestral form of multicellular animals.

1874 CE

#4938

Die Katatonie oder das Spannungsirresein, Eine klinische Form psychischer Krankheit.

In 1869 Kahlbaum suggested catatonia as a separate disease entity and in 1874 his classic monograph appeared. English translation, Baltimore, 1973. Digital facsimile of the 1874 edition from wellcomecollection.org at …

1874 CE

#11093

Die Spermatozoen einiger Wirbelthiere. Ein Beitrag zur Histochemie.

Miescher first isolated DNA and identified it as an acid through chemical analysis of salmon spermatozoa. See Ralf Dahm, "Discovering DNA: Friedrich Miescher and the early years of nucleic acid research," Human Geneti…

1874 CE

#3824

Excision of the thyroid gland.

Watson was a pioneer of thyroidectomy in the treatment of goitre, although Green (No. 3814) was the first to perform the operation. Also in Brit. med. J., 1875, 2, 386-88.

1874 CE

#11789

Field ornithology. Comprising a manual of instruction for procuring, preparing and preserving birds and a check list of North American birds.

This work incorporated Coues' A check list of North American birds (1873). Coues had the check list portion of this work printed with the versos blank so that users could enter in their own information. Digital facsim…

1874 CE

#4551

Headaches, from heat-stroke, from fevers, after meningitis, from overuse of brain, from eyestrain.

Mitchell drew attention to the importance of eyestrain as a cause of headache.

1874 CE

#2436

Indberetning til det Norske mediciniske Selskab i Christiania om en med understottelse af selskabet foretaghen reise for at anstille undersogelser angaende spedalskhedens arsager, tidels udforte sammen med forstander Hartwig.

Hansen discovered the leprosy bacillus on 28 February 1873. He had been stimulated by the previous work of Danielssen and Boeck, and his own demonstration of the leprosy bacillus is one of the earliest observations of…

1874 CE

#1406.1

Investigations into the functions of the human brain.

Bartholow confirmed in man the findings of Fritsch and Hitzig (No. 1405) that electrical stimulus of the cortex on one side stimulated muscles on the other side of the body.

1874 CE

#10127

La matière médicale chez les chinois.

Digital facsimile from BnFGallica at this link.

1874 CE

#9592

La médecine en France, hommes et doctrines depuis l'antiquité jusqu'à nos jours; avec introduction, notes et supplément par A[uguste] Le Pileur. Ouvrage publié sur la dernière édition de l'Histoire des français des divers états, couronnée deux fois par l'Académie française.

One of the pioneer histories of medicine in France. "He [Monteil] boasted of having been the first to write really 'national' history, and he wished further to show this in a memoir entitled L'Influence de l'histoire …

1874 CE

#6616

Le Parnasse médicale français, ou dictionnaire des médecins-poètes de la France, anciens ou modernes, morts ou vivants.

Dictionary of French medical poets. Digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this link.

1874 CE

#5911

Om den medfödda, färgblindhetens diagnostic och teori.

Holmgren introduced the wool-skein test for the diagnosis of color-blindness.

1874 CE

#5772

On disease of the mammary areola preceding cancer of the mammary gland.

First description of “Paget’s disease of the nipple” –eczema of the nipple with cancer. The paper is reprinted in Med. Classics, 1936, 1, 75-78. Paget was Sergeant Surgeon to Queen Victoria, an…

1874 CE

#4066

On mycetoma, or the fungus disease of India.

See No. 4047.

1874 CE

#11087

On the action of organic acids and their anydrides on the natural alkaloïds. Part I.

In quest of a non-addictive alternative to morphine, Wright experimented with combining morphine with various acids. He boiled anhydrous morphine alkaloid with acetic anhydride over a stove for several hours and produ…

1874 CE

#2032

Pharmacographia. A history of the principal drugs of vegetable origin met with in Great Britain and British India.

Digital facsimile from the Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.

1874 CE

#4552

Post-paralytic chorea.

First description.

1874 CE

#3283

Rareficirender, trockner Katarrh der Nasenrachenhöhle und des Rachens (Atrophie). In: H. von Ziemssen’s Handbuch der speciellen Pathologie, 7, 1, 313-16.

First description of “Tornwaldt’s bursitis”, an inflammatory condition of the pharyngeal tonsil, so named from the latter’s description of it in 1885 (see No. 3295).

1874 CE

#11129

Répertoire bibliographique des médecins et des pharmaciens de la marine française 1698-1873.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1874 CE

#7705

Sur les crânes artificiellement perforés à l'époque des dolmens.

Prunières separated postmortem trepanations and rondelles from antemortem operations, and also described tuberculous lesions in Neolithic bones.

1874 CE

#2906.1

The etiology of Bright’s disease and the prealbuminuric stage.

Mahomed proved that cases of “arteriocapillary fibrosis” were hypertensive, and showed that they may occur without renal involvement.

1874 CE

#12705

The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa. From eighteen hundred and sixty-five to his death. Continued by a narrative of his last Moments and sufferings, obtained from his faithful servants, Chuma and Susi, by Horace Waller, F.R.G.S.

"Livingstone’s most famous expedition was in 1866–73, when he traversed much of central Africa in an attempt to find the source of the Nile. This book contains the daily journals that Livingstone kept on t…

1874 CE

#10260

The marine mammals of the north-western coast of North America described and illustrated together with an account of the American whale-fishery.

Digital facsimile from the Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.

1874 CE

#7443

The naturalist in Nicaragua: A narrative of a residence at the gold mines of Chontales; journeys in the savannahs and forests, with observations on animals and plants in reference to the theory of evolution of living forms.

In this book Belt first described "the mutualistic relationship of certain Acacias and the ant we now know as Pseudomyrmex spinicola. These are a species of red myrmecophyte-inhabiting neotropical ants which are found…

1874 CE

#7848

The nature of gunshot wounds of the abdomen, and their treatment: Based on a review of the case of the late James Fisk, Jr., in its medico-legal aspects.

Peugnet argued that over-medication, and not the pistol shot, caused Fisk's death. Peugnet, a surgeon who had served in the American Civil War, died at the early age of 43, having been struck by a locomotive while abs…

1874 CE

#3385

The questions of aural surgery.

Hinton was one of the most eminent aural surgeons in England during the latter half of the 19th century, and the first Aural Surgeon to Guy’s Hospital. In 1868 he performed the first operation for mastoiditis in…

1874 CE

#3282

Ueber die erste durch Th. Billroth am Menschen ausgeführte Kehlkopf-Exstirpation und die Anwendung eines künstlichen Kehlkopfes.

The first complete excision of the larynx for cancer, performed by Billroth on 31 December 1873 and reported by Gussenbauer. The patient left the hospital in good state on 3 March 1874. Also published in Arch. klin. C…

1874 CE

#5753

Ueber die feineren anatomischen Veränderungen bei Aufheilung von Haut auf Granulationen.

Thiersch’s first paper on transplantation of skin. Simultaneous publication in Arch. klin. Chir., 1874, 17, 318-24. English translation in No. 5768.2.

1874 CE

#14350

Ueber die Function der Bogengänge des Ohrlabyrinthes.

“[Breuer’s] basic premise was that the semicircular canals sense angular movement of the head by movement of the fluid (endolymph) within them. The endolymph moves relative to the walls of the canals becau…

1874 CE

#1365

Ueber die Functionen des Lendenmarks des Hundes.

1874 CE

#494

Unsere Körperform und das physiologische Problem ihrer Entstehung.

In this work His compared the various layers and organs of the embryo to a series of elastic tubes and plates. He thought that the local inequalities of growth and the differences in the consistency of the tissues mig…

1874 CE

#1408

Untersuchungen über das Gehirn.

Hitzig accurately defined the limits of the motor area in the cerebral cortex of the dog and the monkey.

1874 CE

#12064

Untersuchungen über die Vegetationsformen von Coccobacteria septica und den Antheil, Welchen sie an der Enstehung und Verbreitung der accidentellen Wundkrankheiten Haben. Versuch einer wissenschaftlichen Kritik der verscheidenen Methoden antiseptischer Wundbehandlung.

Billroth provided the first account of streptocci wound infection, calling the bacteria Coccobacteria septica. When Billroth introduced antisepic techniques in his surgical practice the number of surgical patients wit…

1874 CE

#1235

Versuche über den Vorgang der Harnabsonderung.

Heidenhain’s “secretion” theory of renal function.

1874 CE

#3383

Vertiges ab aure laesa (maladie de Menière).

Charcot completed the description of the syndrome first described by Menière.

1874 CE

#3939

Zur Lehre vom diabetes mellitus.

Kussmaul explained diabetic coma as being due to acetonemia. He described the air-hunger (“Kussmaul’s respiration”) present in this condition. Partial English translation in No. 2241.

1874 CE–1875 CE

#1110

Anatomie, physiologie, pathologie des vaisseaux lymphatiques.

Notable for its illustrations.

1874 CE–1875 CE

#5426

Anatomische Beiträge zur Lehre von den Pocken. 2 pts.

In the course of his important studies on smallpox, Weigert carried out the first successful staining of bacteria (see No. 2482). His fine description of the destructive effects of the smallpox virus on the skin led t…

1874 CE–1875 CE

#4550

Klinik der Rückenmarks-Krankheiten.

One of Leyden’s best works. He was Professor of Medicine at Berlin, Königsberg, and Strassburg. In vol. 2, p. 65, of the above is given an account of “Leyden’s paralysis”, a form of hemipl…

1874 CE–1877 CE

#1012

Ueber das Trypsin.

Isolation of trypsin.

1874 CE–1878 CE

#11619

Atlas der pathologischen Topographie des Auges. 3 vols.

1874 CE–1879 CE

#6854

The encyclopedia of pure materia medica. A record of the positive of effects of drugs upon the healthy human organism. 10 vols.

With contributions by Richard Hughes of England; Constantine Hering of Philadelphia; Carroll Dunham of New York; Adolph Lippe of Philadelphia and others. This massive work is almost a complete record of all provings a…

1874 CE–1879 CE

#1516

Ueber die Kreuzung der Fasern im Chiasma nervorum opticorum.

Important studies on the partial decussation of optic paths.

1875 CE

#5754

A new method of performing plastic operations.

Wolfe insisted that in free skin grafts the subcutaneous tissue at the site of the graft must be removed, and that the graft should consist of skin only. His name is perpetuated in the “Wolfe-Krause graft rest&r…

1875 CE

#4641

Affection encéphalique (encéphalite diffuse probable) localisée aux étages supérieurs des pédoncules cérébraux et aux couches optiques.

First description of acute superior hemorrhagic polioencephalitis. Called also “Wernicke’s encephalopathy”, following the latter’s description in his Lehrbuch der Gehirnkrankheiten, Kassel, 188…

1875 CE

#2126

Beiträge zur Chirurgie, anschliessend an einen Bericht über die Thätigkeit der chirurgischen Universitäts-Klinik zu Halle im Jahre 1873.

Contains (pp. 370-81) first description of industrial tar and paraffin cancer.

1875 CE

#4817

Case of hemikinesis.

1875 CE

#7064

De l'obésité: étiologie, thérapeutique et hygiène. Thèse présentée et soutenue le 12 Aout 1875.

Primarily a summary of research on the subject to date. Worthington was an American from Cincinnati who received his M.D. in Paris in 1876, and practiced there until 1879, when he returned to the U.S.A. A geneological…

1875 CE

#5612

De la forcipressure.

Introduction of forcipressure in the control of hemorrhage. Republished in book form, 1875.