1870–1879

1875 CE

#3940

De la glycosurie ou diabète sucré; son traitement hygiénique.

Bouchardat used the fermentation test, polariscope and copper solutions for the detection of diabetes; he substituted fresh fats for carbohydrates, advised the avoidance of milk and alcohol, invented gluten bread and …

1875 CE

#339

Der Ursprung der Wirbelthiere und das Princip des Functionswechsels.

Dohrn’s theory of change of function as the origin of evolutionary novelties.

1875 CE

#780

Die beiderseitige mechanische Reizung des Nv. vagus beim Menschen.

1875 CE

#2778

Die Defecte der Scheidewände des Herzens.

Rokitansky’s memoir on defects of the septum of the heart was his last work, and possibly his greatest. It represented 14 years’ study of the subject.

1875 CE

#4340

Diseases of the hip, knee and ankle joints, with their deformities, treated by a new and efficient method.

Thomas splint. Enlarged second edition, 1876. See No. 4348.

1875 CE

#1702

Essays and papers on some fallacies of statistics concerning life and death, health and disease.

1875 CE

#10829

Experimentation on animals, as a means of knowledge in physiology, pathology, and practical medicine.

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1875 CE

#4174

Exstirpation eines Harnblasenmyoms nach vorausgehendem tiefen und hohen Blasenschnitt. Heilung.

First abdominal resection of a tumor of the bladder. The operation was performed by Billroth.

1875 CE

#3467

Gastrostomy for stricture (cancerous?) of oesophagus; death from bronchitis forty days after operation.

Successful human gastrostomy by the older (Sédillot’s) method. Reported by S. Osborne.

1875 CE

#2226

Handbuch der Pathologie und Therapie des Fiebers.

1875 CE

#1646

Histoire de l’habitation humaine depuis les temps préhistoriques jusqu'à nos jours.

Viollet-Le-Duc traced the history of domestic architecture among the different "races" of mankind. Translated into English by Benjamin Bucknall as Habitations of man in all ages (1876). Digital facsimile of the French…

1875 CE

#10652

Hospital plans. Five essays relating to the construction, organization & management of hospitals, contributed by their authors for the use of the Johns Hopkins Hospital of Baltimore.

Essays influential on the planning and eventual operation of Johns Hopkins Hospital, which was innovative in its design and influential on the design of hospitals that followed. See Brieger, Gert, "The original plans …

1875 CE

#943.1

Influence de la pression de l’air sur la vie de l’homme. Climats d'altitude et climats du montagne. 2 vols.

Jourdanet’s observational work in remote areas of Latin America and Asia produced important evidence for Bert’s proof that altitude sickness is due to anoxemia. In La pression barométrique (No. 944)…

1875 CE

#496

Le maturation de l’oeuf, la fécondation et les premières phases du développement embryonnaire des mammifères.

First detailed description of the segmentation of the mammalian ovum.

1875 CE

#5673

Leçons sur les anesthésiques et sur l’asphyxie.

As early as 1864 Bernard discovered that chloroform anesthesia could be prolonged and intensified by the injection of morphine. J. N. von Nussbaum also observed this. English translation by B. Fink, Park Ridge, 1989.

1875 CE

#1748

Lehrbuch der gerichtlichen Psychopathologie.

1875 CE

#5184

Massenhafte Entwickelung von Amöben im Dickdarm.

Lösch discovered Entamoeba histolytica as the infective agent in amoebic dysentery. Before this time distinction between the different forms of dysentery had been made on purely clinical grounds. English translat…

1875 CE

#11758

Medical hints to the people of India. Eminent medical men of Asia, Africa, Europe and America, who had advanced medical science; Compiled for the use of students and for the Vydians and Hakims of India.

A compilation of biographical sketches of selected figures in medical history written by Balfour as Surgeon-General, Madras Medical Department, "for the hindu Vydian, for the muhammadan Hakim, and for the students of …

1875 CE

#7631

Neuer Führer durch das anatomische, pathologische und ethnologische Museum.

1875 CE

#4553

On rest in the treatment of nervous disease.

First account of the “Weir Mitchell treatment”.

1875 CE

#12235

On the interpretation of cardiographic tracings, and the evidence which they afford as to the causation of the murmurs attendant upon mitral stenosis.

"The first case of heart block in a human documented graphically was reported in 1875 by British physician Alfred Galabin. He published an apical pulse tracing from a 34-year-old man with a two-year history of lighthe…

1875 CE

#5344.10

On the presence of a Filaria in “craw-craw”.

In 1874, while examining skin snips from craw-craw patients in Ghana, during his service on the H. M. S. Decoy, the Irish surgeon O’Neill discovered the subcutaneous microfilaria. This was the earliest known vis…

1875 CE

#2

Papyros Ebers: Das hermetische Buch über die Arzeneimittel der alten Ägypter in hieratischer Schrift, herausgegeben mit Inhaltsangabe und Einleitung versehen von Georg Ebers, mit Hieroglyphisch-Lateinischem Glossar von Ludwig [Christian] Stern, mit Unterstützung des Königlich Sächsischen Cultusministerium. 2 vols.

The Ebers Papyrus dates from about 1552 BCE. It measures 20.23 m. in length and 30 cm. in height, and is, along with the Edwin Smith Papyrus, one of the two most important surviving medical papyri. It was written in h…

1875 CE

#8443

Plinii Secundi quae fertur una cum Gargilli Martialis medicina: Nunc primum edita a Valentino Rose.

Fragments of Martialis's work (probably called De hortis), which treated of the cultivation of trees and vegetables, and also of their medicinal properties, survived, chiefly in the body of and as an appendix to the M…

1875 CE

#3125

Progressive pernicious anaemia, or anaematosis.

Pepper described bone-marrow changes of pernicious anemia, though his actual description more closely resembles leukaemia.

1875 CE

#9492

Reliquiae Aquitanicae; being contributions to the archaeology and palaeontology of Périgord and the adjoining provinces of southern France. Edited by Thomas Rupert Jones.

This beautiful and bibliographically complicated work was issued in 17 parts from 1865 to 1875. It includes 82 tinted lithographic plates, and is the first visually spectacular large extensively illustrated publicatio…

1875 CE

#5344.9

Remarks on the anatomy and pathological relations of a new species of liver fluke.

First complete description of Chlonorchis sinensis.

1875 CE

#4499.1

Rhumatisme articulaire subaigu avec production de tumeurs multiples dans les tissus fibreux périarticulaires et sur le périoste d’un grand nombre d’os.

Meynet was the first to draw special attention to the subcutaneous fibroid nodules in rheumatism.

1875 CE

#6643.9

Science and health.

Includes an exposition of the system of faith healing that holds a significant place in Christian Science.

1875 CE

#11307

Something about California: Being a description of its climate, health, wealth and resources, compressed into small compass: Marin County: Its industries, roads, appearance, health and population, also, a series of carefully written and well considered articles and paragraphs describing the sanatarium of San Rafael in which the mildness and equability of its climate are explained.

This 32-page pamphlet was probably the first separate publication concerning health matters in Marin County, California, my county of residence during the years in which I wrote this online bibliography-- J.M.N. Digit…

1875 CE

#7818

Statistics, medical and anthropological, of the Provost-Marshal-General's Bureau, derived from records of the examination for military service in the armies of the United States during the late War of the Rebellion, of over a million recruits.... 2 vols.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1875 CE

#1703

Supplement to the thirty-fifth annual report of the Registrar-General of Births and Marriages in England.

Includes statistical calculations of the effect on life expectation if certain preventable diseases were eliminated.

1875 CE

#1408.1

The electric currents of the brain.

Caton succeeded in leading off action potentials from the brains of animals, a first step towards the development of the electroencephalograph. See also Brit. med. J., 1877, 1, Suppl. 62-75.

1875 CE

#10451

The geographical distribution of heart disease and dropsy, cancer in females & phthisis in females, in England and Wales. Illustrated by six small and three large coloured maps.

Haviland used the national mortality statistics for England and Wales to develop an elaborate geographical explanation based on map analysis for the cause of heart, cancer, and tuberculosis deaths. He found that femal…

1875 CE

#2175

Traité des maladies et épidémies des armées.

1875 CE

#4665.1

Ueber acute Spinällahmung (Poliomyelitis anterior acuta) bei Erwachsenen und über verwandte spinale Erkrankungen.

Erb was first to use the term “acute anterior poliomyelitis”.

1875 CE

#3067

Ueber das Vorkommen von Bilirubinkrystallen bei neugebornen Kindern.

Kernicterus first described.

1875 CE

#1869.2

Ueber die Anwendung der Salicy Isäure als Antipyreticum.

Buss introduced the clinical use of salicylic acid as an antipyretic.

1875 CE

#3941

Ueber die Erkrankungen des Auges bei Diabetes mellitus.

A record of Leber’s important studies on the disorders of the eye in diabetes.

1875 CE

#629

Ueber die summation elektrischer Hautreize.

Stirling, a pupil of Ludwig, became a great teacher of physiology. His paper on the summation of electrical stimuli to the skin was a prize thesis.

1875 CE

#5912

Ueber die Verletzungen des Auges mit besonderer Rücksicht auf deren gerichtsärztliche Würdigung.

English translation by Charles S. Turnbull as Injuries of the eye and their medico-legal aspect. (Philadelpha. 1878). Digital facsimile of the 1875 edition from the Internet Archive at this link; of the 1878 edition f…

1875 CE

#4068

Ueber eine noch wenig gekannte Hautkrankeit (Dermatitis circumscripta herpetiformis).

First description of porokeratosis (Mibelli).

1875 CE

#4556

Ueber einen wenig bekannten spinalen Symptomencomplex.

“Erb–Charcot disease” (spastic spinal paralysis).

1875 CE

#4781

Ueber einige durch mechanische Einwirkung auf Sehnen und Muskeln hervorgebrachte Bewegungs-Erscheinungen.

Westphal discovered the diagnostic value of the knee-jerk simultaneously with Erb.

1875 CE

#3284

Ueber respiratorische Paralysen.

Riegel distinguished between respiratory and phonatory paralysis of the larynx.

1875 CE

#4780

Ueber Sehnenreflexe bei Gesunden und bei Rückenmarkskranken.

Knee-jerk first used as diagnostic measure in tabes dorsalis.

1875 CE

#1869.1

Untersuchungen über die pharmakologisch wirksamen Bestandtheile der Digitalis purpurea

Schmiedeberg isolated digitoxin from digitalis.

1875 CE–1876 CE

#4743

Klinik der Rückenmarks-Krankheiten. Bd. 2, pt.2.

First description of myotonia congenita occurs on p. 550.

1875 CE–1876 CE

#4069

On a rare case of idiopathic localized or partial atrophy of the skin.

First description of the condition called by Herxheimer and Hartmann in 1902 “acrodermatitis chronica atrophicans”, and known eponymically as “Taylor’s disease”.

1875 CE–1876 CE

#1408.2

Studien in der Anatomie des Nervensystems und des Bindegewebes. Erste Hälfte und zweite Hälfte, erste und zweite Abtheilung. 2 vols.

One of the most strikingly beautiful neuroanatomies ever published, with exquisite reproductions of the color dye injection experiments. The authors confirmed the existence of the foramina of Magendie and Luschka, and…