1870–1879

1875 CE–1876 CE

#877

Undersökningar af de s.k. fibringeneratorema fibrinet samt fibrinogenets koagulation.

Investigating the mechanism of blood coagulation, Hammarsten showed it to be accomplished by the splitting up of fibrinogen into fibrin and other substances.

1875 CE–1888 CE

#4067

Illustrations of clinical surgery. 2 vols.

Vol. 1 pp. 49-52: Hutchinson’s classic description of cheiropompholyx, dysidrosis (“Hutchinson’s disease”). The first description and illustration of sarcoidosis is on p. 42.

1876 CE

#2707

A case of haemophilia complicated with multiple naevi.

First description of multiple hereditary telangiectasis (“Rendu–Osler–Weber disease”).

1876 CE

#12004

A catalogue of plants cultivated in the garden of John Gerard, in the years 1596-1599. Edited with notes, references to Gerard's Herball, the addition of modern names, and a life of the author by Benjamin Daydon Jackson.

Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.

1876 CE

#6586

A century of American medicine 1776-1876

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1876 CE

#5795

A century of American surgery.

The first serious history of American surgery to 1876. Also published in No. 6586.

1876 CE

#5111.3

A history of Asiatic cholera.

1876 CE

#12891

A history of dental and oral science in America. Prepared under the direction of the American Academy of Dental Science.

The first history of dentistry in America written by James E. Dexter for the American Academy of Dental Science. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1876 CE

#4341

A peculiar and painful affection of the fourth metatarso-phalangeal articulation.

First complete description of anterior metatarsalgia (“Morton’s disease”). See also No. 4325.

1876 CE

#4833

Beitrag zur Tetanie.

“Chvostek’s sign”, a reliable diagnostic sign in latent tetany in small children.

1876 CE

#495

Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Bildung, Befruchtung und Theilung des thierischen Eies.

Demonstration that the spermatozoon enters the ovum and that fertilization occurs by the union of the nuclei of the male and female sex cells. Hertwig also established that the transfer of hereditary material is part …

1876 CE

#14097

Beobachtungen über die Befruchtung und Entwicklung des Kaninchens and Meerschweinchens.

Hensen's node. "Hensen’s research focused on the embryonic development of guinea pigs and rabbits. While studying those organisms he noticed something previously undiscovered—an enlarged area above the pri…

1876 CE

#10494

Catalogue of dental materials, furniture, instruments, etc.

White, who characterized himself as "Manufacturer, importer, and wholesale dealer in all articles appertaining to dentistry," was the leading U.S. manufacturer of dental supplies during the 19th century. His 1876 cata…

1876 CE

#5636

Chirurgie antiseptique.

Lucas-Championnière, eminent French surgeon, was one of the first to adopt the principles of Listerism. He wrote the first authoritative work on antiseptic surgery and introduced antisepsis into France. First e…

1876 CE

#5794

Chirurgie vor 100 Jahren; historische Studie.

Reprinted Berlin, Springer, 1978.

1876 CE

#10681

Cholera epidemics in East Africa. An account of the several diffusions of the disease in the country from 1821 till 1872, with an outline of the geography, ethnology, and trade connections of the regions through which the epidemics passed.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1876 CE

#2779

Clinical lectures on diseases of the heart and aorta.

Includes “Balfour’s test” to ascertain whether the heart is still active, in cases of apparent death.

1876 CE

#12220

Contribution a l’étude du phénomène respiratoire de Cheyne-Stokes.

Biot's respiration, "an abnormal pattern of breathing characterized by groups of quick, shallow inspirations followed by regular or irregular periods of apnea"

1876 CE

#497

Contributions à l’histoire de la vésicule germinative et du premier noyau embryonnaire.

Independently of Flemming, van Beneden discovered the centrosome.

1876 CE

#5754.1

Contributions to reparative surgery; showing its application to the treatment of deformities produced by destructive disease or injury; congenital defects from arrest or excess of development; and cicatrical contractions from burns.

First American work exclusively on reconstructive surgery.

1876 CE

#6240

Della amputazione utero-ovarica come complemento di taglio cesareo.

Caesarean section with excision of the uterus and adnexa (“Porro’s operation”).

1876 CE

#5914

Der Frühjahrskatarrh. In: GRAEFE and SAEMISCH, Handbuch der gesammten Augenheilkunde

First description of vernal conjunctivitis.

1876 CE

#5167

Die Aetiologie der Milzbrand-Krankheit, begründet auf die Entwicklungsgeschichte des Bacillus anthracis.

In 1876 Koch first obtained pure cultures of B. anthracis and described its complete life history. With Davaine (Nos. 5165-66) he did much to prove that infectious diseases are caused by living reproductive microorgan…

1876 CE

#6469

Die ersten Anfänge der Heilkunde und die Medizin im alten Aegypten. Eine kulturgeschichteliche Skizze.

Sammlung gemeinverständlicher wissenscbaftlicher Vorträge, No. 255.

1876 CE

#1410

Die Leitungsbahnen im Gehirn und Rückenmark des Menschen auf Grund entwicklungsgeschichtlicher Untersuchungen dargestellt.

Flechsig mapped out the motor and sensory areas of the cerebral cortex, and named the “pyramidal tract”. See Clarke & O'Malley, The human brain and spinal cord, p. 857, and pp. 277-81. Digital facsimile fr…

1876 CE

#3467.1

Die partielle Magenresektion; eine experimentelle operative Studie.

A practical method for excision of the pylorus, as demonstrated in dogs, was published by these two assistants of Billroth.

1876 CE

#696

Die quantitative Spectralanalyse in ihrer Anwendung auf Physiologie, Physik, Chemie und Technologie.

Vierordt’s spectral analyses of hemoglobin, bile and urine were of great value. He studied the variations in the spectrum of oxyhemoglobin produced by different dilutions of this substance and was thus able to e…

1876 CE

#2304

Die Sections-Technik im Leichenhause des Charité-Krankenhauses.

On the technique of dissection. English translation, London, 1876.

1876 CE

#9527

Diseases of modern life.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1876 CE

#11161

Du cancer chez les enfants.

Duzan's thesis was the first treatise exclusively on cancer in childhood. He was able to collect 182 cases. All 182 cases were of pediatric sarcoma: 70 of the eye, 45 of the kidney, 11 of the testicle, 8 of the prosta…

1876 CE

#2777

Du rhythme cardiaque appelé bruit de galop, de son mécanisme et de sa valeur séméiologique.

Analysis of “gallop rhythm.” Partial English translation in No. 2241 and No. 3160.1.

1876 CE

#3125.1

Erkrankung des Knochenmarkes bei perniciöser Anämie.

Cohnheim gave a more convincing account than Pepper of the bone-marrow changes in pernicious anemia.

1876 CE

#6357.55

Et Tilfaelde af Subakut Tarminvagination.

Discouraged by the high mortality of intussusception, Hirschsprung instituted a plan of controlled hydrostatic pressure reduction. By 1905 he was able to present a 35 per cent mortality based on 107 personal cases in …

1876 CE

#3624

Étude sur une forme de cirrhose hypertrophique du foie (cirrhose hypertrophique avec ictère chronique).

“Hanot’s disease”. First description of hypertrophic cirrhosis of the liver with icterus. Thesis publication, 1875; published in book form, Paris, 1876. Digital facsimile of the book form edition fro…

1876 CE

#7215

Études historiques, physiologiques et cliniques sur la transfusion du sang.

An excellent and well-documented treatise on blood transfusion, including a comprehensive history of the subject from its beginnings in the seventeenth century to its revival in the nineteenth after a long period of d…

1876 CE

#2485

Études sur la bière, ses maladies, causes qui les provoquent, procédé pour la rendre inaltérable; avec une théorie nouvelle de la fermentation.

Pasteur resumed his studies on fermentation in 1876, and in this book took into account the developments in this field since his previous publications on the subject. He described a new and perfected method of prepari…

1876 CE

#14060

Explorations of the aboriginal remains of Tennessee.

The first major discussion of human skeletal pathology in American archeological samples. Jones introduced histopathological techniques in analysis of paleopathological material. Digital facsimile from Google Books at…

1876 CE

#6191

Extra-uterine pregnancy.

Lawson Tait regarded this as the first authoritative work on the subject. Parry showed the necessity for operation in such cases and it was this book, more than anything else, which determined Tait (No. 6196) to do so.

1876 CE

#12089

Female health and hygiene on the Pacific Coast.

This was probably the first book on female health and hygiene published in California and intended for the residents of the state. The book was written for women rather than for medical professionals. Little is known …

1876 CE

#12995

Gerichtlich-medicinische Untersuchungen über das Skopzenthum in Russland nebst historischen Notizen.

Pelikan, professor of forensic medicine in St. Petersburg, published this German version of his treatise on the fanatical Russian Christian sect Skoptsy, known for its practice of castration, clitoridectomies, and mas…

1876 CE

#5993

Geschichte des grauen Staares.

An early history of cataract.

1876 CE

#6389

Grundriss der Geschichte der Medicin und des heilenden Standes.

Until superseded by Garrison, Baas’s book was the most important one-volume text on the history of medicine. For an expert evaluation of it, see Garrison’s History, 4th ed., p. 884. An English translation,…

1876 CE

#6360

Haemorrhagic periostitis of the shafts of several of the long bones, with separation of the epiphyses.

Craniohypophyseal xanthomatosis was first reported by Sir Thomas Smith (see also No. 6359). Hand in 1893 (No. 6361), Schüller in 1915 (No. 6362), and Christian in 1919 (No. 6363) also reported cases, and the cond…

1876 CE

#11222

Handbuch der Samenkunde: physiologisch-statistische Untersuchungen über den wirthschaftlichen Gebrauchswerth der land- und forstwirthschaftlichen, sowie gärtnerischen Saatwaren.

In 1869 Nobbe set up the first seed control station, establishing the science of seed testing. He set out to improve seed quality in a sustainable way, through systematic inspection. In his Handbuch der Samenkunde he …

1876 CE

#6505

Histoire de la médecine arabe. Exposé complet des traductions du grec. Les sciences en Orient, leur transmission à l’Occident par les traductions latines. 2 vols.

An exhaustive history, for its time, of Arabian medical translations from East to West and vice versa. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive, at this link.

1876 CE

#6761

History of American medical literature from 1776 to the present time.

1876 CE

#9316

Hygeia: A city of health.

Imaginative outline for an utopian city of 100,000 people which Richardson, as public health reformer, hoped would reduce mortality to five per thousand in two generations. Includes details of the laying out of street…

1876 CE

#13160

International Exhibition of 1876. Medical Department, U.S. Army. Photographs illustrating rare books in the National Medical Library. Philadelphia, 1876. 2 vols.

These two volumes include a series of original photographs of primarily the title pages of rare medical books in the National Medical Library pasted onto specially printed sheets with manuscript entries indicating the…

1876 CE

#175

L’anthropologie.

Topinard was curator of the museum of the Société d’Anthropologie de Paris. “Topinard’s angle” and “line”, both described in this book, are landmarks employed in anthr…

1876 CE

#174

L’uomo delinquente, studiato in rapporto alla antropologia, alla medicina legale ed alle discipline carcerarie.

Lombroso inaugurated the doctrine of a “criminal type”. His systematic studies showed that in general the criminal population exhibits a higher percentage of physical, nervous and mental anomalies than the…