1870–1879

1876 CE

#4342.1

Lectures on orthopaedic surgery and diseases of the joints.

See Nos. 4344 & 4344.1.

1876 CE

#11574

Methodik der physiologischen experimente und vivisectionen. 2 vols.

"This textbook and its remarkable atlas [of 54 plates] was used by Europe's leading physiologists as they expanded animal experimentation in an attempt to understand human function in health and disease" (W. Bruce Fye…

1876 CE

#13103

Nouveau traité élémentaire et pratique des maladies mentales. Suivi de considérations pratiques sur l'administration des asiles d'aliénés.

The first psychiatric textbook to utilize photographic illustrations of patients. This was the second edition of Dagonet's Traité élémentaire et pratique des maladies mentales (1862). The second e…

1876 CE

#2620.1

O privivanii rakovikh novoobrazovanii. [On the inoculation of cancerous neoplasms.]

Novinsky successfully transplanted two tumors in dogs. German translation in Zbl. med. Wiss., 1876, 14, 790-91. A fuller report appeared in his thesis K voprosu o privivanii zlokachestvennich novoobrazovanii (eksperim…

1876 CE

#3468

Observation de gastro-stomie pratiquée avec succès pour un rétrécissement cicatriciel infranchissable de l’oesophage.

Verneuil’s gastrostomy operation, a modification of Sédillot’s method.

1876 CE

#5674

On an apparatus for administering nitrous oxide gas and ether, singly or combined.

Clover’s ether inhaler. See also the same journal, 1877, 1, 69. He invented an inhaler in 1862; this was described, but not by Clover, in Med. Times Gaz., 1862, 2, 149.

1876 CE

#2983

On aortic aneurism in the army and the conditions associated with it.

Welch, an Army surgeon, supported the theory of a causal connexion between syphilis and aneurysm.

1876 CE

#2127.1

Paraffin epithelioma of the scrotum.

Shale oil shown to be a cause of skin cancer. A teacher of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Bell was the model for the character of Sherlock Holmes.

1876 CE

#3224

Recherches sur les relations qui existent entre les lésions des poumons et celles des ganglions trachéo-bronchiques.

The primary lesion in pulmonary tuberculosis in children (“Ghon’s primary focus”) was first described by Parrot.

1876 CE

#10839

Report of the Royal Commission on the Practice of Subjecting Live Animals to Experiments for Scientific Purposes: With minutes and evidence and appendix.

This commission, or others with a similar name, seems to have continued intermittently in England for several decades, with the fourth report of the Royal Commission on Vivisection issued as late as 1908. Digital facs…

1876 CE

#4344

Report on Pott’s disease, or caries of the spine; treated by extension, and the plaster of Paris bandage.

Sayre was the first to use plaster of Paris as a support for the spinal column in scoliosis and Pott’s disease. His name is eponymically linked with Sayre’s jacket, a plaster of Paris jacket applied while …

1876 CE

#3285

Rhinitis chronica. Ozaena. Stockschnupfen. Stinknase. In Ziemssen’s Handbuch der speciellen Pathologie und Therapie 4, I, 125-34

Fraenkel established ozena (atrophic rhinitis) as a clinical entity.

1876 CE

#4500

Rhumatisme.

Besnier wrote an important description of rheumatism.

1876 CE

#4174.1

Sondirung des Harnleiters mit Hilfe des Endoskops.

Successful catheterization of the ureter under vision.

1876 CE

#11261

Specimen fasciculus of a catalogue of the National Medical Library, under the direction of the Surgeon-General, United States Army at Washington, D. C.

This analystical subject-author catalogue was a 96-page preview of what became known four years later as the Index-Catalogue of the Library of Surgeon General's Office. Reflecting Billings' long term view of the insti…

1876 CE

#3685

Suppurative inflammation of the gums, and absorption of the gums and alveolar process.

“Riggs’s disease” – pyorrhoea alveolaris. Treatment of the disease by scraping was introduced by Riggs.

1876 CE

#5344.11

Sur la maladie dite diarrhée de Cochinchine.

Normond found Strongyloides stercoralis, the causal parasite in strongyloidiasis. English translation in Kean (No. 2268.1).

1876 CE

#8911

The effects of cross and self fertilisation in the vegetable kingdom.

Darwin's report on over 12 years of experimentation with cross and self-fertilization on 57 species. In these experiments Darwin discovered and demonstrated the concept of hybrid vigor or heterosis.

1876 CE

#1409

The functions of the brain.

Ferrier may be said to have laid the foundations of our knowledge concerning the localization of cerebral function. His book includes his earlier work published in the West Riding Lunatic Asylum Reports. Digital facsi…

1876 CE

#145.6

The geographical distribution of animals. 2 vols.

"In 1872, at the urging of many of his friends, including Darwin, Philip Sclater, and Alfred Newton, Wallace began research for a general review of the geographic distribution of animals. He was unable to make much pr…

1876 CE

#1932

The optical deportment of the atmosphere in relation to the phenomena of putrefaction and infection.

Tyndall observed the selective bacteria-inhibiting effect of Penicillium and the resistance of Ps. pyocyanea to it. See No. 2495.

1876 CE

#10412

The people's medical advisor.

A graduate of the Eclectic Medical College in Cincinnati, Vaughn was a member of the New York State Senate (31st D.) in 1878 and 1879, and was elected as a Republican to the 46th United States Congress, holding office…

1876 CE

#10795

The southern side: Or, Andersonville Prison. Complied from official documents. Together with an examination of the Wirz Trial: A comparison of the mortality in Northern and Southern prisons; remarks on the exchange bureau, etc. An appendix, showing the number of prisoners that died at Andersonville, and the causes of death; classified lists of all that died in stockade and hospital, etc., etc.

Stevenson was chief surgeon at the Confederate States Military Prison Hospitals in Andersonville, Georgia. The appendix lists the causes of death of 12,912 men. "Andersonville Prison, established in Georgia early in 1…

1876 CE

#4216

The state of the arteries in Bright’s disease.

Gowers’s important account of the changes in the retinal vessels in Bright’s disease is reproduced in Willius & Keys, Cardiac classics, 1941, pp. 605-11.

1876 CE

#4501

The treatment of acute rheumatism by salicin.

Introduction of salicylates in the treatment of rheumatism.

1876 CE

#3170

Thoracentesis: the plan of continuous aspiration.

Hewett introduced a method of continuous aspiration of the thorax for emphysema.

1876 CE

#4744

Tonische Krämpfe in willkürlich beweglichen Muskeln in Folge von ererbter psychischer Disposition (Ataxia muscularis?).

Thomsen suffered from muscle weakness and cramps, an issue that all his sons inherited. Realizing that this was a hereditary disease, Thomsen managed to trace the disease for six generations, and found over 20 cases o…

1876 CE

#6190

Ueber das Verhalten des Uterus und Cervix in der Schwangerschaft und während der Geburt.

“Bandl’s ring”. Bandl was professor of obstetrics and gynaecology at Vienna and Prague.

1876 CE

#700.1

Ueber das Verhalten verschiedener organisirter und sog. ungeformter Fermente (pp.191-193); Trypsin (Enzym des Pankreas) (pp.194-198).

Kühne was one of the people who introduced the term “enzyme”. He wrote, "Um Missverständnisse vorzubeugen und lästige Umschreibungen zu vermeiden schlägt Vortragender vor, die ungeformt…

1876 CE

#551

Ueber den Bau der Meissner’schen Tastkörperchen.

Includes first account of the demonstration of nerve endings by means of the gold chloride method.

1876 CE

#781

Ueber den Druck in den Blutcapillaren der menschlichen Haut.

Kries attempted to measure blood pressure in the capillaries by using a skin blanching method.

1876 CE

#1518

Ueber den feineren Bau der Chorioidea des Menschen nebst Beiträgen zur pathologischen und vergleichenden Anatomie der Aderhaut.

“Sattler’s layer” of the choroid.

1876 CE

#3022

Ueber die Paracentese des Perikardiums.

Account of first pericardiocentesis for suppurative pericarditis.

1876 CE

#2486

Ueber eine Mykose bei einem neugeborenen Kinde (Bakterienfärbung mit Anilinfarben).

In this paper Weigert showed that methyl violet will reveal cocci in tissues.

1876 CE

#5913

Ueber eine neue therapeutische Verwendung des Physostigmin.

Introduction of physostigmine in the treatment of glaucoma.

1876 CE

#552

Ueber Stemzellen der Leber.

“Kupffer cells” – macrophage stellate cells in the lining of the blood channels in the liver. Confocal microscopy picture showing the steady-state location and interactions between Kupffer cells (Red…

1876 CE

#782

Untersuchungen über die Gefässernerven-Wurzeln des Ischiadicus.

Stricker was the first to describe vasodilatation on stimulation of the posterior nerve roots.

1876 CE

#4070.1

Zur Aetiologie der Psoriasis.

“Koebner phenomenon” – appearance at points of injury of any skin lesion that is not an ordinary manifestation or complication of the injury.

1876 CE

#6066

Zur Enucleation der intraparietalen Myome des Corpus uteri.

1876 CE–1877 CE

#5916

Om färgblindheten i dess förhallande till jernvägstrafiken och sjöväsendet.

A serious railway accident in Sweden in 1875 was believed by Holmgren to be due to color-blindness, and resulted in the above important paper dealing with the condition and its relation to railway and maritime traffic…

1876 CE–1877 CE

#4070

On giant urticaria.

Although Quincke described angioneurotic edema with great precision and has given his name to it (“Quincke’s disease”, “Quincke’s edema”), Milton first noted it, calling it “g…

1876 CE–1877 CE

#2391

On irregular and defective tooth development.

“Moon’s molars”, the first molars in congenital syphilitics.

1876 CE–1878 CE

#4557

Handbuch der Krankheiten des Nervensystems.

Erb was Professor of Neurology at Heidelberg. He gave the original descriptions of several nervous disorders, especially the muscular dystrophies, and was a pioneer in the use of electrotherapy.

1876 CE–1878 CE

#2227

The collected works. 2 vols.

Latham, successively physician to Middlesex and St. Bartholomew’s hospitals, was an authority on cardiac disease and among the earliest in England to advocate auscultation. He held progressive views on medical e…

1876 CE–1880 CE

#4558.1

Iconographie photographique de la Salpêtrière. Service de M. Charcot. 3 vols.

A photographic atlas devoted to cases of hysteria and epilepsy, with case histories; the third volume includes discussions of hypnotism, somnambulism and magnetism. Bourneville was Charcot’s assistant at the Sal…

1876 CE–1880 CE

#4558

Leçons sur les localisations dans les maladies du cerveau.

Charcot is especially notable for his important study of the localization of functions in diseases of the brain. Volume two is entitled Leçons sur les localisations dans les maladies du cerveau et de la mo&euml…

1877 CE

#6485.91

[Charaka Samhita. Edited by Jibananda Vidyasagara.]

Sanskrit text. Authorities vary as to the date of Charaka. He is said to have lived at times varying between 800 BCE and 78 CE. The Samhita, or Sanhita, is one of the most ancient and complete systems of Hindu medicin…

1877 CE

#9481

A biographical sketch of an infant.

The first significant paper on child psychology, written from Darwin's personal notes of his observations of the development of his first born son, William Erasmus. The text is available from Darwin Online at this link.

1877 CE

#4799

A case of general paralysis at the age of sixteen.

Clouston, eminent English psychiatrist, was the first definitely to recognize the relationship between paresis and congenital syphilis and to report a case. This paper is also of interest as being the only recorded ca…

1877 CE

#3125.2

A case of progressive pernicious anaemia (idiopathic of Addison).

First complete account of pernicious anemia. "In 1877, William Gardner and Osler described a patient who was almost certainly the first with the clinical, hematologic, and pathologic features to leave no doubt it was …