1880–1889

1887 CE

#3490

Die sacrale Methode der Exstirpation von Mastdarmkrebsen und die Resectio recti.

Kraske introduced the sacral method of resection of the rectum for carcinoma.

1887 CE

#4945

Disturbance of psychic activity in alcoholic paralysis.

“Korsakoff’s psychosis” or syndrome – alcoholic polyneuritis with loss and falsification of memory. A second paper on the subject in Ezhened. klin. Gaz., 1889, 9, 85, 115, 136, is translated in…

1887 CE

#4627

Eine besondere Art der Wortblindheit.

Berlin first suggested the term “dyslexia”. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1887 CE

#2505.1

Eine kleine Modification des Koch’schen Plattenverfahrens.

Petri dish. A similar dish was described by Cornil and Babès (see No. 2501) and by Nicati and Rietsch, Arch. Physiol. norm. path., 1885, 6, 72. Petri was an assistant of Koch.

1887 CE

#1368.2

Einige hirnanatomische Betrachtungen und Ergebnisse.

Independently of His, Forel formulated the neuron theory.

1887 CE

#1883.1

Ephedrin.

Isolation of ephedrine from Ephedra distachya.

1887 CE

#3296

Erste Heilung eines Larynx-Cancroids vermittelst Ausrottung per vias naturales.

First successful intralaryngeal extirpation of a malignant growth.

1887 CE

#9964

Euthanasia; or, medical treatment in aid of an easy death.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1887 CE

#2791

Fibrillar contraction of the heart.

MacWilliam discovered that fibrillar contraction of the heart is due to “a rapid succession of incoordinated peristaltic contractions.” He clearly described auricular and ventricular fibrillation, and show…

1887 CE

#6286

Histoire des accouchements chez tous les peuples.

182-page appendix: "L'arsenal obstétrical", containing numerous illustrations of instruments, at end. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1887 CE

#12039

Hydrophobia: An account of M. Pasteur's system containing a translation of all his communications on the subject, the technique of his method, and the latest statistical results

The author, qualified M.D. in both Edinburgh and Paris, characterized himself on the title page of this work as "Commissioned by the Government of the Colony of Mauritius to study M. Pasteur's new treatment in Paris."…

1887 CE

#6086

Hysterorrhaphy.

1887 CE

#4091

Impetigo herpetiformis.

Although not the first to describe this condition, Kaposi established its status.

1887 CE

#2908

L’artério-sclérose subaiguë dans ses rapports avec les spasmes vasculaires et son traitement par la trinitrine (nitroglycérine).

“Huchard’s disease” – continued hypertension causing arteriosclerosis. Huchard did much to develop the knowledge concerning arteriosclerosis and summarized his work in a classic monograph publi…

1887 CE

#1417

Leçons sur les fonctions motrices du cerveau.

François-Franck’s studies on the excitability of the cerebral cortex and the localization of function followed work in collaboration with Pitres; Charcot wrote the preface. See also No. 1423.

1887 CE

#710

Lehrbuch der physiologischen und pathologischen Chemie.

1887 CE

#5503

Lektsii ob ostrikh infektsionnîkh bolieznyakh u dietei. [Lectures on acute infectious diseases of children.] Vol. 2

On p. 113 is Filatov’s account of a form of rubella with a scarlatiniform rash. To this he gave the name “rubeola scarlatinosa”. (See also No. 5505.)

1887 CE

#6285

Les accouchements à la cour.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1887 CE

#6605

Les démoniaques dans l’art.

Charcot was a talented artist; he collaborated with Richer, artist at La Salpêtrière, in the production of interesting books on disease and deformity, and aspects of medicine and art.

1887 CE

#182

Les pygmées.

De Quatrefages showed that pygmies are descended from ancient races and are not, as was believed by many, a retrograde or degenerate type of negro of comparatively recent growth. English translation by Frederick Starr…

1887 CE

#3885

Lieber einen Fall von Akromegalie.

Minkowski called attention to the constancy of pituitary enlargement on acromegaly; he was the first definitely to note this relationship.

1887 CE

#13259

Meine Wasser-Kur, durch mehr als 30 Jahre erprobt und geschrieben zur Heilung der Krankheiten und Erhaltung der Gesundheit.

Kneipp was a Bavarian priest and not a physician. He learned about hydrotherapy and other methods of treatment later called naturopathic during the time he suffered from tuberculosis. Digital facsimile of the 1889 10t…

1887 CE

#11494

Militärmedicin: kurze Darstellung des gesamten Militär-Sanitätswesens. (Band 13 von Wreden’s Sammlung kurzer medizinischer Lehrbücher).

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1887 CE

#5098

Note on the discovery of a micro-organism in Malta fever.

Malta fever was shown by Bruce to be due to Micrococcus (Brucella) melitensis. The disease was later named Brucellosis.

1887 CE

#3686

Notes on orthodontia, with a new system of regulation and retention.

The specialty of orthodontics received a new impetus with the work of Angle. He organized and classified the various abnormalities of the teeth and jaws and devised many methods of treating them. Through a series of b…

1887 CE

#5186.1

O úplavici. Předběžné sđělení.

Hlava induced experimental amoebiasis in cats by intrarectal inoculation of stools. In an abstract of this paper Kartulis confused the author’s name with that of the title, a mistake copied by writers for many y…

1887 CE

#4705

On arrested cerebral development, with special reference to its cortical pathology.

Sachs described the cerebral changes in amaurotic familial idiocy. Earlier, Tay (No. 5918) had recorded the ocular manifestations of this condition, which became known as “Tay-Sachs’s disease”. Two f…

1887 CE

#9623

Orificial surgery and its application to the treatment of chronic diseases.

Pratt's bizarre orificial surgery emerged from the the practice of homeopathy. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1887 CE

#2984

Pathogenese (Histogenese und Aetiologie) der Aneurysmen einschliesslich des Aneurysma equi verminosum.

1887 CE

#10596

Photography of bacteria. Illustrated with eight-six photographs reproduced in autotype.

The first book entirely devoted to the photography of bacteria. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1887 CE

#1626

Public health reports by John Simon. Edited for the Sanitary Institute of Great Britain by Edward Seaton. 2 vols.

Simon was the first medical officer for the City of London. Together with his English sanitary institutions, the above work played a great part in paving the way for modern reforms in the sphere of hygiene and public …

1887 CE

#12295

Sphygmographische Untersuchungen an Geisteskranken.

Ziehen, a student of Hermann Munk, wrote his habiltation thesis on sphygmographic studies of psychiatric patients. This was the first monograph on the subject.

1887 CE

#1883.2

Sur l’action de l’antifébrine (acétanilide) et de quelques corps analogues.

Introduction of acetanilide (antifebrin).

1887 CE

#4784

Sur un cas de paraplégie par névrites périphériques, chez un ataxique morphiomane.

First description of peripheral neuritis, “Dejerine’s neurotabes”.

1887 CE

#9121

Ten days in a mad-house.

By newspaper reporter Nellie Bly, this book was initially published as a series of articles for the New York World newspaper. The book collected Bly's reportage while on an undercover assignment in which she feigned i…

1887 CE

#11756

The agricultural pests of India, and of eastern and southern Asia, vegetable and animal, injurious to man and his products.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1887 CE

#5754.4

The deformity termed “pug nose” and its correction, by a simple operation.

Roe invented the intranasal approach for corrective rhinoplasty.

1887 CE

#6085

The gradual preparatory treatment of the complications of urinary and faecal fistulae in women.

Pyelitis complicating vesical and fecal fistulae in women was successfully treated by Bozeman.

1887 CE

#1625

The health of nations: A review of the works of Edwin Chadwick, with a biographical dissertation by Benjamin Ward Richardson. 2 vols.

Chadwick may be said to have initiated the public health era. Largely through his efforts the Public Health Act 1848 came into existence in England. He was the greatest sanitarian of the 19th century; among other thin…

1887 CE

#6342

The intestinal diseases of infancy and childhood.

Jacobi was the first in the United States to specialize in the practice of pediatrics. In 1862 he founded the first pediatric clinic in the U.S., in New York. He wrote extensively on pediatrics.

1887 CE

#145.62

The lake as a microcosm.

Forbes was the first to apply ecological principles to limnology. He emphasized population regulation and the dynamic nature of the community.

1887 CE

#9551

The student's manual and handbook for the dental laboratory. To which is appended Dr. E.H. Angle's system of appliances for correcting irregularities.

Angle's chapter, "The Angle system of regulation and retention of teeth," represented the first edition of what was later separately published as Angle's textbook on orthodontics with the same title. This chapter reap…

1887 CE

#2250.1

The treatment of burns.

Introduction of the open or exposure method for the treatment of burns.

1887 CE

#7917

Über einige Derivate der Phenylmethacrylsäure und der Phenylisobuttersäure.

Synthesis of phenylisopropylamine, later known as amphetamine. Its stimulant effects were unknown until it was independently resynthesized by Gordon Alles.

1887 CE

#4678

Ueber die Aetiologie der akuten Meningitis cerebro-spinalis.

Weichselbaum discovered the meningococcus, Neisseria meningitidis, causative agent of cerebrospinal meningitis.

1887 CE

#4089

Ueber die Aetiologie und Therapie der Impetigo, des Furunkels und der Sykosis.

First description of impetigo circumpilaris infantilis (“Bockhart’s impetigo”).

1887 CE

#4946

Ueber die Einwirking fieberhafter Erkrankungen auf Psychosen.

Wagner von Jauregg’s first studies of the effect of fevers upon psychotic conditions. See also No. 4806.

1887 CE

#4090

Ueber die normale Entwicklung und über einige Veränderungen der menschlichen Haare.

“Giovanni’s disease”. He described the developmental defect of hair follicles known as pili multigemini.

1887 CE

#1883.3

Ueber die Wirkung des Acetphenetidins.

Introduction of phenacetin.

1887 CE

#1418

Ueber einen Fall von chronischer progressiver Lähmung der Augenmuskeln (Ophthalmoplegia externa) nebst Beschreibung von Ganglien-zellengruppen im Bereiche des Oculomotoriuskems.

“Westphal’s nucleus” – for accommodation – in the third cranial nerve. Called also “Edinger’s nucleus” (see the same journal, 1885, 16, 858-89).