1880–1889

1887 CE

#3068

Ueber Purpura fulminans.

First description.

1887 CE

#2579

Vorlesungen über die geschichtliche Entwickelung der Lehre von den Bacterien. Teil l.[All published].

Loeffler, Professor of Hygiene at Greifswald, made many discoveries in bacteriology. His history of the subject was the first and only history of bacteriology prior to the publication of Bulloch's History of bacteriol…

1887 CE

#5932

Wörterbuch der Augenheilkunde.

1887 CE

#1368.1

Zur Geschichte der menschlichen Rückenmarkes und der Nervenwurzeln.

This is generally considered the first clear statement that nerve cells in the brain might be independent units rather than forming an anastomotic network—as Gerlach, Golgi, and most others believed—althou…

1887 CE

#3297

Zur operativen Behandlung des Empyems der Highmorshöhle.

Mikulicz’s Operation for the treatment of disease of the accessory nasal sinuses.

1887 CE

#5638

Zur Sublimatfrage.

Bergmann was a pioneer in the evolution of asepsis. He gradually merged the corrosive sublimate method of antisepsis into steam sterilization of instruments and dressing material, demonstrating its superiority to chem…

1887 CE–1888 CE

#5931

Die ärztliche Ueberwachung der Schulen zur Verhütung der Verbreitung der Kurzsichtigkeit.

Cohn was a pioneer in his advocacy of the routine examination of the eyes of schoolchildren.

1887 CE–1888 CE

#6087

On the method of flap-splitting in certain plastic operations.

Tait devised a flap-splitting operation for retocele which, with some modifications, is in use today.

1887 CE–1888 CE

#3489

Stuhlträgheit Neuegeborener in Folge von Dilatation und Hypertrophie des Colons.

Hirschsprung’s diseases (congenital megacolon).

1887 CE–1890 CE

#13053

The avifauna of British India and its dependencies. A systematic account, with descriptions of all the known species of birds inhabiting British India, observations on their habits, nidification, &c., tables of their geographical distribution in Persia, Beloochistan, Afghanistan, Sind, Punjab, N.W. Provinces, and the peninsula of India generally, with woodcuts, lithographs, and coloured illustrations. 2 vols.

Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.

1888 CE

#4860

A case of tumour of the spinal cord. Removal; recovery.

Horsley was the founder of neurosurgery in England. The above paper records the first successful operation for the removal of an extramedullary tumor of the spinal cord.

1888 CE

#4753

An atypical case of Thomsen’s disease (myotonia congenita).

Dana described a combination of myotonia and muscular atrophy.

1888 CE

#505

Beiträge zur Entwickelungsmechanik des Embryo. Ueber die künstliche Hervorbringung halber Embryonen durch Zerstörung einer der beiden ersten Furchungskugeln, sowie über die Nachentwickelung (Postgeneration) der fehlenden Körperhalfte.

Roux is regarded as the founder of developmental mechanics (“Entwicklungsmechanik” as he named it). His work on the production of half-embryos initiated a turning point by shifting emphasis from descriptiv…

1888 CE

#4221

Chronic pyelitis, successfully treated by kolpo-uretero-cystotomy.

Bozeman treated vesical and fecal fistulae in women, dealing with the complication of pyelitis by catheterization of the ureter through a vesicovaginal opening.

1888 CE

#2792

Contribution à l’anatomie pathologique de la maladie bleu (cyanose cardiaque).

The “tetralogy of Fallot.” He gave an important, but not the first, account of this condition (see Nos. 2726.1 & 2761). Abstract translation in Willius & Keys, Cardiac classics, 1941, pp. 689-90.

1888 CE

#3630

Contribution à l’étude clinique et anatomo-pathologique du cancer primitif du pancréas.

“Bard-Pic syndrome” first described.

1888 CE

#6198

De l’accouchement provoqué; dilatation du canal génital (col de l’utérus, vagin et vulve) à l’aide de ballons introduits dans la cavité utérine pendant la grossesse.

The “Champetier de Ribes bag”.

1888 CE

#5034

De l’immunité contre le virus de la fièvre typhoöde conférée par des substances solubles.

Experimental antityphoid inoculation.

1888 CE

#2620.2

Demonstration der durch Impfung von Hund auf Hund erzeugten Carcinomknötchen.

A tumor transplant from dog to dog was reported by Wehr.

1888 CE

#4996

Der Hypnotismus und die suggestive Psychotherapie.

1888 CE

#3492.1

Des polyadénomes gastriques et de leurs rapports avec le cancer de l’estomac.

“Menetrier’s disease” – giant hypertrophic gastritis.

1888 CE

#5211

Die Blenorrhöe der Sexualorgane und ihre Complicationen.

1888 CE

#3998

Diseases of the skin.

1888 CE

#3390

Education of deaf-mutes. A manual for teachers.

Includes a history of the subject. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1888 CE

#5619.1

Eine einfache Methode zurErzielung sicherer Asepsis.

Kocher introduced silk sutures.

1888 CE

#5933

Eine neue Methode der Hornhauttransplantation.

Modern keratoplasty is based on the technique introduced by von Hippel.

1888 CE

#7334

Estructura de los centros nerviosos de las aves.

"The foundational article of modern cellular neuroscience. . . . this is where Cajal first demonstrated with the Golgi method how neurons interact by contact not continuity in the adult central nervous system—in…

1888 CE

#2542

Experimente über die bacterienfeindlichen Einflüsse des thierischen Körpers.

Working with the defibrinated blood of certain animals, Nuttall was the first to describe the bactericidal action of blood. Abridged English translation in Bibel, Milestones in immunology (1988).

1888 CE

#3489.1

Fälle von angeborener Pylorusstenose, beobachtet bei Säuglingen.

Hirschsprung first made the medical world aware of congenital hypertrophic pyloric stenosis as a distinct clinical entity. In this paper he made no suggestions concerning therapy.

1888 CE

#11271

Hereditary angio-neurotic oedema.

Osler was the first in the English-speaking world to describe what is now called hereditary angioedema. In this paper he presented "an interesting study of the heredity of a case, with a genealogical table" (Golden & …

1888 CE

#13617

Histoire de la Faculté de Médecine de Bordeaux et de l'enseignement médical dans cette ville 1441-1888.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1888 CE

#4574

Intracranial tumours.

1888 CE

#1521

Kort öfversigt af läran om lokalisationen i hjernbarken.

Discovery of the cortical visual center.

1888 CE

#3391

Krankenvorstellung: Geheilter Hirnabscess.

Radical mastoidectomy. (See No. 3392.)

1888 CE

#13173

L'Enseignement et l'organisation de l'art dentaire aux États-Unis. Rapport adresse à Monsieur le Ministre de l'Instruction publique.

The first study of the American dental profession, and the system of teaching dentistry in the United States.

1888 CE

#4183

Leçons cliniques sur les affections chirurgicales de la vessie et de la prostate.

Guyon was Professor of genitourinary surgery at Paris, and a great teacher (see also No. 4177).

1888 CE

#6199

Lectures on ectopic pregnancy and pelvic haematocele.

1888 CE

#9754

Medical museums, with special reference to the Army Medical Museum at Washington. The president's address delivered before the Congress of American Physicians and Surgeons, September 20, 1888.

An historical and comparative study promoting the value of medical museums. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1888 CE

#344

Mémoires sur le cerveau de l’homme et des primates publiés avec un introduction et des notes par Le docteur S. Pozzi.

Digital facsimile from the Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.

1888 CE

#8996

My story of the war: The Civil War memories of the famous nurse, relief organizer and suffragette.

1888 CE

#5323

Note on the occurrence of a minute blood-spirillum in an Indian rat.

Demonstration of Spirillum minus, later shown to be a cause of rat-bite fever. (See also No. 5327).

1888 CE

#5512.1

Note sur la maladie des boeufs de la Guadeloupe, connue sous le nom de farcin.

The first pathogenic aerobic actinomycete to be described. It was later named Nocardia farcinica and is probably identical with N. asteroides.

1888 CE

#4262.1

On supra-pubic prostatectomy, with three cases in which the operation was successfully performed for chronic prostatic hypertrophy.

McGill pioneered the operation of suprapubic prostatectomy, first performed by him in March 1887.

1888 CE

#3491

On the coeliac affection.

Coeliac disease (non-tropical sprue, idiopathic steatorrhoea) was first described by Gee. Later Thaysen (No. 3550) studied the disease, which acquired the eponym “Gee-Thaysen disease”.

1888 CE

#13468

Origines de La Maternité de Paris: Les maitresses sage-femmes et l'office des accouchées de l'ancien Hotel-Dieu (1378-1796).

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1888 CE

#11676

Physiologie des exercices du corps.

Digital facsimile of the revised and expanded 2nd edition, 1889, from BnFGallica at this link.

1888 CE

#13059

Poëme sur la grande peste de 1348. Publié d'après le manuscrit de la Bibliothèque du Palais Saint-Pierre par Georges Geigue.

The book indicates that 175 copies were printed "sur papier de Hollande." The editor describes himself as the archivist of the city of Lyon. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1888 CE

#712

Ptomaines and leucomaines, or the putrefactive and physiological alkaloids.

1888 CE

#9533

Rectal and anal surgery, with a description of the secret methods of the itinerants.

The authors were father and son. An unusual feature of this work was its critical analysis of the methods used by itinerant or untrained practitioners. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1888 CE

#3494

Rectal insufflation of hydrogen gas an infallible test in the diagnosis of visceral injury of the gastro-intestinal canal in penetrating wounds of the abdomen.

Senn’s method of detecting intestinal perforation by insufflation with hydrogen.