1880–1889

1888 CE

#2793

Remarks on failure of the heart from overstrain.

Important experimental work on cardiac overstrain was carried out by Roy and Adami who considered that mechanical overstrain caused chronic thickening of the cardiac valves.

1888 CE

#1884

Sulfonal, ein neues Schlafmittel.

Introduction of sulphonal, previously discovered by Baumann.

1888 CE

#5090.1

Sur les microbes de la dysentérie épidémique.

The dysentery bacillus was isolated by Chantemesse and Widal, although they failed to establish its etiological relationship to the disease.

1888 CE

#4573

Sur une affection caractérisée par de l’astasie et de l’abasie.

“Blocq’s disease” – astasia–abasia.

1888 CE

#8746

The medical profession in the United Kingdom.

(1200pp.) This is the greatly expanded edition of the book first published with the same title nine years earlier. "His most important and voluminous writings were the two Carmichael Prize essays of the Royal College …

1888 CE

#2985

Traumatic aneurism of the left brachial artery. Failure of direct and indirect pressure; ligation of the artery immediately above tumor; return of pulsation on the tenth day; ligation immediately below tumor; failure to arrest pulsation; incision and partial excision of sac; recovery.

First aneurysmorrhaphy, April 6, 1888. See also Trans. Amer. surg.Ass.,1902, 20,396-434.

1888 CE

#3631

Ueber den zungenförmigen Fortsatz des rechten Leberlappens und seine pathognostiche Bedeutung für die Erkrankung der Gallenblase nebst Bemerkungen über Gallensteinoperationen.

“Riedel’s lobe”, a form of constriction lobe of the liver.

1888 CE

#4706

Ueber die Diagnose der Syringomyelie.

First complete description of syringomyelia.

1888 CE

#2506

Ueber die Fleischvergiftung in Frankenhausen. a.K. und den Erreger derselben.

Discovery of Salmonella enteritidis, a cause of food poisoning.

1888 CE

#3129

Ueber einen Fall von Anämie mit Bemerkungen über regenerative Veränderungen des Knochenmarks.

Ehrlich was first to distinguish the aplastic type of anemia.

1888 CE

#4350

Ueber freie Körper in den Gelenken.

König of Göttingen was the first to use the term “osteochondritis dissecans”.

1888 CE

#5033

Untersuchungen über Typhus abdominalis.

Salmonella typhi first demonstrated in the gall-bladder in cases of typhoid.

1888 CE

#9328

Untersuchungen zur Morphologie und Systematik der Vögel, zugleich ein Beitrag zur Anatomie der Stütz- und Bewegungsorgane. 2 vols.

Fürbringer specialized in avian morphology and classification; he undertook the first major phylogenetic ordering of bird groups based on a large scale study of skeletal, morphological and anatomical characterist…

1888 CE

#231.1

Zellen-Studien.

Boveri gave decisive proof of the maintenance of chromosomal individuality.

1888 CE

#3493

Zur operativen Behandlung des Prolapsus recti et coli invaginati.

Description of Mikulicz’s important operation for complete prolapse of the rectum.

1888 CE

#3492

Zur Technik der Kolotomie.

First successful colostomy.

1888 CE–1889 CE

#3917

A subcutaneous connective tissue dystrophy of the arms and back, associated with symptoms resembling myxoedema.

First description of adiposis dolorosa (“Dercum’s disease”).

1888 CE–1889 CE

#5059

Contribution a l’étude de la diphtérie.

Confirmation of the work of Loeffler and demonstration of the exotoxin. This work is the starting point of the development of an immunizing serum.

1888 CE–1889 CE

#4094

Folliculite épilante décalvante.

Folliculitis decalvans of Quinquaud first described. At about the same time, P. A. Robert described it independently in his thesis, Paris, 1889.

1888 CE–1889 CE

#2794

The murmur of high-pressure in the pulmonary artery.

First description of the pulmonary diastolic murmur – the “Graham Steell murmur.” Reproduced in Willius & Keys, Cardiac Classics, 1941, pp. 680-85.

1888 CE–1918 CE

#4575

NOUVELLE Iconographie de la Salpêtriere. 28 vols.

Henry Meige, Richer, and other pupils of Charcot published many valuable studies of the constitutional aspects of nervous diseases in the above work, a series unique in the history of medicine and of great value for t…

1889 CE

#4861.1

A case in which acute spasmodic pain in the left lower extremity was completely relieved by sub-dural division of the posterior roots of certain spinal nerves, all other treatment having proved useless. Death from sudden collapse and cerebral haemorrhage on the twelfth day after the operation, at the commencement of apparent convalescence.

Posterior rhizotomy.

1889 CE

#6243

A case of Caesarean section for contracted pelvis.

Champney’s advocacy for the Sänger operation was a powerful factor in its adoption in Britain.

1889 CE

#4096

A case of erythema with remarkable nodular thickening and induration of skin, associated with intermittent albuminuria.

Erythema elevatum diutinum (“Bury’s disease”).

1889 CE

#4860.1

A contribution to the surgery of the spine.

Posterior rhizotomy.

1889 CE

#1419

A record of experiments upon the functions of the cerebral cortex.

A detailed analysis, by means of faradic stimulation, of the motor responses of the cerebral cortex, internal capsule, and spinal cord of higher primates.

1889 CE

#3632

Acute pancreatitis; a consideration of pancreatic hemorrhage, hemorrhagic suppurative, and gangrenous pancreatitis, and of disseminated fat necrosis.

Fitz described three forms of acute pancreatitis, and made the earliest suggestion that disseminated fat necrosis is the result of a pathologic process in the pancreas.

1889 CE

#10786

Antibiose et symbiose.

Villemin coined the term antibiosis and advanced the term from an evolutionary viewpoint. Though he presented the concept Villemin did not apply this concept to fight disease. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference.)

1889 CE

#1932.2

Bakteriolytische Enzyme als Ursache der erworbenen Immunität und die Heilung von Infectionskrankheiten durch dieselben.

Emmerich and Löw prepared a water-soluble antibiotic substance, pyocyanase, from Pseudomonas pyocanea. It inhibited pathogenic cocci and the organisms responsible for diphtheria, plague, cholera, and typhoid.

1889 CE

#3300

Beiträge zur Resection der Cartilago quadrangularis narium zur Heilung der Skoliosis septi.

The Operation of partial excision of the cartilage for the treatment of deflections of the nasal septum was perfected by Krieg.

1889 CE

#3694.1

Bibliographie français de l’art dentaire.

Concerns the French literature of dentistry.

1889 CE

#2797

Cardiac failure and sudden death from ventricular fibrillation.

First description of a case of death from ventricular fibrillation.

1889 CE

#12267

Cardiac failure and sudden death.

"Physiologists and physicians had proposed various theories to explain transient and fatal cardiac standstill in animals and humans who were apparently healthy. MacWilliam defined two distinct mechanisms depending on …

1889 CE

#5936

Conjonctivite infectieuse transmise par les animaux.

Parinaud described an infectious tuberculous conjunctivitis transmissible from animals to man. In 1924 Gifford suggested the name “Parinaud’s oculo-glandular syndrome” as a more suitable description.…

1889 CE

#4097

De la psorospermose folliculaire végétante.

Dyskeratosis follicularis was so well described by Darier that it is universally known as “Darier’s disease”. J. C. White also described it (see No. 4093) and the first description is accredited to H…

1889 CE

#2795

De la tachycardie essentielle paroxystique.

Bouveret introduced the term “Paroxysmal tachycardia”. Partial English translation in No. 2241.

1889 CE

#3301

Des abscès du sinus maxillaire.

See No. 3305.

1889 CE

#4099

Des érythèmes papuleux fessiers post-érosifs.

“Jacquet’s disease”, “Jacquet’s dermatitis”, papulo-lenticular erythema of the napkin area.

1889 CE

#2100

Des polynévrites en général et des paralysies et atrophies saturnines en particulier.

Madame Dejerine-Klumpke, famous neurologist, contributed an important work on lead palsies.

1889 CE

#3299

Diagnosis and treatment of abscess of the antrum.

Classic paper on sinusitis.

1889 CE

#362

Die Anatomie des Heinrich von Mondeville. Nach einer Handschrift der Königlichen Bibliothek zu Berlin von Jahre 1304 zum ersten Male herausgegeben von J. Pagel.

Mondeville was the first teacher known to have lectured with the aid of illustrations, using 13 charts of human anatomy. He lectured at Montpellier. Digital facsimile from the Medical Heritage Library, Internet Archiv…

1889 CE

#6200

Die Conjugata eines engen Beckens ist keine konstante Grosse, sondem lässt sich durch die Körperhaltung der Trägerin verändem.

Description of the “Walcher position”.

1889 CE

#3302

Die ersten Operationen in der Kehlklopfshöhle vom Munde aus, bei der Durchleuchtung des Kehlkopfes von aussen.

The first laryngeal operation through the mouth with external illumination.

1889 CE

#3495

Die Gastrodiaphanie.

Einhorn devised the method of exploration of the stomach by means of a tube – gastrodiaphany.

1889 CE

#14299

Die Haut Arterien des menschlichen Körpers.

Manchot was the first to describe the vasular terrirtories of the human skin. This work was translated into English by J. Ristic with an introduction by William.D. Morain as The cutaneous arteries of the human body (N…

1889 CE

#7335

Die Neuroblasten und deren Entstehung im embryonalen Mark.

In this paper on neuroblasts (young neurons) and their development in the embryonic spinal cord, His coined the term, “dendrite,” for what had been called protoplasmic processes since the term was introduc…

1889 CE

#4862

Die temporäre Resektion der Schädeldaches an Stelle der Trepanation.

Osteoplastic flap operation. Wagner’s method of opening the skull made a large area of the brain more easily accessible than by trephining. Translation in J. Neurosurg., 1962, 19, 1099.

1889 CE

#6088

Die Tripperansteckung beim weiblichen Geschlechte.

1889 CE

#5486

Drüsenfieber.

“Pfeiffer’s disease”. He is sometimes credited with the original description of infectious mononucleosis, ascribed to Filatov. Pfeiffer’s paper is a most comprehensive discussion of the clinica…

1889 CE

#3130

Du sang et de ses altérations anatomiques

Includes (pp. 614-751) an important account of chlorosis; Hayem, by his accurate observation, placed knowledge of the disease on a firm basis.