1880–1889
768 entries with publication dates in this decade.
1889 CE
#2798
Du sphygmomanomètre et de la mésure de la pression artérielle chez l’homme à l’état normale et pathologique.
Potain devised a simple portable air sphygmomanometer for blood-pressure estimation.
1889 CE
#6244
Eclampsia gravidarum: eene nieuwe indicatie voor sectie caesarea.
Halbertsma first performed Caesarean section in puerperal convulsions.
1889 CE
#7996
Electrical stimulation of the heart in man.
MacWilliams described experiments in which application of an electrical impulse to the human heart in asystole caused a ventricular contraction, and that a heart rhythm of 60–70 beats per minute could be evoked …
1889 CE
#2621
Erfolgreiche experimentelle Uebertragung von Carcinom.
Hanau successfully transplanted cancer in mammals.
1889 CE
#1177
Expérience démontrant la puissance dynamogénique chez l’homme d’un liquide extrait de testicules d’animaux.
Brown-Séquard injected into himself a testicular extract in order to bring about rejuvenation. He reported much benefit but his advocacy of this method evoked scepticism and criticism, although it stimulated re…
1889 CE
#3570
Experience with early operative interference in cases of disease of the vermiform appendix.
Describes (p. 678) “McBurney’s point”: “The seat of greatest pain, determined by the pressure of one finger, has been very exactly between an inch and a half and two inches from the anterior sp…
1889 CE
#2394
Expériences sur la toxicité du bismuth.
Balzer was the first to suggest bismuth in the treatment of syphilis.
1889 CE
#5620
Experimental surgery.
Senn made important experimental studies on air embolism, introduced a method of diagnosing intestinal perforation by means of insufflation of hydrogen (see No. 3494), and used X-rays in the treatment of leukemia. He …
1889 CE
#1013
Fisiologia del digiuni.
Luciani distinguished three stages of starvation in man – hunger, physiological inanition, and pathological inanition. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1889 CE
#714
Fixation de l’azote par la terre végétale nue ou avec le concours des légumineuses.
Berthelot showed that bacteria acting in clay soils are able to fix nitrogen.
1889 CE
#1766.601
Geschichte des medizinischen Unterrichtes von den ältesten Zeiten bis zur Gegenwart.
The only comprehensive multinational study of the development of medical education, and of limited value for coverage of the 19th century. Translated into English by Evan H. Hare as A history of medical education from…
1889 CE
#9041
Geschichte des Physiologus.
The most comprehensive survey of the general background of the Physiologus, and the later influence of this text. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1889 CE
#10291
Histoire naturelle des cétacés des mers d'Europe. Extrait des tomes XXXVIII, XL, XLV, XLIII des Mémoires couronnés et autres Mémoires publiés par l'Académie royale des sciences, des lettres et des beaux-arts de Belgique - 1889.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1889 CE
#5435
History and pathology of vaccination. 2 vols.
This very full history of the subject caused a good deal of controversy; see the review of it in Lancet, 1890, 1, 470-72. Crookshank was an opponent of vaccination.
1889 CE
#5205
Il virus dell’ ulcera venerea.
Announcement of the discovery of Haemophilus ducreyi (Ducrey’s bacillus), causal organism in chancroid.
1889 CE
#12348
Jenner and vaccination: A strange chapter of medical history.
Creighton, one of the founders of epidemiology, disputed the germ theory of infectious disease, and became "one of the anti-vaccination movement's 'most ardent and distinguished spokesmen.' Creighton argued that vacci…
1889 CE
#5934
Keratitis punctata superficialis.
Epidemic keratoconjunctivitis first described.
1889 CE
#4976.1
L’Automatisme psychologique.
Janet argued that “hysterical symptoms are due to subconscious fixed ideas that have been isolated and usually forgotten. Split off from consciousness – ‘dissociated’ – they embody painfu…
1889 CE
#1419.1
Laboratory notes of technical methods for the nervous system.
Van Gieson’s acid fuchsin and picric acid stain for nerve tissue.
1889 CE
#5935
Lehrbuch der Augenheilkunde.
Fuchs’s textbook was an outstanding contribution to the literature, and was translated into many languages. The last English edition appeared in 1933.
1889 CE
#4184
Lehrbuch der Kystoskopie.
Nitze introduced the cystoscope in 1877 (see No. 4175) and in 1889 published his important monograph on cystoscopy.
1889 CE
#6606
Les difformes et les malades dans l’art.
Reprinted Amsterdam, B.M.Israël, 1972
1889 CE
#9666
Les poissons venimeux. Contribution à l'hygiène navale.
The first systematic work on the venom organs of fishes.
1889 CE
#4095
Lupus pernio de la face; synovites fongueuses (scrofulo-tuberculeuses) symétriques des extrémités supérieures.
Besnier–Boeck–Schaumann disease, Boeck’s sarcoid. Boeck (No. 4128) wrote a classic paper on the subject and later Schaumann’s paper (No. 4149) resulted in a triple eponym. (See No. 4067).
1889 CE
#2796
Maladies du coeur et des vaisseaux.
In his important monograph on disorders of the cardiovascular system, Huchard was apparently the first to use the designation “Stokes–Adams disease”.
1889 CE
#8330
Marcelli De medicamentis liber. Edited Georgius Helmreich.
Marcellus's compendium of pharmacological preparations drawing on the work of multiple medical and scientific writers as well as folk remedies and magic. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1889 CE
#9525
Merck's index of fine chemicals and drugs for the materia medica and the arts: Comprising a summary of whatever chemical products are to-day adjudged as being useful in either medicine or technology, with average values and synonyms affixed; a guide for the physician, apothecary, chemist, and dealer.
First edition of the Merck Manual. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1889 CE
#233
Natural inheritance.
By the employment of statistical methods Galton propounded a “law of filial regression”. This book represents the first statistical study of biological variation and inheritance.
1889 CE
#3598
Nuovo metodo per la cura radicale dell’ ernia inguinale.
Bassini’s operation for the radical cure of inguinal hernia. His first account was unillustrated. Translation in J. Hist. Med., 1966, 21, 401-07. Bassini expanded his paper into an illustrated book with the same…
1889 CE
#10618
Old age: The results of information received respecting nearly nine hundred persons who had attained the age of eighty years, including seventy-four centenarians.
Analysis, illustrated with Woodburytype photographs, of data collected by the "Collective Investigation Committee" of the British Medical Association. Note that in the 1880s attaining the age of 80 was considered wort…
1889 CE
#1329.1
On the local paralysis of peripheral ganglia, and on the connexion of different classes of nerve fibres with them.
Langley and Dickinson studied the effect of nicotine on nerve fibers, and were able by this means to make a thorough investigation of the distribution of nerve fibers.
1889 CE
#947
On the regulation of respiration.
Demonstration of the action of the vagus in respiration.
1889 CE
#1705
On vital and medical statistics.
1889 CE
#11869
Opium: Historical note, or, the poppy in China. Published by order of The Inspector General of Customs.
Though relatively brief (50pp.) this may be the first historical study of opium in English. Text in English and Chinese. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Turst at this link. Reprinted without the Chinese text, Shangha…
1889 CE
#10885
Preliminary observations on the microorganism of Texas fever.
First report on the discovery of a Babesia, cause of Babesiosis. Smith first observed the microscopic organism in the summer of 1886, but mentioned Babes's work in this paper, perhaps resulting in Babes being credited…
1889 CE
#5240
Sul ciclo evolutivo dei parassiti malarica nella febbre terzana.
Golgi showed that the parasite of quartan differs from that of tertian malarial fever. English translation in Kean (No. 2268.1).
1889 CE
#4785
Sur l’atrophie musculaire des ataxiques.
Dejerine ranks high in French neurology. He became clinical chief at the Salpêtrière. He separated peripheral from medullary tabes, wrote on the tabetic muscular atrophies, on the parietal lobe syndrome, …
1889 CE
#5157
Sur un moyen de diagnostic rapide de la morve.
Straus reaction for the diagnosis of glanders.
1889 CE
#4101
Sur une nouvelle forme de dermatite pustuleuse chronique en foyer à progression excentrique.
Pyodermite végétante. Hallopeau described a suppurative form of Neumann’s pemphigus vegetans.
1889 CE
#14344
The action of natural selection in producing old age, decay, and death. In Essays upon heredity and kindred biological problems by August Weismann; authorized translation edited by Edward B. Poulton, Selmar Schönland and Arthur E. Shipley, Chapter 1, "The duration of life," page 23.
Wallace proposed the first evolutionary theory of aging. He stated that if too many people lived for a long time they would compete for resources needed for other members of the species that were of reproduction age. …
1889 CE
#5620.1
The American armamentarium chirurgicum.
The most comprehensive trade catalogue of medical and surgical instruments and equipment published in America during the 19th century. Reprinted with introduction by James M. Edmondson and F. Terry Hambrecht, San Fran…
1889 CE
#11276
The cerebral palsies of children.
Osler's monograph on cerebral palsy helped define this condition. "Osler emphasized the diverse causes of childhood hemiplegia. Osler classified his patients with nonprogressive upper motor neuron dysfunction accordin…
1889 CE
#9276
The folk-lore of plants.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1889 CE
#3599
The radical cure of hernia.
Simultaneously with Bassini, Halsted devised the modern operation for the radical cure of inguinal hernia. This is known as the Halsted I repair. Later his technique differed much from that of Bassini. See also his la…
1889 CE
#4861
The treatment of epilepsy.
Alexander was the first to attempt the treatment of epilepsy by surgical means. He removed the superior cervical sympathetic ganglia. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1889 CE
#13509
The useful native plants of Australia. (Including Tasmania).
Maiden, a botanist, was Curator and Secretary of The Technological, Industrial, and Sanitary Museum of New South Wales. Chapters include. 1. Human Food and Food adjuncts; 2. Forage Plants; 3. Drugs; 4. Gums, Resins, a…
1889 CE
#11541
Traité des maladies des pays chauds: Région prétropicale.
1889 CE
#4576
Tremblement avec paralysie croisée du moteur oculaire commun.
“Benedikt’s syndrome”–paralysis of the oculomotor nerve on one side with intensive trembling of the other side. English translation in Wolf, The classical brain stem syndromes, Springfield, Cha…
1889 CE
#12646
Über den Schwerpunkt des menschlichen Körpers mit Rücksicht auf die Ausrüstung des deutschen Infanteristen.
Translated into English by P.G.J. Maquet and R. Furlong as On the centre of gravity of the human body as related to the equipment of the German infantry soldier. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1985.
1889 CE
#3496
Ueber Darmsaftgewinnung beim Menschen. (Vorläufige Mittheilung.)
Duodenal aspiration.