1880–1889
768 entries with publication dates in this decade.
1880 CE
#5346.1
Ueber parasitäre Hämoptoë (Gregarinosis pulmonum).
Description of the ova of Paragonimus (which Baelz named Gregarina pulmonalis) and its relationship to endemic hemoptysis. Translation in Kean (No. 2268.1), p. 602.
1880 CE
#3473
Ueber Radicalheilung des Krebses.
Kocher’s operation of radical extirpation of the tongue for carcinoma.
1880 CE
#123
Ueber Zellbildung und Zelltheilung. 3te. Aufl.
A pioneer work on the formation and division of cells. In this third edition Strasburger established one of the principles of modern cytology, i.e., that independent cell formation does not occur but that fresh nuclei…
1880 CE
#13854
What do do first, in accidents or poisoning.
Expanded as What to do first in accidents and emergencies. A manual explaining the treatment of surgical and other injuries in the absence of the physician (1883). Digital facsimile of the 1880 edition from the Hathi …
1880 CE
#3473.1
Wyçiecie raka odźwiernika zoladkowego, śmierćw 12 godzinach.
First extirpation of carcinomatous pylorus. Death after 12 hours. German translation in Dtsch. Z. Chir., 1881, 14, 252-60.
1880 CE
#825
Zur Genese der Herztöne.
1880 CE–1881 CE
#4292.1
A case of nephro-lithotomy; or the extraction of a calculus from an undilated kidney.
Nephrolithotomy; removal of a renal calculus by a lumbar incision.
1880 CE–1881 CE
#500
A treatise on comparative embryology. 2 vols.
This work sums up all the previous knowledge on the subject, and includes Balfour’s own significant contributions. Balfour, a pupil of Michael Foster, became professor of animal morphology in 1882; in the same y…
1880 CE–1881 CE
#5918
Symmetrical changes in the region of the yellow spot in each eye of an infant.
Tay was the first to describe amaurotic familial idiocy, his paper dealing mainly with the ocular manifestations. The condition later became known as “Tay-Sachs’s disease” (see also No. 4705).
1880 CE–1882 CE
#534.66
Die Missbildungen des Menschen. Eine systematische Darstellung der beim Menschen angeboren vorkommenden Missbildungen und erklärung ihrer Entstehungsweise. 2 vols. and atlas.
Reproduces plates of important specimens from otherwise inaccessible sources. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1880 CE–1882 CE
#11153
Recherches sur les difformités congénitales chez les monstres, le foetus et l'enfant.
Published as Vol. 1 of Oeuvres de Docteur Jules Guerin, of which this work was all published. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1880 CE–1882 CE
#826
Regarding the action of hydrate of soda, hydrate of ammonia, and hydrate of potash on the ventricle of the frog’s heart.
“Ringer’s solution”
1880 CE–1884 CE
#3287
A manual of diseases of the throat and nose. 2 vols.
Mackenzie’s great reputation earned him the title of Father of British Laryngology. In 1863 he founded the Golden Square Throat Hospital, London, the first hospital in the world devoted solely to diseases of the…
1880 CE–1884 CE
#3739
Kakke (Beriberi).
In his important account of beriberi, Baelz dealt with the Tokyo outbreak of 1881.
1880 CE–1885 CE
#501
Anatomie menschlicher Embryonen. 3 pts. and atlas.
A systematic account of early human embryology that stimulated further investigation in a field in which His stood highest among his contemporaries. He was the first to study the human embryo as a whole.
1880 CE–1889 CE
#5919
Traité complet de l’ophtalmologie. 4 vols.
1880 CE–1895 CE
#9626
Report on the scientific results of the Voyage of the H.M.S. Challenger during the Years 1873-76, under the command of Captain George S. Nares… and Captain Frank Tourle Thomson. 42 vols. in 50.
This work edited by John Murray and Charles Wyville Thomson, and completed by Murray after Thomson's death, was published over a 15 year period, and included about 29,500 pages and more than 3,280 plates. It treated i…
1880 CE–1961 CE
#6763
Index-catalogue of the library of the Surgeon General’s Office. Vol. 1-16; 2nd ser., vol. 1-21; 3rd ser., vol. 1-10; 4th ser., vol. l-11(A-Mn); 5th ser., vol. 1-3.
In 1836 Surgeon General Joseph Lovell established a small collection of medical books for the use of his staff. This was the origin of the “Surgeon General’s Library.” John Shaw Billings did much to …
1881 CE
#6075
A case of removal of the uterine appendages.
Oöphorectomy, February 1881.
1881 CE
#3173
A fatal form of septicaemia in the rabbit, produced by the subcutaneous injection of human saliva.
In the same year as Pasteur, and independently, Sternberg discovered the pneumococcus (Streptococcus pneumoniae) demonstrating its carriage in the healthy human mouth.
1881 CE
#5616
An address on the catgut ligature
1881 CE
#5754.2
An operation for prominence of the auricles.
Otoplasty first described. Ely died very young from tuberculosis.
1881 CE
#11145
Catalogue du Musée Orfila publié sour les auspices de la Faculté de Médecine de Paris.
Digital facsimile from BnFgallica at this link.
1881 CE
#13425
Catalogue of the ornithological library of the late John Gould.
1881 CE
#10374
Catalogue of the Pathological Museum, Medical College, Calcutta.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1881 CE
#3288
Clinical remarks on the proclivity of the abductor fibres of the recurrent laryngeal nerve to become affected sooner than the adductor fibres, or even exclusively, in cases of undoubted central or peripheral injury or disease of the roots or trunks of the pneumogastric, spinal accessory, or recurrent nerves.
“Semon’s law”. Of German birth, Semon became one of the greatest laryngologists in Britain. He developed the modern operation of laryngofissure for early cancer of the larynx.
1881 CE
#4563
Contribution à l’étude clinique de la sciatique.
“Lasègue’s sign” in sciatica. Although discovered by E. C. Lasègue, it was first reported by his pupil Forst.
1881 CE
#10809
Dedication of the New Building and Hall of the Boston Medical Library Association, 19 Boylston Place, December 3, 1878. Order of exercises. Address by the president, Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes. Report of the building committee. Remarks by Dr. J. S. Billings, Prof. Justin Winsor, Dr. George H. Lyman, Charles W. Eliot, Dr. David P. Smith, Dr. Calvin Ellis, Dr. Henry I. Bowditch.
The printed wrapper of this pamphlet has a different text: Address delivered at the dedication of the Hall of the Boston Medical Library Association, December III., MDCCLXXVIII., by Oliver Wendell Holmes, M.D., Presid…
1881 CE
#5031
Der Bacillus des Abdominaltyphus und dertyphöse Process.
Klebs probably saw the typhoid bacillus before Eberth, reporting it later.
1881 CE
#4079
Di un caso di encondroma et angioma multiplo. Contribuzione alla genesi embrionale dei tumori.
“Maffucci’s syndrome” – cavernous hemangioma with enchondromas of skeleton, producing deformities.
1881 CE
#502
Die Coelomtheorie. Versuch einer Erklärung des mittleren Keimblattes.
The Hertwig brothers formulated the “coelom” theory to account for the classification and phylogeny of metazoan animals. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1881 CE
#5002
Die Entdeckung des Hypnotismus: nebst einer ungedruckten Original-Abhandlung von [James] Braid in deutscher Übersetzung.
A translation into German by Preyer of a previously unpublished work on the history of hypnosis by James Braid.
1881 CE
#5617
Die ischaemischen Muskellähmungen und Kontrakturen.
“Volkmann’s ischemic contracture” first described. English translation in Bick, Classics of orthopaedics.
1881 CE
#1873
Die natürlich vorkommenden mydriatisch wirkenden Alkaloïde.
Isolation of hysocine (scopolamine), an anti-nausea drug.
1881 CE
#2081
Die Nebenwirkungen der Arzneimittel.
This was the first book of its kind. It deals with the borderline between the pharmacological and the toxicological action of drugs with the untoward or side-effects of all kinds of medicaments. For details regarding …
1881 CE
#1647
Die öffentliche Hygiene im alten Rom.
1881 CE
#4218
Die operative Behandlung der beweglichen Niere durch Fixation.
Hahn devised the operation of nephropexy (nephrorrhaphy) for the relief of movable kidney.
1881 CE
#5924
Die Verhütung der Augenentzüngung der Neugeborenen.
Credé introduced the practice of instillation of silver nitrate into the eyes of all newborn children as a preventive measure against ophthalmia neonatorum. Separate expanded edition with the same title, Berlin…
1881 CE
#13005
Early European researches into the flora of China.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1881 CE
#4818
Epilepsy and other chronic convulsive diseases.
Gowers left a classic account of epilepsy, a book which today is still one of the most important on the subject. He was first to note the tetanic nature of the epileptic convulsion.
1881 CE
#2495
Essays on the floating-matter of the air in relation to putrefaction and infection.
Tyndall interested himself in atmospheric germs and dust. His experiments on sterilization by heat led him to the discovery in 1877 of fractional sterilization (Tyndallization). His work on the subject is included in …
1881 CE
#7645
Frozen sections of a child by Thomas Dwight. Fifteen drawings from nature by H. P. Quincy.
The first atlas of cross-sectional anatomy published in the United States. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link
1881 CE
#3476
Gastro-Enterostomie.
Wölfler perfected the operation of gastro-enterostomy.
1881 CE
#13705
Guide to the literature of botany; being a classified selection of botanical works, including nearly 6000 titles not given in Pritzel's 'Thesaurus."
Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.
1881 CE
#635
Handbuch der Physiologie des Gesammt-Stoffwechsels und der Fortpflanzung.
Forms vol. 6, pt. 1 of Hermann’s Handbuch der Physiologie.
1881 CE
#10334
History of medicine in Massachusetts. A centennial address delivered before the Massachusetts Medical Society at Cambridge, June 7, 1881.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1881 CE
#3172
L’organisme microscopique trouvé par M. Pasteur dans la maladie nouvelle provoquée par la salive d’un enfant mort de la rage.
Probably the earliest record of pneumococcus. Parrot reported the discovery made by Louis Pasteur.
1881 CE
#783
La circulation du sang à l’état physiologique et dans les maladies.
1881 CE
#4177
Leçons cliniques sur les maladies des voies urinaires.
Guyon was the outstanding French urologist of his day, an operator of great skill and a brilliant lithotomist.
1881 CE
#13045
Leprosy in British Guiana. An account of West Indian Leprosy. Illustrated with twenty lithographic plates, coloured and plain, from original drawings and photographs of patients at the asylum, and several engravings from camera-lucida drawings, by E. Noble Smith, of pathological specimens, mounted and prepared, with explanatory remarks by P. S. Abraham....
The author was medical superintendent of the General Leper Asylum, British Guiana, West Indies. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.