1890–1899
835 entries with publication dates in this decade.
1896 CE
#9639
Atlas of nerve cells. With the cooperation of Oliver S. Strong and Edward Leaming.
Photomicrographs by Leaming. Digital facsimile from the Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.
1896 CE
#4680
Beobachtungen und Versuche über den Meningokokkus intracellularis (Weichselbaum–Jaeger).
Heubner was the first to isolate meningococci from the cerebrospinal fluid of living beings.
1896 CE
#10836
Biological experimentation: Its function and limits.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1896 CE
#3636
Calculs du rein. Calculs de la vésicule biliaire.
Chappuis and Chauvel were the first to study biliary concretions by means of Roentgen rays.
1896 CE
#10382
Catalogue of the medicinal plants in the Museum of the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1896 CE
#14309
Centenaire de la faculté de médecine de Paris (1794-1894).
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1896 CE
#9007
Das konträre Geschlechtsgefühl von Havelock Ellis und J. A. Symonds. Deutsche Original-Ausgabe Besorgt unter Mitwirkung von Dr. Hans Kurella.
This work, translated into English as Sexual inversion in 1897, became the first English language medical textbook on homosexuality. It was published as the second volume of Ellis's Studies in the psychology of sex. D…
1896 CE
#1426
Das Menschenhirn. Studien in der makroskopischen Morphologie. 2 vols.
Retzius studied a large series of subprimate, simian, and human brains, and clarified some of the more difficult problems of cerebral morphology.
1896 CE
#8435
De Alcmaeone Crotoniata scripsit Ioannes Wachtler.
Greek texts of the fragments and testimonia with commentary in Latin. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1896 CE
#3840.1
Deaf-mutism and goitre.
Pendred syndrome, a genetic disorder leading to congenital bilateral (both sides) sensorineural hearing loss and goitre with euthyroid or mild hypothyroidism (decreased thyroid gland function).
1896 CE
#4366
Deformities: A treatise on orthopaedic surgery.
Includes a valuable discussion of congenital anomalies of the bones and joints from the orthopedic point of view. Greatly expanded second edition, 2 vols., London, 1912.
1896 CE
#1371
Der Hund mit verkürtzen Rückenmark.
Goltz and Ewald succeeded in impregnating a bitch after its spinal cord had been severed.
1896 CE
#5088
Der Keuchhusten.
An important history of whooping cough.
1896 CE
#4950
Der psychologische Versuch in der Psychiatrie.
1896 CE
#4122
Des “tubercules” cutanées.
Darier grouped together, under the heading “tuberculides”, the skin eruptions associated with tuberculosis.
1896 CE
#3841
Die chronische, zur Bildung eisenharter Tumoren führende Entzündung der Schilddrüse.
Riedel described a type of chronic inflammation of the thyroid (“Riedel’s disease”).
1896 CE
#1766.602
Die geschichtliche Entwicklung des ärztlichen Standes und der medicinischen Wissenschaften.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1896 CE
#3181
Die Specksteinlunge. Ein Beitrag zur pathologischen Anatomie der Staublungen.
Talcosis of lung reported.
1896 CE
#2549
Eine neue Methode zur raschen Erkennung des Choleravibrio und des Typhusbacillus.
The discovery of bacterial agglutination. Gruber and Durham discovered the agglutinating action of the serum of typhoid patients upon the typhoid bacillus. First briefly reported by Durham: On a special action of seru…
1896 CE
#1178.1
Einige Versuche über Ovarientransplantation bei Kaninchen.
Knauer implanted ovaries into immature or castrated animals, producing development of sexual characteristics, thus demonstrating the existence of an ovarian hormone.
1896 CE
#2710
Epistaxis répété chez un sujet porteur de petits angiomes cutanés et muqueux.
Rendu’s account of multiple hereditary telangiectasis (“Rendu–Osler–Weber disease”).
1896 CE
#3023
Fall von penetrirender Stichverletzung des rechten Ventrikel’s. Herznaht.
Rehn was the first successfully to suture a wound of the human heart.
1896 CE
#11077
Further report on the tsetse fly disease or nagana, in Zululand.
In this more-detailed follow-up to his "preliminary" paper of 1895 published in Durban, South Africa, Bruce provided definitive proof that the Trypanosoma was the cause of nagana, and the tsetse fly was the vector of …
1896 CE
#5035
Infections paratyphoïdiques.
Isolation of Salmonella paratyphi B. First use of the term “paratyphoid fever”.
1896 CE
#5491
Influenza und Dengue.
Forms Bd. IV, Teil 1 of Nothnagel’s Specielle Pathologie und Therapie.
1896 CE
#6660
JANUS. Archives Internationales pour l’Histoire de la Médecine, 1-
Subtitle changed to Revue Internationale de l’Histoire des Sciences, de la Médicine, de la Pharmacie, et de la Technique.
1896 CE
#12949
Journal of the Right Hon. Sir Joseph Banks...during Captain Cook's first voyage in H.M.S. Edeavour in 1766-71 to Terra de Fuego, Otahite, New Zealand, Australia, the Dutch East Indies. Etc. Edited by Sir Joseph D. Hooker.
Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.
1896 CE
#10052
Kehrt zur Natur zurück! Die wahre naturgemäße Heil- und Lebensweise. Wasser, Licht, Luft, Erde, Früchte und wirkliches Christentum.
Translated into English from the 4th enlarged German edition and published by the translator, Benedict Lust as: Return to nature! The true natural method of healing and living and the true salvation of the soul. (New …
1896 CE
#12454
Le sommeil, tiers de notre vie. Pathologie, physiologie, hygiène, psychologie. Traduit de Russe avec l'autorisation de l'auteur par Ernest Jaubert.
Perhaps the first book on the physiology of sleep. The author examines the physiology, pathology, hygiene, and psychology of sleep, including the differences between the waking and sleeping states, the general phenome…
1896 CE
#2109
Le vénin des serpents.
1896 CE
#9905
Les asphyxies par les gaz, les vapeurs et les anesthésiques.
1896 CE
#10825
Medical and dental colleges of the west: Historical and biographical.
Covers institutions in Chicago and environs: Augustana Hospital, the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Hahnemann Medical College and Hospital, Mercy Hospital, Michael Reese Hospital, Northwestern University Medical …
1896 CE
#6562
Medicina popolare siciliana.
English translation, Lawrence, Kansas, Coronado Press, 1971.
1896 CE
#6618
Medicine and kindred arts in the plays of Shakespeare.
1896 CE
#1569.1
Note sur la variation éléctrique (courant d’action) déterminée dans le nerf acoustique par le son.
Beauregard and Dupuy recorded the action potential in the auditory nerve of the frog.
1896 CE
#5942
Note sur un diplobacille pathogène pour la conjunctiva humaine.
Morax and Axenfeld (No. 5941) independently isolated a diplobacillus which causes a chronic conjunctivitis – the Morax – Axenfeld haemophilus.
1896 CE
#11584
Notes on the coronary arteries.
Dock recorded one of the earliest diagnoses of myocardial infaction in a living patient: "The diagnosis was mymalacia folling coronary sclerosis with secondary pericarditis. This was based on the history of increasing…
1896 CE
#5361
Notizen zur Helminthologie Aegyptens. Die Lebensgeschichte des Anchylostomum duodenale (Dub.).
Looss elucidated the life cycle and mode of transmission of the hookworm. See also No. 5365. English translation in Kean (No. 2268.1).
1896 CE
#2000
Om anvendelse medicinen af koncentrerede kemiske lysstraaler.
Finsen was the founder of modern phototherapy. He demonstrated the value of invisible light, the actinic or chemical ray, the ultra-violet ray, as therapeutic measures. Digital facsimile from wellcomecollection.org at…
1896 CE
#647
On the absorption of fluids from the connective tissue spaces.
Starling discovered the functional significance of the serum proteins.
1896 CE
#13072
On the pigment of the negro's skin and hair.
"In the present state of our knowledge we can only say that it seems highly probable that the pigment of the negro's hair is not different from the dark pigment found in the hair of the white races, and we may infer t…
1896 CE
#5778.1
On the treatment of inoperable cases of carcinoma of the mamma: suggestions for a new method of treatment, with illustrative cases.
Öophorectomy in the treatment of breast cancer.
1896 CE
#6719
Physicians and surgeons of America. (Illustrated.) A collection of biographical sketches of the regular medical profession.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1896 CE
#2802
Practical aids in the diagnosis of pericardial effusion, in connection with the question as to surgical treatment.
Pulmonary collapse at the left base in pericardial effusion – “Ewart’s sign”.
1896 CE
#11823
Race traits and tendencies of the American Negro.
Hoffman was statistician for the Prudential Insurance Company of America. This work, "Hoffman's first, characterized African Americans as exceptionally disease-prone. The work was motivated by a concern about issues o…
1896 CE
#2550
Recherches de la réaction agglutinante dans le sang et le sérum desséchés des typhiques et dans la sérosité des vesicatoires.
Developing the work of Gruber and Durham, Widal noted that a patient’s serum could be tested with bacteria of known type and his disease identified by this means. They demonstrated specific agglutinins in the bl…
1896 CE
#1932.3
Ricerche batteriologische e chimiche sulle alterazioni del mais; contributo all’etiologia della pellagra.
First recorded scientific observations on the action of a penicillin. Gosio produced an antibacterial crystalline substance from Penicillium glaucum.
1896 CE
#4293
Roentgen rays. Photography of renal calculus.
First radiogram of renal calculus.
1896 CE
#4125
Sopra una dermatosi telangettode non ancora descritta “Purpura annularis” “Telangectasia follicularis annulata” studio clinico.
Purpuraannularis telangiectodes (Majocchi) first described.
1896 CE
#2686
Stereoscopic Roentgen pictures.
Invention of the Roentgen stereoscope.