1890–1899
835 entries with publication dates in this decade.
1897 CE
#14308
De Vrouw: Haar bouw en haar inwendige organen. Een populaire schets.
Jacobs was the first woman in the Netherlands to graduate from medical school. In 1882 she founded the first birth control clinic in the Netherlands and "the first clinic in the world devoted solely to dissemtinating …
1897 CE
#2002
Demonstration eines mit Röntgenstrahlen behandelten Falles von Naevus pigmentosus pilosus.
First use of x rays for deep irradiation therapy.
1897 CE
#5099
Die Aetiologie des seuchenhaften (“infectiösen”) Verwerfens.
Discovery of Brucella abortus.
1897 CE
#2806
Die angeborenen Defecte der Kammerscheidewand des Herzens.
“Riding aorta”, patent interventricular septum and right ventricular enlargement – the “Eisenmenger syndrome”.
1897 CE
#1890
Die chemischen Grundlagen der Lehre von der Giftwirkung und Desinfection.
Krönig and Paul described a new method for the quantitative study of disinfection and laid the foundation of modern knowledge of disinfectants.
1897 CE
#515
Die frühesten Differenzirungsvorgänge in Centralnervensystem.
1897 CE
#11094
Die histochemischen und physiologischen Arbeiten. 2 vols.
In a letter to his uncle, the embryologist, Wilhelm His, written on December 17, 1892, and first published in this collected edition, Miescher described a kind of genetic code. He remarked how "some of the large molec…
1897 CE
#1574
Die historische Entwicklung der experimentellen Gehirn- und Rückenmarksphysiologie vor Flourens.
Unsurpassed coverage of the experimental physiology of the brain and spinal cord up to the work of Flourens. The best edition is the extensively annotated English translation as The historical development of experimen…
1897 CE
#4708.2
Die infantile Cerebrallähmung.
Freud gave an excellent description of the various forms of cerebral palsy, with precise classification of the different spastic symptoms; he also mentioned the extra-pyramidal symptoms. This work forms Bd. IX, II The…
1897 CE
#5064
Die Wertbestimmung des Diphtherieheilserums.
Ehrlich improved Behring’s diphtheria antitoxin through quantitative titration and established an international standard for this and other antitoxins. This was the beginning of the concept of biological standar…
1897 CE
#6206
Een geval van ovariaalzwangerschap (zwangerschap in een Graafschen follikel).
First description of ovarian pregnancy.
1897 CE
#4190
Eine neue Modifikation des Harnleiterkatheters.
With Nitze’s operative cystoscope it became possible to excise bladder tumors in situ.
1897 CE
#12198
Entwickelungslehre, Geburtshülfe und Gynäkologie in der hippokratischen Schriften.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1897 CE
#4759
Existe-t-il une atrophie musculaire progressive Aran-Duchenne?
Marie disbelieved in the Aran–Duchenne type of muscular progressive atrophy.
1897 CE
#950
Fisiologia dell’uomo sulle Alpi. Studii fatti sul Monte Rosa.
Mosso made important investigations on respiration at high altitudes. He considered that the respiratory symptoms produced at high altitudes were due to lack of carbon dioxide. English translation, London, 1898.
1897 CE
#8881
Fundamentos racionales y condiciones téchnicas de la Investigación biológica.
For the second edition (Madrid: Fortanet, 1899) Ramón y Cajal changed the title to Reglas y consejos sobre investigación cientifica. He added Los tónicos de la voluntad to the fourth ediition (Mad…
1897 CE
#2805
Heart disease.
Chapter 17 includes J. Broadbent’s classic description of adherent pericardium. See Willius & Keys, Cardiac classics, 1941, pp. 712-15, for reproduction of part of this chapter.
1897 CE
#9015
Krateuas. Von M. Wellmann.
Crateuas was the personal physician of Mithridates VI. Of Pontos. He wrote a three-part herbal book describing the medicinal properties of plants. This work, which was illustrated, is the earliest known herbal book to…
1897 CE
#1752
L’infanticide.
1897 CE
#11127
La foi qui guérit.
As one of his last works Charcot published this 38-page pamphlet on faith healing.
1897 CE
#1753
La pendaison, la strangulation, la suffocation, la submersion.
1897 CE
#4126
La séborrhée grasse et la pelade.
Acne bacillus first cultivated.
1897 CE
#2037
La thérapeutique des vieux maîtres.
1897 CE
#11651
Lectures on angina pectoris and allied states.
"This monograph, based on seven lectures Osler delivered at Johns Hopkins, is his longest publication dealing with heart disease. He discusses the history of the recognition of angina, the pathophysiology of coronary …
1897 CE
#1022
Lektsii o rabotie glavnikh pishtshevaritelnikh zhelyoz. [Lectures on the work of the principal digestive glands.]
Pavlov's classic study of the physiology of digestion. Especially notable was his method of producing gastric and pancreatic fistulae for the purpose of his experiments. The second published edition was a German trans…
1897 CE
#2395
Les chancres extra-génitaux.
1897 CE
#9903
Les explosifs, les explosions au point de vue médico-légal.
1897 CE
#9906
Les intoxications.
1897 CE
#3775
Lymphosarkom (Lymphosarkomatose, Pseudoleukämie, Myelom, Chlorom).
“Paltauf-Sternberg disease” (see also No. 3776). On the European Continent the name “Hodgkin-Paltauf-Sternberg disease” is in use.
1897 CE
#1766
Medicinische Deontologie.
1897 CE
#5100
Mediterranean, Malta, or undulant fever.
An authoritative summary of current knowledge of Malta fever.
1897 CE
#2986
Multiple aneurysms of the pulmonary artery.
Churton was the first to recognize this condition at necropsy.
1897 CE
#10020
Neurologische Wandtafeln zum Gebrauch beim klinischen, anatomischen und physiologischen Unterricht.
This set of enormous chromolithographed color wall charts contains probably the largest charts of the brain and nervous system ever published. The two largest measure 5 feet 3 inches by 7 feet 2-5/8 inches! The 13 str…
1897 CE
#3792
On a condition of mixed premature and immature development.
Hastings Gilford gave progeria its name; it was first fully reported by him in Practitioner, 1904, 73, 188-217. Digital facsimile of the 1897 paper from PubMedCentral at this link.
1897 CE
#5247
On some peculiar pigmented cells found in two mosquitoes fed on malarial blood.
Ross proved that the mosquito was responsible for the transmission of malaria. On 20 August 1897, he found Laveran’s Plasmodium in the stomach of the Anopheles mosquito after it had fed on the blood of malaria p…
1897 CE
#5101
On the application of the serum test to the differential diagnosis of typhoid and Malta fever.
Agglutination test for the diagnosis of undulant fever.
1897 CE
#1144
On the blood-pressure-raising constituent of the suprarenal capsule.
Abel and Crawford further investigated the pressor substance of Oliver and Schäfer calling it “epinephrine”.
1897 CE
#5246
On the flagellated form of the malarial parasite.
MacCallum reported at a meeting of the British Association his observation of the mode of fertilization of the malarial parasite of birds; two months later he announced that he had found the same to hold good for the …
1897 CE
#9567
Photographic atlas of diseases of the skin. A series of eighty plates comprising one hundred illustrations photographed from life and colored by hand.
Large folio, issued in 16 parts, each image hand-colored and signed by Fox. This was physically the largest work and presumably the most expensive work issued by Fox.
1897 CE
#3309.1
Photographs of a case of rapid destruction of the nose and face.
Malignant granuloma of the nose first described.
1897 CE
#4504
Polyarthrite tuberculeuse simulant des lésions rhumatismales chroniques déformantes.
Tuberculous rheumatism (“Poncet’s disease”). See also his later paper in Bull. Acad. Méd. (Paris), 1902, 3 sér., 48, 97-114.
1897 CE
#6867
Repertory of the homoeopathic materia medica.
1349 pp. In his Divided Legacy: the Bacteriological Era (1994) Harris Coulter commented, “The most remarkable contribution to Homoeopathic practice since the death of Constantine Hering (1880) was the Repertory …
1897 CE
#12288
Researches on the circulation time in organs and on the influences which affect it.
This was a continuation of researches undertaken by Stewart for the Goodsir Prize Essay at the University of Edinburgh (1892). His autograph manuscript for the 1892 essay was digitized by the university at made availa…
1897 CE
#2967
Resection of arteries and veins injured in continuity – end to end suture – experimental and clinical research.
Successful suture of femoral artery, 1896. This was one of the earliest end-to-end anastomoses of arteries ever performed.
1897 CE
#10597
Skin diseases of children. With twelve photogravure and chromographic plates, and sixty illustrations in the text.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1897 CE
#11272
Sporadic cretinism in America.
In 1893 Osler was among the first American physicians to use thyroid extract to treat myxedema or cretinism. He made a special study of the disease, corresponding with physicians across America to try to determine its…
1897 CE
#12608
Standard history of the medical profession of Philadelphia. Edited by Frederick P. Henry, with the collaboration of James M. Anders....
"The materials of the first five chapters were collected by an experienced historian in the employ of the publishers"--Pref. 2nd ed; 1977, identifies as Burton Alva Konkle. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at th…
1897 CE
#6105
Sur un nouveau procédé d’hystérectomie abdominale totale; la section médiane de l’utérus.
1897 CE
#239
The average contribution of each several ancestor to the total heritage of the offspring.
Galton’s “law of ancestral heredity”.
1897 CE
#1706
