1890–1899

1897 CE

#514

The development of the frog's egg; an introduction to experimental embryology.

First work in English on experimental embryology.

1897 CE

#6342.2

The diseases of infancy and childhood.

The first really complete and authoritative American text on the subject.

1897 CE

#8725

The history of the Pennsylvania Hospital 1751 to 1895

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1897 CE

#11875

The origin of disease, especially of disease resulting from intrinsic as opposed to extrinsic causes. With chapters on diagnosis, prognosis and treatment. With one hundred and thirty-seven original illustrations.

The most valuable features of this work are the exceptionally fine and delicate histologic illustrations engraved on steel and printed on thick paper to eliminate show-through. Each image is faced with detailed explan…

1897 CE

#6719.1

The pioneers of homoeopathy.

Brief biographies of about 500 homepathic physicians from all countries who were practitioners prior to 1835. In the first part Bradford docmented the lives of those who assisted Hahnemann. Digital facsimile from the …

1897 CE

#1631

The purification of sewage and water.

Dibdin introduced the bacterial system of sewage purification. Previously he had devised the contact system.

1897 CE

#2550.1

Über specifische Reactionen im keimfreien Filtraten aus Cholera, Typhus und Pestbouillonculturen, erzeugt durch homologes Serum.

The precipitin reaction, employed for the qualitative identification of antigens and antibodies. English translation in Bibel, Milestones in immunology,(1988) pp. 265-68.

1897 CE

#5128

Ueber die Pestepidemie in Formosa.

Ogata considered the flea (principally Xenopsylla cheopis) to be the principal, if not the sole, vector of bubonic plague infection.

1897 CE

#1330

Ueber die Primitivfibrillen in den Ganglienzellen von Menschen und andern Wirbelthieren.

1897 CE

#4367

Ueber eine seltene Form von Erkrankung der Knochen und Gelenke.

“Bruck’s disease” – deformity of bones, multiple fractures, ankylosis of joints, and muscular atrophy.

1897 CE

#2333

Ueber neue Tuberkulinpräparate.

Koch’s new tuberculin (Tuberculin R).

1897 CE

#3023.1

Ueber penetrirende Herzwunden und Herznaht.

Before 1896 wounds of the heart had always been regarded as fatal. Rehn’s work marks the begining of cardiac surgery. English translation in Callahan, Keys & Key, Classics of Cardiology, vol. 3, 34-44. See See K…

1897 CE

#1475

Untersuchungen über die Sinnesfunctionen der menschlichen Haut. I. Druckempfindung und Schmerz.

In his investigations on cutaneous sensibility Frey introduced his method of testing the sensitiveness of pressure points by means of bristles mounted in a handle.

1897 CE

#2687

X-ray records for the cinematograph.

Macintyre was the first to demonstrate x-ray cinematography.

1897 CE

#1021

Zur Frage über den Bau des Darmkanals.

The “cells of Kultschitzky” in the epithelium of the intestine, between the cells which line the gland of Lieberkühn.

1897 CE–1898 CE

#3518

First removal of the stomach in America.

Operation performed by Baldy in 1893. He refers to a claim in J. Amer. med. Ass., 1898, 30, 341-44 giving credit for the first excision of the stomach in America to A. C. Bernays (1854-1907). While Baldy probably dese…

1897 CE–1899 CE

#127

Experimental morphology. 2 pts.

1897 CE–1899 CE

#9005

The adult: A journal for the advancement of freedom in sexual relationships. 3 vols.

When I created this entry in February 2017 there was, inexplicably, no digital facsimile of this rare periodical on the web; however, there was an exceptionally excellent and most comprehensive finding aid available f…

1897 CE–1899 CE

#3517

Ueber Ernährung und Verdauung nach vollständiger Entfernung des Magens, Oesophagoenterostomie, beim Menschen.

First successful total gastrectomy.

1897 CE–1901 CE

#13232

Principes de la phonétique expérimentale. 2 vols.

Rousselot is considered the founder of experimental phonetics, both theoretical and applied.

1897 CE–1903 CE

#1427

Atlas des Gehirns: Schnitte durch das menschliche Gehirn in photographischen Originalen. 3 Abteilungen in 4 Bänden.

Abt. 1: 32 Frontalschnitte durch eine Grosshirnhemisphäre / hergestellt und erl. von Dr. Ernst Hahn und Dr. Heinrich Sachs (1897) Breslau : Verl. der Königlichen psychiatrischen Klinik, in Comm. bei Schlette…

1897 CE–1904 CE

#11935

Les plantes dans l'antiquité et au moyen âge. Histoire, usages et symbolisme. 2 vols.

Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.

1897 CE–1909 CE

#3396

Ueber die funktionelle Prüfung des menschlichen Gehörorgans. 3 vols.

Bezold introduced important tests for audition.

1897 CE–1938 CE

#513

Normentafeln zur Entwicklungsgeschichte der Wirbelthiere. 16 pts.

1898 CE

#5778

A clinical and histological study of certain adenocarcinomata of the breast, and a brief consideration of the supraclavicular operations for cancer of the breast from 1889 to 1898 at Johns Hopkins Hospital.

1898 CE

#2335

A comparative study of bovine tubercle bacilli and of human bacilli from sputum.

First clear differentiation between the bovine and human types of tubercle bacillus.

1898 CE

#951

A contribution to the chemistry of haemoglobin and its immediate derivatives.

Potassium ferricyanide method for the determination of oxygen in oxyhemoglobin.

1898 CE

#648

A digest of metabolism experiments in which the balance of income and outgo was determined.

1898 CE

#5755.2

A new plastic operation for the relief of deformity due to double harelip.

Abbe’s lip-switch flap, transferring a full-thickness flap from one lip of the oral cavity to fill a defect in the other lip. This is also known eponymically as the Abbe–Estlander operation, crediting Jako…

1898 CE

#4629

A treatise on aphasia and other speech defects.

Bastian localized the auditory and visual centers, and he described word-blindness and word-deafness. (See also No. 4622.)

1898 CE

#4474

Amputazione, disarticulazione et protesi.

Vanghetti was the first to suggest the use of the musculature remaining above the amputation stump to form a motor unit for artificial limbs – “kinematization of stumps”.

1898 CE

#4791

Augenkrisen bei Tabes dorsalis.

“Pel’s crises” – the ocular crises in tabes.

1898 CE

#4504.1

Bactériologie du rhumatisme articulaire. Endocardite végétante mitrale provoquée chez le lapin par inoculation intra-veineuse d’un cocco-bacille en points doubles extraits du sang du rhumatisme articulaire aigu de l’homme.

Isolation of streptococci from patients with acute rheumatism reported.

1898 CE

#2511

Bericht der Kommission zur Erforschung der Maul-und Klauenseuche bei dem Institut für Infektionskrankheiten.

Loeffler and Frosch proved that foot-and-mouth disease is caused by a filter-passing virus; this was the first recognition that a virus causes disease.

1898 CE

#12617

Chirugie de Guillaume de Salicet achevée en 1275. Traduction et commentaire par Paul Pifteau.

Original edition limited to 200 copies. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1898 CE

#3639

Chirurgische Oeffnung neuer Seitenbahnen für das Blut der Vena portae.

Talma’s operation for the relief of ascites in cirrhosis of the liver.

1898 CE

#13857

Considérations sanitaires sur l'expédition de Madagascar et quelques autres expéditions coloniales, françaises et anglaises.

Digital facsimile from wellcomecollection.org at this link.

1898 CE

#5755.4

Correction, by operation, of some nasal deformities and disfigurements.

Monks developed the modern surgical treatment of rhinophyma.

1898 CE

#3952

Der Diabetes mellitus.

Naunyn devoted his life to the study of metabolism in diabetes and in diseases of the liver and pancreas. This is his most significant work. He was a co-founder of the Archiv für experimentelle Pathologie.

1898 CE

#11716

Die angeborenen Herzkrankheiten.

The first systematic treatise on congenital heart defects. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1898 CE

#5943

Die Erkrankungen des Auges im Zusammenhang mit anderen Krankheiten.

Like Förster (No. 5915), Schmidt-Rimpler was interested in the relationship between eye diseases and general organic diseases; like Cohn (No. 5931), he was an advocate of the routine examination of the eyes of sc…

1898 CE

#2039

Die Heilpflanzen der verschiedenen Volker und Zeiten.

1898 CE

#12932

Die Krankheiten des Mundes.

1898 CE

#6397

Die neueren Fortschritte in der Wissenschaft und ihr Einfluss auf Medicin und Chirurgie.

English translation in Disease, life and man. Selected essays by Rudolf Virchow. Selected, translated, annotated, and introduced by L. J. Rather, Stanford, 1958.

1898 CE

#1292

Die sensiblen Nervenendigungen im Herzen und in den Blutgefässen der Säugethiere.

“Dogiel’s end-bulbs” – sensory nerve-endings.

1898 CE

#2808

Diseases of the heart and the aorta.

Includes among many other valuable descriptions, the description of the "Gibson murmur" also called the "machinery murmur"

1898 CE

#2514

Du séro-diagnostic dans les affections gastro-intestinales d’origine alimentaire.

Discovery of Salmonella aertrycke, independently of Durham.

1898 CE

#6107

Enucleation of uterine fibroids.

An outstanding account of myomectomy.

1898 CE

#7670

Essays on museums and other subjects connected with natural history.

Essays on medical and natural historical museums, anthropology, and biography. Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.

1898 CE

#4429.2

Further observations regarding the use of the bone-clamp in ununited fractures, fractures with malunion, and recent fractures with a tendency to displacement.

Parkhill introduced external fixation for the treatment of fractures.