1890–1899

1898 CE

#5800

Geschichte der Chirurgie und ihrer Ausübung. Volkschirugie - Alterthum - Mittelalter - Renaissance. 3 vols.

A history of surgery to the end of the 16th century. Includes translations from the literature and illustrations of instruments. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1898 CE

#6396

Geschichte der Medicin. 2 vols.

A collection of lectures. The bibliography of the revised edition of 1922, for which Sudhoff was responsible, is significantly improved over the first edition.

1898 CE

#2038

Geschichte der Pharmazie.

1898 CE

#446

Histoire d’anatomie plastique: Les maitres, les livres et les écorchés.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1898 CE

#13222

History of the Homeopathic Medical College of Pennsylvania; The Hahnemann Medical College and Hospital of Philadelphia

Now Drexel University College of Medicine. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1898 CE

#5801

Hundert Jahre Chirurgie.

History of 18th-century German surgery.

1898 CE

#10497

L'art dentaire en médecine légale.

The first comprehensive text on forensic dentistry, dedicated by Amoëdo to his teacher, Brouardel. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1898 CE

#5128.1

La propagation de la peste.

Simond provided substantial evidence to support Ogata that fleas transmitted plague from rat to man.

1898 CE

#3182

Le microbe de la péripneumonie.

Discovery of the causal organism of bovine pleuropneumonia, also known as lung plague. Nocard and Roux considered it a filterable virus but now known to be a mycoplasma.

1898 CE

#11152

Les cancers épithéliaux. Histologie - Histogenèse - Etiologie - Applications thérapeutiques.

1898 CE

#13224

Miniature hammers and the suture of the bile ducts.

Illustrated by Max Brödel. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1898 CE

#12734

Neue Untersuchungen über die Markbildung in den menschlichen Grosshirnlappen.

Flechsig devided the cytoarchitecture of the human brain into 40 areas.

1898 CE

#1236

Niere und Kreislauf.

Discovery that a pressor substance (renin) is produced by the kidneys and enters the circulation by the renal veins. Abridged English translation in No. 3160.1.

1898 CE

#5250

Notes on the pathological changes in the organs of birds infected with haemocytozoa.

MacCallum and Opie discovered the sexual phase of malaria parasites.

1898 CE

#2513

On an epidemic of gastro-enteritis associated with the presence of a variety of the Bacillus enteritidis (Gaertner), and with positive sero-diagnostic evidence (in vivo and in vitro).

Discovery of Salm. Aertrycke in patients suffering from food poisoning.

1898 CE

#5038

On infection with a para-colon bacillus in a case with all the clinical features of typhoid fever.

Isolation of Salmonella paratyphi A.

1898 CE

#4127

On refractory subcutaneous abscesses caused by a fungus possibly related to the sporotricha.

Schenck first described a form of sporotrichosis, due to a pathogenic fungus, which later became known as Sporotrichum beurmanni, after more thorough studies upon it by de Beurmann in 1903.

1898 CE

#5294

On sart sore.

First description of the protozoon later named Leishmania tropica. The paper is in Russian; for a translation, see C. A. Hoare, in Trans. roy. Soc. trop. Med. Hyg., 1938, 32, 78-90.

1898 CE

#5249

On the haemocytozoa of birds.

Demonstration of sexual conjugation in the malaria parasite. See also No. 5250.

1898 CE

#6108

Operative gynecology. 2 vols.

Kelly, professor of gynecology at Pennsylvania and Johns Hopkins University, was a leading gynecologist in America. This work is notable for its 315 illustrations and ten plates, mostly by Max Brödel, the most fa…

1898 CE

#8536

Pflanzengeographie auf Physiologischer Grundlage.

In this work on the geographical distribution of plants Schimper coined the terms tropical rainforest and sclerophyll. English translation by William R. Fisher, revised and edited by Percy Groom and Isaac Bayley Balfo…

1898 CE

#5445

Recherches expérimentales sur la transmissibilité de la rougeole animaux.

Measles transmitted to animals.

1898 CE

#2457

Reise-Bericht über Rinderpest, Bubonenpest in Indien und Afrika, Tsetse-oder Surrakrankheit, Texasfieber, tropische Malaria, Schwarzwasserfieber.

1898 CE

#4586

Remarks on the relations of different divisions of the central nervous system to one another and to parts of the body.

1898 CE

#951.1

Some improved methods of gas analysis.

The Haldane apparatus for the analysis of the repiratory gases, which proved a method that could measure oxygen and carbon dioxide to 0.005%. It was the cornerstone of all respiratory gas analysis until P.F. Scholande…

1898 CE

#447

Studien zur Geschichte der Anatomie im Mittelalter.

1898 CE

#5348

Studies on trichinosis, with especial reference to the increase of the eosinophilic cells in the blood and muscle, the origin of these cells and their diagnostic importance.

Brown pointed out the occurrence of eosinophilia in trichinosis. A preliminary communication upon the subject, by W. S. Thayer, was published in C. R. XII Congr. int. Med., Moscou, 1897, 126-31.

1898 CE

#2809

Sulla cardioptosi; primo abbozzo anatomo-clinico.

Rummo drew attention to a downward displacement of the heart – “Rummo’s disease”.

1898 CE

#2551

Sur l’agglutination et la dissolution des globules rouges par le sérum d’animaux injectés de sang défibriné.

Bordet’s important work on immune hemolysis turned the attention of many investigators towards the subject. English translation in J. Bordet et al., Studies in immunity, New York, 1909, p. 134.

1898 CE

#2334

Sur l’obtention de cultures et d’émulsions homogènes du bacille de la tuberculose humaine en milieu liquide et “sur une variété mobile de ce bacille”.

Sero-agglutination for the diagnosis of tubercle bacillus.

1898 CE

#4369

Sur la dysostose cléido-crânienne héréditaire.

In their important description of cleido-cranial dysostosis, Marie and Sainton gave to it its present name. It was first described by Morand (No. 4302.1) in 1760. English translation in Bick, Classics of orthopaedics,…

1898 CE

#4368

Sur la Spondylose rhizomélique.

Marie described as “spondylose rhizomélique” the ankylosing spondylitis or spondylitis deformans originally reported by Strümpell and called variously “Strümpell’s disease&rdqu…

1898 CE

#2003

Sur une substance nouvelle radio-active, contenue dans la pechblende.

The Curies, studying the radioactivity of minerals containing uranium and thorium, isolated from pitchblend a substance which they called radium and which they showed to possess an astonishing degree of radioactivity.…

1898 CE

#3777

Sur une variété particulière d’ictère chronique splénomégalique.

“Hayem–Widal disease” –acquired hemolytic anemia (see also No. 3783).

1898 CE

#2687.1

The movements of the stomach studied by means of the Roentgen rays.

Cannon introduced the bismuth meal. He showed that bismuth, opaque to x rays, could be of great use in conjunction with roentgenology in the investigation of the digestive tract. See No. 1029.

1898 CE

#4586.1

The nervous system and its diseases.

“The foremost American neurology book of the Nineteenth Century” (McHenry), and the only text of the period to contain a section on the chemistry of the nervous system.

1898 CE

#7011

The Petrie papyri. Hieratic papyri from Kahun and Gurob (Principally of the Middle Kingdom) edited by F. Ll. Griffith.

KAHUN GYNECOLOGICAL PAPYRUS

The Kahun Gynecological Papyrus (also Kahun Papyrus, Kahun Medical Papyrus, or UC 32057) is the oldest known medical text on papyrus, dating from circa 1800 BCE. It was found at El-Lahun, Egypt (Faiyum, Kahun, كاهم

1898 CE

#7058

The Red Cross in peace and war.

Barton founded the American Red Cross in 1881. Although Henry Dunant had suggested in 1864 that Red Cross societies provide disaster relief as well as wartime services, Barton became the strongest advocate for the dev…

1898 CE

#5251

The rôle of the mosquito in the evolution of the malarial parasite.

Ross provided the last link in the chain demonstrating the complete life-cycle of the parasite of bird malaria. He found that mosquitoes which had fed on malaria-infected birds, and which had allowed the parasites to …

1898 CE

#3604.2

The transplantation of the rectus muscle in certain cases of inguinal hernia in which the conjoined tendon is obliterated.

Bloodgood’s operation for inguinal hernia. See also Ann. Surg., 1919, 70, 81-88.

1898 CE

#10269

Traité des maladies chirurgicales d'origine congénitale.

The first book entirely devoted to the surgical treatment of congenital abnormalities. The work also contains pp. 593-698 an exposition of Kirmisson's staged reduction of congenital dislocations of the hip, and discus…

1898 CE

#5248

Traité du paludisme.

1898 CE

#4429.1

Traumatic separation of the epiphyses.

Definitive and exhaustive study of growth plate fractures in children. Poland also published the series of x rays included in the above work as a separate atlas: Skiagraphic atlas showing the development of the bones …

1898 CE

#2266

Tropical diseases.

Manson has been called the “father of modern tropical medicine”. He had vast experience of disease in the Tropics and himself made many valuable contributions to the knowledge of this subject. He described…

1898 CE

#5755.3

Über die operative Verkleinerung eine Nase (Rhinomiosis).

Joseph rhinoplasty, developed independently of Roe (Nos. 5754.4-5) and Weir (No. 5754.6). Translation in Plast. reconstr. Surg., 1970, 46, 178-81.

1898 CE

#6246

Über vaginalen Kaiserschnitt.

The vaginal Caesarean operation was introduced by Dührssen in April, 1895.

1898 CE

#5091

Ueber den Dysenteriebacillus (Bacillus dysenteriae).

Discovery of the dysentery bacillus, Shigella. Preliminary paper in the same journal, 1898, 23, 599-600.

1898 CE

#721

Ueber die Eiweissstoffe.

Kossel forecast the polypeptide nature of the protein molecule.

1898 CE

#3638

Ueber die Photographie von Gallensteinen in vivo.

First x-ray demonstration of gall-stones.

1898 CE

#4709

Ueber die Westphal’sche Pseudosklerose und über diffuse Hirnsklerose, insbesondere bei Kindem.

“Westphal-Strümpell disease” – pseudosclerosis of the brain. (See also No. 4702.) Probably cases of Kinnier Wilson’s disease.