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1890–1899

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1898 CE

#3336

Ueber directe Bronchoskopie.

Introduction of direct bronchoscopy.

1898 CE

#2512

Ueber ein Contagium vivum fluidum als Ursache der Fleckenkrankheit der Tabaksblätter.

Beijerinck confirmed the findings of Ivanovski. He showed that the tobacco mosaic virus would diffuse through agar. "Like Ivanovsky before him and Adolf Mayer, predecessor at Wageningen, Beijerinck could not culture t…

1898 CE

#3637

Ueber ein neues Operationsverfahren zur Entfernung von Echinococcus in der Leber und anderen parenchymatösen Bauchorganen.

Important work on surgical treatment of hydatids of the liver. Originally appeared in Russian in Khirurgiya, 1898, 3, 3-9.

1898 CE

#3776

Ueber eine eigenartige, unter dem Bilde der Pseudoleukämie verlaufende Tuberkulose des lymphatischen Apparates.

In his classic description of lymphadenoma, Sternberg separated it from aleukemic leukemia, with which it had hitherto been included.

1898 CE

#4849

Ueber einen eigenartigen hysterischen Dämmerzustand.

“Ganser’s syndrome” – an acute hallucinatory mania.

1898 CE

#838

Ueber Herzbewegung und Herzstoss.

First employment of cinematograph to record the cardiac changes during all phases of heart contraction.

1898 CE

#1890.1

Ueber Pellote. Beiträge zur chemischen und pharmakologischen Kenntniss der Cacteen. Zweite Mitteilung.

Isolation of mescaline, the active agent in peyote. One of the first scientific investigations of a psychedelic drug.

1898 CE

#3605

Zur Radikaloperation der Schenkelhernien.

Lotheissen’s operation for femoral hernia.

1898 CE

#4874

Zur Technik der temporären Schädelresektion mit meiner Drahtsäge.

Gigli’s saw adapted for craniotomy. Translation in J. Neurosurg., 1962, 19, 1103.

1898 CE–1899 CE

#720

Bedeutung der Stereochemie fur die Physiologie.

1898 CE–1900 CE

#4001

Handatlas der Hautkrankheiten fur Studirende und Arzte. 3 pts.

An extensive and valuable collection of illustrations in dermatology. Includes 377 chromolithographs. "In publishing this hand atlas of skin diseases, I wish to provide students with an aid to their studies and genera…

1898 CE–1900 CE

#649

Text-book of physiology. Edited by Edward Schäfer. 2 vols.

A collective work and a classic textbook of physiology, edited by Schäfer using the original version of his last name. He was a pupil of Sharpey, and when that great man died without any known descendants Sch&aum…

1898 CE–1900 CE

#11394

Über die Beulenpest in Bombay im Jahre 1897. Gesamtbericht von der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien zur Studium der Beulenpest nach Indien entsendeten Commission. 2 vols. in 3.

Müller died at the age of 32 as a result of exposure to this plague.

1898 CE–1901 CE

#364

I manoscritti de Leonardo da Vinci della Reale Biblioteca di Windsor. Pubblicata da Teodoro Sabachnikoff. Transcritti e annotati da Giovanni Piumati. 2 vols.

Includes folios A & B of his anatomical MSS. Text in French and Italian.

1898 CE–1903 CE

#7450

The scientific memoirs of Thomas Henry Huxley. Edited by Professor Michael Foster... and by Professor E. Ray Lankester. 5 vols.

Presents virtually all of Huxley's scientific papers arranged in chronological order, as well as reports of his Royal Institution Friday Evening Discourses. The final supplemental volume contains the remainder of Huxl…

1899 CE

#3071

A new preparation for rapidly fixing and staining blood.

Jenner’s methylene blue-eosin stain for blood.

1899 CE

#2082

A note on the influence of maternal inebriety on the offspring.

Fetal alcohol syndrome – first serious study.

1899 CE

#5622

An experimental research into surgical shock.

Crile saw and recorded elevations in systemic and portal venous pressures under experimental shock.

1899 CE

#9273

Animal and plant lore collected from the oral tradition of English speaking folk. Edited and annotated by Fanny D. Bergen.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1899 CE

#650

Animals in motion.

1899 CE

#11953

Catalogue of the library of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1899 CE

#4228

Chronic nephritis affecting a movable kidney as an indication for nephropexy.

First operation on the kidneys for the relief of Bright’s disease.

1899 CE

#5252

Ciclo evolutivo della semilune nell’ Anopheles claviger.

Grassi and Bignami showed that the Plasmodium undergoes its sexual phase only in the Anopheles mosquito.

1899 CE

#3639.1

Contribution to the surgery of the bile passages, especially of the common bile-duct.

“Among Halsted’s many outstanding surgical accomplishments those related to surgery of the biliary tract are lesser known. However, he is commonly credited with performing the first successful operation fo…

1899 CE

#5641

De l’emploi du masque dans les opérations.

Introduction of the gauze face mask, October 1897.

1899 CE

#649.1

Der Lungengaswechsel des Menschen in den verschiedenen. Altersstufen.

The first systematic study of the basal metabolism of normal individuals from childhood to old age.

1899 CE

#2987

Die Aortensyphilis als Ursache von Aneurysmen.

Heller established the fact that syphilis is a cause of aortic aneurysm.

1899 CE

#12286

Die Grundform des arteriellen Pulses.

"The First Mathematical Description of the Pressure-Volume Diagram "Not until 60 years after 1899 Otto Frank's mathematical formulation of the volume-pressure diagram and his concept of the mechanism of the cardiac wo…

1899 CE

#4227

Die Mischgeschwülste. I. Die Mischgeschwülste der Niere.

Embryoma of the kidney (“Wilms’s tumor”). For the history of the operation for Wilms’s tumor see B. Thomasson and M.M. Ravitch, Wilms Tumor, Urol. Surg., 1961, 11, 83-100.

1899 CE

#3953

Die Oxybuttersäure und ihre Beziehungen zum Coma diabeticum.

1899 CE

#188

Die Schönheit des weiblichen Körpers.

1899 CE

#4681

Ein Fall von Allgemeininfection mit Influenzabacillen.

First description of influenzal meningitis.

1899 CE

#1428

Einleitung in die vergleichende Gehirnphysiologie und vergleichende Psychologie.

1899 CE

#2624

Fall af epiteliom behandladt med Roentgenstraler.

In June 1899 Sjögren was the first successfully to use Roentgen rays in the treatment of cancer.

1899 CE

#6577

História da medicina em Portugal. 2 vols.

1899 CE

#3310

Kehlkopfchirurgie und Laryngoplastik.

Gluck improved the technique of laryngectomy.

1899 CE

#838.1

La mort par les décharges électriques.

The first defibrillation. “Prévost and Battelli produced ventricular fibrillation in dogs by shocking with weak currents. They then shocked the fibrillating heart with a stronger current—the second,…

1899 CE

#4002

La photothérapie. Les rayons chimiques et la variole. La lumière comme agent d’excitabilité. Traitement du lupus vulgaire par des rayons chimiques concentrés.

Finsen was a pioneer in the treatment of lupus by means of light. English translation, 1901.

1899 CE

#1574.1

Le système nerveux centrale structure et fonctions. Histoire critique des théories et des doctrines. 2 vols.

Massive history of the anatomy and physiology of the nervous system from ancient Greece to the end of the 19th century, limited in its historical analysis. The second volume is a survey of end of 19th century opinions…

1899 CE

#4129

Le trophoedème chronique héréditaire.

“Meige’s disease” – first described by Nonne (No. 4106).

1899 CE

#4951

Lehrbuch der psychopathologischen Untersuchungsmethoden.

Sommer introduced new methods in psychopathological investigation.

1899 CE

#9539

Les hôpitaux au XIXe siècle. Études, projets, discussions et programmes relatifs a leur construction.

Digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this link.

1899 CE

#11293

Les troubles de la marche dans l'hémiplégie organique étudiés à l'aide du cinématographe.

Between July 1898 and 1902 Romanian neurologist Gheorghe Marinescu (Georges Marinesco) made the world's first documentary films in his clinic in Bucharest. "Marinescu perfected the use of cinematography as a research …

1899 CE

#6519

Medical works of the fourteenth century; together with a list of plants recorded in contemporary writings, with their identification.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1899 CE

#4128

Multipelt benignt hud-sarcoid.

The syndrome of benign sarcoid (“Boeck’s sarcoid”) was first established by Boeck. English translation in J. cutan. gen.-urin. Dis., 1899, 17, 543-50. In 1940 Danbolt (Schweiz. med. Wschr., 1947, 77,…

1899 CE

#515.1

On the nature of the process of fertilization and the artificial production of normal larvae (plutei) from the unfertilized eggs of the sea urchin.

Loeb first achieved parthenogenesis in 1899.

1899 CE

#2554

On the rôle of insects, arachnids and myriapods, as carriers in the spread of bacterial and parasitic diseases of man and animals. A critical and historical study.

1899 CE

#1023

On the topographical anatomy of abdominal viscera in man, especially the gastrointestinal canal.

“Addison’s transpyloric plane”. Addison was Britain’s first Minister of Health (1919-21).

1899 CE

#4191

Operation for undescended testicle and congenital inguinal hernia.

Bevan’s operation for undescended testicle.

1899 CE

#4801

Paralyse und Tabes bei Eheleuten. Ein Beitrag zur Aetiologie beider Krankheiten.