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1890–1899

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1899 CE

#3311

Pathologie und Therapie der entzündlichen Erkrankungen der Nebenhöhlen der Nase.

Hajek, Professor of Laryngology in Vienna, particularly distinguished himself by his classic work on the acccessory nasal sinuses. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link. English translation of the f…

1899 CE

#1891

Pharmakologisches über Aspirin (Acetylsalicylsäure).

Acetylsalicylic acid (aspirin) introduced into medicine.

1899 CE

#9403

Philosophy of osteopathy.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1899 CE

#3312

Recherches sur la bactériologie de l’ozène.

Perez isolated an organism from the nose of patients suffering from ozena. He named it Coccobacillus foetidus ozaenae and considered it to be causally related to the disease.

1899 CE

#5377

Some observations on the so-called spotted fever of Idaho.

Rocky Mountain spotted fever first described.

1899 CE

#4191.1

Sonde urétérale opaque. In Traité de chirurgie, 2e ed. vol. 7, p. 414.

Tuffier made the first pioneer attempt to visualize the urinary tract by the combination of an opaque ureteral styletted catheter and radiography.

1899 CE

#1707

Statistical methods, with special reference to biological variation.

Davenport introduced statistical methods into American evolutionary studies.

1899 CE

#11824

The economic writings of Sir William Petty together with Observations upon the bills of mortality, more probably by Captain John Graunt. Edited by Charles Henry Hull. 2 vols.

Full text available from en.wikisource.org at this link.

1899 CE

#4478.105

The effects of training. A study of the Harvard University Crews.

Pioneering study of the physiological effects of training.

1899 CE

#2680.01

The mechanics of surgery.

An encyclopedic work that described illustrated and analysed the entire range of instrumentation employed in medical and surgical practice at the end of the 19th century. Reprinted with introduction by James M. Edmons…

1899 CE

#7336

The nervous system and its constituent neurones, Designed for the use of practitioners of medicine and of students of medicine and psychology.

Considered a masterpiece of compilation of the new scientific evidence for the neuron theory. "Also contains Gertrude Stein’s first publication, which consists of a quote and further description of her developme…

1899 CE

#12268

The penetration of the muscular fibres of the human heart by capillaries, and the existence in that organ of very large capillaries.

Meigs discovered that the capillaries of the heart enter the heart muscle fibers. These became known as "Meigs capillaries." Digital facsimile from PubMedCentral at this link.

1899 CE

#3011

Thrombosis and embolism. In Allbutt, C., System of medicine, 4, 284-310; and in 2nd ed., 6, 691-821

1899 CE

#2809.2

Ueber akute interstitielle Myokarditis.

“Fiedler’s myocarditis”.

1899 CE

#2908.2

Ueber Arteriennaht.

All-layer intima-to-intima arterial anastomosis.

1899 CE

#1293

Ueber den Bau der Ganglien in den Geflechten des Darmes und der Gallenblase des Menschen und der Säugethiere.

Classification of the neurones of spinal and other ganglia.

1899 CE

#1145

Ueber den blutdruckerregenden Bestandtheil der Nebenniere, das Epinephrin.

1899 CE

#5685

Ueber die Chemie der localen Anaesthetica.

Synthesis of procaine (novocaine).

1899 CE

#516.1

Ueber die Einbettung des menschlichen Eies und das früheste bisher bekannte menschliche Placentationsstadium.

1899 CE

#2810

Ueber einen neuen Blutdruckmesser (Tonometer).

Gaertner, an Austrian physician, invented an instrument for measuring blood-pressure by means of a compressing ring applied to the finger.

1899 CE

#3520

Ueber multiple falsche Darmdivertikel in der Flexura sigmoidea.

A false diverticulum of the sigmoid flexure, described by Graser, has been given the eponym “Graser’s diverticulum”.

1899 CE

#13420

Une chaire de médecine au XVe siècle. Un professeur à l'Université de Pavie de 1432 à 1472 avec un fac-simile d'autographe et cinq gravures

Biography, case records, and annotated list of Ferrari da Gradi's library. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1899 CE

#5429

Vaccination, its natural history and pathology.

Milroy Lectures, Royal College of Physicians, 1898. Copeman’s bacteriological studies permanently determined the validity of vaccination as a preventive of smallpox.

1899 CE

#5684

Versuche über Cocainisirung des Rückenmarkes.

Bier introduced the use of cocaine as a spinal anesthetic.

1899 CE

#2809.1

Zur Analyse des unregelmässigen Pulses.

“Wenckebach phenomenon”, a form of arrhythmia.

1899 CE

#6109.1

Zur Casuistik einiger seltenerer Ovarial- und Tuben-Tumoren.

“Brenner tumor” first described; see also No. 6118.

1899 CE

#5685.1

Zur Theorie der Alkoholnarkose. Erste Mitteilung.

Meyer’s theory of narcosis.

1899 CE–1900 CE

#4587

Neuritis und. Polyneuritis. 2 pts.

In Nothnagel’s Handbuch der speziellen Pathologie und Therapie, XI, Bd. 3, Abt. 3-4.

1899 CE–1903 CE

#2811

Traité cliniques des maladies du coeur et de l’aorte. 3 vols.

Third and best edition. "Huchard, physician to the Necker Hospital was a foremost teacher in Paris at the end of the 19th century, and a great authority on angina pectoris and arteriosclerosis. He was a powerful advoc…

1899 CE–1904 CE

#7998

Kunstformern der Natur.

Includes 100 mostly color lithographic and half-tone prints based on Haeckel's sketches and watercolors. Issued in 10 fascicules of 10 prints each and collected into a bound volume in 1904. Digital facsimile of vol. 1…

1899 CE–1904 CE

#1293.1

Textura del sistema nervioso del hombre y de los vertebrados. 2 vols. in 3.

From publication in fascicules, 1897-1904 (vol. 1 in 3 pts., vol. 2 in 4 pts.) This monumental work set out the cytological and histological foundations of modern neurology. Ramón y Cajal’s research confi…

1899 CE–1918 CE

#5996

Geschichte der Augenheilkunde. 10 pts.

This monumental work remains the authoritative encyclopaedic history of ophthalmology, up to the first decade of the 20th century. Its thoroughness and critical judgment mark it as one of the greatest of all histories…

1899 CE–1918 CE

#5944

Handbuch der gesamten Augenheilkunde. 2te. Aufl. 15 vols. [in 41].

The first edition of this great collective work, edited by Graefe and Saemisch, appeared between 1874 and 1880.

1899 CE–1933 CE

#10848

Jahrbuch für sexuelle Zwischenstufen. Edited by Magnus Hirschfeld.

"An annual publication of the Scientific-Humanitarian Committee (Wissenschaftlich-humanitäres Komitee, WhK), an early LGBT rights organization founded by Magnus Hirschfeld in 1897. The periodical featured article…

c. 1894 CE

#12087

A contribution to the history of medicine in Southern California. Annual address of the retiring President of the Souther California Medical Society, Delivered at San Diego, August 8, 1894.

Digital facsimile from the U.S. National Library of Medicine at this link.