1890–1899

1892 CE–1894 CE

#1629

A treatise on hygiene and public health. Edited by T. Stevenson and S. F. Murphy. 3 vols.

1892 CE–1894 CE

#14235

Atlas der pathologischen Histologie des Nervensystems. Herausgegeben von Prof. V. Babes (Bucarest), P. Blocq (Paris, Prof. Ehrlich (Berlin), Prof. Homen (Helsingfors), Prof. P. Marie (Paris, G. Marinesco (Bucarest), Prof. Mendel (Berlin) Prof. Möli (Berlin), Dozen C. v. Monakow (Zürich), Prof. Ramon j Cajal (Barcelon) und Prof. Vanlair (Lüttic). Redigirt von Professor V. Babes und P. Blocq. I. Lieferung: Die krankhaften Veränderungen der Museklnerven und deren Endigungen. II. Lieferung: Régénération des nerves. Degeneration und Entzündung der Nerven.

1892 CE–1895 CE

#429

Dissections illustrated.

“Brodie’s ligament”, the transverse humoral ligament, described.

1892 CE–1896 CE

#10621

Atlas of clinical medicine. 3 vols.

Published at the end of the 19th century, and employing the wide variety of illustration technologies then available, including color lithography, lithography, and photography, this work testifies to the breadth and d…

1892 CE–1897 CE

#12885

The orchid album, Comprising colored figures and descriptions of new, rare, and beautiful orchidaceous plants. Conducted by Robert Warner and Benjamin Samuel Williams. The botanical descriptions by Thomas Moore. The coloured figures by John Nugent Fitch. 11 vols.

This set includes 528 chromolithographed and hand-colored plates by John Nugent Fitch on 527 sheets. It was published periodically by B. S. Williams from his nurseries in Holloway, London, from 1882 until his death in…

1892 CE–1982 CE

#355

Index-catalogue of medical and veterinary zoology.

An index to the world's literature on parasites and parasitisms of man, of domestic animals, and of wild animals whose parasites may be transmitted to man and domestic animals. It also contains references to fur-beari…

1893 CE

#5360

A case of ankylostomiasis.

First recognition of ankylostomiasis in America. It had previously been reported and described under various names.

1893 CE

#3227

A case of pneumonectomy.

Partial lobectomy in pulmonary tuberculosis.

1893 CE

#3179

A case of thoracoplasty for the removal of a large cicatricial fibrous growth from the interior of the chest, the result of an old empyema.

First thoracoplasty.

1893 CE

#11425

A select bibliography of chemistry 1492-1892.

Bolton, a chemist, was the earliest American bibliographer of chemistry. His first edition, which atempted to list "the principal books on chemistry published in Europe and America from the rise of the literature to t…

1893 CE

#4364

Achillodynie.

Tendo Achilles bursitis, “Albert’s disease”.

1893 CE

#11292

An account of Bellevue Hospital with a catalogue of the medical and surgical staff from 1736 to 1894. Edited by Robert J. Carlisle.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1893 CE

#5682

Anaesthetics and their administration.

Hewitt, anesthetist to Edward VII, did much to develop the use of ether, and advanced our knowledge of the pharmacology of anesthetics. In 1892 he introduced the first practical gas and oxygen apparatus.

1893 CE

#25

Anonymi Londinensis ex Aristotelis iatricis Menoniis et aliis medicis eclogae editit Hermannus Diels.

Written about 100 CE, On Medicine (Ιατρικα) is partially preserved in a papyrus in the British Library (PBrLibr inv. 137 = P.Lit.Lond. 165). It is the most important surviving ancie…

1893 CE

#431

Atlas of head sections. Fifty-three engraved copperplates of frozen sections of the head, and fifty-three key plates with descriptive texts.

Intended to supplement and illustrate Macewen’s neurosurgical textbook published the same year (No. 4872). Includes coronal, sagittal and horizontal sections with commentary on each.

1893 CE

#3839

Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Basedow’schen Krankheit.

Müller demonstrated that an increased metabolism accompanies exophthalmic goitre.

1893 CE

#640

Beiträge zur Lehre von Stoffwechsel. I. Grundriss einer Methodik der Stoffwechsel-Untersuchungen.

1893 CE

#9637

Brain surgery.

The first American book on neurosurgery, published the same year as Macewen's pioneering neurosurgical classic (No. 4872). Digital facsimile from the Medical Heritage Library, Internet Archive at this link.

1893 CE

#10717

Catalogue of the exhibits in the Museum of Hygiene. Medical Department of the United States Navy.

1893 CE

#4185.1

Catheterization of the male ureters. A preliminary report.

First catheterization of male ureters.

1893 CE

#9540

Centenaire de la fondation de Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle 10 juin 1793 - 10 juin 1893. Volume commemoratif publiée par les professeurs du muséum.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1893 CE

#4114

Contributo allo studio della ipercheratosi dei canali sudoriferi (porokeratosis).

Mibelli is sometimes credited with the original description of porokeratosis (“Mibélli’s disease”), but Neumann described it in 1875 under the name of “dermatitis circumscripta herpetifo…

1893 CE

#3509

De la gastrostomie par la méthode de la valvule ou du plissement de la muqueuse stomacale.

Pénières of Toulouse conceived the idea of the valvular method of gastrostomy.

1893 CE

#557

Der Formaldehyd als Härtungsmittel. Vorläufige Mittheilung.

Formalin first used for tissue fixation.

1893 CE

#4115

Di una ipercheratosi non ancora descritta.

First description of hyperkeratosis excentrica, porokeratosis.

1893 CE

#5062

Die Behandlung der Diphtherie mit Diphtherieheilserum.

In 1890 Behring and Kitasato discovered the diphtheria and tetanus antitoxins (see No. 5060). The above papers deal more fully with the use of the diphtheria antitoxin.

1893 CE

#6765

Die hebräischen Uebersetzungen des Mittelalters. 2 vols.

Reprinted, 1956.

1893 CE

#3306

Die Lehre von den Naseneiterungen.

Grünwald was the first to attempt the surgical treatment of nasal suppuration and disease involving the ethmoid and sphenoid bones. English translation, 1900.

1893 CE

#6453

Die Medicin der Naturvölker. Ethnologische Beiträge zur Urgeschichte der Medicin.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1893 CE

#8581

Die pharmakologischen Grundsätze (Liber fundamentorum pharmacologiae) des Abu Mansur Muwaffak bin Ali Harawi zum estern Male nach dem Urtex übersetzt und mit Erklärungen versehen von Abdul-Chalig Achundow aus Baku. (aus Bd. 3 (1893) der Historischen Studien aus dem pharmakologischen Institute der Kaiserlichen Universität Dorpat). 2 vols.

First translation into a modern language.

1893 CE

#836

Die Thätigkeit des embryonalen Herzens und deren Bedeutung für die Lehre von der Herzbewegung beim Erwachsenen.

His described the atrioventricular bundle which was later named after him. English translation in F. A. Willius and T. E. Keys, Cardiac classics, 1941, p. 695.

1893 CE

#3305

Diseases of the accessory sinuses of the nose, and an improved method of treatment of suppuration of the maxillary antrum.

Caldwell–Luc operation (see also No. 3301). Scanes Spicer independently devised a similar operation (Brit. med. J., 1894, 2, 1359-60).

1893 CE

#4113

Dystrophie papillaire et pigmentaire.

Acanthosis nigricans.

1893 CE

#4502.1

Ein Beitrag zur Arthritis blennorrhoica.

Gonococci isolated from an arthritic joint.

1893 CE

#3508

Eine neue Methode der Gastrostomie bei Carcinoma oesophagi.

See No. 3512.

1893 CE

#1522

Eine neue Theorie der Licht-Empfindung.

Ladd-Franklin theory of vision.

1893 CE

#3511

Enterorrhaphy; its history, technique and present status.

Senn, Professor of Surgery at Chicago, was one of the first to investigate experimentally the subject of gastro-intestinal anastomosis.

1893 CE

#1750

Forensic medicine and toxicology.

1893 CE

#1288.1

Further experimental note on the correlation of antagonistic muscles.

The first of Sherrington’s papers investigating reciprocal innervation of muscles.

1893 CE

#5004

Gedenktage der Psychiatrie und ihrer Hülfsdisciplinen in allen Ländern. 4te. Aufl.

A history of the subject, arranged in calendar form.

1893 CE

#6558

Geschichte der medicinischen Wissenschaften in Deutschland.

Reprinted, Hildesheim, 1966.

1893 CE

#8400

Herophilus and Erasistratus: A bibliographical demonstration in the library in the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, 16th March 1893. Reprinted from the Glasgow Medical Journal for May, 1893.

1893 CE

#4084

Hidrocystoma.

Robinson wrote an excellent textbook on dermatology in 1884, the year in which he published the first description of hydrocystoma (“Robinson’s disease”).

1893 CE

#5529

Investigations into the nature, causation and prevention of Texas or Southern cattle fever.

U.S. Bureau of Animal Industry, Bulletin No. 1. Discovery of the parasite of Texas cattle fever, Pyrosoma bigeminum, and proof that its transmission is due to the cattle tick, Boöphilus bovis. This was the first …

1893 CE

#7019

Kanyaku maou seibun kenkyuu seiseki (zoku).

Nagai synthesized methamphetamine from ephedrine.

1893 CE

#8094

La photographie médicale: Application aux sciences médicales et physiologiques.

The first book on medical photography. Digital facsimile from http://jubilotheque.upmc.fr at this link.

1893 CE

#787

Lehrbuch der Physiologie des Kreislaufes.

1893 CE

#93

Leonardo da Vinci: Codice sul volo degli uccelli e varie altre materie. Pubblicato da Teodoro Sabachnikoff. Transcrizione e note di Giovanni Piumati; traduzione francese di Carlo Ravaisson-Mollien.

The scientific study of the mechanics of flight begins with Leonardo’s investigations on birds, undertaken during his attempts to build a flying machine. At the time of publication Sabachnikoff owned the manuscr…

1893 CE

#4224

Movable kidney; with a report of twelve cases treated by nephrorrhaphy.

In his nephropexy operation Edebohls utilized flaps of the capsule of the kidney. He believed that decapsulation improved the renal blood supply.

1893 CE

#3886

Notes on a case of acromegaly treated by operation.

First attempt (unsuccessful) to treat acromegaly operatively. Decompression was performed to relieve cranial pressure.