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1894 CE

#11267

Hospitals dispensaries and nursing. Papers and discussions in the International Congress of Charities, Correction and Philanthropy, Section III, Chicago, June 12th to 17th, 1893. Edited by John S. Billings and Henry M. Hurd.

Includes almost 90 articles on all aspects of hospitals and nursing, by luminaries such Henry Burdett, Lavinia Dock, Cardinal Gibbons, Isabel Hampton, Henry Lyman, and Lewis Pilcher, among dozens of others. Florence N…

1894 CE

#10595

Klinische Abbildungen: Sammlung von Darstellungen der Veränderung der äusseren Körperform bei inneren Krankheiten.

Includes 57 fine heliogravure reproductions of artistic photographs of disease, including numerous congenital deformities. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1894 CE

#8970

Kystophotographischer Atlas.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1894 CE

#4472

La désarticulation interilio-abdominale.

Interilio-abdominal amputation first described.

1894 CE

#13770

La faune des cadavres: Application de l'entomologie à la médecine légale.

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

1894 CE

#5125

La peste bubonique à Hong-Kong.

Yersin discovered the plague bacillus Pasteurella (Yersinia) pestis, isolating it from excised buboes. He published the first account of this organism. Preliminary note in C. R. Acad. Sci. (Paris), 1894, 119, 356.

1894 CE

#3774

La splenomegalia con cirrosi del fegato

“Banti’s syndrome”, Splenomegalic anemia. Reprinted with translation in Med. Classics, 1937, 1, 901-27. (For his earlier work on the subject, see No. 3126.)

1894 CE

#4116

La teigne trichophytique et la teigne spéciale de Grüby.

1894 CE

#8939

Lanfrank's "Science of Cirurgie." Edited from the Bodeian Ashmole MS. 1396 (ab. 1380 A.D.) and the British Museum Additional MS. 12, 056 (ab. 1420 A.D.) by Robert v. Fleischhacker.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1894 CE

#3307

Le microbe de l’ozène.

Loewenberg found a bacillus of the Friedländer group in ozena.

1894 CE

#643

Le mouvement.

Marey, like Muybridge (No. 650-51), was a pioneer in the use of serial pictures as a method of studying the mechanics of locomotion. English translation, 1895.

1894 CE

#11652

Lectures on the diagnosis of abdominal tumors. Reprinted from the New York Medical Journal.

This 165-page "monograph, based on lectures delivered to the postgraduate class at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in 1893, includes 67 case reports and 43 illustrations, some of which are photographs that depict patients …

1894 CE

#4582

Lehrbuch der Nervenkrankheiten.

The best edition is the English translation of the 5th German edn., 2 vols., London, 1911.

1894 CE

#11121

Les accouchements dans les beaux-arts, dans la littérature et au théatre.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1894 CE

#4800

Les affections parasyphilitiques.

Fournier, great French venereologist, introduced the concept of “parasyphilis”. He showed statistically the causal relationship of syphilis to paresis and tabes.

1894 CE

#3999

Les tricophyties humaines.

In his extensive studies of the role of fungi in skin diseases, Sabouraud revived and elaborated the discoveries of Gruby (Nos. 4030, 4034-36), which had remained neglected for half a century. See also No. 4116.

1894 CE

#5120

Loimographia. An account of the great plague of London in the year 1665

This work was written in 1666 and first published as above. Boghurst, an apothecary, did good work during the great plague; in his book he differentiated plague from typhus. Payne’s introduction to the book cont…

1894 CE

#187

Man and woman.

A study of the constitutional differences between man and woman.

1894 CE

#237

Materials for the study of variation treated with especial regard to discontinuity in the origin of species.

Bateson was convinced that discontinuity was the more important type of variation among animals and plants “in some unknown way a part of their nature and not directly dependent upon natural selection at all&rdq…

1894 CE

#6395

Medical history from the earliest times.

A classic brief history up to the early 19th century. Reprinted 1964.

1894 CE

#12986

Microphotographischer Atlas der normalen Histologie menschliecher Zähne.

Walkhoff was one of the first to employ microphotography to illustrate dental histology.

1894 CE

#4581.1

Myelocyste, Transposition von Gewebskeimen und Sympodie.

Amold-Chiari malformation (Chiari II malformation). (see No. 4577.1).

1894 CE

#1019

Neue Versuche liber die Aufsaugung im Dunndarm.

1894 CE

#949

Neue Versuche zur Bestimmung der Sauerstoffcapacität des Blutfarbstoffs.

Hüfner showed that 1 gm. hemoglobin combines with 1.34 cc oxygen.

1894 CE

#3180

Nouveau traitement des empyèmes chroniques.

The procedure of decortication of the lung for treatment of chronic empyema was introduced by Delorme. For his later work on the subject, see Congr. franç. Chir., 1896, 10, 379.

1894 CE

#11273

On chorea and choreiform affections.

"One year after Charcot's death, Osler published On Chorea and Choreiform Affectations (1894), and in this pithy monograph, Osler offered a particularly useful evaluation of Charcot's neurological contributions. Where…

1894 CE

#1290

On reflex action from sympathetic ganglia.

1894 CE

#5245

On the nature and significance of the crescentic and flagellated bodies in malarial blood.

Manson’s mosquito–malaria hypothesis. See also his Gulstonian Lectures in Lancet, 1896, 1, 695-98, 751-55, 831-33.

1894 CE

#4225

Operation for the relief of valve formation and stricture of the ureter in hydro- or pyo-nephrosis.

Fenger’s operation for stenosis of the uretero-pelvic junction.

1894 CE

#4820

Osobyj vid kortikal’noj epilepsii.

“Koževnikov’s epilepsy”, an atypical form of cortical origin. German translation by H. Heintel and H. Müller-Dietz, Hamburg, 1974.

1894 CE

#210

Pithecanthropus erectus. Eine menschenähnliche Uebergangsform aus Java.

Privately issued first report on Homo erectus. In 1891 Dubois discovered remains of what he described as "a species in between humans and apes" at Trinil, Java. He called his finds Pithecanthropus erectus ("ape-human …

1894 CE

#12456

Quelques observations expérimentales sur l'influence de l'insomnie absolue.

The first experimental study of sleep deprivation. Manaseina "performed her experimental investigation on 10 puppies (2, 3, or 4 months old), fed by their mothers, by keeping the animals in constant activity. The expe…

1894 CE

#3022.2

Stab wound of pericardium; resection of rib; suture of pericardium; recovery.

“This was the first report in America and probably world-wide in which there was a successful evacuation of a traumatic hemopericardium and a suture placed in the pericardium. Dalton’s patient was operated…

1894 CE

#3308.1

Studien zur bacteriellen Diagnostik der Diphtherie und der Anginen.

“Plaut’s angina” (necrotizing ulcerative gingivostomatitis). He noted the association of fusiform bacilli in ulcerating lesions of the tonsils. Vincent (see No. 3309) gave the first comprehensive des…

1894 CE

#6204

Taglio lateralizzato del pube, suoi vantaggi, sua technica.

Gigli’s saw, first used for pubiotomy. German translation, Zbl. Chir., 1894, 21, 409-11.

1894 CE

#6342.1

The care and feeding of children: A catechism for the use of mothers and children's nurses.

A commonsense work written for parents and caretakers of children rather than for physicians. This brief book achieved a popular success unrivalled by any previous American medical publication. It was the forerunner o…

1894 CE

#1112

The influence of mechanical factors on lymph production.

1894 CE

#6582

The medical profession in Upper Canada, 1783-1850.

Rescues from oblivion many historical facts and discusses the pioneer medical men of Canada. Biographies of many famous physicians of Canada are included. Reprinted Toronto, 1980.

1894 CE

#3308

The pathological and clinical features of atrophic rhinitis.

Classic paper on atrophic rhinitis (ozena).

1894 CE

#1886

The physiological action of the nitrites of the paraffin series, considered in connection with their chemical constitution.

1894 CE

#5126

The plague in the East.

Rennie appears to be the first seriously to support the theory of transmission of the plague bacillus by rats and to present evidence in support of that theory.

1894 CE

#1422

Ueber den sogenannten Granula der Nervenzellen.

“Nissl’s granules”.

1894 CE

#5938

Ueber die eitrige metastatische Ophthalmie, besonders ihre Aetiologie und prognostische Bedeutung.

Classic account of metastatic ophthalmia.

1894 CE

#4188.1

Ueber die Radikaltherapie der Ektopia vesicae urinariae.

Maydl’s operation, uretero-intestinal anastomosis.

1894 CE

#2546

Ueber die specifische Bedeutung der Choleraimmunität (Bakteriolyse).

Pfeiffer and Isayev recorded the occurrence of bacteriolysis in cholera vibrios under certain conditions: immune bacteriolysis, “Pfeiffer’s phenomenon”. Abridged English translation of second part in…

1894 CE

#1291

Ueber eine neue Untersuchungsmethode des Centralorgans speciell zur Feststellung der Localisation der Nervenzellen.

Nissl’s stain.

1894 CE

#4188

Uretero-ureteral anastomosis; uretero-ureterostomy.

Kelly’s method of uretero-ureteral anastomosis included the use of the catheter as a temporary ureteral splint.

1894 CE

#1568

Zur Physiologie des Labyrinths. 3. Mittheilung. Das Hören der labyrinthlosen Tauben.

1894 CE–1895 CE

#11390

Chirurgie opératoire du système nerveux. 2 vols.

Among the innovations that Chipault made in neurosurgery were the removal of the underlyling dura in meningiomas, a new laminectomy technique, development of small clamps for closing a scalp incision, the treatment of…

1894 CE–1895 CE

#1887

The chemistry of ipecacuanha.

Emetine first obtained in pure form.