Facets

1841

#10723

The American vegetable practice, or, a new and improved guide to health: Designed for the use of families. : In six Parts. Part I. Concise view of the human body, with engraved and wood-cut illustrations. Part II. Glance at the old school practice of physic. Part III. Vegetable materia medica, with colored Illustrations. Part IV. Compounds. Part V. Practice of medicine, based upon what are deemed correct physiological and pathological principles. Part VI. Guide for women, containing a simplified treatise on childbirth, with a description of the diseases peculiar to females and infant. 2 vols.

The first American book with chromolithographed illustrations printed in America. The chromolithographed images depict American medicinal plants. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1843

#6176

Cases of puerperal convulsions, with remarks.

Lever, of Guy’s Hospital, was the first to report the finding of albuminous urine in connection with puerperal convulsions.

1843

#6333

Traité clinique et pratique des maladies des enfants. 3 vols.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1845

#6517

Kinderfahrten, eine historisch-pathologische Skizze.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1848

#6334

Lectures on the diseases of infancy and childhood.

In its day this was the best English work on the subject, and was translated into several languages. West was one of the founders of the Hospital for Sick Children, Gt. Ormond Street, London.

1850 –1853

#6335

Die Krankheiten der Neugebomen und Säuglinge. 4 vols.

Bednaŕ was a famous Viennese pediatrician. His description of aphthae of the palate in the newborn (“Bednaŕ’s aphthae”) is in vol. 1, p. 104 of his book.

1850

#6351

Grundlage der Literatur der Pädiatrik.

An extensive bibliography of pediatric literature, containing about 7,000 references.

1854

#2383

Traité de la syphilis des nouveau-nés et des enfants à la mamelle.

An important work on congenital syphilis. English translation, 1859.

1857

#12966

Berceau incubateur pour les enfants nés avant terme.

This brief notice, about 400 words long, citing no references, was the first published account of an incubator for premature infants. Denucé built a double-walled zinc tub in which the space between the walls was fill…

1860

#3459.1

A practical treatise on the aetiology, pathology, and treatment of the congenital malformations of the rectum and anus.

The first systematic treatise on the subject, and a landmark in pediatric surgery. Includes an early account of colostomy and one of the earliest histories of that procedure. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at …

1860

#8890

Etude médico-légale sur les sévices et mauvais traitements exercés sur des enfants.

The first medical-legal study of child abuse, including sexual abuse, incest, and the "battered child" syndrome. Tardieu described 32 cases in detail, 18 of which resulted in death. Digital facsimile from Google Books…

1861

#6336

Beiträge zur Kinderheilkunde.

1864

#4499

Mémoire sur les coincidences pathologiques du rhumatisme articulaire chronique.

First description of chronic arthritis in childhood.

1864 –1867

#11385

Notices sur la chirurgie des enfants.

The first general treatise on pediatric surgery. From parts publication. Translated into English by Richard J. Dunglison as Surgical diseases of infants and children, Philadelphia: Henry C. Lea, 1873. Digital facsimil…

1865

#4211.1

Hydronephrosis in a boy four years old, repeatedly tapped; recovery.

Hillier performed the first therapeutic percutaneous nephrostomy for giant hydronephrosis with ureteropelvic junction obstruction in a four-year old boy.

1866

#3119

Ein Fall von Anaemia splenica bei einem Kinde

First reported case of (infantile) splenic anemia.

1866

#4936

Observations on an ethnic classification of idiots.

Langdon Down suggested that the physiognomical features of certain defectives enabled them to be arranged in ethnic groups; of these he differentiated Mongolian, Ethiopian, Caucasian, and American Indian. Such an ethn…

1867

#6862

The application of the principles and practice of homoeopathy to obstetrics, and the disorders peculiar to women and young children.

Digital facsimile from the Medical Heritage Library at the Internet Archive at this link.

1869

#9660

Leçons cliniques sur les maladies chirurgicales des enfants, professées par M. J. Giraldès. Recueillies et publiées par MM. Bourneville et E. Bourgeois; revues par le professeur.

1870

#4060

Dermatitis erysipelatosa; Gangraena; Enkephalitis.

First description of dermatitis exfoliativa neonatorum (“Rittershain’s disease”).

1874

#3466

A successful case of abdominal section for intussusception.

In 1871 Hutchinson was the first successfully to operate on a case of intussusception in a two year-old infant. Preliminary account in Med. chir. Trans., 1876, 41 (2nd ser.), 99-102.

1875

#3067

Ueber das Vorkommen von Bilirubinkrystallen bei neugebornen Kindern.

Kernicterus first described.

1876

#2486

Ueber eine Mykose bei einem neugeborenen Kinde (Bakterienfärbung mit Anilinfarben).

In this paper Weigert showed that methyl violet will reveal cocci in tissues.

1876

#4833

Beitrag zur Tetanie.

“Chvostek’s sign”, a reliable diagnostic sign in latent tetany in small children.

1876

#6357.55

Et Tilfaelde af Subakut Tarminvagination.

Discouraged by the high mortality of intussusception, Hirschsprung instituted a plan of controlled hydrostatic pressure reduction. By 1905 he was able to present a 35 per cent mortality based on 107 personal cases in …

1876

#11161

Du cancer chez les enfants.

Duzan's thesis was the first treatise exclusively on cancer in childhood. He was able to collect 182 cases. All 182 cases were of pediatric sarcoma: 70 of the eye, 45 of the kidney, 11 of the testicle, 8 of the prosta…

1877 –1893

#6337

Handbuch der Kinderkrankheiten. Hrsg. von C. GERHARDT. 9 vols.

Gerhardt edited this great work, which was written by the foremost pediatricians of the time and which gives a close-up view of pediatric knowledge at the end of the 19th century.

1878

#3719

Three cases of scurvy supervening on rickets in young children.

Infantile scurvy was confused with rickets until Cheadle differentiated between the two conditions.

1880 –1881

#5918

Symmetrical changes in the region of the yellow spot in each eye of an infant.

Tay was the first to describe amaurotic familial idiocy, his paper dealing mainly with the ocular manifestations. The condition later became known as “Tay-Sachs’s disease” (see also No. 4705).

1881

#5924

Die Verhütung der Augenentzüngung der Neugeborenen.

Credé introduced the practice of instillation of silver nitrate into the eyes of all newborn children as a preventive measure against ophthalmia neonatorum. Separate expanded edition with the same title, Berlin: A. Hi…

1881

#6339

Vorlesungen über Kinderkrankheiten.

Henoch, whose name is remembered for his description of purpura, initiated the modern concept of pediatrics. English translation, New York, 1882.

1881

#7645

Frozen sections of a child by Thomas Dwight. Fifteen drawings from nature by H. P. Quincy.

The first atlas of cross-sectional anatomy published in the United States. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link

1883

#12967

De la couveuse pour enfants. Part 5: Description d'une nouvelle couveuse.

Auvert described a new and improved closed incubator inspired by a bird/poultry incubator that Tarnier saw at a Paris zoo, and had adapted for human babies by the bird incubator's inventor, Dr. Martin. Tarnier used th…

1883

#14145

A book of medical discourse in two parts. Part first: Creating of the cause, prevention, and cure of infantile bowel complains, from birth to the close of the teething period, or till after the fifth year. Part second: Containing miscellaneous information concerning the life and growth of beings; the beginning of womanhood; also, the cause, prevention, and cure of many of the most distressing compains of women and youth of both sexes.

Crumpler was the first Black woman to receive a medical degree in the United States. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive.

1884

#4747

Ueber die juvenile Form der progressiven Muskelatrophie und ihre Beziehungen zur sogenannten Pseudohypertrophie der Muskeln.

Progressive muscular dystrophy (“Erb’s muscular atrophy”). Erb did much to establish the modern conception of the muscular dystrophies.

1884

#9659

Chirurgie des enfants. Leçons cliniques professées à l'Hôpital des Enfants-Malades... Recueillies et publiées par Pierre-J. Mercier.

1885

#4643

Ueber die akute Encephalitis der Kinder (Polioencephalitis acuta, cerebrale Kinderlähmung).

“Strumpell’s disease” – polioencephalomyelitis.

1885

#3482.3

On a case of acute intestinal obstruction in a boy, with remarks upon the treatment of acute obstruction.

Abdominal section and ileostomy for intestinal obstruction; surgeon’s report on pp. 130-35.

1885

#5210.1

Bericht über eine bei Kindern beobachtete Endemie infectiöser Colpitis.

The gonococcus shown to be the cause of vulvovaginitis in children.

1886

#3790

Congenital absence of hair and mammary glands with atrophic condition of the skin and its appendages in a boy whose mother had been almost wholly bald from alopecia areata from the age of six.

First description of progeria.

1886

#6341

Ueber Kindermilch und Säuglings-Ernährung.

Soxhlet wrote on the nature of milk droplets, estimated the specific gravity of milk with his lactodensimeter, described an apparatus for the sterilization of milk, and devised a test for the estimation of fats in milk.

1887 –1888

#3489

Stuhlträgheit Neuegeborener in Folge von Dilatation und Hypertrophie des Colons.

Hirschsprung’s diseases (congenital megacolon).

1887

#4089

Ueber die Aetiologie und Therapie der Impetigo, des Furunkels und der Sykosis.

First description of impetigo circumpilaris infantilis (“Bockhart’s impetigo”).

1887 –1888

#5931

Die ärztliche Ueberwachung der Schulen zur Verhütung der Verbreitung der Kurzsichtigkeit.

Cohn was a pioneer in his advocacy of the routine examination of the eyes of schoolchildren.

1887

#6342

The intestinal diseases of infancy and childhood.

Jacobi was the first in the United States to specialize in the practice of pediatrics. In 1862 he founded the first pediatric clinic in the U.S., in New York. He wrote extensively on pediatrics.

1888

#3489.1

Fälle von angeborener Pylorusstenose, beobachtet bei Säuglingen.

Hirschsprung first made the medical world aware of congenital hypertrophic pyloric stenosis as a distinct clinical entity. In this paper he made no suggestions concerning therapy.

1889

#3131

Ueber Leukaemia und Leukocytose im Kindesalter.

From this classic description of infantile pseudoleukemic anemia, the condition became known as “von Jaksch’s disease”.

1889

#5504

Ueber örtliche Rötheln.

First description of acute infectious erythema, “fifth disease”, called also “Sticker’s disease” after the latter’s description of it in Z. prakt. Aerzte, 1899, 8, 353.

1891

#4755

Zwei frühinfantile hereditäre Fälle von progressiver Muskelatrophie unter dem Bilde der Dystrophie, aber auf neurotischer Grundlage.

“Werdnig-Hoffmann muscular atrophy”, an infantile familial form of progressive muscular atrophy. Hoffmann independently described it (see No. 4756).

1891 –1893

#4756

Ueber chronische spinale Muskelatrophie im Kindesalter, auf familiärer Basis.

“Hoffmann’s muscular atrophy” – independently described by Werdnig (No. 4755).