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1856

#2028.56

On a new mode of effecting artificial respiration.

Marshall Hall’s method of artificial respiration.

1856

#3169

Beiträge zur Lehre von den beim Menschen vorkommenden pflanzlichen Parasiten.

First description of pulmonary aspergillosis.

1856

#22

Тα ∑ωζομενα. The extant works of Aretaeus, the Cappadocian. Edited and translated by Francis Adams.

Aretaeus left many fine descriptions of disease; in fact Garrison ranks him second only to Hippocrates in this respect. In the printed editions of this bibliography, before the present online version, the Adams editio…

1857

#934

Die Gase des Blutes.

Meyer showed that the oxygen in the blood was not held in simple solution but came off in quantity only when the air pressure was reduced to one fiftieth of an atmosphere.

1857

#3456

De polypis oesophagi atque de tumore ejus generis primo prospere exstirpato.

First operation for tumor of the esophagus.

1858

#935

De sanguine oxydo carbonico infesto.

Investigation of the blood gases.

1859

#935.1

Experimental inquiries into the chemical and other phenomena of respiration, and their modifications by various physical agents.

Smith invented a respirometer to study changes in respiratory function under various conditions. See also the following paper (pp. 715-42) on the effects of foods on respiration. For an account of his work in this and…

1862 –1863

#938

Untersuchungen über die Respiration.

The first combined feeding–respiration experiments. Pettenkofer and Voit devised an apparatus for their important experiments on respiration and metabolism. They were first to estimate the amounts of protein, fat, and…

1862 –1863

#937

Ueber die Respiration.

1863

#10894

On Australasian climates and their influence in the prevention and arrest of pulmonary consumption.

Digital facsimile from wellcomecollection.org at this link.

1866

#939

Zur Gasometrie des Blutes.

Pflüger showed that respiratory changes take place in the tissues.

1868

#940

Ueber die Ursache der Athembewegungen, sowie der Dyspnoë und Apnoë.

Pflüger investigated the cause of the initiation of respiration in newborn animals. English translation in No. 1588.16.

1868

#941

Die Selbststeuerung der Athmung durch den Nervus vagus.

1868

#942

Die Selbststeuerung der Athmung durch den Nervus vagus.

“Hering-Breuer reflex”; see also the previous entry. English translation of both papers in R. Porter (ed.), Hering–Breuer Centenary Symposium, London, Churchill, 1970. Digital facsimile of the 1868 edition from the Ba…

1868

#2981

Om Haemoptyse navnlig den lethale, i anatomisk og klinisk Henseende.

Tuberculous aneurysm of the lung (“Rasmussen’s aneurysm”). English translation in Edinb.med.J.,1868, 14,385-401, 486-503; 1869, 15,97-104, 228-36.

1869

#2028.58

Plain rules for the restoration of persons apparently dead from drowning.

Howard’s method of artificial respiration is taught for resuscitation from drowning.

1871

#943

Der Kehlkopf des Menschen.

1872

#3465

Ueber die Resection des Oesophagus.

First resection of the esophagus.

1875

#943.1

Influence de la pression de l’air sur la vie de l’homme. Climats d'altitude et climats du montagne. 2 vols.

Jourdanet’s observational work in remote areas of Latin America and Asia produced important evidence for Bert’s proof that altitude sickness is due to anoxemia. In La pression barométrique (No. 944) Bert described how…

1876

#3170

Thoracentesis: the plan of continuous aspiration.

Hewett introduced a method of continuous aspiration of the thorax for emphysema.

1876

#3224

Recherches sur les relations qui existent entre les lésions des poumons et celles des ganglions trachéo-bronchiques.

The primary lesion in pulmonary tuberculosis in children (“Ghon’s primary focus”) was first described by Parrot.

1876

#12220

Contribution a l’étude du phénomène respiratoire de Cheyne-Stokes.

Biot's respiration, "an abnormal pattern of breathing characterized by groups of quick, shallow inspirations followed by regular or irregular periods of apnea"

1878

#944

La pression barométrique. Recherches de physiologie expérimentale.

The most famous work in the history of altitude physiology, in which Bert proved that the principal symptoms of altitude sickness arise from reduced partial pressure of oxygen and not from diminution of total pressure…

1879 –1880

#945

On the respiratory function of the internal intercostal muscles.

The important work of Martin and Hartwell on the intercostal muscles settled the controversy regarding their function.

1879

#12418

Resektion af refben vid kroniskt empyem. C. R. Sur la résection des côtes dans l'empyème chronique.

Esklander proposed a new method of surgery, involving sectioning of the ribs, to cure a condition previously considered incurable caused by chronic purulent pleurisy.

1881

#3172

L’organisme microscopique trouvé par M. Pasteur dans la maladie nouvelle provoquée par la salive d’un enfant mort de la rage.

Probably the earliest record of pneumococcus. Parrot reported the discovery made by Louis Pasteur.

1881

#3173

A fatal form of septicaemia in the rabbit, produced by the subcutaneous injection of human saliva.

In the same year as Pasteur, and independently, Sternberg discovered the pneumococcus (Streptococcus pneumoniae) demonstrating its carriage in the healthy human mouth.

1882 –1892

#946

Normale und pathologische Anatomie der Nasenhöhle und ihrer pneumatischen Anhänge.

1882

#3174

Ueber die Schizomyceten bei der acuten fibrösen Pneumonie.

Isolation of Klebsiella pneumoniae (“Friedländer bacillus”), which Friedländer regarded as the causal organism in all cases of lobar pneumonia.

1882

#3225

A contribuzione della terapia chirurgica della tisi; ablazione de polmone? pneumotorace artificiale?

Forlanini first discussed the induction of artificial pneumothorax in the above papers; he applied it in 1888. For his report on its application, see Gazz. med. Torino, 1894, 45, 381, 401. English translation in Tuber…

1884

#3174.1

Ueber Lungenchirurgie.

Resection of portion of a lobe that was invaded by sarcoma of the rib.

1885

#3226

A case of haemoptysis treated by the induction of pneumothorax so as to collapse the lung.

Artificial pneumothorax by pleural incision in intractable haemoptysis. See also Lancet, 1885, 1, 894-95.

1885

#13907

Untersuchungen über den Stoffwechsel isolirte Organe. I. Ein Respirationsapparat für isolirte Organe. II. Versuche über den Stoffwechsel des Muskels.

(Part 1 by Frey & Gruber; Part 2 by Frey.) Frey and Gruber developed the first heart-lung machine. Their machine "consisted of a double-acting pump in the form on an injection syringe with a capacity of 10 ml, which i…

1886

#3487

Ein Fall von Resection des carcinomatösen Oesophagus mit plastischem Ersatz des excidierten Stückes.

Von Mikulicz was the first to make a plastic reconstruction of the oesophagus after the resection of its cervical portion for carcinoma.

1886

#3175

Die Mikrococcen der Pneumonie.

Fraenkel showed definitely that the organism found by Pasteur (No. 3172) and Sternberg (No. 3173) was a cause of pneumonia.

1886

#3176

Ueber die Aetiologie der acuten Lungen- und Rippenfellentzündungen.

Weichselbaum definitely established that Friedländer’s bacillus was responsible for pneumonia in a small percentage of cases.

1889

#947

On the regulation of respiration.

Demonstration of the action of the vagus in respiration.

1889

#3177

Ueber die Grundsätze der Behandlung von Eiterungen in starrwandigen Höhlen, mit besonderer Berücksichtigung des Empyems der Pleura.

First thoracotomy for empyema.

1890

#3177.1

Die Behandlung der Empyeme.

Schede introduced the method of extensive rib resection for the treatment of empyema.

1891

#3178

Versuche über Immunisirung und Heilung bei der Pneumokokkeninfection.

Old antipneumococcal serum.

1893

#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

#3227

A case of pneumonectomy.

Partial lobectomy in pulmonary tuberculosis.

1894

#949

Neue Versuche zur Bestimmung der Sauerstoffcapacität des Blutfarbstoffs.

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

1894

#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.

1895

#8482

Des insufflations d'air dans le traitement des péritonites tuberculeuses. Thèse de médecine, Lille.

Describes the earliest experiments with artificial pneumoperitoneum by Mosetig-Moorhof, Duran and Nolen and Folet, which were not published formally. See Jean-Jacques Peumery, "1993: Le centenaire du penumopéritoine a…

1896

#3181

Die Specksteinlunge. Ein Beitrag zur pathologischen Anatomie der Staublungen.

Talcosis of lung reported.

1897

#950

Fisiologia dell’uomo sulle Alpi. Studii fatti sul Monte Rosa.

Mosso made important investigations on respiration at high altitudes. He considered that the respiratory symptoms produced at high altitudes were due to lack of carbon dioxide. English translation, London, 1898.

1897

#1573

A contribution to the history of the respiration of man.

1897

#3228

Chirurgie du poumon en particulier dans les cavernes tuberculeuses et la gangrène pulmonaire.

Describes (p. 31) first cure of tuberculosis by removal of lung apex.

1898

#951

A contribution to the chemistry of haemoglobin and its immediate derivatives.

Potassium ferricyanide method for the determination of oxygen in oxyhemoglobin.