Facets

1817 –1826

#2284

Tabulae anatomico-pathologicae. 4 pts.

Meckel’s work on embryology brought a better understanding of congenital malformations, which had previously been attributed by many to supernatural influence. This work illustrates a number of anomalies and other dis…

1817

#3988

Delineations of cutaneous diseases exhibiting the characteristic appearances of the principal genera and species comprised in the classification of the late Dr. Willan; and completing the series of engravings begun by that author.

Bateman, the pupil of Willan, continued his teacher’s classification of skin diseases. The above work is notable for its 72 colored plates. Strictly speaking it is the first atlas of dermatology, as Willan’s work fall…

1817

#4258

Cases of Fungus haematodes, with observations.

Prostatic carcinoma first reported (p. 279).

1817

#12746

Nosologie naturelle, ou les maladies du corps humain distribuées par familles. Tome premier. (All published.)

This unfinished work with 22 spectacular plates included some full body images of patients, and unlike other illustrated works by Alibert, it concerned more than skin diseases. Vol. 2 was never published but a second,…

1818 –1822

#534.57

Philosophie anatomique. Tome Premier. Des organes respiratoires sou le rapport de la détermination et de l'identité de leur pièces osseuses. Avec figures de 116 nouvelles preparations d'anatomie. [Tome Deuxième]. Des monstruosités humaines, ouvrage contenant une classification des monstres; la description et la comparaison des principaux genres; une histoire raisonnée des phénomènes de la monstruosité et des faits primitifs qui la produisent; des vues nouvelles touchant la nutrition du foetus et d'autres circonstrances de son développement....Avec figures des détails anatomiques. 2 vols.

The elder Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire is credited with coining the word teratology, and was the first seriously to attempt the experimental production of anomalies, by manipulating chick eggs. See T. Cahn, La vie et l'oeuv…

1818 –1819

#2941

Surgical essays. 2 vols.

Cooper, the pupil and great interpreter of Hunter, was the most popular surgeon in London during the Regency. In 1802 he gained the Copley Medal of the Royal Society. Travers was surgeon to St. Thomas’s Hospital, and …

1818

#10069

Oeuvres complètes de Bordeu, précédés d'une notice sur sa vie et sur ses ouvrages, par M. le Chevalier Richerand. 2 vols.

1819

#2582

Case of periodical affection of the eyes and chest.

Bostock’s classical description of the “catarrhus aestivus,” hay fever, is also referred to as “Bostock’s catarrh”. It begins the modern era in the clinical recognition of hay fever. The case he described was in fact …

1820

#2073

Pharmacologia; or the history of medicinal substances, with a view to establish the art of prescribing. 3rd ed.

First description of cancer caused by arsenic (p. 133).

1820

#3812

Découverte d’un nouveau remède contre le goitre.

Coindet is usually regarded as the first to administer iodine in cases of goitre, with beneficial results. It had previously been prepared from seaweed by B. Courtois in 1812 (Ann. Chim. (Paris), 1813, 88, 304-10), an…

1820

#9072

Ensaio dermosographico ou Succinta e systematica descripção das doenças cutaneas, conforme os principios e observações dos doutores Willan, e Bateman, com indicacão dos respectivos remedios aconselhados por estes celebres authores, e alguns outros.

The first book on dermatology published in Portuguese. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1820

#13385

Ueber angeborne menschliche Missbildungen im Allgemeinen und Hermaphroditen insbesondere. Ein Beitrag zur Physiologie, pathologischen Anatomie, und gerichtlichen Arzneiwissenschaft.

Includes an account of the Prussian intersex man, Karl Dürrge (also known as Maria Dorothea Derrier: 1780–1835). With two hand-colored plates of hermaphroditic genitalia. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1822

#2530

Mémoire physiologique sur les maladies purulentes et putrides, sur la vaccine, etc.

Gaspard was one of the first to make experimental studies on pyemia following the injection of putrid fluids. He experimented on dogs, sheep, foxes, and pigs, injecting putrid infusions pus, vaccine, lymph, blood, bil…

1822 –1823

#3912

Account of a singular variety of urine, which turned black soon after being discharged; with some particulars respecting its chemical properties.

Alkaptonuria described.

1822

#4447

Case of osteo-sarcoma in which the right side of the lower jaw was removed successfully after tying the carotid artery.

Mott resected the entire half of the bone, necessitating a disarticulation at the temporo-mandibular joint.

1823

#3881

Observations sur les maladies de l’appendice sus-sphenoïdal (glande pituitaire) du cerveau.

Includes description of pituitary obesity.

1823

#1492.1

Commentatio de examine physiologico organi visus et systematis cutanei.

Purkynĕ was first to examine the interior of the human eye and the dog eye, using only a candle and a concave spherical lens. He thus invented the ophthalmoscope three decades before Helmholtz (1851; No. 5866). Reprin…

1824

#4449

Case of osteo-sarcoma of the superior maxillary bone, with the operation for its removal.

Rogers removed nearly all of the upper jaw. Operation performed in 1810.

1824

#2606

De tumoribus praeter naturam. In his Opera omnia, ed. cur. C.G. Kühn. 7, 705-32.

Galen’s classification of tumors persisted for more than 1,000 years. He considered neoplasms to be due to an excess of black bile, which solidified in certain sites. He advocated purges to dissolve the black bile, an…

1824

#6025

Ueber den Gebärmutterkrebs, dessen Entstehung und Verhütung.

Classic account of cancer of the uterus.

1824

#10184

Recherches pour server à l'histoire des maladies du système lymphatique.

First description of lymphangitis carcinomatosa. See L. Doyle, "Gabriel Andral (1797-1876) and the first reports of lymphangitis carcinomatosa," Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 82 (1989) 491-93.

1824

#11156

A practical treatise on the diseases of the skin, comprehending an account of such facts as have been recorded on these subjects, with original observations. The whole arranged with a view to illustrate the constitutional causes of these diseases, as well as their local characters.

Plumbe was one of the most outspoken critics of Willan and Bateman’s morphological system of skin disease classification. In his Practical Treatise he was the first dermatologist to attempt to produce a classification…

1825

#2210

Collections from the unpublished writings of the late Caleb Hillier Parry. 3 vols.

Includes Parry’s interesting description of eight cases of exophthalmic goitre, the first of which was observed in 1786, and his notes on four cases of angina pectoris. Parry's paper, "Enlargement of the thyroid gland…

1825

#4024

Description des maladies de la peau. 2me. édition. 2 vols.

Contains (vol. 2, p. 214) first description of sycosis barbae (“Alibert’s mentagra”).

1826 –1827

#3989

Traité théorique et pratique des maladies de la peau. 2 vols, and atlas.

In this summary of dermatological literature of the period Rayer first described adenoma sebaceum and xanthoma multiplex. He was the first to differentiate between acute and chronic eczema. The second edition, Paris, …

1826

#10529

Clinique de la maladie syphilitique. Enrichie d’observations communiquées par messieurs Cullerier oncle, Cullerier neveu, Bard, Gama, Desruelles et autre médecins. Text and atlas.

Includes 126 hand-colored engraved plates from drawings by Dupont the elder, assisted by Delestre the younger and Verollot, engraved by Johann Theodor Susemihl, a German engraver working in Paris, known for his zoolog…

1827

#4025

Observations respecting an ulcer of peculiar character, which attacks the eyelids and other parts of the face.

Arthur Jacob, Professor of Anatomy and physiology in Dublin, described “Jacob’s ulcer”, rodent ulcer attacking the face, especially the eyelid.

1827

#14285

Der Leichnam des Menschen in seinen physischen Verwandlungen nach Beobachtungen und Versuchen.

The human corpse in its physical transformations according to observations and experiments.

1828

#4453

Case of osteo-sarcoma of the lower jaw.

Syme’s operation of excision of the lower jaw for osteosarcoma.

1828

#4452

An account of a case of osteo-sarcoma of the left clavicle, in which exsection of that bone was successfully performed.

Valentine Mott was an outstanding figure in American surgery during the first half of the 19th century. A pupil of Astley Cooper, he particularly distinguished himself in vascular surgery and in operations involving t…

1828 –1829

#4523

Observations on neuroma.

Neuroma first described.

1828

#2583

Of the catarrhus aestivus, or summer catarrh.

On the history and aetiology of hay fever.

1828 –1829

#3814

Removal of the right lobe of the thyroid gland.

To Joseph Green, of St. Thomas’s Hospital, London, is accredited the first thyroidectomy, the patient succumbing 15 days later from sepsis.

1828

#3990

Abrégé pratique des maladies de la peau.

This book codified and published the lectures, doctrines and observations of Laurent Biett (1781-1840), the leading clinical teacher in dermatology of the early 19th century, who published very little himself. Cazenav…

1829

#2610

Recherches sur le traitement du cancer par la compression méthodique. 2 vols.

Récamier was the first to recognize the process of metastasis. He also described for the first time invasion of veins by cancer.

1829

#5291

Sur la pyrophlyctide endémique, ou pustule d’Aleppo.

Important description of “Aleppo boil”, furunculosis orientalis.

1829

#9472

Comments on corpulency, lineaments of leanness ....

The first illustrated book on obesity research or medical efforts to control overweight. Wadd, one of the surgeons extraordinary to George IV, drew and engraved the illustrations himself. Digital facsimile from the In…

1830

#2611

A short tract on the formation of tumours, and the peculiarities that are met with in the structure of those that have become cancerous; with their mode of treatment.

Contains the first illustrations of microscopic sections of cancer; however, Home drew no worthwhile conclusion from his microscopic studies. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1830

#11150

Mémoire sur l'excision de la partie inférieure du rectum, devenue carcinomateuse.

“The first successful operation for rectal cancer was performed by Lisfranc in 1826. This consisted of excising the anus and rectum via the perineum, which resulted in the functional equivalent of a perineal colostomy…

1831 –1849

#534.59

Lehrbuch der pathologischen Anatomie der Haus-Saugethiere. 3 vols.

The most comprehensive treatise on malformations of domesticated animals, as well as an important contribution to general teratology. The superb atlas illustrates many rare animal terata. See also his Uber thierische …

1831

#2584

Hay fever.

Elliotson was the first to ascertain that pollen was the cause of hay fever.

1831

#9354

Traité des maladies cutanées des pieds, telles que cors, oignon, durillons, verrues, ongles, etc.

Probably the first book specifically on the skin diseases of the feet, including the functions and nature of the skin of the feet and the manner in which perspiration takes place in the feet. Nothing is known regardin…

1832

#1119

The anatomy of the thymus gland.

Cooper, the most popular surgeon in London during the early part of the 19th century, was connected with both Guy’s and St. Thomas’s Hospitals. Among his best works is his description of the thymus; he described the “…

1832 –1837

#534.58

Histoire générale et particulière des anomalies de l’organisation chez l’homme et les animaux. 3 vols. and atlas.

Isidore, the son of Étienne (See No. 534.57) organized all known human and animal malformations taxonomically. Many principles governing abnormal development were enunciated for the first time in this work. It also in…

1832

#3762

On some morbid appearances of the absorbent glands and spleen.

First full description of lymphadenoma, which Wilks in 1865 referred to as “Hodgkin’s disease”. This is more typically designated as Hodgkin's lymphoma. In 1666 Malpighi had vaguely outlined the condition. Hodgkin was…

1832

#3990.1

Monographie des dermatoses.

This includes the first published illustration of Alibert’s famous “family tree” for the classification of skin diseases, a concept which Alibert borrowed freely from Torti (No. 5231). This classification was never wi…

1833

#6028

Traité pratique des maladies de l’utérus et de ses annexes. 2 vols. and atlas.

Boivin and Dugès practiced amputation of the cervix for chronic ulceration. On page 648 of vol. 2 is the first recorded case of cancer of the female urethra. English translation, 1834.

1834

#13415

Mémoire comparatif sur l'histoire naturelle de l'insecte de la gale.

Raspail first described and illustrated the Sarcoptes scabei, diffrentiating it from the horse's sarcopt and the cheese moth that Galès and Patrix, followed by Alibert, had confused with the scabies parasite. Raspail …

1835

#1698.1

Sur l’homme et le développement des facultés, ou essai de physique sociale. 2 vols.

Quetelet’s statistical researches on the development of the physical and intellectual qualities of man, and an exposition of his concept of the “average man”, which became the by-word of quantitative studies. "Quétele…

1835

#3815

Palpitation of the heart with enlargement of the thyroid gland.

This is considered the first accurate account of exophthalmic goitre, later known as “Parry’s disease”, “Graves’s disease”, and “Basedow’s disease”. An interesting fact about the London Medical & Surgical Journal is t…