Facets

1885 –1886

#705

Ueber Ptomaine. 3 vols.

Brieger isolated and determined the composition of a number of the ptomaines.

1885

#706

Lois d’équilibre chimique dans l’état dilué, gazeux ou dissous.

Van’t Hoff stated that osmotic pressure is proportional to the concentration if the temperature remains invariable, and proportional to the absolute temperature if the concentration remains invariable. In 1901 Van't H…

1885

#3770

Zur Symptomatologie der sog. Pseudo-Leukämie

“Pel-Ebstein disease”, a remittant pyrexia occurring in Hodgkin’s disease (see also No. 3771).

1885

#9544

Die elephantiastischen Formen. Eine umfassende Darstellung der angeborenen und erworbenen Elephantiasis sowie aller verwandten Leiden.

This atlas illustrates the various changes that occur under the collective term elephantiasis, including tumors of the blood and lymphatic vessels, fibromas, neuromas, papillomas. Goldschmid 258.

1886

#708

Ueber den Niederschlag, welchen Pikrinsäure in normalen Harn erzeugt und über eine neue Reaction des Kreatinins.

Jaffe’s creatinine test.

1886

#707

A text-book of human physiology, including histology and microscopical anatomy....by L. Landois. Translated from the fifth German edition. With additions by William Stirling. 2 vols.

Second edition in English. Matthew Hay devised a test for the determination of bile acids in the urine, published in vol. 1, p. 381. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1887

#710

Lehrbuch der physiologischen und pathologischen Chemie.

1887

#711

Die Rolle des osmotischen Druckes in der Analogic zwischen Lösungen und Gasen.

1887

#3771

Das chronische Rückfallsfieber, eine neue Infektionskrankheit.

1888

#712

Ptomaines and leucomaines, or the putrefactive and physiological alkaloids.

1889

#714

Fixation de l’azote par la terre végétale nue ou avec le concours des légumineuses.

Berthelot showed that bacteria acting in clay soils are able to fix nitrogen.

1889

#9525

Merck's index of fine chemicals and drugs for the materia medica and the arts: Comprising a summary of whatever chemical products are to-day adjudged as being useful in either medicine or technology, with average values and synonyms affixed; a guide for the physician, apothecary, chemist, and dealer.

First edition of the Merck Manual. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1890

#715

Ueber den Einfluss der Alkalien auf den menschlichen Stoffwechsel.

1891

#638

Le travail musculaire et l’énergie qu’il représente.

Important studies on thermodynamics of muscular work.

1891

#639

La fatica.

Mosso investigated muscular fatigue with the ergograph of his invention. He showed fatigue to be due to a toxin produced by muscular contraction. English translation, 1906.

1891

#716

Der Abbau der Eiweissstoffe.

Drechsel discovered that the protein molecule contains both mono and di-amino acids.

1891

#717

The behaviour of saccharine matter in the blood.

Destruction of sugar in the blood.

1891

#13573

Catalogue of works on alchemy and chemistry. Exhibited at The Grolier Club, 29 East 32d St. New York, Jan. 16th to Jan. 26th, 1891.

This appears to be the second catalogue of a U.S. exhibition of rare books on any scientific subject, following John Shaw Billing's catalogue of his exhibition of books from the Army Medical Library at Johns Hopkins H…

1892

#718

On the estimation of uric acid in the urine: a new process by means of saturation with ammonium chloride.

Hopkins’s method of estimating uric acid in urine.

1892

#3772

Clinical lecture on acute Hodgkin’s disease

Dreschfeld preceded Kundrat in differentiating Hodgkin’s disease and lymphosarcoma.

1893

#719

Ueber die Nucleinsaure.

See No. 702.

1893

#640

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

1893

#2623

Ueber Lympho-Sarkomatosis.

Kundrat separated lymphosarcoma (“Kundrat’s disease”) from other malignant tumors involving the lymphatic system.

1893

#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…

1894

#1112

The influence of mechanical factors on lymph production.

1894

#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

#11210

Bibliographia Paracelsica: Besprechung der unter Theophrast v. Hohenheim's Namen 1527-1893 erschienenen Druckschriften

1895

#1888

Neue Synthese der Harnsäure und ihrer Methylderivate.

1895

#14310

Argon, a new constituent of the atmosphere.

Discovery of argon, the first discovery of an inert gas. In 1904 Ramsay was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry "in recognition of his services in the discovery of the inert gaseous elements in air, and his determina…

1896

#647

On the absorption of fluids from the connective tissue spaces.

Starling discovered the functional significance of the serum proteins.

1896

#13046

Ueber den Einfluss des atmosphärischen Kohlensäuregehalts auf die Temperatur der Erdoberfläche.

Arrhenius used basic principles of physical chemistry to estimate the extent to which increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide are responsible for the Earth's increasing surface temperature, the "greenhouse effect."

1897

#719.1

Alkoholische Gärung ohne Hefezellen.

Discovery of cell-free fermentation, the turning point in the study of enzymes. In 1907 Buchner was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his biochemical researches and his discovery of cell-free fermentation."

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

#3775

Lymphosarkom (Lymphosarkomatose, Pseudoleukämie, Myelom, Chlorom).

“Paltauf-Sternberg disease” (see also No. 3776). On the European Continent the name “Hodgkin-Paltauf-Sternberg disease” is in use.

1897

#11094

Die histochemischen und physiologischen Arbeiten. 2 vols.

In a letter to his uncle, the embryologist, Wilhelm His, written on December 17, 1892, and first published in this collected edition, Miescher described a kind of genetic code. He remarked how "some of the large molec…

1898

#648

A digest of metabolism experiments in which the balance of income and outgo was determined.

1898 –1899

#720

Bedeutung der Stereochemie fur die Physiologie.

1898

#721

Ueber die Eiweissstoffe.

Kossel forecast the polypeptide nature of the protein molecule.

1898

#2003

Sur une substance nouvelle radio-active, contenue dans la pechblende.

The Curies, studying the radioactivity of minerals containing uranium and thorium, isolated from pitchblend a substance which they called radium and which they showed to possess an astonishing degree of radioactivity.…

1898

#2266

Tropical diseases.

Manson has been called the “father of modern tropical medicine”. He had vast experience of disease in the Tropics and himself made many valuable contributions to the knowledge of this subject. He described tinea nigra…

1898

#3776

Ueber eine eigenartige, unter dem Bilde der Pseudoleukämie verlaufende Tuberkulose des lymphatischen Apparates.

In his classic description of lymphadenoma, Sternberg separated it from aleukemic leukemia, with which it had hitherto been included.

1898

#3777

Sur une variété particulière d’ictère chronique splénomégalique.

“Hayem–Widal disease” –acquired hemolytic anemia (see also No. 3783).

1899

#649.1

Der Lungengaswechsel des Menschen in den verschiedenen. Altersstufen.

The first systematic study of the basal metabolism of normal individuals from childhood to old age.

1900

#722

Concerning lipase, the fat-splitting enzyme, and the reversibility of its action.

Demonstration of the reversible action of lipase.

1900

#3779

Ueber eine hereditäre, unter dem Bilde eines chronischen Icterus mit Urobilinurie Splenomegalie, und Nierensiderosis verlaufende Affection.

“Minkowski–Chauffard disease”, familial hemolytic jaundice. See also No. 3781.

1901

#723

A contribution to the chemistry of proteids. I. A preliminary study of a hitherto undescribed product of tryptic digestion.

Isolation of tryptophan.

1901 –1903

#725.1

Darstellung und Analyse einiger Nucleinsäuren. I.-VI. Mittheilung.

Chemical distinction between DNA and RNA. Levene elucidated the fundamentals of nucleic acid chemistry. His work led to the tetranucleotide hypothesis.

1902

#1025

Die Gesetze des Energieverbrauchs bei der Ernährung.

Rubner’s classic work on the influence of foodstuffs on metabolism. In it he introduced the term “specific dynamic action of the foodstuffs”.

1902

#724

Physikalische Chemie der Zelle und Gewebe.

1902 –1904

#725

Osmotischer Druck und Ionenlehre in den medicinischen Wissenschaften. 3 vols.

Includes an account of all the methods of determining osmotic pressure.