Facets

1891

#7243

Entsefalometriya mozga cheloveka v otnoshenii k polu, vozrastu i cherepnomu ukazatelyu [in Cyrillic].

In 1889, nearly 20 years before Horsley and Clarke published their paper on the use of stereotaxy to examine the brain, Dmitrii Zernov, a professor of anatomy at Moscow University, invented the first prototype of a st…

1891

#10598

A practical treatise on diseases of the skin

The first systematic treatise on dermatology published in America. Piffard was a pioneer of "indoor" magnesium flashlight photography, and took most of the 50 photographs reproduced in this book by this technique. Dig…

1892

#1287

Nuevo concepto de la histologia de los centros nerviosos.

Ramón y Cajal, son of a struggling Aragonese doctor, lived to become one of the greatest of all histologists. He devised many staining methods for nervous tissue and did work of fundamental importance to neuroanatomy.…

1892

#2545.1

Practical results of bacteriological researches.

Sternberg demonstrated that the serum of an animal recovered from vaccinia possesses the property of neutralizing the activity of the causative virus. His test was readily adaptable for use in various host-systems.

1893

#557

Der Formaldehyd als Härtungsmittel. Vorläufige Mittheilung.

Formalin first used for tissue fixation.

1893

#8094

La photographie médicale: Application aux sciences médicales et physiologiques.

The first book on medical photography. Digital facsimile from http://jubilotheque.upmc.fr at this link.

1894

#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

#8970

Kystophotographischer Atlas.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1894

#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.

1895

#2683

Ueber eine neue Art von Strahlen. (Vorläufige Mittheilung.); Eine neue Art von Strahlen. II. Mittheilung.

The discovery of x rays, which Kölliker later renamed “Roentgen rays”; the foundation stone of the science of roentgenology. English translation in Nature, (February,) 1896, 53, 274 and 377. See also Röntgen’s third p…

1895

#3335

Autoskopie des Larynx und der Trachea. (Laryngoscopia directa, Euthyskopie, Besichtigung ohne Spiegel.)

First direct-vision laryngoscope.

1895

#8653

An atlas of the fertilization and karyokinesis of the ovum.

The first atlas of photomicrographs showing fertilization and cellular development during mitosis. The photomicrographs were taken by Leaming. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1895

#9320

The mental development of the child and the race.

A central text in the development of social psychology in North America; now also considered a pioneering study of adaptive learning, and in this sense a precursor to research in artificial intelligence. Digital facsi…

1896

#2804.1

A method for more fully determining the outline of the heart by means of the fluoroscope together with other uses of this instrument in medicine.

Estimation of heart size by fluoroscope, first application of x rays to cardiology.

1896

#2550

Recherches de la réaction agglutinante dans le sang et le sérum desséchés des typhiques et dans la sérosité des vesicatoires.

Developing the work of Gruber and Durham, Widal noted that a patient’s serum could be tested with bacteria of known type and his disease identified by this means. They demonstrated specific agglutinins in the blood of…

1896

#3516

Zur Anwendung des Röntgenschen Verfahrens in der Medicin.

Becher introduced a solution of lead into the stomach of a guinea-pig, making it opaque to x rays; he thus showed the possibility of radiological diagnosis of gastric disease.

1896

#2684

The discovery of a bullet lost in the wrist by means of the Roentgen rays.

This was probably the first published report of the clinical use of x rays (February 22).

1896

#2684.1

The clinical application of the roentgen rays in surgical diagnosis.

First clinical application in America, published in March, 1896.

1896

#2001

Sur les radiations émises par phosphorescence.

The discovery of radioactivity – research stimulated by Roentgen’s discovery of x rays. In 1903 Becquerel received half of the Nobel Prize in Physics 1903 "in recognition of the extraordinary services he has rendered …

1896

#2684.3

The x-ray and its application to dentistry.

First dental radiography in America.

1896

#2685

A few remarks on experiments with Roentgen rays.

Introduction of the intensifying screen.

1896

#2686

Stereoscopic Roentgen pictures.

Invention of the Roentgen stereoscope.

1896

#2686.1

A method for more fully determining the outline of the heart by means of the fluorescope together with other uses of this instrument in medicine.

Estimation of heart size by fluoroscope, first application of x rays to cardiology.

1896

#3636

Calculs du rein. Calculs de la vésicule biliaire.

Chappuis and Chauvel were the first to study biliary concretions by means of Roentgen rays.

1896

#4293

Roentgen rays. Photography of renal calculus.

First radiogram of renal calculus.

1896

#3688

The “x” rays in the practice of dental surgery.

Harrison was the first to describe a method of making dental radiographs.

1896

#9639

Atlas of nerve cells. With the cooperation of Oliver S. Strong and Edward Leaming.

Photomicrographs by Leaming. Digital facsimile from the Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.

1896

#10607

Versuche über Photographie mittelst der Röntgen’schen Strahlen.

"Eder was the director of an institute for graphic processes and the author of an early history of photography. With the photochemist Valenta, he produced a portfolio in January 1896, less than a month after Wilhelm C…

1896

#10608

14 Photographien mit Röntgen-strahlen aufgenommen im physikaloschen Verein zu Frankfurt A. M.

This collection of x-ray photographs published within a few months of Röntgen's discovery includes applications in archaeology and anthropology (x-rays of mummies) and forensic medicine (for the investigation of gunsh…

1897

#2002

Demonstration eines mit Röntgenstrahlen behandelten Falles von Naevus pigmentosus pilosus.

First use of x rays for deep irradiation therapy.

1897

#2550.1

Über specifische Reactionen im keimfreien Filtraten aus Cholera, Typhus und Pestbouillonculturen, erzeugt durch homologes Serum.

The precipitin reaction, employed for the qualitative identification of antigens and antibodies. English translation in Bibel, Milestones in immunology,(1988) pp. 265-68.

1897

#2687

X-ray records for the cinematograph.

Macintyre was the first to demonstrate x-ray cinematography.

1897

#10597

Skin diseases of children. With twelve photogravure and chromographic plates, and sixty illustrations in the text.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1897

#12218

Application de la méthode Roentgen à l'examen d'un anéurisme de la crosse aortique. Présentation du malade et de la preuve radiographique.

With the help of Oudin and Barthélemy Béclère established the first laboratory of radiology in Paris. This was among the first applications of x-rays for the diagnosis of aortic disease, and also one of the first pape…

1898

#838

Ueber Herzbewegung und Herzstoss.

First employment of cinematograph to record the cardiac changes during all phases of heart contraction.

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

#2687.1

The movements of the stomach studied by means of the Roentgen rays.

Cannon introduced the bismuth meal. He showed that bismuth, opaque to x rays, could be of great use in conjunction with roentgenology in the investigation of the digestive tract. See No. 1029.

1898

#3638

Ueber die Photographie von Gallensteinen in vivo.

First x-ray demonstration of gall-stones.

1899

#650

Animals in motion.

1899

#4191.1

Sonde urétérale opaque. In Traité de chirurgie, 2e ed. vol. 7, p. 414.

Tuffier made the first pioneer attempt to visualize the urinary tract by the combination of an opaque ureteral styletted catheter and radiography.

1899

#11293

Les troubles de la marche dans l'hémiplégie organique étudiés à l'aide du cinématographe.

Between July 1898 and 1902 Romanian neurologist Gheorghe Marinescu (Georges Marinesco) made the world's first documentary films in his clinic in Bucharest. "Marinescu perfected the use of cinematography as a research …

1900

#2687.2

The use of the Röntgen ray by the Medical Department of the United States Army in the war with Spain (1898).

The Spanish-American War was the first war in which X rays were used for diagnostic purposes. This is the first report on the application of X rays in military medicine. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at …

1901

#651

The human figure in motion. An electro-photographic investigation of consecutive phases of muscular actions.

Muybridge, an Englishman, made exhaustive photographic investigations of consecutive animal movements while he was in America. More than 100,000 photographs were embodied in his Animal locomotion. An electro-photograp…

1901

#2553

Sur l’existence de substances sensibilisatrices dans la plupart des sérums antimicrobiens.

The Bordet–Gengou complement-fixation reaction is the basis of many tests for infection, notably the Wassermann test for syphilis, and reactions for gonococcus infection, glanders, hydatid disease. English translation…

1901

#2687.3

The Roentgen rays in medicine and surgery.

Because of rapid developments in this field Williams put this book through three editions, in 1901, 1902, and 1903. Digital facsimile of the 1901 first edition from the Wellcome Collection at this link, of the 1902 se…

1901

#4003

Note sur le traitement du lupus érythémateux par des applications de radium.

First application of radium in the treatment of lupus.

1901

#4294

Uretercatheterezés és radiographia.

Géza von Illyés showed that ureteral calculi could be accurately demonstrated by x rays with the help of an indwelling opaque catheter. German translation in Dtsch. Z. Chir., 1901, 62, 132-40.

1902

#2625

Die Lehre von den Geschwülsten. 2 vols.

“With this book the microscopical epoch in the evolution of the knowledge of cancer may be said to have been brought to a close” (Haagensen).

1902

#2625.1

Cancroid des rechten Handrückens.

Frieben reported the carcinogenic effect of x-rays in man.

1902

#2813

Ueber orthodiagraphische Untersuchungen am Herzen.

Orthodiagraphy of the heart.