Facets

1861

#3993

On the parasitic affections of the skin.

Anderson was Professor of Clinical Medicine at Glasgow. Digital facsimile of the second edition (1868) from the Internet Archive at this link.

1861

#4047

On a new and striking form of fungus disease, principally affecting the foot, and prevailing endemically in many parts of India.

First modern description of mycetoma of the foot – “Madura foot”, “Carter’s mycetoma”. It was mentioned by E. Kaempfer in his Amoenitates exoticae, Lemgo, 1712, p. 561. Colebrook at the Madura Dispensary is said to ha…

1861

#4051

Leçons théoriques et cliniques sur la scrofule considérée en elle-même et dans ses rapports avec la syphilis, la dartre et l'arthritis. 2me édition.

Erythema induratum scrophulosorum (“Bazin’s disease”) first described.

1861

#4052

A peculiar atrophy of the skin (Lineae atrophicae).

First description of lineae atrophicae.

1862

#3936

Researches on the nature and treatment of diabetes

Pavy devoted many years to the study of diabetes. He concluded that there was a definite relationship between the degree of hyperglycemia and glycosuria.

1862

#4053

Disease of the skin produced by post mortem examinations, or verruca necrogenica.

Description of dissecting-room warts (verrucae necrogenicae),tuberculosis verrucosa cutis (also known as Lupus verrucosus, Prosector's wart, and "Warty tuberculosis"[ the cutaneous tuberculosis of Laennec, sometimes c…

1863 –1867

#2617

Die krankhaften Geschwülste. Vol. 1-3, Heft 1.

Although tumours were perhaps his greatest interest, Virchow never completed this work which was intended to have 30 lectures. Instead he stopped with the 25th lecture, on carcinoma, probably because of the vigorous a…

1863

#3914

Letter on corpulence; address to the public.

Banting, a prominent English undertaker, and formerly obese, was the first to popularize a weight loss diet based on limiting intake of refined and easily digestible carbohydrates. He changed his diet at the suggestio…

1863

#4054

Fall einer selten Muskelkrankheit.

First recorded case of dermatomyositis, now regarded as a connective tissue disease.

1863

#6052

Exstirpation de l’utérus et des ovaires.

First successful excision of uterus and ovaries for tumor.

1864

#3820

Ueber Basedow’sche Krankheit.

“Graefe’s sign” – the discovery by von Graefe of the failure of the eyelid to follow the eye when it is rolled downward – diagnostic of exophthalmic goitre. Partial English translation in No. 2241.

1864

#4055

On impetigo contagiosa, or porrigo.

“Impetigo of Tilbury Fox”, impetigo contagiosa, first described.

1865

#534.64

Diploteratology.

Includes a valuable history of teratology with a detailed bibliography. Fisher assembled one of the largest of all libraries on teratology. Digital facsimile from U.S. National Library of Medicine at this link.

1865

#2618

Der Epithelialkrebs namentlich der Haut. 1 vol. and atlas.

Thiersch, Professor of Surgery at Erlangen, and inventor of the method of skin grafting which bears his name, also made an important contribution to the knowledge of the histogenesis of cancer. He disproved Virchow’s …

1865

#168

De la chevelure comme caractéristique des races humaines.

Pruner-Bey did the first important work on the classification of races according to texture and shape in section of hair. Digital facsimile from Persee.fr at this link.

1865

#3272

Case of cancer of the larynx, successfully removed by laryngotomy.

Laryngectomy for papillomata.

1865

#3915

Glycosurie, diabète sucré. In his Clinique médicale de l’Hôtel-Dieu, 2me. éd., 2, 663-98.

First description of hemochromatosis.

1865

#3937

Diabetes mellitus und Aceton.

Gerhard’s iron-chloride reaction for aceto-acetic acid in acetonaemic urine.

1865

#6053

Documents pour servir à l’histoire de l’extirpation des tumeurs fibreuses de la matrice par la méthode suspubienne.

1865

#6873

Photographs (coloured from life) of the diseases of the skin.

The first dermatologic publication illustrated with photographs.

1865

#6938

Catalogue de la superbe bibliothèque d'ethnographie, de zoologie, d'anatomie comparée, etc....

The auction catalogue of Vrolik's library, sold two years after his death, organized by subject. Prefaced by an essay about Vrolik's life and work by J. van der Hoeven, and a chronological list of Vrolik's publication…

1866

#4056

Das Colloid-Milium der Haut.

Colloid degeneration of the skin (“Wagner’s disease”) was first described by Wagner who gave it the name “Colloid milium”.

1866 –1880

#9969

Diseases of the skin, including the exanthemata by Ferdinand Hebra. Vol. 1: Translated and edited by C. Hilton Fagge. Vol. 2: Tr. and ed

Digital facsimile of vol. 1 from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1867

#1996.3

On the electrolytic treatment of tumors, and other surgical diseases.

Althaus introduced Duchenne’s methods into England. He was the first to employ electrolysis for medical purposes. Greatly expanded third edition, 1873.

1867

#2619

On the influence of inadequate operations on the theory of cancer.

Modern surgical treatment of cancer is based upon principles laid down by Moore. For cancer of the breast he showed that recurrence was not due to the development of an entirely new tumor because of constitutional sus…

1867

#2620

Die Entwicklung der Carcinome.

Waldeyer confirmed the work of Thiersch (No. 2618) on the epithelial origin of cancer, disproving Virchow’s theory (No. 2617). So great was the authority of the latter that it was not until the appearance of the secon…

1867

#3274

Removal of a fibrous polyp from the inferior anterior surface of the right vocal cord with the aid of the laryngoscope.

First successful operation for cancer of the larynx.

1867

#3821

Ueber die totale Exstirpation einer kropfig entarteten Schilddrüse, und über die Rückwirkung dieser Operation auf die Circulationsverhältnisse im Kopfe.

Sick is credited with being the first to notice symptoms of loss of thyroid function following thyroidectomy. According to Halsted, the above is the first report of total thyroidectomy and “the first report of the con…

1868

#4056.1

Ueber Cataracten in Verbindung mit einer eigenthümlichen Haut-de-generation.

Poikiloderma congenitale (Rothmund).

1868

#6872

Clinique photographique de l'hôpital Saint-Louis.

The first French dermatologic book illustrated with photographs. Originally issued in fascicules, 1867-68. The first edition includes 49 or 50 albumin photographs; second edition, entitled Clinique photographique des …

1869

#1009

Beiträge zur mikroskopischen Anatomie der Bauchspeicheldrüse. Inaugural-Dissertation.

First account of the islets of Langerhans. In 1893 Édouard Laguesse attached the name of Langerhans to the structures. Langerhans did not suggest any function for them. The book was reprinted with an English translati…

1869

#2678

On markings of furrows on the nails as the result of illness.

1869

#3938

Retinitis in glycosuria.

First investigation of retinitis accompanying glycosuria.

1869

#4057

Chronic urticaria leaving brown stains: nearly two years’ duration.

Urticaria pigmentosa (Mastocytosis of the skin) described by Nettleship, was named eponymically “Nettleship’s disease”.

1869

#4058

On a diseased condition of the hairs of the axilla, probably of parasitic origin.

Tinea nodosa (trichorrhexis nodosa, “Paxton’s disease”) first described.

1869 –1870

#4059

Lafa Tokelau, or Tokelau ringworm.

First description, tinea imbricata. Turner described the disease while serving as a medical missionary in Samoa.

1869

#10890

Syphilis: Its nature & diffusion popularly considered.

The first work on dermatology or syphilology written, printed and published in Australia. This work is illustrated with chromolithographed plates printed in Australia. This may be the earliest medical book printed in …

1870

#3066

Ein Fall von Leukämie mit Erkrankung des Knochenmarkes.

Neumann was the first to note changes in the bone marrow in leukemia, and he proposed the term “myelogenous leukemia”.

1870

#4060

Dermatitis erysipelatosa; Gangraena; Enkephalitis.

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

1870

#4061

On dermatitis exfoliativa.

Although Hippocrates mentioned this condition, Erasmus Wilson first named it and described it as we know it today. It has been called “Wilson’s disease”; an eponym discarded since its use to describe the progressive l…

1871

#3822

On sporadic cretinism.

In this paper Fagge, nephew of John Hilton of Guy’s Hospital, described sporadic cretinism as distinct from the endemic variety.

1871 –1878

#3994

Lectures on dermatology. 4 vols.

Erasmus Wilson gave the original descriptions of several cutaneous diseases, and made a fine collection of dermatological preparations. He classified skin diseases on an anatomical basis. The above book consists of hi…

1871

#3883

Du féminisme et de l’infantilisme chez les tuberculeux.

In a letter prefaced to Faneau de La Cour’s thesis, Paul Joseph Lorain (1827-1875) described the idiopathic arrest of growth now known as “Lorain’s type”. It was subsequently ascribed to hypopituitarism. The word “inf…

1871 –1872

#10585

Photographic review of medicine and surgery. A bi-monthly illustration of interesting cases, accompanied by notes. Edited by F.F. Maury [and] L.A. Duhring. Vols. 1 & 2 (All published).

The leading 19th century American publication of artistic medical photography. Each of the two volumes includes 24 mounted photographs. The photographs ilustrate cases of unusual and extreme disease, such as gross def…

1871 –1880

#12583

Dermatología general y clínica iconográfica de enfermedades de la piel ó dermatósis.

This very large format publication was issued in four parts from 1871 to 1880. It included 168 large plates in the style of Alibert, and was the first major illustrated work on dermatology published in Spain. Digital …

1872

#3767

Das maligne Lymphosarkom (Pseudoleukämie).

Langhans noted the presence of giant cells in the lesions of Hodgkin’s disease.

1872

#4062

Ueber einzelne während der Schwangerschaft, dem Wochenbette und bei Uterinalkrankheiten der Frauen zu beobachtende Hautkrankheiten.

Hebra was the first to describe impetigo herpetiformis, more fully dealt with by Kaposi, his son-in-law.

1872

#4063

Idiopathisches multiples Pigmentsarkom der Haut.

First description of “Kaposi’s sarcoma” – multiple idiopathic hemorrhagic sarcoma. English translation in CA, 1982, 32, 342-47.

1872

#7831

Descriptive catalogue of the teratological series in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1872

#13212

Autumnal catarrh (Hay fever) with three maps.

Wyman conducted experiments that convinced him that ragweed was a cause of hay fever. He then collected data from correspondents and published the first pollen maps of the U.S. so that sufferers could plan vacations i…