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1885

#3731

Untersuchungen über Osteomalacie und Rachitis.

Hess considered this the foremost contribution to the subject during the 19th century.

1885

#3740

On the cause and prevention of kakke.

Takaki was the first conclusively to show the dietary origin of beriberi. Measures introduced by him resulted in its eradication from the Japanese Navy, where it had previously been a serious problem.

1885

#9159

Women, plumbers, and doctors: or, household sanitation

Dedicated "To Dr. Henry I. Bowditch, whose early, persistent, and enthusiastic labors make him the apostle of sanitation in America." Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1885

#10383

Untersuchungen über staubinhalation und staubmetastase.

On the effects of dust inhalation. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1885

#12502

Gli amori degli uomini. Saggio di una etnologie dell'amore. 2 vols.

Digital facsimile of the 1886 edition from the Hathi Trust at this link. Translated into English "from the latest Italian edition, as approved by the author, by Samuel Putnam, edited with an introduction by Victor Rob…

1886

#4944

Psychopathia sexualis; eine klinisch-forensische Studie.

Krafft-Ebing revised the book through 12 editions. Digital facsimile of the first edition from wellcomecollection.org at this link. English translation as Psychopathia sexualis, with special reference to contrary sexu…

1886

#10521

Leprosy in Hawaii. Extracts from reports of presidents of the board of health, government physicians and others, and from official records, in regard to leprosy before and after the passage of the “Act to prevent the spread of leprosy”, approved Jan. 3, 1865. The laws and regulations in regard to leprosy in the Hawaiian Kingdom.

1886

#11163

Traité d'hygiène industrielle, à l'usage des médecins et des membres des conseils d'hygiène.

Poincaré reviewed 105 industries. He was the father of mathematician Henri Poincaré. Digital facsimile from BnFgallica at this link.

1886

#12417

A system of hygienic medicine, or the only rational way of treating disease.

"In place of orthodox medicine, he [Allinson] promoted health through diet, exercise, fresh air and bathing. He advocated a vegetarian diet and the avoidance of alcohol, tobacco, coffee and tea. He especially promoted…

1887

#1625

The health of nations: A review of the works of Edwin Chadwick, with a biographical dissertation by Benjamin Ward Richardson. 2 vols.

Chadwick may be said to have initiated the public health era. Largely through his efforts the Public Health Act 1848 came into existence in England. He was the greatest sanitarian of the 19th century; among other thin…

1887

#1626

Public health reports by John Simon. Edited for the Sanitary Institute of Great Britain by Edward Seaton. 2 vols.

Simon was the first medical officer for the City of London. Together with his English sanitary institutions, the above work played a great part in paving the way for modern reforms in the sphere of hygiene and public …

1887

#145.62

The lake as a microcosm.

Forbes was the first to apply ecological principles to limnology. He emphasized population regulation and the dynamic nature of the community.

1887

#9121

Ten days in a mad-house.

By newspaper reporter Nellie Bly, this book was initially published as a series of articles for the New York World newspaper. The book collected Bly's reportage while on an undercover assignment in which she feigned i…

1889

#1013

Fisiologia del digiuni.

Luciani distinguished three stages of starvation in man – hunger, physiological inanition, and pathological inanition. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

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

#2100

Des polynévrites en général et des paralysies et atrophies saturnines en particulier.

Madame Dejerine-Klumpke, famous neurologist, contributed an important work on lead palsies.

1890

#1627

Description of the Johns Hopkins Hospital.

Billings was responsible for the designing of the Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore. “It marked a new departure in hospital construction…It was the most perfect and best equipped institution of its time” (Kelly & Burr…

1890

#1650

Gesundheitspflege im Mittelalter.

1890

#1650

English sanitary institutions, reviewed in their course of development, and in some of their political and social relations.

Simon "viewed the state as provider of the basic conditions needed for subsistence (without interfering in the iron law of wages) through sanitary reform of the environment, prevention of epidemic diseases, and the re…

1890

#3741

Polyneuritis bij hoenders.

Eijkman produced beriberi experimentally in fowls; from this he was led to conclude that a diet of over-milled rice was the chief cause, both in fowls and humans. Thus his work was of great importance in determining t…

1890

#12303

Sur les organisms de la nitrification.

In his research on nitrifying bacteria Winogradsky discovered the first known form of chemoautotrophy in which organisms obtain energy by oxidation of electron donors in their environments without the intervention of …

1890

#13386

Neue Forschungen auf dem Gebiet der Psychopathia sexualis. Ein medicinisch-psychologische Studie.

Among other things, Krafft-Ebing introduced the terms sadism and masochism in this work. Digital facsimile from wellcomecollection.org at this link.

1891 –1893

#1628

Hospitals and asylums of the world. 4 vols. and atlas.

This great work deals with the history, administration, and planning of hospitals, and includes a bibliography. The author was an English financier and philanthropist rather than a professional historian or hospital a…

1891

#2506.1

Ueber Wasserfiltration durch Filter aus gebrannter Infusorienerde.

Berkefeld kieselguhr filter.

1891

#11124

History of circumcision from the earliest times to the present. Moral and physical reasons for its performance with a history of eunuchism, hermaphrodism, etc., and of the different operations practiced upon the prepuce.

Digital edition from Gutenberg.org at this link.

1892 –1894

#1629

A treatise on hygiene and public health. Edited by T. Stevenson and S. F. Murphy. 3 vols.

1892

#7614

The hygiene, diseases, and mortality of occupations.

Remarkably comprehensive discussion, with an innovative classification, of a very wide range of occupations. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1892

#10438

Mineral springs and health resorts of California: With a complete chemical analysis of every important mineral water in the world... A Prize Essay; Annual Prize of the Medical Society of the State of California, Awarded April 20, 1889.

The first half of the book concerns mineral springs and health resorts in California and how to use them; the second half mostly concerns mineral springs and other health resorts in North America and Europe. Digital f…

1894

#187

Man and woman.

A study of the constitutional differences between man and woman.

1895

#2128.1

Blasengeschwülste bei Fuchsin-Arbeitem.

Rehn noted the frequent appearance of papilloma and carcinoma of the bladder among men employed in the aniline dye industry.

1896

#9007

Das konträre Geschlechtsgefühl von Havelock Ellis und J. A. Symonds. Deutsche Original-Ausgabe Besorgt unter Mitwirkung von Dr. Hans Kurella.

This work, translated into English as Sexual inversion in 1897, became the first English language medical textbook on homosexuality. It was published as the second volume of Ellis's Studies in the psychology of sex. D…

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

#1631

The purification of sewage and water.

Dibdin introduced the bacterial system of sewage purification. Previously he had devised the contact system.

1897

#5128

Ueber die Pestepidemie in Formosa.

Ogata considered the flea (principally Xenopsylla cheopis) to be the principal, if not the sole, vector of bubonic plague infection.

1897 –1899

#9005

The adult: A journal for the advancement of freedom in sexual relationships. 3 vols.

When I created this entry in February 2017 there was, inexplicably, no digital facsimile of this rare periodical on the web; however, there was an exceptionally excellent and most comprehensive finding aid available f…

1897

#14308

De Vrouw: Haar bouw en haar inwendige organen. Een populaire schets.

Jacobs was the first woman in the Netherlands to graduate from medical school. In 1882 she founded the first birth control clinic in the Netherlands and "the first clinic in the world devoted solely to dissemtinating …

1898

#5128.1

La propagation de la peste.

Simond provided substantial evidence to support Ogata that fleas transmitted plague from rat to man.

1898

#7058

The Red Cross in peace and war.

Barton founded the American Red Cross in 1881. Although Henry Dunant had suggested in 1864 that Red Cross societies provide disaster relief as well as wartime services, Barton became the strongest advocate for the dev…

1898

#8536

Pflanzengeographie auf Physiologischer Grundlage.

In this work on the geographical distribution of plants Schimper coined the terms tropical rainforest and sclerophyll. English translation by William R. Fisher, revised and edited by Percy Groom and Isaac Bayley Balfo…

1899 –1933

#10848

Jahrbuch für sexuelle Zwischenstufen. Edited by Magnus Hirschfeld.

"An annual publication of the Scientific-Humanitarian Committee (Wissenschaftlich-humanitäres Komitee, WhK), an early LGBT rights organization founded by Magnus Hirschfeld in 1897. The periodical featured articles on …

1900 –1928

#4981

Studies in the psychology of sex. 7 vols.

Ellis's Studies represent a lifetime of research devoted to the subject, at first in the face of bitter opposition.

1901

#1632

Some points in the construction of the continuous sewage filter.

1901

#3742

Over polyneuritis gallinarum

Grijns succeeded Eijkman as director of the Research Laboratory for Pathological Anatomy and Bacteriology in Batavia. He was the first to adopt the view that beriberi was simply a “deficiency disease”, since he found …

1901

#12789

Über oligonitrophile Mikroben.

Discovery of nitrogen fixation, the process by which diatomic nitrogen gas is converted to ammonium ions and becomes available to plants. Bacteria perform nitrogen fixation, dwelling inside root nodules of certain pla…

1902 –1912

#1633

Royal Commission on sewage disposal. Reports 1-8.

1902

#2129

Dangerous trades: the historical, social, and legal aspects of industrial occupations as affecting health, by a number of experts.

A collective work edited by Oliver. Digital fascimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1902

#12263

Principles of sanitary science and the public health, with special reference to the causation and prevention of infectious diseases.

Digital facsimile of the 1902 first edition from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1903

#5040

Die Bekämpfung des Typhus.

The prophylactic measures for the control of typhus suggested by Koch have been adopted almost everywhere.

1903

#6877

Elektropathologie. Die Erkrankungen durch Blitzschlag und elektrischen Starkstrom in klinischer und forensischer Darstellung.

A pioneering study of diseases and death caused by lightning and electricity. Jellinek specialized in the study of electrical accidents and their prevention. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1903

#9029

The geography of disease.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.