1840–1849

1841

#1219

Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Geschlechtsverhältnisse und der Samenflüssigkeit wirbelloser Thiere.

1841

#1220

Ueber das Wesen der sogenannten Saamenthiere.

Demonstration of the cellular origin of spermatozoa.

1841

#1858

Treatise on the oleum jecoris aselli, or cod liver oil.

Bennett visited Paris and Germany, and learned there of the beneficial effects of cod liver oil. His book drew the attention of English medical men to the value of the oil.

1841

#2470

Histoire naturelle des zoophytes.

Further modification of and improvements in the classification of bacteria.

1841

#3588

Operation for strangulated hernia.

Luke’s operation for femoral hernia.

1841

#3932

Unterscheidung von Gummi, Dextrin, Traubenzucker, und Rohrzucker.

Trommer’s test for glucose in urine.

1841

#4259.1

Recherches anatomiques, pathologiques et thérapeutiques sur les maladies des organes urinaires et génitaux considerés specialement chez les hommes agés.

Mercier emphasized the importance of the muscle fibres around the bladder neck, “Mercier’s bar”, in prostatism.

1841

#4030

Mémoire sur une végétation qui constitue la vraie teigne.

Independently of Schönlein (No. 4029) Gruby discovered the achorion of favus, describing it definitely as the cause of the disease, a point about which Schönlein was in doubt.

1841

#4031

Notice of the molluscum contagiosum.

See No. 4032.

1841

#4032

Cases and observations on the molluscum contagiosum of Bateman, with an account of the minute structure of the tumours.

Henderson and Paterson described the inclusion body of molluscum contagiosum, “Henderson–Paterson body”.

1841

#3444

Maladies de la glande parotide et de la région parotidienne.

First important treatise on parotid tumors.

1841

#4323

Ueber die Durchschneidung der Sehnen und Muskeln.

Report on 140 cases of tenotomy for treatment of club-foot.

1841

#5518

Torsk i mikroskopiskt anatomiskt hänseende.

Discovery of Candida albicans in thrush.

1841

#5854

On the anatomy and pathology of certain structures in the orbit not previously described.

Ferrall’s operation for enucleation of the eyeball (p. 354).

1841

#6531

Coup d’oeil sur les institutions médicales belges, depuis les derniéres années du dix-huitième siècle jusqu’a nos jours, suivie de la bibliographie de cette époque.

1841 –1846

#6575

Anales históricos de la medicina en general, y biografico-bibliográficos de la española en particular. 8 vols.

Includes No. 6576, together with Historia particular de las operaciones quirúrgicas, 1841; Historia general de la medicina, 2 vols. 1841-43; and Vade mecum histórico y bibliográfico, etc., 1844. Facsimile reproduction…

1841 –1846

#6576

Historia de la medicina española. 4 vols.

Forms Vols. 3-6 of No. 6575.

1841

#5267.1

Ueber ein Entozoon im Blute von Salmo fario.

Valentin was the first to discover a trypanosome; this was in a salmon. English translation in Kean (No. 2268.1).

1841

#1984

Des Asclepiades von Bithynien Gesundheitsvorschriften, nach den vorhandenen Handschriften zum ersten Male vollständig bearbeitet und erläutert. Von Robert Ritter von Welz.

The Greek physician Asclepiades acquired a great reputation in Rome. His remedies included change of diet, friction, bathing, and exercise. The above edition includes Greek, Latin, and German texts. Digital facsimile …

1841

#6875

Nouveau traité théorique et pratique de l'art du dentiste.

Lefoulon introduced the term "orthodontia" in this book, and went into more detail and recorded more notable advances in the practice of orthodontics than any of his predecessors. "Lefoulon introduced treatment withou…

1841

#7478

Illustrations of cutaneous disease: A series of delineations of the affections of the skin in their more interesting and frequent forms.

Large folio, with 94 hand-colored lithographed plates by Archibald Henning (1805-64).

1841 –1849

#7774

The North American sylva; or, A description of the forest trees of the United States, Canada, and Nova Scotia, considered particularly with respect to their use in the arts, and their introduction into commerce; to which is added a description of the most useful of the European trees. Illustrated by 156 coloured engravings. Translated from the French of F. Andrew Michaux ... With three additional volumes, containing all the forest trees discovered in the Rocky Mountains, the Territory of Oregon, down to the shores of the Pacific and into the confines of California, as well as in various parts of the United States. Illustrated by 122 finely coloured plates. 6 vols.

The first study of all the trees of North America. Digital facsimile of all 6 vols. from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1841

#8968

Physici et medici Graeci minores. Congressit, ad fidem codd. mss. praesertim eorum, quos beatus Diezius contulerat, veterumque editionum partim emendavit partim nunc prima vice edidit, commentariis criticis indicibusque tam rerum quam verborum instruxit. Edited by Julius Ludwig Ideler. 2 vols.

Includes texts of the following authors: Abitianus, Actuarius, Johannes, Alexander, of Aphrodisias, Andromachus (Senior), Apollonius, Dyscolus, 2nd cent, Archelaus (philosophus), Cassius (Iatrosophistes), Hermes, Tris…

1841

#9063

Da prostituição na cidade de Lisboa; ou considerações historicas, hygienicas e administrativas em geral sobre as prostitutas, e em especial na referida cidade: com a exposição da legislação portugueza a seo respeito, e proposta de medidas regulamentares, necessarias para a manutenção da saude publica, e da moral.

In this comprehensive study of prostitution in Lisbon Cruz analyzed the history of prostitution in Portugal and compared it to the practice in Japan, India, Egypt, ancient Greece and Rome, as well as a number of moder…

1841

#10072

Notes on the United States of North America during a phrenological visit in 1838-9-40. 3 vols.

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1841

#10723

The American vegetable practice, or, a new and improved guide to health: Designed for the use of families. : In six Parts. Part I. Concise view of the human body, with engraved and wood-cut illustrations. Part II. Glance at the old school practice of physic. Part III. Vegetable materia medica, with colored Illustrations. Part IV. Compounds. Part V. Practice of medicine, based upon what are deemed correct physiological and pathological principles. Part VI. Guide for women, containing a simplified treatise on childbirth, with a description of the diseases peculiar to females and infant. 2 vols.

The first American book with chromolithographed illustrations printed in America. The chromolithographed images depict American medicinal plants. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1841 –1854

#11902

Voyage au Pôle Sud et dans l'Océanie sur les corvettes l'Astrolabe et la Zélée, exécuté...pendant...1837-1840, sous le commandement de M. J. DUMONT D'URVILLE... publié... sour la direction supérieure de M. [C. H.] Jacquinot, &c. 23 vols. in 22.

In 1836 King Louis-Philippe, enthusiastic for Southern Hemisphere exploration, sponsored Dumont d'Urville's plan for a circumnavigation focusing on the South Seas. D'Urville had already distinguished himself on two Pa…

1841

#12685

Études sur André Vésale: Précédées d'une notice historique sur sa vie et ses écrits.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1841

#12867

Essay on the importance of regulating the teeth of children before the fourteenth year, or the period of life when the second set of teeth become perfectly developed.

This 11-page pamphlet was the first American work on orthodontics.

1841

#12926

On the structure, economy, and pathology of the human teeth, with careful instructions for their preservation and culture: And concise descriptions of the best modes of surgical treatment; equally adapted to the uses of the medical practitioner, the student in medicine, and the public.

The author described himself as "Surgeon. Surgical and Mechanical Dentist." Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1841

#13014

Journals of two expeditions of discovery in North-West and Western Australia, during the years 1837, 38, and 39...describing many new discovered, important, and fertile districts, with observations on the moral and physical conditions of the aboriginal inhabitants, &c. &c. 2 vols.

"In 1837, at the age of 25, Grey led an ill-prepared expedition that explored North-West Australia. British settlers in Australia at the time knew little of the region and only one member of Grey's party had been ther…

1841

#13521

The pathology of drunkeness, or the effects of alcoholic drinks with drawings of the drunkard's stomach.

Including four chromolithographed plates by J. H. Hall, Albany, N.Y., this is the earliest illustrated book published in the U.S. on the pathological effects of alcoholism. Digital facsimile from the U.S. National Lib…

1841

#13694

Report on British fossil reptiles. Part II. In: Report of the eleventh meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, held at Plymouth, July 1841, pp. 60-204.

In this review article Owen coined the term Dinosaur (pp. 102-103). In surveying fossil bones and teeth found by Gideon Mantell, William Buckland, and others, he observed that three genera--Iguanodon, Megalosaurus, an…

1842

#606

Bemerkungen über die Kräfte der unbelebten Natur.

Mayer demonstrated the principle of the conservation of energy as far as physiological processes are concerned.

1842 –1853

#607

Handwörterbuch der Physiologie … hrsg. von R. Wagner.

Wagner was professor at Göttingen. His literary output was enormous. In the above work he contributed the sections on sympathetic nerves, nerve-ganglia, and nerve-endings. This work contained 63 extensive review artic…

1842

#677

Die organische Chemie in ihrer Anwendung auf Physiologie und Pathologie.

First classification of the organic foodstuffs and the processes of nutrition. With this book Liebig introduced the concept of metabolism into physiology. English translation, London, 1842.

1842

#678

Umwandlung der Benzoësäure in Hippursäure im lebenden Organismus.

Discovery that benzoic acid taken in with food is excreted in the urine as hippuric acid. (But see the footnote to p. 474 of Garrison’s History of medicine, 1929.)

1842

#864

De l’origine des globules du sang, de leur mode de formation et de leur fin.

Announces the discovery of the blood platelets.

1842

#4691

Practice of medicine: A treatise on special pathology and therapeutics. 2 vols.

A case of chronic hereditary chorea in adults (“Huntington’s chorea”, see No. 4699) is described on pp. 312-13 of vol. 2. This is in the form of a letter from one of Dunglison's recently graduated students at Jefferso…

1842

#1318

Die Selbständigkeit des sympathischen Nervensystems durch anatomische Untersuchungen nachgewiesen.

These writers showed the sympathetic nervous system to consist largely of small, medullated fibers originating from the sympathetic and spinal ganglia.

1842

#484

Entwickelungsgeschichte des Kaninchen-Eies.

Bischoff contributed important original work on the development of the rabbit.

1842

#1608

Report…from the Poor Law Commissioners on an inquiry into the sanitary conditions of the labouring population of Great Britain.

Chadwick devoted his life to social reform. He was secretary to the Poor Law Commission when he made the above report to Parliament. In it he included a careful analysis of causes of death in 1838 and 1839 and gave a …

1842

#1231

On the structure and use of the Malpighian bodies of the kidney with observations on the circulation through that gland.

“Bowman’s capsule”. Bowman provided convincing evidence that the glomerular corpuscle is continuous with the renal tubule and gave the first adequate description of the vascular supply of the nephron. He described the…

1842

#1397

Recherches physiologiques et cliniques sur le liquide céphalo-rachidien ou cérébro-spinal. 1 vol. and atlas.

“Foramen of Magendie” described.

1842 –1846

#2293

Handbuch der pathologischen Anatomie. 3 vols.

Rokitansky ranks with Morgagni as among the greatest of all writers on gross pathology. He is said to have performed over 30,000 autopsies himself. His Handbuch was for many years pre-eminent among its contemporaries.…

1842

#2471

History of a case in which a fluid periodically ejected from the stomach contained vegetable organisms of an undescribed form.

First description of Sarcina ventriculi, discovered by Goodsir.

1842

#202

Om formen af nordboernes cranier.

Retzius introduced the method of classifying races according to the cranial or cephalic index. A German translation of his paper is available in the Arch. Anat. Physiol. wiss. Med., 1845, 84-129.

1842

#3116

Notes on anhaemia, principally in its connections with the puerperal state, and with functional disease of the uterus: with cases.

First description of pernicious anemia of pregnancy. Digital facsimile from the U.S. National Library of Medicine at this link.

1842

#217

Om Fortplantning og Udvikling gjennem vexlende Generations-raekker.

Steenstrup is responsible for the theory of the “alternation of generations”. He showed that certain animals produce offspring which never resemble them but which, on the other hand, bring forth progeny which return i…

1842

#2752

Observations on the diseases of the orifice and valves of the aorta.

First clear account of chronic constrictive pericarditis.