1860–1869
571 entries with publication dates in this decade.
1840 –1856
#2163.1
Statistical report on the sickness and mortality in the Army of the United States. Vol. 1 (1819-1839), Vol. 2 (1839-1855), Vol. 3 (1855-1860).
UNITED STATES. War Dept. Surgeon General's Office
Vol.1 by Thomas Lawson; Vols 2 & 3 by Richard H. Coolidge. Digital facsimiles from the Internet Archive at this link.
1855
#1995
De l’électrisation localisée et de son application à la physiologie, à la pathologie, et à la thérapeutique.
Duchenne classified the electrophysiology of the entire muscular system and summed up his findings in the above work. The application of his results to pathological conditions marks him as the founder of electrotherap…
1856
#3764
Cases of a peculiar enlargement of the lymphatic glands frequently associated with disease of the spleen.
Wilks really put Hodgkin’s disease “on the map”; the second paper for the first time attached Hodgkin’s name to the disease
1857 –1858
#4046
Sur la coloration partielle en noir ou en bleu de la peau chez les femmes.
Chromidrosis first described.
1858
#868
Bestimmungen der Menge des Körperblutes und der Blutfärbekraft, sowie Bestimmungen von Zahl, Maass Oberfläche und Volum des einzelnen Blutkörperchens bei Thieren und bei Menschen.
Welcker was the first to determine the total blood volume and the volume of the normal red blood cells. Earlier paper in Vjschr. prakt. Heilk., 1854, 44, 63.
1859
#3332
Ueber die Inspektion des Cavum pharyngo-nasale und der Nasenhöhle durch Choanen vermittelstkleiner Spiegel.
Czermak’s method of exploring the nose and nasopharynx with small mirrors.
1860
#4535
De l’état nerveue aigu et chronique ou nervosisme.
First adequate description of neurasthenia.
1860
#4736
Paralysie musculaire progressive de la langue, du voile du palais et des lévres; affection non encore décrite comme espèce morbide distincte.
First description of chronic progressive bulbar paralysis (“Duchenne’s paralysis”).
1860
#4737
Atrophie musculaire progressive. Lésions histologiques de la substance grise de la moëlle épinière.
Luys was the first to note the degeneration of the anterior horn cells in progressive muscular atrophy.
1860
#1361
Beiträge zur feineren Anatomie des menschlichen Rückenmarks.
Includes description of “Golls column” or “tract”, the posterior column of the spinal cord.
1860
#776
Recherches sur le pouls au moyen d’un nouvel appareil enregistreur le sphygmographe.
Invention of the modern sphygmograph. Also published in C.R. Acad. Sci. (Paris), 1860, 51, 281-309. Preliminary paper in same journal, 1860, 50, 634-37.
1860
#777
Sur la pression du sang dans le système artériel.
1860
#534.62
Untersuchungen über die Entstehung der Missbildungen Zunächst in den Eiem der Vögel.
The first monograph on experimental teratology.
1860 –1864
#1778
Handbuch der historisch-geographischen Pathologie. 2 vols.
This is perhaps the greatest historical classic on the subject. Vol.1 appeared in 2 parts, with the first part issued in 1859 and the second part issued in 1860.
1860
#1612
Notes on nursing: what it is, and what it is not.
After receiving training in Germany and France, Florence Nightingale had some nursing experience in England. The Crimean war gave her an opportunity to demonstrate the value of trained nurses. Within a few months of h…
1860
#1864
Du coaltar saponiné, désinfectant énergique, arrètant les fermentations, de ses applications a l'hygiène, la thérapeutique, a l'histoire naturelle.
Lemaire was first to point out the antiseptic properties of carbolic acid. Digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this link.
1860
#1865
Ueber eine neue organische Base in den Cocablättern.
Isolation of cocaine, 1859, from the coca leaf, brought from Peru by Scherzer.
1860
#2104
Researches upon the venom of the rattlesnake.
See No. 2106.
1860
#2249
Contributions to the natural history of insolatio.
Barclay, an army surgeon in India, wrote an important paper on heat-stroke.
1860
#2451
Traité des entozoaires et des maladies vermineuses.
1860
#2474
Expériences relatives aux générations dites spontanées.
1860
#2616
Clinical memoirs on abdominal tumours and intumescence.
1860
#2586
On asthma: its pathology and treatment.
The best work on asthma to appear during the 19th century. Salter, who had suffered from asthma from childhood, may be considered the first modern student of the condition. He called special attention to asthma from a…
1860
#3333
Praktische Anleitung zur Laryngoscopie.
1860
#3371
De la trépanation de l’apophyse mastoïde et des lésions morbides qui rendent cette opération nécessaire.
Operative treatment of acute otitis by drainage through the antrum.
1860
#3373
The diseases of the ear; their nature, diagnosis, and treatment.
The foundation of aural pathology. In this book Toynbee described the method of removing the temporal bone and discussed the post mortem appearances in relation to the symptoms observed during life. He made over 2,000…
1860
#3374
Die Untersuchung des Gehörgangs und Trommelfells. Ihre Bedeutung. Kritik der bisherigen Untersuchungsmethoden und Angabe einer neuen.
Invention of the modern otoscope.
1860
#4291
Die Harnconcretionen.
Heller introduced several urine tests and wrote (above) an important work on urinary calculi.
1860
#4048
Traité pratique des maladies de la peau. 3 éd., 2 vols.
Gibert’s name is associated with pityriasis rosea, which he first established as a definite clinical entity. His complete and accurate description of this condition is on page 402 of vol. 1 of the above work.
1860
#4049
Das umschriebene Eczem. Eczema marginatum. In Virchow’s Handbuch der spec. Path. u. Therap., 3, 1 Abt., 361-63.
Complete description of tinea cruris (eczema marginatum), first described by Bärensprung in 1854.
1860
#4050
De l’hypertrophie générale du système sébacé.
First description of keratosis follicularis.
1860 –1862
#4419
New treatment for fractures of the femur.
Buck’s extension apparatus, an improved method of treating fractures of the femur. Reprinted in Med. Classics, 1939, 3, 764-82.
1860
#4420
A practical treatise on fractures and dislocations.
The first comprehensive treatise in English on the treatment of fractures and dislocations. See No. 1742.
1860
#4421
Luxation traumatique suivie de luxation volontaire du fémur droit.
“Perrin–Ferraton disease” of the hip, later more fully dealt with by L. Ferraton, Rev. Orthop. (Paris), 1905, 2 sér., 6, 45-51.
1860
#4422
A new instrument for the treatment of fractures of the lower extremity.
Smith devised an anterior or suspensatory splint for use in the treatment of fractures of the femur. The apparatus was heavily used during the U.S. Civil War and was especially valuable in treating compound fractures.
1860
#4972
Elemente der Psychophysik. 2 vols.
The first treatise on the subject. Fechner applied the laws of mathematical physics to the physiology of sensation. He discussed the functional relations of the dependence between mind and body and investigated the cu…
1860
#5342
Ueber die Trichinen-Krankheit des Menschen.
The intestinal and muscular forms of trichinosis were first noted by Zenker, who established their connection with the disease. English translation in Kean (No. 2268.1).
1860
#5343
Untersuchungen über Trichina spiralis.
Leuckart provided an articulate and detailed description of Trichinella spiralis.
1860
#5885
Ueber Complication von Sehnervenentzündung mit Gehimkrankheiten.
Graefe showed that most cases of blindness and impaired vision connected with cerebral disorders are a result of optic neuritis rather than of paralysis of the optic nerve.
1860
#5887
Schriftskalen. 3te. Aufl.
Jaeger first introduced his test types in 1854; Emil Fuchs improved them in 1895.
1860
#5888
On the production of cataract in frogs by the administration of sugar.
1860
#6043.1
On diseases peculiar to women, including displacements of the uterus.
Chapter 5 includes a lengthy description of the “Hodge pessary”. See No. 6185.
1860
#6047
Case of successful operation for vesico-vaginal fistula.
Atlee’s operation for vesicovaginal fistula.
1860 –1862
#6048
Clinique médicale sur les maladies des femmes. 2 vols.
One of the most important texts on the subject during the mid-nineteenth century. English translation, New Sydenham Society, 1867.
1860
#6183
De optima in partu naturali placentum amovendi ratione.
Credé’s method of removing the placenta by external manual expression. It is first mentioned in his Klinische Vorträge über Geburtshilfe, Berlin, 1854, 599-603.
1860
#6615
The medical knowledge of Shakespeare.
1860
#6649.9
Medicine as a profession for women.
1860
#3459.1
A practical treatise on the aetiology, pathology, and treatment of the congenital malformations of the rectum and anus.
The first systematic treatise on the subject, and a landmark in pediatric surgery. Includes an early account of colostomy and one of the earliest histories of that procedure. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at …
1860
#6504
La médecine du Prophète, traduit de l'arabe par M. le docteur Perron.
First appeared in Gaz. méd. d’Algerie, 1859, 4.
1860
#4536
Ueber Complication von Sehnervenentzündung mit Gehimkrankheiten
Graefe showed that most cases of blindness and impaired vision connected with cerebral disorders can be traced to optic neuritis rather than paralysis of the optic nerve.