1860–1869

1860

#7262

On the occurrence of flint-implements, associated with the remains of animals of extinct species in beds of a late geological period, in France at Amiens and Abbeville, and in England at Hoxne.

This paper is a key record of the early recognition of the antiquity of man by the scientific establishment. Having returned from a visit to Abbeville, France, in May 1859, where he viewed the evidence for the antiqui…

1860

#7439

The Malay archipelago: The land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise. 2 vols.

1860

#8376

On the law of mortality and the construction of annuity tables.

Gompertz-Makeham law. Makeham proposed the age-independent Makeham term that, together with the exponentially age-dependent Gompertz term, compose the Gompertz-Makeham law of mortality--one of the most effective theor…

1860

#8818

Remarks on the uses of some bazaar medicines, and on a few of the common indigenous plants of India, according to European practice.

At the time of publication of this work, which contained texts in both Sanskrit and English, Waring was "Physician to His Highness The Maha Rajah of Travancore." Digital facsimile of the 1860 edition from the Biodiver…

1860

#8890

Etude médico-légale sur les sévices et mauvais traitements exercés sur des enfants.

The first medical-legal study of child abuse, including sexual abuse, incest, and the "battered child" syndrome. Tardieu described 32 cases in detail, 18 of which resulted in death. Digital facsimile from Google Books…

1860

#8971

Colección de medicamentos indigenas y sus aplicaciones, estraidos de los reinos vegetal, mineral y animal, recogidos y anotados por [...], segunda edición corregida y aumentada.

Digital facsimile of the 5th edition (1875) from the National Library of Medicine, Internet Archive at this link.

1860

#9584

Surgical and practical observations on the diseases of the human foot, with instructions for their treatment. To which is added advice on the management of the hand.

A controversial, and not necessarily original work, notable as having been written by Abraham Lincoln's chiropodist (podiatrist), who gained the confidence of Lincoln and served as Lincoln's representative to the Jewi…

1860

#10337

Ichthyology of South Carolina. Vol. 1 (All Published).

Digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this link.

1860

#10495

Illustrated wholesale catalogue of surgical and dental instruments, elastic trusses, medical saddle bags, abdominal supporters, shoulder braces and druggists sundries, offered by Snowden & Brother.

Snowden & Brother provided an excellent selection of the exact types of equipment used by the Union Army during the Civil War. Facsimile reprint, with John Weiss & Son 1863 catalogue, with a new introduction by James …

1860

#11344

On the occurrence of flint implements in undisturbed beds of gravel, sand, and clay.

In the spring of 1859, in the company of Joseph Prestwich, Evans visited Abbeville to view Boucher de Perthes’ collection of flint artifacts and to observe a hand-axe in situ at St. Acheul in a deposit containing the …

1860

#11434

Catalogue de la bibliothèque d’histoire naturelle, de médecine et d’ autres sciences de feu M. G. Vrolik.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1860

#11805

Actinologia Britannica. A history of the British sea-anemones and corals. With coloured figures of the species and principal varieties.

Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.

1860

#14204

A medico-legal treatise on malpractice and medical evidence, comprising the elements of medical jurisprudence.

The first treatise on malpractice published in the United States and the first book to provide observations on the physician as an expert witness in malpractice cases. Digital facsimile from wellcomecollection.org at …

1861

#935.2

Les altitudes de l’Amérique tropicale comparées au niveau des mers au point de vue de la constitution médicale.

Jourdanet discovered the anoxemia theory of high altitude sickness. See No. 943.1. Digital facsimile of the 1861 edition from bibliotecavirtual.ranm.es at this link.

1861

#813

Loi qui préside à la fréquence des battements du coeur.

Marey’s law of the heart. Marey was the first to realize the relationship between the blood pressure and the heart rate.

1861

#4619

Perte de la parole; ramollissement chronique et destruction partielle du lobe antérieur gauche du cerveau.

Broca localized the speech center in the left frontal lobe. He asserted that aphasia was associated with a lesion on the left third frontal convolution of the brain – “Broca’s center”. He was preceded in this discover…

1861

#1003

Beiträge zur Lehre von der Verdauung.

1861

#869

Ueber den Faserstoff und die Ursachen seiner Gerinnung.

1861

#688

Liquid diffusion applied to analysis.

Graham’s method of separating animal and other fluids by dialysis introduced the distinction between colloidal and crystalloid substances.

1861

#4693

Klinik der Leberkrankheiten. Bd. 2.

Pp. 62-64: First description of progressive familial hepatolenticular degeneration (“Kinnier Wilson’s disease”; see No. 4717).

1861

#421

An elementary treatise on human anatomy.

Leidy illustrated this book himself. He was professor of anatomy at Philadelphia and the leading American anatomist of his time.

1861

#1107

Untersuchungen über den Bau der Lymphdrüsen.

Histology of the lymphatics. His drew the illustrations.

1861

#486

Ueber den Bau und die Entwickelung der Wirbelthier-Eier mit partieller Dottertheilung.

Proof that the ovum is unicellular in all vertebrates.

1861

#487

Entwicklungsgeschichte des Menschen und der höheren Thiere.

First book on comparative embryology.

1861

#534.63

Die Missbildungen des Menschen, systematisch dargestellt. 2 vols.

An encyclopedia of cases from the literature and from Forster’s personal experience. It contains an extremely useful bibliography of teratology, which served as the basis for all subsequent bibliographies of the subject.

1861

#1400

Remarques sur le siège de la faculté du langage articulé, suivie d’une observation d’aphémie (perte de la parole).

Broca claimed the third left frontal convolution of the brain as the center of articulate speech – a point now disputed. He was first to trephine for a cerebral abscess diagnosed by this theory of localization of func…

1861

#1401

On the cerebellum, as the centre of co-ordination of the voluntary movements.

1861

#117

Ueber Muskelkörperchen und das, was man eine Zelle zu nennen habe.

Schultze showed the cell to be a clump of nucleated protoplasm, stating that each muscle fibre or primitive muscle bundle was developed from a single myoblast by successive divisions of its cell or nucleus. His work s…

1861

#2475

Mémoire sur les corpuscles organisés qui existent dans l’atmosphère. Examen de la doctrine des générations spontanées.

In these easily reproducible experiments, prefaced by an important historical introduction, Pasteur demonstrated beyond dispute that fermentation is caused by the action of minute living organisms, and that if these a…

1861

#2475.1

Animalcules infusoires vivant sans gaz oxygène libre et déterminant des fermentations.

The discovery of strict anaerobiosis, important for general biology since it shows that oxygen gas is not a requisite for life.

1861

#164

Unité de l’espèce humaine.

De Quatrefages was one of the most eminent French anthropologists.

1861

#2387

Untersuchungen über den constitutionellen Mercurialismus und sein Verhältniss zur constitutionellen Syphilis.

1861

#2221

Clinique médicale de l’Hôtel Dieu de Paris. 2 vols.

Trousseau, clinician of the Hôtel-Dieu, made important advances in the treatment of diphtheria, typhoid, scarlet fever and other conditions. In his book he emphasized the value of bedside observation. He supported the…

1861

#3267

The breath of life; or mal-respiration, and its effects upon the enjoyments and life of man.

Catlin, the famous American artist, was the first in America to call attention to the bad effects of mouth-breathing. He based his book on observations of native American practices, and illustrated his book with humor…

1861

#2762

Du double souffle intermittent crural, comme signe de l’insuffisance aortique.

The double intermittent murmur over the femoral arteries, diagnostic of aortic insufficiency, has become known as “Duroziez’s sign.” Partial English translation in No. 2241.

1861

#2763

Short account of cardiac murmurs.

The murmur which Fauvel (No. 2754) had called “presystolic” was described by Gairdner, who called it “auricular-systolic.” This paper is important as being largely responsible for the recognition in Britain of the pre…

1861

#3372

Mémoire sur des lésions de l’oreille interne donnant lieu à des symptomes de congestion cérébrale apoplectiforme.

First description of aural vertigo (“Menière’s syndrome”). First appeared in summary form in Bull. Acad. imp. Méd., 1860-61, 26, 241, and in Gaz. méd. Paris, 1861, 16, 29, with title: Surune forme de surdité grave dép…

1861

#3375

Ein Fall von Anbohrung des Warzenfortsatzes bei Otitis interna mit Bemerkungen über diese Operation.

The first modern mastoid operation was devised by von Tröltsch.

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 –1867

#2968

Der erste Fall von erfolgreicher Unterbindung der Art. hepatica propria gegen Aneurysma.

Successful ligation of the hepatic artery.

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.

1861

#3460

Ueber polypöse Vegetationen der gesammten Dickdarmschleimhaut.

First authentic description of polyposis of the colon.

1861

#4210

Case of encephaloid disease of the kidney; removal, etc.

Erastus Bradley Wolcott (1804-1880) was first to excise the kidney (for renal tumor). The preoperative diagnosis had been tumor of the liver. Only after the operation did the surgeons realize that they had removed the…

1861

#5028

Die Hydrotherapie des Typhus.

Brand’s cold bath treatment of typhoid fever consisted of total immersion in water at 65°F. and the pouring of cold water over the neck and shoulders. The cold bath treatment of fevers was instituted by Currie (see No…

1861

#6049

Amputation of the cervix uteri.

Sims’s method for amputating the cervix.

1861

#6184

Ueber das technische Verfahren bei vernachlässigten Querlagen und über Decapitationsinstrumente.

Braun’s decapitation hook.

1861 –2005

#6715

The roll of the Royal College of Physicians of London; comprising biographical sketches. (Lives of the fellows.) 12 vols.

“Munk’s Roll”. Covers the period 1518-2005 and onward. The entire work is available as a searchable electronic resource from the Royal College of Physicians at this link. "The first volume in this series of obituaries…

1861

#6263

Die Formen des Beckens, insbesondere des engen weiblichen Beckens.

Litzmann devised a clinical classification of pelves which was for many years generally used, and he described various deformities of the female pelvis.