1860–1869
571 entries with publication dates in this decade.
1861
#6277
Die Aetiologie, der Begriff und die Prophylaxis des Kindbettfiebers.
Semmelweis, who earlier had shown puerperal fever to be a septicemia, strove to improve conditions in the lying-in wards of Vienna and Budapest. Misunderstood and maligned by many, he eventually published this book in…
1861
#6336
Beiträge zur Kinderheilkunde.
1861 –1862
#4640
Die Gürtelkrankheit.
Herpes zoster first ascribed to a lesion of the spinal ganglia.
1861
#7608
Essays and observations on natural history, anatomy, physiology, psychology, and geology by John Hunter, F.R.S. Being his posthumous papers on those subjects, arranged and revised, with notes; to which are added the introductory lectures on the Hunterian collection of fossil remains delivered in the theatre of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, March 8th, 10th and 12th, 1855 by Richard Owen .... 2 vols.
Digital facsimiles from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1861
#7735
Handbook for the military surgeon: Being a compendium of the duties of the medical officer in the field, the sanitary management of the camp, the preparation of food, etc.; with forms for the requisitions for supplies, returns, etc.; the diagnosis and treatment of camp dysentery; and all the important points in war surgery: Including gunshot wounds, amputation, wounds of the chest, abdomen, arteries and head, and the use of chloroform.
Digital facsimile of second edition (1861) from Google Books at this link.
1861
#7811
A manual of military surgery: for the use of surgeons in the Confederate army: with an appendix of the rules and regulations of the medical department of the Confederate army.
Digital facsimile from the U.S. National Library of Medicine at this link.
1861
#7814
A treatise on gun-shot wounds: written for and dedicated to the surgeons of the Confederate States Army.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1861
#7815
A manual of military surgery: or, hints on the emergencies of field, camp and hospital practice.
Digital facsimile of the second edition (1862) from the Hathi Trust at this link. Notably in 1862 this small work written for Union surgeons was reprinted in Richmond, Virginia for the use of Confederate surgeons. The…
1861
#7867
A manual of etherization: Containing directions for the employment of ether, chloroform, and other anaesthetic agents, by inhalation, in surgical operations, Intended for military and naval surgeons, and all who may be exposed to surgical operations, with Instructions for the preparation of ether and chloroform, and for testing them for Impurities. comprising, also, a brief history of the discovery of anaesthesia.
Jackson's most detailed exposition of anesthesia, including a summary of the early history of its discovery, written for American Civil War physicians and surgeons. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this …
1861
#8110
De Mexique au point de vue de son influence sur la vie de l'homme.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1861
#8914
On the various contrivances by which British and foreign orchids are fertilised by insects, and on the good effects of intercrossing.
Darwin's first work on plant fertilization and the first volume of evidence that he published to support the theories advanced in On the origin of species (1859). This was also the only book by Darwin that was issued …
1861
#8915
On the origin of species by means of natural selection....Third edition with additions and corrections (Seventh thousand).
Extensively revised, and the first edition to include the "historical sketch" crediting the historical precursors to the theory of evolution by natural selection. Darwin added this chapter in response to writings by S…
1861
#9171
Flora hongkonensis: A description of the flowering plants and ferns of the island of Hongkong.
The first comprehensive work on any part of the flora of China and Hong Kong. It included the first published description of Hong Kong Croton, or Croton hancei.
1861
#10039
Ueber die Beziehungen der darstellenden Kunst zur Heilkunst. Aus dem zehnten Bande der Abhandlungen der Königlichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1861
#10049
The eastern, or Turkish bath: Its history, revival in Britain, and application to the purposes of health.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1861
#10460
La chirurgie d'Abulcasis. Précédée d'une introduction. Avec planches.Traduite par le Dr. Lucien Leclerc.
First translation into French. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1861
#11583
Lectures on the germs and vestiges of disease, and on the prevention of the invasion and fatality of disease by periodical examinations.
Dobell was the first physician to propose periodic health examinations. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1861
#12462
Bibliotheca zoologica. Verzeichniss der Schriften über zoologie, welche in den Periodischen werken enthalten und vom Jahre 1846-1860 selbständig erschienen Sind. Mit Einschluss der allgemein-naturgeschichtlichen periodischen und palaeontologischen Schriften. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.
1861
#12813
Lives of eminent American physicians and surgeons of the nineteenth century. Edited by Samuel D. Gross.
Digital facsimile from U.S. National Library of Medicine at this link.
1861
#12983
Nouvelles recherches sur la coexistence de l’homme et des grands mammifères fossiles réputés caractéristiques de la dernière période géologique.
In this lengthy paper of nearly 80 pages Lartet proposed the first chronological framework into which both human skeletal and cultural remains could be fitted, based on fossil animal bones recovered from French cave s…
1861 –1862
#13270
(1) Zwei offene Briefe an Hofrath Dr. Eduard Casp. Jac. v. Siebold, . . . und an Hofrath Dr. F. W. Scanzoni . . .Ofen... 1861. (2) Zwei offene Briefe an Dr. J. Spaeth, Professor der Geburtshilfe an der k. k. Josefs-Akademie in Wien, und an Hofrath Dr. F. W. Scanzoni, Professor der Geburtshilfe zu Würzburg. Pest...1861. (3) Offener Brief an sämmtliche Professoren der Geburtshilfe. Ofen...1862.
Semmelweis’s last publications on antisepsis in obstetrics. Although the information and conclusions that Semelweis drew in his Die Aetiologie, der Begriff und die Prophylaxis des Kindbettfiebers (1861) were of the fi…
1861
#13416
Verzeichniss der hinterlassenen Bibliothek des Geh. Medicinalrathes Dr. v. Ammon in Dresden, welch nebst mehreren anderen Bibliotheken, sowie einem Anhange von Musikalien und Büchern über Musik....
1861
#13465
On the absorption and radiation of heat by gases and vapours, and on the physical connexion of radiation, absorption and conduction.
Demonstration that gases including carbon dioxide and water can absorb heat, aand could change climate. Digital facsimile from royalsocietypublishing.org at this link.
1861 –1867
#14159
Atlas des peripherischen Nervensystems des menschlichen Körpers / Atlas du système nerveux périphérique du corps humain. Mit einem Vorwort von Prof. Dr. Th. W. L. Bischoff, nach der Natur photographirt von Joseph Alb. 10 parts.
Issued in 10 parts in folio (510 x 360 mm). Includes 46 large-format original photographs mounted on sheets of cardboard.
1861
#14188
Stammering and stuttering, their nature and treatment.
1862
#936
Untersuchungen über den Bau der Nasenschleimhaut, namentlich die Structur und Endigungsweise der Geruchsnerven bei dem Menschen und den Wirbelthieren.
Schultze’s classic paper on the nerves to the neuro-epithelium in the special sense organs marks an epoch in histology. He described the cells of the olfactory muccous membrane, “Schultze’s cells”.
1862 –1863
#938
Untersuchungen über die Respiration.
The first combined feeding–respiration experiments. Pettenkofer and Voit devised an apparatus for their important experiments on respiration and metabolism. They were first to estimate the amounts of protein, fat, and…
1862 –1863
#937
Ueber die Respiration.
1862
#814
Ueber Reflexionen von und zum Herzen (Klopfversuch).
Rapidly-repeated blows on the belly of a frog caused cessation of the heart-beat, which Goltz concluded was brought about by reflex inhibition through the vagus, an important contribution to the knowledge of the mecha…
1862
#1004
Ueber specifisch wirkende Körper des natürlichen und künstlichen pancreatischen Saftes.
Discovery of trypsin.
1862
#1005
Experimental researches into a new excretory function of the liver, consisting in the removal of cholesterine from the blood and its discharge from the body in the form of stercorine.
Discovery, in the feces, of “stercorine” (coprosterol).
1862
#870
Ueber das Verhalten des Blutfarbstoffe im Spectrum des Sonnenlichtes.
Using the spectroscope, Hoppe-Seyler discovered the absorption spectrum of blood. See No. 873.
1862
#4695
Case of progressive atrophy of the muscles of the hands: enlargement of the ventricle of the cord in the cervical region, with atrophy of the gray matter.
First description of syringomyelia.
1862
#2166
Un souvenir de Solferino.
Dunant’s account of the great sufferings endured by the wounded at Solferino inspired the creation of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in 1863, and resulted in the Geneva Convention of 1864. In 1901…
1862
#2166.1
Notes on arrow wounds.
The definitive work on American Indian arrow wounds suffered by U. S. troops and settlers in frontier warfare during the Western expansion of the United States. Bill eventually developed a "Forceps for the Extraction …
1862
#1108
Die Lymphgefässe und ihre Beziehung zum Bindegewebe.
“Recklinghausen’s canals”, the lymph canaliculi.
1862
#1613
Ueber eine Methode die Kohlensäure in der atmosphärischen Luft zu bestimmen.
Pettenkofer was the founder of experimental hygiene; he was the first to institute a laboratory for hygienic investigation.
1862
#1269
Ueber die peripherischen Endorgane der motorischen Nerven.
Kühne described the neuromuscular end organ (“Kühne’s spindle”) and introduced the term “telolemma” for the outer covering of its sheath.
1862 –1876
#2453
Die menschlichen Parasiten und die von ihnen herrührenden Krankheiten. 2 vols.
Includes the first complete and accurate account of the life history and morphology of Taenia echinococcus. Leuckart proved the relationship between hydatid cysts and minute tape-worms in dogs. English translation, Ed…
1862 –1866
#167
On the methods and results of ethnology.
Includes Huxley’s classification of mankind by means of the hair. The full text was originally published in the Fortnightly Review, I, 1865, 257-76. The full text was reprinted in Huxley's Critiques and addresses (1873).
1862
#2388
Della trasmissione delle sifilide mediante la inoculazione del sangue.
Proof of the possibility of transmission of syphilis by blood transfusion.
1862
#2220
A treatise on the continued fevers of Great Britain.
Murchison was one of the greatest clinical teachers London has ever known; of his many writings his book on continued fever is probably the most important. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1862
#3268
Die erste Ausrottung eines Polypen in der Kehlkopfshöhle durch Zerschneiden ohne blutige Eröffnung der Luftwege.
First enucleation of a laryngeal polyp by the bloodless method. Digital facsimile of the second edition (1862) from the Internet Archive at this link.
1862
#3269
Beiträge zur Laryngoscopie.
Lewin was probably the first to extirpate a laryngeal growth with the aid of the laryngoscope. Bruns claimed this distinction, but may not have heard of Lewin.
1862
#220.1
Contributions to an insect fauna of the Amazon valley: Lepidoptera: Heliconidae.
Bates spent eleven years in the Amazon and there collected 8,000 species of insects new to science. In the above paper he clearly stated and solved the problem of “mimicry”, known today as “Batesian mimicry”. The supe…
1862
#220.2
On our knowledge of the causes of the phenomenon of organic nature.
This series of six lectures delivered to “working men” in November and December, 1862 includes Huxley’s first book-form exposition of Darwin’s theories, of which he was probably the greatest popular exponent. A prolif…
1862
#2704
De l’asphyxie locale et de la gangrène symétrique des extrémités.
First description of “Raynaud’s disease.” Raynaud was the first to describe this disorder, which causes extreme constriction of the peripheral blood vessels resulting in discoloration of the fingers, toes and sometime…
1862
#2764
On cardiac murmurs.
First description of the “Austin Flint murmur,” present at the apex beat in aortic regurgitation. Reprinted in Med. Classics, 1940, 4, 864-900.
1862
#3376
Die Krankheiten des Ohres.
Tröltsch was Professor of Otology as Würzburg. He was the founder of the Archiv für Ohrenheilkunde. English translation, 1874.
1862
#2961
Case of iliac aneurism.
Syme treated a case of iliac aneurysm by opening the sac and ligating the common iliac and the internal and external iliac arteries.