1870–1879

1871

#10483

Physical effects of compressed air, and of the causes of pathological symptoms produced on man, by increased atmospheric pressure employed for the sinking of piers, in the construction of the Illinois and St. Louis Bridge over the Mississippi River at St. Louis, Missouri.

Study of caisson disease and its treatement resulting from experience in treating workmen constructing the Eads Bridge, which opened in 1874. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1871 –1872

#10585

Photographic review of medicine and surgery. A bi-monthly illustration of interesting cases, accompanied by notes. Edited by F.F. Maury [and] L.A. Duhring. Vols. 1 & 2 (All published).

The leading 19th century American publication of artistic medical photography. Each of the two volumes includes 24 mounted photographs. The photographs ilustrate cases of unusual and extreme disease, such as gross def…

1871

#11545

On the use of the ophthalmoscope in diseases of the nervous system and of the kidneys; also in certain other general disorders.

One of the earliest works on the wider appications of the ophthalmoscope. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1871 –1878

#11715

Gesammelte Beiträge zur Pathologie und Physiologie. 3 vols.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1871

#12475

Notes on the natural history of the Strait of Magellan and the west coast of Patagonia made during the voyage of HMS 'Nassau' in the years 1866, 67, 68, & 69.

Cunningham, a physician, was naturalist aboard the Nassau, a steamer sent to survey the Strait of Magellan and the adjacent channels. This book contains a narrative of the voyage and natural history descriptions. Cunn…

1871 –1880

#12583

Dermatología general y clínica iconográfica de enfermedades de la piel ó dermatósis.

This very large format publication was issued in four parts from 1871 to 1880. It included 168 large plates in the style of Alibert, and was the first major illustrated work on dermatology published in Spain. Digital …

1871

#12899

Emergencies and how to treat them: The etiology, pathology, and treatment of the accidents, diseases, and cases of poisoning, which demand prompt action.

A “guide in the treatment of cases of emergency occurring in medical, surgical, or obstetrical practice” (p. 3), covering such topics as hemorrhage, burns, loss of consciousness, asphyxia, sunstroke, poisoning and com…

1871

#13211

HIT.

An enigmatically titled book of essays on women's rights by the American surgeon, abolitionist, prohibitionist, and prisoner of war, who remains the only woman to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor. Medical cont…

1871

#13216

The ornithology of Shakespeare. Critically examined, explained, and illustrated.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1871

#13426

A. von Grafe's hinterlassene medizinische u. ophthalmologische Bibliothek, sowie ein Anhang von diversen medizinischen Werken und Suiten von medizinischen Journalen zu Antiquarpreisen durch die Hirschwald'sche Buchhandlung in Berlin.

1871

#13489

Catalogue des livres de la bibliothèque de feu Docteur Longet.

1871

#13494

Catalogue des livres de la bibliothèque de feu M. Aug. Duméril.

1872

#822

Ueber die Eigenthümlichkeiten der Reizbarkeit, welche die Muskelfasern des Herzens zeigen.

Bowditch was the first to research the relationship between the strength of the heart beat and the interval between beats. He established the “all-or-nothing” principle of heart muscle contraction. He founded, at Harv…

1872

#353

Geschichte der Zoologie bis auf Joh. Müller und Charl. Darwin.

French edition, 1880. Digital facsimile of the German edition from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link; of the French edition from Google Books at this link.

1872

#2706

Clinical lecture on certain painful affections of the feet.

Mitchell suggested the name “erythromelalgia” for this condition, which is also known as “Weir Mitchell’s disease”. He records four earlier writers on the subject, the first being Graves in 1848. See also his paper in…

1872 –1887

#4546

Leçons sur les maladies du système nerveux faites à La Salpêtrière.

An excellent idea of Charcot’s work is gained by perusal of his Leçons, dealing with his teaching on nervous disorders. In the second volume, pp. 1-72, is a classic account of the anomalies of tabes dorsalis. Charcot …

1872

#627

Ueber die Diffusion des Sauerstoffs, den Ort und die Gesetze der Oxydationsprocesse im thierischen Organismus.

1872

#1011

Ueber die Wirkung einiger Gifte auf die Nerven der glandula submaxillaris.

Study of the effect of poisons on the nerves of the submaxillary gland.

1872

#4699

On chorea.

The classic description by Huntington of the chronic degenerative hereditary type of chorea led to the eponym “Huntington’s chorea”. Earlier accounts of the disease were given by John Elliotson (Lancet, 1832, 1, 163),…

1872

#424

Topographisch-anatomischer Atlas. Nach Durchschnitten angefrornen Cadavern.

Fine illustrations of frozen sections. Translated into English by Edward Bellamy as An atlas of topographical anatomy after plane sections of frozen bodies. (Philadelphia: Lindsay and Blakiston, 1877).

1872

#2173

Beiträge zur pathologischen Anatomie der Schusswunden.

Klebs filtered the discharges from gunshot wounds, found the filtrate to be non-infectious, and from that reasoned that traumatic septicemia is of bacterial origin. He was the first to filter bacteria and to experimen…

1872

#4831

Zur Lehre von der Tetanie.

Important observations on gastric tetany were made by Kussmaul. He called attention to the convulsions sometimes accompanying dilatation of the stomach. He first mentioned “gastric tetany” in 1869 in his paper on gast…

1872 –1887

#1620

La Seine. Etudes hydrologiques. Régime de la pluie, des sources, des eaux courantes. (Les travaux souterrains de Paris.) 4 vols. and atlas.

Belgrand designed the Paris sewers.

1872

#2105

The thanatophidia of India. Being a Description of the venomous snakes of the Indian Peninsula, with an account of the influence of their poison on life and a series of experiments

Considered the first systematic work on venomous snakes. Describes all the venomous snakes of India. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1872 –1875

#1515

Zur Lehre vom Lichtsinne. 6 parts.

Hering’s theory of color sense. First edition in book form (Vienna, 1878). Hering expanded this work in Grundzüge der Lehre vom Lichtsinn (1905-11; 1920) English translation of that expanded work by Leo M. Hurvich and…

1872

#2250

Thermic fever, or sunstroke.

A study of the pathology of sunstroke. Wood held the chairs of botany, therapeutics, and neurology at the University of Pennsylvania.

1872

#2301

Leçons de pathologie expérimentale.

An elaboration of his lectures on the subject at the Collège de France.

1872

#2325

Lungenentzündung, Tuberkulose und Schwindsucht.

Buhl stated that disseminated miliary tuberculosis is always associated with the presence of a caseous focus in some part of the body, which is the centre from which infection starts (Buhl-Dittrich law). English trans…

1872

#2483

Untersuchungen über Bacterien.

Cohn’s morphological classification of bacteria. He founded the Beiträge.

1872

#1747

Beiträge zur gerichtlichen Chemie einzelner organischer Gifte.

1872

#3124

Eine eigenthumliche Form von progressiver perniciöser Anämie.

In his account of progressive pernicious anemia, Biermer was first to describe the retinal haemorrhages. He was at one time accredited with the first description of pernicious anemia ; later it was shown that Addison …

1872

#3279

Ueber Diagnose und Behandlung der Stimmbandlähmung.

See No. 3270. Continuing his study of laryngeal paralysis. Gerhardt proposed the term “cadaveric position” to indicate the position of the vocal cord in total paralysis of the larynx.

1872

#3280

Diseases of the throat: A guide to the diagnosis and treatment of affections of the pharynx, oesophagus, trachea, larynx, and nares.

First American textbook on oto-rhino-laryngology.

1872

#3767

Das maligne Lymphosarkom (Pseudoleukämie).

Langhans noted the presence of giant cells in the lesions of Hodgkin’s disease.

1872

#2772

Cases of partial and general idiopathic pericarditis.

Pericarditis epistenocardiaca described.

1872

#2773

Ueber zwei seltene Herzaffektionen, mit Bezugnahme auf die Theorie des ersten Herztons.

“Bamberger’s disease” (Pick’s disease, No. 2803).

1872

#2774

Ein Fall von Endocarditis ulcerosa puerperalis mit Pilzbildungen im Herzen (Mycosis endocardii).

Heiberg suggested the microbic nature of endocarditis. He described what appeared to him to be the mycelia of Leptothrix in the vegetations of a case of ulcerative endocarditis.

1872

#2775

Ein Fall von Pulsus bigeminus nebst Bemerkungen über die Leberschwellungen bei Klappenfehlern und über acute Leberatrophie.

First clear description of pulsus bigeminus. Translated in Willius & Keys, Cardiac classics, 1941, pp. 590-99.

1872

#3010

Untersuchungen über die embolischen Processe.

Cohnheim developed the doctrine of infarction as a result of occlusion of terminal arteries. He explained the haemorrhagic nature of certain infarcts on the basis of a reflux flow and diapedesis through the altered ca…

1872

#4062

Ueber einzelne während der Schwangerschaft, dem Wochenbette und bei Uterinalkrankheiten der Frauen zu beobachtende Hautkrankheiten.

Hebra was the first to describe impetigo herpetiformis, more fully dealt with by Kaposi, his son-in-law.

1872

#4063

Idiopathisches multiples Pigmentsarkom der Haut.

First description of “Kaposi’s sarcoma” – multiple idiopathic hemorrhagic sarcoma. English translation in CA, 1982, 32, 342-47.

1872

#3465

Ueber die Resection des Oesophagus.

First resection of the esophagus.

1872

#4339.2

De la périarthrite scapulo-humérale et des raideurs de l’épaule qui en sont la conséquence.

“Frozen shoulder” syndrome described.

1872

#5111.2

Annals of cholera: from the earliest periods to the year 1817.

1872

#4215

On the pathology of the morbid state commonly called chronic Bright’s disease with contracted kidney (“arterio-capillary fibrosis”).

First clear description of arteriosclerotic atrophy of the kidney (“Gull–Sutton disease”), and probably the first description of hypertensive nephrosclerosis.

1872

#4975

The expression of the emotions in man and animals.

Darwin examined the causes, physiological and psychological, of all the fundamental emotions in man and animals. He concluded that “the chief expressive actions exhibited by man and by the lower animals are now innate…

1872 –1887

#4995

Leçons sur les maladies du système nerveux faites à La Salpêtrière. 3 vols.

Charcot’s pioneering research on the application of hypnosis to the psychoneuroses brought this subject to the attention of the scientific community.

1872

#5752

Greffes cutanées ou autoplastiques.

First description of intermediate thickness skin grafts. Ollier used large grafts and carried out complete excision of scar tissue and its replacement with skin.

1872

#5670

Sur l’action combinée de la morphine et du chloroforme.

Labbe and Guyon developed pre-anesthetic medication.

1872

#6062

Normal ovariotomy.

Battey’s ovariotomy operation for the treatment of non-ovarian conditions. This operation later acquired a greater significance in connection with more modern work on endocrinology. Preliminary communication in J. gyn…