1870–1879
662 entries with publication dates in this decade.
1872
#6063
Chronic cystitis in the female, and mode of treatment.
Vaginal cystotomy for chronic cystitis.
1872
#6064
Die latente Gonorrhoe im weiblichen Geschlecht.
Noeggerath was the first to point out the late effects of gonorrhoea in women, particularly its role in the production of sterility.
1872
#6065
Cases of intermenstrual or intermediate dysmenorrhoea.
First report of cases of Mittelschmerz.
1872
#6188
Die Lage des Uterus und Foetus am Ende der Schwangerschaft nach Durchschnitten an gefrornen Cadavern
Supplement to No. 424.
1872
#6189
On the contractions of the uterus throughout pregnancy: Their physiological effects and their value in the diagnosis of pregnancy.
“Braxton Hicks’s sign”.
1872
#6649.91
Medical women: Two essays. I. Medicine as a profession for women. II. Medical education for women
From the time of her admission to medical school Jex-Blake became virtually the leader of the movement in Great Britain to open the medical profession to women. Greatly expanded second edition, Edinburgh, 1886.
1872
#6282
English midwives.
Reprinted with biographical sketch by J. L. Thornton, London, 1967.
1872
#6388
Médecine et médecins.
1872
#4543
De l’électrisation localisée et de son application à la pathologie et à la thérapeutique. 3me. éd.
Early description, page 357, of partial brachial plexus paralysis, upper type (“Duchenne-Erb palsy”: see No. 4548). An English translation of the 3rd ed., by H. Tibbitts, actually appeared London in 1871, one year bef…
1872
#4547
On a case of paralysis of the tongue from haemorrhage in the medulla oblongata.
Jackson here described the syndrome consisting of paralysis of half the tongue, the same half of the palate, and of one vocal cord – “Jackson’s syndrome”.
1872
#7373
Diverses périodes de l'age de la pierre.
Mortillet rejected the fauna-based cultural subdivisions of the Pleistocene (cave bear, mammoth, reindeer) that had been introduced by Edouard Lartet in favor of a system based on tools and artifacts (“données industr…
1872
#7609
Origen, naturaleza y antigüedad del hombre.
The first book on human origins or human evolution published in Spanish. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1872
#7831
Descriptive catalogue of the teratological series in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1872
#8613
A history of the Massachusetts General Hospital. [Privately printed in 1851.] Second edition, with a continuation to 1872.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1872
#8972
Air and rain. The beginnings of a chemical climatology.
In this work on the industrial causes of pollution Smith coined the term acid rain. "The corrosive effect of polluted, acidic city air on limestone and marble was noted in the 17th century by John Evelyn, who remarked…
1872 –1877
#9069
Thesaurus literaturae botanicae omnium gentium inde a rerum botanicarum initiis ad nostra usque tempora. Quindecim millia operum recensens. Editionem novam reformatam.
First published in 1851, this documents literature from ancient times to publication date. Research involved examination of 40,000 works in libraries at Vienna, Geneva, London, Paris and various German locations. Digi…
1872
#9699
Earth as a topical application in surgery: Being a full exposition of Its use in all the cases requiring topical applications admitted in the men's and women's surgical wards of the Pennsylvania Hospital during a period of six Months in 1869.
Includes four "Photo-relief" (Woodburytype) plates. Possibly the only book on this subject. One may assume that the special earth contained some anti-bacterial mold such as penicillin. Digital facsimile from Google Bo…
1872
#11326
History of medicine from the earliest ages to the commencement of the nineteenth century
In 1824 Dunglison was recuited to join the Medical Faculty of the new University of Virginia. There he became Thomas Jefferson's personal physician for two years until Jefferson's death. Dunglison was hired to teach m…
1872
#11790
Key to North American birds containing a concise account of every species of living and fossil bird at present known from the continent north of the Mexican and United States boundary.
Coues continued to revise and expand this work, putting it through four editions during his lifetime. Digital facsimile of the 1872 edition from the Hathi Trust at this link. The Hathi Trust also makes available digit…
1872
#11803
Corals and coral islands.
Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.
1872
#12187
Illustrations of the influence of the mind upon the body in health and disease, designed to elucidate the action of the imagination.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1872
#12225
Der Mechanismus der halbmondformigen Herzklappen.
Using an excised pig heart preparation with tubes, a manometer, and a visualizing apparatus, Ceradini working in Carl Ludwig’s laboratory, illustrated the mechanism of closure of the semilunar valves. He was the first …
1872
#12419
Eine Methode Aus Der Einen Lippe Substanzverluste Der Anderen zu Ersetzen.
The Abbe-Estlander operation, transferring a full-thickness flap from one lip of the oral cavity to fill a defect in the other lip.
1872
#12503
Fisologia dell' amore.
Through many editions and translations of his three main works of sexuality (cited in this database) Mantagazza may have been the most widely read author on sexuality in the 19th century. He was also a widely publishe…
1872
#13171
The detection of criminal abortion, and a study of foeticidal drugs.
Digital facsimile from U.S. National Library of Medicine at this link.
1872
#13212
Autumnal catarrh (Hay fever) with three maps.
Wyman conducted experiments that convinced him that ragweed was a cause of hay fever. He then collected data from correspondents and published the first pollen maps of the U.S. so that sufferers could plan vacations i…
1872
#13353
Tortoises, terrapins, and turtles drawn from life
Though not credited on the title page, Thomas Bell was superintendent of the plates and the intended author of this work. James de Carle Sowerby created the original paintings. Edward Lear drew the plates on stone. Fo…
1872
#13380
Question médico-légale de l’identité dans ses rapport avec les vices de conformation des organes sexuels contenant les souvenirs et impressions d’un individu dont le sexe avait été méconnu.
Includes the first printing of the memoirs of "Alexina B" a French intersex person whose actual name was Herculine Barbin. Digital facsimile of the revised second edition (1874) from Google Books at this link. Transla…
1872
#13490
Catalogue des livres de médecine et de chirurgie composant la bibliothèque de feu de M. de Docteur Denonvilliers.
1872
#13491
Catalogue des livres anciens et modernes rare et curieux composant la bibliothèque de feu M. le Docteur Danyau.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1872
#13901
Notice sur le musée d'histoire naturelle de Colmar et aperçu historique sur le musée des Unterlinden en général.
1873
#2587
On megrim, sick-headache, and some allied disorders.
Liveing’s classic account of migraine showed the close association of this condition with tetany, asthma, and false angina pectoris, with epilepsy, and the alternation of all these conditions in the same subject or th…
1873
#628
Principles of animal mechanics.
Haughton stated that the muscular mechanism is so arranged that its work is carried out with the minimum of muscular contraction. This he called the “principle of least action”. His opposition to Darwinism is especial…
1873
#876
De la numération des globules rouges du sang I. Des méthodes de numération. II. De la richesse du sang en globules rouges dans les différentes parties de l'arbre circulatoire.
The beginning of blood-counting techniques. In his thesis Malassez provided the initial description of the hemocytometer, which he invented, but which was named by Gowers, who modified it in 1877. The trade issue of t…
1873
#2017.2
Immediate transfusion in England: seven cases, and the author’s method of operating.
Portable transfusion apparatus.
1873
#1406.01
Iconographie photographique des centres nerveux.
Contains 70 photographs of brain sections taken by Luys himself, with 64 lithographed schemas based on his drawings. Luys undertook this work when the evidence of his lithographs published in 1865 (No. 4012) was dispu…
1873
#1701
Plan einer Mortalitäts-Statistik für Grossstädte.
The modern methods of interpreting vital statistics of large cities were devised by von Körösi.
1873
#1515.1
Studien über den Flüssigkeitswechsel im Auge.
Leber discovered how the ciliary body excretes intraocular fluid.
1873
#2302
Neue Untersuchungen über die Entzündung.
Cohnheim was the master experimental pathologist of the 19th century. He was a pupil of Virchow and Kölliker; in contradiction of the former, he showed the essential feature of inflammation to be the passage of leucoc…
1873
#2326
De l’unité de la phthisie. Thèse pour le doctorat en médecine. No. 50
Confirmation of Villemin. Grancher in 1903 instituted the “Grancher system” – the boarding out of children from tuberculous households in France. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1873
#2327
Die künstliche Erzeugung der Tuberkulose.
Klebs was the first to produce experimental bovine tuberculosis (by feeding cattle with infected milk). His work confirmed the earlier researches of Villemin.
1873
#2328
Recherches sur l’anatomie pathologique de la tuberculose. Thèse No. 45.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1873
#2484
A further contribution to the natural history of bacteria and the germ theory of fermentative changes.
Isolation of Bacterium lactis, the specific micro-organism responsible for the lactic acid fermentation of milk.
1873 –1881
#173
Descriptive sociology: A cyclopaedia of facts; representing the constitution of every type and grade of human society, past and present, stationary and progressive; classified and tabulated for easy comparison and convenient study of the relations of social phenomena. 8 pts.
Spencer founded and edited this series.
1873 –1874
#4832
Zur Lehre von der Tetanie nebst Bemerkungen über die Prufung der electrischen Erregbarkeit motorischer Nerven.
“Erb’s sign”.
1873
#2225
Untersuchungen über den fieberhaften Process und seine Behandlung.
Senator was a director of the Charité Hospital in Berlin and later at the university polyclinic. His study of fever represents his best work.
1873
#3281
Fall von gutartiger Mycosis des Pharynx.
Mycosis pharyngitis first reported.
1873
#2588
Experimental researches on the causes and nature of catarrhus aestivus.
Blackley showed that pollen can produce hay fever in both the asthmatic and catarrhal forms; he also showed that skin reactions were evoked in sensitive persons.
1873
#2776
Ueber schwielige Mediastino-Pericarditis und den paradoxen Puls.
Kussmaul introduced the concept of the “paradoxical pulse.”
1873
#3382
Ueber die künstliche Eröffnung des Warzenfortsatzes.
These workers helped to revive the mastoid operation (which had fallen into disuse), placing it on a modern basis. They described the method of opening the ear by chiselling, “Schwartze’s operation”.