1880–1889
768 entries with publication dates in this decade.
1880
#4561
De la narcolepsie.
Narcolepsy first fully described.
1880
#6838
Sulla circolazione del sangue nel cervello dell’uomo. Ricerche sfigmografiche.
In this work Angelo Mosso reported his discovery that blood circulation in the brain increases in certain discrete areas during mental activity, and published the records of this activity produced by the machine he in…
1880
#6874
Tratado clinico iconografico de dermatologia quirurgica.
The first medical text in Spanish to use photographs as illustrations. Includes 17 lithographed plates (12 chromolithographs) and 3 original photographs (2 hand-colored). Giné y Partagás was a surgeon, dermatologist, …
1880
#7287
Breves apuntes sobre algunos objetos prehistóricos de la provincia de Santander
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Privately printed pamphlet asserting the prehistoric origin of cave paintings discovered in the cave of Altamira, Cantabria, Spain by Maria Sanz de Sautuola, daughter of the author. These were first prehistoric cave p…
1880
#7440
Island life: Or, the phenomena and causes of insular faunas and floras, including a revision and attempted solution of the problem of geological climates.
"In 1880, Wallace published the book Island Life as a sequel to The Geographical Distribution of Animals. It surveyed the distribution of both animal and plant species on islands. Wallace classified islands into three…
1880
#7874
Histoire des monstres, depuis l'antiquité jusqu'a nos jours.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1880
#7984
La médecine du Thalmud ou tous le passages concernant la médecine extraits des 21 traités du Thalmud de Babylone.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1880
#8976
The natural & moral history of Indies, by Father Joseph de Acosta. Reprinted from the English translated edition of Edward Grimston, 1604. And edited, with notes and an introduction by Clements R. Markham. Vol. 1: The natural history. Vol. 2: The moral history. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1880
#9306
The home hand-book of domestic hygiene and rational medicine.
"Kellogg was not only a physician, surgeon, author, and administrator, but also an inventor. Although less discussed in comparison to his food creations, he designed and improved upon a number of medical devices that …
1880 –1895
#9626
Report on the scientific results of the Voyage of the H.M.S. Challenger during the Years 1873-76, under the command of Captain George S. Nares… and Captain Frank Tourle Thomson. 42 vols. in 50.
This work edited by John Murray and Charles Wyville Thomson, and completed by Murray after Thomson's death, was published over a 15 year period, and included about 29,500 pages and more than 3,280 plates. It treated i…
1880 –1882
#11153
Recherches sur les difformités congénitales chez les monstres, le foetus et l'enfant.
Published as Vol. 1 of Oeuvres de Docteur Jules Guerin, of which this work was all published. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1880
#11291
Catalogue of the "Wood" Museum of Bellevue Hospital, New York City. Comprising a descriptive and classified list of anatomical and pathological specimens.
Described 224 specimens in 26 categories. The museum was colected by James Rushmore Wood.
1880
#11721
Die Messung des Pulses und des Blutdrucks am Menschen.
Probably the first book published on the messurement blood pressure in mankind. Mostly concerned with normal physiologic conditions, with a small section on fluctuations in illness. Digital facsimile from Google Books…
1880
#12884
Fisologia del dolore.
Mantegazza performed pioneering research into the physiology of pain at his experimental laboratory. His work marks the beginning of algometry, the scientific measurement of responses to pain stimuli. Mantegazza inven…
1880
#13109
The spectroscope in medicine.
1880
#13169
The physiology of woman, embracing girlhood, maternity, and mature age, with essays on the "Coeducation of the sexes in medicine," "The physiological basis of education," "Temperance from a physician's point of view, and "A plea for moderation."
Stevenson was the first woman member of the American Medical Association (AMA), the first woman appointed on the Illinois State Board of Health, and the first woman to be on staff at the Cook County Hospital in Chicag…
1880
#13279
Principles of electro-homoeopathy. A new science discovered by Count Cesar Mattei, of Bologna.
"Electrohomoeopathy (or Mattei cancer cure) is a derivative of homeopathy invented in the 19th century by Count Cesare Mattei. The name is derived from a combination of electro (referring to an electric bio-energy con…
1880
#13854
What do do first, in accidents or poisoning.
Expanded as What to do first in accidents and emergencies. A manual explaining the treatment of surgical and other injuries in the absence of the physician (1883). Digital facsimile of the 1880 edition from the Hathi …
1881 –1894
#534.67
Storia della teratologia. 8 vols. (Tomo 1-3, 5-7 called pt. 1; t. 4 and 8 called pt. 2, Note ed osservazioni.)
The most extensive history and bibliography of teratology ever published, even though the section on malformations of single organs and parts was never completed. Contains excerpts and detailed abstracts of innumerabl…
1881
#827
On a method of isolating the mammalian heart.
Martin devised a form of perfusion of the isolated mammalian heart – one of the greatest single contributions ever to come from an American physiological laboratory. This made possible his later work on the heart. See…
1881
#4564
Paramyoklonus multiplex.
First description of paramyoclonus multiplex, “Friedreich’s disease”.
1881
#635
Handbuch der Physiologie des Gesammt-Stoffwechsels und der Fortpflanzung.
Forms vol. 6, pt. 1 of Hermann’s Handbuch der Physiologie.
1881
#1014
Nuovo metodo per avere il succo enterico puro, e stabilime le proprietà fisiologiche.
1881
#701
Physiologische Chemie.
Hoppe-Seyler, one of the greatest of the physiological chemists, founded the Zeitschrift für physiologische Chemie and wrote a classical textbook on the subject.
1881
#1042
Ueber die Bedeutung der anorganischen Salze für die Ernährung des Thiers.
Working in Bunge’s laboratory, Lunin prepared synthetic milk diets and showed that they lacked an unknown factor necessary for animal growth, and that animals cannot live on a chemically pure (i.e. vitamin-free) diet.…
1881
#2176
Ueber primäres Debridement der Schusswunden.
Reyher, a Russian surgeon, reintroduced débridement and made a controlled study of its value in contaminated gunshot wounds during the Russo-Turkish War of 1877. See No. 2177.
1881 –1884
#1566
Das Gehörorgan der Wirbelthiere. 2 vols.
The most magnificent of all comparative anatomical studies of the ear, and the most beautiful studies of the ear after those of Casseri (No.1540). Retzius described the “Retzius bodies” in the labyrinth.
1881
#502
Die Coelomtheorie. Versuch einer Erklärung des mittleren Keimblattes.
The Hertwig brothers formulated the “coelom” theory to account for the classification and phylogeny of metazoan animals. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1881
#4818
Epilepsy and other chronic convulsive diseases.
Gowers left a classic account of epilepsy, a book which today is still one of the most important on the subject. He was first to note the tetanic nature of the epileptic convulsion.
1881
#783
La circulation du sang à l’état physiologique et dans les maladies.
1881
#1413
Untersuchungen über die Localisation der Funktionen in der Grosshirnrinde des Menschen.
Exner identified the superficial tangential fibers of the molecular layer of the cerebral cortex, known eponymically as “Exner’s plexus”. Exner’s book of 1881 on cortical localization contained maps based on the clini…
1881
#1414
Ueber die Functionen der Grosshirnrinde.
Munk made important investigations on the functions of the temporal lobes.
1881
#1647
Die öffentliche Hygiene im alten Rom.
1881
#1873
Die natürlich vorkommenden mydriatisch wirkenden Alkaloïde.
Isolation of hysocine (scopolamine), an anti-nausea drug.
1881
#2081
Die Nebenwirkungen der Arzneimittel.
This was the first book of its kind. It deals with the borderline between the pharmacological and the toxicological action of drugs with the untoward or side-effects of all kinds of medicaments. For details regarding …
1881 –1882
#2305
Lehrbuch de allgemeinen und speciellen pathologischen Anatomie und Pathogenese.
An outstanding textbook which today remains of value to pathologists. Ziegler was Professor of Pathology at Freiburg, and founded the Beiträge zur pathologischen Anatomie (“Ziegler’s Beiträge”).
1881
#2330
Sulla poliorromennite scrofolosa, o tisi delle sierose.
Concato’s excellent description of tuberculous inflammation of the serous membranes resulted in the eponym “Concato’s disease”.
1881
#2493
Ueber das Methylenblau und seine klinisch-bakterioskopische Verwerthung.
Introduction of methylene blue in bacteriological staining.
1881
#2494
Report upon micro-organisms in surgical diseases.
Ogston showed that micrococci are constantly present in acute and chronic abscesses. He discovered Staphylococcus aureus. Ogston named staphylococcus in his paper, "Micrococcus poisoning," J. Anat. Physiol., 1882, 16,…
1881
#2495
Essays on the floating-matter of the air in relation to putrefaction and infection.
Tyndall interested himself in atmospheric germs and dust. His experiments on sterilization by heat led him to the discovery in 1877 of fractional sterilization (Tyndallization). His work on the subject is included in …
1881
#2495.1
Zur Untersuchungen von pathogenen Organismen.
Koch’s description of his methods of growing bacterial cultures in gelatine solutions, making films of bacteria on cover slips and fixing them by gentle heat, and staining slides differentially by aniline. These metho…
1881
#2784
Ueber die Messung des Blutdrucks am Menschen.
Basch’s important modifications of the methods of blood-pressure recording mark the beginning of clinical sphygmomanometry. English translation in Ruskin (No. 3160.1).
1881
#2785
Sulla poliorromennite scrofolosa, otisi delle sierose.
“Concato’s disease” – inflammation of the serous membranes. Involvement of the pericardium was later described by Pick (No. 2803).
1881
#3125.5
Über einige Beobachtungen am anämischen Blut.
In the above contributions to the knowledge of anemia, Ehrlich dealt in the first paper with the blood cells in anemia, and in the second gave the first description of the reticulocyte.
1881
#3172
L’organisme microscopique trouvé par M. Pasteur dans la maladie nouvelle provoquée par la salive d’un enfant mort de la rage.
Probably the earliest record of pneumococcus. Parrot reported the discovery made by Louis Pasteur.
1881
#3173
A fatal form of septicaemia in the rabbit, produced by the subcutaneous injection of human saliva.
In the same year as Pasteur, and independently, Sternberg discovered the pneumococcus (Streptococcus pneumoniae) demonstrating its carriage in the healthy human mouth.
1881
#3286
Surgical treatment of hypertrophic nasal catarrh.
Jarvis nasal snare described.
1881
#3288
Clinical remarks on the proclivity of the abductor fibres of the recurrent laryngeal nerve to become affected sooner than the adductor fibres, or even exclusively, in cases of undoubted central or peripheral injury or disease of the roots or trunks of the pneumogastric, spinal accessory, or recurrent nerves.
“Semon’s law”. Of German birth, Semon became one of the greatest laryngologists in Britain. He developed the modern operation of laryngofissure for early cancer of the larynx.
1881
#3387.3
Les lésions nerveuses dans la surdité.
Gellédescribed a test for determination of ossicular fixation.
1881
#3944
Ueber Drüsenepithelnekrosen beim Diabetes mellitus mit besonderer Berücksichtigung des diabetischen Coma.
“Ebstein’s disease”, hyaline degeneration and necrosis of the epithelial cells of the renal tubules, sometimes seen in diabetes mellitus.