1880–1889
768 entries with publication dates in this decade.
1881
#4079
Di un caso di encondroma et angioma multiplo. Contribuzione alla genesi embrionale dei tumori.
“Maffucci’s syndrome” – cavernous hemangioma with enchondromas of skeleton, producing deformities.
1881
#3474
Offenes Schreiben an Herrn Dr. L. Wittelshöfer.
First successful resection of the pylorus for cancer, the Billroth I operation.
1881
#3475
Ueber Gastroskopie und Oesophagoskopie.
Mikulicz was the first to use the electric oesophagoscope invented by Leiter in 1880. He was among the most distinguished of Billroth’s pupils and contributed much to cancer surgery.
1881
#3476
Gastro-Enterostomie.
Wölfler perfected the operation of gastro-enterostomy.
1881
#3479
On a case of obstruction of the bowels due to volvulus, treated by abdominal section; recovery.
First successful operation in Britain for treatment of volvulus, performed 20 February, 1883.
1881
#4346.2
Observations concerning transplantation of bone. Illustrated by a case of inter-human osseous transplantation, whereby over two-thirds of the shaft of a humerus was restored.
First allograft transplantation of bone in humans.
1881
#5031
Der Bacillus des Abdominaltyphus und dertyphöse Process.
Klebs probably saw the typhoid bacillus before Eberth, reporting it later.
1881
#4176
Ueber eine neue Form von Haemoglobinurie beim Menschen.
First description of “march hemoglobinuria” – the condition in which physical exertion gives rise to the passage of red urine containing hemoglobin in solution.
1881
#4177
Leçons cliniques sur les maladies des voies urinaires.
Guyon was the outstanding French urologist of his day, an operator of great skill and a brilliant lithotomist.
1881
#4177.1
On the occurrence of micro-organisms in fresh urine.
Roberts reported a relationship between the finding of bacteria in the urine and the development of cystitis after catheterization.
1881
#4218
Die operative Behandlung der beweglichen Niere durch Fixation.
Hahn devised the operation of nephropexy (nephrorrhaphy) for the relief of movable kidney.
1881
#5481.3
Les injections de virus rabique dans le torrent circulatoire ne provoquent pas l’éclosion de la rage et semblant conférer l’immunité. La rage peut être transmise par l’ingestion de la matiére rabique.
Galtier immunized sheep by inoculating rabid saliva in the veins; this did not produce the disease and protected the animals from a further inoculation. His work aroused the interest of Pasteur.
1881
#5481.4
Sur la rage.
This paper marks the beginning of Pasteur’s studies on rabies. English translation in R. Suzor, Hydrophobia: An account of M. Pasteur’s system…London, 1887.
1881
#5002
Die Entdeckung des Hypnotismus: nebst einer ungedruckten Original-Abhandlung von [James] Braid in deutscher Übersetzung.
A translation into German by Preyer of a previously unpublished work on the history of hypnosis by James Braid.
1881
#5754.2
An operation for prominence of the auricles.
Otoplasty first described. Ely died very young from tuberculosis.
1881
#5920
Un ophtalmomètre pratique.
Javal and Schiötz here describe an ophthalmometer invented by them.
1881
#5617
Die ischaemischen Muskellähmungen und Kontrakturen.
“Volkmann’s ischemic contracture” first described. English translation in Bick, Classics of orthopaedics.
1881
#5636.1
Ueber Desinfection.
Koch showed that mercuric chloride was superior to carbolic acid, and that live steam surpassed hot air in sterilizing power.
1881
#6073
Ueber die Enukleation subperitonealer Fibrome der Gebärmutter durch das Scheidengewölbe; vaginale Myoniotomie.
The operation of enucleation of subperitoneal uterine fibroids by the vaginal route was introduced by Czerny. In the second paper the words “Fibromyome” and “Myomotomie” replace “Fibrome” and “Myoniotomie” in the title.
1881
#6074
Ueber die theilweise und vollständige Ausschneidung der carcinomatösen Gebärmutter.
1881
#6075
A case of removal of the uterine appendages.
Oöphorectomy, February 1881.
1881 –1882
#5455
El mosquito hipoteticamente considerado como agente de transmisión de la fiebre amarilla.
Finlay was the first to suggest that the Aedes aegypti mosquito was the vector of yellow fever. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link. English translation by Rudolph Matas as "The mosquito hypothetically co…
1881
#5924
Die Verhütung der Augenentzüngung der Neugeborenen.
Credé introduced the practice of instillation of silver nitrate into the eyes of all newborn children as a preventive measure against ophthalmia neonatorum. Separate expanded edition with the same title, Berlin: A. Hi…
1881
#5236
Un nouveau parasite trouvé dans le sang plusieurs malades atteints de fièvre palustre.
Laveran first saw the malaria parasite on 20 October 1880; he at once recognized its significance. He named it Oscillaria malariae. English translation in Kean (No. 2268.1). Laveran also published a monograph on the d…
1881
#6339
Vorlesungen über Kinderkrankheiten.
Henoch, whose name is remembered for his description of purpura, initiated the modern concept of pediatrics. English translation, New York, 1882.
1881 –1899
#6803
New Sydenham Society’s lexicon of terms used in medicine and the allied sciences. 5 vols.
1881
#5271
On a horse disease in India known as “surra”, probably due to a haematozoon.
While serving in India as a veterinary surgeon, Evans discovered parasites in the blood of horses suffering from surra; this was the first pathogenic trypanosome to be described.
1881
#4563
Contribution à l’étude clinique de la sciatique.
“Lasègue’s sign” in sciatica. Although discovered by E. C. Lasègue, it was first reported by his pupil Forst.
1881
#5616
An address on the catgut ligature
1881
#7645
Frozen sections of a child by Thomas Dwight. Fifteen drawings from nature by H. P. Quincy.
The first atlas of cross-sectional anatomy published in the United States. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link
1881
#7707
Lésions osseuses de l'homme préhistorique en France et en Algérie.
Le Baron attempted diagnosis and predicted etiology on thousands of bones collected at the Musée Broca, the Musée Dupuytren, and the Musée d'Histoire Naturelle.. Digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this link.
1881
#8913
The formation of vegetable mould through the action of worms, with observations on their habits.
Darwin's last book, published only 6 months before his death, but reporting on a subject that he had studied for more than 50 years. "He showed the services performed by earthworms in eating leaves and grinding earth …
1881
#10334
History of medicine in Massachusetts. A centennial address delivered before the Massachusetts Medical Society at Cambridge, June 7, 1881.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1881
#10374
Catalogue of the Pathological Museum, Medical College, Calcutta.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1881
#10809
Dedication of the New Building and Hall of the Boston Medical Library Association, 19 Boylston Place, December 3, 1878. Order of exercises. Address by the president, Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes. Report of the building committee. Remarks by Dr. J. S. Billings, Prof. Justin Winsor, Dr. George H. Lyman, Charles W. Eliot, Dr. David P. Smith, Dr. Calvin Ellis, Dr. Henry I. Bowditch.
The printed wrapper of this pamphlet has a different text: Address delivered at the dedication of the Hall of the Boston Medical Library Association, December III., MDCCLXXVIII., by Oliver Wendell Holmes, M.D., Presid…
1881
#11021
The practice of medicine by women in the United States.
"Emily F. Pope, C. Augusta Pope, and Emma Call, doctors on the staff of the New England Hospital, published a study on women physicians. Their sample included a group of 430 women doctors who had graduated from variou…
1881
#11022
The college story: Valedictory address to the twenty-ninth graduating class of the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania.
"Bodley sought to survey all the graduates of the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania from its founding 1850 through 1880. Of the total 276 graduates, 244 were alive. Her survey is based on the 186 graduates who r…
1881
#11145
Catalogue du Musée Orfila publié sour les auspices de la Faculté de Médecine de Paris.
Digital facsimile from BnFgallica at this link.
1881
#11334
Musée préhistorique
This atlas of 100 plates containing roughly 800 individual images, with accompanying text, was both a comprehensive atlas of then-known prehistoric artifact types and an attempt at their classification. Until 1902 the…
1881
#11416
Nederlands Tijdschrift tegen de Kwakzalverij. Vol. 1- .
Founded in 1881, this Dutch organization is the oldest skeptical organization in the world investigating alternative medicine and quackery. It has published its periodical since 1881. The archive of the periodical may…
1881
#13005
Early European researches into the flora of China.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1881
#13045
Leprosy in British Guiana. An account of West Indian Leprosy. Illustrated with twenty lithographic plates, coloured and plain, from original drawings and photographs of patients at the asylum, and several engravings from camera-lucida drawings, by E. Noble Smith, of pathological specimens, mounted and prepared, with explanatory remarks by P. S. Abraham....
The author was medical superintendent of the General Leper Asylum, British Guiana, West Indies. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1881
#13050
The plants an drugs of sind; being a systematic account, with descriptions, of the indigenous flora, and notices of the value and uses of their products in commerce, medicine and the arts.
1881
#13425
Catalogue of the ornithological library of the late John Gould.
1881
#13705
Guide to the literature of botany; being a classified selection of botanical works, including nearly 6000 titles not given in Pritzel's 'Thesaurus."
Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.
1882 –1892
#946
Normale und pathologische Anatomie der Nasenhöhle und ihrer pneumatischen Anhänge.
1882
#828
Observations on the direct influence of variations of arterial pressure upon the rate of beat of the mammalian heart.
1882
#829
On the rhythm of the heart of the frog, and on the nature of the action of the vagus nerve.
Croonian Lectures, 1881. Gaskell’s classical memoir on the muscles and nerves of the heart included a description of “Gaskell’s nerves”, the accelerator nerves of the heart. He showed that the motor impulses from the …
1882
#4565
The diseases of the spinal cord.
1882
#881
Su di un nuovo elemento morfologico del sangue dei mammiferi e della sua importanza nella trombosi e nella coagulazione.
Bizzozero gave the blood platelets their name and found that they play a part in blood coagulation. A German translation with additions is in Virchows Arch. path. Anat., 1882, 90, 261-332. The expanded German version …