1880–1889
768 entries with publication dates in this decade.
1883
#6390
Medical essays: 1842-1882.
“The most important American book dealing with the history of medicine up to its day” (Garrison). Among the essays Holmes chose to include were his works on homeopathy, puerperal fever, and his address at the dedicati…
1883
#4566.1
Contribution to the study of spina bifida, encephalocele, and anencephalus.
Early description of the Arnold–Chiari malformation (see Nos. 4577.1, 4581.1).
1883
#7816
An Alphabetical list of the battles of the War of the Rebellion: with dates, from Ft. Sumter, S.C., April 12 and 13, 1861, to Kirby Smith's surrender, May 26, 1865. Compiled from the official records of the office of the Adjutant-General and the Surgeon-General, U.SA. by J. W. Wells and N. A. Strait, Revised by Newton A. Strait, with the addition of many incidents of the war, giving the number killed, wounded and missing in each of the important battles, Union troops engaged, names of the Generals killed and wounded in both armies; also the total number of enlistments, number discharged, number wounded, number missing, number of deaths, number killed in battle....And a roster of all the regimental surgeons and assistant surgeons of the late war and hospital service.
This was the most complete edition; prior editions were issued in 1875 and 1882. In 1990 Norman Publishing of San Francisco reprinted the 1883 edition with a new index to surgeons and an introduction by Ira M. Rutkow.…
1883
#7945
Mental evolution in animals. With a posthumous essay on instinct by Charles Darwin.
Includes the first editon of Darwin's most significant contribution to psychology. This was part of Chapter 10 of Darwin's unpublished "big book" on the origin of species. Romanes attempted, with Darwin, to develop a …
1883
#8133
Medical ethics and etiquette. The code of ethics adopted by the American Medical Association, with commentaries by Austin Flint.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1883
#8176
Upon the electrical experiments to determine the location of the bullet in the body of the late President Garfield; and upon a successful form of induction balance for the painless detection of metallic masses in the human body.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1883 –1886
#8378
Handbook of geographical and historical pathology. Translated from the second German edition by Charles Creighton. Vol. 1.-Acute infective diseases. Vol. 2.-Chronic infective, toxic, parasitic, septic and constitutional diseases. Vol. 3.-Diseases of organs and parts.
This is the best edition of Hirsch's Handbuch. Digital facsimiles of all 3 vols. from the Internet Archive at this link.
1883
#10739
Hospital construction and management.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1883
#12050
Notes from sick rooms.
The author "was a celebrated Englishwoman, noted for her beauty as a Pre-Raphaelite model and philanthropist. She was the wife of the biographer Leslie Stephen and mother of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell, members of…
1883
#12752
Sexual impotence in the male.
One of the earliest serious medical studies of the subject from the anatomical, physiological, emotional, and psychological points of view. In the second edition (1887) retitled Sexual impotence in the male and female…
1883
#12967
De la couveuse pour enfants. Part 5: Description d'une nouvelle couveuse.
Auvert described a new and improved closed incubator inspired by a bird/poultry incubator that Tarnier saw at a Paris zoo, and had adapted for human babies by the bird incubator's inventor, Dr. Martin. Tarnier used th…
1883
#13111
Hints in sickness: Where to go and what to do.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1883
#14039
Essai de géographie médicale de l'Ille Nosi-Bé près la cote nord-ouest de Madagascar (avec cartes). Thèse pour le doctorat en médicine.
1883
#14145
A book of medical discourse in two parts. Part first: Creating of the cause, prevention, and cure of infantile bowel complains, from birth to the close of the teething period, or till after the fifth year. Part second: Containing miscellaneous information concerning the life and growth of beings; the beginning of womanhood; also, the cause, prevention, and cure of many of the most distressing compains of women and youth of both sexes.
Crumpler was the first Black woman to receive a medical degree in the United States. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive.
1883
#14211
De l'Atténuation des virus, avec la collaboration de MM. Chamberland, Roux et Thuillier. Quatrième Congrès international d'hygiène et de démographie. Séance du 5 Septembre 1882.
In his seminal 1880 paper, Sur les maladies virulentes, et en particulier sur la maladie appelée vulgairement choléra des poules, GM-2537, Pasteur developed the idea of a protective inoculation by attenuated living cu…
1884 –1890
#555
Untersuchungen zur Morphologie und Physiologie der Zelle.
1884
#4567
Ueber periodisch wiederkehrende Oculomotoriuslähmung.
“Möbius’s disease” – ophthalmoplegic migraine.
1884
#4625
Considérations sur l’agraphie à propos d’une observation nouvelle d’agraphie motrice pure.
Classic account of agraphia.
1884
#4642
Fièvre zoster etexanthèmes zosteriformes.
Landouzy first suggested the infective nature of herpes.
1884
#704
Ueber eine neue linksdrehende Säure (Pseudooxybuttersäure).
Isolation of (ß-oxybutyric acid. (Title of second paper: Beiträge zur Kenntniss der activen ß-Oxybuttersäure).
1884
#426
Observations on the relation of the principal fissures and convolutions of the cerebrum to the outer surface of the scalp.
Reid’s base line – the anthropometric base line on the skull.
1884
#1111
Ueber den lymphatischenApparat des Pharynx.
“Waldeyer’s tonsillar ring”, the lymphoid ring of the nasopharynx.
1884 –1885
#1128
On the function of the Thyroid gland.
From his experimental work Horsley produced evidence to support the view that myxoedema, cretinism and operative cachexia strumpriva are all due to thyroid deficiency.
1884
#1572
Doctrines of the circulation.
1884
#4747
Ueber die juvenile Form der progressiven Muskelatrophie und ihre Beziehungen zur sogenannten Pseudohypertrophie der Muskeln.
Progressive muscular dystrophy (“Erb’s muscular atrophy”). Erb did much to establish the modern conception of the muscular dystrophies.
1884 –1889
#784
Das Venensystem des menschlichen Körpers. 2 pts. and atlas.
Like Braune’s other anatomical works, this is notable for its excellent illustrations.
1884
#1623
London water supply, including a history and description of the London waterworks.
1884
#1624
Die Canalisation von Berlin.
Hobrecht was responsible for the construction of the Berlin sewers.
1884
#1415
The relation of the nervous system to the temperature of the body.
Ott studied the nervous regulation of body temperature. His papers on the heat-center in the brain and on the thermoinhibitory apparatus were published in the same journal, 1887, 14, 150-62, 428-38; 1888, 15, 85-104.
1884
#1415.1
A treatise on the chemical constitution of the brain.
Thudichum, a German emigré, discovered cephalins and myelins in brain tissue. An enlarged German edition of his book was published at Tübingen, 1901. See biography by D. L. Drabkin, 1958, which includes an annotated b…
1884
#1280
Wie rasch ermüdet der Nerv?
Although Bernstein considered that nerve could be exhausted, Vvedenskii was able, in this paper, to show that such is not the case. Further proof was supplied by Bowditch (No. 1281). Digital facsimile of Vvedenskii's …
1884
#1468
Experimentelle Beiträge zur Lösung der Frage über die specifische Energieder Hautnerven
Besides his investigation of the specific energies of cutaneous nerves, Blix is remembered for his work on the thermodynamics of muscular contraction; he designed a muscle indicator diagram; he was also the first to s…
1884
#1469
Die spezifische Energie der Temperaturnerven.
1884
#1877
Recherches cliniques et physiologiques sur la paraldéhyde.
Introduction of paraldehyde into therapeutics as a narcotic.
1884
#1878
Ueber das Antipyrin, ein neues Antipyreticum.
Introduction of antipyrine.
1884
#1879
Eine neue Form medicamentöser Einverleibung.
Unna introduced specially coated pills for local absorption in the intestine.
1884 –1886
#1880
Vorlesungen über Pharmakologie.
Includes his test for quinine in urine. English translation of second edition, 1895-97. Binz was Professor of Pharmacology at Bonn. His most important work was perhaps the demonstration that quinine in low concentrati…
1884
#1880.1
Ueber coca.
Freud described his observations (with himself as subject) on the effects of cocaine, including its abolition of hunger and fatigue, the “exhilaration and lasting euphoria”. He also described its supposed non-addictiv…
1884
#2498.1
Sur un filtre donnant de l’eau physiologiquement pure.
Chamberland filter, an unglazed porcelain bar with pores smaller than bacteria, enabled the earliest distinction between viruses and bacteria and led in 1898 to the re-introduction of the Latin word "virus" with the i…
1884
#2499
Ueber die isolirte Färbung der Schizomyceten in Schnitt- und Trocken-präparaten.
Gram’s method of staining bacteria (Gram stain). While not all bacteria may be definitively classified in this way, it is almost always the first step in the preliminary identification of a bacterial organism.
1884
#2538
Über eine Sprosspilzkrankheit der Daphnien. Beitrag zur Lehre über den Kampf der Phagocyten gegen Krankheitserreger.
Metchnikoff originated the theory of phagocytosis. He described phagocytes in leucocytes and showed their function as scavengers. Abridged English translation in Bibel, Milestones in immunology (1988).
1884 –1886
#2539
On a new method of producing immunity from contagious diseases.
Smith found that dead virus can induce immunity against the living virulent virus. Although Smith made the discovery on his own, his supervisor, D.E. Salmon, usurped credit. See Bibel, Milestones in immunology (1988) …
1884
#4847
On visceral neuroses.
Gulstonian Lectures.
1884
#3128
Ueber progressive perniciöse Anämie bei Tabeskranken
First description of subacute combined degeneration of the spinal cord, which Leichtenstern termed progressive pernicious anemia in tabetics.
1884
#3566
Clinical lectures on cases of difficult diagnosis; perforation of the appendix vermiformis.
In 1884 Fenwick advocated tying off and removal of the perforated appendix.
1884
#3174.1
Ueber Lungenchirurgie.
Resection of portion of a lobe that was invaded by sarcoma of the rib.
1884
#3291
On a perfected method of photographing the larynx.
By means of a special camera of his own invention French improved the method of photographing the larynx.
1884
#3292
Das Cocain als Anästheticum und Analgeticum für den Pharynx und Larynx.
Cocaine first employed in laryngology.
1884
#3293
Trephining the frontal sinuses for catarrhal diseases.
1884
#2708
Therapie der Kreislauf-Störungen.
English translation in von Ziemssen’s Handbook of general therapeutics, Vol. 7, London, 1887.