1880–1889
768 entries with publication dates in this decade.
1884
#3833
Ueber die Exstirpation des Kropfs bei Morbus basedowii.
First thyroidectomy for exophthalmic goitre. The operation reported was performed in 1880.
1884
#3834
A recent specimen of artificial myxoedema in a monkey.
By experimental removal of the thyroid Horsley produced artificial myxedema, confirming previous work by Reverdin and others. At the time his results were regarded as proof that total thyroidectomy produces operative …
1884
#2907.1
Ueber die Sclerose der coronar-Arterien und die davon abhängigen Krankheitszustände.
A comprehensive account of the schlerosis of the coronary arteries and the morbid states arising from them, including a historical review of the problems.
1884
#3997
Die krankhaften Veränderungen der Haut.
Hans von Hebra was the son of Ferdinand, whose work he continued. His textbook correlated skin diseases to diseases of the entire organism.
1884
#3388
Sinusthrombose in Folge von Otitis media. [Trepanation des Proc. mastoid mit Hammer und Meissel.]
Improvement of the mastoid operation devised by Schwartze and Eysell.
1884
#3946
Contribution à l’étude du pancreas du lapin. Lésions provoquées par la ligature du canal de Wirsung.
Arnozan and Vaillard showed that blockage of the pancreatic ducts caused atrophy of the pancreas but not diabetes.
1884
#3947
Ueber das Vorkommen von Oxybuttersäure im Harn bei Diabetes mellitus.
Discovery of ß-oxybutyric acid in diabetic urine.
1884
#4082.1
Recherches sur les caractères anatomiques du xanthélasma.
First description of skin changes and necropsy findings in pseudoxanthoma elasticum. See No. 4096.1 and Trans. St. John’s Hosp. Derm. Soc., 1972, 58, 235-50 (F.M. Pope).
1884
#4083
Dermatitis herpetiformis.
Duhring’s best work in dermatology. He brought together, under the name of “dermatitis herpetiformis” (“Duhring’s disease”) the group of eruptions which morphologically lay between urticaria and the toxic erythemas on…
1884
#4857
Study of the pathological changes occurring in trifacial neuralgia, with the report of a case in which three inches of the inferior dental nerve were excised.
Mears first suggested Gasserian ganglionectomy for trigeminal neuralgia.
1884
#3480
Darmresektion und Enterorhaphieen, 1878-83.
Billroth was a pioneer in visceral surgery. Above is an account of many intestinal resections and enterorrhaphies carried out by him.
1884
#3481
Untersuchungen über Cholera nostras.
Finkler and Prior isolated Vibrio proteus from stools in a case of acute gastro-enteritis.
1884
#3482
Intestinal obstruction
Jacksonian Prize essay.
1884
#3482.1
A theoretical and practical treatise on the hemorrhoidal disease, givings its history, nature, cases, pathology, diagnosis, and treatment.
An encyclopedic work containing considerable history and a comprehensive bibliography. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1884
#5032
Zur Aetiologie des Abdominaltyphus.
Gaffky was the first to grow pure cultures of Salmonella typhi; he showed it to be the true activator of the disease. English translation, New Sydenham Society, 1886. Digital facsimile of the 1884 printing from Google…
1884
#5056
Untersuchungen über die Bedeutung der Mikroorganismen für die Entstehung der Diphtherie beim Menschen, bei der Taube und beim Kalbe.
Loeffler succeeded in cultivating C. diphtheriae, the diphtheria bacillus. He reproduced the characteristic membrane by swabbing the mucous membranes of various animals with pure cultures of the bacillus. In this pape…
1884
#5108
Sechster Bericht der deutschen wissenschaftlichen Commission zur Ehrforschung der Cholera.
In this paper, dated 2 February 1884, written while Koch and his team were in Calcutta, Koch first published his discovery of the cholera bacillus and the main route of its transmission. He based his discovery on the …
1884
#4179
The hydrochlorate of cocaine in genito-urinary procedures.
Local anesthesia first employed in urology.
1884
#4180
On tumours of the bladder.
Includes description of Thompson’s operation for tumors of the bladder.
1884
#5147
Studio experimentale sull’ eziologia del tetano.
Demonstration of the transmissibility of tetanus by inoculation into rabbits of pus from a human case.
1884
#5148
Ueber infectiösen Tetanus.
The discovery of the tetanus bacillus, Clostridum tetani, is attributed to Nicolaier; he was, however, unable to isolate the organism in pure culture.
1884
#4942
Psychiatrie. Klinik der Erkrankungen der Vorderhirns.
Meynert, Professor of Neurology at Vienna, made many contributions to the study of the cellular architecture of the brain, and is often considered the founder of cerebral cortex cytoarchitectonics. English translation…
1884
#4220
Die Entstehung von Nierentumoren aus Nebennierengewebe.
An important investigation of the origin of hypernephroma (“Grawitz tumor”). See also Arch. klin. Chir., 1884, 30, 824-34.
1884
#5482
Nouvelle communication sur la rage.
Demonstration in the blood of the rabies virus. English translation in R. Suzor, Hydrophobia: An account of M. Pasteur’s system…London, 1887.
1884
#4995.1
De la suggestion dans l’état hypnotique et dans l’état de veille.
The foundation of the Nancy school of hypnosis. Like Liébeault, Bernheim studied the scientific applications of hypnotism and substituted verbal for sensory stimuli; he interpreted hypnotism and its consequent phenome…
1884
#5754.3
Übereine Modification der Hasenschartenoperation.
Hagedom’s operation is important as forming the basis of most modern methods of unilateral cleft lip repair.
1884
#5346.3
The metamorphosis of Filaria sanguinis hominis in the mosquito.
Manson reported that the changes he had observed in ingested filariae took place in the mosquito thorax, not in the stomach as previously thought.
1884
#5619
Mikro-Organismen bei den Wund-Infections-Krankheiten des Menschen.
Rosenbach proved that streptococci and staphylococci are distinct and differentiated two strains of staphylococci (“aureus” and “albus”). He cultured cocci from a considerable range of septic conditions, thus more acc…
1884
#5678
Vorläufige Mitteilung über locale Anästheserung am Auge.
Introduction of cocaine as a local anesthetic; this was the first local anesthetic employed (16 September 1884). Freud (No. 1880.1) is accredited by some with this innovation, but in this connection see the letter by …
1884
#6078
A study of the etiology of perineal laceration, with a new method for its proper repair.
First description of Emmet’s technique for perineorrhaphy.
1884
#6079
Sur la faradisation utérine double ou bipolaire.
Apostoli was the first to employ the double faradic current in the electrotherapy of uterine diseases.
1884
#6080
Ueber die Enucleation interstitieller Myome.
1884
#6081
General summary of conclusions from one thousand cases of abdominal section.
Tait was probably the greatest of the ovariotomists. He abandoned Listerian principles of antisepsis, relying on “scrupulous attention to cleanliness of every kind and in all directions”.
1884
#6196
Five cases of extra-uterine pregnancy operated upon at the time of rupture.
The first successful operation for ruptured ectopic pregnancy was performed by Lawson Tait on 1 March 1883.
1884 –1888
#6716
Biographisches Lexikon der hervorragenden Ärzte aller Zeiten und Völker. Edited by August Hirsch, with the assistance of Ernest Gurlt and A. Wernich. 6 vols.
This is one of the best sources of medical biography up to 1880, with useful bibliographical notes. Articles were written by many physicians, whose names were mentioned on the title page. Gurlt and Wernich assisted Hi…
1884
#6526
Die Medicin in Wien während der letzten 100 Jahre.
1884
#229.1
Neue Untersuchungen über den Befruchtungsvorgang bei den Phanerogamen als Gründlage für eine Theorie der Zeugung.
Like Roux, Strasburger hypothesized that the cell nucleus contained the material basis of heredity, and developed the idea with evidence from microscopical observations.
1884
#4848
Jumping, latah, myriachit.
Latah, motor incoordination associated with echolalia and coprolalia, is named “Gilles de la Tourette’s disease” after his classic description of it.
1884
#8207
La géographie médicale.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1884
#8655
On cocaine and its use in ophthalmic and general surgery.
Knapp translated Koller's paper (No. 5678) into English and with the English translation published a large amount of supplementary material by American surgeons who had recently experimented with cocaine as a local an…
1884
#9237
Die grosse Sterben in Deutschland in den Jahren 1348 bis 1351 und die folgenden Pestepidemien bis zum Schluss des 14. Jahrhunderts.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1884
#9422
An epitome of the reports of the medical officers to the Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs Office from 1871 to 1882. With chapters on the history of medicine in China: Materia medica: Epidemics: Famine: Ethnology: And chronology in relation to medicine and public health.
Apart from studies of common diseases, public health issues, and epizootics, this work contains a chapter on opium smoking and a chapter on the castration of Chinese eunuchs, of which there were around a thousand work…
1884
#9659
Chirurgie des enfants. Leçons cliniques professées à l'Hôpital des Enfants-Malades... Recueillies et publiées par Pierre-J. Mercier.
1884
#10113
La paura.
Mosso conducted experiments with special equipment, which he devised to suit the requirements of the studies. He pursued two main lines of research: the analysis of motor functions and the relationship between physiol…
1884
#10114
Medical education and the regulation of the practice of medicine in the United States and Canada. prepared by the Illinois State Board of Health, and published by permission of the board.
Rauch, Secretary of the Illinois State Board of Health, was responsible for compiling and publishing this detailed report. It was the most important and comprehensive summary of American, and Canadian medical educatio…
1884 –1885
#11120
Le mal qu'on a dit des médecins. Première série: auteurs grecs & Latins. Deuxième série: Auteurs français jusqu'a Molière. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link. Selections were translated , with annotations by T. C. Minor as The Evil that has been said of doctors: Extracts from early writers. (Cincinnati: Reprint from …
1884
#11648
Traité inédit sur l'anatomie pathologique, ou Exposition des altérations visibles qu'éprouve le corps humain dans l'état de maladie par R.-T.-H. Laënnec. Introduction et premier chapitre, précédés d'une préface par V. Cornil.
Digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this link.
1884
#11682
The vivisectors' directory; being a list of the licensed vivisectors in the United Kingdom; together with the leading physiologists in foreign laboratories. Compiled from authentic sources. Edited by Benjamin Bryan, with a preface by Frances Power Cobbe.
A remarkably detailed listing of scientific and medical researchers conducting research involving vivisection with address information and details of their research. This information was published in order to supply d…
1884
#11841
The body snatcher.
Loosely based upon the notorious crimes of Burke and Hare, who murdered 16 people in 1828 in order to sell their corpses to Scottish anatomist Robert Knox. In Stevenson's story, the anatomist is referred to as Mr. K__…
1884
#12161
Prophylaxie et géographie médicale: Des principales maladies tributaires de l'hygiène.
Includes several colored world maps of diseases. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.