1890–1899
836 entries with publication dates in this decade.
1887 –1888
#6087
On the method of flap-splitting in certain plastic operations.
Tait devised a flap-splitting operation for retocele which, with some modifications, is in use today.
1888 –1889
#5059
Contribution a l’étude de la diphtérie.
Confirmation of the work of Loeffler and demonstration of the exotoxin. This work is the starting point of the development of an immunizing serum.
1890
#4577
On the symptomatology of total transverse lesions of the spinal cord, with special reference to the condition of the various reflexes.
“Bastian’s law”, transverse lesion of the cord above the lumbar enlargement results in the abolition of the tendon reflexes of the lower extremities.
1890
#636
Les lois de la fatigue étudiées dans les muscles de l’homme.
Mosso invented the ergograph from the study of voluntary contraction. The description of the instrument is on pages 124-41 of the above article.
1890
#4667
En epidemi af infantil paralysi.
The epidemic character of poliomyelitis was first noted by Medin. The disease is also known as “Heine–Medin disease” from the descriptions given by these two writers (see also No. 4664). German version in Verh. X. Int…
1890
#884
Nouvelle théorie chimique de la coagulation du sang.
First demonstration of the essential role of calcium in the mechanism of blood coagulation.
1890 –1891
#885
Der Hämatokrit, ein neuer Apparat zur Untersuchung des Blutes.
Hedin’s hematocrit. He first briefly described it in Upsala läkPören. Förh., 1889, 24, 440.
1890 –1891
#886
The life history of the formed elements of the blood, especially the red blood corpuscles.
Includes description of “Howell’s bodies” seen in mature erythrocytes and called also “Howell–Jolly bodies” after the later description by J. M. J. Jolly.
1890
#715
Ueber den Einfluss der Alkalien auf den menschlichen Stoffwechsel.
1890
#4786
Die Therapie atactischer Bewegungsstörungen.
Frenkel devised certain muscular exercises for use in the treatment of tabes dorsalis.
1890
#1627
Description of the Johns Hopkins Hospital.
Billings was responsible for the designing of the Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore. “It marked a new departure in hospital construction…It was the most perfect and best equipped institution of its time” (Kelly & Burr…
1890
#125
Der Heliotropismus der Thiere und seine Uebereinstimmung mit dem Heliotropismus der Pflanzen.
Loeb founded the theory of “tropisms” as the basis of the psychology of the lower forms of life. English translation in Loeb’s Studies in general physiology, Vol. 1, 1-88. Chicago, 1905.
1890
#1420
Ueber ein abnormes Faserbündel der menschlichen Medulla oblongata.
“Pick’s bundle” of nerve fibres in the medulla oblongata.
1890
#126
Die Elementarorganismen und ihre Beziehungen zu den Zellen.
Mitochondria described, p. 145.
1890
#1650
Gesundheitspflege im Mittelalter.
1890
#1650
English sanitary institutions, reviewed in their course of development, and in some of their political and social relations.
Simon "viewed the state as provider of the basic conditions needed for subsistence (without interfering in the iron law of wages) through sanitary reform of the environment, prevention of epidemic diseases, and the re…
1890
#1282
Ueber den Nachweis der Unermüdlichkeit des Säugethiernerven.
Bowditch demonstrated the indefatigability of nerve (“Bowditch’s law”).
1890
#1284
Photographic determination of the time-relations of the changes which take place in muscle during the period of so-called ‘latent stimulation.’
Measurement by means of photography, of the speed of the nervous impulse.
1890
#1471
Ueber die galvanischen Erscheinungen in der Haut des Menschen bei Reizungen der Sinnesorgane und bei verschiedenen Formen der psychischen Thätigkeit.
Psycho-galvanic reflex described.
1890
#1885
Strophanthus hispidus; its natural history, chemistry, and pharmacology.
Introduction of Strophanthus hispidus.
1890
#2332
Weitere Mittheilungen über ein Heilmittel gegen Tuberkulose.
In 1890, Koch announced the discovery of tuberculin, a substance derived from tubercle bacilli, which he thought was capable of arresting bacterial development in-vitro and in animals. This news gave rise to tremendou…
1890
#2622
An address on a characteristic organism of cancer.
“Russell’s bodies.”
1890
#184
The golden bough. 2 vols.
Frazer’s theoretical evolutionary sequence of magical, religious, and scientific thought is no longer accepted, and his broad general psychological theory has proved unsatisfactory; however it enabled him to compare a…
1890
#2680
The pulse.
1890
#2544
Ueber das Zustandekommen der Diphtherie-Immunität und der Tetanus-Immunität bei Thieren.
Antitoxins and their immunizing powers were discovered when Behring and Kitasato published their paper dealing with immunity to tetanus and diphtheria. This work laid the foundation of all future treatment with antito…
1890
#203.4
Grundzüge einer systematischen Kraniometrie. Methodische Anleitung zur kraniometrischen Analyse der Schädelform für die Zwecke der physischen Anthropologie, der vergleichenden Anatomie sowie für die Zwecke der medizinischen Disziplinen (Pyschiatrie, Okulistik, Zahnheilkunde, Geburtshilfe, gerichtliche Medizin) und der bildenden Künste (plastische Anatomie) ein Handbuch fürs Laboratorium.
Török made an exhaustive study of craniometry as applied to an unusually wide range of fields in medicine, and art, and proposed 5,000 different measurements of a single skull. Digital facsimile from the Internet Arch…
1890
#3069
Die Gelenkerkrankungen bei Blutern mit Berücksichtigung der Diagnose.
König gave a detailed description of joint involvement in hemophilia.
1890 –1893
#3497
Diagnostik und Therapie der Magenkrankheiten. 2 pts.
Boas, who devised the test breakfast, became the foremost gastroenterologist in Europe. He founded the Archivfür Verdauungskrankheiten, the first journal devoted to the subject of gastroenterology.
1890
#3131.1
Ueber die Fehler der Blutkörperchenbildung bei der perniciösen Anämie.
Rindfleisch made the first clear statement of the bone marrow changes in pernicious anemia.
1890
#3570.1
Surgical treatment of typhlitis.
Lawson Tait was the first British surgeon to diagnose acute appendicitis and to treat it by removal of the appendix (May 1880). See J. A. Shepherd, Lawson Tait. The rebellious surgeon. Lawrence, Kansas, Coronado Press…
1890
#3177.1
Die Behandlung der Empyeme.
Schede introduced the method of extensive rib resection for the treatment of empyema.
1890
#3741
Polyneuritis bij hoenders.
Eijkman produced beriberi experimentally in fowls; from this he was led to conclude that a diet of over-milled rice was the chief cause, both in fowls and humans. Thus his work was of great importance in determining t…
1890
#3837
Transplantation du corps thyroïde sur l’homme.
First thyroid transplantation (for treatment of cretinism).
1890
#3393
Indicationen, betreffend die Excision von Hammer und Amboss.
Stacke introduced the operation of excision of the ossicles.
1890
#3950
Diabetes mellitus nach Pankreasextirpation.
Minkowski produced experimental diabetes by removing the pancreas of a dog. This proof of the role of the pancreas in diabetes was of the first importance; previous experiments on similar lines had attracted attention…
1890
#4262
Ueber radicale Behandlung der auf Hypertrophie der Prostata beruhenden Ischurie.
Bottini’s Operation for hypertrophy of the prostate.
1890
#2997
Ueber die Unterbindung der Vena saphena magna bei Unterschenkelvaricen.
“Trendelenburg’s operation” – ligation of the great saphenous vein for the treatment of varicose veins in the leg. Reprinted, with translation, in Med. Classics, 1940, 4,989-1023. The paper also describes his test for…
1890
#4102
Acanthosis nigricans. In: Int. Atlas seltener Hautkrankheiten, Heft 4, plates x-xi
First description of acanthosis nigricans.
1890
#4103
Ueber einen Fall von kongenitalem Adenoma sebaceum.
Sebaceous adenoma, type Pringle.
1890
#4863
Removal of the gasserian ganglion for severe neuralgia.
Gasserian ganglionectomy for trigeminal neuralgia; the patient lived for at least two years.
1890 –1892
#4108
Ueber eine eigenartige Form von Atrophia maculosa cutis.
“Jadassohn’s disease” – maculo-papular erythrodermia; Anetoderma erythematosum of Jadassohn.
1890
#3687
The micro-organisms of the human mouth.
In 1884 Miller became professor of dentistry at the University of Berlin, the first foreigner ever to receive a professorial appointment at a German University. Inspired by study of bacteriology under Robert Koch, Mil…
1890
#4352
Exostoses multiples.
“Ollier’s disease”. He described a form of dyschondroplasia.
1890
#4353
Treatise on orthopedic surgery.
Includes a description of the “Bradford frame”, used in the treatment of spinal disorders.
1890
#4354
De l’ostéo-arthropathie hypertrophiante pneumonique.
Original description of hypertrophic osteoarthropathy, sometimes called “Bamberger–Marie disease”.
1890
#4355
Zur operativen Behandlung der angeborenen Hüftgelenksverrenkungen.
Hoffa’s method of operative treatment of congenital dislocation of the hip-joint.
1890
#5060.1
Immunisirungsversuche bei Diphtherie.
Artificial immunity to diphtheria produced in guinea-pigs by injection of attenuated cultures of the bacillus. Fraenkel's account appeared one day before the paper of Behring and Kitasato. Behring, Die Geschichte der …
1890
#4222
Ueber Blasenscheidenfisteloperationen und über Beckenhochlagerung bei Operationen in der Bauchhöhle.
Includes an account of his attempt, 1886, to cure hydronephrosis by a plastic operation – the first recorded surgical intervention for the relief of this condition. Includes description of the “Trendelenburg position”…
1890 –1891
#5187
Amoebic dysentery.
These workers introduced the term “amoebic dysentery” in their important investigation of the condition.
1890
#4977.2
The principles of psychology. 2 vols.
The foundation of the American school of experimental psychology. Under the influence of Wundt, James viewed psychology as an experimental science based on physiology. He founded the earliest laboratory for the study …