1890–1899
836 entries with publication dates in this decade.
1895
#4873
Zur klinischen Bedeutung der spinalen Punction.
Fürbringer demonstrated the diagnostic value of spinal puncture.
1895
#4365
The operative treatment of congenital dislocation of the hip-joint.
Lorenz suggested a bloodless method for closed reduction of congenital dislocation of the hip-joint – the “Hoffa–Lorenz” method.
1895
#4189
Vessie et urètre surnuméraires.
Péan was first to operate on diverticula of the bladder.
1895
#5127
La peste bubonique. By Alexandre Yersin with L.C.A. Calmette and A. Borrel.
Successful inoculation of animals with anti-plague vaccine.
1895
#5170
Sulla preparazione del siero anti-carbonchioso.
Specific anti-anthrax serum. German translation in Zbl. Bakt., 1895, 1 Abt., 18, 744-45.
1895
#4428
Ueber den Gang bei angeborener Hüftgelenksluxation.
“Trendelenburg’s sign” of congenital dislocation of the hip-joint.
1895
#4978
Studien über Hysterie.
The foundation of psychoanalysis. Using what they called the cathartic method, in which hysterical patients were made to describe the manifestations of their symptoms in detail, with or without hypnosis, Breuer and Fr…
1895
#5293.1
Beitrag zum klinischen und bacteriologischen Studium der brasilianischen Framboesie oder “Boubas”.
“Breda’s disease” – Brazilian yaws. English translation New Sydenham Society, 1897.
1895
#5529.1
Ueber parasitäre Zelleinschlüsse und ihre Züchtung.
“Busse–Buschke disease” –blastomycosis of the skin due to Cryptococcus neoformans. See also No. 5529.2. Busse first described it in Zbl. Bakt., 1894, 16, 175-80.
1895
#5529.2
Ueber eine durch Coccidien hervorgerufene Krankheit des Menschen.
See No. 5529.1.
1895
#5530
La erupción en la enfermedad de Carrión (verruga peruana).
“Carrion’s disease” (Oroya fever) was named by the Peruvian physician Ernesto Odriozola, after Daniel Alcides Carrión Garcia (1859-85), a student. In order to prove or disprove the connection between Oroya fever and v…
1895
#5347.1
Case of Filaria loa in which the parasite was removed from under the conjunctiva.
First detailed description of Loa loa. See also Trans. ophthal. Soc. U.K., 1897, 17, 227-32. Robertson first briefly mentioned this procedure and the Loa Loa worm in a brief article written for him by the editor of La…
1895
#5799
The history and literature of surgery. IN: System of surgery, edited by Frederic S. Dennis, assisted by John S. Billings. 1, 17-144.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1895
#5940
Vorstellung eines Patientin mit einem sehr ungewöhnlichen Netzhautbeziehungsweise Aderhautleiden.
First description of angiomatosis of the retina – “Hippel’s disease”.
1895
#6096
Conservative surgical treatment of para- and peri-uterine septic diseases.
1895
#6097
Ueber eine eigenthümliche Form des Ovarial carcinoms.
Granulosa cell tumor first described.
1895
#6097.1
Über die sogenannten “decidualen” Geschwülste im Anschluss an normale Geburt, Abort, Blasenmole und Extrauterinschwangerschaft.
Marchand’s theory of the histogenesis of choriocarcinoma (chorionepithelioma). He considered that such tumors derived from trophoblast and not from decidua.
1895
#6098
Über Exstirpation der Vagina.
The operation of excision of the vagina was introduced by Olshausen.
1895
#6099
Ueber Uterus-Gonorrhöe.
Wertheim emphasized the importance of latent uterine gonorrhoea.
1895
#6100
Deciduoma malignum.
First case of choriocarcinoma reported in North America.
1895
#6205
Diagnose der frühesten Schwangerschaftsperiode.
Hegar’s sign – softening of the lower segment of the uterus, an early diagnostic sign of pregnancy. It was first described by his assistant, C. Reinl, in Frag. med. Wscbr., 1884, 9, 253-54.
1895
#6617
Medical lore in the older English dramatists and poets exclusive of Shakespeare.
Fletcher, who was born in Bristol, England, assisted J.S. Billings in the creation of the Index-Catalogue (No. 6763).
1895
#6649.92
Pioneer work in opening the medical profession to women; autobiographical sketches.
Blackwell led the movement in America to open the medical profession to women.
1895
#5227
Die Geschichte der venerischen Krankheiten. 2 vols.
Vol. 1. Alterthum und Mittelalter. Vol. 2. Neuzeit.
1895
#6496.2
Geschichte der jüdischen Ärzte. Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Medicin.
1895
#5273
Preliminary report on the tsetse fly disease or nagana, in Zululand.
In 1895 Bruce found that nagana, the tsetse fly disease of Zululand, was due to a trypanosome (T. brucei). He described a hematozoon in the blood of the affected animals that had not been previously described. Digital…
1895
#4679
First description of the Waterhouse–Friderichsen syndrome (Nos. 4685-86). Abstract of post mortem report, no title.
1895
#7408
Anatomische Forschungen über Johann Sebastian Bach's Gebeine und Anlitz nebst Bemerkungen über dessen Bilder. Abh. Sächs. Ges. Wiss., 22/5.
To authenticate the remains of Johann Sebastian Bach, Wilhelm His senior performed one of the earliest examples of scientific facial reconstructions, reconstructing the soft tissues onto a plaster cast of the skull us…
1895
#8482
Des insufflations d'air dans le traitement des péritonites tuberculeuses. Thèse de médecine, Lille.
Describes the earliest experiments with artificial pneumoperitoneum by Mosetig-Moorhof, Duran and Nolen and Folet, which were not published formally. See Jean-Jacques Peumery, "1993: Le centenaire du penumopéritoine a…
1895
#8653
An atlas of the fertilization and karyokinesis of the ovum.
The first atlas of photomicrographs showing fertilization and cellular development during mitosis. The photomicrographs were taken by Leaming. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1895
#9001
Our army nurses. Interesting sketches, addresses, and photographs of nearly one hundred of the noble women who served in hospitals and on battlefields during our civil war.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1895
#9320
The mental development of the child and the race.
A central text in the development of social psychology in North America; now also considered a pioneering study of adaptive learning, and in this sense a precursor to research in artificial intelligence. Digital facsi…
1895
#9528
Leprosy: In its clinical & pathological aspects. Translated by Norman Walker.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1895
#10353
Das Recht auf den Tod. Sociale Studie.
This work is considered the starting point for a broad philosophical discussion on euthanasia in the German-speaking world. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1895
#11345
Sur la grotte de la Mouthe (Dordogne).
The first report on the discovery and excavation of La Grotte de la Mouthe. This cave, found in 1894 and excavated by Rivière in 1895, was the fourth paleolithic cave art site discovered, after Altamira, Chabot and Pa…
1895
#11890
Essentials of vegetable pharmacognosy: A treatise on structural botany, designed especially for pharmaceutical and medical students, pharmacists and physicians. Part 1. The gross structure of plants by Henry H. Rusby. Part 2. The minute structure of plants by Smith Ely Jelliffe.
A detailed guide to the way that botanic drugs were identified and produced in America at the end of the 19th century. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1895
#12284
Zur Dynamik des Herzmuskels.
"In his postdoctoral work (Habilitationsschrift) Frank investigated the isometric and isotonic contractile behaviour of the heart and it is this work that he is best known for. Frank's work on this topic preceded that…
1895
#12876
La cocaine en chirurgie.
The first French book on local anesthesia.
1895
#13330
Psychologie des foules.
"Le Bon theorised that the new entity, the "psychological crowd", which emerges from incorporating the assembled population not only forms a new body but also creates a collective "unconsciousness". As a group of peop…
1895
#13839
Biblioteca botánico-mexicana: Catálogo bibliográfico, biográfico y crítico de autores y escritos referentes a vegetales de México y sus aplicaciones, desde la conquista hasta el presente.
Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.
1895
#14310
Argon, a new constituent of the atmosphere.
Discovery of argon, the first discovery of an inert gas. In 1904 Ramsay was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry "in recognition of his services in the discovery of the inert gaseous elements in air, and his determina…
1896 –1897
#4503
On a form of chronic joint disease in children.
“Still’s disease”, chronic articular rheumatism in children. See also Nos. 4499 and 6356.
1896
#4583
Sur le réflexe cutané plantaire dans certaines affections organiques du système nerveux central.
Plantar reflex or Babinski response or Babinski sign.
1896
#4584
A case of circumscribed unilateral, and elective sensory paralysis.
1896
#4585
The physiology and pathology of the cerebral circulation.
1896
#647
On the absorption of fluids from the connective tissue spaces.
Starling discovered the functional significance of the serum proteins.
1896
#4680
Beobachtungen und Versuche über den Meningokokkus intracellularis (Weichselbaum–Jaeger).
Heubner was the first to isolate meningococci from the cerebrospinal fluid of living beings.
1896 –1934
#433
Handbuch der Anatomie des Menschen. 32 parts.
An important collective work.
1896
#444.1
The diary of a resurrectionist 1811-1812, to which are added an account of the resurrection men in London and a short history of the passing of the Anatomy Act.
First-hand account of the activities of the so-called “sack-em-up” men who flourished in England and Scotland until passage in 1832 of the Anatomy Act provided legal means for physicians to obtain cadavers for dissect…
1896
#1569.1
Note sur la variation éléctrique (courant d’action) déterminée dans le nerf acoustique par le son.
Beauregard and Dupuy recorded the action potential in the auditory nerve of the frog.