1890–1899
836 entries with publication dates in this decade.
1896
#5778.1
On the treatment of inoperable cases of carcinoma of the mamma: suggestions for a new method of treatment, with illustrative cases.
Öophorectomy in the treatment of breast cancer.
1896
#5942
Note sur un diplobacille pathogène pour la conjunctiva humaine.
Morax and Axenfeld (No. 5941) independently isolated a diplobacillus which causes a chronic conjunctivitis – the Morax – Axenfeld haemophilus.
1896
#5361
Notizen zur Helminthologie Aegyptens. Die Lebensgeschichte des Anchylostomum duodenale (Dub.).
Looss elucidated the life cycle and mode of transmission of the hookworm. See also No. 5365. English translation in Kean (No. 2268.1).
1896
#5444
The diagnosis of the invasion of measles from a study of the exanthema as it appears on the buccal mucous membrane.
Koplik, American pediatrician, was the first to note and report on “Koplik’s spots”, the buccal spots which are an important early diagnostic sign in measles.
1896
#6101
Ueber das Fibrosarcoma ovarii mucocellulare (carcinomatodes).
Original description of “Krukenberg’s tumor”.
1896
#6102
Ueber den künstlichen Ersatz der Scheide.
Mackenrodt’s operation for the plastic reconstruction of the vagina.
1896
#6103
Über Blasen-Gonorrhöe.
Wertheim demonstrated the gonococcus in acute cystitis.
1896
#6618
Medicine and kindred arts in the plays of Shakespeare.
1896
#5205.1
The lupoid form of the so-called “groin ulceration” of this colony.
Granuloma inguinale distinguished from other similar lesions in the genital region.
1896
#5212
Ulcerative endocarditis due to the gonococcus; gonorrheal septicemia.
Thayer and Blumer found the gonococcus in cases of gonorrheal endocarditis.
1896
#6719
Physicians and surgeons of America. (Illustrated.) A collection of biographical sketches of the regular medical profession.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1896
#6486
A short history of Aryan medical science.
From the Wikipedia: "Bhagvatsingh Sahib GCSI GCIE was the ruling Maharaja of the princely state of Gondal from 1869 till his death in 1944, in whose reign the state was raised to 11-gun salute state.[1] He was the onl…
1896
#6562
Medicina popolare siciliana.
English translation, Lawrence, Kansas, Coronado Press, 1971.
1896
#238
The cell in development and inheritance.
Wilson emphasized the function of cytology in the study of embryology, heredity, evolution and general physiology. The above work has been called the single most influential treatise on cytology of the 20th century. T…
1896
#6660
JANUS. Archives Internationales pour l’Histoire de la Médecine, 1-
Subtitle changed to Revue Internationale de l’Histoire des Sciences, de la Médicine, de la Pharmacie, et de la Technique.
1896
#8435
De Alcmaeone Crotoniata scripsit Ioannes Wachtler.
Greek texts of the fragments and testimonia with commentary in Latin. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1896
#9007
Das konträre Geschlechtsgefühl von Havelock Ellis und J. A. Symonds. Deutsche Original-Ausgabe Besorgt unter Mitwirkung von Dr. Hans Kurella.
This work, translated into English as Sexual inversion in 1897, became the first English language medical textbook on homosexuality. It was published as the second volume of Ellis's Studies in the psychology of sex. D…
1896
#9319
A new factor in evolution.
The Baldwin effect. "In evolutionary biology, the Baldwin effect describes the effect of learned behavior on evolution. In brief, James Mark Baldwin suggested that an organism's ability to learn new behaviors (e.g. to…
1896
#9639
Atlas of nerve cells. With the cooperation of Oliver S. Strong and Edward Leaming.
Photomicrographs by Leaming. Digital facsimile from the Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.
1896
#9905
Les asphyxies par les gaz, les vapeurs et les anesthésiques.
1896
#10052
Kehrt zur Natur zurück! Die wahre naturgemäße Heil- und Lebensweise. Wasser, Licht, Luft, Erde, Früchte und wirkliches Christentum.
Translated into English from the 4th enlarged German edition and published by the translator, Benedict Lust as: Return to nature! The true natural method of healing and living and the true salvation of the soul. (New …
1896
#10382
Catalogue of the medicinal plants in the Museum of the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1896
#10607
Versuche über Photographie mittelst der Röntgen’schen Strahlen.
"Eder was the director of an institute for graphic processes and the author of an early history of photography. With the photochemist Valenta, he produced a portfolio in January 1896, less than a month after Wilhelm C…
1896
#10608
14 Photographien mit Röntgen-strahlen aufgenommen im physikaloschen Verein zu Frankfurt A. M.
This collection of x-ray photographs published within a few months of Röntgen's discovery includes applications in archaeology and anthropology (x-rays of mummies) and forensic medicine (for the investigation of gunsh…
1896
#10793
Anomalies and curiosities of medicine: Being an encyclopedic collection of rare and extraordinary cases, and of the most striking instances of abnormality in all branches of medicine and surgery, derived form an exhaustive research of medical literature from its origin to the present day, abstracted, classified, annotated, and indexed.
Digital facsimile of the 1900 edition from the Internet Archive at this link.
1896
#10825
Medical and dental colleges of the west: Historical and biographical.
Covers institutions in Chicago and environs: Augustana Hospital, the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Hahnemann Medical College and Hospital, Mercy Hospital, Michael Reese Hospital, Northwestern University Medical …
1896
#10836
Biological experimentation: Its function and limits.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1896
#11077
Further report on the tsetse fly disease or nagana, in Zululand.
In this more-detailed follow-up to his "preliminary" paper of 1895 published in Durban, South Africa, Bruce provided definitive proof that the Trypanosoma was the cause of nagana, and the tsetse fly was the vector of …
1896
#11380
L'action bactericide des eaux de la Jumna et du Gange sur le vibrion du cholera.
Hankin described the antibacterial activity of a then-unknown source in the Ganges and Jumna Rivers in India. He noted that "It is seen that the unboiled water of the Ganges kills the cholera germ in less than 3 hours…
1896
#11584
Notes on the coronary arteries.
Dock recorded one of the earliest diagnoses of myocardial infaction in a living patient: "The diagnosis was mymalacia folling coronary sclerosis with secondary pericarditis. This was based on the history of increasing…
1896
#11823
Race traits and tendencies of the American Negro.
Hoffman was statistician for the Prudential Insurance Company of America. This work, "Hoffman's first, characterized African Americans as exceptionally disease-prone. The work was motivated by a concern about issues o…
1896
#12454
Le sommeil, tiers de notre vie. Pathologie, physiologie, hygiène, psychologie. Traduit de Russe avec l'autorisation de l'auteur par Ernest Jaubert.
Perhaps the first book on the physiology of sleep. The author examines the physiology, pathology, hygiene, and psychology of sleep, including the differences between the waking and sleeping states, the general phenome…
1896
#12949
Journal of the Right Hon. Sir Joseph Banks...during Captain Cook's first voyage in H.M.S. Edeavour in 1766-71 to Terra de Fuego, Otahite, New Zealand, Australia, the Dutch East Indies. Etc. Edited by Sir Joseph D. Hooker.
Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.
1896
#13046
Ueber den Einfluss des atmosphärischen Kohlensäuregehalts auf die Temperatur der Erdoberfläche.
Arrhenius used basic principles of physical chemistry to estimate the extent to which increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide are responsible for the Earth's increasing surface temperature, the "greenhouse effect."
1896
#13072
On the pigment of the negro's skin and hair.
"In the present state of our knowledge we can only say that it seems highly probable that the pigment of the negro's hair is not different from the dark pigment found in the hair of the white races, and we may infer t…
1896
#13592
Women in medicine.
Kelly was one of the first influential male physicians in America to advocate for the advancement of women physicians. This presentation was primarily a review of Elizabeth Blackwell's Pioneering work in opening the m…
1896
#13882
The surgical peculiarities of the American negro. A statistical inquiry based upon the records of the Charity Hospital of New Orleans, LA., Decennium 1884-'94.
Digital facsimile from wellcomecollection.org at this link.
1896
#14309
Centenaire de la faculté de médecine de Paris (1794-1894).
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1897
#1021
Zur Frage über den Bau des Darmkanals.
The “cells of Kultschitzky” in the epithelium of the intestine, between the cells which line the gland of Lieberkühn.
1897
#1022
Lektsii o rabotie glavnikh pishtshevaritelnikh zhelyoz. [Lectures on the work of the principal digestive glands.]
Pavlov's classic study of the physiology of digestion. Especially notable was his method of producing gastric and pancreatic fistulae for the purpose of his experiments. The second published edition was a German trans…
1897
#719.1
Alkoholische Gärung ohne Hefezellen.
Discovery of cell-free fermentation, the turning point in the study of enzymes. In 1907 Buchner was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his biochemical researches and his discovery of cell-free fermentation."
1897
#950
Fisiologia dell’uomo sulle Alpi. Studii fatti sul Monte Rosa.
Mosso made important investigations on respiration at high altitudes. He considered that the respiratory symptoms produced at high altitudes were due to lack of carbon dioxide. English translation, London, 1898.
1897
#4708.2
Die infantile Cerebrallähmung.
Freud gave an excellent description of the various forms of cerebral palsy, with precise classification of the different spastic symptoms; he also mentioned the extra-pyramidal symptoms. This work forms Bd. IX, II The…
1897
#1573
A contribution to the history of the respiration of man.
1897
#1574
Die historische Entwicklung der experimentellen Gehirn- und Rückenmarksphysiologie vor Flourens.
Unsurpassed coverage of the experimental physiology of the brain and spinal cord up to the work of Flourens. The best edition is the extensively annotated English translation as The historical development of experimen…
1897
#1330
Ueber die Primitivfibrillen in den Ganglienzellen von Menschen und andern Wirbelthieren.
1897
#1144
On the blood-pressure-raising constituent of the suprarenal capsule.
Abel and Crawford further investigated the pressor substance of Oliver and Schäfer calling it “epinephrine”.
1897
#4759
Existe-t-il une atrophie musculaire progressive Aran-Duchenne?
Marie disbelieved in the Aran–Duchenne type of muscular progressive atrophy.
1897 –1938
#513
Normentafeln zur Entwicklungsgeschichte der Wirbelthiere. 16 pts.
1897
#514
The development of the frog's egg; an introduction to experimental embryology.
First work in English on experimental embryology.