1890–1899

1898

#4849

Ueber einen eigenartigen hysterischen Dämmerzustand.

“Ganser’s syndrome” – an acute hallucinatory mania.

1898

#7011

The Petrie papyri. Hieratic papyri from Kahun and Gurob (Principally of the Middle Kingdom) edited by F. Ll. Griffith.

KAHUN GYNECOLOGICAL PAPYRUS

The Kahun Gynecological Papyrus (also Kahun Papyrus, Kahun Medical Papyrus, or UC 32057) is the oldest known medical text on papyrus, dating from circa 1800 BCE. It was found at El-Lahun, Egypt (Faiyum, Kahun, كاهم

1898

#7058

The Red Cross in peace and war.

Barton founded the American Red Cross in 1881. Although Henry Dunant had suggested in 1864 that Red Cross societies provide disaster relief as well as wartime services, Barton became the strongest advocate for the dev…

1898 –1903

#7450

The scientific memoirs of Thomas Henry Huxley. Edited by Professor Michael Foster... and by Professor E. Ray Lankester. 5 vols.

Presents virtually all of Huxley's scientific papers arranged in chronological order, as well as reports of his Royal Institution Friday Evening Discourses. The final supplemental volume contains the remainder of Huxl…

1898

#7670

Essays on museums and other subjects connected with natural history.

Essays on medical and natural historical museums, anthropology, and biography. Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.

1898

#8536

Pflanzengeographie auf Physiologischer Grundlage.

In this work on the geographical distribution of plants Schimper coined the terms tropical rainforest and sclerophyll. English translation by William R. Fisher, revised and edited by Percy Groom and Isaac Bayley Balfo…

1898

#10269

Traité des maladies chirurgicales d'origine congénitale.

The first book entirely devoted to the surgical treatment of congenital abnormalities. The work also contains pp. 593-698 an exposition of Kirmisson's staged reduction of congenital dislocations of the hip, and discus…

1898

#10497

L'art dentaire en médecine légale.

The first comprehensive text on forensic dentistry, dedicated by Amoëdo to his teacher, Brouardel. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1898

#11152

Les cancers épithéliaux. Histologie - Histogenèse - Etiologie - Applications thérapeutiques.

1898 –1900

#11394

Über die Beulenpest in Bombay im Jahre 1897. Gesamtbericht von der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien zur Studium der Beulenpest nach Indien entsendeten Commission. 2 vols. in 3.

Müller died at the age of 32 as a result of exposure to this plague.

1898

#11716

Die angeborenen Herzkrankheiten.

The first systematic treatise on congenital heart defects. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1898

#12617

Chirugie de Guillaume de Salicet achevée en 1275. Traduction et commentaire par Paul Pifteau.

Original edition limited to 200 copies. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1898

#12734

Neue Untersuchungen über die Markbildung in den menschlichen Grosshirnlappen.

Flechsig devided the cytoarchitecture of the human brain into 40 areas.

1898

#12932

Die Krankheiten des Mundes.

1898

#13222

History of the Homeopathic Medical College of Pennsylvania; The Hahnemann Medical College and Hospital of Philadelphia

Now Drexel University College of Medicine. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1898

#13224

Miniature hammers and the suture of the bile ducts.

Illustrated by Max Brödel. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1898

#13857

Considérations sanitaires sur l'expédition de Madagascar et quelques autres expéditions coloniales, françaises et anglaises.

Digital facsimile from wellcomecollection.org at this link.

1899

#4478.105

The effects of training. A study of the Harvard University Crews.

Pioneering study of the physiological effects of training.

1899

#650

Animals in motion.

1899

#838.1

La mort par les décharges électriques.

The first defibrillation. “Prévost and Battelli produced ventricular fibrillation in dogs by shocking with weak currents. They then shocked the fibrillating heart with a stronger current—the second, or counter, shock.…

1899

#649.1

Der Lungengaswechsel des Menschen in den verschiedenen. Altersstufen.

The first systematic study of the basal metabolism of normal individuals from childhood to old age.

1899

#1023

On the topographical anatomy of abdominal viscera in man, especially the gastrointestinal canal.

“Addison’s transpyloric plane”. Addison was Britain’s first Minister of Health (1919-21).

1899

#4681

Ein Fall von Allgemeininfection mit Influenzabacillen.

First description of influenzal meningitis.

1899

#1574.1

Le système nerveux centrale structure et fonctions. Histoire critique des théories et des doctrines. 2 vols.

Massive history of the anatomy and physiology of the nervous system from ancient Greece to the end of the 19th century, limited in its historical analysis. The second volume is a survey of end of 19th century opinions…

1899

#1145

Ueber den blutdruckerregenden Bestandtheil der Nebenniere, das Epinephrin.

1899

#4801

Paralyse und Tabes bei Eheleuten. Ein Beitrag zur Aetiologie beider Krankheiten.

1899

#515.1

On the nature of the process of fertilization and the artificial production of normal larvae (plutei) from the unfertilized eggs of the sea urchin.

Loeb first achieved parthenogenesis in 1899.

1899

#516.1

Ueber die Einbettung des menschlichen Eies und das früheste bisher bekannte menschliche Placentationsstadium.

1899

#1293

Ueber den Bau der Ganglien in den Geflechten des Darmes und der Gallenblase des Menschen und der Säugethiere.

Classification of the neurones of spinal and other ganglia.

1899 –1904

#1293.1

Textura del sistema nervioso del hombre y de los vertebrados. 2 vols. in 3.

From publication in fascicules, 1897-1904 (vol. 1 in 3 pts., vol. 2 in 4 pts.) This monumental work set out the cytological and histological foundations of modern neurology. Ramón y Cajal’s research confirmed the neur…

1899

#1707

Statistical methods, with special reference to biological variation.

Davenport introduced statistical methods into American evolutionary studies.

1899

#1891

Pharmakologisches über Aspirin (Acetylsalicylsäure).

Acetylsalicylic acid (aspirin) introduced into medicine.

1899

#2082

A note on the influence of maternal inebriety on the offspring.

Fetal alcohol syndrome – first serious study.

1899

#1428

Einleitung in die vergleichende Gehirnphysiologie und vergleichende Psychologie.

1899

#2624

Fall af epiteliom behandladt med Roentgenstraler.

In June 1899 Sjögren was the first successfully to use Roentgen rays in the treatment of cancer.

1899

#188

Die Schönheit des weiblichen Körpers.

1899

#2809.1

Zur Analyse des unregelmässigen Pulses.

“Wenckebach phenomenon”, a form of arrhythmia.

1899

#2809.2

Ueber akute interstitielle Myokarditis.

“Fiedler’s myocarditis”.

1899

#2810

Ueber einen neuen Blutdruckmesser (Tonometer).

Gaertner, an Austrian physician, invented an instrument for measuring blood-pressure by means of a compressing ring applied to the finger.

1899 –1903

#2811

Traité cliniques des maladies du coeur et de l’aorte. 3 vols.

Third and best edition. "Huchard, physician to the Necker Hospital was a foremost teacher in Paris at the end of the 19th century, and a great authority on angina pectoris and arteriosclerosis. He was a powerful advoc…

1899

#2680.01

The mechanics of surgery.

An encyclopedic work that described illustrated and analysed the entire range of instrumentation employed in medical and surgical practice at the end of the 19th century. Reprinted with introduction by James M. Edmons…

1899

#2554

On the rôle of insects, arachnids and myriapods, as carriers in the spread of bacterial and parasitic diseases of man and animals. A critical and historical study.

1899

#3071

A new preparation for rapidly fixing and staining blood.

Jenner’s methylene blue-eosin stain for blood.

1899

#3520

Ueber multiple falsche Darmdivertikel in der Flexura sigmoidea.

A false diverticulum of the sigmoid flexure, described by Graser, has been given the eponym “Graser’s diverticulum”.

1899

#3310

Kehlkopfchirurgie und Laryngoplastik.

Gluck improved the technique of laryngectomy.

1899

#3311

Pathologie und Therapie der entzündlichen Erkrankungen der Nebenhöhlen der Nase.

Hajek, Professor of Laryngology in Vienna, particularly distinguished himself by his classic work on the acccessory nasal sinuses. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link. English translation of the f…

1899

#3312

Recherches sur la bactériologie de l’ozène.

Perez isolated an organism from the nose of patients suffering from ozena. He named it Coccobacillus foetidus ozaenae and considered it to be causally related to the disease.

1899

#3639.1

Contribution to the surgery of the bile passages, especially of the common bile-duct.

“Among Halsted’s many outstanding surgical accomplishments those related to surgery of the biliary tract are lesser known. However, he is commonly credited with performing the first successful operation for a primary …

1899

#2908.2

Ueber Arteriennaht.

All-layer intima-to-intima arterial anastomosis.

1899

#4227

Die Mischgeschwülste. I. Die Mischgeschwülste der Niere.

Embryoma of the kidney (“Wilms’s tumor”). For the history of the operation for Wilms’s tumor see B. Thomasson and M.M. Ravitch, Wilms Tumor, Urol. Surg., 1961, 11, 83-100.