1890–1899
836 entries with publication dates in this decade.
1899
#4228
Chronic nephritis affecting a movable kidney as an indication for nephropexy.
First operation on the kidneys for the relief of Bright’s disease.
1899
#4002
La photothérapie. Les rayons chimiques et la variole. La lumière comme agent d’excitabilité. Traitement du lupus vulgaire par des rayons chimiques concentrés.
Finsen was a pioneer in the treatment of lupus by means of light. English translation, 1901.
1899
#2987
Die Aortensyphilis als Ursache von Aneurysmen.
Heller established the fact that syphilis is a cause of aortic aneurysm.
1899
#3953
Die Oxybuttersäure und ihre Beziehungen zum Coma diabeticum.
1899
#3011
Thrombosis and embolism. In Allbutt, C., System of medicine, 4, 284-310; and in 2nd ed., 6, 691-821
1899
#4128
Multipelt benignt hud-sarcoid.
The syndrome of benign sarcoid (“Boeck’s sarcoid”) was first established by Boeck. English translation in J. cutan. gen.-urin. Dis., 1899, 17, 543-50. In 1940 Danbolt (Schweiz. med. Wschr., 1947, 77, 1149-50) reexamin…
1899
#4129
Le trophoedème chronique héréditaire.
“Meige’s disease” – first described by Nonne (No. 4106).
1899
#4191
Operation for undescended testicle and congenital inguinal hernia.
Bevan’s operation for undescended testicle.
1899
#4191.1
Sonde urétérale opaque. In Traité de chirurgie, 2e ed. vol. 7, p. 414.
Tuffier made the first pioneer attempt to visualize the urinary tract by the combination of an opaque ureteral styletted catheter and radiography.
1899
#4951
Lehrbuch der psychopathologischen Untersuchungsmethoden.
Sommer introduced new methods in psychopathological investigation.
1899 –1918
#5944
Handbuch der gesamten Augenheilkunde. 2te. Aufl. 15 vols. [in 41].
The first edition of this great collective work, edited by Graefe and Saemisch, appeared between 1874 and 1880.
1899
#5377
Some observations on the so-called spotted fever of Idaho.
Rocky Mountain spotted fever first described.
1899 –1918
#5996
Geschichte der Augenheilkunde. 10 pts.
This monumental work remains the authoritative encyclopaedic history of ophthalmology, up to the first decade of the 20th century. Its thoroughness and critical judgment mark it as one of the greatest of all histories…
1899
#5622
An experimental research into surgical shock.
Crile saw and recorded elevations in systemic and portal venous pressures under experimental shock.
1899
#5641
De l’emploi du masque dans les opérations.
Introduction of the gauze face mask, October 1897.
1899
#5429
Vaccination, its natural history and pathology.
Milroy Lectures, Royal College of Physicians, 1898. Copeman’s bacteriological studies permanently determined the validity of vaccination as a preventive of smallpox.
1899
#5684
Versuche über Cocainisirung des Rückenmarkes.
Bier introduced the use of cocaine as a spinal anesthetic.
1899
#5685
Ueber die Chemie der localen Anaesthetica.
Synthesis of procaine (novocaine).
1899
#5685.1
Zur Theorie der Alkoholnarkose. Erste Mitteilung.
Meyer’s theory of narcosis.
1899
#6109.1
Zur Casuistik einiger seltenerer Ovarial- und Tuben-Tumoren.
“Brenner tumor” first described; see also No. 6118.
1899
#5252
Ciclo evolutivo della semilune nell’ Anopheles claviger.
Grassi and Bignami showed that the Plasmodium undergoes its sexual phase only in the Anopheles mosquito.
1899
#6519
Medical works of the fourteenth century; together with a list of plants recorded in contemporary writings, with their identification.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1899
#6577
História da medicina em Portugal. 2 vols.
1899 –1900
#4587
Neuritis und. Polyneuritis. 2 pts.
In Nothnagel’s Handbuch der speziellen Pathologie und Therapie, XI, Bd. 3, Abt. 3-4.
1899
#7336
The nervous system and its constituent neurones, Designed for the use of practitioners of medicine and of students of medicine and psychology.
Considered a masterpiece of compilation of the new scientific evidence for the neuron theory. "Also contains Gertrude Stein’s first publication, which consists of a quote and further description of her developmental w…
1899 –1904
#7998
Kunstformern der Natur.
Includes 100 mostly color lithographic and half-tone prints based on Haeckel's sketches and watercolors. Issued in 10 fascicules of 10 prints each and collected into a bound volume in 1904. Digital facsimile of vol. 1…
1899
#9273
Animal and plant lore collected from the oral tradition of English speaking folk. Edited and annotated by Fanny D. Bergen.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1899
#9403
Philosophy of osteopathy.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1899
#9539
Les hôpitaux au XIXe siècle. Études, projets, discussions et programmes relatifs a leur construction.
Digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this link.
1899 –1933
#10848
Jahrbuch für sexuelle Zwischenstufen. Edited by Magnus Hirschfeld.
"An annual publication of the Scientific-Humanitarian Committee (Wissenschaftlich-humanitäres Komitee, WhK), an early LGBT rights organization founded by Magnus Hirschfeld in 1897. The periodical featured articles on …
1899
#11293
Les troubles de la marche dans l'hémiplégie organique étudiés à l'aide du cinématographe.
Between July 1898 and 1902 Romanian neurologist Gheorghe Marinescu (Georges Marinesco) made the world's first documentary films in his clinic in Bucharest. "Marinescu perfected the use of cinematography as a research …
1899
#11824
The economic writings of Sir William Petty together with Observations upon the bills of mortality, more probably by Captain John Graunt. Edited by Charles Henry Hull. 2 vols.
Full text available from en.wikisource.org at this link.
1899
#11953
Catalogue of the library of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1899
#12268
The penetration of the muscular fibres of the human heart by capillaries, and the existence in that organ of very large capillaries.
Meigs discovered that the capillaries of the heart enter the heart muscle fibers. These became known as "Meigs capillaries." Digital facsimile from PubMedCentral at this link.
1899
#12286
Die Grundform des arteriellen Pulses.
"The First Mathematical Description of the Pressure-Volume Diagram "Not until 60 years after 1899 Otto Frank's mathematical formulation of the volume-pressure diagram and his concept of the mechanism of the cardiac wo…
1899
#13420
Une chaire de médecine au XVe siècle. Un professeur à l'Université de Pavie de 1432 à 1472 avec un fac-simile d'autographe et cinq gravures
Biography, case records, and annotated list of Ferrari da Gradi's library. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.