1890–1899

1891

#4834

Die Tetanie.

1891

#3498

Ueber Magensyphilis.

Important study of gastric syphilis.

1891

#3499

A method of performing inguinal colotomy, with cases.

Paul’s tube introduced.

1891

#3500

Ueber eine neue Untersuchungsmethode der Verdauungsorgane und einige Resultate derselben.

Sahli’s test for estimating the functional activity of the stomach.

1891

#3178

Versuche über Immunisirung und Heilung bei der Pneumokokkeninfection.

Old antipneumococcal serum.

1891

#3303

Klinische Beiträge zur halbseitigen Kehlkopflähmungen.

“Avellis’s syndrome”, recurrent paralysis of the soft palate.

1891

#3304

Various forms of disease of the ethmoid cells.

1891

#3633

Der Icterus und seine verschiedenen Formen.

1891

#3791

Ueber eine Geschwulst der sogen. Glandula carotica oder des Nodulus caroticus. In Festschrift Rudolf Virchow, 1, 547-54.

First account of the pathology of carotid body tumors.

1891

#3838

Note on the treatment of myxoedema by hypodermic injections of an extract of the thyroid gland of a sheep.

Murray injected thyroid extract subcutaneously in the treatment of myxedema with highly successful results.

1891

#2908.1

Ein Beitrag zur Lehre von der Gefässnaht.

Jassinowsky experimented with arterial sutures on animals. His thesis, Die Arteriennaht: Eine experimentell-chirurgische Studie, Dorpat, 1889, was an experimental-surgical study of the subject.

1891

#2965

A treatise on the ligation of the great arteries in continuity.

Includes Ballance’s scale of measurement of caliber of arteries.

1891 –1892

#4104

Infective angeioma or naevus-lupus.

Angioma serpiginosum.

1891

#4105

L’angiocheratoma.

Mibelli gave the name to angiokeratoma although it had already been described by Cottle in 1877. It is also called “Mibelli’s disease”.

1891

#4106

Vier Fälle von Elephantiasis congenita hereditaria.

First description of hereditary oedema of the legs, generally known as “Milroy’s disease” or as “Meige’s disease” (No. 4129).

1891

#4864

Ueber Rindenexcisionen, als Beitrag zur operativen Therapie der Psychosen.

Burckhardt, physician at a Swiss mental hospital, performed frontal lobotomy on four patients in 1890, with good results in some cases. Digital facsimile from Universitätsbibliothek Bern at this link.

1891

#4865

Remarks on the various surgical procedures devised for the relief or cure of trigeminal neuralgia (tic douloureux).

Horsley, with J. Taylor and W. S. Coleman, devised an operation for treatment of trigeminal neuralgia in which the Gasserian ganglion was removed by a temporal approach.

1891

#4866

Linear craniotomy (miscalled craniectomy) for microcephalus.

Keen was a pioneer in linear craniotomy and one of the first successfully to operate for meningioma. He was Professor of Surgery at Jefferson Medical College.

1891

#4867

A new operation for spasmodic wry neck, namely, division or exsection of the nerves supplying the posterior rotator muscles of the head.

Spastic torticollis treated by division of spinal accessory nerve and posterior roots of first, second, and third spinal nerves.

1891

#4868

Four cases of tubercular meningitis in which paracentesis of the theca vertebralis was performed for the relief of fluid pressure.

Lumbar puncture. Reprinted in Middx. Hosp. J., 1951, 51, 147.

1891

#4869

Die Lumbalpunction des Hydrocephalus.

Quincke popularized lumbar puncture, which he had introduced independently of Wynter and others. He used it both for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes. He first presented his method at the German Congress of Interna…

1891

#4356

Lehrbuch der orthopädischen Chirurgie .

Hoffa, a leading German orthopedist, made important contributions to the subject and founded the Zeitschrift für orthopädische Chirurgie.

1891

#4358

Die fibröse oder deformirende Ostitis, die Osteomalacie und die osteoplastische Carcinose in ihren gegenseitigen Beziehungen. In: Festschrift R. Virchow.

Recklinghausen gave an important description of generalized osteitis fibrosa. His reference to the earlier case reported by Engel (see No. 4335) has led to this condition being sometimes referred to as “Engel–Reckling…

1891

#4359

Die angeborene Verschiebung des Schulterblattes nach oben.

Classic description of “Sprengel’s deformity”, a congenital upward displacement of the scapula.

1891

#4359.1

Wiring of the vertebrae as a means of immobilization in fracture and Pott’s disease.

“In a case of fracture-dislocation of the cervical spine (C 6-7) he [Hadra] performed open reduction, twisting metal wires around the spinous processes to stabilize the injured sector” (Bick). This is the first report…

1891

#4359.2

Wiring the spinal processes in Pott’s disease.

First spinal fusion.

1891

#5061

The histological changes in experimental diphtheria.

An account of the pathological changes brought about by experimental inoculation of diphtheria toxins.

1891

#4184.1

Über Blasenekstirpation.

First successful total cystectomy.

1891

#4185

Les tumeurs de la vessie.

Includes description of “Albarran’s glands”, subtrigonal glands in the bladder. He introduced a classification based on embryological origin. See also No. 4195.

1891

#5158

Observations sur la morve.

Mallein reaction for the diagnosis of glanders.

1891

#5513.1

Ueber eine neue, pathogene Cladothrix und eine durch sie hervorgerufene Pseudotuberculosis (cladothrichica).

Eppinger isolated Cladothrix (Nocardia) asteroides in a patient suffering from pseudotuberculosis with brain abscesses and meningitis.

1891

#5514

Ueber Reincultur des Actinomyces und seine Uebertragbarkeit auf Thiere.

Isolation of Actinomyces bovis, later called Actinomyces israelii.

1891

#4998

Thérapeutique suggestive.

1891

#5754.5

The correction of angular deformities of the nose by a subcutaneous operation.

The first reduction rhinoplasty to enhance the appearance of a patient. See No. 5755.3.

1891

#5937

Colour-blindness and colour-perception.

Includes (p. 262 et seq.) description of Edridge-Green’s lantern test for color-blindness. This was officially adopted in Great Britain in 1915 in place of the Holmgren test.

1891

#6092

Contributions to the histogenesis of the papillary cystoma of the ovary.

1891

#5241

Malariaparasiten in den Vögeln.

Confirmation of the work of Laveran.

1891

#5241.1

Ueber die Wirkung des Methylenblau bei Malaria.

Guttmann and Ehrlich demonstrated methylene blue to be lethal in vitro for the malaria parasite – the beginning of Ehrlich’s work on chemotherapy.

1891

#5242

K voprosu o parazitologii i terapii bolotnoi likhoradki. [Parasitology and treatment of malarial fever.]

Romanovsky made important studies of the malaria parasite and introduced a special stain for its demonstration. German version in St. Petersburger med. Wschr., 1891, 8, 297-302, 306-15. English translation in Kean (No…

1891

#234

Amphimixis, oder die Vermischung der Individuen.

By “amphimixis” Weismann meant the union of the two parent germs, which he considered the principal source of heritable variation in evolution by natural selection. English translation in Weismann’s Essays upon Heredi…

1891

#5272

Étude sur les parasites du sang chez les paludiques.

Nepveu, whilst in Algeria, was the first to see trypanosomes in human blood.

1891

#7243

Entsefalometriya mozga cheloveka v otnoshenii k polu, vozrastu i cherepnomu ukazatelyu [in Cyrillic].

In 1889, nearly 20 years before Horsley and Clarke published their paper on the use of stereotaxy to examine the brain, Dmitrii Zernov, a professor of anatomy at Moscow University, invented the first prototype of a st…

1891

#9888

Scatologic rites of all nations. A dissertation upon the employment of excrementitious remedial agents in religion, therapeutics, divination, witchcraft, love-philters, etc., in all parts of the globe. Based upon original notes and person observation, and upon compilation from over one thousand authorities. Not for general perusal.

Digital facsimile of the 1891 edition from the Internet Archive at this link. Translated in to German as: Der Unrat in Sitte, Brauch, Glauben und Gewohnheitrecht der Völker, von John Gregory Bourke. Verdeutscht und ne…

1891

#10152

A manual of saddles and collars, sore backs and sore shoulders.

"The subject of saddles and sore backs [of horses] is such an important one that I have considered the lectures delivered by me on the subject, in this school, might be of more permanent value if printed. "Every offic…

1891

#10365

Descriptive catalogue of the Pathological Museum of St. Mary's Hospital.

Based on manuscript catalogue begun by Charles Murchison in 1855 and continued by subsequent curators, including Dr. Broadbent.--Preface, p. [3. ]Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1891 –1892

#10587

Regional anatomy in its relation to medicine and surgery. 2 vols.

Includes 97 beautiful chromolithographed plates dissected, photographed, and colored from nature by McClellan. Digital facsimile of the 2nd edition from the Internet Archive at this link.

1891

#10598

A practical treatise on diseases of the skin

The first systematic treatise on dermatology published in America. Piffard was a pioneer of "indoor" magnesium flashlight photography, and took most of the 50 photographs reproduced in this book by this technique. Dig…

1891

#11124

History of circumcision from the earliest times to the present. Moral and physical reasons for its performance with a history of eunuchism, hermaphrodism, etc., and of the different operations practiced upon the prepuce.

Digital edition from Gutenberg.org at this link.

1891

#11633

Notes on the practice of medicine.

This was Howard's only book. Osler, in his anonymous obituary of his mentor R. Palmer Howard (1823-1889), wrote, "As a teacher of medicine for thirty-three years, Dr. Howard enjoyed a unique reputation in his own coun…

1891

#11911

The opening of the Johns Hopkins Medical School to women. Reprinted from Open Letters in the Century Magazine for February 1891.

A collection of articles by various experts supporting the opening of the planned Johns Hopkins Medical School to women. Contributors included Cardinal Gibbons, Mary Putnam Jacobi, Josephine Lowell, C. F. Folsom, Care…