1890–1899
836 entries with publication dates in this decade.
1891
#13172
Suggestions to the medical witness.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1891
#13573
Catalogue of works on alchemy and chemistry. Exhibited at The Grolier Club, 29 East 32d St. New York, Jan. 16th to Jan. 26th, 1891.
This appears to be the second catalogue of a U.S. exhibition of rare books on any scientific subject, following John Shaw Billing's catalogue of his exhibition of books from the Army Medical Library at Johns Hopkins H…
1891
#14234
Anatomie pathologique de la moelle épinière.
1892 –1982
#355
Index-catalogue of medical and veterinary zoology.
An index to the world's literature on parasites and parasitisms of man, of domestic animals, and of wild animals whose parasites may be transmitted to man and domestic animals. It also contains references to fur-beari…
1892
#834
Pulsation in the veins, with the description of a method for graphically recording them.
The phlebograph, which developed into the polygraph. With it Mackenzie obtained simultaneous tracings of the pulsations of the jugular vein and radial artery.
1892
#835
Contributions to the physiology and pathology of the mammalian heart.
1892
#4578
Casuistische Beiträge zur Nervenpathologie. II. Doppelseitige Accessoriuslähmung bei Syringomyelie.
“Schmidt’s syndrome” – a hemiplegia affecting the vocal cord, palate, trapezius, and sternocleidomastoid muscles, due to lesion of the nucleus ambiguus and nucleus accessorius.
1892
#4579
Gesammelte Abhandlungen, edited by A. Westphal. 2 vols.
Westphal was Professor of Psychiatry at Berlin; at this time was common for physicians to practice both psychiatry and neurology. Vol. 1: psychiatry; Vol. 2: neurology.
1892
#641
Das Gesetz der Transformation der Knochen.
“Wolff’s law” stated that every change in form and function of a bone, or in its function alone, is followed by certain definite changes in its internal architecture and equally definite secondary alterations in its m…
1892
#888
Zur Blutlehre.
Schmidt established several new facts regarding blood coagulation.
1892
#718
On the estimation of uric acid in the urine: a new process by means of saturation with ammonium chloride.
Hopkins’s method of estimating uric acid in urine.
1892 –1895
#429
Dissections illustrated.
“Brodie’s ligament”, the transverse humoral ligament, described.
1892
#4707
Ueber die Beziehungen der senilen Hirnatrophie zur Aphasie.
“Pick’s disease” – circumscribed atrophy of the brain with the development of aphasia and presenile dementia.
1892
#4708
A case of complete athetosis with post-mortem.
One of the earliest accounts of bilateral athetosis (“Vogt syndrome”, No. 4720).
1892
#1157
Sulla distruzione della ghiandola pituitaria.
Vassale and Sacchi showed water and mineral metabolism to be affected by hypophysectomy.
1892
#509
Entwicklungsmechanische Studien. I. Der Werth der beiden ersten Furchungszellen in der Echinodermentwicklung. Experimentelle Erzeugen von Theil-und Doppelbildung. II. Ueber die Beziehungen des Lichtes zur ersten Etappe der thierischen Formbildung.
In the spring of 1891 Driesch succeeded in separating the blastomeres of the cleaving sea urchin egg. English translation in No. 534.3.
1892
#4788
Ueber syphilitische Spinalparalyse.
Erb’s classic description of syphilitic spinal paralysis, sometimes called “Erb’s disease”.
1892
#4789
Die Aetiologieder Tabes.
English translation, 1900.
1892
#510
The cell-lineage of Nereis.
Wilson traced the development of Nereis in minute detail from fertilized egg to the free-swimming larval stage, a pioneer study of cell-lineage.
1892
#1370
Der Hund ohne Grosshirn.
Goltz was able to keep dogs alive for eight months after he had performed subtotal decerebration. He found them incapable of purposive movements but able to walk with adequate co-ordination. Frontal decortication caus…
1892
#785
Der Einfluss der Systems der Vena portae auf die Vertheilung des Blutes.
Translated into English as "The contraction of the vena portae and its influence upon the circulation," Johns Hopkins Hospital Reports, I (1896) 111-157. Digital facsimile of the English translation from Google Books …
1892
#1999
Recherches d’électrothérapie: la voltaisation sinusoïdale.
Introduction of high-frequency currents in electrotherapy.
1892 –1894
#1629
A treatise on hygiene and public health. Edited by T. Stevenson and S. F. Murphy. 3 vols.
1892
#1286
Ueber die Veranderungen der Ganglienzellen am Fascialiskern des Kaninchens nach Ausreissung der Nerven.
1892
#1287
Nuevo concepto de la histologia de los centros nerviosos.
Ramón y Cajal, son of a struggling Aragonese doctor, lived to become one of the greatest of all histologists. He devised many staining methods for nervous tissue and did work of fundamental importance to neuroanatomy.…
1892
#1288
Notes on the arrangement of some motor fibres in the lumbo-sacral plexus.
An analysis of the distribution of the ventral nerve roots. Sherrington showed the association of the lateral horn cells with the sympathetic outflow.
1892
#1472
Physiologische Untersuchungen über das Endorgan des Nervus octavus.
Ewald clarified the function of the eighth cranial nerve.
1892
#1473
Persistence of vision.
Ferry modified Weber’s law on the relationship between stimulus and sensation. Following the work of Porter, Proc. roy. Soc. (Lond.), 1898, 63, 347; 1902, 70, 313, the term “Ferry–Porter Law” came into being.
1892
#2307
Leçons sur la pathologie comparée de l'inflammation, faites à l'institut Pasteur en Avril et Mai 1891.
Metchnikoff delivered his classic lectures on inflammation in French at the Pasteur Institute. They were translated into Russian as Lektsii o sravnitelnoi patologii vospaleniy, and published in St. Petersburg by K. L.…
1892
#2506.2
Ueber die Mosaikkrankheit der Tabakspflanze.
The Russian botanist Ivanovski demonstrated that the agent responsible for tobacco mosaic disease could pass through the finest filter then available. This was the starting point of research into the etiology of virus…
1892
#2507
Ueber Epidemieen unter den im hygienischen Institute zu Greifswald gehaltenen Mäusen und über die Bekämpfung der Feldmausplage.
Isolation of Salm. typhi-murium.
1892
#2508
A gas-producing bacillus (Bacillus aërogenes capsulatus nov. spec.) capable of rapid development in the blood-vessels after death.
Discovery of the gas gangrene bacillus (Welch bacillus) Cl. perfringens. Reprinted in Medical Classics, 1941, 5, 852-85.
1892
#2509
A manual of bacteriology.
Sternberg, U. S. Surgeon General 1893-1902, was a pioneer bacteriologist. Independently of Pasteur he discovered the pneumococcus and was first in America to photograph the tubercle bacillus. He sent Walter Reed off t…
1892
#186
Finger prints.
The use of fingerprints as identification marks was known to the Chinese, but Galton was among the first to explain their possibilities in the identification of criminals. “Galton’s delta” is a triangular area of papi…
1892
#2545.1
Practical results of bacteriological researches.
Sternberg demonstrated that the serum of an animal recovered from vaccinia possesses the property of neutralizing the activity of the causative virus. His test was readily adaptable for use in various host-systems.
1892
#2682.5
The early history of instrumental precision in medicine.
1892
#203.5
Crania ethnica Americana. Sammlung auserlesener Amerikanischer Schädeltypen. Herausgegeben von R. Virchow.
1892
#3070
Sur une forme spéciale de cyanose s’accompagnant d’hyperglobulie excessive et persistante.
Vaquez first described polycythemia vera (erythremia). Osler’s paper on the subject (No. 3073) made it generally known in the English-speaking world, and the condition has since been named “Vaquez–Osler disease”. For …
1892
#1973
An introduction to modern therapeutics, being the Croonian Lectures on the relationship between chemical structure and physiological action.
One of the best known of Lauder Brunton’s works.
1892
#2231
The principles and practice of medicine.
Osler’s textbook was the best English work on medicine of its time. He became Regius Professor of Medicine at Oxford in 1904. Besides being one of the greatest of all clinicians, he was possessed of a fine literary st…
1892
#3501
Intestinal anastomosis and suturing.
Abbe, a New York surgeon, introduced catgut rings for intestinal suturing. See also Med. News (Phila.), 1889, 54, 589-92.
1892
#3502
Om extra-abdominal Behandlung af cancer intestinalis (rectum derfra undtaget) med en Fremstilling af de for denne Sygdom foretagne Operationer og deres Resultater.
Bloch was first to employ the two-stage (Mikulicz) operation for cancer of the colon. See also No. 3527.
1892
#3503
On achylia gastrica.
Einhorn introduced the concept of achylia gastrica, to indicate a primary nervous functional disorder of the gastric secretion.
1892
#3504
De la gastro-duodénostomie.
Introduction of gastroduodenostomy.
1892
#3505
Ein Fall von einem frei in die Bauchhöhle perforirten Magengeschwür; Laparotomie; Naht der Perforationsstelle; Heilung.
In 1892 Ludwig Heusner (1846-1916) successfully sutured a perforated gastric ulcer, the first successful case on record. It was reported by H. Kriege.
1892
#3506
Ueber eine eigenartige symmetrische Erkrankung der Thränen- und Mundspeicheldrüsen.
First description of the syndrome of symmetrical inflammation of the lacrymal and salivary glands (“Mikulicz’s disease”). English translation in Medical Classics, 1937, 2, 165-86.
1892
#3507
Cholecysto-intestinal, gastro-intestinal, entero-intestinal anastomosis, and approximation without sutures.
“Murphy’s button” introduced.
1892
#3600
Zur Radicalcur der Hernien.
Kocher’s hernia operation.
1892
#3601
The anatomy and surgical treatment of hernia.
Marcy wrote a great deal on hernia, describing high ligation of the sac, transplantion of the spermatic cord, and careful reconstruction of the inguinal canal. This work, illustrated with 66 full-page plates, is one o…
1892
#3634
Klinik der Cholelithiasis.
Naunyn produced a classic monograph on gall-stones, devising an accurate chemical classification. He was one of Frerichs’s best pupils and became Professor of Clinical Medicine successively at Dorpat, Berne, Königsber…