1890–1899

1893

#5080.1

Sur la pathogénie de la scarlatine.

Bergé stated all the essential facts concerning the aetiology of scarlet fever, and definitely attributed its cause to a streptococcus. He published a thesis on the subject in 1895.

1893

#4185.1

Catheterization of the male ureters. A preliminary report.

First catheterization of male ureters.

1893

#4186

The surgery of the ureters. A clinical, literary, and experimental research.

Uretero-ureterostomy. Van Hook originated modern methods of ureteral repair.

1893

#4187

The examination of the female bladder and the catheterization of the ureters under direct inspection.

Kelly introduced aeroscopic examination of the bladder and catheterization of the ureters. See also Ann. Surg., 1898, 27, 475-86.

1893

#4224

Movable kidney; with a report of twelve cases treated by nephrorrhaphy.

In his nephropexy operation Edebohls utilized flaps of the capsule of the kidney. He believed that decapsulation improved the renal blood supply.

1893

#5188

Ueber Amöben-Enteritis.

Entamoeba histolytica distinguished from Entamoeba coli. English translation in Kean (No. 2268.1).

1893

#4977.3

Über den psychischen Mechanismus hysterischer Phänomene. (Vorläufige Mittheilung.)

The preliminary announcement of the results of the collaboration that was the starting point of psychoanalysis. It described work begun several years previously. See No. 4978.

1893

#5004

Gedenktage der Psychiatrie und ihrer Hülfsdisciplinen in allen Ländern. 4te. Aufl.

A history of the subject, arranged in calendar form.

1893

#5755

Ueber die Transplantation grosser ungestielter Hautlappen.

Krause popularized the use of whole thickness skin grafts. English translation in No. 5768.2.

1893

#5529

Investigations into the nature, causation and prevention of Texas or Southern cattle fever.

U.S. Bureau of Animal Industry, Bulletin No. 1. Discovery of the parasite of Texas cattle fever, Pyrosoma bigeminum, and proof that its transmission is due to the cattle tick, Boöphilus bovis. This was the first demon…

1893

#5360

A case of ankylostomiasis.

First recognition of ankylostomiasis in America. It had previously been reported and described under various names.

1893

#5428

Ricerche sulla patogenesi ed etiologia dell’ infezione vaccinica e vaiolosa.

Guamieri described bodies found in the specific lesions of smallpox. Cytorrhyctes variolae guarnieri, which he believed to be the causative organism of the disease. Guarnieri bodies are found in all poxvirus infection…

1893

#5682

Anaesthetics and their administration.

Hewitt, anesthetist to Edward VII, did much to develop the use of ether, and advanced our knowledge of the pharmacology of anesthetics. In 1892 he introduced the first practical gas and oxygen apparatus.

1893

#6094

Ueber Sarcoma uteri deciduo-cellulare und andere deciduale Geschwülste.

A detailed classification of “deciduomata”, chorionic neoplasms, and a review of the literature.

1893

#6453

Die Medicin der Naturvölker. Ethnologische Beiträge zur Urgeschichte der Medicin.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1893

#6765

Die hebräischen Uebersetzungen des Mittelalters. 2 vols.

Reprinted, 1956.

1893

#6558

Geschichte der medicinischen Wissenschaften in Deutschland.

Reprinted, Hildesheim, 1966.

1893

#6361

Polyuria and tuberculosis.

“Hand–Schüller–Christian syndrome”, which Hand called polyuria and tuberculosis.

1893

#4581

On disturbances of sensation with especial reference to the pain of visceral disease.

“Head’s areas”, zones of hyperalgesia of skin, associated with visceral disease.

1893 –1897

#6834

The Bower manuscript; Facsimile leaves, Nagari transcript, Romanised transliteration and English translation with notes.

Dated to the Gupta era, between the 4th and the 6th century CE, the Bower Manuscript, preserved at the Bodleian Library, Oxford, was written on birch bark in Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit using the Late Brahmi script or Gu…

1893

#7019

Kanyaku maou seibun kenkyuu seiseki (zoku).

Nagai synthesized methamphetamine from ephedrine.

1893

#8094

La photographie médicale: Application aux sciences médicales et physiologiques.

The first book on medical photography. Digital facsimile from http://jubilotheque.upmc.fr at this link.

1893

#8400

Herophilus and Erasistratus: A bibliographical demonstration in the library in the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, 16th March 1893. Reprinted from the Glasgow Medical Journal for May, 1893.

1893

#8581

Die pharmakologischen Grundsätze (Liber fundamentorum pharmacologiae) des Abu Mansur Muwaffak bin Ali Harawi zum estern Male nach dem Urtex übersetzt und mit Erklärungen versehen von Abdul-Chalig Achundow aus Baku. (aus Bd. 3 (1893) der Historischen Studien aus dem pharmakologischen Institute der Kaiserlichen Universität Dorpat). 2 vols.

First translation into a modern language.

1893

#9540

Centenaire de la fondation de Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle 10 juin 1793 - 10 juin 1893. Volume commemoratif publiée par les professeurs du muséum.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1893

#9637

Brain surgery.

The first American book on neurosurgery, published the same year as Macewen's pioneering neurosurgical classic (No. 4872). Digital facsimile from the Medical Heritage Library, Internet Archive at this link.

1893 –1903

#10367

Descriptive catalogue of the anatomical and pathological specimens in the museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. 3 Vols. Vols. 1 & 2 by Charles W. Cathcart; Vol. 3 by Theodore Shennan. Vol. 1.- The skeleton and organs of motion.

Digital facsimile of vol. 1 from the Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.

1893

#10717

Catalogue of the exhibits in the Museum of Hygiene. Medical Department of the United States Navy.

1893

#11292

An account of Bellevue Hospital with a catalogue of the medical and surgical staff from 1736 to 1894. Edited by Robert J. Carlisle.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1893

#11425

A select bibliography of chemistry 1492-1892.

Bolton, a chemist, was the earliest American bibliographer of chemistry. His first edition, which atempted to list "the principal books on chemistry published in Europe and America from the rise of the literature to t…

1893

#11810

The Great Barrier Reef of Australia; Its products and potentialities, containing an account, with copious coloured and photographic illustrations (the latter here produced for the first time), of the corals and coral reefs, pearl and pearl-shell, bêche-de-mer, other fishing Industries, and the marine fauna of the Australian Great Barrier region.

Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage LIbrary at this link.

1893

#14364

Nursing: Its principles and practice for hospital and private use.

Isabel Hampton Robb was the first Superintendent of Nurses at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing. Her textbook standardized the education of nursing in the U.S. and abroad. It included an outline for a 3-year long nu…

1894 –1902

#15

Hippocrates Opera. Recensuit H. Kuehlewein. 2 vols.

This Greek edition, originally planned to include the whole collection in seven volumes, was abandoned in 1907 with the founding of the Corpus Medicorum Graecorum series. Both editions employ manuscripts and methods u…

1894

#4472

La désarticulation interilio-abdominale.

Interilio-abdominal amputation first described.

1894

#949

Neue Versuche zur Bestimmung der Sauerstoffcapacität des Blutfarbstoffs.

Hüfner showed that 1 gm. hemoglobin combines with 1.34 cc oxygen.

1894

#4581.1

Myelocyste, Transposition von Gewebskeimen und Sympodie.

Amold-Chiari malformation (Chiari II malformation). (see No. 4577.1).

1894

#4582

Lehrbuch der Nervenkrankheiten.

The best edition is the English translation of the 5th German edn., 2 vols., London, 1911.

1894

#643

Le mouvement.

Marey, like Muybridge (No. 650-51), was a pioneer in the use of serial pictures as a method of studying the mechanics of locomotion. English translation, 1895.

1894

#1019

Neue Versuche liber die Aufsaugung im Dunndarm.

1894

#1112

The influence of mechanical factors on lymph production.

1894

#1567

Die Lehren von den Funktionen der einzelnen Theile des Ohrlabyrinths.

Stein studied the functions of separate parts of the labyrinth. This is a translation from the Russian.

1894

#1568

Zur Physiologie des Labyrinths. 3. Mittheilung. Das Hören der labyrinthlosen Tauben.

1894 –1895

#511

Ueber die Grenzen der Theilbarkeit der Eisubstanz.

English translation in Loeb’s Studies in general physiology, Vol.l., Chicago, 1905.

1894

#4800

Les affections parasyphilitiques.

Fournier, great French venereologist, introduced the concept of “parasyphilis”. He showed statistically the causal relationship of syphilis to paresis and tabes.

1894

#4820

Osobyj vid kortikal’noj epilepsii.

“Koževnikov’s epilepsy”, an atypical form of cortical origin. German translation by H. Heintel and H. Müller-Dietz, Hamburg, 1974.

1894

#1372

Atlas des menschlichen Gehirns und des Faserverlaufes.

Flatau’s law—“the greater the length of the fibers in the spinal cord the closer they are situated to the periphery”.

1894

#1422

Ueber den sogenannten Granula der Nervenzellen.

“Nissl’s granules”.

1894

#1289

Beiträge zur Histologie des Nervensystems und der Sinnesorgane.

1894

#1290

On reflex action from sympathetic ganglia.

1894

#1291

Ueber eine neue Untersuchungsmethode des Centralorgans speciell zur Feststellung der Localisation der Nervenzellen.

Nissl’s stain.