1890–1899
836 entries with publication dates in this decade.
1894
#1886
The physiological action of the nitrites of the paraffin series, considered in connection with their chemical constitution.
1894 –1895
#1887
The chemistry of ipecacuanha.
Emetine first obtained in pure form.
1894
#2107
Contribution à l’étude du vénin des serpents.
Calmette carried out extensive investigations on the immunization of animals to venoms. He obtained antivenom sera with therapeutic properties.
1894
#187
Man and woman.
A study of the constitutional differences between man and woman.
1894
#2546
Ueber die specifische Bedeutung der Choleraimmunität (Bakteriolyse).
Pfeiffer and Isayev recorded the occurrence of bacteriolysis in cholera vibrios under certain conditions: immune bacteriolysis, “Pfeiffer’s phenomenon”. Abridged English translation of second part in Bibel, Milestones…
1894
#1523
Die Retina der Wirbelthiere…In Verbindung mit dem Verfasser zusammengestellt, übersetzt und mit Einleitung versehen von Dr. Richard Greef.
Classic account of the vertebrate retina. First published in the Belgian review La Cellule, and later translated into German with extensive additions by Ramón y Cajal. Translated into English by Sylvia A. Thorpe and M…
1894 –1896
#2232
A collection of the published writings. 2 vols.
Gull, one of the best clinicians of his time, spent most of his working life at Guy’s Hospital. He described the spinal lesion of tabes and left an important account of aneurysm. His best works are his description of …
1894
#210
Pithecanthropus erectus. Eine menschenähnliche Uebergangsform aus Java.
Privately issued first report on Homo erectus. In 1891 Dubois discovered remains of what he described as "a species in between humans and apes" at Trinil, Java. He called his finds Pithecanthropus erectus ("ape-human …
1894
#3513
Eine Methode zur titrimetrischen Bestimmung der hauptsächlichsten Factoren der Magenacidität.
Toepfer’s test for hydrochloric acid in gastric juice.
1894
#3180
Nouveau traitement des empyèmes chroniques.
The procedure of decortication of the lung for treatment of chronic empyema was introduced by Delorme. For his later work on the subject, see Congr. franç. Chir., 1896, 10, 379.
1894
#3307
Le microbe de l’ozène.
Loewenberg found a bacillus of the Friedländer group in ozena.
1894
#3308
The pathological and clinical features of atrophic rhinitis.
Classic paper on atrophic rhinitis (ozena).
1894
#3308.1
Studien zur bacteriellen Diagnostik der Diphtherie und der Anginen.
“Plaut’s angina” (necrotizing ulcerative gingivostomatitis). He noted the association of fusiform bacilli in ulcerating lesions of the tonsils. Vincent (see No. 3309) gave the first comprehensive description of this c…
1894
#3774
La splenomegalia con cirrosi del fegato
“Banti’s syndrome”, Splenomegalic anemia. Reprinted with translation in Med. Classics, 1937, 1, 901-27. (For his earlier work on the subject, see No. 3126.)
1894
#4225
Operation for the relief of valve formation and stricture of the ureter in hydro- or pyo-nephrosis.
Fenger’s operation for stenosis of the uretero-pelvic junction.
1894
#4226
A vizelet fagypontjának diagnostikus érteke. [The diagnostic value of the freezing point of urine.]
Korányi established cryoscopy of the urine as a kidney function test. See also his later papers in Z. klin. Med., 1897, 33, 1-54; 1898, 34, 1-52. Previously H. Dreser had made experiments on this subject; for these se…
1894
#3999
Les tricophyties humaines.
In his extensive studies of the role of fungi in skin diseases, Sabouraud revived and elaborated the discoveries of Gruby (Nos. 4030, 4034-36), which had remained neglected for half a century. See also No. 4116.
1894
#4000
Die Histopathologie der Hautkrankheiten.
This monumental work is a landmark in dermatological history. Sir Norman Walker translated it into English in 1896. Unna, short in stature but a giant among dermatologists, initiated the study of the skin by means of …
1894
#3022.2
Stab wound of pericardium; resection of rib; suture of pericardium; recovery.
“This was the first report in America and probably world-wide in which there was a successful evacuation of a traumatic hemopericardium and a suture placed in the pericardium. Dalton’s patient was operated on in Septe…
1894
#4116
La teigne trichophytique et la teigne spéciale de Grüby.
1894
#4117
Étude sur le parasite du “pied de Madura”.
Isolation of Streptothrix (Actinomyces) madurae.
1894
#4364.1
Des moyens prothétiques destinés à obtenir la réparation des parties osseuses.
Total prosthetic replacement of shoulder (p. 291) using an artificial joint made of hardened rubber and platinum. English translation in Bick, Classics of orthopaedics, 443-46.
1894
#5063
Contribution à l’étude de la diphtérie (sérum thérapie).
Roux and Martin demonstrated the value of Behring’s specific antitoxin in the treatment of human diphtheria, and showed how it could be produced on a large scale.
1894
#5120
Loimographia. An account of the great plague of London in the year 1665
This work was written in 1666 and first published as above. Boghurst, an apothecary, did good work during the great plague; in his book he differentiated plague from typhus. Payne’s introduction to the book contains s…
1894
#4188
Uretero-ureteral anastomosis; uretero-ureterostomy.
Kelly’s method of uretero-ureteral anastomosis included the use of the catheter as a temporary ureteral splint.
1894
#4188.1
Ueber die Radikaltherapie der Ektopia vesicae urinariae.
Maydl’s operation, uretero-intestinal anastomosis.
1894
#5125
La peste bubonique à Hong-Kong.
Yersin discovered the plague bacillus Pasteurella (Yersinia) pestis, isolating it from excised buboes. He published the first account of this organism. Preliminary note in C. R. Acad. Sci. (Paris), 1894, 119, 356.
1894
#5126
The plague in the East.
Rennie appears to be the first seriously to support the theory of transmission of the plague bacillus by rats and to present evidence in support of that theory.
1894 –1900
#4949
Grundriss der Psychiatrie in klinischen Vorlesungen.
Wernicke made valuable contributions to the subject of sensory aphasia, mind-blindness, and apraxia. He correlated all psychic action with the function of speech, each perversion being interpreted as showing a minus o…
1894
#4429
A method of treating simple oblique fractures of the tibia and fibula more efficient than those in common use.
Lane’s method of “osteo-synthesis” in the treatment of fractures – the perfect re-apposition of the affected parts by means of operative intervention.
1894
#5938
Ueber die eitrige metastatische Ophthalmie, besonders ihre Aetiologie und prognostische Bedeutung.
Classic account of metastatic ophthalmia.
1894
#5939
Conjonctivite lacrymale à pneumocoques des nouveau-nés.
1894
#5639
De l’asepsie et antisepsie en obstétrique.
Tarnier was the first to adopt Listerism in obstetrics. In the discussion following a paper in Trans. int. med. Congr., London, 1881, 4, 390-391, he showed that he was the first to employ carbolic acid solution in obs…
1894 –1895
#5640
The results of operations for the cure of cancer of the breast performed at the Johns Hopkins Hospital from June, 1889, to January, 1894.
Halsted’s operation invariably excised the pectoralis major muscle in radical mastectomy. His operation, modified by the retention of the pectoral muscles, remains the cornerstone of surgical treatment of carcinoma of…
1894
#5682.1
Further observations on the use of oxygen with nitrous oxide.
Includes description of Hewitt’s nitrous oxide/oxygen stopcock.
1894
#6204
Taglio lateralizzato del pube, suoi vantaggi, sua technica.
Gigli’s saw, first used for pubiotomy. German translation, Zbl. Chir., 1894, 21, 409-11.
1894
#5245
On the nature and significance of the crescentic and flagellated bodies in malarial blood.
Manson’s mosquito–malaria hypothesis. See also his Gulstonian Lectures in Lancet, 1896, 1, 695-98, 751-55, 831-33.
1894
#6342.1
The care and feeding of children: A catechism for the use of mothers and children's nurses.
A commonsense work written for parents and caretakers of children rather than for physicians. This brief book achieved a popular success unrivalled by any previous American medical publication. It was the forerunner o…
1894
#237
Materials for the study of variation treated with especial regard to discontinuity in the origin of species.
Bateson was convinced that discontinuity was the more important type of variation among animals and plants “in some unknown way a part of their nature and not directly dependent upon natural selection at all”. He show…
1894
#6395
Medical history from the earliest times.
A classic brief history up to the early 19th century. Reprinted 1964.
1894
#6582
The medical profession in Upper Canada, 1783-1850.
Rescues from oblivion many historical facts and discusses the pioneer medical men of Canada. Biographies of many famous physicians of Canada are included. Reprinted Toronto, 1980.
1894
#8939
Lanfrank's "Science of Cirurgie." Edited from the Bodeian Ashmole MS. 1396 (ab. 1380 A.D.) and the British Museum Additional MS. 12, 056 (ab. 1420 A.D.) by Robert v. Fleischhacker.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1894
#8970
Kystophotographischer Atlas.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1894
#10595
Klinische Abbildungen: Sammlung von Darstellungen der Veränderung der äusseren Körperform bei inneren Krankheiten.
Includes 57 fine heliogravure reproductions of artistic photographs of disease, including numerous congenital deformities. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1894
#11121
Les accouchements dans les beaux-arts, dans la littérature et au théatre.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1894
#11210
Bibliographia Paracelsica: Besprechung der unter Theophrast v. Hohenheim's Namen 1527-1893 erschienenen Druckschriften
1894
#11267
Hospitals dispensaries and nursing. Papers and discussions in the International Congress of Charities, Correction and Philanthropy, Section III, Chicago, June 12th to 17th, 1893. Edited by John S. Billings and Henry M. Hurd.
Includes almost 90 articles on all aspects of hospitals and nursing, by luminaries such Henry Burdett, Lavinia Dock, Cardinal Gibbons, Isabel Hampton, Henry Lyman, and Lewis Pilcher, among dozens of others. Florence N…
1894
#11273
On chorea and choreiform affections.
"One year after Charcot's death, Osler published On Chorea and Choreiform Affectations (1894), and in this pithy monograph, Osler offered a particularly useful evaluation of Charcot's neurological contributions. Where…
1894 –1895
#11390
Chirurgie opératoire du système nerveux. 2 vols.
Among the innovations that Chipault made in neurosurgery were the removal of the underlyling dura in meningiomas, a new laminectomy technique, development of small clamps for closing a scalp incision, the treatment of…
1894
#11652
Lectures on the diagnosis of abdominal tumors. Reprinted from the New York Medical Journal.
This 165-page "monograph, based on lectures delivered to the postgraduate class at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in 1893, includes 67 case reports and 43 illustrations, some of which are photographs that depict patients …