1810–1819

1817 CE

#10747

Ideen zu einer Geschichte der Entwicklung des kindlichen Alters. Psychologische Untersuchungen.

Perhaps the oldest separate work on the psychological development of children, written five years after Grohmann published a work on the education of children. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1817 CE

#327

Le règne animal. 4 vols.

Second edition in five vols., 1829–1830. After Cuvier's death 12 "disciples" of Cuvier brought out a third edition in 22 vols. from 1836 to 1849. The 12 "disciples" were Jean Victor Audouin (insects), Gerard Pau…

1817 CE

#7108

Medical jurisprudence as it relates to insanity, according to the laws of England.

The first English work on the forensic aspects of mental illness. Digital facsimile from Wellcome Forensics Collection, Internet Archive, at this link.

1817 CE

#2744

Mémoire sur cette question de l’asthme des vieillards: est-il une affection nerveuse?

Rostan gave an early description of cardiac (“Rostan’s”) asthma.

1817 CE

#1843

Mémoire sur l’émétine, et sur les trois espèces d’ipecacuanha.

Isolation of emetine. It was not until a century later that Vedder demonstrated its value in the treatment of amoebiasis. Also during 1817 Magendie and Pelletier published "Recherches chimiques et physiologiques sur l…

1817 CE

#12694

Memoirs of the life and writings of the late John Coakley Lettsom..., with a selection from his correspondence

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1817 CE

#2940

Memoria sulla legature delle principali arterie degli arti.

1817 CE

#12746

Nosologie naturelle, ou les maladies du corps humain distribuées par familles. Tome premier. (All published.)

This unfinished work with 22 spectacular plates included some full body images of patients, and unlike other illustrated works by Alibert, it concerned more than skin diseases. Vol. 2 was never published but a second,…

1817 CE

#13247

Notice historique sur l'Institution Royale des Jeunes Aveugles.

The first book printed in heavily embossed type for the blind. In 1819 Sebastien Guillé issued a second edition of this work identifying himself as the author.

1817 CE

#9701

On transfusion of blood in extreme cases of haemorrhage.

In 1816 Leacock, from Barbados, reported systematic experiments in Edinburgh on dogs and cats that established that donor and recipient must be of the same species, and recommended inter-human transfusion; he then ret…

1817 CE

#10519

Physical observations, and medical tracts and researches, on the topography and diseases of Louisiana.

Digital facsimile from U.S. National Library of Medicine at this link.

1817 CE

#3585

Recherches anatomiques sur les hernies de l’abdomen.

This is Cloquet’s medical thesis. It was followed by his thesis in competition for head of the anatomy section of the Paris Faculty: Recherches sur les causes et l’anatomie des hernies abdominales. Paris, …

1817 CE

#8816

Results of an investigation, respecting epidemic and pestilential diseases; including researches in the Levant, concerning the plague. 2 vols.

"From 1815 to 1817 Maclean travelled in Spain, Turkey, and the Levant, and he studied the plague at the Greek Pest Hospital at Constantinople, in the service of the Levant Company. His experiences in the Levant and in…

1817 CE

#2672.2

Séméiologie générale, ou traité des signes et de leur valeur dans les maladies. Vol. 2.

Double introduced and applied auscultation (pp. 31 and 186).

1817 CE

#6023

Three cases of extirpation of diseased ovaria.

McDowell was a pioneer ovariotomist. Although not the first to perform this operation, he deserves credit for putting it upon a permanent basis. The above records his first ovariotomy, performed in 1809, together with…

1817 CE

#2468

Vergiftung durch verdorbene Würste.

Botulism first described. Kerner published an expanded study as Neue Beobachtungen über die in Würtemberg so häufig vorfallenden tödtlichen Vergiftung durch den Genuss geräuchter Würstem,…

1817 CE–1818 CE

#11540

Histoire médicale générale et particulière des maladies épidémiques, contagieuses et épizootiques qui ont régné en Europe depuis les temps les plus reculés, et notamment depuis le XIVe siècle jusqu’à nos jours. 2 vols.

The history of epidemics and epizootics in Europe since the 14th century. Digital facsimile of the first edition from Google Books at this link. Greatly revised, corrected and augmented second edition, Paris & Lyon, 1…

1817 CE–1819 CE

#1841

Vegetable materia medica of the United States. 2 vols.

Barton served as a naval surgeon and, in 1815, became Professor of Botany at Philadelphia. Along with Bigelow (No. 1842) Barton’s work is one of the first two botanical works with colored plates issued in the Un…

1817 CE–1820 CE

#1842

American medical botany, being a collection of the native medicinal plants of the United States, containing their botanical history and chemical analysis, and properties and uses in medicine, diet and the arts. 3 vols.

Bigelow was professor of materia medica and botany at Harvard. This work included native American remedies. It was the first book printed in the United States to include color plates printed in color. See R.J. Wolfe, …

1817 CE–1826 CE

#2284

Tabulae anatomico-pathologicae. 4 pts.

Meckel’s work on embryology brought a better understanding of congenital malformations, which had previously been attributed by many to supernatural influence. This work illustrates a number of anomalies and oth…

1817 CE–1848 CE

#107

Isis, oder encyclopädische Zeitung (verzüglich für Naturgeschichte, vergleichende Anatomie und Physiologie), VON OKEN. 41 vols.

Lorenz Oken, a leading light in the Nature-Philosophical School in Germany, produced important work in the field of biology. He founded the journal Isis, which published articles of great value; its incursion into the…

1818 CE

#2743

A case of apoplexy in which the fleshy part of the heart was converted into fat.

First accurate description of the condition which later became known as “Cheyne–Stokes respiration.” Reprinted in F. A. Willius & T. E. Keys: Cardiac classics, 1941, pp. 317-20.

1818 CE

#408

Afbeeldingen van de juiste plaatsing der inwendige deelen van het menschelijk ligchaam.

First anatomical illustrations of frozen sections. De Riemer appears to have been the first to freeze tissues in order to permit fine sectioning for the purposes of diagnosing diseased tissue. Digital facsimile from U…

1818 CE

#6168

Allgemeine geburtshülfliche Betrachtungen und über die künstliche Frühgeburt.

Artificial induction of premature labour.

1818 CE

#6167

An analysis of the subject of extrauterine foetation and of the retroversion of the gravid uterus.

Expansion of No. 6166. First book on the subject.

1818 CE

#2976

Anéurisme à l’artère poplitée par la compression.

Dupuytren was the first successfully to treat aneurysm by compression.

1818 CE

#10614

Catalogue of the museum of John Heaviside, Esq.: Comprising human anatomy, natural and morbid, comparative anatomy, and natural history.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1818 CE

#10268

Codex medicamentarius sive pharmacopoea gallica jussu regis optimi et ex mandato summi rerum internarum regni administri, editus a Facultate Medica Parisiensi anno 1818.

The first French national pharmacopeia. The French pharmacopeia became the model for later national attempts to publish national pharmacopeias. Notably the first U.S. pharmacopeia was issued in 1820. After a legal not…

1818 CE

#2015

Experiments on the transfusion of blood by the syringe.

Blundell invented a syringe by means of which he was able to transfuse dogs.

1818 CE

#9692

Frankenstein; or, the modern prometheus. 3 vols.

The full digitized text of the 1818 is available from the Internet Archive at this link.

1818 CE

#13644

Index Musei Anatomici Kiliensis. . . loco dissertationis inauguralis conscriptus.

Catalogues 1150 anatomical preparations in the anatomical museum at Kiel. Foreward by anatomist/pathologist Johann Leonhard Fischer (1760-1833) who was responsible for much of the collection.

1818 CE

#4926

Lehrbuch der Störungen des Seelenlebens.

Heinroth drew his psychology from the Bible and maintained that mental health was maintained only by piety and that sin engendered madness; for him treatment was by repentance and a return to the fold. English transla…

1818 CE

#7369

Narrative of a journey in the interior of China, and of a voyage to and from that country, in the years 1816 and 1817; containing an account of the most interesting transactions of Lord Amherst's embassy to the court of Pekin and observations on the countries which it visited.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1818 CE

#2162

Observations on some important points in the practice of military surgery.

“A valuable surgical record of the Napoleonic period” (Garrison).

1818 CE

#10069

Oeuvres complètes de Bordeu, précédés d'une notice sur sa vie et sur ses ouvrages, par M. le Chevalier Richerand. 2 vols.

1818 CE

#4311

Pathological and surgical observations on the diseases of the joints.

Brodie’s best work. It includes his description of hysterical pseudo-fracture of the spine and the first clinical description of ankylosing spondylitis. The fifth edition, 1850, gives (p. 77) a description of &l…

1818 CE

#13075

Pharmacopoeia Geniki.

The first pharmacopeia printed in Turkey. This was a translation into Greek from Brugnatelli's Farmakopoea ad uso degli Speziali, e Medici Moderni della Repubblica Italiana. The printer in Istanbul was not identified.…

1818 CE

#5182.1

Practical observations on fever, dysentery and liver complaints as they occur amongst European troops in India. With introductory remarks on the disadvantages of selecting boys for Indian military service.

Ballingall distinguished between amoebic and bacillary dysentery. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1818 CE

#2942

Reflections on securing in a ligature the arteria innominata, to which is added a case in which the artery was tied by a surgical operation.

First ligation of the innominate artery, May 11, 1818. The artery was tied off half an inch below its bifurcation, and the patient suffered no respiratory or circulatory embarrassment. The ligature separated from the …

1818 CE

#5738

Rhinoplastik, oder die Kunst den Verlust der Nase organisch zu ersetzen.

Von Graefe revived rhinoplasty in Germany with this survey of what he called the three methods: the Italian, the Indian, and the “German” method, his own variation on the Italian method. On p. 13 he descri…

1818 CE

#9508

Secours à donner aux personnes empoisonnées ou asphyxiées, suivis des moyens propres à reconnaître les poisons et les vins frelatés et à distinguer la mort réelle de la mort apparente.

Translated into English by B. H. Black and published in 1819 as Directions for the treatment of persons who have taken poison, and those in a state of apparent death: Together with the means of detecting poisons and a…

1818 CE

#1555

Supplementa ad otojatriam. Supplementum primum de anastomosi nervorum nova in aure detecta.

Jacobson described the tympanic canal, nerve, and plexus, all of which are named after him. In 1809 he discovered “Jacobson’s organ”, as reported two years later by G. Cuvier.

1818 CE

#7771

The genera of North American plants, and a catalogue of the species to the year 1817. 2 vols.

The first comprehensive botany of the United States. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1818 CE

#5842.1

Traité des maladies des yeux. 3 vols. and atlas.

Includes the first description of glaucoma in which heightened intraocular pressure is recognized, credit for which goes to the author’s father, Pierre Demours (1702-95), whose portrait appears in the atlas in r…

1818 CE

#7319

Travels from Vienna through Lower Hungary; with remarks on the state of Vienna during the congress in the year 1814.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1818 CE

#216.2

Two essays: upon single vision with two eyes; the other on dew…An account of a female of the white race of mankind, part of whose skin resembles that of a negro…

First statement of the theory of natural selection. Wells’s paper on a white woman with patchy brown discoloration of the skin contains an almost complete anticipation of Darwin’s theory of natural selecti…

1818 CE–1819 CE

#2941

Surgical essays. 2 vols.

Cooper, the pupil and great interpreter of Hunter, was the most popular surgeon in London during the Regency. In 1802 he gained the Copley Medal of the Royal Society. Travers was surgeon to St. Thomas’s Hospital…

1818 CE–1822 CE

#534.57

Philosophie anatomique. Tome Premier. Des organes respiratoires sou le rapport de la détermination et de l'identité de leur pièces osseuses. Avec figures de 116 nouvelles preparations d'anatomie. [Tome Deuxième]. Des monstruosités humaines, ouvrage contenant une classification des monstres; la description et la comparaison des principaux genres; une histoire raisonnée des phénomènes de la monstruosité et des faits primitifs qui la produisent; des vues nouvelles touchant la nutrition du foetus et d'autres circonstrances de son développement....Avec figures des détails anatomiques. 2 vols.

The elder Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire is credited with coining the word teratology, and was the first seriously to attempt the experimental production of anomalies, by manipulating chick eggs. See T. Cahn, La vie et l'oeuv…

1818 CE–1825 CE

#6237

Handbuch der Entbindungskunst. 3 vols. in 5.

Includes (Bd. 2, Abt II, p. 302) description of Osiander’s lower-segment Caesarean operation.

1819 CE

#4288

A history of the high operation for the stone, by incision above the pubis; with observations on the advantages attending it; and an account of the various methods of lithotomy, from the earliest periods to the present time.

Carpue popularized suprapubic lithotomy, a procedure not often previously carried out.