1860–1869
571 entries with publication dates in this decade.
1861 CE
#1401
On the cerebellum, as the centre of co-ordination of the voluntary movements.
1861 CE
#8915
On the origin of species by means of natural selection....Third edition with additions and corrections (Seventh thousand).
Extensively revised, and the first edition to include the "historical sketch" crediting the historical precursors to the theory of evolution by natural selection. Darwin added this chapter in response to writings by S…
1861 CE
#3993
On the parasitic affections of the skin.
Anderson was Professor of Clinical Medicine at Glasgow. Digital facsimile of the second edition (1868) from the Internet Archive at this link.
1861 CE
#8914
On the various contrivances by which British and foreign orchids are fertilised by insects, and on the good effects of intercrossing.
Darwin's first work on plant fertilization and the first volume of evidence that he published to support the theories advanced in On the origin of species (1859). This was also the only book by Darwin that was issued …
1861 CE
#4619
Perte de la parole; ramollissement chronique et destruction partielle du lobe antérieur gauche du cerveau.
Broca localized the speech center in the left frontal lobe. He asserted that aphasia was associated with a lesion on the left third frontal convolution of the brain – “Broca’s center”. He was p…
1861 CE
#1400
Remarques sur le siège de la faculté du langage articulé, suivie d’une observation d’aphémie (perte de la parole).
Broca claimed the third left frontal convolution of the brain as the center of articulate speech – a point now disputed. He was first to trephine for a cerebral abscess diagnosed by this theory of localization o…
1861 CE
#2763
Short account of cardiac murmurs.
The murmur which Fauvel (No. 2754) had called “presystolic” was described by Gairdner, who called it “auricular-systolic.” This paper is important as being largely responsible for the recogniti…
1861 CE
#14188
Stammering and stuttering, their nature and treatment.
1861 CE
#3267
The breath of life; or mal-respiration, and its effects upon the enjoyments and life of man.
Catlin, the famous American artist, was the first in America to call attention to the bad effects of mouth-breathing. He based his book on observations of native American practices, and illustrated his book with humor…
1861 CE
#10049
The eastern, or Turkish bath: Its history, revival in Britain, and application to the purposes of health.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1861 CE
#6184
Ueber das technische Verfahren bei vernachlässigten Querlagen und über Decapitationsinstrumente.
Braun’s decapitation hook.
1861 CE
#486
Ueber den Bau und die Entwickelung der Wirbelthier-Eier mit partieller Dottertheilung.
Proof that the ovum is unicellular in all vertebrates.
1861 CE
#869
Ueber den Faserstoff und die Ursachen seiner Gerinnung.
1861 CE
#10039
Ueber die Beziehungen der darstellenden Kunst zur Heilkunst. Aus dem zehnten Bande der Abhandlungen der Königlichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1861 CE
#117
Ueber Muskelkörperchen und das, was man eine Zelle zu nennen habe.
Schultze showed the cell to be a clump of nucleated protoplasm, stating that each muscle fibre or primitive muscle bundle was developed from a single myoblast by successive divisions of its cell or nucleus. His work s…
1861 CE
#3460
Ueber polypöse Vegetationen der gesammten Dickdarmschleimhaut.
First authentic description of polyposis of the colon.
1861 CE
#164
Unité de l’espèce humaine.
De Quatrefages was one of the most eminent French anthropologists.
1861 CE
#1107
Untersuchungen über den Bau der Lymphdrüsen.
Histology of the lymphatics. His drew the illustrations.
1861 CE
#2387
Untersuchungen über den constitutionellen Mercurialismus und sein Verhältniss zur constitutionellen Syphilis.
1861 CE
#13416
Verzeichniss der hinterlassenen Bibliothek des Geh. Medicinalrathes Dr. v. Ammon in Dresden, welch nebst mehreren anderen Bibliotheken, sowie einem Anhange von Musikalien und Büchern über Musik....
1861 CE–1862 CE
#13270
(1) Zwei offene Briefe an Hofrath Dr. Eduard Casp. Jac. v. Siebold, . . . und an Hofrath Dr. F. W. Scanzoni . . .Ofen... 1861. (2) Zwei offene Briefe an Dr. J. Spaeth, Professor der Geburtshilfe an der k. k. Josefs-Akademie in Wien, und an Hofrath Dr. F. W. Scanzoni, Professor der Geburtshilfe zu Würzburg. Pest...1861. (3) Offener Brief an sämmtliche Professoren der Geburtshilfe. Ofen...1862.
Semmelweis’s last publications on antisepsis in obstetrics. Although the information and conclusions that Semelweis drew in his Die Aetiologie, der Begriff und die Prophylaxis des Kindbettfiebers (1861) were of …
1861 CE–1862 CE
#4640
Die Gürtelkrankheit.
Herpes zoster first ascribed to a lesion of the spinal ganglia.
1861 CE–1867 CE
#14159
Atlas des peripherischen Nervensystems des menschlichen Körpers / Atlas du système nerveux périphérique du corps humain. Mit einem Vorwort von Prof. Dr. Th. W. L. Bischoff, nach der Natur photographirt von Joseph Alb. 10 parts.
Issued in 10 parts in folio (510 x 360 mm). Includes 46 large-format original photographs mounted on sheets of cardboard.
1861 CE–1867 CE
#2968
Der erste Fall von erfolgreicher Unterbindung der Art. hepatica propria gegen Aneurysma.
Successful ligation of the hepatic artery.
1861 CE–2005 CE
#6715
The roll of the Royal College of Physicians of London; comprising biographical sketches. (Lives of the fellows.) 12 vols.
“Munk’s Roll”. Covers the period 1518-2005 and onward. The entire work is available as a searchable electronic resource from the Royal College of Physicians at this link. "The first volume in this se…
1862 CE
#2220
A treatise on the continued fevers of Great Britain.
Murchison was one of the greatest clinical teachers London has ever known; of his many writings his book on continued fever is probably the most important. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1862 CE
#11625
An inquiry into the medicinal value of the excreta of reptiles, in phthisis and some other diseases.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1862 CE
#5889
Astigmatisme en cilindrische glazen.
Includes statement of “Donders’s law” – the rotation of the eye around the line of sight is not voluntary. French and German translations, 1862.
1862 CE
#3269
Beiträge zur Laryngoscopie.
Lewin was probably the first to extirpate a laryngeal growth with the aid of the laryngoscope. Bruns claimed this distinction, but may not have heard of Lewin.
1862 CE
#3007
Beiträge zur normalen und pathologischen Anatomie der Lungen.
First description of pulmonary fat embolism in man.
1862 CE
#2961
Case of iliac aneurism.
Syme treated a case of iliac aneurysm by opening the sac and ligating the common iliac and the internal and external iliac arteries.
1862 CE
#4695
Case of progressive atrophy of the muscles of the hands: enlargement of the ventricle of the cord in the cervical region, with atrophy of the gray matter.
First description of syringomyelia.
1862 CE
#7621
Catalogue of the osteological portion of specimens contained in the Anatomical Museum of the University of Cambridge.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1862 CE
#10440
Chinese immigration and the physiological causes of the decay of a nation.
Medical justification for racism, racial prejudice, and xenophobia in its purest sense. The author, a physician, also published several works of conventional medicine. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at th…
1862 CE
#6525
Compendium der Geschichte der Medicin von den Urzeiten bis auf die Gegenwart, mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Neuzeit und der Wiener Schule. 2te Aufl.
1862 CE
#220.1
Contributions to an insect fauna of the Amazon valley: Lepidoptera: Heliconidae.
Bates spent eleven years in the Amazon and there collected 8,000 species of insects new to science. In the above paper he clearly stated and solved the problem of “mimicry”, known today as “Batesian …
1862 CE
#2704
De l’asphyxie locale et de la gangrène symétrique des extrémités.
First description of “Raynaud’s disease.” Raynaud was the first to describe this disorder, which causes extreme constriction of the peripheral blood vessels resulting in discoloration of the fingers,…
1862 CE
#2388
Della trasmissione delle sifilide mediante la inoculazione del sangue.
Proof of the possibility of transmission of syphilis by blood transfusion.
1862 CE
#3268
Die erste Ausrottung eines Polypen in der Kehlkopfshöhle durch Zerschneiden ohne blutige Eröffnung der Luftwege.
First enucleation of a laryngeal polyp by the bloodless method. Digital facsimile of the second edition (1862) from the Internet Archive at this link.
1862 CE
#3376
Die Krankheiten des Ohres.
Tröltsch was Professor of Otology as Würzburg. He was the founder of the Archiv für Ohrenheilkunde. English translation, 1874.
1862 CE
#1108
Die Lymphgefässe und ihre Beziehung zum Bindegewebe.
“Recklinghausen’s canals”, the lymph canaliculi.
1862 CE
#5748
Die Uranoplastik mittelst Ablösung es mucös-periostalen Gaumenüberzuges.
Langenbeck has several operations named after him, one of the most important being that for cleft palate. Abridged English translation in No. 5768.2.
1862 CE
#4053
Disease of the skin produced by post mortem examinations, or verruca necrogenica.
Description of dissecting-room warts (verrucae necrogenicae),tuberculosis verrucosa cutis (also known as Lupus verrucosus, Prosector's wart, and "Warty tuberculosis"[ the cutaneous tuberculosis of Laennec, sometimes c…
1862 CE
#5344.1
Ein Beitrag zur Pathologie der Trichinenkrankheit beim Menschen.
First confirmed diagnosis of trichinosis in a living person.
1862 CE
#10619
Étude sur les hôpitaux considerés sour le rapport de leur construction de la distribution de leurs batiments de l'ameublement, de l'hygiène & du service des salles de malades.
Digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this link.
1862 CE
#1005
Experimental researches into a new excretory function of the liver, consisting in the removal of cholesterine from the blood and its discharge from the body in the form of stercorine.
Discovery, in the feces, of “stercorine” (coprosterol).
1862 CE
#3008
Experimentelle Beiträge zur Lehre von der Embolie.
Experimental study of the effects of ligation of coronary vessels.
1862 CE
#11311
Health: Its friends and foes.
This work, which promoted vegetarianism and abstinence from tobacco along with other hygiene and overall health advice, was written as the author stated in his preface, "to meet the comprehension of the general reader…
1862 CE
#4973
Mécanisme de la physionomie humaine, ou analyse électro-physiologique de l’expression des passions applicable à la pratique des arts plastiques. Premier fascicule. [All published]. 1 volume of text plus atlas of photographs by Duchenne.
Duchenne studied the mechanism of facial expression during emotion; his atlas of photographs was the first medical book illustrated with photographs of living subjects. Darwin reproduced a number of his photographs in…
1862 CE
#2166.1
Notes on arrow wounds.
The definitive work on American Indian arrow wounds suffered by U. S. troops and settlers in frontier warfare during the Western expansion of the United States. Bill eventually developed a "Forceps for the Extraction …