1860–1869

1862 CE

#9678

Notes on Chinese materia medica. Reprinted, with some corrections, from the Pharmaceutical Journal and Transactions.

Reprinted, with continuous pagination, and index from the Pharmaceutical Journal for July and August, 1860, for November and December, 1861, and for February 1862. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this l…

1862 CE

#2764

On cardiac murmurs.

First description of the “Austin Flint murmur,” present at the apex beat in aortic regurgitation. Reprinted in Med. Classics, 1940, 4, 864-900.

1862 CE

#220.2

On our knowledge of the causes of the phenomenon of organic nature.

This series of six lectures delivered to “working men” in November and December, 1862 includes Huxley’s first book-form exposition of Darwin’s theories, of which he was probably the greatest po…

1862 CE

#14045

On the extent and aims of a national museum of natural history.

Owen was the prime mover behind the construction of the Natural History Museum, a project that occupied him for over two decades. His On the Extent and Aims of a National Museum of Natural History, containing the text…

1862 CE

#6050

On vaginismus.

1862 CE

#7792

Poetae bucolici et didactici: Theocritus, Bion, Moschus....Phile De animalibus, elephanti, plantis....

Manuel Philes of Ephesus wrote didactic poems on the characteristics of animals, chiefly based upon Aelian and Oppian, and a didactic poem of some 2000 lines, dedicated to Michael IX Palaiologos; on the elephant, and …

1862 CE

#5890

Probebuchstaben zur Bestimmung der Sehschärfe.

Snellen’s test-types (“Optotypi”) which soon gained acceptance in all civilized countries. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1862 CE

#7817

Regulations for the Medical Department of the C. S. Army.

Electronic edition from unc.edu, Documenting the American South, at this link.

1862 CE

#3936

Researches on the nature and treatment of diabetes

Pavy devoted many years to the study of diabetes. He concluded that there was a definite relationship between the degree of hyperglycemia and glycosuria.

1862 CE

#7737

The hospital steward's manual; for the instruction of hospital stewards, wardmasters, and attendants, in their several duties; prepared in strict accordance with existing regulations and the customs of service in the armies of the United States of America, and rendered authoritative by order of the Surgeon-General.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Arhive at this link.

1862 CE

#870

Ueber das Verhalten des Blutfarbstoffe im Spectrum des Sonnenlichtes.

Using the spectroscope, Hoppe-Seyler discovered the absorption spectrum of blood. See No. 873.

1862 CE

#1269

Ueber die peripherischen Endorgane der motorischen Nerven.

Kühne described the neuromuscular end organ (“Kühne’s spindle”) and introduced the term “telolemma” for the outer covering of its sheath.

1862 CE

#1613

Ueber eine Methode die Kohlensäure in der atmosphärischen Luft zu bestimmen.

Pettenkofer was the founder of experimental hygiene; he was the first to institute a laboratory for hygienic investigation.

1862 CE

#814

Ueber Reflexionen von und zum Herzen (Klopfversuch).

Rapidly-repeated blows on the belly of a frog caused cessation of the heart-beat, which Goltz concluded was brought about by reflex inhibition through the vagus, an important contribution to the knowledge of the mecha…

1862 CE

#1004

Ueber specifisch wirkende Körper des natürlichen und künstlichen pancreatischen Saftes.

Discovery of trypsin.

1862 CE

#2166

Un souvenir de Solferino.

Dunant’s account of the great sufferings endured by the wounded at Solferino inspired the creation of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in 1863, and resulted in the Geneva Convention of 1864. I…

1862 CE

#936

Untersuchungen über den Bau der Nasenschleimhaut, namentlich die Structur und Endigungsweise der Geruchsnerven bei dem Menschen und den Wirbelthieren.

Schultze’s classic paper on the nerves to the neuro-epithelium in the special sense organs marks an epoch in histology. He described the cells of the olfactory muccous membrane, “Schultze’s cells&rdq…

1862 CE–1863 CE

#937

Ueber die Respiration.

1862 CE–1863 CE

#938

Untersuchungen über die Respiration.

The first combined feeding–respiration experiments. Pettenkofer and Voit devised an apparatus for their important experiments on respiration and metabolism. They were first to estimate the amounts of protein, fa…

1862 CE–1865 CE

#4422.1

Handbuch der Lehre von den Knochenbruchen. 2 vols.

Gurlt, the celebrated historian of surgery (see No. 5800), wrote an exhaustive and detailed review of the literature on fractures. As a source of obscure and arcane information it is unsurpassed. Digital facsimile fro…

1862 CE–1866 CE

#167

On the methods and results of ethnology.

Includes Huxley’s classification of mankind by means of the hair. The full text was originally published in the Fortnightly Review, I, 1865, 257-76. The full text was reprinted in Huxley's Critiques and addresse…

1862 CE–1876 CE

#2453

Die menschlichen Parasiten und die von ihnen herrührenden Krankheiten. 2 vols.

Includes the first complete and accurate account of the life history and morphology of Taenia echinococcus. Leuckart proved the relationship between hydatid cysts and minute tape-worms in dogs. English translation, Ed…

1862 CE–1883 CE

#9173

Genera plantarum: Ad exemplaria imprimis in Herberiis Kewensibus servata definita; auctoribus G. Bentham et J.D. Hooker. 3 vols. in 9 parts.

First publication of the Bentham & Hooker taxonomic system for seed plants published before there were internationally accepted rules for botanical nomenclature. Digital facsimile from the Biodiversity Heritage Archiv…

1863 CE

#9161

A brief plea for an ambulance system for the army of the United States, as drawn from the extra sufferings of the late Lieut. Bowditch and a wounded comrade.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1863 CE

#10496

A catalogue of surgical instruments, apparatus, appliances, etc. Manufactured and sold by John Weiss & Son.

Though based in England, John Weiss & Son's catalogue offered and illustrated a wide range of equipment that would have been used in the American Civil War or the Crimean War. Facsimile reprint, with Snowdon & Brother…

1863 CE

#4538

A contribution to the pathology of the crura cerebri.

“Weber’s syndrome”or “Weber–Gubler syndrome” – hemiplegia associated with disease of the crura cerebri; first described by Gubler (No. 4531).

1863 CE

#7739

A manual of instructions for enlisting and discharging soldiers. With special reference to the medical examination of recruits, and the detection of disqualifying and feigned diseases.

Digital facsimile of the 1864 printing from the Internet Archive at this link.

1863 CE

#7736

A manual of military surgery, prepared for the use of the Confederate States Army by order of the Surgeon-General [Samuel P. Moore].

". . . confined to those affections most intimately connected with gun-shot wounds and operations, as Shock, Tetanus, Hospital Gangrene, Pyaemia, &c." (from the preface). This is the only extensively illustrated Confe…

1863 CE

#12167

A report on hospital gangrene, eryipelas and pyaemia, as observed in the departments of the Ohio and the Cumberland, with cases appended. Published by permission of the Surgeon General U.S.A.

Middleton, surgeon in the U.S. Volunteers, recommended the placement of volatile bromine in all patient wards. He developed a method of applying bromine deep into muscular layers after wound debridement then injecting…

1863 CE

#6615.1

A study of Hamlet.

The first psychiatric study of Hamlet. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1863 CE

#7812

An epitome of practical surgery for field and hospital.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1863 CE

#816

Appareils et expériences cardiographiques.

First direct records of the heart impulse by means of a “cardiac sound” and the sphygmograph – recording tambours, which wrote on a moving drum covered with smoked paper.

1863 CE

#5892

Atlas der Ophthalmoscopie. Darstellung des Augengrundes im gesunden und krankhaften Zustande enthalten.

First atlas of the fundus. The author was an assistant to Helmholtz at the time of the invention of the ophthalmoscope. The work is illustrated with reproductions of his own paintings. Text in French and German. Engli…

1863 CE

#6759

Biographisch-literarisches Handwörterbuch zur Geschichte der exacten Wissenschaften. 8 vols. in 11 pts.

Brief biographies, fuller bibliographies. Erster Band. A–L. 1863 . Zweiter Band. M–Z. 1863 . Dritter Band (1858 bis 1883). 1898 Vierter Band (Die Jahre 1883 bis zur Gegenwart umfassend). 1904: T. 1. A-L. T…

1863 CE

#11318

Catalogue of the New-York Museum of Anatomy No. 618 Broadway, New-York. Principals: Drs. Jordan & Beck No. 40 Bond Street. Open daily, for gentlemn only, from 10 A.M. till 10 P. M. Admission, 25 cents.

30-page catalogue of a commercial medical museum "for gentlemen only" and clearly operated as an advertisement for Jordan and Beck's medical practice. A great deal of the displayed material was intended to be titillat…

1863 CE

#13844

China from a medical point of view in 1860 and 1861: To which is added a chapter on Nagasaki as a sanitarium.

Digital facsimile from wellcomecollection.org at this link.

1863 CE

#1401.1

Considérations sur les localisations cérébrales et en particulier sur le siège de la faculté du langage articulé.

Auburtin did much to establish the principle of cerebral localization. He demonstrated on a patient whose frontal lobe was exposed following a gunshot wound that merely touching the uninjured lobe with a spatula would…

1863 CE

#4333

Contractur des Metatarsus.

Congenital metatarsus varus described.

1863 CE

#118

Das Protoplasma der Rhizopoden und der Pflanzenzellen.

Schultze showed that protoplasm is practically identical in all living cells.

1863 CE

#6051

De l’ovariotomie.

The introduction of ovariotomy into France was in part due to Koeberlé. He made great advances in gynecological operative technique.

1863 CE

#14165

Der Gebrauch des Spektroskopes zu physiologischen und ärztlichen Zwecken.

The first monograph on medical spectroscopy. After Hoppe-Seyler published the first paper on the application of spectroscopy to blood chemistry in 1862 (No. 870), Valentin decided to publish his own contributions to t…

1863 CE

#5608

Die allgemeine chirurgische Pathologie und Therapie.

Billroth, professor of surgery at Zürich and Vienna, was the founder of the Vienna School of Surgery. He has also been called the founder of modern abdominal surgery, and he was one of the first to introduce anti…

1863 CE

#1562

Die Lehre von der Tonempfindungen als physiologische Grundlage für die Theorie der Musik.

Helmholtz’s theory of hearing, upon which all modern theories of resonance are based. This exhaustive study of acoustics ranks as one of the greatest books on the subject and shows that Helmholtz was, besides be…

1863 CE

#5767

Die Literatur and Geschichte der plastichen Chirurgie.

A history of plastic surgery and an annotated bibliography of its literature prior to 1860. Nachträge, 1864. Reprint, including Nachträge, Bologna, 1963. The main bibliography has 2008 references, the supple…

1863 CE

#1270

Die Muskelspindeln. Ein Beitrag zur Lehre von der Entwickelung der Muskeln und Nervenfasem.

The best early description of proprioceptive receptors in muscles.

1863 CE

#5891

Ein neues und gefahrloses Operations-Verhfahren zur Heilung des grauen Staares.

Jacobson used a peripheral incision in his operation for cataract.

1863 CE

#165

Evidence as to man’s place in nature.

Huxley showed that in the visible characters man differs less from the higher apes than do the latter from lower members of the same order of primates. He also provided the first thorough and detailed comparative desc…

1863 CE

#2477

Examen du rôle attribué au gaz oxygène atmosphérique dans la destruction des matières et végétales après la mort.

1863 CE

#6052

Exstirpation de l’utérus et des ovaires.

First successful excision of uterus and ovaries for tumor.

1863 CE

#4054

Fall einer selten Muskelkrankheit.

First recorded case of dermatomyositis, now regarded as a connective tissue disease.