1860–1869

1864 CE

#203.1

Crania Helvetica: Sammlung schweizerischer Schädelformen.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1864 CE

#3461

Das perforirende Geschwür im Duodenum.

The first comprehensive study of duodenal ulcer. Commercial edition, Berlin: A. Hirschwald, 1865. Digital facsimile of the 1864 edition from the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek at this link. Digital facsimile of the 1865 …

1864 CE

#622

Du rôle des actions réflexes paralysantes dans le phénomène des sécrétions.

Studies of the “paralytic secretions” occasioned by section of glandular nerves.

1864 CE

#1700.1

English life table. Tables of lifetimes, annuities, and premiums.

First extensive application of a mechanical computer to medical statistics. The appendix details the use of the Scheutz version of Charles Babbage’s calculating machine in the construction of English Life Table …

1864 CE

#5344.4

Entozoa.

Cobbold suggested (p. 36) that a mollusc was the intermediate host in bilharziasis.

1864 CE

#221

Für Darwin.

Müller, the first German to support Darwin, studied the development of the Crustacea in Brazil and published some of his results in the above little book, which contains much original information. He realized the…

1864 CE

#2167

Gunshot wounds and other injuries of nerves.

Mitchell, Morehouse, and Keen were army surgeons during the American Civil War; their book was the first exhaustive study of the traumatic neuroses. Includes the first description of ascending neuritis, and also of th…

1864 CE

#8109

Le Mexique et l'Amérique tropicale: climats, hygiène et maladies.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1864 CE

#4334

Lectures on orthopaedic surgery.

Before emigrating to America, Bauer studied under Stromeyer. Hugh Owen Thomas considered him “the first exponent of American orthopaedics”. This is the first comprehensive American textbook of orthopedics.…

1864 CE

#2962

Ligature of the left subclavian inside the scalenus muscle, together with common carotid and vertebral arteries for subclavian aneurism haemorrhage from the distal end of the subclavian; death on 42nd day.

1864 CE

#4620

Loss of speech: its association with valvular disease of the heart, and with hemiplegia on the right side. Defects of smell. Defects of speech in chorea. Arterial regions in epilepsy.

Jackson studied aphasia for 30 years. He emphasized its psychological aspects and laid the foundation for present knowledge of the condition, but he was ahead of his time and the value of his work was not recognized f…

1864 CE

#145.59

Man and nature; or, physical geography as modified by human action.

“The fountainhead of the conservation movement” (Mumford). This is a comprehensive scientific account of humanity's enormous and often destructive impact on the physical world. Marsh warned of the dangers …

1864 CE

#11578

Medical diagnosis with special reference to practical medicine: A guide to the knowledge and discrimination of diseases.

During the Civil War Da Costa was an acting surgeon in Philadelphia where he supervised a ward for patients with heart disease. In this book he presented the first description of a condition that he called "irritable …

1864 CE

#4499

Mémoire sur les coincidences pathologiques du rhumatisme articulaire chronique.

First description of chronic arthritis in childhood.

1864 CE

#11905

Narrative of privations and sufferings of the United States officers and soldiers while prisoners of war in the hands of the rebel authorities. Being the report of a commission of inquiry, appointed by the United States Sanitary Commission. With an appendix, containing the testimony. Edited by Valentine Mott.

Includes four engravings based upon photographs of Union soldiers who were emaciated following imprisonment at Belle Isle. The contributors included Dorothea Dix and several military surgeons, including William Ely, G…

1864 CE

#6054

Observations on ovariotomy, statistical and practical. Also, a successful case of entire removal of the uterus and its appendages.

For many years Clay was the most eminent ovariotomist in Great Britain. In all, he performed 395 ovariotomies, with a mortality of 25 percent.

1864 CE

#2980

On a new method of procuring the consolidation of fibrin in certain incurable aneurisms.

Moore and Murchison introduced the method of treating aneurysm by passing wire into the aneurysmal sac.

1864 CE

#4468

On amputation by a single flap.

Carden devised a single flap operation, cutting through the femur just above the knee-joint. He published a book on the subject in 1864.

1864 CE

#6186

On combined external and internal version.

Introduction of combined podalic version.

1864 CE

#4055

On impetigo contagiosa, or porrigo.

“Impetigo of Tilbury Fox”, impetigo contagiosa, first described.

1864 CE

#5893

On the anomalies of accommodation and refraction of the eye… Translated from the author’s manuscript by W.D. Moore.

Donders’s greatest work, the basis for all succeeding studies of the subject, and a classic of physiological optics. It contains Donders’s explanation of astigmatism, his definition of aphakia and hypermet…

1864 CE

#5344.5

On the endemic haematuria of the Cape of Good Hope.

Like Cobbold, Harley expressed the view that a mollusc was the intermediate host in bilharziasis.

1864 CE

#12726

Recherches sur la bibliothèque de la Faculté de médecine de Paris, d'après des documents entièrement inédits, suivies d'une notice sur les manuscrits qui y sont conservés.

Digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this liink.

1864 CE

#8994

The female spy of the union army. The thrilling adventures, experiences, and escapes of a woman nurse, spy, and scout, in hospitals, camps and battlefields.

Digital facsimile of a reprint of the 1864 edition from the Internet Archive at this link. Reissued in 1865 as Nurse and spy in the Union Army: Containing the adventures and experience of a woman in hospitals, camps, …

1864 CE

#7331

The gray substance of the medulla oblongata and trapezium.

The first American medical book illustrated with photomechanically reproduced plates. Oliver Wendell Holmes praised the book for its remarkable photomicrographs, which may be the first published of brain cross-section…

1864 CE

#8975

The muscles and their story, from the earliest times: Including the whole text of Mercurialis, and the opinions of other writers, ancient and modern, on mental and bodily development

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1864 CE

#14047

The origin of human races and the antiquity of man deduced from the theory of “natural selection."

Wallace delivered this paper to the polygenist Anthropological Society of London on 1 March 1864. It represents “the first effort to connect natural selection to the touchy problem of the evolution of human race…

1864 CE

#6185

The principles and practice of obstetrics.

Hodge, nearly blind, dictated this superb textbook from memory to his son. It includes his concept of “parallel planes” at the various levels of the pelvic canal, and his placental forceps for the completi…

1864 CE

#14042

The reputed fossil man of the Neanderthal.

King believed that the Feldhofer Neanderthal skull discovered by Fuhrott and Schaafhausen differed significantly from all known ancient and modern human crania. In this paper he proposed the name Homo neanderthalensis…

1864 CE

#3820

Ueber Basedow’sche Krankheit.

“Graefe’s sign” – the discovery by von Graefe of the failure of the eyelid to follow the eye when it is rolled downward – diagnostic of exophthalmic goitre. Partial English translation in…

1864 CE

#2676.2

Ueber dasverschiedene Verhalten gelähmter Muskeln gegen den constanten und inducirten Strom und die Erklärung desselben.

One of the first publications on electrodiagnosis.

1864 CE

#873

Ueber den chemischen und optischen Eigenschaften des Blutfarbstoffs.

Hoppe-Seyler obtained hemoglobin in crystalline form and made other important discoveries in hematology. See also No. 870. See Frederic L. Holmes, "Crystals and carriers: The chemical and physiological identification …

1864 CE

#5667

Ueber die Einwirkung von Wasserstoff auf Einfach-Chlorkohlenstoff.

Discovery of trichlorethylene by Emil Fischer while working on the preparation of tetrachloroethylene.

1864 CE

#4335

Ueber einen Fall von cystoider Entartung des ganzen Skelettes.

First description of osteitis fibrosa cystica – hyperparathyroid bone disease, also known as “von Recklinghausen’s disease of bone”.

1864 CE

#623

Untersuchungen über elektrische Nervenreizung.

Among the instruments introduced by Fick for the study of muscle and nerve physiology were the myotonograph, the cosine lever, and an improved thermopile.

1864 CE

#4211

Wandernde Nieren und deren Einklemmung.

“Dietl’s crisis”. Dietl described the sudden severe attacks of nephralgic or gastric pain, chills, fever, nausea and vomiting, and general collapse, ascribing them to partial turning of the kidney up…

1864 CE–1865 CE

#335

A history of the fishes of the British Islands. 4 vols.

Couch, a general practitioner at Polperro, Cornwall, became one of the greatest authorities on British fishes. The work, a monument of industry and patience, includes 252 hand-colored plates, also by Couch. Digital fa…

1864 CE–1865 CE

#7740

Confederate States Medical and Surgical Journal.

Confederate States of America, Surgeon-General's Office

Issued monthly from January 1864 to February 1865. (Ordinarily this bibliography does not cite complete runs of periodicals; however, because the Confederate States of America issued so few medical publications, and t…

1864 CE–1866 CE

#6534

Leechdoms, wortcunning, and starcraft of early England. Being a collection of documents, for the most part never before printed, illustrating the history of science in this country before the Norman Conquest. Collected and edited by Oswald Cockayne. 3 vols.

This set contains many texts relating to medieval English medicine and the Anglo-Saxon language. It contains the Herbal of Apuleius in Anglo-Saxon and modern English, the Leechbook of Bald, the text of Sextus Placitus…

1864 CE–1867 CE

#11385

Notices sur la chirurgie des enfants.

The first general treatise on pediatric surgery. From parts publication. Translated into English by Richard J. Dunglison as Surgical diseases of infants and children, Philadelphia: Henry C. Lea, 1873. Digital facsimil…

1864 CE–1867 CE

#119

The principles of biology. 2 vols.

In vol. 1 of this work written after Spencer read Darwin's On the origin of species, Spencer originated the expression "survival of the fittest." Spencer conceived that every species is endowed with its own type of ph…

1864 CE–1869 CE

#2452

Entozoa. 2 pts.

Cobbold was the most distinguished helminthologist of his time. He named Filaria bancrofti, Bilharzia haematobia, and several other parasites. He was a friend of Manson, several of whose papers he communicated to the …

1865 CE

#4336

A description of the diseased conditions of the knee-joint which require amputation of the limb, and those conditions which are favourable to excision of the joint.

A valuable contribution to the knowledge and surgical treatment of diseases of the knee-joint.

1865 CE

#3378.1

A new otoscope or speculum auris.

Brunton’s otoscope.

1865 CE

#489

Beobachtungen über den Bau des Säugethier-Eierstockes.

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1865 CE

#3272

Case of cancer of the larynx, successfully removed by laryngotomy.

Laryngectomy for papillomata.

1865 CE

#6938

Catalogue de la superbe bibliothèque d'ethnographie, de zoologie, d'anatomie comparée, etc....

The auction catalogue of Vrolik's library, sold two years after his death, organized by subject. Prefaced by an essay about Vrolik's life and work by J. van der Hoeven, and a chronological list of Vrolik's publication…

1865 CE

#13848

Das vergleichend-anatomische Museum an der Wiener medicinischen Facultät im Jubiläumsjahre 1865. Nebst einem Anhang: Catalog der, in der Privatsammlung des herausgebers befindlichen Skelete, Gehörorgane, und mikroskopischen Injections-Präparate.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1865 CE

#4172

De l’endoscope et de ses applications au diagnostic et au traitement des affections de l’urèthre et de la vessie.

Desormeaux was a pioneer of endoscopy. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1865 CE

#168

De la chevelure comme caractéristique des races humaines.

Pruner-Bey did the first important work on the classification of races according to texture and shape in section of hair. Digital facsimile from Persee.fr at this link.