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1880–1889

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1882 CE

#14320

Chirurgie de la main.

The first manual on hand surgery. Digital facsimile from wellcomecollection.org at this link.

1882 CE

#203.2

Crania ethnica. Les crânes des races humaines décrits et figurés d 'après les collections du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris, de la Société d'Anthropologie de Paris et les principales collections de la France et de l'étranger par A. de Quatrefages et Ernest T. Hamy: Ouvrage accompagné de planches lithographiées d'après nature par H. Formant et illustré de nombreuses figures intercalées. 2 vols.

Digital facsimile from the Bayerische StaatsBibliothek at this link.

1882 CE

#4782

De l’ataxie locomotrice d’origine syphilitique.

Fournier advanced the doctrine of the syphilitic origin of tabes, a hypothesis which was opposed for a time.

1882 CE

#3127

De l’epithélioma primitif de la rate; hypertrophie idiopathique de la rate sans leucémie.

“Gaucher’s disease” – familial splenic anemia. Digital facsimile from wellcomecollection.org at this link.

1882 CE

#11160

De l’homicide commis par les enfants.

Digital facsimile from BnFgallica at this link.

1882 CE

#3289

Deflection of the septum narium.

Ingals devised the operation of partial excision of the septum for the correction of septum deflection.

1882 CE

#3126

Dell’anemia splenica.

“Banti’s disease”. Banti described the pathological changes in the spleen in splenic anemia. A later paper in Sperimentale, 1894, 48, sez. biol., 407-32, gives an account of hepatic cirrhosis as the …

1882 CE

#5618

Der Jodoform-Verband.

Introduction of iodoform dressing in surgery.

1882 CE

#6242

Der Kaiserschnitt bei Uterusfibromen nebst vergleichender Methodik der Sectio Caesarea und der Porro-Operation.

“Sänger’s operation” – the so-called “classic Caesarean section”. A preliminary note is in Arch. Gynak., 1882, 19, 370.

1882 CE

#2331

Die Aetiologie der Tuberkulose.

Discovery of the tubercle bacillus announced March 24, 1882. This paper also contains a statement of “Koch’s postulates”. See also Nos. 2536 and 5167. Koch published a fuller account as "Die Aetiolog…

1882 CE

#4178

Die Albuminurie im gesunden und kranken Zustande.

1882 CE

#5921

Ein experimenteller Beitrag zur Pathogenese der sympathischen Augen-Entzündung.

Deutschmann was the chief protagonist of the infective theory of sympathetic ophthalmia.

1882 CE

#3627

Ein Fall von Exstirpation der Gallenblase wegen chronischer Cholelithiasis; Heilung.

First successful removal of the gallbladder.

1882 CE

#4677

Ein Krankheitssymptom der acuten Meningitis.

Kernig drew attention to a flexor contracture of the leg on attempting to extend it on the thigh (“Kernig’s sign”), almost always present in cerebrospinal meningitis and an important diagnostic sign.…

1882 CE

#4347

Einige Fälle von kunstlicher Ankylosenbildung an paralytischen Gliedmassen.

Albert introduced the concept of joint arthrodesis into orthopedic surgery. This is the first description of arthrodesis of an ankle for paralytic foot. English translation in Bick, Classics of orthopaedics, 52-54.

1882 CE

#14028

Experimental physiology: Its benefits to mankind, with an address on unveiling the statue of William Harvey at Folkestone 6th August 1881.

A little-known historical work on the history of physiology and the history of medicine by Owen, who, even though he was trained in medicine, most often wrote on topics in comparative anatomy, zoology, paleontology an…

1882 CE

#4426

Fractures of the metacarpal bones.

“Bennett’s fracture” of the first metacarpal. He was Professor of Surgery at Trinity College, Dublin.

1882 CE

#1679

Geschichte der epidemischen Krankheiten.

Forms vol. 3 of his Lehrbuch der Geschichte der Medizin und der epidemischen Krankheiten, 3te. Aufl.

1882 CE

#13120

Hygiène professionnelle. Le compositeur typographe.

A 21-page pamphlet of the diseases and hygiene of typographers; chiefly diseases related to their exposure to lead through their hands and breathing in of of lead particles in the air as a result of poor ventilation. …

1882 CE

#3477

Intorno alla divulsione digitale del pilore; osservazione cliniche.

First pyloroplasty, 1882. Abstract in English in Brit. med.J., 1885, 1, 372-74.

1882 CE

#6284

Labor among primitive peoples.

Third edition, revised, 1884.

1882 CE

#11683

Manuel de vivisections.

Extensively illustrated study of methods of conducting experiments involving vivisection.

1882 CE

#882

Mésure du volume de sang contenu dans l’organisme d’un mammifére vivant.

A method of determining blood volume with carbon monoxide.

1882 CE

#5922

Neue Instrumente.

Introduction of the keratoscope.

1882 CE

#828

Observations on the direct influence of variations of arterial pressure upon the rate of beat of the mammalian heart.

1882 CE

#12264

Observations on the mean pressure and the characters of the pulse wave in the coronary arteries of the heart.

1882 CE

#5439

On gangrenous eruptions in connection with vaccination and chickenpox.

Original description of varicella gangrenosa.

1882 CE

#3290

On photographing the larynx.

French was the first to obtain good photographs of the larynx.

1882 CE

#829

On the rhythm of the heart of the frog, and on the nature of the action of the vagus nerve.

Croonian Lectures, 1881. Gaskell’s classical memoir on the muscles and nerves of the heart included a description of “Gaskell’s nerves”, the accelerator nerves of the heart. He showed that the …

1882 CE

#9506

Opium-smoking in America and China: A study of its prevalence, and effects, immediate and remote, on the individual and the nation.

The author claims (p. 1) that "the first white man who smoked opium in America is said to have been a sporting character named Clendenyn. The second—induced to try it by the first—smoked in 1871." Digital …

1882 CE

#5132

Pestilentia in nummis.

A study of medals and tokens relating to epidemics of plague and other infectious diseases.

1882 CE

#5204.1

Precis of operations performed in the wards of the first surgeon, Medical College Hospital, during the year 1881.

MacLeod was first to draw attention to granuloma inguinale.

1882 CE

#3022.1

Production artificielle d’insuffisances tricuspidienne mitrale et aortique, isolées ou combinées chez le chien.

Experimental valvulotomy. Translation in Amer. J. Cardiol.,1973, 32,993.

1882 CE

#3478

Przypadek chorobowo wzmoźonego wydzielania soku zoladkowego.

First description of gastrosuccorrhoea (“Reichmann’s disease”). German translation in Berl. klin. Wschr., 1882, 19, 606.

1882 CE

#12200

Sorani gynaeciorum vetus translatio Latina. Nunc primum edita cum additis Graeci textus reliquiis a Dietzio repertis atque ad ipsum codicem Parisiensem nunc recognitis a Valentino Rose.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1882 CE

#5316

Spirillum fever.

Asiatic relapsing fever; original work on this disease by Carter is remembered by the eponym “Carter’s fever” and the name Borrelia carteri. He reproduced the disease in the monkey.

1882 CE

#11351

Studies in pathological anatomy. Vol. 1. Plates I. - XCIII. (All Published).

Delafield's work includes striking microscopic illustrations as well as explanatory text. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1882 CE

#881

Su di un nuovo elemento morfologico del sangue dei mammiferi e della sua importanza nella trombosi e nella coagulazione.

Bizzozero gave the blood platelets their name and found that they play a part in blood coagulation. A German translation with additions is in Virchows Arch. path. Anat., 1882, 90, 261-332. The expanded German version …

1882 CE

#2497

Sur les colorations bleue et verte des linges à pansements.

Isolation of Pseudomonas aeruginosa (Ps. pyocyanea).

1882 CE

#6283

The Chamberlens and the midwifery forceps.

1882 CE

#4565

The diseases of the spinal cord.

1882 CE

#1571

The experimental method in medical science.

Dalton, Professor of Physiology at the universities of Buffalo and Vermont, and the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, was the first American to devote his time exclusively to that subject. He was present a…

1882 CE

#5677

Über Trimethylene.

Cyclopropane (trimethylene) first prepared.

1882 CE

#4081

Ueber akutes umschriebenes Hautödem.

Hereditary angioedema is also known as Quincke’s edema, from the latter’s excellent description of it, but he was preceded by several other writers, including Donati (No. 4011.2) and Milton (No. 4070). It …

1882 CE

#4082

Ueber die multiplen Fibrome der Haut und ihre Beziehung zu den multiplen Neuromen

One of Virchow’s distinguished pupils, von Recklinghausen gave a classic description of neurofibromatosis, adding much to the knowledge of the condition, which later became known as “Recklinghausen’s…

1882 CE

#3174

Ueber die Schizomyceten bei der acuten fibrösen Pneumonie.

Isolation of Klebsiella pneumoniae (“Friedländer bacillus”), which Friedländer regarded as the causal organism in all cases of lobar pneumonia.

1882 CE

#2496

Ueber Erysipel.

Discovery of Strep pyogenes, infectious agent of scarlet fever and other streptococcal illnesses. Fehleisen cultured it from perierysipelas lesions on humans. English translation, 1886.

1882 CE

#2786

Ueber Fettherz.

Fatty infiltration of the heart first described.

1882 CE

#3626

Ueber Fettnekrose, eine zuweilen tödliche Krankheit des Menschen.

First description of pancreatic necrosis, “Balser’s fat necrosis”.

1882 CE

#6241

Ueberein modificirtes Verfahren beim Kaiserschnitte.

Kehrer improved the technique of the Caesarean operation.