1880–1889
768 entries with publication dates in this decade.
1882 CE
#4219
Un caso di rene mobile fissato col mezzo dell’operazione cruenta.
Important modification of Hahn’s operation of nephropexy.
1882 CE
#4080
Xeroderma pigmentosum.
Excellent pathological study of this condition (“Kaposi’s disease”), which he first described in Virchow’s Handbuch der speziellen Pathologie und Therapie, 1876, 2, 182.
1882 CE
#2331.1
Zur Färbung des Tuberkelbacillus.
Ziehl-Neelsen stain.
1882 CE–1883 CE
#11737
"A study of the malformations, variations, and anomalies of the circulatory apparatus in man," with a brief consideration of some of the principles governing their production.
A pioneering study of the embryology of the cardiovascular system and its relationship to congenital heart disease.
1882 CE–1883 CE
#702
Zur Chemie des Zellkerns.
Among the many important contributions of Kossel was his study of the chemistry of the cell and cell-nucleus. Kossel correctly concluded that the function of nuclein is neither to act as a storage substance nor to fur…
1882 CE–1892 CE
#946
Normale und pathologische Anatomie der Nasenhöhle und ihrer pneumatischen Anhänge.
1882 CE–1895 CE
#13006
Botanicon sinicum: Notes on Chinese botany from native and western sources. 3 parts.
Part 1 was first published in the Journal of the North-China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, XVI (1881). Part 2 was published in the Journal of the China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society for 1890-91, XXV (1893…
1883 CE
#14145
A book of medical discourse in two parts. Part first: Creating of the cause, prevention, and cure of infantile bowel complains, from birth to the close of the teething period, or till after the fifth year. Part second: Containing miscellaneous information concerning the life and growth of beings; the beginning of womanhood; also, the cause, prevention, and cure of many of the most distressing compains of women and youth of both sexes.
Crumpler was the first Black woman to receive a medical degree in the United States. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive.
1883 CE
#3831
A typical case of myxoedema.
Semon argued that cachexia strumipriva, myxedema, and cretinism were all due to loss of function of the thyroid. His contention, at first criticized, was later fully endorsed by the report of a committee set up by the…
1883 CE
#4471
Amputation du membre supérieur dans la contiguïté du tronc (désarticulation de l’omoplate).
“Berger’s operation”, interscapulothoracic amputation. See also his monograph, Paris, Masson, 1887.
1883 CE
#7816
An Alphabetical list of the battles of the War of the Rebellion: with dates, from Ft. Sumter, S.C., April 12 and 13, 1861, to Kirby Smith's surrender, May 26, 1865. Compiled from the official records of the office of the Adjutant-General and the Surgeon-General, U.SA. by J. W. Wells and N. A. Strait, Revised by Newton A. Strait, with the addition of many incidents of the war, giving the number killed, wounded and missing in each of the important battles, Union troops engaged, names of the Generals killed and wounded in both armies; also the total number of enlistments, number discharged, number wounded, number missing, number of deaths, number killed in battle....And a roster of all the regimental surgeons and assistant surgeons of the late war and hospital service.
This was the most complete edition; prior editions were issued in 1875 and 1882. In 1990 Norman Publishing of San Francisco reprinted the 1883 edition with a new index to surgeons and an introduction by Ira M. Rutkow.…
1883 CE
#5637
Anleitung zur Technik antiseptischen Wundbehandlung und des Dauerverbandes.
The first attempts at asepsis were made by Neuber. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1883 CE
#5923
Bericht über die Thätigkeit der deutschen Cholerakommission in Aegypten und Ostindien.
Koch–Weeks bacillus, Hemophilus conjunctivitidis, or Hemophilus aegyptius. Koch discovered the bacilli of two varieties of Egyptian conjunctivitis. See also No. 5930.
1883 CE
#4941
Compendium der Psychiatrie.
Later editions of this book were called Lehrbuch. The sixth edition is notable in that in it manic-depressive psychoses were first mentioned as such. Ninth edition in 1927. Kraepelin, Professor of Psychiatry successiv…
1883 CE
#4566.1
Contribution to the study of spina bifida, encephalocele, and anencephalus.
Early description of the Arnold–Chiari malformation (see Nos. 4577.1, 4581.1).
1883 CE
#14211
De l'Atténuation des virus, avec la collaboration de MM. Chamberland, Roux et Thuillier. Quatrième Congrès international d'hygiène et de démographie. Séance du 5 Septembre 1882.
In his seminal 1880 paper, Sur les maladies virulentes, et en particulier sur la maladie appelée vulgairement choléra des poules, GM-2537, Pasteur developed the idea of a protective inoculation by attenu…
1883 CE
#12967
De la couveuse pour enfants. Part 5: Description d'une nouvelle couveuse.
Auvert described a new and improved closed incubator inspired by a bird/poultry incubator that Tarnier saw at a Paris zoo, and had adapted for human babies by the bird incubator's inventor, Dr. Martin. Tarnier used th…
1883 CE
#4701
De la parésie analgésique à panaris des extrémités supérieures ou paréso-analgésie des extrémités supérieures.
First description of “Morvan’s disease” – a form of syringomyelia.
1883 CE
#1015
Der Schluckmechanismus, seine Erregung und seine Hemmung.
An experimental study, by means of a balloon, of swallowing and of oesophageal contractions.
1883 CE
#2789
Diagnostic et traitement des maladies du coeur.
English translation, 1884.
1883 CE
#1622
Die Hygiene des Auges in den Schulen.
Cohn did much to promote school hygiene. He advocated regular examination of the eyes of school children, an idea which was put into practice in 1885. An English translation of the book appeared in 1886.
1883 CE
#2454
Die thierischen Parasiten des Menschen.
1883 CE
#2331.2
Ein casuistischer Beitrag zur Lehre von der Tuberkulose.
Includes (p. 500) details of his stain for the tubercle bacillus (see No. 2331.1).
1883 CE
#703
Enny Methode til kvaelstofbestemmelse i organiske Stoffer.
Kjeldahl, a Danish chemist, devised a method of determining the amount of nitrogen in an organic compound (“Kjeldahl’s method”). A German translation is in Z. anal. Chem., 1883, 22, 366-82.
1883 CE
#14039
Essai de géographie médicale de l'Ille Nosi-Bé près la cote nord-ouest de Madagascar (avec cartes). Thèse pour le doctorat en médicine.
1883 CE
#5331
Fièvre bilieuse ou hépatique.
An early account of “Weil’s disease”, Leptospirosis icterohaemorrhagica.
1883 CE
#6452
Folk-medicine; a chapter in the history of culture.
Folk-Lore Society Publication No. 12. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1883 CE
#1875
Grundriss der Arzneimittellehre.
Schmiedeberg, leading German pharmacologist, was professor at Dorpat and Strasburg. Among his many valuable investigations may be mentioned his study of the effect of drugs on the circulation.
1883 CE
#13111
Hints in sickness: Where to go and what to do.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1883 CE
#10739
Hospital construction and management.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1883 CE
#230
Inquiries into human faculty and its development.
Galton, cousin of Charles Darwin, founded the science of Eugenics. In his important Inquiries he showed mathematically “the results of his experiments on the relations between the powers of visual imagery and of…
1883 CE
#5237
Insects and disease - mosquitoes and malaria.
The first reasoned argument in support of the belief of transmission of malaria by mosquitoes. King was an English-born American physician who witnessed the assassination of Abraham Lincoln in April, 1865, and as a by…
1883 CE
#5774
La maladie kystique des mamelles.
“Reclus’s disease”. Reclus was professor of surgery in Paris; he left a classic description of chronic cystic mastitis.
1883 CE
#343
Lehrbuch der vergleichenden Anatomie der Wirbelthiere.
English translation, London, 1886. Digital facsimile of the 1883 edition from the Biodiversity Heritage Library, Internet Archive, at this link.
1883 CE
#1648
Medical economy during the Middle Ages; a contribution to the history of European morals, from the time of the Roman Empire to the close of the 14th century.
1883 CE
#6390
Medical essays: 1842-1882.
“The most important American book dealing with the history of medicine up to its day” (Garrison). Among the essays Holmes chose to include were his works on homeopathy, puerperal fever, and his address at …
1883 CE
#8133
Medical ethics and etiquette. The code of ethics adopted by the American Medical Association, with commentaries by Austin Flint.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1883 CE
#7945
Mental evolution in animals. With a posthumous essay on instinct by Charles Darwin.
Includes the first editon of Darwin's most significant contribution to psychology. This was part of Chapter 10 of Darwin's unpublished "big book" on the origin of species. Romanes attempted, with Darwin, to develop a …
1883 CE
#3829
Note sur vingt-deux opérations de goitre.
1883 CE
#12050
Notes from sick rooms.
The author "was a celebrated Englishwoman, noted for her beauty as a Pre-Raphaelite model and philanthropist. She was the wife of the biographer Leslie Stephen and mother of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell, members of…
1883 CE
#3720
On cases described as “acute rickets” which are probably a combination of scurvy and rickets, the scurvy being an essential, and the rickets a variable, element.
Classic description of infantile scurvy (“Barlow’s disease”), which includes the pathology of the condition. See also his earlier paper in Trans. int. med. Congr., 1881, 4, 116-28. Reprinted, but wit…
1883 CE
#1279
On the influence of the galvanic current on the excitability of the motor nerves of man.
1883 CE
#502.1
Récherches sur la maturation de l’oeuf, la fécondation et la division cellulaire.
This work extended Hertwig’s work on fertilization (No. 495) down to the level of chromosomes, which were clearly visible in Ascaris after the sperm and egg united.
1883 CE
#12752
Sexual impotence in the male.
One of the earliest serious medical studies of the subject from the anatomical, physiological, emotional, and psychological points of view. In the second edition (1887) retitled Sexual impotence in the male and female…
1883 CE
#3830
Sur la nature et sur quelques-uns des symptomes de la maladie de Basedow.
The fourth cardinal sign in exophthalmic goitre – tremor – was first mentioned by Pierre Marie.
1883 CE
#2498
Sur une forme de tuberculose sans bacilles.
Isolation of Pasteurella pseudotuberculosis.
1883 CE
#832
The direct influence of gradual variations of temperature upon the rate of beat of the dog’s heart.
Martin was among the first to study the effect of temperature changes upon the isolated heart.
1883 CE
#1874
The extra pharmacopoeia of unofficial drugs … With references to their use abstracted from the medical journals by W. Wynn Westcott.
29th edition, 1989.
1883 CE
#2455
The Filaria sanguinis hominis and certain new form of parasitic disease in India, China and warm countries.
A collection of several papers written by Manson.
1883 CE
#2788