1880–1889
768 entries with publication dates in this decade.
1883 CE
#229
Überdie Bedeutungder Kerntheilungsfiguren.
Roux investigated why the nucleus undergoes the precise division of mitosis while the rest of the cell undergoes a rather crude division when one cell splits into two. He argued that mitosis ensures a precise halving …
1883 CE
#3832
Ueber die Entwickelung und den Bau des Kropfes.
Important classification of thyroid tumors; fetal adenoma is described on p. 40.
1883 CE
#1016
Ueber die nächsten Spaltungsproducte der Eiweisskörper.
Kühne and Chittenden isolated and named several new substances during their investigation of the products of digestion. See also the same journal, 1884, 20, 11-51; 1886, 22, 409-58; 1889, 25, 358-67.
1883 CE
#3945
Ueber die Ursachen der pathologischen Ammoniakausscheidung beim Diabetes mellitus und des Coma diabeticum.
Stadelmann studied ammonia excretion in diabetes and noted an acid substance in the urine, which Minkowski (No. 3947) showed to be ß-oxybutyric acid. Stadelmann recognized that diabetic coma was the result of th…
1883 CE
#5055
Ueber Diphtherie.
First account of Corynebacterium diphtheriae (Klebs–Loeffler bacillus), causal organism in diphtheria, discovered by Klebs.
1883 CE
#4702
Ueber eine dem Bilde der cerebrospinalen grauen Degeneration ähnliche Erkrankung des centralen Nervensystems ohne anatomischen Befund, nebst einigen Bemerkungen über paradoxe Contraction.
“Westphal’s pseudosclerosis”. Later Strümpell’s description of this condition (No. 4709) led to the eponym “Westphal–Strumpell disease”.
1883 CE
#3827
Ueber Kropfexstirpation und ihre Folgen.
Kocher coined the term “cachexia strumipriva” to describe the myxedema following total extirpation of the thyroid. His work on the subject led to a better understanding of the cause of myxedema.
1883 CE
#503
Untersuchungen über Bastardirung der anuren Batrachier und die Principien der Zeugung.
Pflüger was one of the earliest workers in the field of experimental embryology. Above, his first work on the subject, deals with the cross fertilization of different species of frog.
1883 CE
#8176
Upon the electrical experiments to determine the location of the bullet in the body of the late President Garfield; and upon a successful form of induction balance for the painless detection of metallic masses in the human body.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1883 CE–1884 CE
#2229
Lehrbuch der speciellen Pathologie und Therapie der inneren Krankheiten. 2 vols.
Strümpell gave an excellent description of ankylosing spondylitis (“Strümpell’s disease”, the “spondylose rhizomélique” of Pierre Marie, No. 4368) on p. 152 of his Lehrbu…
1883 CE–1884 CE
#831
On the electrical phemomena of the excitatory process in the heart of the frog and of the tortoise, as investigated photographically.
See No. 824. This paper contains several tracings of the heart's electrical activity recorded with a capillary electrometer, the earliest graphic recorder of bioelectric signals. These were the "first undistorted trac…
1883 CE–1884 CE
#830
On the innervation of the heart, with special reference to the heart of the tortoise.
Gaskell showed that the efferent vasoconstrictor fibers of the heart originated from the lateral horn of the spinal cord.
1883 CE–1885 CE
#5796
Die chirurgischen Klassiker Deutschlands. 2 vols.
1883 CE–1886 CE
#8378
Handbook of geographical and historical pathology. Translated from the second German edition by Charles Creighton. Vol. 1.-Acute infective diseases. Vol. 2.-Chronic infective, toxic, parasitic, septic and constitutional diseases. Vol. 3.-Diseases of organs and parts.
This is the best edition of Hirsch's Handbuch. Digital facsimiles of all 3 vols. from the Internet Archive at this link.
1883 CE–1890 CE
#4348
Contributions to surgery and medicine. 8 pts.
Thomas was the veritable founder of modern orthopedics in the British Isles. The conservative methods introduced by him were developed by Sir Robert Jones. Thomas is remembered eponymically by the “Thomas splint…
1884 CE
#3834
A recent specimen of artificial myxoedema in a monkey.
By experimental removal of the thyroid Horsley produced artificial myxedema, confirming previous work by Reverdin and others. At the time his results were regarded as proof that total thyroidectomy produces operative …
1884 CE
#6078
A study of the etiology of perineal laceration, with a new method for its proper repair.
First description of Emmet’s technique for perineorrhaphy.
1884 CE
#3482.1
A theoretical and practical treatise on the hemorrhoidal disease, givings its history, nature, cases, pathology, diagnosis, and treatment.
An encyclopedic work containing considerable history and a comprehensive bibliography. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1884 CE
#1415.1
A treatise on the chemical constitution of the brain.
Thudichum, a German emigré, discovered cephalins and myelins in brain tissue. An enlarged German edition of his book was published at Tübingen, 1901. See biography by D. L. Drabkin, 1958, which includes an…
1884 CE
#9422
An epitome of the reports of the medical officers to the Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs Office from 1871 to 1882. With chapters on the history of medicine in China: Materia medica: Epidemics: Famine: Ethnology: And chronology in relation to medicine and public health.
Apart from studies of common diseases, public health issues, and epizootics, this work contains a chapter on opium smoking and a chapter on the castration of Chinese eunuchs, of which there were around a thousand work…
1884 CE
#9659
Chirurgie des enfants. Leçons cliniques professées à l'Hôpital des Enfants-Malades... Recueillies et publiées par Pierre-J. Mercier.
1884 CE
#3566
Clinical lectures on cases of difficult diagnosis; perforation of the appendix vermiformis.
In 1884 Fenwick advocated tying off and removal of the perforated appendix.
1884 CE
#4625
Considérations sur l’agraphie à propos d’une observation nouvelle d’agraphie motrice pure.
Classic account of agraphia.
1884 CE
#3946
Contribution à l’étude du pancreas du lapin. Lésions provoquées par la ligature du canal de Wirsung.
Arnozan and Vaillard showed that blockage of the pancreatic ducts caused atrophy of the pancreas but not diabetes.
1884 CE
#3480
Darmresektion und Enterorhaphieen, 1878-83.
Billroth was a pioneer in visceral surgery. Above is an account of many intestinal resections and enterorrhaphies carried out by him.
1884 CE
#3292
Das Cocain als Anästheticum und Analgeticum für den Pharynx und Larynx.
Cocaine first employed in laryngology.
1884 CE
#4995.1
De la suggestion dans l’état hypnotique et dans l’état de veille.
The foundation of the Nancy school of hypnosis. Like Liébeault, Bernheim studied the scientific applications of hypnotism and substituted verbal for sensory stimuli; he interpreted hypnotism and its consequent …
1884 CE
#4083
Dermatitis herpetiformis.
Duhring’s best work in dermatology. He brought together, under the name of “dermatitis herpetiformis” (“Duhring’s disease”) the group of eruptions which morphologically lay between …
1884 CE
#1624
Die Canalisation von Berlin.
Hobrecht was responsible for the construction of the Berlin sewers.
1884 CE
#4220
Die Entstehung von Nierentumoren aus Nebennierengewebe.
An important investigation of the origin of hypernephroma (“Grawitz tumor”). See also Arch. klin. Chir., 1884, 30, 824-34.
1884 CE
#9237
Die grosse Sterben in Deutschland in den Jahren 1348 bis 1351 und die folgenden Pestepidemien bis zum Schluss des 14. Jahrhunderts.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1884 CE
#3997
Die krankhaften Veränderungen der Haut.
Hans von Hebra was the son of Ferdinand, whose work he continued. His textbook correlated skin diseases to diseases of the entire organism.
1884 CE
#6526
Die Medicin in Wien während der letzten 100 Jahre.
1884 CE
#1469
Die spezifische Energie der Temperaturnerven.
1884 CE
#1572
Doctrines of the circulation.
1884 CE
#1879
Eine neue Form medicamentöser Einverleibung.
Unna introduced specially coated pills for local absorption in the intestine.
1884 CE
#1468
Experimentelle Beiträge zur Lösung der Frage über die specifische Energieder Hautnerven
Besides his investigation of the specific energies of cutaneous nerves, Blix is remembered for his work on the thermodynamics of muscular contraction; he designed a muscle indicator diagram; he was also the first to s…
1884 CE
#4642
Fièvre zoster etexanthèmes zosteriformes.
Landouzy first suggested the infective nature of herpes.
1884 CE
#6196
Five cases of extra-uterine pregnancy operated upon at the time of rupture.
The first successful operation for ruptured ectopic pregnancy was performed by Lawson Tait on 1 March 1883.
1884 CE
#6081
General summary of conclusions from one thousand cases of abdominal section.
Tait was probably the greatest of the ovariotomists. He abandoned Listerian principles of antisepsis, relying on “scrupulous attention to cleanliness of every kind and in all directions”.
1884 CE
#12279
Hertztamponade: Ein Beitrag zur Herzchirurgie.
Rose coined the term "Herztomponade" translated as "cardiac tamponade." He "described the pathophysiology of cardiac tamponade and recorded 23 case histories of ruptured or wounded hearts, several of which did not cau…
1884 CE
#13341
Ibn Abi Useibia. Herausgegeben von August Müller.
Self-published. Arabic text with relatively brief commentary. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1884 CE
#3482
Intestinal obstruction
Jacksonian Prize essay.
1884 CE
#4848
Jumping, latah, myriachit.
Latah, motor incoordination associated with echolalia and coprolalia, is named “Gilles de la Tourette’s disease” after his classic description of it.
1884 CE
#8207
La géographie médicale.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1884 CE
#10113
La paura.
Mosso conducted experiments with special equipment, which he devised to suit the requirements of the studies. He pursued two main lines of research: the analysis of motor functions and the relationship between physiol…
1884 CE
#1623
London water supply, including a history and description of the London waterworks.
1884 CE
#10114
Medical education and the regulation of the practice of medicine in the United States and Canada. prepared by the Illinois State Board of Health, and published by permission of the board.
Rauch, Secretary of the Illinois State Board of Health, was responsible for compiling and publishing this detailed report. It was the most important and comprehensive summary of American, and Canadian medical educatio…
1884 CE
#13063
Memoir upon the formation of a deaf variety of the human race.
Bell determined that deafness was an inheritable trait and that deaf individuals had a tendency to marry other deaf individuals. As a eugenicist Bell considered this a problem because he thought it risked the developm…
1884 CE
#5619
Mikro-Organismen bei den Wund-Infections-Krankheiten des Menschen.
Rosenbach proved that streptococci and staphylococci are distinct and differentiated two strains of staphylococci (“aureus” and “albus”). He cultured cocci from a considerable range of septic c…