1880–1889

1884 CE

#229.1

Neue Untersuchungen über den Befruchtungsvorgang bei den Phanerogamen als Gründlage für eine Theorie der Zeugung.

Like Roux, Strasburger hypothesized that the cell nucleus contained the material basis of heredity, and developed the idea with evidence from microscopical observations.

1884 CE

#5482

Nouvelle communication sur la rage.

Demonstration in the blood of the rabies virus. English translation in R. Suzor, Hydrophobia: An account of M. Pasteur’s system…London, 1887.

1884 CE

#426

Observations on the relation of the principal fissures and convolutions of the cerebrum to the outer surface of the scalp.

Reid’s base line – the anthropometric base line on the skull.

1884 CE

#3291

On a perfected method of photographing the larynx.

By means of a special camera of his own invention French improved the method of photographing the larynx.

1884 CE

#8655

On cocaine and its use in ophthalmic and general surgery.

Knapp translated Koller's paper (No. 5678) into English and with the English translation published a large amount of supplementary material by American surgeons who had recently experimented with cocaine as a local an…

1884 CE

#4180

On tumours of the bladder.

Includes description of Thompson’s operation for tumors of the bladder.

1884 CE

#4847

On visceral neuroses.

Gulstonian Lectures.

1884 CE

#12161

Prophylaxie et géographie médicale: Des principales maladies tributaires de l'hygiène.

Includes several colored world maps of diseases. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1884 CE

#4942

Psychiatrie. Klinik der Erkrankungen der Vorderhirns.

Meynert, Professor of Neurology at Vienna, made many contributions to the study of the cellular architecture of the brain, and is often considered the founder of cerebral cortex cytoarchitectonics. English translation…

1884 CE

#1877

Recherches cliniques et physiologiques sur la paraldéhyde.

Introduction of paraldehyde into therapeutics as a narcotic.

1884 CE

#14278

Recherches sur la conductibilité galvanique des electrolytes. 1 & 2.

Arrhenius first published the theory of electrolytic dissociation in his doctoral thesis of 1884. In 1903 he received the Nobel Prize in chemistry "in recognition of the extraordinary services he has rendered to the a…

1884 CE

#4082.1

Recherches sur les caractères anatomiques du xanthélasma.

First description of skin changes and necropsy findings in pseudoxanthoma elasticum. See No. 4096.1 and Trans. St. John’s Hosp. Derm. Soc., 1972, 58, 235-50 (F.M. Pope).

1884 CE

#5108

Sechster Bericht der deutschen wissenschaftlichen Commission zur Ehrforschung der Cholera.

In this paper, dated 2 February 1884, written while Koch and his team were in Calcutta, Koch first published his discovery of the cholera bacillus and the main route of its transmission. He based his discovery on the …

1884 CE

#3388

Sinusthrombose in Folge von Otitis media. [Trepanation des Proc. mastoid mit Hammer und Meissel.]

Improvement of the mastoid operation devised by Schwartze and Eysell.

1884 CE

#5147

Studio experimentale sull’ eziologia del tetano.

Demonstration of the transmissibility of tetanus by inoculation into rabbits of pus from a human case.

1884 CE

#4857

Study of the pathological changes occurring in trifacial neuralgia, with the report of a case in which three inches of the inferior dental nerve were excised.

Mears first suggested Gasserian ganglionectomy for trigeminal neuralgia.

1884 CE

#6079

Sur la faradisation utérine double ou bipolaire.

Apostoli was the first to employ the double faradic current in the electrotherapy of uterine diseases.

1884 CE

#2498.1

Sur un filtre donnant de l’eau physiologiquement pure.

Chamberland filter, an unglazed porcelain bar with pores smaller than bacteria, enabled the earliest distinction between viruses and bacteria and led in 1898 to the re-introduction of the Latin word "virus" with the i…

1884 CE

#11841

The body snatcher.

Loosely based upon the notorious crimes of Burke and Hare, who murdered 16 people in 1828 in order to sell their corpses to Scottish anatomist Robert Knox. In Stevenson's story, the anatomist is referred to as Mr. K__…

1884 CE

#4179

The hydrochlorate of cocaine in genito-urinary procedures.

Local anesthesia first employed in urology.

1884 CE

#5346.3

The metamorphosis of Filaria sanguinis hominis in the mosquito.

Manson reported that the changes he had observed in ingested filariae took place in the mosquito thorax, not in the stomach as previously thought.

1884 CE

#1415

The relation of the nervous system to the temperature of the body.

Ott studied the nervous regulation of body temperature. His papers on the heat-center in the brain and on the thermoinhibitory apparatus were published in the same journal, 1887, 14, 150-62, 428-38; 1888, 15, 85-104.

1884 CE

#13051

The vertebrate zoology of Sind. A systematic account, with descriptions of all the known species of mammals, birds, and reptiles inhabiting the province; observations on their habits, &c; tables of their geographical distribution in Persia, Belochistan, and Afghanistan; Punjab, North-west provinces, and the peninsula of India generally, with woodcuts, lithographs, and coloured illustrations.

1884 CE

#11682

The vivisectors' directory; being a list of the licensed vivisectors in the United Kingdom; together with the leading physiologists in foreign laboratories. Compiled from authentic sources. Edited by Benjamin Bryan, with a preface by Frances Power Cobbe.

A remarkably detailed listing of scientific and medical researchers conducting research involving vivisection with address information and details of their research. This information was published in order to supply d…

1884 CE

#2708

Therapie der Kreislauf-Störungen.

English translation in von Ziemssen’s Handbook of general therapeutics, Vol. 7, London, 1887.

1884 CE

#11648

Traité inédit sur l'anatomie pathologique, ou Exposition des altérations visibles qu'éprouve le corps humain dans l'état de maladie par R.-T.-H. Laënnec. Introduction et premier chapitre, précédés d'une préface par V. Cornil.

Digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this link.

1884 CE

#3293

Trephining the frontal sinuses for catarrhal diseases.

1884 CE

#2538

Über eine Sprosspilzkrankheit der Daphnien. Beitrag zur Lehre über den Kampf der Phagocyten gegen Krankheitserreger.

Metchnikoff originated the theory of phagocytosis. He described phagocytes in leucocytes and showed their function as scavengers. Abridged English translation in Bibel, Milestones in immunology (1988).

1884 CE

#5754.3

Übereine Modification der Hasenschartenoperation.

Hagedom’s operation is important as forming the basis of most modern methods of unilateral cleft lip repair.

1884 CE

#1880.1

Ueber coca.

Freud described his observations (with himself as subject) on the effects of cocaine, including its abolition of hunger and fatigue, the “exhilaration and lasting euphoria”. He also described its supposed …

1884 CE

#1878

Ueber das Antipyrin, ein neues Antipyreticum.

Introduction of antipyrine.

1884 CE

#3947

Ueber das Vorkommen von Oxybuttersäure im Harn bei Diabetes mellitus.

Discovery of ß-oxybutyric acid in diabetic urine.

1884 CE

#1111

Ueber den lymphatischenApparat des Pharynx.

“Waldeyer’s tonsillar ring”, the lymphoid ring of the nasopharynx.

1884 CE

#6080

Ueber die Enucleation interstitieller Myome.

1884 CE

#3833

Ueber die Exstirpation des Kropfs bei Morbus basedowii.

First thyroidectomy for exophthalmic goitre. The operation reported was performed in 1880.

1884 CE

#2499

Ueber die isolirte Färbung der Schizomyceten in Schnitt- und Trocken-präparaten.

Gram’s method of staining bacteria (Gram stain). While not all bacteria may be definitively classified in this way, it is almost always the first step in the preliminary identification of a bacterial organism.

1884 CE

#4747

Ueber die juvenile Form der progressiven Muskelatrophie und ihre Beziehungen zur sogenannten Pseudohypertrophie der Muskeln.

Progressive muscular dystrophy (“Erb’s muscular atrophy”). Erb did much to establish the modern conception of the muscular dystrophies.

1884 CE

#2907.1

Ueber die Sclerose der coronar-Arterien und die davon abhängigen Krankheitszustände.

A comprehensive account of the schlerosis of the coronary arteries and the morbid states arising from them, including a historical review of the problems.

1884 CE

#704

Ueber eine neue linksdrehende Säure (Pseudooxybuttersäure).

Isolation of (ß-oxybutyric acid. (Title of second paper: Beiträge zur Kenntniss der activen ß-Oxybuttersäure).

1884 CE

#5148

Ueber infectiösen Tetanus.

The discovery of the tetanus bacillus, Clostridum tetani, is attributed to Nicolaier; he was, however, unable to isolate the organism in pure culture.

1884 CE

#3174.1

Ueber Lungenchirurgie.

Resection of portion of a lobe that was invaded by sarcoma of the rib.

1884 CE

#4567

Ueber periodisch wiederkehrende Oculomotoriuslähmung.

“Möbius’s disease” – ophthalmoplegic migraine.

1884 CE

#3128

Ueber progressive perniciöse Anämie bei Tabeskranken

First description of subacute combined degeneration of the spinal cord, which Leichtenstern termed progressive pernicious anemia in tabetics.

1884 CE

#3481

Untersuchungen über Cholera nostras.

Finkler and Prior isolated Vibrio proteus from stools in a case of acute gastro-enteritis.

1884 CE

#5056

Untersuchungen über die Bedeutung der Mikroorganismen für die Entstehung der Diphtherie beim Menschen, bei der Taube und beim Kalbe.

Loeffler succeeded in cultivating C. diphtheriae, the diphtheria bacillus. He reproduced the characteristic membrane by swabbing the mucous membranes of various animals with pure cultures of the bacillus. In this pape…

1884 CE

#5678

Vorläufige Mitteilung über locale Anästheserung am Auge.

Introduction of cocaine as a local anesthetic; this was the first local anesthetic employed (16 September 1884). Freud (No. 1880.1) is accredited by some with this innovation, but in this connection see the letter by …

1884 CE

#1280

Wie rasch ermüdet der Nerv?

Although Bernstein considered that nerve could be exhausted, Vvedenskii was able, in this paper, to show that such is not the case. Further proof was supplied by Bowditch (No. 1281). Digital facsimile of Vvedenskii's …

1884 CE

#5032

Zur Aetiologie des Abdominaltyphus.

Gaffky was the first to grow pure cultures of Salmonella typhi; he showed it to be the true activator of the disease. English translation, New Sydenham Society, 1886. Digital facsimile of the 1884 printing from Google…

1884 CE

#12892

Zur Anatomie der Zunge. Eine vergleichend-anatomische Studie.

One of the first and the most extensive comparative anatomical studies of the tongues of animals. The book contrasts the tongues of fish, amphibians and reptiles, birds and mammals, through various sectional illustrat…

1884 CE–1885 CE

#11120

Le mal qu'on a dit des médecins. Première série: auteurs grecs & Latins. Deuxième série: Auteurs français jusqu'a Molière. 2 vols.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link. Selections were translated , with annotations by T. C. Minor as The Evil that has been said of doctors: Extracts from early writers. (Cincinnati: Reprint from …