1880–1889
768 entries with publication dates in this decade.
1884 CE–1885 CE
#1128
On the function of the Thyroid gland.
From his experimental work Horsley produced evidence to support the view that myxoedema, cretinism and operative cachexia strumpriva are all due to thyroid deficiency.
1884 CE–1886 CE
#2539
On a new method of producing immunity from contagious diseases.
Smith found that dead virus can induce immunity against the living virulent virus. Although Smith made the discovery on his own, his supervisor, D.E. Salmon, usurped credit. See Bibel, Milestones in immunology (1988) …
1884 CE–1886 CE
#1880
Vorlesungen über Pharmakologie.
Includes his test for quinine in urine. English translation of second edition, 1895-97. Binz was Professor of Pharmacology at Bonn. His most important work was perhaps the demonstration that quinine in low concentrati…
1884 CE–1888 CE
#6716
Biographisches Lexikon der hervorragenden Ärzte aller Zeiten und Völker. Edited by August Hirsch, with the assistance of Ernest Gurlt and A. Wernich. 6 vols.
This is one of the best sources of medical biography up to 1880, with useful bibliographical notes. Articles were written by many physicians, whose names were mentioned on the title page. Gurlt and Wernich assisted Hi…
1884 CE–1888 CE
#12947
Plantae Davidianae ex Sinarum Imperio: Première partie: Plantes de Mongolie du Nord et du Centre de la Chine. Deuxieme Partie: Plantes du Thibet Oriental (Province de Moupine)
Catalogue of the very extensive collection of plants collected by the Lazarist missionary Father Armand David for the Musée d'Histoire Naturelle during his three major naturalist expeditions in China, Mongolia …
1884 CE–1889 CE
#784
Das Venensystem des menschlichen Körpers. 2 pts. and atlas.
Like Braune’s other anatomical works, this is notable for its excellent illustrations.
1884 CE–1890 CE
#555
Untersuchungen zur Morphologie und Physiologie der Zelle.
1885 CE
#13153
Über das Gedachtnis: Untersuchungen zur experimentellen Psychologie.
Ebbinghaus conducted a series of experiments on memory and forgetting using himself as subject. Out of this came concepts such as the learning curve and the forgetting curve, and the serial position effect. Digital fa…
1885 CE
#3226
A case of haemoptysis treated by the induction of pneumothorax so as to collapse the lung.
Artificial pneumothorax by pleural incision in intractable haemoptysis. See also Lancet, 1885, 1, 894-95.
1885 CE
#3595
A case of strangulated hernia into the fossa intersigmoidea.
First definitely authenticated case of intersigmoid hernia.
1885 CE
#9500
A contribution to South African materia medica, chiefly from plants in use among the natives.
The first edition was a pamphlet of 23 pp. Smith issued a much-expanded second edition with 163 pp., also at Lovedale in 1888, and a further expanded third edition with 262 pp. (Cape Town, 1895). Digital facsimile of …
1885 CE
#11537
A text-book of nursing for the use of training schools, families, and private students. Compiled by Clara S. Weeks-Shaw.
This was the first textbook on nursing formally written by a nurse credited on the title page. Digital facsimile of the second edition (1899) from Google Books at this link.
1885 CE
#1881
A text-book of pharmacology, therapeutics and materia medica.
Brunton was physician to St. Bartholomew’s Hospital and an eminent pharmacologist. He is notable for his introduction of amyl nitrite in the treatment of angina pectoris and for a vast amount of other work conce…
1885 CE
#4426.1
An operation for displaced semilunar cartilage.
The first deliberate and planned operation for the relief of internal derangement of the knee-joint caused by a displaced cartilage, i.e. repair of the meniscus. Annandale succeeded Lister as Professor of Clinical Sur…
1885 CE
#3484
Application de la méthode naturelle à l’analyse de la dyspepsie nerveuse. – Détermination d’une espèce.
Important description of enteroptosis and gastroptosis.
1885 CE
#1366
Beitrag zur pathologischen Anatomie der Tabes dorsalis und zum Faserverlauf in menschlichen Rückenmark.
“Lissauer’s tract”, the marginal tract in the spinal cord.
1885 CE
#5210.1
Bericht über eine bei Kindern beobachtete Endemie infectiöser Colpitis.
The gonococcus shown to be the cause of vulvovaginitis in children.
1885 CE
#3482.2
Case of acute extensive ulceration of the colon.
First detailed description of ulcerative colitis.
1885 CE
#4858
Case of cerebral tumour.
First instance of diagnosis, accurate clinical localization, and operative removal of a tumor of the brain, 25 November, 1884. The patient survived for one month. Preliminary report in Lancet, 1884, 2, 1090-91.
1885 CE
#4748
Contribution à l’étude des paralysies radiculaires du plexus brachial.
First description of atrophic paralysis of the muscles of the hand following lesion of the brachial plexus and eighth cervical and first dorsal nerves (“Klumpke’s paralysis”).
1885 CE
#4502
Das Regimen bei der Gicht.
A pupil of Frerichs, Virchow, and Romberg, Ebstein became Professor of Medicine at Göttingen.
1885 CE
#2540
Das Sauerstoff-Bedürfniss des Organismus. Eine farbenanalytische Studie.
Includes the first statement of Ehrlich’s “side-chain” theory.
1885 CE
#179
Das Weib in der Natur-und Völkerkunde. 2 vols.
Ploss incorporated a vast amount of data concerning every aspect of woman in the unillustrated first edition, and died the year it was published. He covered anthropology, psychology, aesthetics, physiology, sexuality,…
1885 CE
#3694
Dental bibliography: A standard reference list of books on dentistry published throughout the world from 1536 to 1885.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1885 CE
#5927
Der Electromagnet in der Augenheilkunde.
The introduction of the electromagnet into ophthalmology. A pupil of Helmholtz, Hirschberg was one of the most voluminous writers in the field of ophthalmology. Besides his dictionary (see No. 5932) he wrote a classic…
1885 CE
#5209
Der Mikro-Organismus der gonorrhöischen Schleimhaut-Erkrankungen, Gonococcus-Neisser.
Bumm cultured the gonococcus. By human inoculations he demonstrated its pathogenicity in pure culture.
1885 CE
#231
Die Bedeutung der Zellenkerne für die Vorgänge der Vererbung.
Along with Roux, Kölliker stated that hereditary characters were transmitted by the cell nucleus.
1885 CE
#9544
Die elephantiastischen Formen. Eine umfassende Darstellung der angeborenen und erworbenen Elephantiasis sowie aller verwandten Leiden.
This atlas illustrates the various changes that occur under the collective term elephantiasis, including tumors of the blood and lymphatic vessels, fibromas, neuromas, papillomas. Goldschmid 258.
1885 CE
#2503
Die Methoden der Bakterienforschung.
Hueppe, a colleague of Koch, wrote an admirable manual on bacteriological methods, a subject to which he gave several original contributions. English translation, New York, 1886.
1885 CE
#3294
Die Natur und die Behandlung der Ozaena.
Loewenberg described a bacillus found in the secretions of ozena (see No. 3307). He made the first attempt at the treatment of this condition.
1885 CE
#5926
Die periphere Atrophie des Sehnerven.
Peripheral atrophy of the optic nerve was described by Fuchs and called “Fuchs’s optic atrophy”.
1885 CE
#3628
Eine Icterusepidemie.
Dr. Lürman, a general practitioner in Bremen, was first to report homologous serum hepatitis. English translation in Human viral hepatitis, by A. J. Zuckerman, 2nd ed., New York, 1972, pp. 4-10.
1885 CE
#6717
Eminent doctors; their lives and their work. Second edition. 2 vols.
Deals with British doctors only.
1885 CE
#12122
Gleanings from the natural history of the ancients.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1885 CE
#12502
Gli amori degli uomini. Saggio di una etnologie dell'amore. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile of the 1886 edition from the Hathi Trust at this link. Translated into English "from the latest Italian edition, as approved by the author, by Samuel Putnam, edited with an introduction by Victor Rob…
1885 CE
#10575
Indigenous flowers of the Hawaiian Islands: Forty-four plates painted in water-colours and described by Mrs. Francis Sinclair, Jr.
The first color-illustrated book on Hawaiian flora. "The following collection of flowers was made upon the islands of Kauai and Niihau, the most northern of the Hawaiian archipelago. It is not by any means a large col…
1885 CE
#5057
Intubation of the larynx.
O’Dwyer perfected the operation of laryngeal intubation in croup.
1885 CE
#13805
La viruela en la América del Sud y principalmente en la República Argentina: Historia, estadística, clínica, y profilaxia.
Digital facsimile from wellcomecollection.org at this link.
1885 CE
#4568
Lectures on the diagnosis of diseases of the brain.
1885 CE
#2501
Les bactéries et leur rôle dans l’anatomie et l’histologie pathologiques des maladies infectieuses. 1 vol. and atlas.
Considered the first treatise on bacteriology.
1885 CE
#4943
Les maladies de la personnalité.
1885 CE
#8416
Les médecins grecs depuis la mort de Galien jusqu'a la chute de l'empire d'orient (210-1453).
Digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this link.
1885 CE
#706
Lois d’équilibre chimique dans l’état dilué, gazeux ou dissous.
Van’t Hoff stated that osmotic pressure is proportional to the concentration if the temperature remains invariable, and proportional to the absolute temperature if the concentration remains invariable. In 1901 V…
1885 CE
#13835
Médecine et moeurs de l'ancienne Rome d'après les poètes latins.
Translated into English as Medicine and morals of ancient Rome according to the Latin poets (Cincinnati: Cincinnati Lancet-clinic, 1901). Digital facsimile of the 1885 edition from Google Books at this link. Facsimile…
1885 CE
#2541
Méthode pour prévenir la rage après morsure.
Pasteur’s papers describing his rabies vaccine, and the results he attained with it gave further proof of the value of attenuated virus as a protective inoculum against infective diseases in man and animals. Thi…
1885 CE
#5528
Mycosis mucorina.
First authentic case reported in man.
1885 CE
#1470
Neue Thatsachen über die Hautsinnesnerven.
Goldscheider recorded important investigations on the nerves conveying the sensation of temperature and on the nerves of cutaneous sensation
1885 CE
#6264
Neuer Beitrag zur Aetiologie und Casuistik der Spondyl-olisthesis.
1885 CE
#1281
Note on the nature of nerve-force.
1885 CE
#10192
Notes on diseases among the Indians frequenting York Factory, Hudson's Bay. Read before the Medico-Chirurgical Society of Montreal, February, 1885.
Mathews was a surgeon employed by the Hudson's Bay Company. "York Factory was a settlement and Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) factory (trading post) located on the southwestern shore of Hudson Bay in northeastern Manitoba…