1880–1889

1885 CE

#6604

Notes on the history of medical progress in Japan.

From Trans. Asiatic Soc. Japan, 1885, 12, 245-469. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1885 CE

#5347

Notes upon the experimental breeding of Taenia echinococcus in the dog from the echinococci of man.

Thomas succeeded in transmitting Taenia echinococcus to the dog from human sources.

1885 CE

#3482.3

On a case of acute intestinal obstruction in a boy, with remarks upon the treatment of acute obstruction.

Abdominal section and ileostomy for intestinal obstruction; surgeon’s report on pp. 130-35.

1885 CE

#4181

On cyclic albuminuria (albuminuria in the apparently healthy).

“Pavy’s disease” – recurrent albuminuria.

1885 CE

#3740

On the cause and prevention of kakke.

Takaki was the first conclusively to show the dietary origin of beriberi. Measures introduced by him resulted in its eradication from the Japanese Navy, where it had previously been a serious problem.

1885 CE

#5293

On the presence of peculiar parasitic organisms in the tissue of a specimen of Delhi boil.

Cunningham saw and described bodies in Delhi boil; these were almost certainly Leishman–Donovan bodies.

1885 CE

#5928

On the surgical, physiological, and aesthetic advantages of the artificial vitreous body.

“Mules’s operation”, evisceration of the eyeball with insertion of artificial vitreous.

1885 CE

#5679

Practical comments on the use and abuse of cocaine; suggested by its invariably successful employment in more than a thousand minor surgical operations.

The first experiments on local infiltration anesthesia were made by Halsted, who even produced anesthesia by the intradermal injection of water. Through the process of self-experimentation Halsted became addicted to c…

1885 CE

#5680

Spinal anaesthesia and local medication of the cord.

Spinal anesthesia introduced. Corning showed experimentally that cocaine exerts a prolonged anesthetic effect while arresting the circulation in the anesthetized area. He first described injection of cocaine between t…

1885 CE

#1283

Sulle degenerazioni descendenti consecutive a lesioni sperimentale in diverse zone della corteccia cerebrale.

Marchi’s stain, osmic acid, for degenerating myelin sheaths.

1885 CE

#1520

The anatomy of the muscles, ligaments and fasciae of the orbit, including an account of the capsule of Tenon, the check ligaments of the recti, and the suspensory ligaments of the eye.

“Lockwood’s suspensory ligament” of the globe of the eye.

1885 CE

#12075

The field and limitation of the operative surgery of the human brain.

The first American monograph on surgery on the human brain, also published in 1885 the Transactions of the American Surgical Association. Roberts was "one of the few American surgeons to advocate an aggressive explora…

1885 CE

#2790

The Gulstonian Lectures, on malignant endocarditis.

First comprehensive description of subacute bacterial endocarditis.

1885 CE

#5003.1

The insane in the United States and Canada.

The first history of psychiatry in the United States and Canada. Chapter 5 is the first survey of psychiatry in Canada.

1885 CE

#7332

Topographical anatomy of the brain. 3 vols.

The most outstanding American neurological atlas of the nineteenth century and one of the best American photographically illustrated medical books of the period. The atlas reproduces the specimens, which Dalton prepar…

1885 CE

#3295

Über die Bedeutung der Bursa pharyngea für die Erkennung und Behandlung gewisser Nasenrachenraum-Krankheiten.

“Tornwaldt’s [Thornwaldt’s] bursitis”, first described by Wendt (see No. 3283).

1885 CE

#4703

Über eine eigentümliche Form spastischer Lähmung mit Cerebralerscheinungen auf hereditärer Grundlage. (Multiple Sklerose.)

“Pelizaeus–Merzbacher disease” (see No. 4715).

1885 CE

#3948

Ueber Acetonurie und Diaceturie

An important investigation concerning acetone in diabetic urine.

1885 CE

#4626

Ueber Aphasie.

“Lichtheim’s disease”– subcortical sensory aphasia. Lichtheim noted that although the patient could not speak, he was able to indicate with his fingers the number of syllables in the word of wh…

1885 CE

#3389

Ueber den Werth des Rinne’schen Versuches für die Diagnostik der Gehörkrankheiten.

Schwabach’s hearing test.

1885 CE

#4643

Ueber die akute Encephalitis der Kinder (Polioencephalitis acuta, cerebrale Kinderlähmung).

“Strumpell’s disease” – polioencephalomyelitis.

1885 CE

#4085

Ueber eine neue Form von Hautkrankheit, “Lymphodermia perniciosa”.

First description of lymphoderma perniciosa, premycotic or leukemic erythrodermia.

1885 CE

#2502

Ueber Fäulnissbacterien.

Isolation of Proteus vulgaris.

1885 CE

#6082

Ueber Kraurosis vulvae, eine wenig beachtete Form von Hautatrophie am pudendum muliebre.

Although not the first to describe kraurosis vulvae, Breisky left an important account, and the condition became known as “Breisky’s disease”.

1885 CE

#13907

Untersuchungen über den Stoffwechsel isolirte Organe. I. Ein Respirationsapparat für isolirte Organe. II. Versuche über den Stoffwechsel des Muskels.

(Part 1 by Frey & Gruber; Part 2 by Frey.) Frey and Gruber developed the first heart-lung machine. Their machine "consisted of a double-acting pump in the form on an injection syringe with a capacity of 10 ml, which i…

1885 CE

#3731

Untersuchungen über Osteomalacie und Rachitis.

Hess considered this the foremost contribution to the subject during the 19th century.

1885 CE

#10383

Untersuchungen über staubinhalation und staubmetastase.

On the effects of dust inhalation. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1885 CE

#1704

Vital statistics. A memorial volume of selections from the reports and writings of William Farr.

Farr applied statistical methods to epidemiology and was the first mathematically to express the rise and fall of epidemic diseases, thus making possible the more accurate prediction of the occurrence of epidemics.

1885 CE

#2500

Vorlesungen über Bacterien.

1885 CE

#5238

Weitere Untersuchungen über die Malariainfection.

First accurate description of the malaria Plasmodium, discovered by Laveran in 1880. These writers were the first to adopt the name P. malariae.

1885 CE

#9159

Women, plumbers, and doctors: or, household sanitation

Dedicated "To Dr. Henry I. Bowditch, whose early, persistent, and enthusiastic labors make him the apostle of sanitation in America." Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1885 CE

#3483

Zur Casuistik und Statistik der Magenresectionen und Gastro-enterostomieen.

Billroth II pylorectomy, reported by von Hacker. Also published in Arch. klin. Chir., 1885, 32, 616-25.

1885 CE

#5238.1

Zur Parasitologie des Blutes.

Discovery of malaria parasites in birds. See also Ann. Inst. Pasteur, 1890, 4, 427-31.

1885 CE

#3770

Zur Symptomatologie der sog. Pseudo-Leukämie

“Pel-Ebstein disease”, a remittant pyrexia occurring in Hodgkin’s disease (see also No. 3771).

1885 CE–1886 CE

#11636

A system of medicine. Edited by William Pepper. 5 vols.

"The most comprehensive 19th century American work on medicine. Pepper assembled virtually all of the leading American physicians of the day, including D. Hayes Agnew, Roberts Bartholow, John Shaw Billings, William By…

1885 CE–1886 CE

#705

Ueber Ptomaine. 3 vols.

Brieger isolated and determined the composition of a number of the ptomaines.

1885 CE–1887 CE

#5485

Lektsii ob ostrikh infektsionnîkh bolierznyakh u dietei. [Lectures on acute infectious diseases of children.] 2 vols.

Glandular fever (infectious mononucleosis) was first described by Filatov under the name of idiopathic adenitis (“Filatov’s disease”). A German translation of his book appeared in 1895-97.

1885 CE–1888 CE

#180

Völkerkunde. 2 vols.

Ratzel emphasized the importance of the investigation of the history of primitive peoples in the study of ethnology.

1885 CE–1901 CE

#13866

Alphabetical catalogue of the library of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow preceded by an index of subjects. 2 vols.

Digital facsimile from wellcomecollection.org at this link.

1886 CE

#3067.1

A case of haemophilia: pedigree through five generations.

True hemophilia in a female. The family was the subject of several later investigations, the last being reported in Lancet, 1973, 2,734.

1886 CE

#9566

A nomenclature of colors for naturalists, and compendium of useful knowledge for ornithologists.

Ridgway proposed a simple classification system, doing away with many subjective and evocative names that were currently popular. The work illustrated 186 colors. Digital facsimile from the Biodiversity Heritage Libra…

1886 CE

#12417

A system of hygienic medicine, or the only rational way of treating disease.

"In place of orthodox medicine, he [Allinson] promoted health through diet, exercise, fresh air and bathing. He advocated a vegetarian diet and the avoidance of alcohol, tobacco, coffee and tea. He especially promoted…

1886 CE

#707

A text-book of human physiology, including histology and microscopical anatomy....by L. Landois. Translated from the fifth German edition. With additions by William Stirling. 2 vols.

Second edition in English. Matthew Hay devised a test for the determination of bile acids in the urine, published in vol. 1, p. 381. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1886 CE

#6084

Ablation des tumeurs flbreuses ou myomes du corps de l’utérus par la voie vaginale.

Péan’s method of morcellement of the uterus for the removal of tumors.

1886 CE

#2504

An introduction to practical bacteriology based upon the methods of Koch.

Crookshank studied under Koch, and later became Professor of Bacteriology at King’s College, London.

1886 CE

#8848

Apuntes para la historia de la medicina en Michoacán desde los tiempos Pre-Colombianos hasta el año 1875.

1886 CE

#9665

Atlas des poissons vénéneux et descriptions des ravages produits par eux sur l'organisme humain, et des contre-poisons à employer. Atlas iadovitykh ryb s opisaniem vida ikh, deistviia iada na organizm cheloveka i ukazaniem protivuiadii.

The first well-illustrated medical military manual on toxic marine organisms. Text in French and Russian.

1886 CE

#2306

Beitrag zur Kenntnis der amyloiden und der hyalinen Degeneration des Bindegewebes.

First reported case of primary amyloidosis.

1886 CE

#10450

Beiträge zur Analyse der Empfindungen.

Translated into English by C. M .Williams and Sydney Waterlow as The Analysis of Sensations (1897). Revised and supplemented from the Fifth German edition by Sydney Waterlow (1914). Digital facsimile of the 1886 editi…

1886 CE

#10207

Catalogue of anatomical models, charts and osteological preparations. Auzoux's papier mache anatomical models, Bocksteger models painted in natural colors, human skeletons.

One of the better illustrated American trade catalogues of the period describing available anatomical models, charts, skeletons for use in teaching. Reprinted, along with several other catalogues relating to instrumen…