1890–1899
835 entries with publication dates in this decade.
1887 CE–1888 CE
#6087
On the method of flap-splitting in certain plastic operations.
Tait devised a flap-splitting operation for retocele which, with some modifications, is in use today.
1888 CE–1889 CE
#5059
Contribution a l’étude de la diphtérie.
Confirmation of the work of Loeffler and demonstration of the exotoxin. This work is the starting point of the development of an immunizing serum.
1890 CE
#4102
Acanthosis nigricans. In: Int. Atlas seltener Hautkrankheiten, Heft 4, plates x-xi
First description of acanthosis nigricans.
1890 CE
#2622
An address on a characteristic organism of cancer.
“Russell’s bodies.”
1890 CE
#6245
An address on the surgical aspect of impacted labour.
The Tait–Porro operation, by which Tait performed Caesarean section in cases of placenta previa.
1890 CE
#10600
Anatomie artistique: Decription des formes extérieures du corps human au repos et dans les principaux mouvements. Avec 100 planches renfermant plus de 300 figures dessinées par l'auteur. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this link.
1890 CE
#4354
De l’ostéo-arthropathie hypertrophiante pneumonique.
Original description of hypertrophic osteoarthropathy, sometimes called “Bamberger–Marie disease”.
1890 CE
#125
Der Heliotropismus der Thiere und seine Uebereinstimmung mit dem Heliotropismus der Pflanzen.
Loeb founded the theory of “tropisms” as the basis of the psychology of the lower forms of life. English translation in Loeb’s Studies in general physiology, Vol. 1, 1-88. Chicago, 1905.
1890 CE
#1627
Description of the Johns Hopkins Hospital.
Billings was responsible for the designing of the Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore. “It marked a new departure in hospital construction…It was the most perfect and best equipped institution of its time&r…
1890 CE
#3950
Diabetes mellitus nach Pankreasextirpation.
Minkowski produced experimental diabetes by removing the pancreas of a dog. This proof of the role of the pancreas in diabetes was of the first importance; previous experiments on similar lines had attracted attention…
1890 CE
#3177.1
Die Behandlung der Empyeme.
Schede introduced the method of extensive rib resection for the treatment of empyema.
1890 CE
#126
Die Elementarorganismen und ihre Beziehungen zu den Zellen.
Mitochondria described, p. 145.
1890 CE
#3069
Die Gelenkerkrankungen bei Blutern mit Berücksichtigung der Diagnose.
König gave a detailed description of joint involvement in hemophilia.
1890 CE
#4786
Die Therapie atactischer Bewegungsstörungen.
Frenkel devised certain muscular exercises for use in the treatment of tabes dorsalis.
1890 CE
#4667
En epidemi af infantil paralysi.
The epidemic character of poliomyelitis was first noted by Medin. The disease is also known as “Heine–Medin disease” from the descriptions given by these two writers (see also No. 4664). German versi…
1890 CE
#1650
English sanitary institutions, reviewed in their course of development, and in some of their political and social relations.
Simon "viewed the state as provider of the basic conditions needed for subsistence (without interfering in the iron law of wages) through sanitary reform of the environment, prevention of epidemic diseases, and the re…
1890 CE
#4754
Étude clinique sur la maladie de Thomsen (myotonie congénitale).
First description of dystrophia myotonica (“Déléage’s disease”).
1890 CE
#5240.1
Études sur l’infection malarique. Sur la variété parasitaire des corps en croissant de Laveran et sur les fièvres palustres qui en dérivent.
Canalis demonstrated and clearly differentiated Plasmodium falciparum from the species vivax and malariae.
1890 CE
#4352
Exostoses multiples.
“Ollier’s disease”. He described a form of dyschondroplasia.
1890 CE
#1650
Gesundheitspflege im Mittelalter.
1890 CE
#203.4
Grundzüge einer systematischen Kraniometrie. Methodische Anleitung zur kraniometrischen Analyse der Schädelform für die Zwecke der physischen Anthropologie, der vergleichenden Anatomie sowie für die Zwecke der medizinischen Disziplinen (Pyschiatrie, Okulistik, Zahnheilkunde, Geburtshilfe, gerichtliche Medizin) und der bildenden Künste (plastische Anatomie) ein Handbuch fürs Laboratorium.
Török made an exhaustive study of craniometry as applied to an unusually wide range of fields in medicine, and art, and proposed 5,000 different measurements of a single skull. Digital facsimile from the Int…
1890 CE
#6392
Hauptmomente in der älteren Geschichte der medicinischen Klinik.
Reprinted Hildesheim, G. Olms, 1966.
1890 CE
#5060.1
Immunisirungsversuche bei Diphtherie.
Artificial immunity to diphtheria produced in guinea-pigs by injection of attenuated cultures of the bacillus. Fraenkel's account appeared one day before the paper of Behring and Kitasato. Behring, Die Geschichte der …
1890 CE
#3393
Indicationen, betreffend die Excision von Hammer und Amboss.
Stacke introduced the operation of excision of the ossicles.
1890 CE
#6999
La grande chirurgie de Guy de Chauliac...composée en l'an 1363, revue et collationnée sur les manuscrits et imprimes Latins et Français, ornée de gravures avec des notes, une introduction sur le moyen age, sur la vie et les oeuvres de Guy de Chauliac, un glossaire et une table alphabétique by E. Nicaise.
The standard edition in French includes a very extensive bibliography of both manuscript and printed versions. English translation of sections on wounds and fractures, Chicago, 1923.
1890 CE
#636
Les lois de la fatigue étudiées dans les muscles de l’homme.
Mosso invented the ergograph from the study of voluntary contraction. The description of the instrument is on pages 124-41 of the above article.
1890 CE
#13188
Medical education in the United States: A guide to information sources.
"2364 references to bibliographies, journal articles, books, dictionaries, directories, histories, biographical accounts, and miscellaneous literature. Intended to provide the basic references from which the developme…
1890 CE
#13386
Neue Forschungen auf dem Gebiet der Psychopathia sexualis. Ein medicinisch-psychologische Studie.
Among other things, Krafft-Ebing introduced the terms sadism and masochism in this work. Digital facsimile from wellcomecollection.org at this link.
1890 CE
#884
Nouvelle théorie chimique de la coagulation du sang.
First demonstration of the essential role of calcium in the mechanism of blood coagulation.
1890 CE
#4577
On the symptomatology of total transverse lesions of the spinal cord, with special reference to the condition of the various reflexes.
“Bastian’s law”, transverse lesion of the cord above the lumbar enlargement results in the abolition of the tendon reflexes of the lower extremities.
1890 CE
#1284
Photographic determination of the time-relations of the changes which take place in muscle during the period of so-called ‘latent stimulation.’
Measurement by means of photography, of the speed of the nervous impulse.
1890 CE
#3741
Polyneuritis bij hoenders.
Eijkman produced beriberi experimentally in fowls; from this he was led to conclude that a diet of over-milled rice was the chief cause, both in fowls and humans. Thus his work was of great importance in determining t…
1890 CE
#6090
Pus in the pelvis and how to deal with it.
1890 CE
#13587
Rare medical books. Remarks made by Dr. John S. Billings at the meeting of the Johns Hopkins Hospital Medical Society, December 16th, 1889.
This three page paper is primarily a detailed bibliographical listing of a selection of rare books that Billings brought from the Army Medical Library for exhibition at Johns Hopkins Hospital. This was probably the fi…
1890 CE
#7212
Referat über die durch das moderne chirurgische Experiment gewonnen positive Resultate, betreffend die Naht und den Ersatz von Defecten.
The first total joint replacements: Gluck replaced the tuberculous knee joint of a 17 year old woman with a hinged ivory prosthesis on May 20, 1890, followed by a total wrist replacement in another patient three weeks…
1890 CE
#8287
Reisebilder aus Liberia: Resultate geographischer, naturwissenschaftlicher und ethnographischer untersuchungen während der jahre 1879-1882 und 1886-1887. 2 vols.
The first comprehensive monograph on the Republic of Liberia, published 50 years after its colonization by freed American slaves and their descendents. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link. Transla…
1890 CE
#4863
Removal of the gasserian ganglion for severe neuralgia.
Gasserian ganglionectomy for trigeminal neuralgia; the patient lived for at least two years.
1890 CE
#11561
Sketch of the history & progress of district nursing, from its commencement in the year 1859 to the present date, including the foundation by the "Queen Victoria Jubilee Institute" for nursing the poor in their own home
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1890 CE
#1885
Strophanthus hispidus; its natural history, chemistry, and pharmacology.
Introduction of Strophanthus hispidus.
1890 CE
#12303
Sur les organisms de la nitrification.
In his research on nitrifying bacteria Winogradsky discovered the first known form of chemoautotrophy in which organisms obtain energy by oxidation of electron donors in their environments without the intervention of …
1890 CE
#3570.1
Surgical treatment of typhlitis.
Lawson Tait was the first British surgeon to diagnose acute appendicitis and to treat it by removal of the appendix (May 1880). See J. A. Shepherd, Lawson Tait. The rebellious surgeon. Lawrence, Kansas, Coronado Press…
1890 CE
#5798
The annals of the Barber-Surgeons of London, compiled from their records and other sources
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1890 CE
#11449
The antiquity of man in South Africa, and evolution.
The first separately published work on human origins published in the continent of Africa. Hillier's text was read on his behalf before the Eastern Province Literary and Scientific Society in Grahamstown, Eastern Cape…
1890 CE
#7229
The deaf soldier: A brief synopsis of one hundred and two cases of deafness. Prepared for the consideration of the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States.
One of the earliest accounts of the recognition of loss of hearing due to firearms and explosions during war. Foster, secretary and treasurer of the Silent Army of Deaf Soldiers, Sailors and Marines, presented 100 cas…
1890 CE
#184
The golden bough. 2 vols.
Frazer’s theoretical evolutionary sequence of magical, religious, and scientific thought is no longer accepted, and his broad general psychological theory has proved unsatisfactory; however it enabled him to com…
1890 CE
#3687
The micro-organisms of the human mouth.
In 1884 Miller became professor of dentistry at the University of Berlin, the first foreigner ever to receive a professorial appointment at a German University. Inspired by study of bacteriology under Robert Koch, Mil…
1890 CE
#4977.2
The principles of psychology. 2 vols.
The foundation of the American school of experimental psychology. Under the influence of Wundt, James viewed psychology as an experimental science based on physiology. He founded the earliest laboratory for the study …
1890 CE
#2680
The pulse.
1890 CE
#3837
Transplantation du corps thyroïde sur l’homme.
First thyroid transplantation (for treatment of cretinism).
1890 CE
#4353
Treatise on orthopedic surgery.
Includes a description of the “Bradford frame”, used in the treatment of spinal disorders.