1890–1899

1891 CE

#2622.1

Inoculation en série d’une tumeur épithéliale de la souris blanche.

In 1889 Morau transferred epitheliomata in mice and by 1893 had carried his experiments through 17 generations, the first systematic survey of tumor-host relationships from a purely biological viewpoint.

1891 CE

#5242

K voprosu o parazitologii i terapii bolotnoi likhoradki. [Parasitology and treatment of malarial fever.]

Romanovsky made important studies of the malaria parasite and introduced a special stain for its demonstration. German version in St. Petersburger med. Wschr., 1891, 8, 297-302, 306-15. English translation in Kean (No…

1891 CE

#3303

Klinische Beiträge zur halbseitigen Kehlkopflähmungen.

“Avellis’s syndrome”, recurrent paralysis of the soft palate.

1891 CE

#4105

L’angiocheratoma.

Mibelli gave the name to angiokeratoma although it had already been described by Cottle in 1877. It is also called “Mibelli’s disease”.

1891 CE

#639

La fatica.

Mosso investigated muscular fatigue with the ergograph of his invention. He showed fatigue to be due to a toxin produced by muscular contraction. English translation, 1906.

1891 CE

#638

Le travail musculaire et l’énergie qu’il représente.

Important studies on thermodynamics of muscular work.

1891 CE

#4356

Lehrbuch der orthopädischen Chirurgie .

Hoffa, a leading German orthopedist, made important contributions to the subject and founded the Zeitschrift für orthopädische Chirurgie.

1891 CE

#4185

Les tumeurs de la vessie.

Includes description of “Albarran’s glands”, subtrigonal glands in the bladder. He introduced a classification based on embryological origin. See also No. 4195.

1891 CE

#4866

Linear craniotomy (miscalled craniectomy) for microcephalus.

Keen was a pioneer in linear craniotomy and one of the first successfully to operate for meningioma. He was Professor of Surgery at Jefferson Medical College.

1891 CE

#5241

Malariaparasiten in den Vögeln.

Confirmation of the work of Laveran.

1891 CE

#3838

Note on the treatment of myxoedema by hypodermic injections of an extract of the thyroid gland of a sheep.

Murray injected thyroid extract subcutaneously in the treatment of myxedema with highly successful results.

1891 CE

#11633

Notes on the practice of medicine.

This was Howard's only book. Osler, in his anonymous obituary of his mentor R. Palmer Howard (1823-1889), wrote, "As a teacher of medicine for thirty-three years, Dr. Howard enjoyed a unique reputation in his own coun…

1891 CE

#5158

Observations sur la morve.

Mallein reaction for the diagnosis of glanders.

1891 CE

#1178

On spermin.

Isolation of spermin from the testis.

1891 CE

#1420.1

On the mammalian nervous system, its functions, and their localisation determined by an electrical method.

Gotch and Horsley showed that electric currents are produced in the mammalian brain, and they recorded them with the string galvanometer of the capillary electrometer. Their work led eventually to the development of t…

1891 CE

#1018.1

Quelques points de l’anatomie et de la chirurgie des voies biliaires.

“Hartmann’s pouch”, a dilatation of the neck of the gall-bladder.

1891 CE

#4865

Remarks on the various surgical procedures devised for the relief or cure of trigeminal neuralgia (tic douloureux).

Horsley, with J. Taylor and W. S. Coleman, devised an operation for treatment of trigeminal neuralgia in which the Gasserian ganglion was removed by a temporal approach.

1891 CE

#9888

Scatologic rites of all nations. A dissertation upon the employment of excrementitious remedial agents in religion, therapeutics, divination, witchcraft, love-philters, etc., in all parts of the globe. Based upon original notes and person observation, and upon compilation from over one thousand authorities. Not for general perusal.

Digital facsimile of the 1891 edition from the Internet Archive at this link. Translated in to German as: Der Unrat in Sitte, Brauch, Glauben und Gewohnheitrecht der Völker, von John Gregory Bourke. Verdeutscht u…

1891 CE

#185

Schönheit und Fehler der menschlichen Gestalt.

1891 CE

#13172

Suggestions to the medical witness.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1891 CE

#1130

Sur les fonctions du corps thyroïde.

Gley re-discovered the parathyroids and later came across Sandström’s description (see No. 1127). Gley seems to have been the first to understand their real significance; his work showed the necessity of th…

1891 CE

#717

The behaviour of saccharine matter in the blood.

Destruction of sugar in the blood.

1891 CE

#5754.5

The correction of angular deformities of the nose by a subcutaneous operation.

The first reduction rhinoplasty to enhance the appearance of a patient. See No. 5755.3.

1891 CE

#5061

The histological changes in experimental diphtheria.

An account of the pathological changes brought about by experimental inoculation of diphtheria toxins.

1891 CE

#11911

The opening of the Johns Hopkins Medical School to women. Reprinted from Open Letters in the Century Magazine for February 1891.

A collection of articles by various experts supporting the opening of the planned Johns Hopkins Medical School to women. Contributors included Cardinal Gibbons, Mary Putnam Jacobi, Josephine Lowell, C. F. Folsom, Care…

1891 CE

#4998

Thérapeutique suggestive.

1891 CE

#4184.1

Über Blasenekstirpation.

First successful total cystectomy.

1891 CE

#4706.1

Ueber acute Ataxie.

“Leyden’s (acute) ataxia”.

1891 CE

#5241.1

Ueber die Wirkung des Methylenblau bei Malaria.

Guttmann and Ehrlich demonstrated methylene blue to be lethal in vitro for the malaria parasite – the beginning of Ehrlich’s work on chemotherapy.

1891 CE

#3791

Ueber eine Geschwulst der sogen. Glandula carotica oder des Nodulus caroticus. In Festschrift Rudolf Virchow, 1, 547-54.

First account of the pathology of carotid body tumors.

1891 CE

#3500

Ueber eine neue Untersuchungsmethode der Verdauungsorgane und einige Resultate derselben.

Sahli’s test for estimating the functional activity of the stomach.

1891 CE

#5513.1

Ueber eine neue, pathogene Cladothrix und eine durch sie hervorgerufene Pseudotuberculosis (cladothrichica).

Eppinger isolated Cladothrix (Nocardia) asteroides in a patient suffering from pseudotuberculosis with brain abscesses and meningitis.

1891 CE

#1369

Ueber einige neuere Forschungen im Gebiete der Anatomie des Centralnervensystems.

A statement of the neuron theory, to which Waldeyer gave the name.

1891 CE

#3498

Ueber Magensyphilis.

Important study of gastric syphilis.

1891 CE

#5514

Ueber Reincultur des Actinomyces und seine Uebertragbarkeit auf Thiere.

Isolation of Actinomyces bovis, later called Actinomyces israelii.

1891 CE

#4864

Ueber Rindenexcisionen, als Beitrag zur operativen Therapie der Psychosen.

Burckhardt, physician at a Swiss mental hospital, performed frontal lobotomy on four patients in 1890, with good results in some cases. Digital facsimile from Universitätsbibliothek Bern at this link.

1891 CE

#4577.1

Ueber Veränderungen des Kleinhirns infolge von Hydrocephalie des Grosshirns.

Charii I malformation. See No. 4581.1. See also Denkschr. Akad. Wiss. Wien, 1896, 63, 71-116.

1891 CE

#2506.1

Ueber Wasserfiltration durch Filter aus gebrannter Infusorienerde.

Berkefeld kieselguhr filter.

1891 CE

#517.1

Untersuchungen über den ersten Entwicklungsvorgänge in den Eiern der Insekten. II. Ueber Spermatogenese und deren Beziehung zur Eientwicklung bei Pyrrhocoris apterus.

In his study of the testicles of the firebug (Pyrrhocoris) Henking noticed that one chromosome did not take part in meiosis. He named this X element because its strange behavior made him unsure whether it was genuinel…

1891 CE

#3304

Various forms of disease of the ethmoid cells.

1891 CE

#3178

Versuche über Immunisirung und Heilung bei der Pneumokokkeninfection.

Old antipneumococcal serum.

1891 CE

#4106

Vier Fälle von Elephantiasis congenita hereditaria.

First description of hereditary oedema of the legs, generally known as “Milroy’s disease” or as “Meige’s disease” (No. 4129).

1891 CE

#4359.1

Wiring of the vertebrae as a means of immobilization in fracture and Pott’s disease.

“In a case of fracture-dislocation of the cervical spine (C 6-7) he [Hadra] performed open reduction, twisting metal wires around the spinous processes to stabilize the injured sector” (Bick). This is the …

1891 CE

#4359.2

Wiring the spinal processes in Pott’s disease.

First spinal fusion.

1891 CE

#4627.1

Zur Auffassung der Aphasien.

Freud refuted the Wernicke–Lichtheim doctrine (Nos. 4623 & 4626) that the losses of function in aphasia were due to lesions to anatomically circumscribed centers corresponding to the various functions involved i…

1891 CE

#4755

Zwei frühinfantile hereditäre Fälle von progressiver Muskelatrophie unter dem Bilde der Dystrophie, aber auf neurotischer Grundlage.

“Werdnig-Hoffmann muscular atrophy”, an infantile familial form of progressive muscular atrophy. Hoffmann independently described it (see No. 4756).

1891 CE–1892 CE

#4104

Infective angeioma or naevus-lupus.

Angioma serpiginosum.

1891 CE–1892 CE

#10587

Regional anatomy in its relation to medicine and surgery. 2 vols.

Includes 97 beautiful chromolithographed plates dissected, photographed, and colored from nature by McClellan. Digital facsimile of the 2nd edition from the Internet Archive at this link.

1891 CE–1893 CE

#1628

Hospitals and asylums of the world. 4 vols. and atlas.

This great work deals with the history, administration, and planning of hospitals, and includes a bibliography. The author was an English financier and philanthropist rather than a professional historian or hospital a…

1891 CE–1893 CE

#534.68

Human monstrosities. 4 vols.

The first large work on the subject illustrated primarily by photographs of specimens, and one of the last to use to the term "monster" as a medical descriptor. Digital facsimile of the 4 volumes from the Internet Arc…