1890–1899
835 entries with publication dates in this decade.
1891 CE–1893 CE
#4756
Ueber chronische spinale Muskelatrophie im Kindesalter, auf familiärer Basis.
“Hoffmann’s muscular atrophy” – independently described by Werdnig (No. 4755).
1891 CE–1894 CE
#1680
A history of epidemics in Britain. Vol. 1: From A. D. 664 to the extinction of plague. Vol. 2: From the extinction of plague to the present time.
A classical contribution to modern epidemiology, of which Creighton may be said to have been the founder. Reprinted with new introductory material, 1965. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1891 CE–1895 CE
#2422
Syphilis today and among the ancients. 2 vols.
1892 CE
#8377
"A copy of the earliest known Weekly Bill of Mortality. British Museum. Egerton MSS. 2603, f.4." IN: An inquiry into the trustworthiness of the old bills of mortality.
On p. 452 of his paper Ogle reproduces in type "A copy of the earliest known Weekly Bill of Mortality. British Museum. Egerton MSS. 2603, f.4." Ogle states that Creighton attributed this manuscript bill of mortality t…
1892 CE
#7496
A biographical history of Guy's Hospital.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1892 CE
#4708
A case of complete athetosis with post-mortem.
One of the earliest accounts of bilateral athetosis (“Vogt syndrome”, No. 4720).
1892 CE
#4947
A dictionary of psychological medicine. 2 vols.
1892 CE
#2508
A gas-producing bacillus (Bacillus aërogenes capsulatus nov. spec.) capable of rapid development in the blood-vessels after death.
Discovery of the gas gangrene bacillus (Welch bacillus) Cl. perfringens. Reprinted in Medical Classics, 1941, 5, 852-85.
1892 CE
#2509
A manual of bacteriology.
Sternberg, U. S. Surgeon General 1893-1902, was a pioneer bacteriologist. Independently of Pasteur he discovered the pneumococcus and was first in America to photograph the tubercle bacillus. He sent Walter Reed off t…
1892 CE
#4363
A new operation for paralytic talipes valgus, and the enunciation of a new surgical principle.
First successful tendon transplantation.
1892 CE
#1973
An introduction to modern therapeutics, being the Croonian Lectures on the relationship between chemical structure and physiological action.
One of the best known of Lauder Brunton’s works.
1892 CE
#4109
An undescribed variety of hereditary oedema.
Independently of Nonne (No. 4106) Milroy described congenital edema of the legs; it has been given the eponym “Milroy’s disease”.
1892 CE
#3394.2
Antrectomy as a treatment for chronic purulent otitis media.
Mastoidectomy for the efficient drainage of the results of middle ear suppuration.
1892 CE
#235
Aufsätze über Vererbung und verwandte biologische Fragen.
Weismann produced experimental evidence that acquired characters are not transmitted.
1892 CE
#5243
Azione della chinina sui parasite malarici e sui corrispondente accessi febbrili.
French translation in Arch. ital. Biol., 1892, 17, 456-71.
1892 CE
#12647
Bestimmung der Trägheitsmomente des menschlichen Körpers und seiner Glieder.
Translated into English by P. Maquet and R. Furlong as Determination of the moments of intertia of the human body and its limbs. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1988.
1892 CE
#4578
Casuistische Beiträge zur Nervenpathologie. II. Doppelseitige Accessoriuslähmung bei Syringomyelie.
“Schmidt’s syndrome” – a hemiplegia affecting the vocal cord, palate, trapezius, and sternocleidomastoid muscles, due to lesion of the nucleus ambiguus and nucleus accessorius.
1892 CE
#13498
Catalogo systematico da bibliotheca da Faculdade de Medicina do Rio de Janeiro organisado pelo Carlos Costa.
Digital facsimile from U.S. National Library of Medicine at this link.
1892 CE
#3507
Cholecysto-intestinal, gastro-intestinal, entero-intestinal anastomosis, and approximation without sutures.
“Murphy’s button” introduced.
1892 CE
#3772
Clinical lecture on acute Hodgkin’s disease
Dreschfeld preceded Kundrat in differentiating Hodgkin’s disease and lymphosarcoma.
1892 CE
#5621
Conditions underlying the infection of wounds.
Discovery of Staph. epidermidis (albus) and its relation to the infection of wounds.
1892 CE
#835
Contributions to the physiology and pathology of the mammalian heart.
1892 CE
#203.5
Crania ethnica Americana. Sammlung auserlesener Amerikanischer Schädeltypen. Herausgegeben von R. Virchow.
1892 CE
#5439.1
Das Auftreten von Varizellen unter eigentümlichen Verhältnissen.
Bokay was the first to suggest an etiological relationship between varicella and herpes zoster. See also his paper in Wien. klin. Wschr., 1909, 22, 1323-26.
1892 CE
#5775
Das Cystadenom der Mamma.
“Schimmelbusch’s disease”.
1892 CE
#641
Das Gesetz der Transformation der Knochen.
“Wolff’s law” stated that every change in form and function of a bone, or in its function alone, is followed by certain definite changes in its internal architecture and equally definite secondary al…
1892 CE
#236
Das Keimplasma.
Weismann elaborated the theory of the continuity of the germ plasm. English edition, 1893.
1892 CE
#6279
Das Scheidensekret und seine Bedeutung für das Puerperalfieber.
Döderlein's study of the vaginal secretion in relation to puerperal fever includes the first description of “Döderlein’s bacillus” (Lactobacillus). Döderlein introduced the concept of …
1892 CE
#6202
Das tuberöse subchoriale Hämatom der Decidua. Eine typische Form der Molenschwangerschaft.
Tuberous (“Breus”) mole first described.
1892 CE
#3504
De la gastro-duodénostomie.
Introduction of gastroduodenostomy.
1892 CE
#4362
De la pseudo-paralysie générale arthritique.
First description of “Klippel’s disease”, arthritic general pseudoparalysis.
1892 CE
#785
Der Einfluss der Systems der Vena portae auf die Vertheilung des Blutes.
Translated into English as "The contraction of the vena portae and its influence upon the circulation," Johns Hopkins Hospital Reports, I (1896) 111-157. Digital facsimile of the English translation from Google Books …
1892 CE
#1370
Der Hund ohne Grosshirn.
Goltz was able to keep dogs alive for eight months after he had performed subtotal decerebration. He found them incapable of purposive movements but able to walk with adequate co-ordination. Frontal decortication caus…
1892 CE
#4789
Die Aetiologieder Tabes.
English translation, 1900.
1892 CE
#5554
Die Chirurgie des Heinrich de Mondeville. Hrsg. von Julius Leopold Pagel.
Henri de Mondeville was the teacher of Guy de Chauliac; he belonged to the School of Montpellier. His work was first printed as above; French translations by E. Nicaise, 1893, and A. Bos, 1897; the latter was reprinte…
1892 CE
#4110
Drei Favusarten.
Unna described the different fungi of favus. He founded the above-mentioned journal, and he is one of the most eminent figures in modern dermatology.
1892 CE
#3505
Ein Fall von einem frei in die Bauchhöhle perforirten Magengeschwür; Laparotomie; Naht der Perforationsstelle; Heilung.
In 1892 Ludwig Heusner (1846-1916) successfully sutured a perforated gastric ulcer, the first successful case on record. It was reported by H. Kriege.
1892 CE
#4223
Ein Fall von Resektion des Harnleiters.
First successful plastic operation for the relief of hydronephrosis.
1892 CE
#509
Entwicklungsmechanische Studien. I. Der Werth der beiden ersten Furchungszellen in der Echinodermentwicklung. Experimentelle Erzeugen von Theil-und Doppelbildung. II. Ueber die Beziehungen des Lichtes zur ersten Etappe der thierischen Formbildung.
In the spring of 1891 Driesch succeeded in separating the blastomeres of the cleaving sea urchin egg. English translation in No. 534.3.
1892 CE
#186
Finger prints.
The use of fingerprints as identification marks was known to the Chinese, but Galton was among the first to explain their possibilities in the identification of criminals. “Galton’s delta” is a trian…
1892 CE
#4579
Gesammelte Abhandlungen, edited by A. Westphal. 2 vols.
Westphal was Professor of Psychiatry at Berlin; at this time was common for physicians to practice both psychiatry and neurology. Vol. 1: psychiatry; Vol. 2: neurology.
1892 CE
#11634
Gynaecological technique: A brief summary of the principles involved, as well as the technique involved in the gynæcological operations performed in the Johns Hopkins Hospital: The significance of the operation and its technical surroundings to gynaecological practice.
Includes 14 photographic illustrations showing Kelly's gynecological operating room, antiseptic and aseptic apparatus, and his assistants preparing for surgery. The text includes descriptions of the apparatus and tech…
1892 CE
#13199
Helen Brent, M. D. A social study.
A short, memorable novel about a woman who faces the agonizing choice between career and marriage, and chooses medicine. Among her achievements, Meyer was a founder of Barnard College. Digital facsimile from Google Bo…
1892 CE
#6764.1
Homeopathic bibliography of the United States, from the year 1825 to the year 1891.
Of particular value for researching homeopathic literature, societies and institutions in America from 1825 to 1891. Digital facsimile from the Hathitrust at this link.
1892 CE
#5683
Infiltrationsanästhesie (locale Anästhesie) und ihr Verhältniss zur allgemeinen Narcose (Inhalationsanästhesie).
Infiltration anesthesia was developed by Schleich after pioneer work by Halsted (No. 5679) Schleich published a paper in English on the subject in Int. Clin., 1895, 5 ser., 2, 177-92.
1892 CE
#3501
Intestinal anastomosis and suturing.
Abbe, a New York surgeon, introduced catgut rings for intestinal suturing. See also Med. News (Phila.), 1889, 54, 589-92.
1892 CE
#4870
Intracranial neurectomy of the second and third divisions of the fifth nerve.
Hartley originated the operation of intracranial neurectomy for trigeminal neuralgia.
1892 CE
#3634
Klinik der Cholelithiasis.
Naunyn produced a classic monograph on gall-stones, devising an accurate chemical classification. He was one of Frerichs’s best pupils and became Professor of Clinical Medicine successively at Dorpat, Berne, K&o…
1892 CE
#5109
Le choléra asiatique chez le cobaye.
Haffkine’s vaccine against cholera was the first to meet with any success.
1892 CE
#2307
Leçons sur la pathologie comparée de l'inflammation, faites à l'institut Pasteur en Avril et Mai 1891.
Metchnikoff delivered his classic lectures on inflammation in French at the Pasteur Institute. They were translated into Russian as Lektsii o sravnitelnoi patologii vospaleniy, and published in St. Petersburg by K. L.…