1890–1899

1892 CE

#6532

Les médecins et les chirurgiens de Flandre avant 1789.

Digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this link.

1892 CE

#3856

Lieber erfolgreiche Einheilung der Katzenschilddrüse in die Bauchdecke und Auftreten von Tetanie nach deren Exstirpation.

Experimental production of tetany by excision of the thyroid of a cat, previously successfully transplanted into the abdomen.

1892 CE

#2966

Ligation of the first portion of the left subclavian artery and excision of a subclavio-axillary aneurism.

First successful ligation of the left subclavian artery. This was the first “successful ligation of the first part of either subclavian artery and the first one of complete extirpation of such an aneurysm”…

1892 CE

#10438

Mineral springs and health resorts of California: With a complete chemical analysis of every important mineral water in the world... A Prize Essay; Annual Prize of the Medical Society of the State of California, Awarded April 20, 1889.

The first half of the book concerns mineral springs and health resorts in California and how to use them; the second half mostly concerns mineral springs and other health resorts in North America and Europe. Digital f…

1892 CE

#1288

Notes on the arrangement of some motor fibres in the lumbo-sacral plexus.

An analysis of the distribution of the ventral nerve roots. Sherrington showed the association of the lateral horn cells with the sympathetic outflow.

1892 CE

#1287

Nuevo concepto de la histologia de los centros nerviosos.

Ramón y Cajal, son of a struggling Aragonese doctor, lived to become one of the greatest of all histologists. He devised many staining methods for nervous tissue and did work of fundamental importance to neuroa…

1892 CE

#4360

Oderevenielost pozvonochnika s iskrivleniyem yevo, kak osobaya forma zabolievaniya. [Ankylosis of the spine with curvature as a special form of disease.]

Bechterev’s disease – ankylosing spondylitis, previously described by Strümpell. A German translation of the paper is in Neurol. Zbl., 1893, 12, 426-34.

1892 CE

#3502

Om extra-abdominal Behandlung af cancer intestinalis (rectum derfra undtaget) med en Fremstilling af de for denne Sygdom foretagne Operationer og deres Resultater.

Bloch was first to employ the two-stage (Mikulicz) operation for cancer of the colon. See also No. 3527.

1892 CE

#3503

On achylia gastrica.

Einhorn introduced the concept of achylia gastrica, to indicate a primary nervous functional disorder of the gastric secretion.

1892 CE

#5754.6

On restoring sunken noses without scarring the face.

Reduction rhinoplasty by the endonasal approach. “The beginnings of the logical step-by-step rhinoplasty in use today” (McDowell).

1892 CE

#718

On the estimation of uric acid in the urine: a new process by means of saturation with ammonium chloride.

Hopkins’s method of estimating uric acid in urine.

1892 CE

#6093.1

On the occurrence of pleural effusion in association with disease of the abdomen.

Lawson Tait was apparently the first to describe what is now known as Meigs’s syndrome (ovarian fibroma combined with pleural effusion).

1892 CE

#5528.2

Pentastomas.

Posadas (No. 5528.1) and Wernicke, a professor pathology in Buenos Aires, were the first to report cases of coccidioidomycosis. German translation of Wernicke’s paper in Zbl. Bakt., 1892, 12, 859-61.

1892 CE

#1473

Persistence of vision.

Ferry modified Weber’s law on the relationship between stimulus and sensation. Following the work of Porter, Proc. roy. Soc. (Lond.), 1898, 63, 347; 1902, 70, 313, the term “Ferry–Porter Law” c…

1892 CE

#1472

Physiologische Untersuchungen über das Endorgan des Nervus octavus.

Ewald clarified the function of the eighth cranial nerve.

1892 CE

#2545.1

Practical results of bacteriological researches.

Sternberg demonstrated that the serum of an animal recovered from vaccinia possesses the property of neutralizing the activity of the causative virus. His test was readily adaptable for use in various host-systems.

1892 CE

#4107

Première note et observations préliminaires pour servir d’introduction à l’étude des prurigos diathésiques (dermites multiformes prurigineuses chroniques exacerbantes et paroxystiques, du type du prurigo de Hebra).

“Besnier’s prurigo”.

1892 CE

#834

Pulsation in the veins, with the description of a method for graphically recording them.

The phlebograph, which developed into the polygraph. With it Mackenzie obtained simultaneous tracings of the pulsations of the jugular vein and radial artery.

1892 CE

#1999

Recherches d’électrothérapie: la voltaisation sinusoïdale.

Introduction of high-frequency currents in electrotherapy.

1892 CE

#10568

Researches in female pelvic anatomy.

The first cross-sectional anatomy of the pelvic anatomy during the puerperium, the period of about six weeks after childbirth during which the mother's reproductive organs return to their original non-pregnant conditi…

1892 CE

#4871

Resection des Trigeminus innerhalb der Schädelhöhle.

Hartley–Krause operation for relief of trigeminal neuralgia (see also No. 4870).

1892 CE

#3394.1

Sui caratteri clinici offerti dalle lesioni del nervo acustico.

Gradenigo’s test for tone decay. Translation in Arch. Otol. (N.Y.), 1893, 22, 213-15.

1892 CE

#1157

Sulla distruzione della ghiandola pituitaria.

Vassale and Sacchi showed water and mineral metabolism to be affected by hypophysectomy.

1892 CE

#6201

Sulla provocazione artificiale del parto e sul parto forzato col mezzo della dilatazione meccanica del collouterino.

Bossi originated the method of induction of premature labour by means of forced dilatation of the cervix.

1892 CE

#5244

Sulle febbre malariche estivo-autumnali.

A summary of the Italian work on malaria. English translation, 1894.

1892 CE

#6093

Supravaginal hysterectomy without ligature of the cervix, in operation for uterine fibroids; a new method.

Baer’s operation.

1892 CE

#3070

Sur une forme spéciale de cyanose s’accompagnant d’hyperglobulie excessive et persistante.

Vaquez first described polycythemia vera (erythremia). Osler’s paper on the subject (No. 3073) made it generally known in the English-speaking world, and the condition has since been named “Vaquez–Os…

1892 CE

#3601

The anatomy and surgical treatment of hernia.

Marcy wrote a great deal on hernia, describing high ligation of the sac, transplantion of the spermatic cord, and careful reconstruction of the inguinal canal. This work, illustrated with 66 full-page plates, is one o…

1892 CE

#510

The cell-lineage of Nereis.

Wilson traced the development of Nereis in minute detail from fertilized egg to the free-swimming larval stage, a pioneer study of cell-lineage.

1892 CE

#12786

The collected papers of Sir W. Bowman. Edited by J. Burdon-Sanderson and J. W. Hulke. 2 vols.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1892 CE

#2682.5

The early history of instrumental precision in medicine.

1892 CE

#7614

The hygiene, diseases, and mortality of occupations.

Remarkably comprehensive discussion, with an innovative classification, of a very wide range of occupations. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1892 CE

#6452.1

The medicine-men of the Apache.

Bourke, a U.S. Army officer with experience on the American Indian frontier, was a pioneer student of native American medicine and anthropology. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1892 CE

#2231

The principles and practice of medicine.

Osler’s textbook was the best English work on medicine of its time. He became Regius Professor of Medicine at Oxford in 1904. Besides being one of the greatest of all clinicians, he was possessed of a fine liter…

1892 CE

#9725

The yellow wall-paper.

This 6,000-word short story by is regarded as an important early work of American feminist literature, illustrating and critiquing 19th century attitudes toward women's health, both physical and mental. Digital facsim…

1892 CE

#4357

Traumatische rarefizierende Ostitis.

“Kümmell’s disease”. He described a form of traumatic spondylitis.

1892 CE

#6203

Tubo peritoneal ectopic gestation.

1892 CE

#4707

Ueber die Beziehungen der senilen Hirnatrophie zur Aphasie.

“Pick’s disease” – circumscribed atrophy of the brain with the development of aphasia and presenile dementia.

1892 CE

#2506.2

Ueber die Mosaikkrankheit der Tabakspflanze.

The Russian botanist Ivanovski demonstrated that the agent responsible for tobacco mosaic disease could pass through the finest filter then available. This was the starting point of research into the etiology of virus…

1892 CE

#1286

Ueber die Veranderungen der Ganglienzellen am Fascialiskern des Kaninchens nach Ausreissung der Nerven.

1892 CE

#3506

Ueber eine eigenartige symmetrische Erkrankung der Thränen- und Mundspeicheldrüsen.

First description of the syndrome of symmetrical inflammation of the lacrymal and salivary glands (“Mikulicz’s disease”). English translation in Medical Classics, 1937, 2, 165-86.

1892 CE

#2507

Ueber Epidemieen unter den im hygienischen Institute zu Greifswald gehaltenen Mäusen und über die Bekämpfung der Feldmausplage.

Isolation of Salm. typhi-murium.

1892 CE

#4788

Ueber syphilitische Spinalparalyse.

Erb’s classic description of syphilitic spinal paralysis, sometimes called “Erb’s disease”.

1892 CE

#5528.1

Un nuovo caso de micosis fungoides con psorospermias.

As an intern in Buenos Aires, Posadas described an Argentine soldier who had a dermatological problem since 1889. Posadas had seen the patient while a medical student in 1891, and skin biopsies revealed organisms rese…

1892 CE

#4361

Untersuchungen über die sogenannte foetale Rachitis (Chondrodystrophia foetalis).

First study of the cartilage changes in achondroplasia.

1892 CE

#6095

Vaginal hysterectomy in bilateral peri-uterine suppuration.

Henrotin’s method of removing the uterus.

1892 CE

#5490

Vorläufige Mittheilungen über die Erregerder Influenza.

Pfeiffer discovered a bacillus, Haemophilus influenzae, “Pfeiffer’s bacillus”, which he believed to be the causal organism of influenza.

1892 CE

#3394

Weitere Mittheilungen über die operative Freilegung der Mittelohrräume nach Ablösung der Ohrmuschel.

Stacke did much to improve the surgery of the middle ear. He made important modifications in the radical mastoidectomy operation of Küster and von Bergmann.

1892 CE

#888

Zur Blutlehre.

Schmidt established several new facts regarding blood coagulation.

1892 CE

#3600

Zur Radicalcur der Hernien.

Kocher’s hernia operation.