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1,672 entries match Pharmacology & Therapeutics [D01 / E02]
1878
#13475
Der Alkoholismus seine Verbreitung und Wirkung auf den Individuellen und sozialen Organismus, sowie die Mittel Ihn zu Bekämpfen.
1879
#2892
Nitro-glycerine as a remedy for angina pectoris.
Murrell introduced trinitrin (nitroglycerin, glyceryl trinitrate) in the treatment of angina.
1879
#11954
Catalogue of the plants under cultivation in the botanical gardens, Singapore, Straits Settlements.
The first published catalogue of plants in the Singapore Botanic Gardens. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1880
#2035
Historical sketch of the progress of pharmacy in Great Britain.
1880
#1870
Medicinal plants, being descriptions with original figures of the principal plants employed in medicine. 4 vols.
1880
#1871
Ueber die physiologische Wirking des Cocaïn.
Anrep studied the action of cocaine and, like Moréno y Maïz, suggested that it might be used as a local anesthetic.
1881
#1873
Die natürlich vorkommenden mydriatisch wirkenden Alkaloïde.
Isolation of hysocine (scopolamine), an anti-nausea drug.
1881
#2081
Die Nebenwirkungen der Arzneimittel.
This was the first book of its kind. It deals with the borderline between the pharmacological and the toxicological action of drugs with the untoward or side-effects of all kinds of medicaments. For details regarding …
1881
#13005
Early European researches into the flora of China.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1881
#13050
The plants an drugs of sind; being a systematic account, with descriptions, of the indigenous flora, and notices of the value and uses of their products in commerce, medicine and the arts.
1881
#13705
Guide to the literature of botany; being a classified selection of botanical works, including nearly 6000 titles not given in Pritzel's 'Thesaurus."
Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.
1882
#9506
Opium-smoking in America and China: A study of its prevalence, and effects, immediate and remote, on the individual and the nation.
The author claims (p. 1) that "the first white man who smoked opium in America is said to have been a sporting character named Clendenyn. The second—induced to try it by the first—smoked in 1871." Digital facsimile fr…
1882 –1895
#13006
Botanicon sinicum: Notes on Chinese botany from native and western sources. 3 parts.
Part 1 was first published in the Journal of the North-China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, XVI (1881). Part 2 was published in the Journal of the China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society for 1890-91, XXV (1893…
1883
#1874
The extra pharmacopoeia of unofficial drugs … With references to their use abstracted from the medical journals by W. Wynn Westcott.
29th edition, 1989.
1883
#1875
Grundriss der Arzneimittellehre.
Schmiedeberg, leading German pharmacologist, was professor at Dorpat and Strasburg. Among his many valuable investigations may be mentioned his study of the effect of drugs on the circulation.
1884
#1877
Recherches cliniques et physiologiques sur la paraldéhyde.
Introduction of paraldehyde into therapeutics as a narcotic.
1884
#1878
Ueber das Antipyrin, ein neues Antipyreticum.
Introduction of antipyrine.
1884
#1879
Eine neue Form medicamentöser Einverleibung.
Unna introduced specially coated pills for local absorption in the intestine.
1884 –1886
#1880
Vorlesungen über Pharmakologie.
Includes his test for quinine in urine. English translation of second edition, 1895-97. Binz was Professor of Pharmacology at Bonn. His most important work was perhaps the demonstration that quinine in low concentrati…
1884
#1880.1
Ueber coca.
Freud described his observations (with himself as subject) on the effects of cocaine, including its abolition of hunger and fatigue, the “exhilaration and lasting euphoria”. He also described its supposed non-addictiv…
1884
#6079
Sur la faradisation utérine double ou bipolaire.
Apostoli was the first to employ the double faradic current in the electrotherapy of uterine diseases.
1884
#9422
An epitome of the reports of the medical officers to the Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs Office from 1871 to 1882. With chapters on the history of medicine in China: Materia medica: Epidemics: Famine: Ethnology: And chronology in relation to medicine and public health.
Apart from studies of common diseases, public health issues, and epizootics, this work contains a chapter on opium smoking and a chapter on the castration of Chinese eunuchs, of which there were around a thousand work…
1884 –1888
#12947
Plantae Davidianae ex Sinarum Imperio: Première partie: Plantes de Mongolie du Nord et du Centre de la Chine. Deuxieme Partie: Plantes du Thibet Oriental (Province de Moupine)
Catalogue of the very extensive collection of plants collected by the Lazarist missionary Father Armand David for the Musée d'Histoire Naturelle during his three major naturalist expeditions in China, Mongolia and Tib…
1885
#1881
A text-book of pharmacology, therapeutics and materia medica.
Brunton was physician to St. Bartholomew’s Hospital and an eminent pharmacologist. He is notable for his introduction of amyl nitrite in the treatment of angina pectoris and for a vast amount of other work concerning …
1885
#9500
A contribution to South African materia medica, chiefly from plants in use among the natives.
The first edition was a pamphlet of 23 pp. Smith issued a much-expanded second edition with 163 pp., also at Lovedale in 1888, and a further expanded third edition with 262 pp. (Cape Town, 1895). Digital facsimile of …
1885
#10575
Indigenous flowers of the Hawaiian Islands: Forty-four plates painted in water-colours and described by Mrs. Francis Sinclair, Jr.
The first color-illustrated book on Hawaiian flora. "The following collection of flowers was made upon the islands of Kauai and Niihau, the most northern of the Hawaiian archipelago. It is not by any means a large col…
1886
#1882
Ueber Disulfone.
Preparation of sulphonal.
1886
#1883
Ichthyol und Resorcin als Repräsentanten der Gruppe reduzierender Heilmittel.
Unna introduced ichthyol and resorcinol into medicine. Supplement to Mh. prakt. Derm., No. 1.
1886
#1883.01
Om Periodiske Depressionstilstande og deres Patogenese.
Lange was the first to use a mixture of drugs containing lithium carbonate for the preventive treatment of periodic depression. This work contains the “first unequivocal account of prophylactic drug treatment for an e…
1886
#2106
Researches upon the venoms of poisonous serpents.
Mitchell (see also No. 2104) and Reichert showed that snake venom is protein, and demonstrated the presence of toxic albumins. Mitchell was one of the first to investigate snake venoms.
1886
#2503.1
Ueber die Mosaikkrankheit des Tabaks.
Mayer was first to describe and name tobacco mosaic disease and to demonstrate its infectious nature, that it could be transferred between plants, similar to bacterial infections. Translation in Phytopathological Clas…
1886
#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.
1887
#1883.2
Sur l’action de l’antifébrine (acétanilide) et de quelques corps analogues.
Introduction of acetanilide (antifebrin).
1887
#1883.3
Ueber die Wirkung des Acetphenetidins.
Introduction of phenacetin.
1887
#2908
L’artério-sclérose subaiguë dans ses rapports avec les spasmes vasculaires et son traitement par la trinitrine (nitroglycérine).
“Huchard’s disease” – continued hypertension causing arteriosclerosis. Huchard did much to develop the knowledge concerning arteriosclerosis and summarized his work in a classic monograph published in 1909.
1887
#4945
Disturbance of psychic activity in alcoholic paralysis.
“Korsakoff’s psychosis” or syndrome – alcoholic polyneuritis with loss and falsification of memory. A second paper on the subject in Ezhened. klin. Gaz., 1889, 9, 85, 115, 136, is translated into English in Neurology,…
1887
#1883.1
Ephedrin.
Isolation of ephedrine from Ephedra distachya.
1887
#7917
Über einige Derivate der Phenylmethacrylsäure und der Phenylisobuttersäure.
Synthesis of phenylisopropylamine, later known as amphetamine. Its stimulant effects were unknown until it was independently resynthesized by Gordon Alles.
1887
#8716
American medicinal plants; an illustrated and descriptive guide to the American plants used as homoeopathic remedies: Their history, preparation, chemistry and physiological effects. Illustrated by the author.
Plates printed by chromolithography. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1887
#13259
Meine Wasser-Kur, durch mehr als 30 Jahre erprobt und geschrieben zur Heilung der Krankheiten und Erhaltung der Gesundheit.
Kneipp was a Bavarian priest and not a physician. He learned about hydrotherapy and other methods of treatment later called naturopathic during the time he suffered from tuberculosis. Digital facsimile of the 1889 10t…
1888
#1884
Sulfonal, ein neues Schlafmittel.
Introduction of sulphonal, previously discovered by Baumann.
1888
#2506
Ueber die Fleischvergiftung in Frankenhausen. a.K. und den Erreger derselben.
Discovery of Salmonella enteritidis, a cause of food poisoning.
1889 –1891
#2036
Aus pharmazeutischer Vorzeit in Bild und Wort. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile of the 1889 edition from the Internet Archive at this link. Translated into English by William Netter as Pictorial history of ancient pharmacy; with sketches of early medical practice (Chicago, G. P.…
1889
#2100
Des polynévrites en général et des paralysies et atrophies saturnines en particulier.
Madame Dejerine-Klumpke, famous neurologist, contributed an important work on lead palsies.
1889
#1932.2
Bakteriolytische Enzyme als Ursache der erworbenen Immunität und die Heilung von Infectionskrankheiten durch dieselben.
Emmerich and Löw prepared a water-soluble antibiotic substance, pyocyanase, from Pseudomonas pyocanea. It inhibited pathogenic cocci and the organisms responsible for diphtheria, plague, cholera, and typhoid.
1889
#8330
Marcelli De medicamentis liber. Edited Georgius Helmreich.
Marcellus's compendium of pharmacological preparations drawing on the work of multiple medical and scientific writers as well as folk remedies and magic. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1889
#9525
Merck's index of fine chemicals and drugs for the materia medica and the arts: Comprising a summary of whatever chemical products are to-day adjudged as being useful in either medicine or technology, with average values and synonyms affixed; a guide for the physician, apothecary, chemist, and dealer.
First edition of the Merck Manual. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1889
#9666
Les poissons venimeux. Contribution à l'hygiène navale.
The first systematic work on the venom organs of fishes.
1889
#10786
Antibiose et symbiose.
Villemin coined the term antibiosis and advanced the term from an evolutionary viewpoint. Though he presented the concept Villemin did not apply this concept to fight disease. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference.)
1889
#11869
Opium: Historical note, or, the poppy in China. Published by order of The Inspector General of Customs.
Though relatively brief (50pp.) this may be the first historical study of opium in English. Text in English and Chinese. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Turst at this link. Reprinted without the Chinese text, Shangha…