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1,008 entries match Immunology & Dermatology [C19 / C20 / C17]
1853
#7313
Recherches sur la nature et le traitement des teignes.
Bazin proved the fungal origin of favus and tinea; this was the first work to incorporate mycotic skin diseases into dermatological literature. Digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this link.
1854
#4042
On the keloid of Alibert, and on true keloid.
Addison described two forms of keloid, that described by Alibert, and the “true keloid” (the skin disease morphoea, “Addison’s keloid”).
1854
#4043
Ueber die Folge und den Verlauf epidermischer Krankheiten.
First description of tinea cruris (eczema marginatum, “Bärensprung’s disease”).
1854
#5551
Glossulae quatuor magistrorum super chirurgiam Rogerii et Rolandi nunc primum ad fidem codicis Mazarinei edidit
In Roger of Salerno's Practica chirurgiae, which appeared about 1180, end-to-end suture is described, as is the value of mercurial inunction in chronic skin diseases; in his recommendation of seaweed for the treatment…
1855
#3864
On the constitutional and local effects of disease of the supra-renal capsules.
Addison was the first to draw attention to the importance of the adrenals in clinical medicine. The above work first appeared in the Lond. med. Gaz., 1849, 43, 517-18, and was later expanded into book form. It describ…
1855
#9921
Portraits of diseases of the skin.
Wilson's atlas, with 48 plates drawn and engraved by the medical artist, William Bagg, was the first English large folio atlas of dermatology in the style of similar folios issued in France by Alibert and Cazenave. Th…
1856
#1140
Recherches expérimentales sur la physiologie et la pathologie des capsules surrénales.
Brown-Séquard found that excision of both adrenals in animals invariably proved fatal, thus determining their indispensability. He also believed that they had an antitoxic influence upon the blood. His experimental wo…
1856
#1141
Note sur quelques réactions propres à la substance des capsules surrénales.
Vulpian discovered adrenaline in the adrenal medulla.
1856 –1876
#3992
Atlas der Hautkrankheiten. 10 parts.
Hebra's work includes 104 spectacular folio-sized chromolithographed plates reproducing paintings by Anton Elfinger and Carl Heitzmann.
1856
#3992.1
Leçons sur les maladies de la peau.
Cazenave was among the first to classify skin diseases on an anatomical basis. He founded the first journal devoted entirely to dermatology (Annales des maladies de la peau et de la syphilis). This large folio atlas i…
1856
#4044
Pityriasis pilaris, maladie de peau non décrite par les dermatologistes.
Devergie is remembered for his clear description of pityriasis rubra pilaris, (“Devergie’s disease”). He was the first to demonstrate the presence of a fungus in eczema marginatum.
1857
#4045
Lichen exsudativus ruber.
First description of this condition (“Hebra’s pityriasis”).
1857 –1858
#4046
Sur la coloration partielle en noir ou en bleu de la peau chez les femmes.
Chromidrosis first described.
1858
#5525
Historia de la verrugas.
Verruga peruana.
1859
#3819
Untersuchungen über die Zuckerbildung in der Leber und den Einfluss des Nervensystems auf die Erzeugung des Diabetes.
Schiff’s reports on his experimental thyroidectomies, which were attended with fatal results. Subsequently (Arch. exp. Path. Pharmak., 1884, 18, 25) he showed that intra-abdominal transplantation of the gland would ob…
1859
#3913
Lieber das Alcapton; ein neuer Beitrag zur Frage: welche Stoffe des Harns können Kupferreduction bewirken?
Excretion of homogentisic acid (in alkaptonuria) first described.
1860
#534.62
Untersuchungen über die Entstehung der Missbildungen Zunächst in den Eiem der Vögel.
The first monograph on experimental teratology.
1860
#2586
On asthma: its pathology and treatment.
The best work on asthma to appear during the 19th century. Salter, who had suffered from asthma from childhood, may be considered the first modern student of the condition. He called special attention to asthma from a…
1860
#4048
Traité pratique des maladies de la peau. 3 éd., 2 vols.
Gibert’s name is associated with pityriasis rosea, which he first established as a definite clinical entity. His complete and accurate description of this condition is on page 402 of vol. 1 of the above work.
1860
#4049
Das umschriebene Eczem. Eczema marginatum. In Virchow’s Handbuch der spec. Path. u. Therap., 3, 1 Abt., 361-63.
Complete description of tinea cruris (eczema marginatum), first described by Bärensprung in 1854.
1860
#4050
De l’hypertrophie générale du système sébacé.
First description of keratosis follicularis.
1860
#3459.1
A practical treatise on the aetiology, pathology, and treatment of the congenital malformations of the rectum and anus.
The first systematic treatise on the subject, and a landmark in pediatric surgery. Includes an early account of colostomy and one of the earliest histories of that procedure. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at …
1861
#534.63
Die Missbildungen des Menschen, systematisch dargestellt. 2 vols.
An encyclopedia of cases from the literature and from Forster’s personal experience. It contains an extremely useful bibliography of teratology, which served as the basis for all subsequent bibliographies of the subject.
1861
#3993
On the parasitic affections of the skin.
Anderson was Professor of Clinical Medicine at Glasgow. Digital facsimile of the second edition (1868) from the Internet Archive at this link.
1861
#4047
On a new and striking form of fungus disease, principally affecting the foot, and prevailing endemically in many parts of India.
First modern description of mycetoma of the foot – “Madura foot”, “Carter’s mycetoma”. It was mentioned by E. Kaempfer in his Amoenitates exoticae, Lemgo, 1712, p. 561. Colebrook at the Madura Dispensary is said to ha…
1861
#4051
Leçons théoriques et cliniques sur la scrofule considérée en elle-même et dans ses rapports avec la syphilis, la dartre et l'arthritis. 2me édition.
Erythema induratum scrophulosorum (“Bazin’s disease”) first described.
1861
#4052
A peculiar atrophy of the skin (Lineae atrophicae).
First description of lineae atrophicae.
1862
#4053
Disease of the skin produced by post mortem examinations, or verruca necrogenica.
Description of dissecting-room warts (verrucae necrogenicae),tuberculosis verrucosa cutis (also known as Lupus verrucosus, Prosector's wart, and "Warty tuberculosis"[ the cutaneous tuberculosis of Laennec, sometimes c…
1863
#3914
Letter on corpulence; address to the public.
Banting, a prominent English undertaker, and formerly obese, was the first to popularize a weight loss diet based on limiting intake of refined and easily digestible carbohydrates. He changed his diet at the suggestio…
1863
#4054
Fall einer selten Muskelkrankheit.
First recorded case of dermatomyositis, now regarded as a connective tissue disease.
1864
#3820
Ueber Basedow’sche Krankheit.
“Graefe’s sign” – the discovery by von Graefe of the failure of the eyelid to follow the eye when it is rolled downward – diagnostic of exophthalmic goitre. Partial English translation in No. 2241.
1864
#4055
On impetigo contagiosa, or porrigo.
“Impetigo of Tilbury Fox”, impetigo contagiosa, first described.
1865
#534.64
Diploteratology.
Includes a valuable history of teratology with a detailed bibliography. Fisher assembled one of the largest of all libraries on teratology. Digital facsimile from U.S. National Library of Medicine at this link.
1865
#2618
Der Epithelialkrebs namentlich der Haut. 1 vol. and atlas.
Thiersch, Professor of Surgery at Erlangen, and inventor of the method of skin grafting which bears his name, also made an important contribution to the knowledge of the histogenesis of cancer. He disproved Virchow’s …
1865
#168
De la chevelure comme caractéristique des races humaines.
Pruner-Bey did the first important work on the classification of races according to texture and shape in section of hair. Digital facsimile from Persee.fr at this link.
1865
#3915
Glycosurie, diabète sucré. In his Clinique médicale de l’Hôtel-Dieu, 2me. éd., 2, 663-98.
First description of hemochromatosis.
1865
#6873
Photographs (coloured from life) of the diseases of the skin.
The first dermatologic publication illustrated with photographs.
1865
#6938
Catalogue de la superbe bibliothèque d'ethnographie, de zoologie, d'anatomie comparée, etc....
The auction catalogue of Vrolik's library, sold two years after his death, organized by subject. Prefaced by an essay about Vrolik's life and work by J. van der Hoeven, and a chronological list of Vrolik's publication…
1866
#4056
Das Colloid-Milium der Haut.
Colloid degeneration of the skin (“Wagner’s disease”) was first described by Wagner who gave it the name “Colloid milium”.
1866 –1880
#9969
Diseases of the skin, including the exanthemata by Ferdinand Hebra. Vol. 1: Translated and edited by C. Hilton Fagge. Vol. 2: Tr. and ed
Digital facsimile of vol. 1 from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1867
#2620
Die Entwicklung der Carcinome.
Waldeyer confirmed the work of Thiersch (No. 2618) on the epithelial origin of cancer, disproving Virchow’s theory (No. 2617). So great was the authority of the latter that it was not until the appearance of the secon…
1867
#3821
Ueber die totale Exstirpation einer kropfig entarteten Schilddrüse, und über die Rückwirkung dieser Operation auf die Circulationsverhältnisse im Kopfe.
Sick is credited with being the first to notice symptoms of loss of thyroid function following thyroidectomy. According to Halsted, the above is the first report of total thyroidectomy and “the first report of the con…
1868
#4056.1
Ueber Cataracten in Verbindung mit einer eigenthümlichen Haut-de-generation.
Poikiloderma congenitale (Rothmund).
1868
#6872
Clinique photographique de l'hôpital Saint-Louis.
The first French dermatologic book illustrated with photographs. Originally issued in fascicules, 1867-68. The first edition includes 49 or 50 albumin photographs; second edition, entitled Clinique photographique des …
1869
#1009
Beiträge zur mikroskopischen Anatomie der Bauchspeicheldrüse. Inaugural-Dissertation.
First account of the islets of Langerhans. In 1893 Édouard Laguesse attached the name of Langerhans to the structures. Langerhans did not suggest any function for them. The book was reprinted with an English translati…
1869
#2678
On markings of furrows on the nails as the result of illness.
1869
#4057
Chronic urticaria leaving brown stains: nearly two years’ duration.
Urticaria pigmentosa (Mastocytosis of the skin) described by Nettleship, was named eponymically “Nettleship’s disease”.
1869
#4058
On a diseased condition of the hairs of the axilla, probably of parasitic origin.
Tinea nodosa (trichorrhexis nodosa, “Paxton’s disease”) first described.
1869 –1870
#4059
Lafa Tokelau, or Tokelau ringworm.
First description, tinea imbricata. Turner described the disease while serving as a medical missionary in Samoa.
1869
#10890
Syphilis: Its nature & diffusion popularly considered.
The first work on dermatology or syphilology written, printed and published in Australia. This work is illustrated with chromolithographed plates printed in Australia. This may be the earliest medical book printed in …