Jena
79 entries published in this place. (Jena, DE)
1681
#5161
Epistola… qua simul de anthrace, carbunculo, bubone et altauna, philologice disseritur.
1727
#918
De respirationis mechanismo atque usu genuino. [Praeses:] Georgius Erh. Hamberger. [Defendet:] Justinus Gerhardus Duising.
"Recent data on intercostal muscle function, largely electromyographic, tend to confirm the ideas of Hamberger, who, in 1748 (recte 1727), proposed a theory of intercostals muscle action upon the rib cage. Hamberger's…
1731
#6746.1
Anleitung zur Historie der medicinischen Gelahrheit.
A pioneer history of medical writing, for which the historian, Stolle, collaborated with the medical historian/biographer/bibliographer Kestner. Digital facsimile from the Google Books at this link.
1746
#3424
De ruptura intestini duodeni.
First description of duodenal ulcer.
1752
#3424.1
De tumore scirrhoso trium cum quadrante librarum glandulae parotidis extirpato.
First description of parotid tumor.
1796
#6849
Versuch über ein neues Prinzip zur Auffindung der Heilkräfte der Arzneisubstanzen, nebst einigen Blicken auf die bishberigan.
Hahnemann's first presentation of his new system of medicine. English translation in The Lesser Writings of Samuel Hahnemann, Collected and Translated by R. E. Dudgeon, London: W. Headland, 1851, 195-357.
1797
#1602
Die Kunst das menschliche Leben zu verlängern
Hufeland’s “Makrobiotik”, one of the most popular books of its time on personal hygiene. It was translated into all European languages. Hufeland was court physician at Weimar. English translation, 1797.
1804
#5481
Neue Ansichten der Hundswuth, ihrer Ursachen und Folgen, nebst einer sichem ehandlungsart der von tollen Thieren gebissenen Menschen.
Zinke transmitted rabies from a rabid dog to a normal one, and to a rabbit and a hen, by injection of saliva and proved the disease to be infectious. Digital facsimile from wellcomecollection.org at this link.
1807
#199
Ueber die Bedeutung der Schädelknochen.
Oken’s vertebral theory of the skull.
1816
#1990
Anleitung zur Darstellung und Anwendung aller Arten der kräftigsten Bäder und Heilwässer welche von Gesunden und Kranken gebraucht werden.
Döbereiner was the first to treat the subject of light therapy on a scientific basis.
1817 –1848
#107
Isis, oder encyclopädische Zeitung (verzüglich für Naturgeschichte, vergleichende Anatomie und Physiologie), VON OKEN. 41 vols.
Lorenz Oken, a leading light in the Nature-Philosophical School in Germany, produced important work in the field of biology. He founded the journal Isis, which published articles of great value; its incursion into the…
1832
#8951
Aeliani de natura animalium libri septemdecim. Verba ad fidem librorum manuscriptorum constituit et annotationibus illustravit Fridericus Jacobs.
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The first modern critical edition of the text, which collated medieval manuscripts against the previous printed editions. Digital facsimile of the 1832 edition from the Internet Archive at this link
1835
#1717
Kaiser Karl’s des Fünften Peinlich Gerichtsordnung … Hrsg. von R. Schmid.
CONSTITUTIO CRIMINALIS CAROLINA
The Constitutio Criminalis of the Emperor Charles V (circa 1533) is probably the oldest European document of any importance dealing with medical jurisprudence. It authorized judges to call expert witnesses in medico-l…
1842
#30
Antylli veteris chirurgi quae apud Oribasium libro xliv, xlv et L leguntur fragmenta. Dissertatio inauguralis chirurgico-historica....By Friedrich C. F. Wolz.
Antyllus, a Greek surgeon who lived in Rome during the second century CE. is particularly remembered for his work on the surgery of aneurysm. He was first to recognize two forms of aneurysm–one caused by dilatation an…
1843
#1677
Bibliotheca epidemiographica.
A second edition was published in 1862. Digital facsimile of the second edition from the Medical Heritage Library at the Internet Archive, at this link.
1845
#6384
Lehrbuch der Geschichte der Medicin und der Volkskrankheiten.
As an historian, Haeser was eclipsed only by his fellow-countryman Sudhoff. A third edition, in three volumes, appeared in 1875-82 and was reprinted, Hildesheim, G.Olms, 1971.
1846
#14337
Disquisitiones de structura protuberantia annularis sive pontis Varolii. Untersuchungen über den Bau des Hirnknotens oder der Varoli’schen Brucke. Text and atlas.
Stilling’s great work on the pons Varolii, the structure that links the brain to the spinal cord, includes the first accurate description of the red nucleus (superior olive), a structure in the midbrain involved in mo…
1847
#5524
Scriptores de sudore anglico superstites. Colliget C. G. Gruner. Post mortem auctoris adomavit et edidit H. Haeser.
A collection of all the important earlier writings on sweating sickness.
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.
1871
#874
Die Blutkrystalle.
1880
#123
Ueber Zellbildung und Zelltheilung. 3te. Aufl.
A pioneer work on the formation and division of cells. In this third edition Strasburger established one of the principles of modern cytology, i.e., that independent cell formation does not occur but that fresh nuclei…
1881
#502
Die Coelomtheorie. Versuch einer Erklärung des mittleren Keimblattes.
The Hertwig brothers formulated the “coelom” theory to account for the classification and phylogeny of metazoan animals. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1881 –1882
#2305
Lehrbuch de allgemeinen und speciellen pathologischen Anatomie und Pathogenese.
An outstanding textbook which today remains of value to pathologists. Ziegler was Professor of Pathology at Freiburg, and founded the Beiträge zur pathologischen Anatomie (“Ziegler’s Beiträge”).
1882
#1679
Geschichte der epidemischen Krankheiten.
Forms vol. 3 of his Lehrbuch der Geschichte der Medizin und der epidemischen Krankheiten, 3te. Aufl.
1883
#343
Lehrbuch der vergleichenden Anatomie der Wirbelthiere.
English translation, London, 1886. Digital facsimile of the 1883 edition from the Biodiversity Heritage Library, Internet Archive, at this link.
1884 –1890
#555
Untersuchungen zur Morphologie und Physiologie der Zelle.
1884
#229.1
Neue Untersuchungen über den Befruchtungsvorgang bei den Phanerogamen als Gründlage für eine Theorie der Zeugung.
Like Roux, Strasburger hypothesized that the cell nucleus contained the material basis of heredity, and developed the idea with evidence from microscopical observations.
1886
#504
Lehrbuch der Entwicklungsgeschichte des Menschen und der Wirbelthiere.
1886
#10450
Beiträge zur Analyse der Empfindungen.
Translated into English by C. M .Williams and Sydney Waterlow as The Analysis of Sensations (1897). Revised and supplemented from the Fifth German edition by Sydney Waterlow (1914). Digital facsimile of the 1886 editi…
1887
#12295
Sphygmographische Untersuchungen an Geisteskranken.
Ziehen, a student of Hermann Munk, wrote his habiltation thesis on sphygmographic studies of psychiatric patients. This was the first monograph on the subject.
1891
#234
Amphimixis, oder die Vermischung der Individuen.
By “amphimixis” Weismann meant the union of the two parent germs, which he considered the principal source of heritable variation in evolution by natural selection. English translation in Weismann’s Essays upon Heredi…
1892
#235
Aufsätze über Vererbung und verwandte biologische Fragen.
Weismann produced experimental evidence that acquired characters are not transmitted.
1892
#236
Das Keimplasma.
Weismann elaborated the theory of the continuity of the germ plasm. English edition, 1893.
1893 –1898
#556
Die Zelle und die Gewebe.
Part 1 was translated as The cell: outlines of general anatomy and physiology, London, 1895.
1894
#1567
Die Lehren von den Funktionen der einzelnen Theile des Ohrlabyrinths.
Stein studied the functions of separate parts of the labyrinth. This is a translation from the Russian.
1895
#644
Elektrophysiologie.
First exhaustive treatise on electrophysiology. English translation, 2 vols., London, 1896-98.
1896 –1934
#433
Handbuch der Anatomie des Menschen. 32 parts.
An important collective work.
1897 –1938
#513
Normentafeln zur Entwicklungsgeschichte der Wirbelthiere. 16 pts.
1898
#838
Ueber Herzbewegung und Herzstoss.
First employment of cinematograph to record the cardiac changes during all phases of heart contraction.
1898
#8536
Pflanzengeographie auf Physiologischer Grundlage.
In this work on the geographical distribution of plants Schimper coined the terms tropical rainforest and sclerophyll. English translation by William R. Fisher, revised and edited by Percy Groom and Isaac Bayley Balfo…
1898
#12932
Die Krankheiten des Mundes.
1901 –1911
#2423
Der Ursprung der Syphilis. 2 pts.
Bloch was a chief modern supporter of the theory of the Columbian origin of syphilis.
1901
#5688
Studien über die Narkose.
Overton developed the lipid theory of narcosis.
1901 –1905
#13226
Topographischer Atlas der medizinisch-chirurgischen Diagnostik. Topographic Atlas medico-surgical diagnosis. Atlas Topographique de diagnostic médico-chirurgical. 5 parts.
Contains 30 chromolithographed plates of cross-sectional anatomy made from frozen sections, with accompanying uncolored outline plates and text, published in German, English and French. Digital facsimile from biusante…
1902 –1909
#517
Lehrbuch der vergleichenden Entwicklungsgeschichte der wirbellosen Thiere.
1902 –1905
#6398
Handbuch der Geschichte der Medizin. Begründet von Theodore Puschmann. Herausgegeben von Max Neuburger und Julius Pagel. 3 vols.
Puschmann died before the completion of this work, and it was then edited by Pagel and Neuburger. It ranks with the work of Haeser; many authorities collaborated in the writing of the histories of the various subjects…
1903
#2629
Die Verbreitungswege der Karzinome und die Beziehung generalisierter Sarkome zu den leukämischen Neubildungen.
Schmidt supported the theory of the hematogenous origin of carcinoma metastases.
1903 –1909
#2517
Handbuch der pathogenen Mikroorganismen. 6 vols.
Third edition, 10 vols. [in 19], 1929-31.
1903
#2557
Zur Lehre von der Unterscheidung verschiedener Eiweissarten mit Hilfe spezifischer Sera.
Demonstration of organ-specific antigens, in this case in the proteins of the lens of the eye.
1903
#242
Ueber Erblichkeit in Populationen und in reinen Linien.
More support for the Mendelian law of inheritance was provided by Johannsen, a Danish botanist, who showed that in certain self-fertilizing plants a pure line of descendants can be maintained indefinitely, in which ca…