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19 entries published in this place. (Braunschweig, DE)

1735

#3051

Epistolica dissertatio altera pro spicilegio observationum de morbo maculoso haemorrhagico et noxiis nonnulis mytulis perscripta.

Behrens gave the name “morbus maculosus haemorrhagicus” to the disease purpura haemorrhagica. His paper is reprinted in Werlhof’s Opera medica, Hannover, 1775, 2,615-36.

1842 –1853

#607

Handwörterbuch der Physiologie … hrsg. von R. Wagner.

Wagner was professor at Göttingen. His literary output was enormous. In the above work he contributed the sections on sympathetic nerves, nerve-ganglia, and nerve-endings. This work contained 63 extensive review artic…

1842

#677

Die organische Chemie in ihrer Anwendung auf Physiologie und Pathologie.

First classification of the organic foodstuffs and the processes of nutrition. With this book Liebig introduced the concept of metabolism into physiology. English translation, London, 1842.

1842

#484

Entwickelungsgeschichte des Kaninchen-Eies.

Bischoff contributed important original work on the development of the rabbit.

1849

#12533

Lehrbuch der pharmaceutischen Technik.

The first textbook of pharmacy.

1851

#4209

Die Bright’sche Nierenkrankheit.

Frerichs divided the progression of renal disease into three stages: initial hyperemia, fatty infiltration and exudation, and organization leading to fibrosis and atrophy. This is one of the earliest works on kidney d…

1851

#114

Grundzüge der Anatomie und Physiologie der vegetabilischen Zelle. In: Rudolph Wagner’s Handwörterbuch der Physiologie.

Von Mohl saw and described cell division. English translation, London, 1852.

1855 –1871

#417

Handbuch der systematischen Anatomie des Menschen. 3 vols.

Considered by many authorities to be the greatest of the 19th-century systems of anatomy. Many structures are named after Henle, including the looped portion of the uriniferous tubules of the kidney, the layer of cell…

1855

#1510

Ueber die Bewegung der Iris: Für Physiologen und Ärzte,

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1856

#617

Die medizinische Physik.

1858 –1861

#3620

Klinik der Leberkrankheiten. 2 vols. and atlas.

Frerichs’s classic monograph on diseases of the liver summarized the existing knowledge and included his own important work on the subject. He discovered leucine and tyrosine in the liver in acute yellow atrophy (Dtsc…

1859

#4815

Bau und Functionen der Medulla spinalis und oblongata, und nächste Ursache und rationelle Behandlung der Epilepsie.

The work of Schroeder van der Kolk brought histological examination to the forefront in connection with theories on the localization of function. His careful microscopical studies confirmed the medulla as being the ul…

1861

#4693

Klinik der Leberkrankheiten. Bd. 2.

Pp. 62-64: First description of progressive familial hepatolenticular degeneration (“Kinnier Wilson’s disease”; see No. 4717).

1863

#1562

Die Lehre von der Tonempfindungen als physiologische Grundlage für die Theorie der Musik.

Helmholtz’s theory of hearing, upon which all modern theories of resonance are based. This exhaustive study of acoustics ranks as one of the greatest books on the subject and shows that Helmholtz was, besides being a …

1864

#623

Untersuchungen über elektrische Nervenreizung.

Among the instruments introduced by Fick for the study of muscle and nerve physiology were the myotonograph, the cosine lever, and an improved thermopile.

1865

#1271

Untersuchungen über Gehirn und Rückenmark des Menschen und der Säugethiere. Nach dem Tode des Verfassers Herausgegeben und Bevortwortet von Max Schultze.

Deiters showed that each nerve-cell possesses an axis-cylinder or nerve-fiber process. His name is perpetuated in “Deiters’ cells” and “nucleus”. Dieters died of typhus in 1863 at the age of 29; his book was edited fr…

1870

#11702

Handbuch der operativen Chirurgie von Julius von Szymanowski. Deutsche Ausgabe von dem Verfasser und ... C.W. F. Uhde. Ester Theil (All Published.)

The author, who died of testicular cancer at the age of 39 two years before this posthumous publication, is one of the forgotten pioneers of plastic surgery. Many of the techniques described by later authors without c…

1884

#3997

Die krankhaften Veränderungen der Haut.

Hans von Hebra was the son of Ferdinand, whose work he continued. His textbook correlated skin diseases to diseases of the entire organism.

1887

#11494

Militärmedicin: kurze Darstellung des gesamten Militär-Sanitätswesens. (Band 13 von Wreden’s Sammlung kurzer medizinischer Lehrbücher).

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.