Germany
1,482 entries published in Germany. 93 publication places.
1855
#485
Untersuchungen überdie Entwickelungder Wirbelthiere.
Simplification of von Baer’s classification of the germ-layers.
1855
#1995.1
Ueber methodische Electrisirung gelähmter Muskeln.
Discovery of the motor points, the entry points of the nerves into the muscles – essential for stimulating the muscles by electricity.
1855
#1510
Ueber die Bewegung der Iris: Für Physiologen und Ärzte,
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1855
#3063
Die Haemophilie oder die Bluterkrankheit.
First full clinical description of hemophilia.
1855
#5107
Unterschungen und Beobachtungen über die Verbreitungsart der Cholera.
Pettenkofer gave much attention to the etiology of cholera. He postulated the theory that a specific germ, certain local conditions, certain seasonal conditions, and certain individual conditions are all necessary for…
1855
#5341
Die in und an dem Körper des lebenden Menschen vorkommenden Parasiten. Ein Lehr- und Handbuch der Diagnose und Behandlung der thierischen und pflanzlichen Parasiten des Menschen. Zum Gebrauche für Studirende der Medicin und der Naturwissenschaften, für Lehrer der Zoologie, Botanik, Physiologie, pathologischen Anatomie und für praktische Ärzte. 2 vols.
English translation of 2nd ed. by Edwin Ray Lankester as On animal and vegetable parasites of the human body: A manual of their natural history, diagnosis, and treatment. 2 vols. London: Sydenham Society, 1857. Digita…
1856
#617
Die medizinische Physik.
1856
#1862.1
Lehrbuch der Arzneimittellehre.
Buchheim created the first pharmacological institute in the world at the University of Dorpat.
1856
#3064
Ueber farblose Blutkörperchen und Leukämie. In his Gesammelte Abhandlungen zur wissenschaftlichen Medicin, pp. 147-218.
Includes his paper on “weisses Blut” (see No. 3062) and three later papers on leukemia. See No. 3006.
1856
#3006
Thrombose und Embolie. Gefässentzündung und septische Infektion. In his Gesammelte Abhandlungen zur wissenschaftlichen Medicin.
Reprints of papers published between 1846 and 1853. Virchow gave the first clear description of thrombosis and embolism (see especially Beitr. exp. Path.,1846, 2,227-380). This work was translated into English by A. C…
1856
#8215
Die geographischen Verhältnisse der Krankheiten oder Grundzüge der Noso-Geographie. Vol. 1: Allgemeine Gesetze und Lehren der Noso-Geographie; Vol. 2: Thesaurus Noso-Geographicus.
Digital facsimile from Heinrich Heine Universität Düsseldorf at this link.
1856
#9603
Nicandrea. Theriaca et Alexipharmaca recensuit et emendavit fragmenta collegit, commentationes addidit Otto Schneider. Accedunt scholia in Theriaca excensione Henrici Keil.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1857
#1996
Die Electricität in der Medicin.
Ziemssen confirmed Remak’s discovery of the motor points, established their exact location, and published exact instructions for finding the motor points for stimulating the various muscles of the body.
1857
#1462
Anatomie und Physiologie des menschlichen Stimm- und Sprach-Organs (Anthropophonik).
1857 –1858
#1743
Practisches Handbuch der gerichtlichen Medicin. 2 vols. plus atlas of nine chromolithographed plates.
Casper was the greatest name in forensic medicine in his time. His book was published in English by the New Sydenham Society in 1861-65; it was unsurpassed for many years.
1857
#3765
Die Exstirpation der Milz am Menschen.
1857
#6634
Geschichte christlicher Krankenpflege und Pflegerschaften.
Reprinted, Bad Reichenhall, Kleinert, 1966.
1857
#10427
Der Staat Californien in medicinisch-geographischer Hinsicht.
Dr. Praslow practiced medicine in San Francisco from 1849-1856, after which he returned to Germany. His book provides information concerning health and epidemics in San Francisco during this early period. Translated i…
1857
#13248
Untersuchungen uber die Entwickelung des Schädelgrundes im gesunden und krankhaften Zustande und über Einfluss derselben auf Schädelform, Gesichtsbildung und Gehirnbau.
In his Investigations on the development of the base of the skull in healthy and diseased conditions, and on the influence of the same upon skull form, facial structure and brain formation Virchow laid the foundation …
1858
#548
Mikroskopische Studien aus dem Gebiete der menschlichen Morphologie.
Gerlach introduced several staining methods, the most important of which (a transparent solution of ammonia carmine and gelatin) is called “Gerlach’s stain”; it was the first satisfactory histological stain.
1858
#1996.1
Galvanotherapie der Nerven- und Muskelkrankheiten.
Remak was a pioneer of galvanotherapy. Having treated some 700 patients with galvanic current, he believed that it was superior to faradic current for electrotherapy.
1858
#775
Die Erscheinungen und Gesetze der Stromgeschwindigkeiten des Blutes.
Vierordt estimated, by means of a “hemotachometer” of his own invention, the rate of the blood flow in various arteries, and also the influence of the blood volume, pulse rate and respiratory rate upon it.
1858
#2299
Die Cellularpathologie in ihrer Begründung auf physiologische und pathologische Gewebelehre.
Virchow was the greatest figure in the history of pathology. His best work, Die Cellularpathologie, is one of the most important books in the history of medicine and the foundation stone of cellular pathology. The Eng…
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…
1858
#5883
Klinische Analyse der Motilitätsstörungendes Auges.
Alfred Carl Graefe, cousin of Albrecht, made a careful clinical analysis of disordered movements of the eye. He also invented a special “localization ophthalmoscope”, and, with Saemisch, edited the great Handbuch der …
1858
#6045
Der Gebärmutterkrebs.
In this work Wagner presented the first important contribution to the knowledge of the gross pathology of uterine cancer.
1858
#6757
Graphische lncunabeln für Naturgeschichte und Medicin. Enthaltend Geschichte und Bibliographie der ersten naturhistorischen und medicinischen Drucke des XV. und XVI. Jahrhunderts, welche mit illustrirenden Abbildungen versehen sind.
Reprint, Munich, 1924, Hildesheim, 1963.
1858
#13436
Catalog der hinterlassenen Bibliothek des am 28 April 1858 verstorbenen Geh. Medicinal-Rathes, Professors der Anatomie und Physiologie, Dr. Johannes Müller.
Digital facsimile from wellcomecollection.org at this link.
1859
#812.2
Fissura sterni congenita. New observations and experiments made in Amerika [sic] and Great Britain with illustrations of the case and instruments.
Records first use of telegraphy to record and measure the heart beat and pulse, written and published by the patient, who lived to the age of 45. This was done in Boston with an instrument placed against Groux’s chest…
1859 –1969
#334
Die Klassen und Ordnungen des Thier-Reichs, wissenschaftlich dargestellt in Wort und Bild.
This great systematic work, begun by Bronn, was continued by other naturalists. It deals with both recent and fossil zoology. Bronn wrote the volumes dealing with Amorphozoa, Actinozoa, and Malacozoa, published 1859-1…
1859
#621
Untersuchungen über die Physiologie des Electrotonus.
One of the most interesting works of its time on the physiology of nerve. In it Pflüger first stated the laws governing the make and break stimulation of nerve with the galvanic current. Pflüger was a pupil of Müller …
1859
#2181
Historische Studien über die Beurtheilung und Behandlung der Schusswunden vom fünfzehnten Jahrhundert bis auf die neueste Zeit.
English translation in Yale J. Biol. Med., 1931, 4, 16-36, 119-48, 225-57; reprinted in book form, New Haven, 1933.
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…
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
#5884
Die Krümmung der Homhaut des menschlichen Auges.
Knapp wrote valuable monographs on curvature of the cornea (above) and on intraocular tumours (see No. 5902). He became one of the leading ophthalmologists in America.
1859
#6386
Geschichte der Medicin.
1859
#14214
Neue Untersuchungen über den Bau des Rückenmarks. 2 vols. (Text and atlas.)
Stilling carried out some of the 19th century’s most detailed and precise examinations of the spinal cord, which “laid the foundation for the modern anatomical study of the spinal cord, medulla oblongata, and pons” (C…
1860
#534.62
Untersuchungen über die Entstehung der Missbildungen Zunächst in den Eiem der Vögel.
The first monograph on experimental teratology.
1860 –1864
#1778
Handbuch der historisch-geographischen Pathologie. 2 vols.
This is perhaps the greatest historical classic on the subject. Vol.1 appeared in 2 parts, with the first part issued in 1859 and the second part issued in 1860.
1860
#1865
Ueber eine neue organische Base in den Cocablättern.
Isolation of cocaine, 1859, from the coca leaf, brought from Peru by Scherzer.
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
#4972
Elemente der Psychophysik. 2 vols.
The first treatise on the subject. Fechner applied the laws of mathematical physics to the physiology of sensation. He discussed the functional relations of the dependence between mind and body and investigated the cu…
1860
#5343
Untersuchungen über Trichina spiralis.
Leuckart provided an articulate and detailed description of Trichinella spiralis.
1860
#6183
De optima in partu naturali placentum amovendi ratione.
Credé’s method of removing the placenta by external manual expression. It is first mentioned in his Klinische Vorträge über Geburtshilfe, Berlin, 1854, 599-603.
1861
#4693
Klinik der Leberkrankheiten. Bd. 2.
Pp. 62-64: First description of progressive familial hepatolenticular degeneration (“Kinnier Wilson’s disease”; see No. 4717).
1861
#1107
Untersuchungen über den Bau der Lymphdrüsen.
Histology of the lymphatics. His drew the illustrations.
1861
#487
Entwicklungsgeschichte des Menschen und der höheren Thiere.
First book on comparative embryology.
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
#2387
Untersuchungen über den constitutionellen Mercurialismus und sein Verhältniss zur constitutionellen Syphilis.
1861
#6263
Die Formen des Beckens, insbesondere des engen weiblichen Beckens.
Litzmann devised a clinical classification of pelves which was for many years generally used, and he described various deformities of the female pelvis.