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1,482 entries published in Germany. 93 publication places.

1885

#3770

Zur Symptomatologie der sog. Pseudo-Leukämie

“Pel-Ebstein disease”, a remittant pyrexia occurring in Hodgkin’s disease (see also No. 3771).

1885

#3948

Ueber Acetonurie und Diaceturie

An important investigation concerning acetone in diabetic urine.

1885

#5927

Der Electromagnet in der Augenheilkunde.

The introduction of the electromagnet into ophthalmology. A pupil of Helmholtz, Hirschberg was one of the most voluminous writers in the field of ophthalmology. Besides his dictionary (see No. 5932) he wrote a classic…

1885

#9544

Die elephantiastischen Formen. Eine umfassende Darstellung der angeborenen und erworbenen Elephantiasis sowie aller verwandten Leiden.

This atlas illustrates the various changes that occur under the collective term elephantiasis, including tumors of the blood and lymphatic vessels, fibromas, neuromas, papillomas. Goldschmid 258.

1885

#10383

Untersuchungen über staubinhalation und staubmetastase.

On the effects of dust inhalation. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1885

#13153

Über das Gedachtnis: Untersuchungen zur experimentellen Psychologie.

Ebbinghaus conducted a series of experiments on memory and forgetting using himself as subject. Out of this came concepts such as the learning curve and the forgetting curve, and the serial position effect. Digital fa…

1886

#1017

Die Darmbakterien des Säuglings und ihre Beziehungen zur Physiologie der Verdauung.

Includes the first account of Bact. coli infection. The organism was later renamed Escherichia coli (E.coli).

1886

#427

Plastische Anatomie des menschlichen Körpers.

“Illustrated with lithographs from hand-drawings, photographs from the nude, ethnic studies of facial features…The text…is of unusual historic interest, and includes special chapters on the anatomy of the infant, huma…

1886

#504

Lehrbuch der Entwicklungsgeschichte des Menschen und der Wirbelthiere.

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

#4944

Psychopathia sexualis; eine klinisch-forensische Studie.

Krafft-Ebing revised the book through 12 editions. Digital facsimile of the first edition from wellcomecollection.org at this link. English translation as Psychopathia sexualis, with special reference to contrary sexu…

1886

#9111

Die Bevölkerung der griechisch-römischen Welt.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

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

#4627

Eine besondere Art der Wortblindheit.

Berlin first suggested the term “dyslexia”. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1887

#710

Lehrbuch der physiologischen und pathologischen Chemie.

1887

#183

Der Bau des Menschen als Zeugniss für seine Vergangenheit.

English translation, London, 1893.

1887

#2579

Vorlesungen über die geschichtliche Entwickelung der Lehre von den Bacterien. Teil l.[All published].

Loeffler, Professor of Hygiene at Greifswald, made many discoveries in bacteriology. His history of the subject was the first and only history of bacteriology prior to the publication of Bulloch's History of bacteriol…

1887

#3771

Das chronische Rückfallsfieber, eine neue Infektionskrankheit.

1887

#4859

Die chirurgische Behandlung von Hirnkrankheiten.

Bergmann was the first in Germany to undertake an intensive study of the surgical aspects of brain diseases. From his experience as a military surgeon he learned that increased intracranial pressure was a consequence …

1887

#5932

Wörterbuch der Augenheilkunde.

1887

#6197

Beiträge zur Anatomie und zur operativen Behandlung der Extrauterinschwangerschaft.

1887

#7796

Die psychischen Störungen des Kindesalters. IN: Carl Gerhardt's Handbuch der Kinderkrankheiten, Nachtrag II.

The first systematic monograph on child psychiatry. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

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

#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.

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.

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…

1887

#14172

Beiträge zur Anatomie und Pathogenese der Urticaria simplex und Pigmentosa.

Unna reported that skin lesions of urticaria pigmentosa contained numerous mast cells. This was the first report of a primary mast cell disorder. Digital facsimile from deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de at this link.

1888

#4996

Der Hypnotismus und die suggestive Psychotherapie.

1888

#5211

Die Blenorrhöe der Sexualorgane und ihre Complicationen.

1889

#362

Die Anatomie des Heinrich von Mondeville. Nach einer Handschrift der Königlichen Bibliothek zu Berlin von Jahre 1304 zum ersten Male herausgegeben von J. Pagel.

Mondeville was the first teacher known to have lectured with the aid of illustrations, using 13 charts of human anatomy. He lectured at Montpellier. Digital facsimile from the Medical Heritage Library, Internet Archiv…

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

#1766.601

Geschichte des medizinischen Unterrichtes von den ältesten Zeiten bis zur Gegenwart.

The only comprehensive multinational study of the development of medical education, and of limited value for coverage of the 19th century. Translated into English by Evan H. Hare as A history of medical education from…

1889

#4184

Lehrbuch der Kystoskopie.

Nitze introduced the cystoscope in 1877 (see No. 4175) and in 1889 published his important monograph on cystoscopy.

1889

#5935

Lehrbuch der Augenheilkunde.

Fuchs’s textbook was an outstanding contribution to the literature, and was translated into many languages. The last English edition appeared in 1933.

1889

#6088

Die Tripperansteckung beim weiblichen Geschlechte.

1889 –1900

#5226

Die Litteratur über die venerischen Krankheiten von der ersten Schriften über Syphilis aus dem Ende des fünfzehnten Jahrhunderts bis zum Jahre 1889. (Supplement Band I. Enthält die Litteratur von 1889-99 und Nachträge aus früherer Zeit.) 5 vols.

Reprinted Nieuwkoop, De Graaf 1966.

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

#12646

Über den Schwerpunkt des menschlichen Körpers mit Rücksicht auf die Ausrüstung des deutschen Infanteristen.

Translated into English by P.G.J. Maquet and R. Furlong as On the centre of gravity of the human body as related to the equipment of the German infantry soldier. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1985.

1889

#14299

Die Haut Arterien des menschlichen Körpers.

Manchot was the first to describe the vascular territories of the human skin. This work was translated into English by J. Ristic with an introduction by William D. Morain as The cutaneous arteries of the human body (N…

1890

#715

Ueber den Einfluss der Alkalien auf den menschlichen Stoffwechsel.

1890

#125

Der Heliotropismus der Thiere und seine Uebereinstimmung mit dem Heliotropismus der Pflanzen.

Loeb founded the theory of “tropisms” as the basis of the psychology of the lower forms of life. English translation in Loeb’s Studies in general physiology, Vol. 1, 1-88. Chicago, 1905.

1890

#126

Die Elementarorganismen und ihre Beziehungen zu den Zellen.

Mitochondria described, p. 145.

1890

#1650

Gesundheitspflege im Mittelalter.

1890

#203.4

Grundzüge einer systematischen Kraniometrie. Methodische Anleitung zur kraniometrischen Analyse der Schädelform für die Zwecke der physischen Anthropologie, der vergleichenden Anatomie sowie für die Zwecke der medizinischen Disziplinen (Pyschiatrie, Okulistik, Zahnheilkunde, Geburtshilfe, gerichtliche Medizin) und der bildenden Künste (plastische Anatomie) ein Handbuch fürs Laboratorium.

Török made an exhaustive study of craniometry as applied to an unusually wide range of fields in medicine, and art, and proposed 5,000 different measurements of a single skull. Digital facsimile from the Internet Arch…

1890 –1893

#3497

Diagnostik und Therapie der Magenkrankheiten. 2 pts.

Boas, who devised the test breakfast, became the foremost gastroenterologist in Europe. He founded the Archivfür Verdauungskrankheiten, the first journal devoted to the subject of gastroenterology.

1890

#4102

Acanthosis nigricans. In: Int. Atlas seltener Hautkrankheiten, Heft 4, plates x-xi

First description of acanthosis nigricans.

1890

#6089

Ueber die Pseudomucine der cystischen Ovariengeschwülste.

1890

#13386

Neue Forschungen auf dem Gebiet der Psychopathia sexualis. Ein medicinisch-psychologische Studie.

Among other things, Krafft-Ebing introduced the terms sadism and masochism in this work. Digital facsimile from wellcomecollection.org at this link.

1891

#4627.1

Zur Auffassung der Aphasien.

Freud refuted the Wernicke–Lichtheim doctrine (Nos. 4623 & 4626) that the losses of function in aphasia were due to lesions to anatomically circumscribed centers corresponding to the various functions involved in lang…

1891

#3069.1

Farbenanalytische Untersuchungen zur Histologie und Klinik des Blutes.

Extension of Ehrlich’s work on the differential blood count. By means of his methods of staining blood cells Ehrlich differentiated two types of leukemia, lymphatic and myelogenous.