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

1895

#432

Die anatomische Nomenclatur.

His was largely responsible for the Basle Nomina Anatomica, the first attempt to produce a standard anatomical nomenclature. English translation by L.F. Barker, 1907.

1895

#1474

Die Physiologie des Geruchs.

For his studies on olfaction and olfactometry Zwaardemaker developed the so-called “camera inodorata” (odorless chamber), or olfactometer. His instrument to check the patency of the nasal passages is still in use.

1895

#3951

Die Zuckerkrankheit und ihre Behandlung.

Noorden’s extensive studies on diabetes greatly advanced our knowledge of the subject. He made many observations regarding metabolism in diabetes.

1895

#4978

Studien über Hysterie.

The foundation of psychoanalysis. Using what they called the cathartic method, in which hysterical patients were made to describe the manifestations of their symptoms in detail, with or without hypnosis, Breuer and Fr…

1895

#5227

Die Geschichte der venerischen Krankheiten. 2 vols.

Vol. 1. Alterthum und Mittelalter. Vol. 2. Neuzeit.

1895

#6496.2

Geschichte der jüdischen Ärzte. Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Medicin.

1895

#7408

Anatomische Forschungen über Johann Sebastian Bach's Gebeine und Anlitz nebst Bemerkungen über dessen Bilder. Abh. Sächs. Ges. Wiss., 22/5.

To authenticate the remains of Johann Sebastian Bach, Wilhelm His senior performed one of the earliest examples of scientific facial reconstructions, reconstructing the soft tissues onto a plaster cast of the skull us…

1895

#10353

Das Recht auf den Tod. Sociale Studie.

This work is considered the starting point for a broad philosophical discussion on euthanasia in the German-speaking world. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1896 –1934

#433

Handbuch der Anatomie des Menschen. 32 parts.

An important collective work.

1896

#1766.602

Die geschichtliche Entwicklung des ärztlichen Standes und der medicinischen Wissenschaften.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1896

#8435

De Alcmaeone Crotoniata scripsit Ioannes Wachtler.

Greek texts of the fragments and testimonia with commentary in Latin. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1896

#9007

Das konträre Geschlechtsgefühl von Havelock Ellis und J. A. Symonds. Deutsche Original-Ausgabe Besorgt unter Mitwirkung von Dr. Hans Kurella.

This work, translated into English as Sexual inversion in 1897, became the first English language medical textbook on homosexuality. It was published as the second volume of Ellis's Studies in the psychology of sex. D…

1896

#10052

Kehrt zur Natur zurück! Die wahre naturgemäße Heil- und Lebensweise. Wasser, Licht, Luft, Erde, Früchte und wirkliches Christentum.

Translated into English from the 4th enlarged German edition and published by the translator, Benedict Lust as: Return to nature! The true natural method of healing and living and the true salvation of the soul. (New …

1896

#10608

14 Photographien mit Röntgen-strahlen aufgenommen im physikaloschen Verein zu Frankfurt A. M.

This collection of x-ray photographs published within a few months of Röntgen's discovery includes applications in archaeology and anthropology (x-rays of mummies) and forensic medicine (for the investigation of gunsh…

1897

#1574

Die historische Entwicklung der experimentellen Gehirn- und Rückenmarksphysiologie vor Flourens.

Unsurpassed coverage of the experimental physiology of the brain and spinal cord up to the work of Flourens. The best edition is the extensively annotated English translation as The historical development of experimen…

1897 –1938

#513

Normentafeln zur Entwicklungsgeschichte der Wirbelthiere. 16 pts.

1897

#1766

Medicinische Deontologie.

1897 –1909

#3396

Ueber die funktionelle Prüfung des menschlichen Gehörorgans. 3 vols.

Bezold introduced important tests for audition.

1897

#6106

Bakteriologie des weiblichen Genital-Kanales. 2 vols.

1897

#9015

Krateuas. Von M. Wellmann.

Crateuas was the personal physician of Mithridates VI. Of Pontos. He wrote a three-part herbal book describing the medicinal properties of plants. This work, which was illustrated, is the earliest known herbal book to…

1897

#10020

Neurologische Wandtafeln zum Gebrauch beim klinischen, anatomischen und physiologischen Unterricht.

This set of enormous chromolithographed color wall charts contains probably the largest charts of the brain and nervous system ever published. The two largest measure 5 feet 3 inches by 7 feet 2-5/8 inches! The 13 str…

1897

#11094

Die histochemischen und physiologischen Arbeiten. 2 vols.

In a letter to his uncle, the embryologist, Wilhelm His, written on December 17, 1892, and first published in this collected edition, Miescher described a kind of genetic code. He remarked how "some of the large molec…

1897

#12198

Entwickelungslehre, Geburtshülfe und Gynäkologie in der hippokratischen Schriften.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1898

#838

Ueber Herzbewegung und Herzstoss.

First employment of cinematograph to record the cardiac changes during all phases of heart contraction.

1898

#447

Studien zur Geschichte der Anatomie im Mittelalter.

1898

#2038

Geschichte der Pharmazie.

1898

#2039

Die Heilpflanzen der verschiedenen Volker und Zeiten.

1898

#2457

Reise-Bericht über Rinderpest, Bubonenpest in Indien und Afrika, Tsetse-oder Surrakrankheit, Texasfieber, tropische Malaria, Schwarzwasserfieber.

1898 –1900

#4001

Handatlas der Hautkrankheiten fur Studirende und Arzte. 3 pts.

An extensive and valuable collection of illustrations in dermatology. Includes 377 chromolithographs. "In publishing this hand atlas of skin diseases, I wish to provide students with an aid to their studies and genera…

1898

#5800

Geschichte der Chirurgie und ihrer Ausübung. Volkschirugie - Alterthum - Mittelalter - Renaissance. 3 vols.

A history of surgery to the end of the 16th century. Includes translations from the literature and illustrations of instruments. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1898

#6396

Geschichte der Medicin. 2 vols.

A collection of lectures. The bibliography of the revised edition of 1922, for which Sudhoff was responsible, is significantly improved over the first edition.

1898

#6397

Die neueren Fortschritte in der Wissenschaft und ihr Einfluss auf Medicin und Chirurgie.

English translation in Disease, life and man. Selected essays by Rudolf Virchow. Selected, translated, annotated, and introduced by L. J. Rather, Stanford, 1958.

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.

1899

#516.1

Ueber die Einbettung des menschlichen Eies und das früheste bisher bekannte menschliche Placentationsstadium.

1899

#1428

Einleitung in die vergleichende Gehirnphysiologie und vergleichende Psychologie.

1899

#188

Die Schönheit des weiblichen Körpers.

1899

#2809.2

Ueber akute interstitielle Myokarditis.

“Fiedler’s myocarditis”.

1899

#3311

Pathologie und Therapie der entzündlichen Erkrankungen der Nebenhöhlen der Nase.

Hajek, Professor of Laryngology in Vienna, particularly distinguished himself by his classic work on the acccessory nasal sinuses. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link. English translation of the f…

1899

#4227

Die Mischgeschwülste. I. Die Mischgeschwülste der Niere.

Embryoma of the kidney (“Wilms’s tumor”). For the history of the operation for Wilms’s tumor see B. Thomasson and M.M. Ravitch, Wilms Tumor, Urol. Surg., 1961, 11, 83-100.

1899

#4951

Lehrbuch der psychopathologischen Untersuchungsmethoden.

Sommer introduced new methods in psychopathological investigation.

1899 –1918

#5944

Handbuch der gesamten Augenheilkunde. 2te. Aufl. 15 vols. [in 41].

The first edition of this great collective work, edited by Graefe and Saemisch, appeared between 1874 and 1880.

1899 –1918

#5996

Geschichte der Augenheilkunde. 10 pts.

This monumental work remains the authoritative encyclopaedic history of ophthalmology, up to the first decade of the 20th century. Its thoroughness and critical judgment mark it as one of the greatest of all histories…

1899 –1904

#7998

Kunstformern der Natur.

Includes 100 mostly color lithographic and half-tone prints based on Haeckel's sketches and watercolors. Issued in 10 fascicules of 10 prints each and collected into a bound volume in 1904. Digital facsimile of vol. 1…

1899 –1933

#10848

Jahrbuch für sexuelle Zwischenstufen. Edited by Magnus Hirschfeld.

"An annual publication of the Scientific-Humanitarian Committee (Wissenschaftlich-humanitäres Komitee, WhK), an early LGBT rights organization founded by Magnus Hirschfeld in 1897. The periodical featured articles on …

1900 –1910

#3919

Sammlung klinischer Abhandlungen über Pathologie und Therapie der Stoffwechsel- und Ernährungsstörungen. 9 pts.

Noorden succeeded Nothnagel at Vienna. He made important studies of metabolism and its disorders. His section on obesity was translated into English as Obesity: the indications for reduction cures. Part 1 of Clinical …

1900

#4980

Die Traumdeutung.

Freud’s greatest work, the influence of which has been felt far beyond the psychiatric and medical community. Here he refined his understanding of the operation of the unconscious, interpreted dreams on the basis of w…

1900

#5005

Die Literatur der Psychiatrie, Neurologie und Psychologie von 1459-1799. 3 vols.

1900 –1904

#6265

Die pathologischen Beckenformen.

Classic description and classification of pelvic deformities.

1900

#8740

Der Arzt und die Heilkunst in der deutschen Vergangenheit.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.