Germany
1,482 entries published in Germany. 93 publication places.
1778 –1779
#3578
Abhandlung von den Brüchen.
Richter, lecturer on surgery at Göttingen, in his classic treatise on hernia, first described partial enterocele, or “Richter’s hernia” (Chap. 24).
1778 –1793
#8222
Geographische Geschichte des Menschen und der allgemein verbreiteten vierfüßigen Thiere: nebst einer hieher gehörigen Zoologischen Weltcharte. 3 vols.
Digital facsimile from the Bayerische StaatsBibliothek at this link.
1779 –1827
#1599
System einer vollständigen medicinischen Polizey. 9 vols.
The first systematic treatise on public hygiene. Frank believed the ruler of a state should stand in the relation of a father to his children, among his duties being the safeguarding of the people’s health and the pre…
1781
#104
Ueber den Bildungstrieb und das Zeugungsgeschäft.
Blumenbach, Professor of Medicine at Göttingen, was the founder of modern anthropology. In the above work he rejected the “preformation” theory and advanced the theory of epigenesis as the true explanation of the phen…
1782
#11095
Deliciae Cobresianae. J. P. Cobres Büchersammlung zur Naturgeschichte. 2 vols.
Privately printed catalogue of Cobres’ natural history library, comprising descriptions, with collations and notes, of about 2500 books on botany, zoology, geology, etc. The catalogue is divided into subject sections …
1782
#14120
Unterricht für Krankenwärter zum Gebrauch öffentlicher Vorlesungen.
The first German book on nursing--a manual of instructions for male nurses. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link. (Thanks for Webb Dordick for this reference.)
1783
#5992
Bibliothecae ophthalmicae specimen primum eruditorum examini subjicit.
The earliest bibliography and history of ophthalmology.
1783 –1795
#6748
Medicinische Bibliothek. 3 vols.
Includes detailed abstracts of periodical literature.
1784 –1790
#77
Sämmtliche kleinere Schriften. 3 vols.
Camper, an artist of skill, made his mark as an anthropologist and craniologist. He discovered the processus vaginalis of the peritoneum and the fibrous structure of the eye, and made several other important contribut…
1784 –1791
#215.3
Ideen zur Philosophie der Geschichte der Menschheit. 4 vols.
Herder’s history has long been regarded as a very strong statement of Darwinian evolution before Darwin: many single passages come close to the evolution theory. Among the passages most often regarded as anticipating …
1784
#7194
Entwurf einer auserlesenen medicinischpraktischen Bibliothek für angehende Aerzte.
An annotated bibliography of recommended books for the aspiring physician, arranged by subject, and chronologically by date of publication within each subject, with an author index at the end. Digital facsimile of the…
1784
#14210
Die Deutsche [sic] Giftpflanzen, zur Verhütung der tragischen Vorfälle in den Haushaltungen, nach ihren botanischen Kennzeichen, nebst den Heilungsmitteln.
On poisonous plants in Germany, for prevention of tragic household accidents, and remedies for the poisons. Illustrated with 16 plates. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1785
#2279
Von den Krankheiten des Bauchfells und dem Schlagfluss.
Text in Latin and German. Includes an accurate description of peritonitis.
1786
#4016
Aetiologie der Krätze.
Wichmann definitely established the parasitic aetiology of scabies.
1786
#6749
Introductio in historiam medicinae litterarium.
An annotated subject bibliography of the history of medicine, arranged chronologically from antiquity to Blumenbach’s time.
1787
#1837
Materia medica Americana, potissimum regni vegetabilis.
Schoepff came to America in 1777 as a surgeon with the Hessian troops employed by the British Forces. He returned to Germany in 1784 and compiled the first full American materia medica, describing about 400 plants, in…
1787
#10480
Gifthistorie des Thier- Pflanzen- und Mineralreichs, nebst den Gegengiften, und der medicinischen Anwendung der Gifte, nach den neuesten Toxicologen.
This work was not illustrated. Digital facsimile from Bayerische StaatsBibliothek at this link.
1788 –1789
#5199
Abhandlung über die venerische Krankheit. 3 vols.
Girtanner’s important textbook on the venereal diseases contains some history.
1790 –1811
#157
Beyträge zur Naturgeschichte. 2 pts.
English translation, London, 1865.
1790 –1828
#198
Decas collectionis suae craniorum diversarum gentium illustrata. 6 parts plus supplement.
Blumenbach was the founder of craniology, and his craniological collection served as the principal foundation for his investigations into the natural history of mankind. He used the norma verticalis, the shape of the …
1791 –1796
#400
Vom Baue des menschlichen Körpers. 5 pts.
Soemmerring’s text-book contained only facts actually observed by him. He departed from the usual practice of including physiology with anatomy. The book was very popular in German medical schools, and Meckel consider…
1791
#534.55
Abbildungen und Beschreibungen einiger Missgeburten.
Most of the plates demonstrate a progressive series of specimens with duplication anomalies of the face and head, from midfacial cleft to complete dicephalus. This arrangement of malformations into a continuous series…
1791
#4306
Abbildungen und Beschreibungen einiger Misgeburten.
Achondroplasia is first described on page 30 and pictured on plate 11. English translation in No. 2241.
1791
#12894
Abhandlung über Flüsse und Entzündungen, wovon Geschwülste und Zahnfleischgeschwüre herrühren.
One of the first treatises on gum diseases, which around a century later would be called periodontics. Digital facsimile from Bayerische StaatsBibliothek at this link.
1792
#158
Ueber den natürlichen Unterschied der Gesichtszüge in Menschen verschiedener Gegenden und verschiedenen Alters.
This work on physiognomy includes Camper’s description of his craniometrical methods. Camper is chiefly remembered for the “facial angle” of his own invention. The book first appeared in Dutch in 1791. English transla…
1792 –1795
#1776
Versuch einer allgemeinen medizinisch-praktischen Geographie, worin der historische Theil der einheimischen Völker-und Saaten-Arzeneykunde vergetragen wird. 3 vols.
The first comprehensive medical geography. See George Rosen, "Leonhard Ludwig Finke and the first medical geography," IN: Underwood, E. A. (ed.). Science and medicine in history: Essays on the evolution of scientific …
1792 –1794
#1965
De curandis hominum morbis epitome. 6 vols.
1792 –1803
#6382
Versuch einer pragmatischen Geschichte der Arzneikunde. 5 vols.
A monumental work, full of information which was of great assistance to later historians. Includes a useful chronology. Third edition, 1821-28; fourth edition of vol. 1, 1846.
1792
#13765
Dissertatio inauguralis medica de effectibus musicae in hominem.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1793
#104.1
Das entdeckte Geheimnis der Natur im Bau und in der Befruchtung der Blumen.
Sprengel demonstrated for the first time that the whole structure of nectar-bearing flowers is adapted for fertilization by insects. In his study of the Rose-bay Sprengel discovered dichogamy – that in some plants the…
1793
#6022
Ueber die Wirkungen der Schnürbrüste.
Soemmerring enumerated the bad effects of tight corsets on the internal organs of women. His book created much interest and resulted in a great decline in the fad of tight lacing and hoop skirts. This is the second ed…
1793 –1797
#6750
Initia bibliothecae medico-practicae et chirurgicae realis sive repertorii medicinae practicae et chirurgiae. 8 vols.
The first important classified bibliography of medical literature covering both monographic material and current periodicals.
1793
#9059
Medcinische Fastenpredigten, oder Vorlesungen über Körper und Seelendiätetik zur Verbesserung der Gesundheit und Sitten. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1794
#19
Aesclapiadis Bithyni fragmenta. Digessit et curavit Christianus Gottlieb Gumpert. Praefatus est Christian. Gothfridus Gruner.
After the fall of Corinth (146 BCE), Greek physicians migrated to Rome. There, before the advent of Asclepiades, Greek physicians were despised and distrusted. Asclepiades may be said to have established Greek medicin…
1794
#3879
De curandis hominum morbis epitome. Liber V.
Frank was the first to define diabetes insipidus (pp. 38-67).
1794
#10470
Die Bleyglasur de irdenen Küchengeschirrs als eine unerkannte Hauptquelle vieler unserer Krankheiten und Mitursache der Abnahme körperlicher Kräfte der Menschen.
On the lead glaze of earthen kitchen utensils as an unrecognized source of many diseases.
1794
#11830
Theophanis Nonni Epitome de cvratione morborvm graece ac latine: Ope codicvm manvscriptorvm recensvit notasqve adiecit I. O. Steph. Bernard. 2 vols.
Reprints text and translation from Martius's 1568 edition with extensive annotations by Bernard, and divergent manuscript readings based on the study of several codices. For an analysis of this Byzantine medical handb…
1795
#2609.1
De morbis vasorum absorbentium corporis humani.
Soemmerring noted an association between pipe smoking and cancer of the lip (p. 109).
1796
#1387
Exercitationum anatomicarum fasciculus primus. De structura nervorum, tribus tabulis aeneis illustratus [All published].
Description of the “island of Reil”. This was the first part of the surface of the cerebral hemispheres to be given a name since 1641 (No. 1377.3). See also Reil’s follow-up paper in Arch. Physiol. (Halle), 1809, 9, 1…
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.
1796
#7723
Anatomisches museum. Gesammelt von Johann Gottlieb Walter. Beschrieben von Friedrich August Walter. 2 vols.
Includes fine hand-colored plates of kidney stones and gall stones. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1796
#13243
De corporis humani viribus conservatricibus dissertatio.
Young's thesis for his medical degree from Göttingen on the conservation of strength in the human body, which also contains, on the final four pages, the only extant fragment of Young's brief thesis on the human voice…
1797
#4519
De paralysi musculorum faciei rheumatici.
Facial paralysis first described.
1797
#401
Tabula sceleti feminini juncta descriptione.
Soemmerring was noted for his accuracy in anatomical illustration, and the above work is a fine example of his artistic sense. For it he selected the skeleton of a well-built girl of 20 years. Great care was taken in …
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.
1797
#7119
Versuche über die gereizte Muskel- und Nervenfaser: nebst Vermuthungen über den chemischen Process des Lebens in der Thier- und Pflanzenwelt. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile from The Medical Heritage Library, Internet Archive, at this link.
1798
#4969
Anthropologie in pragmatischer Hinsicht abgefasst.
Kant attempted a classification of mental diseases.
1799
#1553
De penitiori ossium structura commentarius.
1799
#473
Icones embryonum humanorum.
Soemmerring met William Hunter during a visit to London in 1778. The latter’s classic work on the pregnant uterus (No. 6157) dealt only with the latter half of pregnancy. Soemmerring therefore decided, in a supplement…
1799 –1803
#6750.1
Bibliotheca medico-practica et chirurgica realis recentior sive continuatio et supplementa initiorum bibliothecae medico-practicae et chirurgicae. 4 vols.
Continuation of No. 6750.