Germany
1,482 entries published in Germany. 93 publication places.
1800
#13392
Der botanische Garten der Universität zu Halle im Jahre 1799.
Digital facsimile from digitale-sammlungen.de at this link. Followed by Erster Nachtrag zu der Beschreibung des botanischen Gartens der Universität zu Halle (1801). Digital facsimile of the 1801 Nachtrag from bab-muen…
1801
#1489
Abbildungen des menschlichen Auges.
Soemmerring is best remembered for his fine anatomical illustrations, of which those devoted to the human eye are a good example. In 1791 he made important observations on the macula lutea: "De foramine centrali limbo…
1801
#1988.1
Versuche des Galvanismus zur Heilung einiger Krankheiten.
Grapengiesser was the first physician to use Volta’s “pile”, the first battery, which Volta first described in print in 1800. Grapengiesser “noted that in paralyzed muscle excitability could be so poor that 150 elemen…
1801
#3580
Icones herniarum. Editae a S. T. Soemmerring.
Camper illustrated his own work, and was an outstanding anatomical artist. His illustrations of hernias are of great value.
1801
#5834.1
Ophthalmologische Beobachtungen und Untersuchungen oder Beyträge zur richtigen Kenntniss und Behandlung der Augen im gesunden und kranken Zustande. Erstes Stück.
Himly used hyoscyamine to dilate the pupil to facilitate removal of the lens. (p. 97).
1801 –1821
#6750.3
Repertorium commentationum a societatibus litterariis editarum. 16 vols.
A classified subject index to the contents of learned society journals to the end of the 18th century. Vols. 10-16 deal with medicine and surgery. Reprinted, New York, Franklin, 1961.
1802 –1822
#105.1
Biologie: oder Philosophie der lebenden Natur für Naturforscher und Aerzte. 6 vols.
Simultaneously with Lamarck, Treviranus coined the term “biology” for the study of living things, and he was the first to use it in a book title. This massive work was a summary of all basic knowledge about the struct…
1802
#7971
Ausführliche Beschreibung und Abbildung der beiden sogenannten Stachelschweinmenschen aus der bekannten engelischen Familie Lambert, oder, the porcupine man.
Tilesius continued the study of the Lambert family of sufferers from ichthyosis hystrix begun by Machin and Baker (see No. 4013). Notably Tilesius illustrated the bizarre condition with several color plates. In 2016 o…
1803
#3678.1
Praktische Darstellung aller Operationen der Zahnheilkunst.
This work contains one of the earliest histories of dentistry.
1803
#4923
Rhapsodieen über die Anwendung der psychischen Curmethode auf Geisteszerrüttungen.
The versatile Reil, physician and physiologist, was an early advocate of humane treatment for the insane. He was instrumental in the establishment of the first journal devoted to mental disease – the Magazin für Nerve…
1803
#13856
Über die Krankheiten der Künstler und Handwerker, nach den Tabellen des Instituts für Kranke Gesellen der Künstler und Handwerker in Würzburg von den Jahren 1786 bis 1802 .
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1804
#5481
Neue Ansichten der Hundswuth, ihrer Ursachen und Folgen, nebst einer sichem ehandlungsart der von tollen Thieren gebissenen Menschen.
Zinke transmitted rabies from a rabid dog to a normal one, and to a rabbit and a hen, by injection of saliva and proved the disease to be infectious. Digital facsimile from wellcomecollection.org at this link.
1805
#312
Handbuch der vergleichenden Anatomie.
Blumenbach, physiologist and anthropologist, was Professor of Medicine at Göttingen. He was the first to show the value of comparative anatomy in the study of anthropology; his classic text went through many editions;…
1805
#106
Die Zeugung.
Oken maintained that all organic beings originate from, and consist of, cells, and that organisms are produced by an agglomeration of these cells.
1805
#6850
Fragmenta de viribus medicamentorum positivis sive in sano corpore humano observatis. 2 vols.
Hahnemann's first published homeopathic book, his first title on Materia Medica and Repertory, and the first collection of drug provings on the healthy body. The book lists the health effects of 27 drugs in common use…
1806
#1554
Abbildungen des menschlichen Hoerorganes
1806
#1455
Abbildungen der menschlichen Organe des Geschmackes und der Stimme.
1806
#3582
Anatomisch-chirurgische Abhandlung über den Ursprung der Leistenbrüche
Includes description of “Hesselbach’s hernia” and “triangle”. He wrote a further volume on the subject in 1814.
1807
#199
Ueber die Bedeutung der Schädelknochen.
Oken’s vertebral theory of the skull.
1808 –1812
#314
Beyträge zur vergleichenden Anatomie. 2 vols. in 3.
Digital facsimile facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1808
#927
Über den Bau der Lungen.
In 1804 the Berlin Akademie der Naturwissenschaften offered a prize for the best essay on the structure and function of the lungs. The prize was won by Reisseisen, while Soemmerring received honorable mention. The tex…
1808 –1809
#6750.2
Literatura medica digesta sive repertorium medicinae practicae, chirurgiae atque rei obstetriciae. 4 vols.
A revised edition, with 40,000 additional citations, of Nos. 6750 and 6750.1. A supplement (1 vol.) was published in 1813.
1808
#13355
Tableau historique des maladies internes de mauvais caractère qui ont affligé la grande armée dans la campagne de Prusse et de Pologne, et notamment de celles qui ont été observées dans les hôpitaux militaires et les villes de Thorn, Bromberg, Fordon et Culm, dans l'hiver de 1806 à 1807, le printems et l'été de 1807, suivi de réflexions sur les divers modes de traitement de ces maladies adoptés par les médecins français et allemands.
Digital facsimile from biusante.parisdescartes.fr at this link.
1809
#1454
Abbildungen der menschlichen Organe des Geruches.
1809 –1840
#12798
Flore portugaise ou description de toutes les plantes qui croissent naturellement en Portugal. 2 vols.
The most spectacular illustrated book on the flora of Portugal. The delicate illustrations, mostly stipple-engraved and colored by hand, based on the travels of Hoffmannsegg through Portugal between 1797 and 1801, wer…
1810
#1966
Organon der rationellen Heilkunde.
Hahnemann, the founder of homeopathy, embodied his theories in the Organon. The minute doses set down by him did much to correct the evils of the polypharmacy of his time, in which overdosage was pervasive. Hahnemann …
1810
#3431
Animadversiones quaedam chirurgicae experimentis in animalibus factis illustratae.
Experimental excision of the pylorus.
1810 –1811
#7750
Die Literatur der Heilwissenschaft. 2 vols.
14,995 titles arranged according to medical subject. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1810
#13756
Ueber die Verkrümmungen des menschlichen Körpers und eine rationelle und sichere Heilart derselben.
Valentin considered this work on the correction of deformities of the spine, neck, rickets, clubfoot, etc. one of the first "scientific" treatises on orthopedics. Digital facsimile from digitale-bibliothek-mv.de at th…
1811
#5841
Prüfung der Keratonyxis, einer neuen Methode den grauen Staar durch die Homhaut zu recliniren oder zu zerstückeln.
Langenbeck’s operation of iridencleisis for construction of artificial pupil. He was Professor of Anatomy and Surgery at Göttingen.
1811 –1821
#6852
Reine Arzneimittellehre. 6 vols.
Known as the Materia Medica Pura. Second edition, 6 vols, 1822-27. For the third edition, Hahnemann only wrote vols. 1 & 2 (1830-33).
1812 –1816
#534.56
Handbuch der pathologischen Anatomie. 2 vols.
Meckel classified malformations systematically, on the basis of altered developmental mechanisms, basing his work on embryology. See No. 2284.
1814 –1817
#11675
Die Krankheiten des Herzens. 3 vols. in 4.
From 1800 until Laennec's discovery of auscultation, there were only four major text-books on heart disease, that of Burns in England, of Corvsart in France, Testa in Italy, and Kreysig in Germany. It has its strong p…
1815 –1820
#407
Handbuch der menschlichen Anatomie. 4 vols.
1816
#1990
Anleitung zur Darstellung und Anwendung aller Arten der kräftigsten Bäder und Heilwässer welche von Gesunden und Kranken gebraucht werden.
Döbereiner was the first to treat the subject of light therapy on a scientific basis.
1816
#11178
Anatomie und Bildungsgeschichte des Gehirns im Foetus des Menschen: nebst einer vergleichenden Darstellung des Hirnbaues in den Thieren.
Digital facsimile from Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg at this link.
1817
#1316
Anatomia comparata nervi sympathici.
1817
#474
Dissertatio sistens historiam metamorphoseos, quam ovum incubatum prioribus quinque diebus subit.
Pander’s doctoral thesis (unillustrated) in which he announced his discovery of the trilaminar structure of the chick blastoderm, a term that he coined. Pander's discovery stimulated von Baer’s research. Also in 1817 …
1817
#4772
De myelophthisi chronica vera et notha.
First important account of tabes dorsalis.
1817 –1826
#2284
Tabulae anatomico-pathologicae. 4 pts.
Meckel’s work on embryology brought a better understanding of congenital malformations, which had previously been attributed by many to supernatural influence. This work illustrates a number of anomalies and other dis…
1817
#4310
De rachitide congenita.
Classic description of achondroplasia. Romberg’s graduation thesis. English translation (Sydenham Society), 1853.
1817 –1848
#107
Isis, oder encyclopädische Zeitung (verzüglich für Naturgeschichte, vergleichende Anatomie und Physiologie), VON OKEN. 41 vols.
Lorenz Oken, a leading light in the Nature-Philosophical School in Germany, produced important work in the field of biology. He founded the journal Isis, which published articles of great value; its incursion into the…
1817
#9871
De nova infusionis methodo. Dissertatio inauguralis medico-chirurgica....
Eduard von Graefe’s medical thesis described the method devised by his brother, Carl Ferdinand von Graefe (1787-1840), for transfusing blood or other liquids into the blood vessels. The work includes an illustration o…
1817
#10747
Ideen zu einer Geschichte der Entwicklung des kindlichen Alters. Psychologische Untersuchungen.
Perhaps the oldest separate work on the psychological development of children, written five years after Grohmann published a work on the education of children. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1818
#4926
Lehrbuch der Störungen des Seelenlebens.
Heinroth drew his psychology from the Bible and maintained that mental health was maintained only by piety and that sin engendered madness; for him treatment was by repentance and a return to the fold. English transla…
1818
#5738
Rhinoplastik, oder die Kunst den Verlust der Nase organisch zu ersetzen.
Von Graefe revived rhinoplasty in Germany with this survey of what he called the three methods: the Italian, the Indian, and the “German” method, his own variation on the Italian method. On p. 13 he described the firs…
1818
#6168
Allgemeine geburtshülfliche Betrachtungen und über die künstliche Frühgeburt.
Artificial induction of premature labour.
1818 –1825
#6237
Handbuch der Entbindungskunst. 3 vols. in 5.
Includes (Bd. 2, Abt II, p. 302) description of Osiander’s lower-segment Caesarean operation.
1818
#13644
Index Musei Anatomici Kiliensis. . . loco dissertationis inauguralis conscriptus.
Catalogues 1150 anatomical preparations in the anatomical museum at Kiel. Foreward by anatomist/pathologist Johann Leonhard Fischer (1760-1833) who was responsible for much of the collection.
1819
#317
De animalibus quibusdam e classe vermium Linneana in circumnavigator terra auspicante Comite N. Romanzoff duce Ottone de Kotzebue annis 1815, 1816, 1817, 1818. Fasciculus primus. De Salpa.
Chamisso was naturalist on the Kotzebue voyage of 1815-1818. This monograph on certain Vermes included the first description of several of the tunicates and the earliest use of the expression “alternation of generatio…