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2,632 entries published in United Kingdom. 64 publication places.
1844
#9169
The botany of the voyage of H.M.S. Sulphur under the command of Captain Sir Edward Belcher....Edited and superintended by Richard Brinsley Hinds. The botanical descriptions by George Bentham.
Digital facsimile from the Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.
1844
#11646
A new view of insanity: The duality of the mind proved by the structure, functions and diseases of the brain and by the phenomena of mental derangement and shown to be essential to moral responsibility. With an appendix: 1. On the influence of religion on insanity. 2. Conjectures on the nature of the mental operations. 3. On the management of lunatic asylums.
"From the seventeenth century there were shifts in some of the basic assumptions about how the brain and mind functioned, and there are some useful markers along the way to an era of more systematic studies. Descartes…
1844
#12136
Life in the sickroom: Essays by an invalid.
"Life in the Sickroom is one of many first-hand accounts of the experience of being ill written by an invalid. Martineau was ill for six years, but she found taking on the identity of an invalid a reprieve from the st…
1844
#12695
On superstitions connected with the history and practice of medicine and surgery.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1845
#2294.1
Anatomical and pathological observations.
John Goodsir’s paper on “Centres of nutrition” anticipates to a certain extent the cell doctrine afterwards developed by Virchow (see No. 2299). Virchow dedicated the first edition of his Cellularpathologie to Goodsir…
1845
#3619
On diseases of the liver.
Budd was Professor of Medicine at King’s College, London. Section III of the above book includes a description of that form of cirrhosis to which the name “Budd’s disease” has been applied. In the second edition, 1852…
1845
#4325
A treatise on corns, bunions, the diseases of nails, and the general management of the feet.
Durlacher, surgeon chiropodist to Queen Victoria, gave the first description of anterior metatarsalgia (p. 52), to which the name “Morton’s metatarsalgia” has been given (see No. 4341). Digital facsimile from the Inte…
1845
#6036
A practical treatise on inflammation, ulceration, and induration of the neck of the uterus.
Bennet was the first to differentiate between benign and malignant uterine tumors.
1845
#7169
Commentary on the Hindu system of medicine.
Wise was a physician and surgeon in the Bengal Medical Service. Digital facsimile from The Medical Heritage Library, Internet Archive, at this link.
1845
#11960
Hortus cantabrigiensis, or, An accented catalogue of indigenous and exotic plants, cultivated in the Cambridge Botanical Garden. By the late James Donn, curator....With the additions and improvements of the successive editors, F. Pursh, J. Lindley, G. Sinclair. The thirteenth century, now further enlarged improved, and brought down to the present time by P. N. Don.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1845
#13862
Descriptive and illustrated catalogue of the fossil organic remains of mammalia and aves contained in the museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
This is the catalogue of John Hunter's collection, with a very few additions from other sources. Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.
1846 –1849
#544
The microscopic anatomy of the human body, in health and disease.
First English textbook on microscopical anatomy. His description of the concentric corpuscles of the thymus (p. 9) led to the term “Hassall’s corpuscles”.
1846
#79
The works. Edited with an introduction and notes by George Gulliver.
Hewson was a pupil of the Hunters. In 1769 his memoir on the lymphatics in fishes won for him the Copley Medal of the Royal Society. See also Nos. 863, 1102. The editor of this edition provided a detailed historical i…
1846
#2612.1
The nature and treatment of cancer.
The earliest account of the recognition of fragments of malignant tissue. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1846
#2755.1
Lectures on subjects connected with clinical medicine, comprising disease of the heart. Second edition, 2 vols.
Includes (vol. 2, pp. 373-79) a classic description of coronary thrombosis, although not using the term. The patient was Thomas Arnold, the educationist, and the report was signed by Joseph Hodgson and by S. Bucknill,…
1846
#2902
Lectures illustrative of various subjects in pathology and surgery.
Page 361 contains the first description of intermittent claudication in man. This was first reported (in the horse) by “Boullay” [?J. Bouley] in Arch. gén. Méd.,1831, 27, 425. P. 186: Brodie's test for insufficiency o…
1846
#5650.3
Mesmerism in India, and its practical application in surgery and medicine.
Esdaile performed a variety of surgical operations on Hindus, upon many of whom he appears successfully to have induced hypnotic anesthesia. However, his similar attempts with Europeans were not so successful.
1846
#7600
A descriptive catalogue of the anatomical museum of St. Bartholomew's Hospital. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1846
#8918
Geological observations on South America. Being the third part of the geology of the voyage of the Beagle.
The third and last of Darwin's geological reports on the Beagle voyage. In it he described the pampas, the plateaus and the Andres, showing how they had been gradually pushed up in the way that Charles Lyell surmised …
1846
#11213
Catalogue of the Library of the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society of London. [By Benjamin Robert Wheatley].
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link. Between 1907 and 1909 the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society of London became one of 17 English medical societies that joined to form the Royal Society of M…
1846
#11558
On the disorders of the cerebral circulation; and on the connection between affections of the brain and diseases of the heart.
"Burrows was the first to indicate that the effects of cerebral anemia could be produced not only by obvious anemia itself, but also from a fall in blood pressure. He carried out some of the earliest studies of the ph…
1846
#11734
A treatise on the motive powers which produce the circulation of the blood.
The author was an American women's rights activist and educator rather than a physician or physiologist. Digital facsimile from U.S. National Library of Medicine at this link.
1846
#13739
Medical notes on China.
Wilson served as Inspector of Hospitals and Fleets from 1841 to 1843 onboard the Minden, a British hospital ship deployed in China at Chusan and Hong Kong at the end of 1841 to treat casualties in the First Opium War …
1846 –1849
#13859
Descriptive catalogue of the pathological specimens contained in the museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. 5 vols.
Vol.1: General pathology -- Vol.2: Pathology of the blood, and organs of locomotion -- Vol.3 Pathology of the organs of digestion, absorption and circulation -- Vol.4: Pathology of the respiratory and urinary organs, …
1847
#61.1
The works of William Harvey. Translated from the Latin, with a life of the author by Robert Willis.
See Sir Geoffrey Keynes’s Life of William Harvey, Oxford, 1966, (2nd printing, with corrections, 1978) and his Bibliography of the writings of William Harvey, 3rd ed., revised by Gweneth Whitteridge and Christine Engl…
1847
#2978
Observations on aneurism, and its treatment by compression.
Bellingham introduced the “Dublin method” of treating aneurysm by slow compression.
1847
#5862
A manual of the principles and practice of ophthalmic medicine and surgery.
The last important English work on opthalmology published before the invention of the ophthalmoscope. Jones did not appreciate the prototype ophthalmoscope devised by Charles Babbage, and shown to him in 1847. After t…
1847
#5657.1
A treatise on the inhalation of the vapour of ether, for the prevention of pain in surgical operations; containing a numerous collection of cases in which it has been applied, with the names of the operators; history of the discovery - description of the apparatus - method of preparing the ether - remarks as to the time when the operation should commence, etc., etc., etc.
The first textbook of ether anesthesia, published in March, 1847. Robinson, a British dentist, was the first to use anesthesia in England, after receiving information from Henry Jacob Bigelow and Francis Boott. Digita…
1847
#5658
On the inhalation of the vapour of ether in surgical operations.
Includes an account of Snow’s regulating inhaler, the first to control the amount of ether vapor by the patient. This pamphlet, which appeared in October 1847, was the second treatise on ether anesthesia, after Robins…
1847 –1887
#13751
Thesaurus conchyliorum, or monographs of the genera of shells. 5 vols. text, each with an accompanying volume of plates.
Completed by G. B. Sowerby III after the death of G.B.S. II. Since "III" was color blind, his daughter did most of the coloring of his engravings. Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.
1847
#13772
Household surgery; or, hints on emergencies.
1848
#545
Bone or osseous tissue.
The discovery of the “fibers of Sharpey” is reported on pp. cxlii-cxliii.
1848
#330
On the archetype and homologies of the vertebrate skeleton.
Owen’s vertebral theory of the origin of the skull, later refuted by Thomas Huxley and others. "Owen began working systematically on problems of transcendental morphology in 1841, as part of his curatorial task to arr…
1848 –1850
#64
The works of Thomas Sydenham. Translated from the Latin edition of Dr. Greenhill with a life of the author by R.G. Latham. 2 vols.
Best English translation of Sydenham’s works.
1848
#3683
A course of lectures on dental physiology and surgery.
Tomes invented a set of anatomically correct forceps for tooth extraction, thereby elevating this device, which had been previously neglected, to dentistry’s most important extraction instrument. This book was revised…
1848
#5599
Contributions to the pathology and practice of surgery.
Syme, one-time colleague of Liston, succeeded to the latter’s extensive practice in Scotland. He came to London for a short time as Professor of Surgery at University College, but soon returned to Scotland. He was a p…
1848
#5441
A treatise on the smallpox and measles. Translated from the Arabic by William Alexander Greenhill.
Rhazes differentiated measles from smallpox. Reprinted in Med. Classics, 1939, 4, 22-84. For original publication see No. 5404. The first English translation appeared in No. 5417. Digital facsimile from the Internet A…
1848
#6334
Lectures on the diseases of infancy and childhood.
In its day this was the best English work on the subject, and was translated into several languages. West was one of the founders of the Hospital for Sick Children, Gt. Ormond Street, London.
1848 –1854
#7092
Bibliographia zoologiae et geologiae. A general catalogue of all books, tracts, and memoirs on zoology and geology by Louis Agassiz. Corrected, enlarged and edited by H. E. Strickland. 4 vols. Vol. 4 edited by Strickland and Jardine.
Digital facsimile of the 4 vols. from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1848
#10176
The dodo and its kindred; Or, the history, affinities, and osteology of the dodo, solitaire, and other extinct birds of the islands Mauritius, Rodriguez and Bourbon.
The first separate monograph on the dodo, an extinct flightless bird that was endemic to the island of Mauritius, east of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean. "The closest genetic relative to the dodo was the also extinct …
1848
#10729
Poisons in relation to medical jurisprudence and medicine.
Taylor was the leading English toxicologist and medical witness of his time, and his works were revised, edited, and translated into other languages. He "performed an invaluable service in codifying legal precedents a…
1849
#14
The genuine works of Hippocrates. Translated from the Greek with a preliminary discourse and annotations by Francis Adams. 2 vols.
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Francis Adams, surgeon of Banchory, Scotland, prepared this partial translation to acquaint his contemporaries with “the opinions of an author, whom I verily believe to be the highest exemplar of professional excellen…
1849
#1505
Lectures on the parts concerned in the operations on the eye, and on the structure of the retina.
Bowman did more than any other man to advance ophthalmic surgery in England. The above work is the first to include a sound description of the microscopical anatomy of the eye and the ciliary (“Bowman’s”) muscle. The …
1849
#7689
The history of the cholera in Exeter in 1832.
Includes “Map of Exeter in 1832 Shewing the Localities Where the Deaths Caused by Pestilential Cholera Occurred in the Years 1832, 1833 & 1834.” This map used red horizontal bars to illustrate outbreaks in 1832, red d…
1849
#7693
Physical Atlas. A series of maps & illustrations of the geographical distribution of natural phenomena. Embracing I. Geology. II Hydrography. III Meterology. IV. Natural History.
30 double-page maps, 15 of which are after the physical atlas of Berghaus. Contributors included Edward Forbes, George Waterhouse, Abbe Boué, etc. Various concern disease.
1849
#9814
The physiognomy of diseases.
Corfe was Resident Medical Officer at London's Middlesex Hospital, Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, and author of works on various medical subjects. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive a…
1849
#9981
On the mode of communication of cholera.
Publication of Snow's 31-page pamphlet on cholera preceded his paper in the London Medical Gazette by about one month.
1849
#12534
Practical pharmacy: The arrangements, apparatus, and manipulations, of the pharmaceutical shop and laboratory.
This was a translation and adaptation for the British market of Mohr's Lehrbuch der pharmaceutischen Technik, also published in 1849. It is thus the first textbook of pharmacy in English. Though Redwood made it clear …
1849
#13167
A practical treatise on the domestic management and most important diseases of advanced life. With an appendix, containing a series of cases illustrative of a new and successful mode of treating lumbago and other forms of chronic rheumatism, sciatica and other neuralgic affections, and certain forms of paralysis.
Digital facsimile from wellcomelibrary.org at this link.
1849 –1851
#13651
The rhododendrons of Sikkim-Himalaya: Being an account, botanical and geographical, of the rhododendrons recently discovered in the mountains of eastern Himalaya, from drawings and descriptions made on the spot, during a government botanical mission to that country
Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.