United Kingdom
2,632 entries published in United Kingdom. 64 publication places.
1858
#2165
Medical and surgical history of the British Army which served in Turkey and the Crimea during the war against Russia, in the years 1854-56. 2 vols.
GREAT BRITAIN. War Office. Medical Services
First official medical and surgical history of a war.
1858
#2761
On malformations, etc., of the human heart.
Includes an account of the “tetralogy of Fallot” (see No. 2792). Peacock’s book was “the first comprehensive study covering the whole field” (Maude Abbott). Reprinted, Boston, Mass., 1973.
1858
#3684
On certain irregularities of the teeth with cases illustrative of a novel method of successful treatment.
First work devoted exclusively to irregularities of the teeth.
1858
#4934
A manual of psychological medicine.
Bucknill and Tuke were both distinguished neurologists, and advocates of no restraint in the institutional treatment of mental patients. Their book was for many years the standard English work on psychological medicin…
1858
#5666
On chloroform and other anaesthetics: Their action and administration. Edited, with a memoir of the author, by Benjamin W. Richardson.
Snow, the first specialist in anesthesiology, delivered Queen Victoria with the aid of chloroform in 1853 and 1857. This work was edited for publication after Snow's premature death by Richardson, who included a biogr…
1858
#7481
Notes on matters affecting the health, efficiency, and hospital administration of the British Army. Founded chiefly on the experience of the late war. Presented by request to the Secretary of State for War.
This privately printed pamphlet contained a color statistical graphic entitled "Diagram of the causes of mortality in the Army of the East" which showed that epidemic disease, which was responsible for more British de…
1858
#9312
Notes on the surgery of the war in the Crimea, with remarks on the treatment of gunshot wounds.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link. Reprinted in Richmond, Virginia in 1862 during the American Civil War for the Confederate States Army by J. W. Randolph; digital facsimile of the Richmond edition from…
1858 –1882
#11660
Horae subsecivae. Locke and Sydenham with other occasional papers. [Vol. 2:] Rab and his friends and other papers.
William Osler promoted the value of the writings of the popular medical essayist John Brown to the medical community. He wrote: "To the medical student the writings of Dr. John Brown have this special value - they imp…
1858
#12065
Speech of Charles Dickens, Esq., on behalf of The Hospital for Sick Children, 49, Great Ormond Street. Patron, - Her Majesty the Queen. The objects of the institution are - I. The medical and surgical treatment of poor children. II. The attainment and diffusion of knowledge regarding the diseases of children. 3. The training of nurses for children.
Speech of Charles Dickens as Chairman at the Dinner on Behalf of the Hospital for Sick Children, February 9th, 1858. This 10-page pamphlet was first published in 1858 and reprinted in 1864, in 1865, and in 1874 to rai…
1858
#12482
Impressions of Western Africa. With remarks on the diseases of the climate and a report on the peculiarities of trade up the rivers in the Bight of Biafra.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1859
#4497
The nature and treatment of gout and rheumatic gout.
Garrod was the leading authority of his time on gout, which he separated from other forms of arthritis by his discovery of excess of uric acid in the blood of gouty sufferers. He gave to rheumatoid arthritis its prese…
1859
#1611
Notes on hospitals.
Includes four plans of hospitals. A third edition, completely revised, was published by Longmans, Green & Co., London, 1863.
1859
#220
On the origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life.
Prepared under the advice of Lyell and Hooker, and brought to press soon after publication of the joint paper by Darwin and Wallace (No. 219), this was Darwin’s greatest work and one of the most important books ever p…
1859
#3458
The diseases of the stomach.
Includes (pp. 310-31) original description of linitis plastica (“Brinton’s disease”). Brinton lectured on physiology and forensic medicine at St. Thomas’s Hospital.
1859
#7446
On the flora of Australia, its origin, affinities, and distribution; being an introductory essay to the Flora of Tasmania. Offprint from The Botany of the Antarctic Voyage of H. M. Discovery Ships ‘Erebus’ and ‘Terror’, Vol. III (Flora Tasmaniae), part I (June, 1859).
The first important botanical work by a supporter of Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection. Hooker, a botanist and plant geographer, had been a close friend of Darwin for many years, and was aware of Darwi…
1859
#8212
Sketch of the medical topography, or climate and soils, of Bengal and the N.W. Provinces.
Digital facsimile from the internet Archive at this link.
1859
#9972
The natural history of the European seas. Edited and continued by Robert Godwin-Austen.
Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.
1859
#11364
A manual of operative surgery on the dead body.
Smith's concept was the teaching of surgery in a manner analogous to the teaching of anatomy--i.e. from a cadaver. His book organizes and explains the operations that student surgeons could practice on a cadaver. Digi…
1859
#13861
Descriptive catalogue of the specimens of natural history in spirit contained in the museum Vertebrata: Pisces, Reptilia, Aves, Mammalia.
Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.
1860
#1612
Notes on nursing: what it is, and what it is not.
After receiving training in Germany and France, Florence Nightingale had some nursing experience in England. The Crimean war gave her an opportunity to demonstrate the value of trained nurses. Within a few months of h…
1860
#2616
Clinical memoirs on abdominal tumours and intumescence.
1860
#2586
On asthma: its pathology and treatment.
The best work on asthma to appear during the 19th century. Salter, who had suffered from asthma from childhood, may be considered the first modern student of the condition. He called special attention to asthma from a…
1860
#3373
The diseases of the ear; their nature, diagnosis, and treatment.
The foundation of aural pathology. In this book Toynbee described the method of removing the temporal bone and discussed the post mortem appearances in relation to the symptoms observed during life. He made over 2,000…
1860
#6615
The medical knowledge of Shakespeare.
1860
#7439
The Malay archipelago: The land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise. 2 vols.
1860
#11805
Actinologia Britannica. A history of the British sea-anemones and corals. With coloured figures of the species and principal varieties.
Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.
1861
#3993
On the parasitic affections of the skin.
Anderson was Professor of Clinical Medicine at Glasgow. Digital facsimile of the second edition (1868) from the Internet Archive at this link.
1861 –2005
#6715
The roll of the Royal College of Physicians of London; comprising biographical sketches. (Lives of the fellows.) 12 vols.
“Munk’s Roll”. Covers the period 1518-2005 and onward. The entire work is available as a searchable electronic resource from the Royal College of Physicians at this link. "The first volume in this series of obituaries…
1861
#7608
Essays and observations on natural history, anatomy, physiology, psychology, and geology by John Hunter, F.R.S. Being his posthumous papers on those subjects, arranged and revised, with notes; to which are added the introductory lectures on the Hunterian collection of fossil remains delivered in the theatre of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, March 8th, 10th and 12th, 1855 by Richard Owen .... 2 vols.
Digital facsimiles from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1861
#8914
On the various contrivances by which British and foreign orchids are fertilised by insects, and on the good effects of intercrossing.
Darwin's first work on plant fertilization and the first volume of evidence that he published to support the theories advanced in On the origin of species (1859). This was also the only book by Darwin that was issued …
1861
#8915
On the origin of species by means of natural selection....Third edition with additions and corrections (Seventh thousand).
Extensively revised, and the first edition to include the "historical sketch" crediting the historical precursors to the theory of evolution by natural selection. Darwin added this chapter in response to writings by S…
1861
#9171
Flora hongkonensis: A description of the flowering plants and ferns of the island of Hongkong.
The first comprehensive work on any part of the flora of China and Hong Kong. It included the first published description of Hong Kong Croton, or Croton hancei.
1861
#10049
The eastern, or Turkish bath: Its history, revival in Britain, and application to the purposes of health.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1861
#11583
Lectures on the germs and vestiges of disease, and on the prevention of the invasion and fatality of disease by periodical examinations.
Dobell was the first physician to propose periodic health examinations. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1861
#14188
Stammering and stuttering, their nature and treatment.
1862
#2220
A treatise on the continued fevers of Great Britain.
Murchison was one of the greatest clinical teachers London has ever known; of his many writings his book on continued fever is probably the most important. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1862
#220.2
On our knowledge of the causes of the phenomenon of organic nature.
This series of six lectures delivered to “working men” in November and December, 1862 includes Huxley’s first book-form exposition of Darwin’s theories, of which he was probably the greatest popular exponent. A prolif…
1862
#3936
Researches on the nature and treatment of diabetes
Pavy devoted many years to the study of diabetes. He concluded that there was a definite relationship between the degree of hyperglycemia and glycosuria.
1862
#7621
Catalogue of the osteological portion of specimens contained in the Anatomical Museum of the University of Cambridge.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1862 –1883
#9173
Genera plantarum: Ad exemplaria imprimis in Herberiis Kewensibus servata definita; auctoribus G. Bentham et J.D. Hooker. 3 vols. in 9 parts.
First publication of the Bentham & Hooker taxonomic system for seed plants published before there were internationally accepted rules for botanical nomenclature. Digital facsimile from the Biodiversity Heritage Archiv…
1862
#9678
Notes on Chinese materia medica. Reprinted, with some corrections, from the Pharmaceutical Journal and Transactions.
Reprinted, with continuous pagination, and index from the Pharmaceutical Journal for July and August, 1860, for November and December, 1861, and for February 1862. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this l…
1862
#11625
An inquiry into the medicinal value of the excreta of reptiles, in phthisis and some other diseases.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1862
#14045
On the extent and aims of a national museum of natural history.
Owen was the prime mover behind the construction of the Natural History Museum, a project that occupied him for over two decades. His On the Extent and Aims of a National Museum of Natural History, containing the text…
1863
#165
Evidence as to man’s place in nature.
Huxley showed that in the visible characters man differs less from the higher apes than do the latter from lower members of the same order of primates. He also provided the first thorough and detailed comparative desc…
1863
#204.1
The geological evidences of the antiquity of man with remarks on theories of the origin of species by variation.
Lyell’s summary discussion of the evidence for human antiquity “introduced a wide readership to the new view and to the facts that supported it, thus laying the synthetic foundation for future work” (Grayson). This wo…
1863
#3914
Letter on corpulence; address to the public.
Banting, a prominent English undertaker, and formerly obese, was the first to popularize a weight loss diet based on limiting intake of refined and easily digestible carbohydrates. He changed his diet at the suggestio…
1863
#5609
On the influence of mechanical and physiological rest in the treatment of accidents and surgical diseases, and the diagnostic value of pain.
Hilton, surgeon to Guy’s Hospital, suggested that symptoms are disordered reflexes. He advocated complete rest in the treatment of surgical disorders of all parts of the body. Second and later editions were entitled O…
1863
#6615.1
A study of Hamlet.
The first psychiatric study of Hamlet. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1863
#7442
The naturalist on the river Amazons, a record of adventures, habits of animals, sketches of Brazilian and Indian life, and aspects of nature under the equator, during eleven years of travel. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1863 –1878
#9172
Flora Australiensis: A description of the plants of the Australian territory by George Bentham, assisted by Ferdinand Mueller. 7 vols.
The first comprehensive flora of any large continental area. It included descriptions of 8125 species. "Bentham prepared the flora from Kew; with Mueller, the first plant taxonomist residing permanently in Australia, …