Europe
6,838 entries published in Europe.
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
#8073
Précis historique de l'art vétérinaire pour servir d'introduction a une bibliographie vétérinaire générale.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1810
#10136
Bibliographie agronomique, ou dictionnaire raisonné des ouvrages sur l'économie rurale et domestique et sur l'art vétérinaire ... par un des collaborateurs du Cours complet d'agriculture pratique.
Second edition, Paris: Institut Agronomique, 1991. Digital facsimile of the 1810 edition from BnFGallica at this link.
1810
#13422
Catalogue des livres de la bibliothèque de feu M.A.F. de Fourcroy... avec la table des auteurs, et celle des anonymes.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1810
#13684
Des erreurs populaires relatives a la médecine.
Digital facsimile from wellcomecollection.org at this link. Second edition, revised, corrected, and expanded with 50 additional pages, Paris, 1812. Digital facsimile of the second edition from wellcomecollection.org a…
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…
1810
#13885
Pyrotechnie chirurgicale-pratique, ou l'art d'appliquer le feu en chirurgie.
1811
#3055
Observations on the surgical anatomy of the head and neck.
Burns was the first to suggest (p. 31) ligature of the innominate artery. His book describes “Burns’s space”, the fascial space at the suprasternal notch. The first recorded case of chloroma (myeloid sarcoma, granuloc…
1811
#406
Anatomia per uso de’pittori e scultori.
This anatomy for artists and sculptors contains 38 good copperplates in black and red.
1811
#1254
Idea of a new anatomy of the brain.
Contains first reference to experimental work on the motor functions of the ventral spinal nerve-roots, without, however, establishing the sensory functions of the dorsal roots. This very rare privately printed pamphl…
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).
1811
#7321
Lachesis Lapponica, or a tour in Lapland, now first published from the original manuscript journal of the celebrated Linnaeus; by James Edward Smith. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1811
#13755
Travels in the island of Iceland, during the summer of the year MDCCCX.
Only Mackenzie is credited with authorship on the title page. Holland and Bright accompanied Mackenzie on this voyage and exploration. On p. xi of the Preface Mackenzie indicates that he benefitted from Hooker's notes…
1811
#13762
Journal of a tour in Iceland in the summer of 1809.
"In 1809 he went to Iceland to make a botanical survey for [Sir Joseph] Banks; his collections were lost in a fire at sea on the way home but with the aid of Banks’s notes from his own journey there in 1772 Hooker was…
1812
#1389.2
Expériences sur le principe de la vie.
Le Gallois described the action of the vagus nerve on respiration. He showed that bilateral section of the vagus can produce fatal bronchopneumonia. The above work includes (p. 37) his location of the respiratory cent…
1812
#4519.1
Cases of apoplexy and lethargy: with observations upon the comatose diseases.
Cheyne believed that cerebral anemia might be the cause of apoplexy, and described pathological cases of cerebral infarction and of cerebral hemorrhage. The work contains the first illustration of a subarachnoid hemor…
1812 –1817
#2160
Mémoires de chirurgie militaire, et campagnes. (Vol. 5 entitled Relation médicale de campagnes et voyages.) 5 vols.
Larrey was the greatest military surgeon in history. Of him Napoleon said: “C’est l’homme le plus vertueux que j’ai connu”. He was present at all Napoleon’s great battles and one of the few who stood by him on his abd…
1812 –1822
#2208
Dictionnaire des sciences médicales par un Société de médecins et de chirurgiens. 60 vols.
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.
1812
#3433
An inquiry into the process of nature in repairing injuries of the intestines.
Travers’s researches on intestinal sutures recorded the first accurate knowledge on this subject.
1812
#6165
Mémorial de l’art des accouchements.
Mme Boivin was one of the most famous of the Paris midwives. She improved the speculum and wrote intelligently on hydatidiform mole.
1812
#8409
Catalogue of medical books, for the use of students attending lectures on the principles and practice of medicine; with an address to medical students, on the best method of prosecuting their studies.
This is the catalogue that Watt prepared of his own very carefully chosen medical library, and published for the use of his students. Because Watt chose the roughly 1000 books with great care the library is representa…
1812
#12052
Manuale di chirurgia del cavaliere.
Assalini served as a military surgeon with the Napoleonic armies in Egypt, Spain, Germany, and Russia, taking part in 60 battles and 400 combats. He was wounded three times, and was eventually appointed First Surgeon …
1812
#12196
Collection d'opuscules de médecine pratique, avec un mémoire sur le commerce des nègres au Kaire.
Frank was with Napoleon in Egypt; this volume contains numerous reports on aspects of medicine during that campaign. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1812
#13631
Traité usuel du chocolat, contenant la description et la culture du cacaotier ou cacaoïer, arbre qui produit le fruit avec lequel on fabrique le chocolat, celles de la canelle, de la vanille, du salep de Perse, de l'ambre gris, du sucre, et autres substances que l'on fait entrer dans la fabrication du chocolat, les différentes façons de préparer ce commestible pour en faire un aliment recherché et propre à flatter le goût de tous les consommateurs les plus distingués, ce qui lui a fait donner, avec just tire, le sur-non de METS Des DIEUX. On y fait voir assi son utilité précieuse dans médecine.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1812
#14179
Anatomie du gladiateur combattant, applicable aux beaux arts . . . .
Salvage's 21 plates after his own drawings "are based on three casts of bodies dissected to different anatomical layers and set in the pose of the Borghese Gladiator. For these casts he preferred to use the bodies of …
1813
#985
Mémoire sur le vomissement.
Physiologists still consult Magendie’s classic description of the physiology of deglutition and vomiting. Magendie proved, against the current theory of Haller, that the stomach was passive rather than active in vomit…
1813
#985.1
Mémoire sur l’usage de l’epiglotte dans la déglutition …
Magendie showed that the epiglottis is not necessary for swallowing, which disproved the accepted doctrine that the epiglottis was necessary to cover the glottis to prevent food from entering the trachea.
1813
#2209
Observations on the nature and cure of dropsies.
Blackall predated Bright in detecting albuminuria in association with edema. His book, of which the second edition is more important than the first, includes reports on cases of angina pectoris.
1813
#159
Researches into the physical history of man.
Prichard, a Bristol physician, classified and systematized facts relating to the races of men better than any previous writer. His interest in anthropology was stimulated by one of the pressing questions of his day: D…
1813
#4021
A practical synopsis of cutaneous diseases according to the arrangement of Dr. Willan.
This was the most influential textbook of dermatology of the 19th century, and the work which conveyed Willan’s system to most of the medical world. Included in the book was material by Willan which remained unpublish…
1813
#4309
An account of a successful method of treating diseases of the spine.
By his advocacy of absolute rest in the horizontal position without the aid of caustics and setons, Baynton can be said to have introduced the modern treatment of spinal caries in England. The book is dedicated to Edw…
1813
#5086.1
Treatise on the history, nature, and treatment of chincough: Including a variety of cases and dissections. To which is subjoined an inquiry into the relative mortality of the principal diseases of children, and the numbers who have died under ten years of age, in Glasgow, during the last thirty years.
Probably the second book on whooping cough, written after two of Watt's children died from the disease. After vaccination for smallpox was introduced, Watt found, as he had expected, that the number of deaths from tha…
1813
#4925
Tracts on Delirium tremens, on peritonitis, and on some other internal inflammatory affections, and on the gout.
Sutton named and described alcoholic delirium tremens, differentiating the condition from phrenitis. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1813
#4925.1
Description of The Retreat, an institution near York, for insane persons…
The pioneer work by an Englishman advocating humane treatment of the mentally ill. Tuke set out in this work the successful results of his experience with the “mild system of treatment” which had been instituted at Th…
1813 –1817
#5842
Lehre von den Augenkrankheiten. 2 vols.
Beer is remembered for his textbook; the doctrines in it dominated practice for many years. He described the symptoms of glaucoma and noted the luminosity of the fundus in aniridia. He also presented for the first tim…
1813
#6751
An introduction to medical literature, including a system of practical nosology. Intended as a guide to students, and an assistant to practitioners.
The remarkable Thomas Young compiled this bibliography of works which he considered necessary to a complete medical library. Second edition, 1823.
1813 –1817
#6566
Geschichte der Medicin in Russland. 3 vols.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1813
#7543
Pedestrianism; or, An account of the performances of celebrated pedestrians during the last and present century : with a full narrative of Captain Barclay's public and private matches; and an essay on training.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1813
#7586
A general account of the Hunterian Museum, Glasgow; including historical and scientific notices of the various objects of art, literature, natural history, anatomical preparations, antiquities, & c. in that celebrated collection.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1813
#8211
The influence of tropical climates, more especially the climate of India, on European constitutions; the principal effects and diseases thereby induced, their prevention or removal, and the means of preserving health in hot climates, rendered obvious to to Europeans in every capacity: An essay .
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link. Enlarged and retitled second edition: The influence of tropical climates on European constitutions: to which is added tropical hygiene, or the preservation of …
1813
#14178
Recherches historiques sur la médecine des chinois.
The first Western history of Chinese medicine. Lepage, a pupil of Pierre Sue, was a friend and colleague of pioneer sinologist Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat. In his medical thesis Lepage presented an overview of what was t…
1814 –1828
#315
Lectures on comparative anatomy, in which are explained the preparations in the Hunterian collection
Home plagiarized this large work from the manuscripts of John Hunter, his late father-in-law, and, as a result, of immense importance for publication of Hunter’s researches, and for aspects of Hunter's collection on w…
1814
#1604
An essay on dew.
For this work Wells was awarded the Rumford Medal of the Royal Society. His researches on the subject were of major importance in the development of the science of ventilation, particularly in its relation to relative…
1814 –1815
#2072
Traité des poisons tirés des règnes minéral, végétal et animal; ou, toxicologie générale. 2 vols, each in 2 parts.
Orfila, pioneer toxicologist, was the leading medico-legal expert of his time. He was born in Minorca, studied at Valencia, Barcelona, and Paris, and was one of the founders of the Académie de Médecine. Digital facsim…
1814
#216.1
A treatise on the supposed hereditary properties of diseases, containing remarks on the unfounded terrors and ill-judged cautions consequent on such erroneous opinions; with notes, illustrative of the subject, particularly in madness and scrofula.
Adams was a pioneer in medical genetics. He distinguished between familial and hereditary diseases, saw that an increase in hereditary disease frequency in isolated areas could be caused by inbreeding, and suggested t…
1814
#2740.1
Pathological researches. Essay I. On malformations of the human heart. [All published.]
The first monograph on congenital defects of the heart.
1814
#4021.1
Practical treatise on porrigo, or scald head, and on impetigo, the humid or running teter
This treatise on infantile eczema is the only fascicule of the second volume of Willan’s On cutaneous diseases (No.4018) that ever appeared in print. It was edited for publication after Willan's death by his stepson-i…
1814
#7876
Flora Americae septentrionalis; or, a systematic arrangement and description of the plants of North America. Containing, besides what have been described by preceding authors, many new and rare species, collected during twelve years travels and residence in that country. 2 vols.
The first survey of all plants of North America above Mexico, including more than 3,000 species and 470 genera; describes more than 100 species collected by the Lewis and Clark expedition. Digital facsimile from Botan…