Europe
6,838 entries published in Europe.
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.
1817
#11154
Des effets et des propriétés du froid, avec un aperçu historique et médical sur la campagne de Russie.
Relative to the suffering of Napoleon's soldiers during the bitter cold of Russian winters, includes methodology of resucitation of victims of freezing. Digital facsimile of thesis issue of the 1817 edition from the I…
1817 –1818
#11540
Histoire médicale générale et particulière des maladies épidémiques, contagieuses et épizootiques qui ont régné en Europe depuis les temps les plus reculés, et notamment depuis le XIVe siècle jusqu’à nos jours. 2 vols.
The history of epidemics and epizootics in Europe since the 14th century. Digital facsimile of the first edition from Google Books at this link. Greatly revised, corrected and augmented second edition, Paris & Lyon, 1…
1817
#12694
Memoirs of the life and writings of the late John Coakley Lettsom..., with a selection from his correspondence
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1817
#12746
Nosologie naturelle, ou les maladies du corps humain distribuées par familles. Tome premier. (All published.)
This unfinished work with 22 spectacular plates included some full body images of patients, and unlike other illustrated works by Alibert, it concerned more than skin diseases. Vol. 2 was never published but a second,…
1817
#12858
Essai sur l'anatomie et la physiologie des dents, ou nouvelle théorie de la dentition.
In this work Serres described the glands of Serres, epithelial remnants of the dental lamina. These have the capicity to form small cysts (Bohn's nodules). Serres believed that gingival crevicular fluid was secreted f…
1817
#13247
Notice historique sur l'Institution Royale des Jeunes Aveugles.
The first book printed in heavily embossed type for the blind. In 1819 Sebastien Guillé issued a second edition of this work identifying himself as the author.
1818
#408
Afbeeldingen van de juiste plaatsing der inwendige deelen van het menschelijk ligchaam.
First anatomical illustrations of frozen sections. De Riemer appears to have been the first to freeze tissues in order to permit fine sectioning for the purposes of diagnosing diseased tissue. Digital facsimile from U…
1818
#2162
Observations on some important points in the practice of military surgery.
“A valuable surgical record of the Napoleonic period” (Garrison).
1818 –1822
#534.57
Philosophie anatomique. Tome Premier. Des organes respiratoires sou le rapport de la détermination et de l'identité de leur pièces osseuses. Avec figures de 116 nouvelles preparations d'anatomie. [Tome Deuxième]. Des monstruosités humaines, ouvrage contenant une classification des monstres; la description et la comparaison des principaux genres; une histoire raisonnée des phénomènes de la monstruosité et des faits primitifs qui la produisent; des vues nouvelles touchant la nutrition du foetus et d'autres circonstrances de son développement....Avec figures des détails anatomiques. 2 vols.
The elder Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire is credited with coining the word teratology, and was the first seriously to attempt the experimental production of anomalies, by manipulating chick eggs. See T. Cahn, La vie et l'oeuv…
1818
#216.2
Two essays: upon single vision with two eyes; the other on dew…An account of a female of the white race of mankind, part of whose skin resembles that of a negro…
First statement of the theory of natural selection. Wells’s paper on a white woman with patchy brown discoloration of the skin contains an almost complete anticipation of Darwin’s theory of natural selection, although…
1818
#4311
Pathological and surgical observations on the diseases of the joints.
Brodie’s best work. It includes his description of hysterical pseudo-fracture of the spine and the first clinical description of ankylosing spondylitis. The fifth edition, 1850, gives (p. 77) a description of “Brodie’…
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
#5182.1
Practical observations on fever, dysentery and liver complaints as they occur amongst European troops in India. With introductory remarks on the disadvantages of selecting boys for Indian military service.
Ballingall distinguished between amoebic and bacillary dysentery. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
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 –1819
#2941
Surgical essays. 2 vols.
Cooper, the pupil and great interpreter of Hunter, was the most popular surgeon in London during the Regency. In 1802 he gained the Copley Medal of the Royal Society. Travers was surgeon to St. Thomas’s Hospital, and …
1818
#5842.1
Traité des maladies des yeux. 3 vols. and atlas.
Includes the first description of glaucoma in which heightened intraocular pressure is recognized, credit for which goes to the author’s father, Pierre Demours (1702-95), whose portrait appears in the atlas in recogni…
1818
#6167
An analysis of the subject of extrauterine foetation and of the retroversion of the gravid uterus.
Expansion of No. 6166. First book on the subject.
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
#7319
Travels from Vienna through Lower Hungary; with remarks on the state of Vienna during the congress in the year 1814.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1818
#7369
Narrative of a journey in the interior of China, and of a voyage to and from that country, in the years 1816 and 1817; containing an account of the most interesting transactions of Lord Amherst's embassy to the court of Pekin and observations on the countries which it visited.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1818
#9508
Secours à donner aux personnes empoisonnées ou asphyxiées, suivis des moyens propres à reconnaître les poisons et les vins frelatés et à distinguer la mort réelle de la mort apparente.
Translated into English by B. H. Black and published in 1819 as Directions for the treatment of persons who have taken poison, and those in a state of apparent death: Together with the means of detecting poisons and a…
1818
#9692
Frankenstein; or, the modern prometheus. 3 vols.
The full digitized text of the 1818 is available from the Internet Archive at this link.
1818
#10069
Oeuvres complètes de Bordeu, précédés d'une notice sur sa vie et sur ses ouvrages, par M. le Chevalier Richerand. 2 vols.
1818
#10268
Codex medicamentarius sive pharmacopoea gallica jussu regis optimi et ex mandato summi rerum internarum regni administri, editus a Facultate Medica Parisiensi anno 1818.
The first French national pharmacopeia. The French pharmacopeia became the model for later national attempts to publish national pharmacopeias. Notably the first U.S. pharmacopeia was issued in 1820. After a legal not…
1818
#10614
Catalogue of the museum of John Heaviside, Esq.: Comprising human anatomy, natural and morbid, comparative anatomy, and natural history.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
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…
1819
#2162.1
Medical topography of Upper Canada.
The only book on the War of 1812 by a British or Canadian surgeon, and the first medical book on the Province of Ontario, Canada. This and the work of Mann (No. 2161.1) are the only books on medicine in the War of 181…
1819 –1826
#1358
Vom Baue und Leben des Gehirns. 3 vols.
Includes description of “Burdach’s column”, the posterior column of the spinal cord. This work is also “an unrivalled source of historical information on macroscopical neuroanatomy” (Meyer).
1819
#1492
Beiträge zur Kenntniss des Sehens in subjectiver Hinsicht.
Purkynĕ’s graduation dissertation on the subjective visual phenomena earned for him the appreciation of Goethe and the chair of physiology at Breslau. Reprinted in his Opera omnia, vol. 1, pp. 1-56,1918. There were tw…
1819
#2673
De l’auscultation médiate, ou traité du diagnostic des maladies des poumons et du coeur. 2 vols.
This book revolutionized the study of diseases of the chest. Auscultation in the instrumental sense dates from Laennec’s invention of the stethoscope (at first merely a roll of stiff paper) with a view to amplifying t…
1819
#4288
A history of the high operation for the stone, by incision above the pubis; with observations on the advantages attending it; and an account of the various methods of lithotomy, from the earliest periods to the present time.
Carpue popularized suprapubic lithotomy, a procedure not often previously carried out.
1819
#10065
Reports on the diseases of London, and the state of the weather, from 1804-1816; including practical remarks on the causes and treatment of the former; and preceded by a historical view of the state of health and disease in the metropolis in past times.
1819
#10066
Doctrine médicale de l'École de Montpellier, et comparaison de ses principes avec ceux des autres écoles d'Europe.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1819
#11240
Lectures on physiology, zoology and the natural history of man.
This work set forth Lawrence's then radical and remarkably advanced ideas concerning evolution and heredity. Arguing that theology and metaphysics had no place in science, Lawrence relied instead on empirical evidence…
1819
#11801
Bdellomètre du docteur Sarlandière.
Privately printed pamphlet describing Sarlandière's "artificial leech," a mechanical bleeding device designed to replace leeches when they were not available. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1819
#12115
Entozoorum synopsis cui accedunt mantissa duplex et indices locupletissimi.
In this work Rudolphi detailed the life cycle of nematode parasites of mankind, such as the parasitic roundworm Ascaris lumbricoides. Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.
1819
#13610
Traité historique et pratique du scorbut, chez l'homme et les animaux, dans lequel se trouvent des observations intéressantes sur le traitement de quelques maladies, comme de la vénérienne, de la scrophuleuse, etc., et qui est suivi de plusieurs considérations sur les qualités, les devoirs et les prérogative du vrai médecin, et sur ses relations avec ses collégues et les différents membres de la société.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1820 –1823
#4519.2
A treatise on nervous diseases.
“The earliest separate work on clinical neurology” (McHenry). Includes the Croonian lecture (1819) on apoplexy, and sections on palsy and epilepsy. The work includes the first history of neurological thought.
1820
#1556
De aure et auditu hominis et animalium.
1820
#1604.2
A treatise on the adulterations of food and culinary poisons: Exhibiting the fraudulent sophistications of bread, beer, wine, spirituous liquors, tea, coffee, cream, confectionery, vinegar, mustard, pepper, cheese, olive oil, pickles and other articles employed in domestic economy; and methods of detecting them.
One of the earliest exposures of food adulteration, written by a German chemist who spent most of his career in England. This sensational popular scientific work exposed established scandalous practices within the foo…
1820
#2030
Histoire abrégée des drogues simples. 2 vols.
1820
#2073
Pharmacologia; or the history of medicinal substances, with a view to establish the art of prescribing. 3rd ed.
First description of cancer caused by arsenic (p. 133).
1820
#3679.5
Traité de la partie mécanique de l’art du chirugien-dentiste. 2 vols.
The first scientifically written textbook of dental prosthetics. Delabarre's innovations included clasp retentions, the impression tray, and the palatal obturator. Digital facsimile from gallica.BnF.fr at this link.
1820
#4445
A treatise on gun-shot wounds. 2nd. ed.
Successful amputation at the hip-joint, after the battle of Waterloo, 7 July, 1815.
1820
#5740
Dissertatio chirurgo-medica inauguralis de velosynthesi.
Stephenson, a medical student from Montreal, was the first to be operated upon by Roux (No. 5739.1) for the repair of cleft of the soft palate. He described the operation in his graduation thesis. Stephenson later fou…
1820 –1821
#5588
Illustrations of the great operations of surgery, trepan, hernia, amputation, aneurism, and lithotomy.
One of the most dramatically and beautifully illustrated works in the entire literature of surgery. Hand-colored copies show more blood than is usual for surgical treatises of this period. From publication in fascicul…
1820
#5843
A synopsis of the diseases of the eye.
The earliest systematic treatise in English on diseases of the eye. The book became the authority in Europe and America. Travers, a pupil of Sir Astley Cooper, became surgeon to St. Thomas’s Hospital.