Europe
6,838 entries published in Europe.
1832
#10393
Code administratif des établissemens dangereux, insalubres ou incommodes.
Trebuchet's work sets out the rules and regulations governing dangerous and unhealthy work environments (particularly those involving steam engines) and public nuisances. Pages 281-301 contain a table of businesses cl…
1832
#10395
The moral and physical condition of the working classes employed in the cotton manufacture in Manchester
"At first engaged in a Rochdale bank, in 1824 he [Kay-Shuttleworth] became a medical student at the University of Edinburgh. Settling in Manchester about 1827, he was instrumental in setting up the Manchester Statisti…
1832
#10457
Relation historique et médicale du choléra-morbus de Pologne, comprenant l'apparition de la maladie, sa march, ses progrès, ses symptômes, son mode de traitement et les moyens préservatifs. Avec une carte.
In his study of the spread of cholera in Poland in 1831 Brière de Boismont used a map to show the progression of the disease from a central point through the country along a red line through principal towns and the da…
1832
#10462
The substance of the official medical reports upon the epidemic, called cholera: Which prevailed among the poor at Dantzick, between the end of May and the first part of September, 1831, as transmitted to their lordships; being an analysis of the said epidemic disease in that city--founded upon actual observation and accurate inquiry: With important and well-authenticated facts relative to the same disease, as it prevailed among the poor in other parts of the North of Europe.
Hamett privately published this report after it was rejected for publication by the British government. He included hospital admission tables in his book and produced perhaps the first map based on hospital reports of…
1832
#11642
Outlines of the geographical distribution of British plants; belonging to the division of vasculares or cotyledones.
“Watson's major botanical endeavour was producing several versions of a work first entitled Outlines of the Geographical Distribution of British Plants (1832); it reached its most extensive form as Cybele Britannica, …
1832
#12197
On the influence of physical agents on life, by W. F. Edwards. Translated from the French by Dr. Hodgkin and Dr. Fisher. To which are added, in the appendix, some observations on electricity by Dr. Edwards, M. Pouillet, and Luke Howard; on absorption, and the uses of the spleen, by Dr. Hodgkin; on the microscopic characters of the animal tissues and fluids, by J. J. Lister and Dr. Hodgkin, and some notes to the work of Dr. Edwards.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1832 –1854
#12745
Encyclographie des sciences médicales. Réimpression générale des ouvrages periodiques sur ces sciences, publies en France.
From 1845 to 1854 this enigmatically titled work was pubished under the title, Nouvelle encyclographie des sciences médicales. Rather than an encyclopedia, it was a series of reprints of books and periodicals to which…
1832
#13354
Illustrations of the family of Psittacidæ, or parrots: The greater part of them species hitherto unfigured, containing forty-two lithographic plates, drawn from life, and on stone.
For this work Lear drew portraits of mostly live specimens directly on stone, creating artistic masterpieces that established his reputation as a natural history painter. Lear issued only 175 copies and ran out of fun…
1832
#13618
Médecine navale ou nouveaux éléments d'hygiène, de pathologie et de thérapeutique médico-chirurgicales, à l'usage des officiers de santé de la marine de l'Etat et du commerce. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link
1832
#14180
Traité theorique et pratique de la ligature des artères.
Manec was head of anatomy at the Facultè de Médecine de Paris and a surgeon at the Salpetrière. He wrote text of his atlas on ligations of arteries in the first person based upon his experience performing the operatio…
1832 –1862
#14348
Atlas der pathologischen Anatomie für praktische Aerzte. 4 parts in 1. With: Erläuterung zu dem Atlasse der pathologischen Anatomie für praktischen Aertze. 4 vols. in 5.
Albers' atlas of pathology, with 257 lithographed plates (93 hand-colored) covers diseases of the brain and spinal cord (Part 1), the throat (Part 2), the thorax (Part 3) and the abdomen (part 4); the five text volume…
1833 –1840
#326
Descriptive and illustrated catalogue of the physiological series of comparative anatomy contained in the Museum [of the Royal College of Surgeons of England]. 5 vols.
I. Organs of motion and digestion. 1833.--II. Absorbent, circulating, respiratory, and urinary systems. 1834.--III. pt. I. Nervous system and organs of sense. pt. II. Connective and tegumentary systems and peculiariti…
1833
#411
Anatomical studies of the bones and muscles, for the use of artists. From drawings by the late John Flaxman, Esq. R.A. Engraved by Henry Landseer. With two additional plates, and explanatory notes, by William Robertson.
Digital facsimile from digitalcollections.nypl.org at this link.
1833
#411.1
The hand: Its mechanism and vital endowments as evincing design.
Classic work on the anatomy, physiology, bio-mechanics, comparative anatomy, and adaptive importance of the hand. Issued as a volume in a series entitled the "Bridgewater Treatises." The first edition has 288pp. An en…
1833 –1834
#203.8
Recherches sur les ossemens fossiles découvertes dans les cavernes de la province de Liège. 2 vols. and atlas.
A physician from Delft, Schmerling found extensive human remains and artifacts associated with the remains of extinct animals in the caverns around Liège. These human remains were distinctively different anatomically …
1833
#3586
A memoir on the advantages and practicability of dividing the stricture in strangulated hernia on the outside of the sac.
Introduction of the principle of dividing a stricture outside the sac in cases of strangulated hernia.
1833
#3366
Erfahrungen über die Erkenntniss und Heilung der langwierigen Schwerhörigkeit.
Kramer’s first and best work. English translation, 1837.
1833
#4290
Lithotripsie. Mémoires sur la lithotripsie par percussion.
Heurteloup designed the best lithotrite of the time. He was one of several claimants to the distinction of having introduced modern lithotrity. See Lancet, 1831-32, 2, 567-70.
1833
#5849
A treatise on the diseases of the eye.
Based on lectures delivered by Lawrence at the London Ophthalmic Infirmary. He was a surgeon to St. Bartholomew’s Hospital; he succeeded Abernethy as lecturer on surgery and did much to advance the surgery of the eye.
1833
#6028
Traité pratique des maladies de l’utérus et de ses annexes. 2 vols. and atlas.
Boivin and Dugès practiced amputation of the cervix for chronic ulceration. On page 648 of vol. 2 is the first recorded case of cancer of the female urethra. English translation, 1834.
1833
#5215
A treatise on the venereal disease and its varieties.
On p. 371 commences the first description of lymphogranuloma venereum, which Wallace called “indolent primary syphilitic bubo”.
1833
#6754.1
Medical bibliography, A and B.
Although of limited scientific value, this extensively annotated work is the most humorous bibliography of medical literature ever published, even if the humor is of a "rarified" nature. Atkinson, surgeon to the Duke …
1833
#6604.93
Essai sur l’iconologie médicale, ou sur les rapports d’utilité qui existent entre l’art du dessin et l’étude de la médecine.
Pioneering study of art and medicine based on collections at Montpellier.
1833
#6855
Systematisches Alphabetisches Repertorium der antipsorischen Arzneien mit Einschluss der antisyphilitic und antipsorischen Arzneien.
Foreward by Hahnemann. Translated into English from the second German edition by C. M. Roger, as A Systematic, Alphabetic Repertory of Homoeopathic Remedies. Part First. Embracing the Antisporic, Antisyphilitic, and A…
1833
#7260
Ueber den Zustand der Heilkunde und über die Volkskrankheiten in der europäischen und asiatischen Türkei. Ein Beitrag zur Kultur- und Sittengeschichte.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1833
#9668
Ueber das Gift der Fische: mit vergleichender Berücksichtigung des Giftes von Muscheln, Käse, Gehirn, Fleisch, Fett und Würsten, so wie der sogenannten mechanischen Gifte.
Discusses all then known posionsous and venomous fishes, including freshwater and marine species, and includes a "thorough review of practically all the early literature on poisonous and venomous fishes, a list of all…
1833 –1866
#10177
The naturalist's library. Edited by Sir William Jardine. 40 vols.
"1833, Natural History of Humming Birds, Part I, (Ornithology Vol. VI) by William Jardine, with memoir of Carl Linnaeus. (online) 1833, Monkeys, (Mammalia Vol. I) by William Jardine, with a memoir of Comte de Buffon (…
1833
#10389
The manufacturing population of England, its moral, social, and physical conditions, and the changes which have arisen from the use of steam machinery; with an examination of infant labour.
Gaskell, a physician, addressed social, political and public health problems that resulted from the Industrial Revolution. Gaskell issued a revised edition of this work in 1836 under a different title: Artisans and Ma…
1833
#11308
A catalogue descriptive chiefly of the morbid preparations contained in the museum of Manchester Theatre of Anatomy and Medicine, Marsden Street. With occasional explanatory remarks.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1833
#13149
Hunterian reminiscences; being the substance of a course of lectures on the principles and practice of surgery, delivered by the late John Hunter, in the year 1785: Taken in short-hand, and afterwards fairly transcribed by the late James Parkinson ... Edited by his son, J.W.K. Parkinson ..., by whom are appended illustrative notes.
Digital facsimile from wellcomecollection.org at this link.
1833
#13664
Compte rendu des travaux de l'École de Médecine d'Abou-Zabel (Égypte), et de l'examen général des élèves pour les 1re, 2e, 3e, 4e, et 5e années da sa fondation 1242-1243 (1827-1828)....Suivi de l'exposé de la conduite et des travaux de l'auteur lui-même en Égypte, depuis 1240 à 1248 (Hégyre) 1825 à 1832, et de diverses pièces relatives à son voyage en France.
"During the French occupation of Egypt, Napoleon designated Kasr al-Aini a hospital for his troops in 1799, and then afterwards proposed the opening of a school to teach local Egyptian students the medicine required t…
1834
#1993
Gymnastikens allmänna grunder.
The foundation of modern gymnastics and therapeutic massage. Ling established the Swedish school of physiotherapy with his institute for training gymnastics teachers in Stockholm in 1813. He developed the ancient Gree…
1834 –1840
#601
Handbuch der Physiologie des Menschen.
The first modern, systematic textbook on physiology, presenting an authoritative and discerning survey of each aspect of the science. This is also one of the best reviews of physiological literature during the first p…
1834
#2163
Traité théorique et pratique des blessures par armes de guerre. 2 vols.
1834
#481
De necessitate aëris atmosphaerici ad evolutionem pulli in ovo incubito. Dissertatio inauguralis physiologica....
Proof that air is necessary in the development of the embryo. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1834
#1457
De pulsu, resorptione, auditu et tactu. Annotationes anatomicae et physiologicae.
Includes Weber’s law on the relationship between stimulus and sensation. English translation of De tactu, New York Academic Press, 1978. Weber's hearing test is on p.41.
1834
#1497
The anatomy of the human eye.
First English work on ocular anatomy.
1834
#2289
Principles and illustrations of morbid anatomy.
Hope left a fine pathological atlas with brilliantly hand-coloured lithographs from his own drawings. While the book does not equal the atlases of Cruveilhier and Carswell, it is important as being a great stimulus to…
1834
#2748.2
Le sphygmomètre; instrument qui traduit à l’oeil toute l’action des artères.
Hérisson invented an instrument for recording blood pressure. Translated into English as The sphygmometer, an instrument which renders the action of the arteries apparent to the eye. A memoir... with an improvement of…
1834
#4319
Aufsätze und Abhandlungen aus dem Gebiete der Medizin, Chirurgie und Staatsarzneikunde. 1, 196.
First description of “Rust’s disease” – tuberculous spondylitis of the cervical vertebrae.
1834
#4167
On the anatomy and diseases of the neck of the bladder, and of the urethra.
Guthrie was the first to describe non-prostatic obstruction at the neck of the bladder. On p. 252 of the above work is an account of Guthrie’s prostatic catheter for use in trans-urethral prostatectomy.
1834
#5591
Manuel de médecine opératoire.
Malgaigne was a brilliant lecturer, notable also as a historian of medieval surgery. His Manuel was an important work on operative surgery, and was translated into English, German, Italian, and Arabic.
1834
#7480
Rapport sur la marche et les effets du choléra-morbus dans Paris et les communes rurales du département de la Seine par la commission nommée, avec l'approbation de M. le ministre du commerce et des travaux publics, par MM. les préfets de la Seine et de police; année 1832.
This work contained one of the earliest applications of spatial analysis in epidemiology—an early thematic map by geographer and cartographer Charles Picquet, in which the 48 districts of Paris were represented by gra…
1834
#8420
Apollonii, Citiensis, Stephani, Palladii, Theophili, Meletii, Damascii, Ioannis, aliorum: Scholia in Hippocratem et Galenum e codicibus Mss. Vindobonens. Monacens. Florentin. Mediolanens. Escorialens, etc. Primum Graece edidit Fridericus Reinholdus Dietz.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1834
#8662
Hortus medicus, or figures and descriptions of the more important plants used in medicine, or possessed of poisonous qualities; with their medical properties, chemical analysis, &c. &c
This materia medica, with fine hand-colored plates, also includes and illustrates poisonous plants with detailed discussion of their properties. It includes recommended dosages for pharmaceutical preparations. Digital…
1834
#10024
The anatomy and surgery of inguinal and femoral hernia.
Published in the same large folio format as Tuson's Myology (1828), this was the largest work on hernia ever published with multiple hand-colored. lift-up flats on three plates.
1834
#10259
The natural history of the order Cetacea, and the oceanic inhabitants of the Arctic regions.
Characterizing himself "Surgeon-Accoucheur" on the title page, Dewhurst lectured in 1827-8 on anatomy and physiology, and served as a ship's surgeon, making voyage to Greenland and its surrounding seas in 1824. During…
1834 –1840
#10380
Descriptive catalogue of the preparations in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. Vol. I. (Anatomy). Vol. 2. (Pathology).
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1834
#10394
Jurisprudence de la médecine, de la chirurgie, et de la pharmacie en France, comprenant la médecine légale, la police médicale, la responsabilitié des médecins, chirurgiens, pharmaciens, etc, l'exposé et la discussion des lois, ordonnances, réglemens et instructions concernant l'art de guérir, appuyé des jugemens des cours et des tribunaux.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1834
#11151
Biographie des sages-femmes célèbres, anciennes, modernes et contemporaines. Avec 20 portraits.
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