Europe
6,838 entries published in Europe.
1839 –1840
#1856
The elements of materia medica, comprehending the natural history, preparation, properties, composition, effects and uses of medicines. 2 vols.
The first great English work on the subject, widely published and used in England and America. Pereira was Professor of Materia Medica at the School of Pharmacy set up by the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain. D…
1839
#1699
Vital statistics. IN: A statistical account of the British Empire: exhibiting its extent, physical capacities, population, industries, and civil and religious institutions by J[ohn] R[amsey] McCulloch, 2nd ed., 2, 52-90.
Ranks with Graunt’s Observations as an original contribution to medical statistics. Significantly expanded from the first edition (1837). Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1839
#2098
Traité des maladies de plomb ou saturnines. 2 vols.
Classical description of the diseases found among lead workers. Reporting on 1200 cases of lead poisoning, Tanquerel’s studies were so complete that later studies added little to knowledge of the symptoms and signs of…
1839
#2676
Abhandlung über Perkussion und Auskultation.
Skoda classified the various sounds obtained on percussion according to their musical pitch and tone. “Skoda’s resonance” is an important diagnostic sign in pneumonia and pericardial effusion. Following Skoda’s work, …
1839 –1861
#13
Oeuvres complètes d’Hippocrate. Traduction nouvelle avec le texte grec en regard, collationné sur les manuscrits et toutes les éditions: Accompagnée d'une introduction de commentaires médicaux, de variantes et de notes philologiques; suivie d'une table générale des matières par É[mile] Littré. 10 vols.
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The above bilingual edition was the result of 22 years of continuous labor, remains the most significant edition overall. For a detailed bibliography of modern editions and translations see Paul Potter, Short handbook…
1839
#2751
Traité pratique des maladies du coeur.
1839
#3442
Mémoire sur la possibilité d’établir un anus artificiel dans la région lombaire sans pénétrer dans le péritoine.
In 1839 Amussat performed the first lumbar colostomy for obstruction of the colon (“Amussat’s operation”). His work established lumbar colostomy as the method of choice. Translated in Dis. Colon. Rect., 1983, 26, 483-…
1839
#4322
Leçons orales de clinique chirurgicale. 2me. éd. Tom. 3.
Pp. 455-61: Dupuytren was the first to treat wry neck by subcutaneous section of the sternomastoid muscle. This he did on 16 Jan, 1822. The operation was first reported in C. Averill: Short treatise on operative surge…
1839
#4322.1
On the nature of club-foot and analogous distortions.
Little suffered from club-foot himself. This is the greatest English classic on the subject. See No. 4329.
1839 –1841
#4208
Traité des maladies des reins. 3 vols, and atlas.
Rayer insisted on the exhaustive analysis of the urine as an aid to the diagnosis of lesions. He classified “albuminus nephritis” into six distinct forms and distinguished these from other forms of nephritis associate…
1839
#6257
Das schräg verengte Becken nebst einem Anhange über die wichtigsten Fehler des weiblichen Beckens überhaupt.
First description of the obliquely contracted pelvis, or “Naegele pelvis”. Because of its rarity and the difficulty of recognizing it clinically in living subjects, the obliquely contracted pelvis, with its most often…
1839
#3443
Opération d’anus artificiel, par la méthode de Littre, sur un homme adulte qui a survécu vingt-huit jours. In: Amussat, J. Z., Mémoire sur la possibilité d’établir un anus artificiel
Pillore performed caecostomy in 1776, the patient surviving 28 days. Amussat went to considerable trouble to find the document describing the operation. See No. 3442.
1839
#7438
Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H. M. S. Beagle ....
Darwin’s first published book, now universally known as The Voyage of the Beagle, is the most often read and the most often printed of all his works, after On the origin of species. Its relation to the background of D…
c. 1839
#10003
Deadly adulteration and slow poisoning unmasked; or, Disease and death in the pot and the bottle; in which the blood-empoisoning and life-destroying adulterations of wines, spirits, beer, bread, flour, tea, sugar, spices, cheese-mongery, pastry, confectionary medicines, &c. &c. &c. are laid open to the public, with tests or methods for the ascertaining and detecting the fraudulent and deleterious adulterations and the good and bad qualities of those articles: with an exposé of medical empiricism and imposture, quacks and quackery, regular and irregular, legitimate and illegitimate: and the frauds and mal-practices of the pawn-brokers and madhouse keepers. New edition
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1839
#10589
Physiognomice pathologica – Krankenphysiognomik. Text in quarto; atlas in folio with 72 hand-colored lithographs.
A second edition in octavo format with 80 small plates was published in 1842. Baumgärtner, a pupil of Friedrich Tiedemann and Leopold Gmelin at Heidelberg, taught that it was possible to make a correct diagnosis with …
1839
#11546
Recherches sur l'introduction accidentelle de l'air dans les veines, et particulièrement sur cette question: L'air en s'Introduisant spontanément par une veine blessée pendant une opération chirurgicale, peut-il causer subitement la mort?
Amussat was one of the first to draw attention to the risks of the introduction of venous air embolism in surgery. Before the introduction of anesthesia surgery was particularly rapid by necessity, and veins were ofte…
1839
#11763
The zoology of Captain Beechey's voyage; compiled from the collections and notes made by Captain Beechey, the officers and naturalist of the expedition, during a voyage to the Pacific and Behring's Straits performed in His Majesty's Ship Blossom, under the command of Captain F. W. Beechey...in the years 1825, 26, 27, and 28. By J. Richardson, N.A. Vigors, G.T. Lay, E.T. Bennett, Richard Owen, John E. Gray, Rev. W. Buckland, and G. B. Sowerby. Illustrated with upwards of fifty finely coloured plates by Sowerby.
Includes 44 hand-colored plates engraved by J.C. Zeiter and Thomas Landseer after Edward Lear, J. D. C. Sowerby, and J. C. Zeitter, four hand-colored engraved maps and plans (one folding) after E. Belcher. Digital fac…
1839
#12127
First annual report of the Registrar-General on births, deaths, and marriages in England.
In 1836 the Births and Deaths Registration Act was passed in England with provisions for inquiry into causes of death in the population, and registration began during the following year through the General Registratio…
1839
#13013
A synopsis of the birds of North America.
This was Audubon's extensively annotated systematic index, or a kind of scientific outline, to the double elephant folio, Birds of America. With 359 pages it amounted to a separate work, and could be studied without a…
1839 –1855
#13838
Zbiór wiadomości do historyi sztuki lekarskiéj w Polsce od czasów najdawniejszych, aź do najnowszych. 4 vols.
Gasiorowski is considered the father of medical history in Poland. Digital facsimile from polona.pl at this link.
1840
#4494
Traité clinique du rhumatisme articulaire.
Extension of Bouillaud’s work on the coincidence of heart disease and acute rheumatism. He regarded fever as the effect of endocarditis (see also No. 2749).
1840
#328
Ueber die Lymphherzen der Schildkröten.
1840 –1845
#329
Odontography, or, a treatise on the comparative anatomy of the teeth. 2 vols.
Owen’s first large-scale original work covered the whole range of the toothed vertebrates, living and fossil, and discussed in detail the micrsocopic structure of the teeth and the physiology of dentition. Includes 16…
1840
#4664
Beobachtungen über Lähmungszustände der untem Extremitäten und deren Behandlung.
First description of acute anterior poliomyelitis, which Heine separated from other forms of paralysis; he described the deformities arising from the disease. He also called attention to congenital spastic paraplegia,…
1840 –1841
#59
Oeuvres complètes d’Ambroise Paré revues et collationnées sur toutes les éditions, avec les variantes; ornées de 217 planches et du portrait de l'auteur; accompagnées de notes historiques et critiques et précédées d'une introduction sur l'origine et les progrès de la chirurgie en occident du sixième au seizième siècle, et sur la vie et les ouvrages d'Ambroise Paré. Par J.-F. Malgaigne. 3 vols.
The best edition of Paré’s works, edited by Malgaigne. An English translation of Pare's Oeuvres by Thomas Johnson appeared as early as 1634. See also No. 5565. Janet Doe published A bibliography of the works of Ambroi…
1840
#1263
Nuovi organi scoperti nel corpo humano.
“Pacini’s corpuscles”, end organs of sensory nerves, earlier described by Vater in 1717.
1840
#1700
Principes généraux de statistique médicale.
In his work on medical statistics Gavarret improved and systematized the method of Louis and gave special consideration to therapeutic problems.
1840
#2533
Von den Miasmen und Contagien. In his Pathologische Untersuchungen, pp. 1-82.
Bassi’s work on the muscardine disease of silkworms (see No. 2532), with its prophecy of the discovery of microbes as the causal agents of other diseases, inspired Henle to write this famous essay on miasms and contag…
1840
#3223
Essay on the treatment of and cure of pulmonary consumption.
Bodington was one of the first to advocate the sanatorium treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis, with “cold dry air for healing and closing cavities and ulcers of the lungs”. His idea was much criticized and he was disc…
1840
#5769.1
On the anatomy of the breast. 2 vols.
Anatomical sequel to No. 5769, with outstanding illustrations.
1840
#5790
Histoire de la chirurgie en Occident depuis de VIe jusqu’au XVIe siècle, et histoire de la vie et des travaux d’Ambroise Parè.
Billings considered Malgaigne “the greatest surgical historian and critic the world has ever seen”; Leonardo (No. 5812) says that his greatest contribution to surgery was his unique manner of evaluating surgical techn…
1840
#6502
Geschichte der arabischen Aerzte und Naturforscher.
This has traditionally been considered the first major history of Arab medicine. It was written mostly in the form of a chronological series of bio-bibliographies, and should also be considered a pioneering bibliograp…
1840
#6604.94
Némésis médicale illustrée, recueil de satires par François Fabre....contenant trente vignettes dessinées par M. Daumier... 2 vols.
The only medical book illustrated by Honoré Daumier (1808-79), and a great satire in verse on the medical profession. Digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this link.
1840
#6921
Der Chemismus in der thierischen Organisation.
Hünefeld accidentally observed the first protein crystals— those of hemoglobin—in partically dried samples of mammalian blood blood pressed between glass plates. On page 160 Hünefeld noted that he had seen, in some sa…
1840
#6946
Verzeichniss der vom weil. Obermedicinalrath Blumbach nachgelassen Bucher. . . .
Catalogue of the library of Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, prepared for its sale at auction. Books were listed for sale individually, organized by size. Author and title and place published were listed, as were the numb…
1840
#7137
Précis de l'histoire de l'anatomie, comprenant l'examen comparatif des ouvrages des principaux anatomistes anciens et modernes.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1840 –1843
#7437
The zoology of the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, under the command of Captain Fitzroy, R. N., during the years 1832 to 1836. Edited by Charles Darwin. 5 pts in 3 vols.
Part 1: Fossil mammalia by Richard Owen; Part 2: Mammalia by George Waterhouse; Part 3: Birds by John Gould; Part 4: Fish by Leonard Jenyns; Part 5: Reptiles by Thomas Bell. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive…
1840
#7587
Catalogue of anatomical preparations in the Hunterian Museum, University of Glasgow.
"The following Catalogue is, to the best of our knowledge and belief, a true Catalogue of the Anatomical Prepartions left by the late Dr. William Hunter.--G. Fordyce, David Pitcairn, W. Combe." Digital facsimile from …
1840
#9555
Tableau de l'état physique et moral des ouvriers employés dans les manufactures de coton, de laine et de soie, ouvrage entrepris par ordre... de l'Académie des sciences morales et politiques. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this link.
1840
#11832
Anecdota medica graeca e codicibus MSS. expromsit. F. Z. Ermerins.
Extensively annotated critical texts of Theophilus Protospatharius, Leo the Physician, Constantinus Pogonatos (De cibis; On foods). Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1840
#13194
Narrative of a voyage to Madeira, Teneriffe and along the shores of the Mediterranean, including a visit to Algiers, Egypt, Palestine, Tyre, Rhodes, Telmessus, Cyprus and Greece. With observations on the present state and prospects of Egypt and Palestine, and on the climate, natural history, antiquities, etc, of the countries visited. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1840
#13249
The anatomy of suicide.
An effort to demonstrate that most suicides are not criminal but are victims of mental disease. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1840
#13663
De la peste observée en Égypte. Recherches et considérations sur cette maladie.
Includes two hand-colored lithographs depicting costumes of "plague doctors" -- one from the Middle Ages in Marseille, the other from Marseille in 1819; the similarities are striking! Digital facsimile from wellcomeco…
1840
#13871
Narrative of a voyage to Madeira, Teneriffe, and along the shores of the Mediterranean, including a visit to Algiers, Egypt, Palestine, Tyre, Rhodes, Telmessus, Cyprus, and Greece. With observations on the present state and prospects of Egypt and Palestine, and on the climate, natural history, antiquities, etc. of the countries visited. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1841
#543
Allgemeine Anatomie. Lehre von den Mischungs- und Formbestandtheilen des menschlichen Körpers.
Many of the histological discoveries of Henle are described in the above. He classified tissues histologically. In the section on Gefässnerven (pp. 510, 690) Henle demonstrated the presence of smooth muscle in the end…
1841
#4526
Traité des néuralgies ou affections douloureuses des nerfs.
Includes (p. 40 et seq.) description of ”Valleix’s points”, tender points on the course of certain nerves in neuralgia.
1841
#534.6
Monstrorum sexcentorum descriptio anatomica.
Brief but accurate descriptions of 600 human and animal specimens, with 30 outstanding plates.
1841 –1843
#1994
Ueber den Galvanismus als chemisches Heilmittel gegen örtliche Krankheiten.
Crusell began to use electrolysis as a cauterizing agent in 1839. See No. 5604.
1841
#1219
Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Geschlechtsverhältnisse und der Samenflüssigkeit wirbelloser Thiere.
1841
#1220
Ueber das Wesen der sogenannten Saamenthiere.
Demonstration of the cellular origin of spermatozoa.