Europe
6,838 entries published in Europe.
1844
#10132
Psychopathia sexualis.
The first medical text exclusively devoted to sexuality, though Kaan's views reflected religious, and other prejudices of the time. Digital facsimile of the 1844 edition from staatsbibliothek-berlin.de at this link. T…
1844
#10749
Die Krankheit des Gehirn’s und Rückenmark’s bei Kindern, durch Krankheitsfälle aus dem ersten Kinderspitale erläutert.
The first book on child neurology. Unusual for a medical book of this type, it includes a lithographed frontispiece, a lithographed title page, and four hand-colored plates.
1844
#11148
Die männlichen und weiblichen Wollust-Organe des Menschen und einiger Säugetiere.
Kobelt provided the first comprehensive and accurate description of the function of the clitoris.Digital facsimile from digi.ub.uni-heidelberg at this link.
1844
#11521
Recherches sur la composition du sang dans l’état de santé et dans l’état de maladie.
Becquerel and Rodier analyzed the blood components present in various diseases including typhoid fever, tuberculosis, Bright’s disease, anemia, heart disease and syphilis, as well as in pregnancy and childbirth. Their…
1844
#11526
Descriptiones animalium quae in itinere ad Maris Australis Terras per annos 1772, 1773 et 1774 suscepto
Forster was the naturalist on James Cook's second Pacific voyage, during which he was accompanied by his son Georg. His Descriptiones animalium was completed within a month of returning to England with Cook, but remai…
1844
#11646
A new view of insanity: The duality of the mind proved by the structure, functions and diseases of the brain and by the phenomena of mental derangement and shown to be essential to moral responsibility. With an appendix: 1. On the influence of religion on insanity. 2. Conjectures on the nature of the mental operations. 3. On the management of lunatic asylums.
"From the seventeenth century there were shifts in some of the basic assumptions about how the brain and mind functioned, and there are some useful markers along the way to an era of more systematic studies. Descartes…
1844
#11666
Voyage scientifique à Naples avec M. Magendie en 1843.
Digital facsimile from wellcomecollection.org at this link.
1844
#12136
Life in the sickroom: Essays by an invalid.
"Life in the Sickroom is one of many first-hand accounts of the experience of being ill written by an invalid. Martineau was ill for six years, but she found taking on the identity of an invalid a reprieve from the st…
1844
#12695
On superstitions connected with the history and practice of medicine and surgery.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1844
#13608
Considérations médico-légales sur l'avortement suivies de quelques réflexions sur la liberté de l'enseignement médical à propos d'un procès en cour d'assises, mémoire adressé a l'Académie Royale de Médecine de Paris.
Digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this link.
1844
#13847
Musée d'anatomie pathologique. Bibliothèque de médecine et de chirurgie pratiques représentant en relief les altérations morbides du corps human, nouve procédé fondé sur les avantages d'une matière inaltérable et d'une peinture indélébile.
The author described himself as "Préparateur des pièces artificielles d'anatomie pathologique, a la Faculté de Médecine de Paris." Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1845
#543.1
Physiologie pathologique. 2 vols. & atlas.
One of the earliest atlases of pathological histology. Lebert’s work played an important role in introducing the cellular idea of pathology, laying the groundwork for Virchow’s theories.
1845
#2077.2
Du hachische et de l’aliénation mentale: Études psychologiques.
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Moreau's experments may have been the first medical experiments with a psychotropic agent in the treatment of mental illness. English translation by G. J. Barnett as Hashish and mental illness (New York: Raven Press, …
1845
#1502
Die Farbenerscheinungen im Grunde des menschlichen Auges.
An important description of colour phenomena in the fundus oculi. This paper won for Kussmaul the Karl Friedrich Medal of the University of Heidelberg.
1845
#1503
Beitrag zur physiologischen Optik.
1845
#2421
Geschichte der Lustseuche. Erster Theil. Die Lustseuche im Alterthume.
French translation, 1847; English translation as The plague of lust, being a history of venereal disease in classical antiquity, and including: Detailed investigations into the cult of Venus, and phallic worship, brot…
1845
#2294.1
Anatomical and pathological observations.
John Goodsir’s paper on “Centres of nutrition” anticipates to a certain extent the cell doctrine afterwards developed by Virchow (see No. 2299). Virchow dedicated the first edition of his Cellularpathologie to Goodsir…
1845
#3619
On diseases of the liver.
Budd was Professor of Medicine at King’s College, London. Section III of the above book includes a description of that form of cirrhosis to which the name “Budd’s disease” has been applied. In the second edition, 1852…
1845
#4325
A treatise on corns, bunions, the diseases of nails, and the general management of the feet.
Durlacher, surgeon chiropodist to Queen Victoria, gave the first description of anterior metatarsalgia (p. 52), to which the name “Morton’s metatarsalgia” has been given (see No. 4341). Digital facsimile from the Inte…
1845
#4929.1
Lehrbuch der ärztlichen Seelenkunde.
Feuchtersleben introduced the terms psychosis, psychiatrics, and psychopathology. The book includes a short history of psychiatry. English translation, Sydenham Society, 1847.
1845
#4930
Die Pathologie und Therapie der psychischen Krankheiten.
Griesinger put an end to the moralistic theory of insanity as advanced by Heinroth. He was the first in Germany to abandon violence in the treatment of the insane; his book remained an authority on the subject for 30 …
1845
#5746.4
Die plastische Chirurgie.
Fritze and Reich studied under Dieffenbach. This is the first extensively illustrated general treatise on plastic surgery published in Europe. Some copies have the plates hand-colored.
1845 –1848
#5598.1
Die operative Chirurgie. 2 vols.
Dieffenbach’s most comprehensive work, covering in addition to reconstructive procedures, virtually all other types of procedures including amputations, paracentesis, laparotomy, hysterectomy, dental extractions, etc.
1845
#6036
A practical treatise on inflammation, ulceration, and induration of the neck of the uterus.
Bennet was the first to differentiate between benign and malignant uterine tumors.
1845
#6517
Kinderfahrten, eine historisch-pathologische Skizze.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1845 –1848
#6561
Storia della medicina italiana. 5 vols.
Reprinted Bologna, 1966.
1845
#6384
Lehrbuch der Geschichte der Medicin und der Volkskrankheiten.
As an historian, Haeser was eclipsed only by his fellow-countryman Sudhoff. A third edition, in three volumes, appeared in 1875-82 and was reprinted, Hildesheim, G.Olms, 1971.
1845
#7169
Commentary on the Hindu system of medicine.
Wise was a physician and surgeon in the Bengal Medical Service. Digital facsimile from The Medical Heritage Library, Internet Archive, at this link.
1845
#7330
Nuove ricerche microscopiche sulla tessiture intima della retina nell’ uomo, nei vertebrati, nei cefalapodi, e negli insetti precedute da alcune riflessioni sugli elementi morfologici globulari del sisteme nervoso.
Pacini was the first to provide an accurate description of all the layers of the retina. Digital facsimile of the separate (offprint) edition from the Internet Archive at this link.
1845 –1849
#7694
Dr. Heinrich Berghaus’ Physikalischer Atlas: oder, Sammlung von Karten, auf denen die hauptsächlichsten Erscheinungen der anorganischen und organischen Natur nach ihrer geographischen Verbreitung und Vertheilung bildlich dargestellt sind. 2 vols.
Berghaus created a new genre of thematic atlases. He issued this work gradually in eighteen installments from 1837 to1848. The first edition of the complete atlas consists of ninety maps in two vols., dated 1845 and 1…
1845 –1862
#8223
Kosmos. Entwurf einer physischen Weltbeschreibung. 5 vols. and atlas.
This work includes founding material in geography, plant geography, orography, climatology and meterology, among other sciences, and citations to 9,000 sources. The atlas was issued without Humboldt's participation, a…
1845
#9546
Necrose der Kieferknochen, in Folge der Einwikrung von Phosphor-Dämpfen. Ein Beitrag zur Ätiologie der Knochen-Krankheiten.
The production of matches with white phosphorus in German-speaking countries started in 1833. Between 1839 and 1845 Lorinser saw nine cases of what he called "phosphorimus chronicus" in workers with white phosphorus, …
1845
#10349
Déontologie médicale ou des devoirs et des droits des médecins dans l'état actuel de la civilisation.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1845
#10459
Des hallucinations, ou histoire raisonnée des apparitions, des visions, des songes, de l'extase, du magnétisme et du somnambulisme.
This study underwent at least three editions in French and also appeared in several English translations, the first of which appears to have been translated anonymously and publlished in Philadelphia in 1853 from the …
1845
#10479
Entstehung, Berlauf und Behandlung der Krankheiten der Künstler und Gewerbetreibenden. Nach dem neuesten Standpunkte der Medizin, Chemie, Mechanik und Technologie, so wie nach den Mittheilungen berühmter Gewertsärzte des In-und Auslandes und eigenen Forschungen bearbeitet.
See Karbe, "The significance of A.C.L. Halfort's work on The development, course and treatment of diseases in artists and tradesmen (Berlin 1845)," Z. Gesamte Hyg. 21 (1975) 74-8. Digital facsimile from Google Books a…
1845
#11960
Hortus cantabrigiensis, or, An accented catalogue of indigenous and exotic plants, cultivated in the Cambridge Botanical Garden. By the late James Donn, curator....With the additions and improvements of the successive editors, F. Pursh, J. Lindley, G. Sinclair. The thirteenth century, now further enlarged improved, and brought down to the present time by P. N. Don.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1845
#13424
Catalogue des livres de sciences particulièrement de zoologie, d'anatomie comparée et d'anatomie philosophique composant la bibliothèque de feu M. Etienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire,...: dont la vente se fera le jeudi 20 novembre 1845, et jours suivants, à midi précis, au Jardin des Plantes, rue Cuvier, n° 33.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1845
#13543
Recherches historiques, zoologiques, anatomiques et paléontologiques sur la girafe, (Camelopardalis giraffa, Gmelin).
First comprehensive (124pp., 17 plates) anatomical study of the giraffe, conducted during a 20 day dissection of the huge animal in Toulouse. The authors entrusted the dissection to the Toulouse taxidermist, H. Traver…
1845
#13862
Descriptive and illustrated catalogue of the fossil organic remains of mammalia and aves contained in the museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
This is the catalogue of John Hunter's collection, with a very few additions from other sources. Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.
1846 –1849
#544
The microscopic anatomy of the human body, in health and disease.
First English textbook on microscopical anatomy. His description of the concentric corpuscles of the thymus (p. 9) led to the term “Hassall’s corpuscles”.
1846 –1848
#331
Lehrbuch der vergleichenden Anatomie. 2 vols.
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Vol. 2 was published in 1846; Vol. 1 in 1848. Digital facsimiles of both vols. from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link. Siebold was the author of Vol. 1, on invertebrates; he introduced the taxa Arthropoda and…
1846
#4527
Klinische Ergebnisse.
Includes (p. 75) a classic description of facial hemiatrophy – “Romberg’s disease”.
1846
#413
Lehrbuch der Anatomie des Menschen.
Hyrtl’s Lehrbuch passed through 22 editions and was translated into the principal modern languages.
1846
#79
The works. Edited with an introduction and notes by George Gulliver.
Hewson was a pupil of the Hunters. In 1769 his memoir on the lymphatics in fishes won for him the Copley Medal of the Royal Society. See also Nos. 863, 1102. The editor of this edition provided a detailed historical i…
1846
#2031
De historia medicamentorum.
1846
#2323
Ueber die Ansteckung und Verbreitung der Scrophelkrankheit bei Menschen durch den Genuss der Kuhmilch.
Klencke showed the possibility of the transmission of tuberculosis to man by cow’s milk. In 1843 he succeeded in inoculating rabbits with tuberculosis.
1846
#2612.1
The nature and treatment of cancer.
The earliest account of the recognition of fragments of malignant tissue. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1846
#2755.1
Lectures on subjects connected with clinical medicine, comprising disease of the heart. Second edition, 2 vols.
Includes (vol. 2, pp. 373-79) a classic description of coronary thrombosis, although not using the term. The patient was Thomas Arnold, the educationist, and the report was signed by Joseph Hodgson and by S. Bucknill,…
1846
#3368.1
Erfahrungen über die Krankheiten des Gehöres und ihre Heilung.
Schmalz demonstrated the clinical significance of Weber’s hearing test (see No. 3368). He was a student of Weber.
1846
#2902
Lectures illustrative of various subjects in pathology and surgery.
Page 361 contains the first description of intermittent claudication in man. This was first reported (in the horse) by “Boullay” [?J. Bouley] in Arch. gén. Méd.,1831, 27, 425. P. 186: Brodie's test for insufficiency o…