Europe
6,838 entries published in Europe.
1855
#13864
Descriptive catalogue of the fossil organic remains of plants contained in the museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1856
#617
Die medizinische Physik.
1856
#1461
Grundzüge der Physiologie und Systematik der Sprachlaute für Linguisten und Taubstummenlehrer.
1856
#1862.1
Lehrbuch der Arzneimittellehre.
Buchheim created the first pharmacological institute in the world at the University of Dorpat.
1856 –1865
#203
Crania Britannica. Delineations and descriptions of the skulls of the aboriginal and early inhabitants of the British Islands: With notices of their other remains. 6 "Decades" in 2 vols.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1856
#3064
Ueber farblose Blutkörperchen und Leukämie. In his Gesammelte Abhandlungen zur wissenschaftlichen Medicin, pp. 147-218.
Includes his paper on “weisses Blut” (see No. 3062) and three later papers on leukemia. See No. 3006.
1856 –1876
#3992
Atlas der Hautkrankheiten. 10 parts.
Hebra's work includes 104 spectacular folio-sized chromolithographed plates reproducing paintings by Anton Elfinger and Carl Heitzmann.
1856
#3992.1
Leçons sur les maladies de la peau.
Cazenave was among the first to classify skin diseases on an anatomical basis. He founded the first journal devoted entirely to dermatology (Annales des maladies de la peau et de la syphilis). This large folio atlas i…
1856
#3006
Thrombose und Embolie. Gefässentzündung und septische Infektion. In his Gesammelte Abhandlungen zur wissenschaftlichen Medicin.
Reprints of papers published between 1846 and 1853. Virchow gave the first clear description of thrombosis and embolism (see especially Beitr. exp. Path.,1846, 2,227-380). This work was translated into English by A. C…
1856
#4933
The treatment of the insane without mechanical restraints.
As early as 1839, Conolly treated the insane without any form of restraint at Hanwell Asylum, now St. Bernard’s Hospital. Facsimile reprint with introduction by R. Hunter and I. Macalpine, London, Dawsons, 1973. Digit…
1856
#22
Тα ∑ωζομενα. The extant works of Aretaeus, the Cappadocian. Edited and translated by Francis Adams.
Aretaeus left many fine descriptions of disease; in fact Garrison ranks him second only to Hippocrates in this respect. In the printed editions of this bibliography, before the present online version, the Adams editio…
1856
#7809
Eastern hospitals and English nurses; the narrative of twelve months' experience in the hospitals of Koulali and Scutari by a lady volunteer. 2 vols.
Taylor accompanied Florence Nightingale to Scutari, and worked as nurse in the military hospitals. She provided one of the first eye-witness acounts of military hospitals at Scutari and Koulali, and wrote about the ma…
1856
#8215
Die geographischen Verhältnisse der Krankheiten oder Grundzüge der Noso-Geographie. Vol. 1: Allgemeine Gesetze und Lehren der Noso-Geographie; Vol. 2: Thesaurus Noso-Geographicus.
Digital facsimile from Heinrich Heine Universität Düsseldorf at this link.
1856
#9603
Nicandrea. Theriaca et Alexipharmaca recensuit et emendavit fragmenta collegit, commentationes addidit Otto Schneider. Accedunt scholia in Theriaca excensione Henrici Keil.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1856
#9667
Traité d'hygiène navale, ou de l'influence des conditions physiques et morales dans lesquelles l'homme de mer est appelé à vivre et des moyens de conserver sa santé.
One of the first naval manuals to include discussions of zootoxicology. Digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this link. Much expanded second edition (1877); digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this link.
1856
#10112
Clinical researches on disease in India. 2 vols.
One of the most comprehensive studies of disease in India during the mid-19th century; includes 556 case reports. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link
1856
#10458
Du suicide et de la folie suicide, considérés dans leur rapports avec la statistique, la médecine et la philosophie.
Pioneering monograph on this subject. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1856
#11072
De l'homicide et de l'anthropophagie.
One of the earliest works on cannibalism, and probably the first work to combine a discussion of homicide and cannibalism from the medical viewpoint. The author, who was very widely read on these subjects, searched fo…
1856
#11146
Manuel d'anatomie pathologique générale et appliquée: Contenant la description et le catalogue du Musée Dupuytren.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1856 –1879
#12026
Catalogue of the library of the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society of London [by Benjamin Robert Wheatley]. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile of Vol. 1 from Google Books at this link, of Vol. 2 at this link.
1856
#13687
Étude médico-légale sur l’avortement, suivie d’observations et de recherches pour servir à l’histoire médico-légale des grossesses fausses et simulées.
Perhaps the most widely revised and reprinted of all of Tardieu's works. 4th revised & enlarged edition, 1881; 7th revised and enlarged edition, 1904; new revised edition, 1907, 1925, 1939. Digital facsimile of the 4t…
1856
#13863
Descriptive catalogue of the fossil organic remains of invertebrata contained in the museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.
1857
#4496
A treatise on rheumatic gout, or chronic rheumatic arthritis, of all the joints.
An excellent description of chronic rheumatic arthritis. Adams also published Illustrations of the effects of rheumatic gout, London, 1857.
1857 –1863
#1001
Sur une fonction peu connue du pancréas. La digestion des aliments azotés. 10 pts.
Corvisart showed that pancreatic proteolysis takes place at body temperature, in acid, alkaline, or neutral media.
1857
#1996
Die Electricität in der Medicin.
Ziemssen confirmed Remak’s discovery of the motor points, established their exact location, and published exact instructions for finding the motor points for stimulating the various muscles of the body.
1857
#1462
Anatomie und Physiologie des menschlichen Stimm- und Sprach-Organs (Anthropophonik).
1857
#1863
Leçons sur les effets des substances toxiques et médicamenteuses.
Bernard included a summary of his experiments with curare in the Leçons to establish his priority in researching its effects. He demonstrated in these experiments the susceptibility of the nerve-muscle preparation to …
1857 –1861
#2297.1
Traité d’anatomie pathologique générale et spéciale. 4 vols.
Lebert set out to cover both general and special pathology. The superb hand-colored folio-sized copperplate engravings of macro- and micropathology in this work are among the finest ever published.
1857 –1858
#1743
Practisches Handbuch der gerichtlichen Medicin. 2 vols. plus atlas of nine chromolithographed plates.
Casper was the greatest name in forensic medicine in his time. His book was published in English by the New Sydenham Society in 1861-65; it was unsurpassed for many years.
1857
#3591
Hernia retroperitonealis. Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte innerer Hernien.
Treitz described retroperitoneal hernia through the duodeno-jejunal recess – “Treitz’s hernia”.
1857
#3765
Die Exstirpation der Milz am Menschen.
1857
#3454
On the pathology, symptoms, and treatment of ulcer of the stomach.
A comprehensive account of peptic (duodenal) ulcer; includes a review of the results of more than 7,000 post mortems.
1857
#3456
De polypis oesophagi atque de tumore ejus generis primo prospere exstirpato.
First operation for tumor of the esophagus.
1857
#4933.1
Traité des dégénérescences physiques, intellectuelles et morales de l’espèce humaine. 1 vol. and atlas.
The main support for the theory of mental illness as regression which dominated psychiatric practice for several decades. Morel described and illustrated the nature, causes, and signs of human degeneration. He focused…
1857
#6043
System of practical surgery. 4th ed.
Fergusson’s vaginal speculum is described on p. 724.
1857
#6634
Geschichte christlicher Krankenpflege und Pflegerschaften.
Reprinted, Bad Reichenhall, Kleinert, 1966.
1857
#6518
Storia documentata della scuola medica di Salerno. 2nd. ed.
An account of the School was provided by P.O. Kristeller in Bull. Hist. Med., 1945, 17, 138-94. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1857
#5269
Missionary travels and researches in South Africa.
Livingstone gave an accurate account of the tsetse fly Glossina morsitans and of the disease in cattle following its bite (see pp. 80-83; picture of the tsetse fly on p. 571). In his time the bite of the fly was thoug…
1857
#8190
Traité de géographie et de statistique médicales et des maladies endémiques comprenant la météorologie et la géologie médicales, les lois stastisuqes de la population et de la mortalité, la distribution géographique des malades et la pathologie comparée des races humaines. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile of vol. 1 from Google Books at this link; of vol. 2 from BnF Gallica at this link.
1857
#8854
Compendio storico della scuola anatomica di Bologna dal Rinascimento delle scienze e delle letters a tutto il secolo XVIII. Con un paragone fra la sua antichità e quella delle scuole di Salerno e di Padova.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1857
#8891
Étude médico-légale sur les attentats aux moeurs.
“Extrait des Annales d’hygiène publique et de médicine légale, 2e série, tome VIII." Tardieu divided his book on "sexual crimes" into three parts: the first deals with indecent exposures, the second with rape, and the…
1857
#8981
Soyer's culinary campaign. Being historical reminiscences of the late war. With the plain art of cookery for military and civil institutions, the army, navy, public, etc., etc.
During the Crimean War, Soyer, probably the most famous English celebrity chef of his time, joined the troups at his own expense to advise the army on cooking and diet. "Later he was paid his expenses and wages equiva…
1857
#9165
The seaman's medical friend, a companion to the government medicine chest, intended for use in ships not carrying surgeons. Containing directions for the preservation of health and the cure of diseases, wounds, fractures, dislocations, and other accidents likely to occur at sea. Comprising also the Admiralty scale of medicines. Second edition.
"The present edition of The Seaman's Medical Friend is a new book rather than a mere revision of an old one; since the whole of that portion which relates to the Preservation of health, and the symptoms and treatment …
1857
#10376
Observations on the human crania contained in the Museum of the Army Medical Department, Fort Pitt, Chatham.
Reprinted from the Dublin Quarterly Journal of Medical Science, May and August, 1857. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1857
#10427
Der Staat Californien in medicinisch-geographischer Hinsicht.
Dr. Praslow practiced medicine in San Francisco from 1849-1856, after which he returned to Germany. His book provides information concerning health and epidemics in San Francisco during this early period. Translated i…
1857
#11701
Adnotationes ad Rhinoplasticen. Commentatio quam consensu et auctoritate ....ad veniam legendi.
Digital facsimile of the 1847 edition from dspace.ut.ee at this link. Szymanoski's dissertation was translated into German as "Zur plastischen Chirurgie," Vierteljahrschrift für die praktische Heilkunde, 60 (1858) 127…
1857
#11806
Omphalos: An attempt to untie the geological knot.
In Omphalos, published in 1857, two years before the publication of Darwin's On the Origin of Species, Gosse attempted to reconcile the paleontological record with creationist religious beliefs by arguing that the fos…
1857 –1881
#12016
Leçons sur la physiologie et l'anatomie comparée de l'homme et des animaux faites a la Faculté des Sciences de Paris. 14 vols.
Digital facsimile of all the volumes from Google Books; vol. 1 at this link.
1857 –1860
#12018
Histoire naturelle des coralliaires, ou polypes proprement dits. 3 vols. + Atlas.
Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.
1857 –1889
#12788
Catalogue des sciences médicales. Bibliothèque nationale, Département des imprimés. 4 vols.
When the first volume was published in 1857 the library was designated Bibliothèque Impériale. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.