Europe
6,838 entries published in Europe.
1859
#3819
Untersuchungen über die Zuckerbildung in der Leber und den Einfluss des Nervensystems auf die Erzeugung des Diabetes.
Schiff’s reports on his experimental thyroidectomies, which were attended with fatal results. Subsequently (Arch. exp. Path. Pharmak., 1884, 18, 25) he showed that intra-abdominal transplantation of the gland would ob…
1859
#3458
The diseases of the stomach.
Includes (pp. 310-31) original description of linitis plastica (“Brinton’s disease”). Brinton lectured on physiology and forensic medicine at St. Thomas’s Hospital.
1859
#3459
Commentatio de fistulis ventriculi externis et chirurgica earum sanatione.
First operation for gastric fistula.
1859
#5791
Geschichte der Chirurgie von den Urzeiten bis zu Anfang des achtzehnten Jahrhunderts.
1859
#5606
Traite pratique de la suppuration et du drainage chirurgical. 2 vols.
Chassaignac, who introduced india-rubber tubes to drain abscesses, put the whole subject of surgical drainage on a scientific and methodical footing.
1859
#5884
Die Krümmung der Homhaut des menschlichen Auges.
Knapp wrote valuable monographs on curvature of the cornea (above) and on intraocular tumours (see No. 5902). He became one of the leading ophthalmologists in America.
1859
#6631.9
Des hommes célèbres dans les sciences et les arts, et des médailles qui consacrent leur souvenir. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1859
#6386
Geschichte der Medicin.
1859
#7446
On the flora of Australia, its origin, affinities, and distribution; being an introductory essay to the Flora of Tasmania. Offprint from The Botany of the Antarctic Voyage of H. M. Discovery Ships ‘Erebus’ and ‘Terror’, Vol. III (Flora Tasmaniae), part I (June, 1859).
The first important botanical work by a supporter of Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection. Hooker, a botanist and plant geographer, had been a close friend of Darwin for many years, and was aware of Darwi…
1859
#8212
Sketch of the medical topography, or climate and soils, of Bengal and the N.W. Provinces.
Digital facsimile from the internet Archive at this link.
1859
#9972
The natural history of the European seas. Edited and continued by Robert Godwin-Austen.
Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.
1859
#11364
A manual of operative surgery on the dead body.
Smith's concept was the teaching of surgery in a manner analogous to the teaching of anatomy--i.e. from a cadaver. His book organizes and explains the operations that student surgeons could practice on a cadaver. Digi…
1859 –1933
#11961
Flora capensis: Being a systematic description of the plants of the Cape colony, Caffraria, & Port Natal. 7 vols. in 11.
This work was published over 73 years. Vols. 1-3 were by Harvey and Sonder. The remaining volumes were by "Various Botanists" edited by Thiselton-Dyer, except for Vol. 5, Section 2 (Supplement) edited by Arthur Willia…
1859 –1864
#12710
Hippocrates et aliorum medicorum veterum reliquiae...edidit Franciscus Zacharias Ermerins. 3 vols.
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Greek text of the Hippocratic corpus with facing Latin translations. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1859
#12874
Mémoire sur le sang quand il est fluide, pendant qu’il se coagule et lorsqu’il est coagulé.
The first attempt to isolate and describe fibrinogen, the blood protein essential for clotting. “Prosper-Sylvain Denis, in his Mémoire sur le sang (1859), was the first to recognize that plasma contained a clottable s…
1859
#13606
Le chirurgien à l'ambulance ou quelques études pratiques sur les plaies par armes à feu suivies de lettres à un collègue sur les blessés de Palestro, Magenta, Marignan et Solferino.
Appia became one of the original five founders of what was later named the International Committee of the Red Cross. English translation as The ambulance surgeon or practical observations on gunshot wounds, edited by …
1859
#13815
Zoologie médicale exposé méthodique du régne animal basé sur l'anatomie, l'embryologie et la paléontologie comprenant la description des espèces employées en médicine de celles qui sont venimuses et de celles qui sont parasites de l'homme et des animaux. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.
1859
#13861
Descriptive catalogue of the specimens of natural history in spirit contained in the museum Vertebrata: Pisces, Reptilia, Aves, Mammalia.
Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.
1859
#14214
Neue Untersuchungen über den Bau des Rückenmarks. 2 vols. (Text and atlas.)
Stilling carried out some of the 19th century’s most detailed and precise examinations of the spinal cord, which “laid the foundation for the modern anatomical study of the spinal cord, medulla oblongata, and pons” (C…
1860
#4535
De l’état nerveue aigu et chronique ou nervosisme.
First adequate description of neurasthenia.
1860
#776
Recherches sur le pouls au moyen d’un nouvel appareil enregistreur le sphygmographe.
Invention of the modern sphygmograph. Also published in C.R. Acad. Sci. (Paris), 1860, 51, 281-309. Preliminary paper in same journal, 1860, 50, 634-37.
1860
#534.62
Untersuchungen über die Entstehung der Missbildungen Zunächst in den Eiem der Vögel.
The first monograph on experimental teratology.
1860 –1864
#1778
Handbuch der historisch-geographischen Pathologie. 2 vols.
This is perhaps the greatest historical classic on the subject. Vol.1 appeared in 2 parts, with the first part issued in 1859 and the second part issued in 1860.
1860
#1612
Notes on nursing: what it is, and what it is not.
After receiving training in Germany and France, Florence Nightingale had some nursing experience in England. The Crimean war gave her an opportunity to demonstrate the value of trained nurses. Within a few months of h…
1860
#1864
Du coaltar saponiné, désinfectant énergique, arrètant les fermentations, de ses applications a l'hygiène, la thérapeutique, a l'histoire naturelle.
Lemaire was first to point out the antiseptic properties of carbolic acid. Digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this link.
1860
#1865
Ueber eine neue organische Base in den Cocablättern.
Isolation of cocaine, 1859, from the coca leaf, brought from Peru by Scherzer.
1860
#2451
Traité des entozoaires et des maladies vermineuses.
1860
#2616
Clinical memoirs on abdominal tumours and intumescence.
1860
#2586
On asthma: its pathology and treatment.
The best work on asthma to appear during the 19th century. Salter, who had suffered from asthma from childhood, may be considered the first modern student of the condition. He called special attention to asthma from a…
1860
#3333
Praktische Anleitung zur Laryngoscopie.
1860
#3373
The diseases of the ear; their nature, diagnosis, and treatment.
The foundation of aural pathology. In this book Toynbee described the method of removing the temporal bone and discussed the post mortem appearances in relation to the symptoms observed during life. He made over 2,000…
1860
#4291
Die Harnconcretionen.
Heller introduced several urine tests and wrote (above) an important work on urinary calculi.
1860
#4048
Traité pratique des maladies de la peau. 3 éd., 2 vols.
Gibert’s name is associated with pityriasis rosea, which he first established as a definite clinical entity. His complete and accurate description of this condition is on page 402 of vol. 1 of the above work.
1860
#4049
Das umschriebene Eczem. Eczema marginatum. In Virchow’s Handbuch der spec. Path. u. Therap., 3, 1 Abt., 361-63.
Complete description of tinea cruris (eczema marginatum), first described by Bärensprung in 1854.
1860
#4050
De l’hypertrophie générale du système sébacé.
First description of keratosis follicularis.
1860
#4972
Elemente der Psychophysik. 2 vols.
The first treatise on the subject. Fechner applied the laws of mathematical physics to the physiology of sensation. He discussed the functional relations of the dependence between mind and body and investigated the cu…
1860
#5343
Untersuchungen über Trichina spiralis.
Leuckart provided an articulate and detailed description of Trichinella spiralis.
1860
#5887
Schriftskalen. 3te. Aufl.
Jaeger first introduced his test types in 1854; Emil Fuchs improved them in 1895.
1860 –1862
#6048
Clinique médicale sur les maladies des femmes. 2 vols.
One of the most important texts on the subject during the mid-nineteenth century. English translation, New Sydenham Society, 1867.
1860
#6183
De optima in partu naturali placentum amovendi ratione.
Credé’s method of removing the placenta by external manual expression. It is first mentioned in his Klinische Vorträge über Geburtshilfe, Berlin, 1854, 599-603.
1860
#6615
The medical knowledge of Shakespeare.
1860
#6504
La médecine du Prophète, traduit de l'arabe par M. le docteur Perron.
First appeared in Gaz. méd. d’Algerie, 1859, 4.
1860
#7439
The Malay archipelago: The land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise. 2 vols.
1860
#11434
Catalogue de la bibliothèque d’histoire naturelle, de médecine et d’ autres sciences de feu M. G. Vrolik.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1860
#11805
Actinologia Britannica. A history of the British sea-anemones and corals. With coloured figures of the species and principal varieties.
Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.
1861
#935.2
Les altitudes de l’Amérique tropicale comparées au niveau des mers au point de vue de la constitution médicale.
Jourdanet discovered the anoxemia theory of high altitude sickness. See No. 943.1. Digital facsimile of the 1861 edition from bibliotecavirtual.ranm.es at this link.
1861
#4693
Klinik der Leberkrankheiten. Bd. 2.
Pp. 62-64: First description of progressive familial hepatolenticular degeneration (“Kinnier Wilson’s disease”; see No. 4717).
1861
#1107
Untersuchungen über den Bau der Lymphdrüsen.
Histology of the lymphatics. His drew the illustrations.
1861
#487
Entwicklungsgeschichte des Menschen und der höheren Thiere.
First book on comparative embryology.
1861
#534.63
Die Missbildungen des Menschen, systematisch dargestellt. 2 vols.
An encyclopedia of cases from the literature and from Forster’s personal experience. It contains an extremely useful bibliography of teratology, which served as the basis for all subsequent bibliographies of the subject.