Europe
6,838 entries published in Europe.
1863
#488
Observationes nonnulae de ovorum ranarum segmentatione, quae “Furchungsprocess” dicitur.
Best contemporary description of the segmentation furrowing of the egg.
1863
#1362
Physiologische Studien über die Hemmungsmechanischen für die Reflexthätigkeit des Rückenmarks im Gehirn des Frosches.
Sechenov discovered the cerebral inhibition of spinal reflexes. He was Professor of Physiology at St. Petersburg and Moscow, and the “father of Russian physiology”.
1863
#118
Das Protoplasma der Rhizopoden und der Pflanzenzellen.
Schultze showed that protoplasm is practically identical in all living cells.
1863
#1744
Klinische Novellen zur gerichtlichen Medizin.
1863 –1867
#2617
Die krankhaften Geschwülste. Vol. 1-3, Heft 1.
Although tumours were perhaps his greatest interest, Virchow never completed this work which was intended to have 30 lectures. Instead he stopped with the 25th lecture, on carcinoma, probably because of the vigorous a…
1863
#165
Evidence as to man’s place in nature.
Huxley showed that in the visible characters man differs less from the higher apes than do the latter from lower members of the same order of primates. He also provided the first thorough and detailed comparative desc…
1863
#204.1
The geological evidences of the antiquity of man with remarks on theories of the origin of species by variation.
Lyell’s summary discussion of the evidence for human antiquity “introduced a wide readership to the new view and to the facts that supported it, thus laying the synthetic foundation for future work” (Grayson). This wo…
1863
#3914
Letter on corpulence; address to the public.
Banting, a prominent English undertaker, and formerly obese, was the first to popularize a weight loss diet based on limiting intake of refined and easily digestible carbohydrates. He changed his diet at the suggestio…
1863
#5767
Die Literatur and Geschichte der plastichen Chirurgie.
A history of plastic surgery and an annotated bibliography of its literature prior to 1860. Nachträge, 1864. Reprint, including Nachträge, Bologna, 1963. The main bibliography has 2008 references, the supplement 275 m…
1863
#5608
Die allgemeine chirurgische Pathologie und Therapie.
Billroth, professor of surgery at Zürich and Vienna, was the founder of the Vienna School of Surgery. He has also been called the founder of modern abdominal surgery, and he was one of the first to introduce antisepsi…
1863
#5609
On the influence of mechanical and physiological rest in the treatment of accidents and surgical diseases, and the diagnostic value of pain.
Hilton, surgeon to Guy’s Hospital, suggested that symptoms are disordered reflexes. He advocated complete rest in the treatment of surgical disorders of all parts of the body. Second and later editions were entitled O…
1863
#5891
Ein neues und gefahrloses Operations-Verhfahren zur Heilung des grauen Staares.
Jacobson used a peripheral incision in his operation for cataract.
1863
#5892
Atlas der Ophthalmoscopie. Darstellung des Augengrundes im gesunden und krankhaften Zustande enthalten.
First atlas of the fundus. The author was an assistant to Helmholtz at the time of the invention of the ophthalmoscope. The work is illustrated with reproductions of his own paintings. Text in French and German. Engli…
1863
#6615.1
A study of Hamlet.
The first psychiatric study of Hamlet. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1863
#6492.2
La médecine chez les Chinois par Le capitaine P. Dabry. Ouvrage corrigé et précédé d’une préface par J. Léon Soubeiran.
The best account of Chinese medicine published in Europe during the 19th century, including translations from original Chinese medical texts. Dabry was French consul at Hang-Keou. Soubeiran, a pharmacist, edited his w…
1863
#6759
Biographisch-literarisches Handwörterbuch zur Geschichte der exacten Wissenschaften. 8 vols. in 11 pts.
Brief biographies, fuller bibliographies. Erster Band. A–L. 1863 . Zweiter Band. M–Z. 1863 . Dritter Band (1858 bis 1883). 1898 Vierter Band (Die Jahre 1883 bis zur Gegenwart umfassend). 1904: T. 1. A-L. T. 2. M-Z Fün…
1863
#7442
The naturalist on the river Amazons, a record of adventures, habits of animals, sketches of Brazilian and Indian life, and aspects of nature under the equator, during eleven years of travel. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1863 –1878
#9172
Flora Australiensis: A description of the plants of the Australian territory by George Bentham, assisted by Ferdinand Mueller. 7 vols.
The first comprehensive flora of any large continental area. It included descriptions of 8125 species. "Bentham prepared the flora from Kew; with Mueller, the first plant taxonomist residing permanently in Australia, …
1863
#10496
A catalogue of surgical instruments, apparatus, appliances, etc. Manufactured and sold by John Weiss & Son.
Though based in England, John Weiss & Son's catalogue offered and illustrated a wide range of equipment that would have been used in the American Civil War or the Crimean War. Facsimile reprint, with Snowdon & Brother…
1863
#11690
Physiologie médicale de la circulation du sang basée sur l'étude graphique des mouvements du coeur et du pouls artériel avec application aux maladies du l'appareil circulatoire.
Marey first recorded atrial fibrillation in this work work in which he used pulse tracings to establish the interelationship of heart rate and blood pressure. The work also includes the first detailed description of t…
1863
#12657
Monograph on the Aye-Aye (Chiromys madagascariensis, Cuvier).
For the first 100 years after the first aye-aye was brought to Europe from Madagascar in the 1780s, debate persisted over whether it was a rodent, a primate, or most closely related to the kangaroo. Classification of …
1863
#13431
The Humboldt Library. A catalogue of the library of Alexander von Humboldt. With a bibliographical and biographical memoir by Henry Stevens.
1863
#13844
China from a medical point of view in 1860 and 1861: To which is added a chapter on Nagasaki as a sanitarium.
Digital facsimile from wellcomecollection.org at this link.
1863
#14136
Observations in midwifery. As also The countrey midwifes opusculum or vade mecum
First edition of this work written in English in the 17th century, privately published in 1863, supposedly in an edition of 100 copies, from a manuscript then owned by Blenkinsop. Willughby has been characterized as "…
1863
#14165
Der Gebrauch des Spektroskopes zu physiologischen und ärztlichen Zwecken.
The first monograph on medical spectroscopy. After Hoppe-Seyler published the first paper on the application of spectroscopy to blood chemistry in 1862 (No. 870), Valentin decided to publish his own contributions to t…
1864 –1865
#335
A history of the fishes of the British Islands. 4 vols.
Couch, a general practitioner at Polperro, Cornwall, became one of the greatest authorities on British fishes. The work, a monument of industry and patience, includes 252 hand-colored plates, also by Couch. Digital fa…
1864
#623
Untersuchungen über elektrische Nervenreizung.
Among the instruments introduced by Fick for the study of muscle and nerve physiology were the myotonograph, the cosine lever, and an improved thermopile.
1864
#1614
A manual of practical hygiene.
First important English treatise on hygiene.
1864 –1867
#119
The principles of biology. 2 vols.
In vol. 1 of this work written after Spencer read Darwin's On the origin of species, Spencer originated the expression "survival of the fittest." Spencer conceived that every species is endowed with its own type of ph…
1864
#1866
British pharmacopoeia, published under the direction of the General Council of Medical Education and Registration of the United Kingdom, pursuant to the Medical Act, 1858.
PHARMACOPOEIA
First official British pharmacopoeia.
1864
#1700.1
English life table. Tables of lifetimes, annuities, and premiums.
First extensive application of a mechanical computer to medical statistics. The appendix details the use of the Scheutz version of Charles Babbage’s calculating machine in the construction of English Life Table No. 3.…
1864 –1869
#2452
Entozoa. 2 pts.
Cobbold was the most distinguished helminthologist of his time. He named Filaria bancrofti, Bilharzia haematobia, and several other parasites. He was a friend of Manson, several of whose papers he communicated to the …
1864
#203.1
Crania Helvetica: Sammlung schweizerischer Schädelformen.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1864
#221
Für Darwin.
Müller, the first German to support Darwin, studied the development of the Crustacea in Brazil and published some of his results in the above little book, which contains much original information. He realized the bear…
1864
#3461
Das perforirende Geschwür im Duodenum.
The first comprehensive study of duodenal ulcer. Commercial edition, Berlin: A. Hirschwald, 1865. Digital facsimile of the 1864 edition from the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek at this link. Digital facsimile of the 1865 …
1864
#4335
Ueber einen Fall von cystoider Entartung des ganzen Skelettes.
First description of osteitis fibrosa cystica – hyperparathyroid bone disease, also known as “von Recklinghausen’s disease of bone”.
1864
#5344.4
Entozoa.
Cobbold suggested (p. 36) that a mollusc was the intermediate host in bilharziasis.
1864
#5893
On the anomalies of accommodation and refraction of the eye… Translated from the author’s manuscript by W.D. Moore.
Donders’s greatest work, the basis for all succeeding studies of the subject, and a classic of physiological optics. It contains Donders’s explanation of astigmatism, his definition of aphakia and hypermetropia, his s…
1864 –1866
#6534
Leechdoms, wortcunning, and starcraft of early England. Being a collection of documents, for the most part never before printed, illustrating the history of science in this country before the Norman Conquest. Collected and edited by Oswald Cockayne. 3 vols.
This set contains many texts relating to medieval English medicine and the Anglo-Saxon language. It contains the Herbal of Apuleius in Anglo-Saxon and modern English, the Leechbook of Bald, the text of Sextus Placitus…
1864
#8109
Le Mexique et l'Amérique tropicale: climats, hygiène et maladies.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1864 –1867
#11385
Notices sur la chirurgie des enfants.
The first general treatise on pediatric surgery. From parts publication. Translated into English by Richard J. Dunglison as Surgical diseases of infants and children, Philadelphia: Henry C. Lea, 1873. Digital facsimil…
1864
#11617
Acupressure: A new method of arresting surgical haemorrhage and of accelerating the healing of wounds.
In 1858 Simpson described a new method of controlling blood loss during surgical operations – acupressure, not to be confused with the traditional Chinese medical technique similarly named. Simpson's technique, though…
1864
#12726
Recherches sur la bibliothèque de la Faculté de médecine de Paris, d'après des documents entièrement inédits, suivies d'une notice sur les manuscrits qui y sont conservés.
Digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this liink.
1865
#490
Die Häute und Höhlen des Körpers.
A new classification of tissues based on histogenesis.
1865
#778
Die physiologischen Leistungen des Blutdrucks.
Ludwig’s inaugural address at Leipzig, in which he introduced the idea of keeping alive excised portions of organs by means of artificial circulation, or perfusion. He suggested that the blood-pressure had a stimulati…
1865
#1996.2
Gimnástica, hygiénica, medica, y ortopédica.
Busqué developed the modern concept of rehabilitation.
1865
#1402
Recherches sur le système nerveux cérébro-spinal; sa structure, ses fonctions, et ses maladies. 1 vol. and atlas.
The beginning of knowledge of thalamic function. This work contains Luys’s descriptions of the two structures which bear his name: the subthalamic nucleus and the center median of the thalamus.
1865
#1271
Untersuchungen über Gehirn und Rückenmark des Menschen und der Säugethiere. Nach dem Tode des Verfassers Herausgegeben und Bevortwortet von Max Schultze.
Deiters showed that each nerve-cell possesses an axis-cylinder or nerve-fiber process. His name is perpetuated in “Deiters’ cells” and “nucleus”. Dieters died of typhus in 1863 at the age of 29; his book was edited fr…
1865
#1271.1
Mikroskopischische Analyse der Anastomosen der Kopfnerven: gekrönte Beantwortung der von der medizinischen Fakultät zu München im Jahre 1863 ausgesetzten Preisfrage. Mit 43 Steindrucktafeln.
Bischoff demonstrated conclusively that there are many interconnections between the trigeminal, facial, nervus intermedius, acoustico-vestibular complex, glosso-pharyngeal, vagus, spinal-accessory, hypoglossal and the…
1865
#1678
Die grossen Volkskrankheiten des Mittelalters. Historischpathologische Untersuchungen. Von J. F. K. Hecker. Gesammelt und in erweiteter Bearbeitung hrsg. von A. Hirsch.
A collection of essays on the Black Death, the dancing mania, and the English sweat, published 1832-34 and later in a collective English edition, The epidemics of the Middle Ages, 2 pts., London, 1833-35; reprinted 18…