Europe
6,838 entries published in Europe.
1875
#339
Der Ursprung der Wirbelthiere und das Princip des Functionswechsels.
Dohrn’s theory of change of function as the origin of evolutionary novelties.
1875
#4556
Ueber einen wenig bekannten spinalen Symptomencomplex.
“Erb–Charcot disease” (spastic spinal paralysis).
1875
#2175
Traité des maladies et épidémies des armées.
1875 –1876
#4743
Klinik der Rückenmarks-Krankheiten. Bd. 2, pt.2.
First description of myotonia congenita occurs on p. 550.
1875 –1876
#1408.2
Studien in der Anatomie des Nervensystems und des Bindegewebes. Erste Hälfte und zweite Hälfte, erste und zweite Abtheilung. 2 vols.
One of the most strikingly beautiful neuroanatomies ever published, with exquisite reproductions of the color dye injection experiments. The authors confirmed the existence of the foramina of Magendie and Luschka, and…
1875
#1646
Histoire de l’habitation humaine depuis les temps préhistoriques jusqu'à nos jours.
Viollet-Le-Duc traced the history of domestic architecture among the different "races" of mankind. Translated into English by Benjamin Bucknall as Habitations of man in all ages (1876). Digital facsimile of the French…
1875
#1702
Essays and papers on some fallacies of statistics concerning life and death, health and disease.
1875
#1703
Supplement to the thirty-fifth annual report of the Registrar-General of Births and Marriages in England.
Includes statistical calculations of the effect on life expectation if certain preventable diseases were eliminated.
1875
#2126
Beiträge zur Chirurgie, anschliessend an einen Bericht über die Thätigkeit der chirurgischen Universitäts-Klinik zu Halle im Jahre 1873.
Contains (pp. 370-81) first description of industrial tar and paraffin cancer.
1875
#1748
Lehrbuch der gerichtlichen Psychopathologie.
1875
#2226
Handbuch der Pathologie und Therapie des Fiebers.
1875
#2778
Die Defecte der Scheidewände des Herzens.
Rokitansky’s memoir on defects of the septum of the heart was his last work, and possibly his greatest. It represented 14 years’ study of the subject.
1875
#3940
De la glycosurie ou diabète sucré; son traitement hygiénique.
Bouchardat used the fermentation test, polariscope and copper solutions for the detection of diabetes; he substituted fresh fats for carbohydrates, advised the avoidance of milk and alcohol, invented gluten bread and …
1875 –1888
#4067
Illustrations of clinical surgery. 2 vols.
Vol. 1 pp. 49-52: Hutchinson’s classic description of cheiropompholyx, dysidrosis (“Hutchinson’s disease”). The first description and illustration of sarcoidosis is on p. 42.
1875
#4340
Diseases of the hip, knee and ankle joints, with their deformities, treated by a new and efficient method.
Thomas splint. Enlarged second edition, 1876. See No. 4348.
1875
#5912
Ueber die Verletzungen des Auges mit besonderer Rücksicht auf deren gerichtsärztliche Würdigung.
English translation by Charles S. Turnbull as Injuries of the eye and their medico-legal aspect. (Philadelpha. 1878). Digital facsimile of the 1875 edition from the Internet Archive at this link; of the 1878 edition f…
1875
#5673
Leçons sur les anesthésiques et sur l’asphyxie.
As early as 1864 Bernard discovered that chloroform anesthesia could be prolonged and intensified by the injection of morphine. J. N. von Nussbaum also observed this. English translation by B. Fink, Park Ridge, 1989.
1875
#7064
De l'obésité: étiologie, thérapeutique et hygiène. Thèse présentée et soutenue le 12 Aout 1875.
Primarily a summary of research on the subject to date. Worthington was an American from Cincinnati who received his M.D. in Paris in 1876, and practiced there until 1879, when he returned to the U.S.A. A geneological…
1875
#7631
Neuer Führer durch das anatomische, pathologische und ethnologische Museum.
1875
#8443
Plinii Secundi quae fertur una cum Gargilli Martialis medicina: Nunc primum edita a Valentino Rose.
Fragments of Martialis's work (probably called De hortis), which treated of the cultivation of trees and vegetables, and also of their medicinal properties, survived, chiefly in the body of and as an appendix to the M…
1875
#9492
Reliquiae Aquitanicae; being contributions to the archaeology and palaeontology of Périgord and the adjoining provinces of southern France. Edited by Thomas Rupert Jones.
This beautiful and bibliographically complicated work was issued in 17 parts from 1865 to 1875. It includes 82 tinted lithographic plates, and is the first visually spectacular large extensively illustrated publicatio…
1875
#10451
The geographical distribution of heart disease and dropsy, cancer in females & phthisis in females, in England and Wales. Illustrated by six small and three large coloured maps.
Haviland used the national mortality statistics for England and Wales to develop an elaborate geographical explanation based on map analysis for the cause of heart, cancer, and tuberculosis deaths. He found that femal…
1876 –1878
#4557
Handbuch der Krankheiten des Nervensystems.
Erb was Professor of Neurology at Heidelberg. He gave the original descriptions of several nervous disorders, especially the muscular dystrophies, and was a pioneer in the use of electrotherapy.
1876 –1880
#4558
Leçons sur les localisations dans les maladies du cerveau.
Charcot is especially notable for his important study of the localization of functions in diseases of the brain. Volume two is entitled Leçons sur les localisations dans les maladies du cerveau et de la moëlle épinièr…
1876
#696
Die quantitative Spectralanalyse in ihrer Anwendung auf Physiologie, Physik, Chemie und Technologie.
Vierordt’s spectral analyses of hemoglobin, bile and urine were of great value. He studied the variations in the spectrum of oxyhemoglobin produced by different dilutions of this substance and was thus able to estimat…
1876
#1409
The functions of the brain.
Ferrier may be said to have laid the foundations of our knowledge concerning the localization of cerebral function. His book includes his earlier work published in the West Riding Lunatic Asylum Reports. Digital facsi…
1876
#1410
Die Leitungsbahnen im Gehirn und Rückenmark des Menschen auf Grund entwicklungsgeschichtlicher Untersuchungen dargestellt.
Flechsig mapped out the motor and sensory areas of the cerebral cortex, and named the “pyramidal tract”. See Clarke & O'Malley, The human brain and spinal cord, p. 857, and pp. 277-81. Digital facsimile from Bayerisch…
1876
#145.6
The geographical distribution of animals. 2 vols.
"In 1872, at the urging of many of his friends, including Darwin, Philip Sclater, and Alfred Newton, Wallace began research for a general review of the geographic distribution of animals. He was unable to make much pr…
1876
#2304
Die Sections-Technik im Leichenhause des Charité-Krankenhauses.
On the technique of dissection. English translation, London, 1876.
1876
#2485
Études sur la bière, ses maladies, causes qui les provoquent, procédé pour la rendre inaltérable; avec une théorie nouvelle de la fermentation.
Pasteur resumed his studies on fermentation in 1876, and in this book took into account the developments in this field since his previous publications on the subject. He described a new and perfected method of prepari…
1876
#174
L’uomo delinquente, studiato in rapporto alla antropologia, alla medicina legale ed alle discipline carcerarie.
Lombroso inaugurated the doctrine of a “criminal type”. His systematic studies showed that in general the criminal population exhibits a higher percentage of physical, nervous and mental anomalies than the normal popu…
1876
#175
L’anthropologie.
Topinard was curator of the museum of the Société d’Anthropologie de Paris. “Topinard’s angle” and “line”, both described in this book, are landmarks employed in anthropometry. English translations 1878 and 1894.
1876 –1878
#2227
The collected works. 2 vols.
Latham, successively physician to Middlesex and St. Bartholomew’s hospitals, was an authority on cardiac disease and among the earliest in England to advocate auscultation. He held progressive views on medical educati…
1876
#3624
Étude sur une forme de cirrhose hypertrophique du foie (cirrhose hypertrophique avec ictère chronique).
“Hanot’s disease”. First description of hypertrophic cirrhosis of the liver with icterus. Thesis publication, 1875; published in book form, Paris, 1876. Digital facsimile of the book form edition from the Internet Arc…
1876
#2779
Clinical lectures on diseases of the heart and aorta.
Includes “Balfour’s test” to ascertain whether the heart is still active, in cases of apparent death.
1876
#5111.3
A history of Asiatic cholera.
1876
#5794
Chirurgie vor 100 Jahren; historische Studie.
Reprinted Berlin, Springer, 1978.
1876
#5993
Geschichte des grauen Staares.
An early history of cataract.
1876
#5636
Chirurgie antiseptique.
Lucas-Championnière, eminent French surgeon, was one of the first to adopt the principles of Listerism. He wrote the first authoritative work on antiseptic surgery and introduced antisepsis into France. First edition …
1876
#6190
Ueber das Verhalten des Uterus und Cervix in der Schwangerschaft und während der Geburt.
“Bandl’s ring”. Bandl was professor of obstetrics and gynaecology at Vienna and Prague.
1876
#6469
Die ersten Anfänge der Heilkunde und die Medizin im alten Aegypten. Eine kulturgeschichteliche Skizze.
Sammlung gemeinverständlicher wissenscbaftlicher Vorträge, No. 255.
1876
#6505
Histoire de la médecine arabe. Exposé complet des traductions du grec. Les sciences en Orient, leur transmission à l’Occident par les traductions latines. 2 vols.
An exhaustive history, for its time, of Arabian medical translations from East to West and vice versa. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive, at this link.
1876
#6389
Grundriss der Geschichte der Medicin und des heilenden Standes.
Until superseded by Garrison, Baas’s book was the most important one-volume text on the history of medicine. For an expert evaluation of it, see Garrison’s History, 4th ed., p. 884. An English translation, by H.E. Han…
1876
#3285
Rhinitis chronica. Ozaena. Stockschnupfen. Stinknase. In Ziemssen’s Handbuch der speciellen Pathologie und Therapie 4, I, 125-34
Fraenkel established ozena (atrophic rhinitis) as a clinical entity.
1876 –1880
#4558.1
Iconographie photographique de la Salpêtrière. Service de M. Charcot. 3 vols.
A photographic atlas devoted to cases of hysteria and epilepsy, with case histories; the third volume includes discussions of hypnotism, somnambulism and magnetism. Bourneville was Charcot’s assistant at the Salpêtriè…
1876
#7215
Études historiques, physiologiques et cliniques sur la transfusion du sang.
An excellent and well-documented treatise on blood transfusion, including a comprehensive history of the subject from its beginnings in the seventeenth century to its revival in the nineteenth after a long period of d…
1876
#8911
The effects of cross and self fertilisation in the vegetable kingdom.
Darwin's report on over 12 years of experimentation with cross and self-fertilization on 57 species. In these experiments Darwin discovered and demonstrated the concept of hybrid vigor or heterosis.
1876
#9316
Hygeia: A city of health.
Imaginative outline for an utopian city of 100,000 people which Richardson, as public health reformer, hoped would reduce mortality to five per thousand in two generations. Includes details of the laying out of street…
1876
#9527
Diseases of modern life.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1876
#10681
Cholera epidemics in East Africa. An account of the several diffusions of the disease in the country from 1821 till 1872, with an outline of the geography, ethnology, and trade connections of the regions through which the epidemics passed.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.