1849 CLOT, Antoine Barthélemy (Clot-Bey) (1793 – 1868)
Compte-rendu de l'état del'enseignement médical et du service de santé civil et militaire de l'Égypte au commencement de mars 1849.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 13666 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15948
1850 –1854 DRAKE, Daniel (1785 – 1852); SMITH, Samuel Hanbury (1810 – 1894); SMITH, Francis G.
A systematic treatise, historical, etiological, and practical, on the principal diseases of the interior valley of North America as they appear in the Causcasian, African, Indian, and Esquimaux varieties of Its population. 2 vols.
This classical contribution to the social / medical history of North America includes the most important work on the natural history of malaria published up to that time. Digital facsimile of vol. 1 from the Internet …
GMN 1777 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3345
1850 WEBB, Allan (1803 – 1863)
The historical relations of ancient Hindu with Greek medicine in connection with the study of modern medical science in India: Being a general introductory lecture delivered June 1850, at the Calcutta Medical College.
Webb was surgeon in the Bengal Army, and later Professor of Anatomy at the Calcutta Medical College. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 8808 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10986
1850 BECK, John Brodhead (1794 – 1851)
An historical sketch of the state of medicine in the American Colonies, from their first settlement to the period of the Revolution.
A pioneering historical interpretation of the development of medicine in the 13 colonies up to the American Revolution. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link. This is the second, significantly expan…
GMN 10295 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12486
1850 TYSON, James Lawrence
Diary of a physician in California; being the results of actual experience, including notes of the journey by land and water, and observations on the climate, soil, resources of the country, etc.
Tyson sailed from Baltimore for California in January 1849, crossing the Isthmus and sailing on to San Francisco. His book recounts his 1849 tour of the Northern Mines in search of a likely place for his medical pract…
GMN 10426 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12619
1850 –1851 FENNER, Erasmus Darwin (1807 – 1866)
Southern medical reports: Consisting of general and special reports, on the medical topography, meteorology, and prevalent diseases, in the following states: Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Arkansas, Tennessee, Texas. Edited by E. D. Fenner. 2 vols.
Regarding Fenner see, John Duffy, "Erasmus Darwin Fenner (1807–1866) Journalist, Educator, and Sanitarian," Academic Medicine. 35 (1960) 819-831. Digital facsimile of the 1850-51 edition from the Internet Archive at t…
GMN 10517 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12710
1850 –1852 HASPEL, August
Maladies de l'Algérie. Des causes, de la symptômatologie, de la nature et du traitement des maladies endémo-épidémiques de la province d'Oran. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 13648 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15929
1851 –1854 PIROGOV, Nikolai Ivanovich (Pirogoff) (1810 – 1881)
Klinische Chirurgie. 3 pts.
Pirogov is considered the greatest Russian surgeon and one of the greatest military surgeons of all time. He was among the first in Europe to employ ether anesthesia. He served in the Crimean campaign and was responsi…
GMN 5601 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7101
1851 BROCKMANN, Carl Heinrich
Die metallurgischen Krankheiten des Oberharzes.
Brockmann's book on the pulmonary disease of miners, including black lung disease, was first book on occupational health published in Germany. Brockmann published a preliminary paper on the subject in 1845. Digital fa…
GMN 8942 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11121
1851 GOMES, Bernardino António the younger (1806 – 1877)
Catalogus plantarum horti botanici medicocirurgicae Scholae Olisponensis anno MDCCCLII.
Lists 1,863 plants in the botanical garden at the Escola Medico-Cirurgica of Lisbon, arranged by genus and species according to Decandolle’s classification. The authors note in which part of Europe, India, the America…
GMN 9068 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11247
1851 HONIGBERGER, Johann Martin (1795 – 1869)
Früchte aus dem Morgenlande oder Reise-Erlebnisse. Nebst naturhistorisch-medicinischen Erfahrungen, einigen hundert erprobten Arzneimitteln und einer neuen Heilart dem Medial-Systeme. Mit vierzig lithographirten Tafeln: Porträte, Pflanzenabbildungen, sonstige Natur- und Kunstprodukte, Facsimile, Landkarte und Ansicht der Citadelle von Lahor; endlich als Anhang ein medizinisches Wörterbuch in mehreren europäischen und orientalischen Sprachen.
Digital facsimile from the Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link. Translated into English (1852) as Thirty-five years in the East. Adventures, discoveries, experiments, and historical sketches, relating to the Pu…
GMN 9515 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11700
1851 DAVIS, Nathan Smith (1817 – 1904)
History of medical education and institutions in the United States: From the first settlement of the British colonies to the year 1850; with a chapter on the present condition and wants of the profession, and the means necessary for supplying those wants, and elevating the character and extending the usefulness of the whole profession.
Davis instrumental in the establishment of the American Medical Association and was twice elected its president. He became the first editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association. He was a founder of the C…
GMN 10102 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12291
1851 HUTCHINSON, E.
Ladies' indispensable assistant: Being a companion for the sister, mother, and wife ... Here are the very best directions for the behavior and etiquette of ladies and gentlemen ... ; also, safe directions for the management of children ... a great variety of valuable recipes, forming a complete system of family medicine ... : to which is added one of the best systems of cookery ever published ....
In spite of the verbose title, the Table of Contents of this work indicates that roughly the first half of the book concerns home remedies for the widest range of complaints and illnesses, and medical properties of pl…
GMN 10416 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12609
1851 GILCHRIST, William
A practical treatise on the treatment of the diseases of the elephant, camel, and horned cattle, with instructions for preserving their efficiency.
GMN 11754 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13954
1851 HOBSON, Benjamin (1816 – 1873)
Quan ti xin lun [New Treatise Concerning the Whole Body.]
The earliest treatise on Western medicine published in Chinese for the use of Chinese medical staff. The work primarily concerns anatomy and physiology, with most illustrations derived from Cheselden's Anatomy of the …
GMN 13313 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15579
1852 –1859 PIROGOV, Nikolai Ivanovich (Pirogoff) (1810 – 1881)
Anatome topographica sectionibus per corpus humanum congelatum triplici directione ductis illustrata. 8 pts.
Pirogov was the greatest of Russian surgeons. He introduced the teaching of applied topographical anatomy in Russia. His atlas of 220 plates represents the first use on a grand scale of frozen sections in anatomical i…
GMN 416 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/950
1852 BILHARZ, Theodor Maximilian (1825 – 1862)
Ein Beitrag zur Helminthographia humana aus brieflichen Mittheilungen des Dr. Bilharz in Cairo, nebst Bemerkungen von C. T. v. Siebold.
Discovery, in 1851, of Schistosoma haematobium, the parasite of bilharziasis. Bilharz was Professor of Zoology at Cairo. English translation in Rev. infect. Dis., 1984, 4, 727-32, and in Kean (No. 2268.1).
GMN 5339 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8612
1852 –1855 HESSLER, Franz (1799 – 1890)
Commentarii et annotationes in Suśruta Āyurvedam. 2 vols.
Hessler, editor and translator of the first edition of Suśruta published in the West (3 vols., 1844-50) followed that edition with two separate volumes of commentary.
GMN 7168 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9335
1853 TREITZ, Václav (Wenzel) (1819 – 1872)
Ueber einen neuen Muskel am Duodenum des Menschens, über elastische Sehnnen, und einige andere anatomische Verhãltnisse.
Treitz, a Czech pathologist, discovered the muscle at the duodenojejunal junction, later called “muscle of Treitz”; the fold of peritoneum over the muscle of Treitz is known as the "ligament of Treitz."
GMN 7241 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9410
1853 WALLACE, Alfred Russel (1823 – 1913)
A narrative of travels on the Amazon and Rio Negro, with an account of the native tribes and observations on the climate, geology and natural history of the Amazon Valley.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 7445 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9617
1853 WALLACE, Alfred Russel (1823 – 1913)
Palm trees of the Amazon.
Wallace's first book, printed in an edition of only 250 copies. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 8242 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10418
1853 FRANCIS, D. J. T.
Change of climate considered as a remedy in dyspetic, pulmonary, and other chronic affections; with an account of the most eligible places of residence for invalids in Spain, Portugal, Algeria, etc., at different seasons of the year; and an appendix on the mineral springs of the Pyrenees, Vichy, and Aix les Bains.
The author, a pulmonary specialist at Cavendish Square, London, provides a detailed manual for invalid travellers, seeking cures for tuberculosis, and indigestion and "nervous affections." It may be one of the first t…
GMN 10235 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12425
1854 PIROGOV, Nikolai Ivanovich (Pirogoff) (1810 – 1881)
Kostno-plasticheskoye udlineniye kostei goleni pri vilushtshenii stopi. [Osteoplastic elongation of the bones of the leg in amputation of the foot.]
Pirogov’s method of complete osteoplastic amputation of the foot. German translation, Leipzig, 1854.
GMN 4465 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/137
1854 ROGER OF SALERNO, (Rogerius Salernitanus, Frugard, Frugardi, Roggerio Frugardo, Rüdiger Frutgard, Roger of Parma) (1140 – 1195); DAREMBERG, Charles Victor (1817 – 1872)
Glossulae quatuor magistrorum super chirurgiam Rogerii et Rolandi nunc primum ad fidem codicis Mazarinei edidit
In Roger of Salerno's Practica chirurgiae, which appeared about 1180, end-to-end suture is described, as is the value of mercurial inunction in chronic skin diseases; in his recommendation of seaweed for the treatment…
GMN 5551 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6850
1854 GRIESINGER, Wilhelm (1817 – 1868)
Klinische und anatomische Beobachtungen über die Krankheiten von Aegypten.
Griesinger connected the worm of ankylostomiasis with Egyptian chlorosis, a condition in which the worm had previously been noted without its being considered the causal agent (pp. 555-61). Apparently Bilharz in 1853 …
GMN 5355 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6943
1854 BEAUPERTHUY, Louis-Daniel (1807 – 1871)
Fiebre amarilla.
Beauperthuy was the first protagonist of the mosquito theory of the transmission of yellow fever. Reprinted in Beauperthuy’s La Obra, Caracas, 1963, pp. 260-70; French translation in Travaux scientifiques de Louis-Dan…
GMN 5454.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7539
1854 MIRZA MOHAMMAD-VALI HAKIMBASHI
[In Persian script] Cheragh haa rewshenaaa der asewl pezeshekea [Illumination of the fundamentals of medicine].
Issued in 1271 A. H. (1854 CE), this entirely lithographed book introduced Western anatomical illustration to Persian culture. As part of an effort to modernize medical education in Persia, medical textbooks such as M…
GMN 6833 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8997
1854 HOOKER, Sir Joseph Dalton (1817 – 1911)
Himalayan journals; or, notes of a naturalist in Bengal, the Sikkim and Nepal Himalayas, the Khasia Mountains, &c. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 7447 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9619
1854 KIRKBRIDE, Thomas Story (1809 – 1883)
On the construction, organization and general arrangements of hospitals for the insane.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 9116 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11295
1854 PORCHER, Francis Peyre (1825 – 1895)
On the medicinal and toxicological properties of the cryptogamic plants of the United States.
Separate edition: New York: Baker, Godwin & Co, 1854. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 10130 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12319
1854 ARMAND, Adolphe (1818 – 1891)
L'Algérie médical: Topographie, climatologie, pathogénie, pathologie, prophylaxie, hygiène, acclimatement et colonisation.
Digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this link.
GMN 13649 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15930
1854 POLAK, Jakob Eduard (1818 – 1891)
Kitab fi tashrih beden al-insan [in Persian; English translation: Anatomy of the human body]. Lithographed text.
The first original Persian-language anatomy textbook based on western medical science, printed in a very small number of copies for the use of Polak’s Persian students. Polak, an Austrian physician, was responsible fo…
GMN 14061 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16371
1855 BERTHERAND, Émile-Louis (1821 – 1890)
Médecine et hygiène des Arabes. Études sur l’exercice de la médecine et de la chirurgie chez les Musulmans de l’Algérie, leurs connaissances en anatomie, histoire naturelle, pharmacie, médecine légale, etc. Leurs conditions climatériques générales, leur pratiques hygiéniques publiques et privées, leurs maladies, leurs traitements les plus usités. Précédées de considérations sur l’état général de la médecine chez les principales nations Mahométanes.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive, at this link.
GMN 6503 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8048
1855 WEBB, Allan (1803 – 1863)
Elephantiasis orientalis, and especially elephantiasis genitalis in Bengal.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 8809 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10987
1855 DAVIS, Nathan Smith (1817 – 1904); BUTLER, Samuel Worcester (1823 – 1874)
History of the American Medical Association, from its organization up to January, 1855. To which is appended biographical notices, with portraits of the presidents of the association, and of the author
The first history of the American Medical Association, founded in 1847, written by one of its chief founders. Digital facsimile from Hathi Trust at this link.
GMN 10103 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12292
1855 PIÑA Y PEÑUELA, Ramón
Topografía médica de la isla de Cuba.
Digital facsimile from the U.S. National Library of Medicine at this link.
GMN 11522 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13721
1855 WALLACE, Alfred Russel (1823 – 1913)
On the law which has regulated the introduction of new species.
This paper is sometimes referred to as the Sarawak Law paper since it was written while Wallace was on a specimen collecting expedition in the province of Sarawak (East Malayasian States) on the great island of Borneo…
GMN 13712 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15996
1855 HOOKER, Sir Joseph Dalton (1817 – 1911); THOMSON, Thomas (1817 – 1878)
Flora indica: Being a systematic account of the plants of British India, together with observations on the structure and affinities of their natural orders and genera. Vol. 1. Ranunculaceae to Fumariaceae, with an Introductory Essay. All published.
Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link. The Introductory Essay was also published separately by W. Pamphlin in 1855 with the following title: Introductory essay to the Flora Indica: includin…
GMN 13733 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16017
1856 –1865 DAVIS, Joseph Barnard (1801 – 1881); THURNHAM, John (1810 – 1873)
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.
GMN 203 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3571
1856 JIMÉNEZ, Miguel Francisco (1813 – 1876)
Clinica médica. Abcesos del higado.
Jimenez gave a classic account of liver abscess in amoebiasis.
GMN 5183.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6317
1856 CASSIN, John (1813 – 1869)
Illustrations of the birds of California, Texas, Oregon, British and Russian America. Intended to contain descriptions and figures of North American birds not given by former American authors, and a general synopsis of North American ornithology. 1853 to 1855.
Originally issued in ten parts from 1853 to 1855. Cassin ran an engraving and lithographing firm in Philadelphia, which produced illustrations for government and scientific publications. He pursued ornithology as an a…
GMN 7875 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10047
1856 MOREHEAD, Charles (1807 – 1882)
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
GMN 10112 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12301
1856 POLAK, Jakob Eduard (1818 – 1891)
Kitab-i jarrahi wa yak risalah dar kahhali [in Persian; English translation: Book on surgery with a treatise on ophthalmology]. Lithographed text.
The first Persian-language surgery and ophthalmology textbook based on Western medical science. Polak based his textbook on Joseph Maximilien Chelius’s Handbuch der Chirurgie (1830) and Handbuch der Augenheilkunde (18…
GMN 14062 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16372
1856 HUNT, Harriot Kezia (1805 – 1875)
Glances and glimpses; or fifty years social, including twenty years professional life.
The autobiography of the first woman to practice medicine professionally in the United States. Digital facsimile from U.S. National Library of Medicine at this link.
GMN 14125 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16436
1857 –1877 AGASSIZ, Louis Jean Rodolphe (1807 – 1873); AGASSIZ, Alexander Emmanuel Rodolphe (1835 – 1910)
Contributions to the natural history of the United States. 5 vols.
Vols. 1-4 by Louis Agassiz were published from 1857-1862; Vol. 5, North American starfishes by Alexander Agassiz, appeared in 1877. Louis Agassiz was, for his time, the leading comparative anatomist in America and a v…
GMN 333 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/217
1857 TREITZ, Václav (Wenzel) (1819 – 1872)
Hernia retroperitonealis. Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte innerer Hernien.
Treitz described retroperitoneal hernia through the duodeno-jejunal recess – “Treitz’s hernia”.
GMN 3591 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4407
1857 LIVINGSTONE, David (1813 – 1873)
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…
GMN 5269 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8570
1857 SCHAAFHAUSEN, Hermann (1816 – 1893); FUHLROTT, Johann Carl (1804 – 1877)
[On the Feldhofer Neanderthal.]
The first account of the Neanderthal remains (Neanderthal 1), discovered in 1856 in the the Feldhofer cave of the Neander valley. The remains, which consist of a partial skull, pelvis and assorted long bones, were sen…
GMN 7250 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9419
1857 AGASSIZ, Louis Jean Rodolphe (1807 – 1873); LEIDY, Joseph (1823 – 1891); NOTT, Josiah Clark (1804 – 1873); GLIDDON, George Robbins (1809 – 1857); MAURY, Louis Ferdinand Alfred (1817 – 1892); PULSZKY DE CESLFALVA ET LUBÓCZ, Ferenc Aurél (Francis Pulszky) (1814 – 1897); MEIGS, James Aitken (1829 – 1879)
Indigenous races of the earth; or new chapters of ethnological enquiry: Including monographs on special departments of philology, iconography, cranioscopy, palaeontology, pathology, archaeology, comparative geography and natural history: Contributed by Alfred Maury, Francis Pulszky, and J. Aiken Meigs. With contributions from Jos. Leiden and L. Agassiz. Presenting fresh investigations by J. C. Nott and Geo. R. Glidden.
Expensively produced, and sold in both standard and large paper subscriber editions, Nott and Gliddon's work was one of the most egregiously racist publications in the history of physical anthropology. Nott, a promine…
GMN 8825 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11003
1857 MORTON, Samuel George (1799 – 1851); MEIGS, James Aitken (1829 – 1879)
Catalogue of human crania, in the collection of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia: Based upon the third edition of Dr. Morton's "Catalogue of Skulls," &c.
"Since the death of the late lamented President of the Academy of Natural Sciences,- Dr. Samuel George Morton,- his magnifcent Collection of Human Crania, recently increased by the receipt of 67 skulls from various so…
GMN 8829 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11007
