1857 MEDICI, Michele (1782 – 1859)
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.
GMN 8854 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11032
1857 WILLIAMSON, George (1818 – 1865)
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.
GMN 10376 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12568
1857 PRASLOW, J.
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…
GMN 10427 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12620
1857 –1859 TORREY, John (1796 – 1873); EMORY, William Hemsley (1811 – 1887); BAIRD, Spencer Fullerton (1823 – 1887); CONRAD, Timothy Abbott (1803 – 1877); ENGELMANN, George (1809 – 1884); GIRARD, Charles Frédéric (1822 – 1895); PARRY, Charles Christopher (1823 – 1890); SCHOTT, Arthur Carl Victor (1814 – 1875); HALL, James Jr. (1811 – 1898)
Report on the United States and Mexican boundary survey: Made under the direction of the secretary of the Interior
Vol. 1, pt. by W. H. Emory. Vol. 1, pt. 2: Geological reports by C.C. Parry and Arthur Schott, notes by W. H. Emory; Paleontology and geology of the boundary by James Hall; Description of cretaceous and tertiary fossi…
GMN 10514 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12707
1858
Medical and surgical history of the British Army which served in Turkey and the Crimea during the war against Russia, in the years 1854-56. 2 vols.
GREAT BRITAIN. War Office. Medical Services
First official medical and surgical history of a war.
GMN 2165 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1041
1858 SCHAAFHAUSEN, Hermann (1816 – 1893)
Zur Kenntniss der ältesten Rassenschädel.
The first comprehensive description of the Neanderthal skull, following Schaaffhausen’s and Fuhlrott’s preliminary announcements of the discovery in the Verhandlungen des naturhistorischen Vereines der preussischen Rh…
GMN 204 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3844
1858 SALAZAR, Tomas (1830 – 1917)
Historia de la verrugas.
Verruga peruana.
GMN 5525 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6611
1858 LIVINGSTONE, David (1813 – 1873)
Arsenic as a remedy for the tsetse bite.
Livingstone was probably the first to administer arsenic for the treatment of “nagana”, a disease of horses caused by trypanosomes. This followed a suggestion by James Braid. Digital facsimile from PubMedCentral at th…
GMN 5270 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8572
1858 MACLEOD, Sir George Husband Baird (1828 – 1892)
Notes on the surgery of the war in the Crimea, with remarks on the treatment of gunshot wounds.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link. Reprinted in Richmond, Virginia in 1862 during the American Civil War for the Confederate States Army by J. W. Randolph; digital facsimile of the Richmond edition from…
GMN 9312 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11494
1858 BROECKX, Corneille (1807 – 1869)
Histoire du Collegium Medicum Antverpiense.
Text in French. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 10218 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12407
1858 HUTCHINSON, Thomas Joseph (1820 – 1885)
Impressions of Western Africa. With remarks on the diseases of the climate and a report on the peculiarities of trade up the rivers in the Bight of Biafra.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 12482 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14715
1858 RODRIGUES DE GUSMÃO, Francisco Antonio
Memorias biographicas dos medicos e cirurgiões Portuguezes, que no presente seculo se teem feito conhecidos por sous escriptos.
GMN 13500 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15775
1858 CLOT, Antoine Barthélemy (Clot-Bey) (1793 – 1868)
Compte rendu de l'examen des élèves de l'École de Médecine et de l'École d'Accouchement du Caire, pour la première année de sa réorganisation ... 6 avril 1858.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 13665 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15947
1859 LONGMORE, Sir Thomas (1816 – 1895)
Remarks upon a tabular return (No. 1), or synopsis of sixteen cases of heat-apoplexy.
Longmore was an army surgeon in India; he gave an excellent account of heat-stroke.
GMN 2248 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2769
1859 FUHLROTT, Johann Carl (1804 – 1877)
Menschliche Ueberreste aus einer Felsengrotte des Düssenthals. Ein Beitrag zur Frage über die Existenz fossiler Menschen.
Fuhlrott’s first detailed account of the “Neanderthal 1” skeleton discovered in 1856 in the Kleine Feldhofer Grotte, located in the Düssel River gorge in southwestern Germany.
GMN 7251 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9420
1859 HOOKER, Sir Joseph Dalton (1817 – 1911)
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…
GMN 7446 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9618
1859 MCCLELLAND, John (1805 – 1875)
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.
GMN 8212 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10388
1859 BEANEY, James George (1828 – 1891)
Original contributions to the practice of conservative surgery; being a selection from the surgical cases occurring in the practice of James G. Beaney.
The first work on surgery written and published in Australia, and one of the first medical works on any subject written and published in Australia.
GMN 10891 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13087
1859 –1933 THISTELTON-DYER, Sir William Turner (1843 – 1928); HARVEY, William Henry (1811 – 1866); SONDER, Otto Wilhelm (1812 – 1881); HILL, Sir Arthur William (1875 – 1941)
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…
GMN 11961 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14168
1860 BARCLAY, Alexander (1822 – 1874)
Contributions to the natural history of insolatio.
Barclay, an army surgeon in India, wrote an important paper on heat-stroke.
GMN 2249 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2773
1860 DJELAL ED-DIN, Abou Soleiman Daoud (1350 – ); PERRON, Nicolas (1798 – 1876)
La médecine du Prophète, traduit de l'arabe par M. le docteur Perron.
First appeared in Gaz. méd. d’Algerie, 1859, 4.
GMN 6504 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8633
1860 PRESTWICH, Joseph (1812 – 1896)
On the occurrence of flint-implements, associated with the remains of animals of extinct species in beds of a late geological period, in France at Amiens and Abbeville, and in England at Hoxne.
This paper is a key record of the early recognition of the antiquity of man by the scientific establishment. Having returned from a visit to Abbeville, France, in May 1859, where he viewed the evidence for the antiqui…
GMN 7262 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9431
1860 WALLACE, Alfred Russel (1823 – 1913)
The Malay archipelago: The land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise. 2 vols.
GMN 7439 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9611
1860 WARING, Edward John (1819 – 1891)
Remarks on the uses of some bazaar medicines, and on a few of the common indigenous plants of India, according to European practice.
At the time of publication of this work, which contained texts in both Sanskrit and English, Waring was "Physician to His Highness The Maha Rajah of Travancore." Digital facsimile of the 1860 edition from the Biodiver…
GMN 8818 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10996
1860 POMPA, Gerónimo
Colección de medicamentos indigenas y sus aplicaciones, estraidos de los reinos vegetal, mineral y animal, recogidos y anotados por [...], segunda edición corregida y aumentada.
Digital facsimile of the 5th edition (1875) from the National Library of Medicine, Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 8971 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11150
1861 JOURDANET, Denis (1815 – 1892)
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.
GMN 935.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/168
1861 CARTER, Henry Vandyke (1831 – 1897)
On a new and striking form of fungus disease, principally affecting the foot, and prevailing endemically in many parts of India.
First modern description of mycetoma of the foot – “Madura foot”, “Carter’s mycetoma”. It was mentioned by E. Kaempfer in his Amoenitates exoticae, Lemgo, 1712, p. 561. Colebrook at the Madura Dispensary is said to ha…
GMN 4047 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5379
1861 SCHUPPERT, Moritz (1817 – 1887)
A treatise on gun-shot wounds: written for and dedicated to the surgeons of the Confederate States Army.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
GMN 7814 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9986
1861 JOURDANET, Denis (1815 – 1892)
De Mexique au point de vue de son influence sur la vie de l'homme.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
GMN 8110 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10286
1861 BENTHAM, George (1800 – 1884)
Flora hongkonensis: A description of the flowering plants and ferns of the island of Hongkong.
The first comprehensive work on any part of the flora of China and Hong Kong. It included the first published description of Hong Kong Croton, or Croton hancei.
GMN 9171 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11350
1861 WILSON, Sir William James Erasmus (1809 – 1884)
The eastern, or Turkish bath: Its history, revival in Britain, and application to the purposes of health.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 10049 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12238
1862 BILL, Joseph Howland (1835 – 1885)
Notes on arrow wounds.
The definitive work on American Indian arrow wounds suffered by U. S. troops and settlers in frontier warfare during the Western expansion of the United States. Bill eventually developed a "Forceps for the Extraction …
GMN 2166.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1101
1862 MURCHISON, Charles (1830 – 1879)
A treatise on the continued fevers of Great Britain.
Murchison was one of the greatest clinical teachers London has ever known; of his many writings his book on continued fever is probably the most important. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 2220 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3756
1862 HIRSCHEL, Bernhard (1815 – 1874)
Compendium der Geschichte der Medicin von den Urzeiten bis auf die Gegenwart, mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Neuzeit und der Wiener Schule. 2te Aufl.
GMN 6525 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8113
1862 CLARK, William (1788 – 1869); CLARK, John Willis (1833 – 1910)
Catalogue of the osteological portion of specimens contained in the Anatomical Museum of the University of Cambridge.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 7621 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9793
1863 SECHENOV, Ivan Mikhailovich (1829 – 1905)
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”.
GMN 1362 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1681
1863 PORCHER, Francis Peyre (1825 – 1895)
Resources of the southern fields and forests, medical, economical, and agricultural: Being also a medical botany of the Confederate States; with practical information on the useful properties of the trees, plants and shrubs.
The first extensive treatise on the botany of the Southern States of the US and the only Confederate manual of materia medica. This is also a manual of “survival information”, teaching how live off the land and how to…
GMN 1865.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2429
1863 MARSTON, Jeffery Allen (1831 – 1911)
Report on fever (Malta).
Marston wrote the first description of Malta fever as a distinct disease. He contracted the disease while serving in the Mediterranean area and described his own case. Marston was apparently the first to describe “Wei…
GMN 5097 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6018
1863 DABRY DE THIERSANT, Philibert (1826 – 1898); SOUBEIRAN, Jean-Léon (1827 – 1892)
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…
GMN 6492.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8000
1863 BATES, Henry Walter (1825 – 1892)
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.
GMN 7442 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9614
1863 FORMENTO, Felix (1837 – 1907)
Notes and observations on army surgery.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 7813 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9985
1863 –1878 BENTHAM, George (1800 – 1884); MUELLER, Baron Sir Ferdinand Jacob Heinrich von (1825 – 1896)
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, …
GMN 9172 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11351
1863 BIRD, Samuel Dougan (1832 – 1904)
On Australasian climates and their influence in the prevention and arrest of pulmonary consumption.
Digital facsimile from wellcomecollection.org at this link.
GMN 10894 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13090
1863 OWEN, Sir Richard (1804 – 1892)
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 …
GMN 12657 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14901
1863 GORDON, Sir Charles Alexander (1821 – 1899)
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.
GMN 13844 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16134
1864 –1865 COUCH, Jonathan (1789 – 1870)
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…
GMN 335 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/222
1864
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.
GMN 1866 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2435
1864 HIS, Wilhelm Sr. (1831 – 1904); RÜTIMEYER, Ludwig (1825 – 1895)
Crania Helvetica: Sammlung schweizerischer Schädelformen.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 203.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3575
1864 HARLEY, John (1833 – 1921)
On the endemic haematuria of the Cape of Good Hope.
Like Cobbold, Harley expressed the view that a mollusc was the intermediate host in bilharziasis.
GMN 5344.5 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6777
1864 –1866 COCKAYNE, Thomas Oswald (1807 – 1873)
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…
GMN 6534 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8141
