1876 SCHWIMMER, Ernst (1837 – 1898)
Die ersten Anfänge der Heilkunde und die Medizin im alten Aegypten. Eine kulturgeschichteliche Skizze.
Sammlung gemeinverständlicher wissenscbaftlicher Vorträge, No. 255.
GMN 6469 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7670
1876 GROSS, Samuel David (1805 – 1884)
History of American medical literature from 1776 to the present time.
GMN 6761 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8216
1876 BIGELOW, Henry Jacob (1818 – 1890); BILLINGS, John Shaw (1838 – 1913); GROSS, Samuel David (1805 – 1884); THOMAS, Theodore Gaillard (1831 – 1903); CLARKE, Edward Hammond (1820 – 1877)
A century of American medicine 1776-1876
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 6586 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8497
1876 CHRISTIE, James
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.
GMN 10681 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12874
1876 STEVENSON, R. Randolph (1834 – 1891)
The southern side: Or, Andersonville Prison. Complied from official documents. Together with an examination of the Wirz Trial: A comparison of the mortality in Northern and Southern prisons; remarks on the exchange bureau, etc. An appendix, showing the number of prisoners that died at Andersonville, and the causes of death; classified lists of all that died in stockade and hospital, etc., etc.
Stevenson was chief surgeon at the Confederate States Military Prison Hospitals in Andersonville, Georgia. The appendix lists the causes of death of 12,912 men. "Andersonville Prison, established in Georgia early in 1…
GMN 10795 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12991
1876 PELIKAN, Evgeny Ventseslavovich (1824 – 1884)
Gerichtlich-medicinische Untersuchungen über das Skopzenthum in Russland nebst historischen Notizen.
Pelikan, professor of forensic medicine in St. Petersburg, published this German version of his treatise on the fanatical Russian Christian sect Skoptsy, known for its practice of castration, clitoridectomies, and mas…
GMN 12995 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15244
1877 ECK, Nikolai Vladimirovich (1848 – 1908)
K voprosu o perevyazkie vorotnoi veni. Predvaritelnoye soobshtshenize. [On the ligature of the portal vein.]
Eck developed the “Eck fistula” for the experimental study of diseases of the liver and the relation of the liver to metabolism. English translation in Surg. Gynec. Obstet., 1953, 96, 375.
GMN 630 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/586
1877 VIRCHOW, Rudolf Ludwig Karl (1821 – 1902)
Beiträge zur physischen Anthropologie der Deutschen. Mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Friesen.
Virchow made an important survey of the physical characters of the German people. Outside pathology of which he was the Master, Virchow’s greatest scientific interest was anthropology.
GMN 176 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3335
1877 MANSON, Sir Patrick (1844 – 1922)
Filaria sanguinis hominis.
GMN 5345 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6795
1877 CORLIEU, Auguste (1825 – 1907)
L'ancienne faculté de médecine de Paris.
Digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this link.
GMN 8417 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10594
1877 CUNNINGHAM, David Douglas (1843 – 1914); LEWIS, Timothy Richards (1841 – 1886)
Leprosy in India. A report.
The first quantitative study of leprosy in India. Leprosy first appeared in India at least 2,000 years ago and continued to exist throughout the subcontinent over the succeeding centuries. Upon the establishment of th…
GMN 10722 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12916
1877 LEWIS, Timothy Richards (1841 – 1886)
Filiaria sanguinis hominis - mature form.
Lewis made the critical connection/association of the worm, Filaria sanguinis,(Wuchereria bancrofti ) to Elephantiasis. This brief account appears to be a third person account summarizing Lewis's work written by an ed…
GMN 10787 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12983
1877 DAVID, Jean Pierre Armand (1826 – 1900); OUSTALET, Jean Frédéric Émile (1844 – 1905)
Les oiseaux de la Chine. Avec un atlas de 124 planches, dessinées et lithographiées par M. Arnoul et coloriées au pinceau. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 12948 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15195
1877 DUTT, Uday Chand (1834 – 1884)
Materia medica of the Hindus compiled from Sanskrit medical works. With a glossary of Indian plants.
GMN 13781 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16068
1877 VICUÑA MACKENNA, Benjamín (1831 – 1886)
Los médicos de antaño en el reino de Chile: La ciencia, la caridad, la beneficencia, la hijiene, los hospitales, los asilos, las maravillas i las barbaridades de nuestros mayores en materia de medicos i de medicina; reseña histórica i crítica que comprende desde la fundación del Hospital del Socorro, 1556, hasta el establecimiento del Tribunal del Protomedicato en 27 de abril de 1830.
Digital facsimile from wellcomecollection.org at this link.
GMN 13837 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16127
1878 RETZIUS, Magnus Gustaf (1842 – 1919)
Finska kranier: Jämte några natur- och literatur-studier, inom andra områden af finsk antropologi.
GMN 203.3 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3596
1878 LEWIS, Timothy Richards (1841 – 1886)
The microscopic organisms found in the blood of man and animals, and their relation to disease.
First description of a trypanosome (T. lewisi) in a mammal. Seoarate edition in book form with the same title: Calcutta: Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing, 1879.
GMN 5270.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8574
1878 –1883 GEERTS, Antonius Johannes Cornelius (1843 – 1883)
Les produits de la nature japonaise et chinoise: comprenant la dénomination, l'histoire et les applications aux arts, à l'industrie, à l'économie, à la médecine, etc. des substances qui dérivent des trois règnes de la nature et qui sont employées par les Japonais et les Chinois / Partie inorganique et minéralogique, contenant la description des minéraux et des substances qui dérivent du règne minéral.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 7515 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9687
1878 EWART, Joseph (1831 – 1906)
The poisonous snakes of India: For the use of the officials and others residing in the Indian Empire.
Digital facsimile from the Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.
GMN 9497 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11682
1878 SLYM, Martinus Johannes
Elephants and their treatment in health and disease.
Expanded from a "small" edition issued in 1873 at the request of the Conservator of Forests, British Burma to "answer the purpose of a guide for the management of those animals, in a more direct and complete form; and…
GMN 10721 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12915
1879 RITTER, Jacob
Beitrag zur Frage des Pneumotyphus. (Eine Hausepidemie in Uster[Schweiz] betreffend.)
First description of psittacosis in a human.
GMN 5527 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6634
1879 BÄLZ, Erwin Otto Eduard von (1849 – 1933); KAWAKAMI
Das japanische Fluss- oder Ueberschwemmings-fieber, eine acute Infectionskrankheit.
Early scientific account of tsutsugamushi fever.
GMN 5376.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7038
1879 MACDONALD, Keith Norman (1834 – 1913)
The practice of medicine among the Burmese, translated from original manuscripts, with an historical sketch of the progress of medicine, from the earliest times.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 8240 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10416
1879 RICHARDSON, Sir Benjamin Ward (1828 – 1896)
On health and occupation. Manuals of Health. Published under the direction of the Committee of General Literature and Education appointed by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 10397 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12590
1879 MANSON, Sir Patrick (1844 – 1922)
Additional notes on filaria sanguinis hominis and filiaria disease.
On p. 36 of this paper Manson first described nocturnal periodicity in Filaria Bancrofti, an adaptation to the nocturnal biting habits of their mosquito vector. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpr…
GMN 11248 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13445
1879 MURTON, H. J.
Catalogue of the plants under cultivation in the botanical gardens, Singapore, Straits Settlements.
The first published catalogue of plants in the Singapore Botanic Gardens. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
GMN 11954 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14161
1880 –1884 BÄLZ, Erwin Otto Eduard von (1849 – 1933)
Kakke (Beriberi).
In his important account of beriberi, Baelz dealt with the Tokyo outbreak of 1881.
GMN 3739 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4537
1880 MANSON, Sir Patrick (1844 – 1922)
Distoma ringeri.
Manson made a fundamental contribution to knowledge on paragonimiasis with his description of its etiology and of the parasite. He named it Distoma ringeri after Dr. Ringer, who recovered it from the lung at necropsy;…
GMN 5346.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6808
1880 GINÉ Y PARTAGÁS, Juan (1836 – 1903)
Tratado clinico iconografico de dermatologia quirurgica.
The first medical text in Spanish to use photographs as illustrations. Includes 17 lithographed plates (12 chromolithographs) and 3 original photographs (2 hand-colored). Giné y Partagás was a surgeon, dermatologist, …
GMN 6874 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9038
1880 SANZ DE SAUTUOLA, Marcelino [Marcelino DE SAUTUOLA] (1831 – 1888)
Breves apuntes sobre algunos objetos prehistóricos de la provincia de Santander
Privately printed pamphlet asserting the prehistoric origin of cave paintings discovered in the cave of Altamira, Cantabria, Spain by Maria Sanz de Sautuola, daughter of the author. These were first prehistoric cave p…
GMN 7287 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9457
1880 ACOSTA, José de (1539 – 1600); MARKHAM, Sir Robert Clements (1830 – 1916)
The natural & moral history of Indies, by Father Joseph de Acosta. Reprinted from the English translated edition of Edward Grimston, 1604. And edited, with notes and an introduction by Clements R. Markham. Vol. 1: The natural history. Vol. 2: The moral history. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 8976 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11155
1881 REYHER, Karl Karlovich (Carl Dietrich Christoph von) (1856 – 1890)
Ueber primäres Debridement der Schusswunden.
Reyher, a Russian surgeon, reintroduced débridement and made a controlled study of its value in contaminated gunshot wounds during the Russo-Turkish War of 1877. See No. 2177.
GMN 2176 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1214
1881 –1882 FINLAY, Carlos Juan (1833 – 1915)
El mosquito hipoteticamente considerado como agente de transmisión de la fiebre amarilla.
Finlay was the first to suggest that the Aedes aegypti mosquito was the vector of yellow fever. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link. English translation by Rudolph Matas as "The mosquito hypothetically co…
GMN 5455 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7549
1881 EVANS, Griffith (1835 – 1935)
On a horse disease in India known as “surra”, probably due to a haematozoon.
While serving in India as a veterinary surgeon, Evans discovered parasites in the blood of horses suffering from surra; this was the first pathogenic trypanosome to be described.
GMN 5271 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8576
1881 MCCONNELL, James Frederick Parry (1848 – 1896)
Catalogue of the Pathological Museum, Medical College, Calcutta.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 10374 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12566
1881 POPE, Emily F.; CALL, Emma Louise (1847 – 1937); POPE, C. Augusta
The practice of medicine by women in the United States.
"Emily F. Pope, C. Augusta Pope, and Emma Call, doctors on the staff of the New England Hospital, published a study on women physicians. Their sample included a group of 430 women doctors who had graduated from variou…
GMN 11021 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13217
1881 VERENIGING TEGEN DE KWAKZALVERIJ
Nederlands Tijdschrift tegen de Kwakzalverij. Vol. 1- .
Founded in 1881, this Dutch organization is the oldest skeptical organization in the world investigating alternative medicine and quackery. It has published its periodical since 1881. The archive of the periodical may…
GMN 11416 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13615
1881 BRETSCHNEIDER, Emil (1833 – 1901)
Early European researches into the flora of China.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 13005 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15255
1881 HILLIS, John D.
Leprosy in British Guiana. An account of West Indian Leprosy. Illustrated with twenty lithographic plates, coloured and plain, from original drawings and photographs of patients at the asylum, and several engravings from camera-lucida drawings, by E. Noble Smith, of pathological specimens, mounted and prepared, with explanatory remarks by P. S. Abraham....
The author was medical superintendent of the General Leper Asylum, British Guiana, West Indies. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 13045 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15296
1881 MURRAY, James A.
The plants an drugs of sind; being a systematic account, with descriptions, of the indigenous flora, and notices of the value and uses of their products in commerce, medicine and the arts.
GMN 13050 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15301
1882 QUATREFAGES DE BRÉAU, Jean Louis Armand de (1810 – 1892); HAMY, Ernest Théodore Jules (1842 – 1908)
Crania ethnica. Les crânes des races humaines décrits et figurés d 'après les collections du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris, de la Société d'Anthropologie de Paris et les principales collections de la France et de l'étranger par A. de Quatrefages et Ernest T. Hamy: Ouvrage accompagné de planches lithographiées d'après nature par H. Formant et illustré de nombreuses figures intercalées. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile from the Bayerische StaatsBibliothek at this link.
GMN 203.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3584
1882 MACLEOD, Kenneth (1840 – 1922)
Precis of operations performed in the wards of the first surgeon, Medical College Hospital, during the year 1881.
MacLeod was first to draw attention to granuloma inguinale.
GMN 5204.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7795
1882 KANE, Harry Hubbell (1854 – )
Opium-smoking in America and China: A study of its prevalence, and effects, immediate and remote, on the individual and the nation.
The author claims (p. 1) that "the first white man who smoked opium in America is said to have been a sporting character named Clendenyn. The second—induced to try it by the first—smoked in 1871." Digital facsimile fr…
GMN 9506 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11691
1882 –1895 BRETSCHNEIDER, Emil (1833 – 1901)
Botanicon sinicum: Notes on Chinese botany from native and western sources. 3 parts.
Part 1 was first published in the Journal of the North-China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, XVI (1881). Part 2 was published in the Journal of the China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society for 1890-91, XXV (1893…
GMN 13006 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15256
1883 MANSON, Sir Patrick (1844 – 1922)
The Filaria sanguinis hominis and certain new form of parasitic disease in India, China and warm countries.
A collection of several papers written by Manson.
GMN 2455 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2980
1883 KOCH, Robert Heinrich Hermann (1843 – 1910)
Bericht über die Thätigkeit der deutschen Cholerakommission in Aegypten und Ostindien.
Koch–Weeks bacillus, Hemophilus conjunctivitidis, or Hemophilus aegyptius. Koch discovered the bacilli of two varieties of Egyptian conjunctivitis. See also No. 5930.
GMN 5923 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6839
1883 –1885 ROHLFS, Heinrich (1827 – 1898)
Die chirurgischen Klassiker Deutschlands. 2 vols.
GMN 5796 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6881
1883 DEBLENNE, Paul-Richard (1853 – )
Essai de géographie médicale de l'Ille Nosi-Bé près la cote nord-ouest de Madagascar (avec cartes). Thèse pour le doctorat en médicine.
GMN 14039 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16347
1884 PUSCHMANN, Theodor (1844 – 1899)
Die Medicin in Wien während der letzten 100 Jahre.
GMN 6526 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8116
1884 GORDON, Sir Charles Alexander (1821 – 1899)
An epitome of the reports of the medical officers to the Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs Office from 1871 to 1882. With chapters on the history of medicine in China: Materia medica: Epidemics: Famine: Ethnology: And chronology in relation to medicine and public health.
Apart from studies of common diseases, public health issues, and epizootics, this work contains a chapter on opium smoking and a chapter on the castration of Chinese eunuchs, of which there were around a thousand work…
GMN 9422 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11605
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