1840–1849
472 entries with publication dates in this decade.
1847
#2434
Om spedalskhed. Udgivet efter Foranstaltning af den Kongelige Norske Regjerings Department for det Indre. 1 vol. and atlas.
First modern description of leprosy (“Danielssen-Boeck disease’’). Danielssen, physician to the leprosy hospital at Bergen, was the founder of scientific leprology. The extremely rare Atlas consists of 24 plates and t…
1847
#2296
Die pathologischen Pigmente.
On the origin and chemical composition of extracellular and intracellular pigments, and on the supposed formation of new cells by the membranous envelopment of pigmented blood corpuscles or pigment granules.
1847
#2613
Zur Entwickelungsgeschichte des Krebses.
While still a young man Virchow founded the above journal. He wrote a fine paper on cancer and suggested that the exciting cause is local irritation.
1847 –1864
#203.9
Antiquités celtiques et antédiluviennes. Mémoire sur l'industrie primitive et les arts à leur origine. 3 vols.
Customs inspector at Abbéville and a prolific writer on diverse subjects, Boucher de Perthes found extensive deposits of flint implements in association with the bones of mammoths and other fossil animals. His work pr…
1847
#3117
Puerperal anaemia; or a peculiar anaemic condition, occurring in gestating and lactating females.
Bennett described the anemia of pregnancy and defined it as resulting from the process of reproduction.
1847
#2903
Ueber die acute Entzündung der Arterien.
1847
#2978
Observations on aneurism, and its treatment by compression.
Bellingham introduced the “Dublin method” of treating aneurysm by slow compression.
1847
#3449
Case of internal strangulation of intestine relieved by operation.
Records the first operation for intestinal strangulation of the small intestine by Hilton at Guy’s Hospital. No anaesthetic was used; the patient died nine hours afterwards.
1847 –1855
#4417
Traité des fractures et des luxations. 2 vols. and atlas.
This was Malgaigne’s greatest work. His description of bilateral vertical fracture of the pelvis (“Malgaigne’s fracture”) is in vol. 1, pp. 650-56. English translation of the first volume on fractures, Philadelphia, 1…
1847
#4417.1
A treatise on fractures in the vicinity of joints and on certain forms of accidental and congenital dislocations.
The first important work on fractures by an Irish author. It includes the description of “Smith’s fracture”. In his chapter “On fractures of the bones of the forearm in the vicinity of the wrist joint” Smith corrected…
1847
#5524
Scriptores de sudore anglico superstites. Colliget C. G. Gruner. Post mortem auctoris adomavit et edidit H. Haeser.
A collection of all the important earlier writings on sweating sickness.
1847
#5862
A manual of the principles and practice of ophthalmic medicine and surgery.
The last important English work on opthalmology published before the invention of the ophthalmoscope. Jones did not appreciate the prototype ophthalmoscope devised by Charles Babbage, and shown to him in 1847. After t…
1847
#5863
Traité théorique et pratique des maladies des yeux.
1847
#5653
Remarks on the proper mode of administering sulphuric ether by inhalation.
This 44-page pamphlet was the first American manual on the administration of anesthesia. In it Morton announced that his method of producing anesthesia was obtained by the inhalation of sulphuric ether. He subsequentl…
1847
#5654
Note touchant l’action de l’ether sur les centres nerveux.
On 8 March 1847, Flourens announced that chloroform had an anesthetic effect analogous to that of ether. Little notice seems to have been taken of his paper, but later in the year Simpson independently demonstrated th…
1847
#5655
Nouveau procédé pour produire, au moyen de la vapeur d’éther, l’insensibilité chez les individus soumis à des opérations chirurgicales.
Pirogov was the first to practise rectal etherization, suggested by Roux earlier in 1847.
1847
#5656
Recherches pratiques et physiologiques sur l’éthérisation.
Pirogov, the great military surgeon, was with Syme the first in Europe to adopt ether anesthesia, and he left an interesting account of his experiences with it. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1847
#5657
Discovery of a new anaesthetic agent, more efficient than sulphuric ether.
In an attempt to find an anesthetic less irritating than ether, Simpson discovered the advantages of chloroform. He had previously used ether with great benefit in midwifery, but now substituted chloroform, being the …
1847
#5657.1
A treatise on the inhalation of the vapour of ether, for the prevention of pain in surgical operations; containing a numerous collection of cases in which it has been applied, with the names of the operators; history of the discovery - description of the apparatus - method of preparing the ether - remarks as to the time when the operation should commence, etc., etc., etc.
The first textbook of ether anesthesia, published in March, 1847. Robinson, a British dentist, was the first to use anesthesia in England, after receiving information from Henry Jacob Bigelow and Francis Boott. Digita…
1847
#5658
On the inhalation of the vapour of ether in surgical operations.
Includes an account of Snow’s regulating inhaler, the first to control the amount of ether vapor by the patient. This pamphlet, which appeared in October 1847, was the second treatise on ether anesthesia, after Robins…
1847 –1848
#5659
On the use of ether in the performance of surgical operations.
Syme was, with Pirogov, the first in Europe to adopt ether anesthesia in surgical operations.
1847
#5659.1
Die Aether gegen den Schmerz.
First application of ether anesthesia for plastic operations. Dieffenbach made his first use of the anesthetic in reconstructing a nose. He modified Morton’s inhaler. Dieffenbach’s work helped bring about the early ac…
1847
#5660
A history of the discovery of the application of nitrous oxide gas, ether, and other vapours, to surgical operations.
In 1844 Wells, a Hartford dentist, successfully used nitrous oxide as a dental anesthetic. To publicize his discovery, he arranged a demonstration at Harvard Medical School in January 1845, but this proved a fiasco. W…
1847
#5443
Iagttagelser, anstillede under Maeslinge-Epidemien paa Faerøerne i Aaret 1846.
When only 26 years of age, Panum was sent by the Danish Government to investigate the epidemic of measles then raging in the Faroe Islands. His report on the subject was a valuable contribution to medical literature. …
1847 –1848
#6275
Höchst wichtige Erfahrungen über die Aetiologie der in Gebäranstalten epidemischen Puerperalfieber.
Semmelweis, pioneer of antisepsis in obstetrics, was the first to recognize that puerperal fever is a septicemia. He concluded that the doctors and students of Vienna’s First Obstetrical Clinic carried the infection o…
1847
#6922
Thèses de physique et de chimie, Presentées à la Faculté des Sciences de Paris.
Pasteur reported a series of “investigations into the relation between optical activity, crystalline structure, and chemical composition in organic compounds, particularly tartaric and paratartaric acids. This work fo…
1847
#7249
Première Lettre. Boston, le 13 november 1846.
Jackson, a physician, geologist and chemist in Boston, wrote this letter to Élie de Beaumont in Paris on November 13, 1846, the day after he and William T. G. Morton jointly received U.S. Patent No. 4848 for Improveme…
1847
#7305
Notice sur des ossements humains fossiles, trouvés dans une caverne du Brésil.
Lund, a student of Cuvier, excavated extensively in the region of Lagoa Santa, an area rich in caves and karst formations comprising the northern part of Greater Belo Horizonte in Brazil. Between 1835 and 1843 he coll…
1847
#7602
A descriptive catalogue of the Anatomical Museum of the Boston Society for Medical Improvement.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1847
#7882
Surgical operations performed during insensibility, produced by the inhalation of sulphuric ether.
The first use of ether as an anesthetic in Britain (for a dental procedure) was conducted in Boott's house at 24 Gower Street on 19 December 1846. Boott issued the second announcement of ether anesthesia published in …
1847
#8545
Medical botany: or, Descriptions of the more important plants used in medicine, with their history, properties, and mode of administration.
The author intended to update and correct the earlier works on American materia medica by Barton, Bigelow and Rafinesque, and to make this information available at a reasonable price. Digital facsimile from the Biodiv…
1847
#10063
Proceedings of the National Medical Conventions, held in New York, May, 1846, and in Philadelphia, May, 1847.
The complete proceedings of the founding of the American Medical Association. This version also contains the text of the Code of Ethics written by Isaac Hayes and adopted by the AMA. In updated forms, this remains the…
1847 –1847
#10336
Southern ichthyology; or a description of the fishes inhabiting the waters of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida. Pt. 2, 1847, Pt. 3, 1848.
Holbrook never published part one of this work.
1847
#10384
Die Krankheiten der Arbeiter in den Phospherzündholzfabriken, insbesondere das Leiden der Kieferknochen durch Phosphordämpfe. Vom chemisch-physiologischen, medicinisch-chirurgischen und medicinisch-polizeylichen Standpunkt. Text plus atlas of 9 plates.
An early illustrated work on phosphorus poisoning in the match industry. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1847 –1852
#11808
Flora medico-farmaceutica. 6 vols.
Digital facsimile of the complete set from the Internet Archive at this link.
1847
#11913
Some account of the first use of sulphuric ether by inhalation in surgical practice. [Read before the Boston Society for Medical Improvement, April 12, 1847.]
Hayward's case report of the first major operation performed under ether anesthesia, which he performed at the Massachusetts General Hospital on November 7, 1846, three weeks after Warren's first operation using ether…
1847
#12870
Experiences relatives aux effets de l'inhalation de l'ether sulfurique sur le systême nerveux. (Mémoire lu à l'Académie Royale de Medicine)
The first scientific analysis of the effects of ether anesthesis. Though ether anesthesia was invented in America, its inventors and early users were either scientifically untrained like Morton, or men of practical sc…
1847
#12954
On the inhalation of the vapour of ether.
Appearing in March, 1847, this was Snow's first publication on anesthesia. It contains the first description and illustration of his regulating inhaler, the first such device to control the amount of ether vapor recei…
1847
#13469
The married woman's private medical companion, embracing the treatment of menstruation, or monthly turns, during their stoppage, irregularity, or entire suppression, pregnancy, and how it may be determined, with the treatment of its various diseases. Discovery to prevent pregnancy, its great and important necessity where malformation or inability exists to give birth. To prevent miscarriage or abortion when proper and necessary, to effect miscarriage when attended with entire safety. Causes and mode of cure of barrenness or sterility
Published pseudonymously by radical printer Charles Lohman who was married to the abortionist/entrpreneur Ann Lohman known as "Madame Restell." The Lohmans also sold condoms. Digital facsimile from U.S. National Libra…
1847 –1887
#13751
Thesaurus conchyliorum, or monographs of the genera of shells. 5 vols. text, each with an accompanying volume of plates.
Completed by G. B. Sowerby III after the death of G.B.S. II. Since "III" was color blind, his daughter did most of the coloring of his engravings. Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.
1847
#13772
Household surgery; or, hints on emergencies.
1848
#545
Bone or osseous tissue.
The discovery of the “fibers of Sharpey” is reported on pp. cxlii-cxliii.
1848
#809
Über die Herznerven des Frosches.
1848
#330
On the archetype and homologies of the vertebrate skeleton.
Owen’s vertebral theory of the origin of the skull, later refuted by Thomas Huxley and others. "Owen began working systematically on problems of transcendental morphology in 1841, as part of his curatorial task to arr…
1848 –1884
#610
Untersuchungen über thierische Elektricität. 2 vols.
A pupil of J. Müller, Emil du Bois-Reymond was the founder of modern electrophysiology. He introduced faradic stimulation and made an exhaustive investigation of physiological tetanus. Above is a collective edition of…
1848
#612
Ueber die Wärmeentwickelung bei der Muskelaction.
Helmholtz showed the muscles to be the principal source of animal heat.
1848
#995
De l’origine du sucre dans l’économie animale.
Bernard’s first communication regarding his investigation of the glycogenic function of the liver. Reprinted, with translation, in Med. Classics, 1939, 3, 552-80.
1848
#680
Quantitative Bestimmung des Zuckers im Harn.
Fehling’s test for sugar in the urine.
1848
#681
Untersuchung der Ochsengalle.
1848
#865.1
Beobachtungen über eine eiweissartige Substanz in Krystallform.
Reichert obtained hemoglobin crystals in the guinea pig. Digital facsimile from ECHO at this link.