1850–1859
501 entries with publication dates in this decade.
1856
#4933
The treatment of the insane without mechanical restraints.
As early as 1839, Conolly treated the insane without any form of restraint at Hanwell Asylum, now St. Bernard’s Hospital. Facsimile reprint with introduction by R. Hunter and I. Macalpine, London, Dawsons, 1973. Digit…
1856
#5183.2
Clinica médica. Abcesos del higado.
Jimenez gave a classic account of liver abscess in amoebiasis.
1856
#5878
Iritis – non-mercurial treatment.
The second and third papers are entitled “On the treatment of iritis without mercury”.
1856
#4532
Cases of paraplegia [with autopsies of ataxic cases, showing lesions in the posterior columns of the spinal cord].
Gull showed the lesions of tabes dorsalis to be located in the posterior columns of the spinal cord.
1856
#22
Тα ∑ωζομενα. The extant works of Aretaeus, the Cappadocian. Edited and translated by Francis Adams.
Aretaeus left many fine descriptions of disease; in fact Garrison ranks him second only to Hippocrates in this respect. In the printed editions of this bibliography, before the present online version, the Adams editio…
1856
#7809
Eastern hospitals and English nurses; the narrative of twelve months' experience in the hospitals of Koulali and Scutari by a lady volunteer. 2 vols.
Taylor accompanied Florence Nightingale to Scutari, and worked as nurse in the military hospitals. She provided one of the first eye-witness acounts of military hospitals at Scutari and Koulali, and wrote about the ma…
1856
#7875
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…
1856
#8215
Die geographischen Verhältnisse der Krankheiten oder Grundzüge der Noso-Geographie. Vol. 1: Allgemeine Gesetze und Lehren der Noso-Geographie; Vol. 2: Thesaurus Noso-Geographicus.
Digital facsimile from Heinrich Heine Universität Düsseldorf at this link.
1856
#9603
Nicandrea. Theriaca et Alexipharmaca recensuit et emendavit fragmenta collegit, commentationes addidit Otto Schneider. Accedunt scholia in Theriaca excensione Henrici Keil.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1856
#9667
Traité d'hygiène navale, ou de l'influence des conditions physiques et morales dans lesquelles l'homme de mer est appelé à vivre et des moyens de conserver sa santé.
One of the first naval manuals to include discussions of zootoxicology. Digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this link. Much expanded second edition (1877); digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this link.
1856
#10112
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
1856
#10261
The camel: His organization habits and uses considered with reference to his introduction into the United States.
Marsh, who is remembered today for his contributions to ecology in his book, Man and nature, was appointed by president Zachary Taylor United States minister resident in the Ottoman Empire from 1849-1854. There he und…
1856
#10458
Du suicide et de la folie suicide, considérés dans leur rapports avec la statistique, la médecine et la philosophie.
Pioneering monograph on this subject. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1856
#11072
De l'homicide et de l'anthropophagie.
One of the earliest works on cannibalism, and probably the first work to combine a discussion of homicide and cannibalism from the medical viewpoint. The author, who was very widely read on these subjects, searched fo…
1856
#11146
Manuel d'anatomie pathologique générale et appliquée: Contenant la description et le catalogue du Musée Dupuytren.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1856
#11301
Catalogue of the pathological museum of Prof. T. D. Mutter.
Digital facsimile from U.S. National Library of Medicine at this link.
1856 –1879
#12026
Catalogue of the library of the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society of London [by Benjamin Robert Wheatley]. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile of Vol. 1 from Google Books at this link, of Vol. 2 at this link.
1856
#12319
Anatomical and surgical lectures.
A one-page advertising circular dated December 10, 1856 advertising Cooper's first course of private lectures in San Francisco. Cooper, founder of California’s (and the West Coast’s) first medical school, came to San …
1856
#13464
Circumstances affecting the heat of the sun's rays.
Foote was the first scientist known to have experimented on the warming effect of sunlight on different gases. In this two-page paper she theorized that changing the proportion of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere woul…
1856
#13687
Étude médico-légale sur l’avortement, suivie d’observations et de recherches pour servir à l’histoire médico-légale des grossesses fausses et simulées.
Perhaps the most widely revised and reprinted of all of Tardieu's works. 4th revised & enlarged edition, 1881; 7th revised and enlarged edition, 1904; new revised edition, 1907, 1925, 1939. Digital facsimile of the 4t…
1856
#13863
Descriptive catalogue of the fossil organic remains of invertebrata contained in the museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.
1856
#14062
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…
1856
#14125
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.
1857
#4466
Dell’amputazione del femore al terzo inferiore e della disarticulazione del ginocchio.
Gritti’s amputation of the thigh was later improved by Stokes (see No. 4470).
1857
#4496
A treatise on rheumatic gout, or chronic rheumatic arthritis, of all the joints.
An excellent description of chronic rheumatic arthritis. Adams also published Illustrations of the effects of rheumatic gout, London, 1857.
1857
#934
Die Gase des Blutes.
Meyer showed that the oxygen in the blood was not held in simple solution but came off in quantity only when the air pressure was reduced to one fiftieth of an atmosphere.
1857 –1877
#333
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…
1857
#619
On the formation of the skeletons of animals, and other hard structures formed in connexion with living tissues.
Includes description of “Rainey’s tubes” or “corpuscles” in connexion with the process of calcification of tissues.
1857 –1863
#1001
Sur une fonction peu connue du pancréas. La digestion des aliments azotés. 10 pts.
Corvisart showed that pancreatic proteolysis takes place at body temperature, in acid, alkaline, or neutral media.
1857
#687
On the immediate principles of human excrements in the healthy state.
First important publication on coprosterol as a product of excretion.
1857
#1327
Essays on the secretory and the excito-secretory system of nerves.
Campbell saw in the sympathetic a nervous system related to secretion and nutrition and having intimate connexion with the sensory nerves. He coined the ter “excito-secretory” to designate his theory; although this te…
1857
#4813.1
[Contribution to discussion on paper by E.H. Sieveking.]
Locock, physician accoucheur to Queen Victoria, recommended bromide of potassium in the treatment of epilepsy.
1857
#4814
Cases of epilepsy, associated with amenorrhoea and vicarious menstruation, successfully treated with the iodide of potassium.
O’Connor was apparently the first to use potassium bromide for the treatment of epilepsy.
1857
#1996
Die Electricität in der Medicin.
Ziemssen confirmed Remak’s discovery of the motor points, established their exact location, and published exact instructions for finding the motor points for stimulating the various muscles of the body.
1857
#1233
Researches into the structure and physiology of the kidney.
1857
On the function of the Malpighian bodies of the kidney.
Isaacs confirmed and corrected the findings of Bowman; he introduced dye experiments in the study of the kidney, from which he drew the important conclusion that the Malpighian bodies are the most important agency in …
1857
#1462
Anatomie und Physiologie des menschlichen Stimm- und Sprach-Organs (Anthropophonik).
1857
#1863
Leçons sur les effets des substances toxiques et médicamenteuses.
Bernard included a summary of his experiments with curare in the Leçons to establish his priority in researching its effects. He demonstrated in these experiments the susceptibility of the nerve-muscle preparation to …
1857 –1861
#2297.1
Traité d’anatomie pathologique générale et spéciale. 4 vols.
Lebert set out to cover both general and special pathology. The superb hand-colored folio-sized copperplate engravings of macro- and micropathology in this work are among the finest ever published.
1857
#2472
Mémoire sur la fermentation appelée lactique.
First demonstration of the connection between a specific fermentation and the activity of a specific living micro-organism. This paper is often considered the beginning of bacteriology as a modern science. The above w…
1857 –1858
#1743
Practisches Handbuch der gerichtlichen Medicin. 2 vols. plus atlas of nine chromolithographed plates.
Casper was the greatest name in forensic medicine in his time. His book was published in English by the New Sydenham Society in 1861-65; it was unsurpassed for many years.
1857
#3064.1
Ein neuer Fall von Leukämie.
Acute leukemia first described.
1857
#3591
Hernia retroperitonealis. Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte innerer Hernien.
Treitz described retroperitoneal hernia through the duodeno-jejunal recess – “Treitz’s hernia”.
1857
#3765
Die Exstirpation der Milz am Menschen.
1857
#3935
Untersuchungen über die Honigharnruhr.
Petters discovered acetone in diabetic urine.
1857
#4045
Lichen exsudativus ruber.
First description of this condition (“Hebra’s pityriasis”).
1857 –1858
#4046
Sur la coloration partielle en noir ou en bleu de la peau chez les femmes.
Chromidrosis first described.
1857
#3454
On the pathology, symptoms, and treatment of ulcer of the stomach.
A comprehensive account of peptic (duodenal) ulcer; includes a review of the results of more than 7,000 post mortems.
1857
#3455
Infusorier, sasom intestinaldjur hos menniskan.
Discovery of Balantidium coli, the first parasitic protozoon to be discovered and recognized as such. German translation in Virchows Arch. path. Anat., 1857, 12, 302-09. English translation in Kean et al. (No. 2268.1).
1857
#3456
De polypis oesophagi atque de tumore ejus generis primo prospere exstirpato.
First operation for tumor of the esophagus.