1860–1869
571 entries with publication dates in this decade.
1867
#11641
Catalogue and report of obstetrical and other instruments exhibited at the Conversazione of the Obstetrical Society of London...held, by permission, at the Royal College of Physicians, March 28th, 1866.
“ A key reference source for mid-19th century [obstetrical] instruments. Many of these instruments became incorporated into the Museum of the Obstetrical Society of London, the contents of which became the property of…
1867
#11705
Sketches of the inhabitants, animal life and vegetation in the lowlands and high mountains of Ceylon: As well as of the submarine scenery near the coast taken from a diving bell.
This work was illustrated with 26 tinted lithographs of natives and scenery in Sri Lanka after drawings from nature by the author, of which four were colored reproductions of underwater scenes made by the author using…
1867
#11883
Lois de la nomenclature botanique rédigées et commentées par M. Alph. de Candolle. Texte préparé sur la demande da Comité d'organisation du Congrès international de botanique de Paris, du 16 août 1867, pour servir de base aux discussions sur les points controversés en nomenclature.
This was the first system of botanical nomenclature adopted by an international governing body. Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link. Translated into English as Laws of botanical nomenclat…
1867
#12508
Traité de la carie dentaire: Recherches expérimentales et thérapeutiques.
From the English translation: "The proceding considerations tend to establish that dental caries results from a purely chemical alteration of the enamel and ivory of the teeth either by the products of acid fermentati…
1867
#13345
Three years in field hospitals of the Army of the Potomac.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1867
#13481
Catalogue of the very extensive and valuable library of works on anatomy, physiology, medicine, natural history, and relative sciences, which belonged to the late Professor Goodsir, comprising ... to be sold by auction, by Mr. Dowell, within his book rooms, 18 George Street, Edinburgh, on Thursday and Friday, 28th and 29th November, 1867. Commencing at twelve o'clock each day. On view on Tuesday and Wednesday, 26th and 27th November.
Digital facsimile from wellcomecollection.org at this link.
1867 –1872
#14321
Arsenal de la chirurgie contemporaine. Description, mode d'emploi et appréciation des appareils et instruments en usage pour le diagnostic et le traitement des maladies chirurgicales, l'orthopédie, la prothèse, les opérations simples, générales, spéciales et obstétricales. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1868
#940
Ueber die Ursache der Athembewegungen, sowie der Dyspnoë und Apnoë.
Pflüger investigated the cause of the initiation of respiration in newborn animals. English translation in No. 1588.16.
1868
#941
Die Selbststeuerung der Athmung durch den Nervus vagus.
1868
#942
Die Selbststeuerung der Athmung durch den Nervus vagus.
“Hering-Breuer reflex”; see also the previous entry. English translation of both papers in R. Porter (ed.), Hering–Breuer Centenary Symposium, London, Churchill, 1970. Digital facsimile of the 1868 edition from the Ba…
1868
#819.1
Über den zeitlichen Verlauf der negativen Schwankung des Nervenstroms.
Bernstein introduced the differential rheotome, and the first electrocardiograms were obtained with it by Marchand in 1877 (No. 823.1).
1868
#4539
Drunkard’s or alcoholic paraplegia.
Classic account of alcoholic paraplegia.
1868
#1008
Beiträge zur Lehre von der Speichelsecretion.
1868
#873.1
Sulla funzione ematopoietica del midollo delle ossa.
Bizzozero demonstrated that erythropoiesis and leucopoiesis take place in the bone marrow.
1868
#693
Beitrag zur Kenntniss der Gallen-und Harnpigmente.
Jaffe discovered urobilin in the urine.
1868
#873.2
Ueber die Bedeutung des Knochenmarkes für die Blutbildung.
Independently of Bizzozero (No. 873.1), Neumann showed that erythropoiesis and leucopoiesis take place in the bone marrow.
1868
#4698
Histologie de la sclérose en plaques.
An important description of multiple sclerosis. Digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this link.
1868
#1563
Die Mechanik der Gehörknöchelchen und des Trommelfells.
Helmholtz’s study of the mechanism of the tympanum and ossicles of the middle ear did much to elucidate the phenomenon of audition. It includes a description of “Helmholtz’s ligament” of the malleus. Separate offprint…
1868
#4739
Recherches sur la paralysie musculaire pseudo-hypertrophique, ou paralysie myo-sclérosique.
“Duchenne muscular dystrophy”. English translation of first portion in Bick, Classics of orthopaedics, 72-75.
1868
#4337
Sur quelques arthropathies qui paraissent dépendre d’une lésion du cerveau ou de la moëlle épinière.
Charcot called attention to tabetic arthropathy, a condition which has since borne his name, while the tabetic joints he so well described are now known as “Charcot’s joints”.
1868
#4778
Case of cerebral disease in a syphilitic patient.
Syphilitic endarteritis of cerebral arteries described.
1868
#779
Die Ausmessung der strömenden Blutvolumina.
Invention of the Stromuhr, for measurement of the velocity of the blood. Dogiel was a pupil of Ludwig.
1868
#1616
Ueber die Canalisation von Berlin.
Virchow advocated a canal sewer system for Berlin. Such a system was constructed by Hobrecht. See No. 1624.
1868
#1466
Ueber die Haut-Sensibilitätsbezirke der einzelnen Rückenmarks-nervenpaare.
Investigation of the cutaneous distribution of the separate pairs of spinal nerves.
1868 –1869
#1867
On the connection between chemical constitution and physiological action.
Brown and Fraser were the first to investigate the relationship between the chemical constitution of substances and their action upon the body. "Although Crum Brown apparently never contemplated the practice of medici…
1868
#1868
Recherches chimiques et physiologiques sur l’erythroxylum coca du Pérou et la cocaïne.
The author, formerly a surgeon in the Peruvian army, issued the first study of the pharmacological action of cocaine, containing the earliest suggestion of its use as a local anesthetic. Leclerc issued the commercial …
1868
#1513.1
Die Lehre vom binokularen Sehen.
Hering’s law: that the corresponding muscles of the two eyes are always equally innervated. The book includes classic experiments and observations on eye movement control. English translation by B. Bridgeman and L. St…
1868
#2324
Etudes sur la tuberculose; preuves rationelles et expérimentales de sa spécifité et de son inoculabilité.
Villemin inoculated guinea-pigs and rabbits with sputum, caseous material, and miliary tubercles, with resulting development of tuberculosis. His brilliant experimental work proved tuberculosis to be a specific infect…
1868
#2480
Études sur le vinaigre.
Pasteur proved that a microorganism was essential to acetification and developed a patented method which greatly increased the efficiency of production.
1868
#1746
Die gerichtlich-chemische Ermittelung von Giften in Nahrungsmitteln, Luftgemischen, Speiseresten, Körpertheilen, etc.
Dragendorff, Professor of Pharmacy at Dorpat, Marburg, and Vienna, contributed an important book on forensic chemistry. He was responsible for the introduction of several methods for the detection of poisons in the hu…
1868
#2677
Das Verhalten der Eigenwärme in Krankheiten.
This work on temperature in disease laid the foundation of modern knowledge regarding clinical thermometry. Wunderlich reportedly took over a million measurements from 25,000 people. Temperatures ranged from 97.2 to 9…
1868
#3065
Über den Zusammenhang von Purpura und Intestinalstörungen.
“Henoch’s purpura”. Henoch described a form of purpura with abdominal symptoms first mentioned by Heberden (No. 3053). See also the same journal, 1874, 11,622, 641-43. This paper is translated into English in No. 2241.
1868
#2223
A collection of the published writings.
Addison was a contemporary of Bright at Guy’s Hospital and a fine lecturer.
1868
#3276
Om adenoide Vegetationer i Naesesvaelgrummet.
First clinical description of adenoid growths. For an English translation of the paper see Med. -chir. Trans., 1870, 53, 191-215
1868
#224
Natürliche Schöpfungsgeschichte. Gemeinverständlich wissenschaftliche Vorträge über die Entwickelungslehre im Allgemeinen und diejenige von Darwin, Goethe und Lamarck im Besonderen, über die Anwendung derselben auf den Ursprung des Menschen . . .
Haeckel constructed the first of the now commonplace ancestral trees, depicting the evolution of life from the simplest organisms through 21 stages of development to modern man – the 22nd and final stage. Within this …
1868
#224.1
The variation of animals and plants under domestication. 2 vols.
Darwin carried out numerous investigations with pigeons and various plants. He recognized continuous and discontinuous variation; he concluded that crossing tends to keep populations uniform.
1868
#3621
Case of lithotomy of the gall-bladder.
First cholecystotomy for the removal of gallstones.
1868
#3622
Clinical lectures on diseases of the liver.
1868
#2981
Om Haemoptyse navnlig den lethale, i anatomisk og klinisk Henseende.
Tuberculous aneurysm of the lung (“Rasmussen’s aneurysm”). English translation in Edinb.med.J.,1868, 14,385-401, 486-503; 1869, 15,97-104, 228-36.
1868
#4056.1
Ueber Cataracten in Verbindung mit einer eigenthümlichen Haut-de-generation.
Poikiloderma congenitale (Rothmund).
1868 –1869
#4338
Case of osteoporosis, or spongy hypertrophy of the bones (calvaria, clavicle, os femoris, and rib).
A classic account of osteitis deformans. Wilks was associated with Guy’s Hospital all his life. A kindly, charming man, he was described by Osler as one of the handsomest men in London in his time, even until the age …
1868
#4173
Clinical lectures on diseases of the urinary organs.
Thompson was Professor of Clinical Surgery at University College, London, and an eminent genito-urinary surgeon. He performed the operation of lithotrity upon Leopold I and Napoleon III; he also developed the two-glas…
1868
#4974
Die Schnelligkeit psychischer Prozesse.
Donders was the first to measure the reaction-time of a psychical process.
1868
#5344.6
Noticiar preliminar sobre vermes de uma especie ainda nao descripta, encontrados na urina de doentes de hematuria intertropical no Brazil.
In 1866 Wucherer saw the embryo form of the filaria worm. Later the name Wuchereria bancrofti was applied to it. English translation in Kean (No. 2268.1).
1868
#5376
Ueber den Hungertyphus und einige verwandte Krankheitsformen.
Virchow was instrumental in introducing into Germany an epidemiology based on the study of multiple factors – sociological as well as bacteriological. In the above report on the reappearance of typhus in Berlin and Ea…
1868
#5669
The oxygen mixture; a new anesthetic combination.
Andrews advocated the use of an oxygen-nitrous mixture.
1868
#5425.1
Nature des virus vaccin. Détermination expérimentale des éléments qui constituent le principe virulent dans le pus varioleux et le pus morveux.
Chauveau first used the term “elementary bodies” to describe the minute bodies inside the inclusions and which were the infective particles.
1868
#5900
Ueber Ceratoconus.
Classic description of conical cornea (keratoconus).
1868
#5902
Die intraocularen Geschwülste nach eigenen klinischen Beobachtungen und anatomischen Untersuchungen.
English translation, New York, 1869.
1868
#6058
Vesico-vaginal fistula from parturition and other causes: with cases of recto-vaginal fistula.
A comprehensive account of the management of vesicovaginal fistula based on Sims’s technique.