1870–1879
662 entries with publication dates in this decade.
1877
#631
A text-book of physiology.
Foster was one of the greatest of the modern teachers of physiology. He became professor at Cambridge in 1883. Many great scientists are numbered among his pupils. See G.L. Geisen, Michael Foster and the Cambridge Sch…
1877 –1880
#632
Observations on the locomotor system of Medusae. 3 pts.
Charles Sherrington described the significance of Romanes' research on jellyfish in terms of its impact on cardiac physiology: "Romanes's observations carried out with simple means were novel and fundamental. The ques…
1877
#630
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.
1877
#4624
Die Störungen der Sprache.
Kussmaul termed aphasia “word-blindness”. The book was issued as a supplement to vol. 12 of Ziemssen’s Handbuch der speciellen Pathologie und Therapie. English translation in Ziemssen’s Cyclopedia of the practice of m…
1877
#697
Ueber die Ausscheidung des Indicans unter physiologischen und pathologischen Verhältnissen.
Isolation of indican in the urine.
1877
#698
Osmotische Untersuchungen.
The osmotic pressures of solutions were found by Pfeffer to be directly in proportion to the concentration of the solute and to the absolute temperature. English translation, 1895.
1877
#699
Untersuchungen über die Wirkung der Säuren auf den thierischen Organismus.
1877
#4745
On cerebritis, hysteria, and bulbar paralysis, as illustrative of arrest of function of the cerebro-spinal centres.
The case of “bulbar paralysis” (pp. 45-55) is believed to be the first definite record of myasthenia gravis.
1877
#498
Beobachtungen über die Beschaffenheit des Zellkerns.
Discovery of the centrosome.
1877
#4799
A case of general paralysis at the age of sixteen.
Clouston, eminent English psychiatrist, was the first definitely to recognize the relationship between paresis and congenital syphilis and to report a case. This paper is also of interest as being the only recorded ca…
1877 –1880
#1779
Traité de climatologie médicale, 4 vols. and 1 atlas.
1877
#1997
Researches on the effect of light upon bacteria and other organisms.
Downes and Blunt were the first to demonstrate the bactericidal action of sunlight; they regarded the germicidal property of light as depending on oxidation.
1877
#1998
Die Hydrotherapie. 2 vols.
1877
#1411
Untersuchungen über die Haubenregion und ihre oberen Verknüpfungen im Gehirne des Menschen und einiger Säugethiere, mit Beiträgen zu den Methoden der Gehirnuntersuchung.
Forel elucidated the subthalamic region, “campus Foreli”.
1877
#2033
Hauptmomente in der geschichtlichen Entwickelung der medicinischen Therapie.
Reprinted Hildesheim, 1966.
1877
#1274
Ueber die Ermüdung und Erholung der Nerven.
After successfully tetanizing a nerve-muscle preparation, Bernstein inferred, from this and additional data, that nerve is exhausted in the process. This conflicted with the findings of Bowditch (No. 1281-82) and Vved…
1877
#145.61
Die Auster und die Austernwirtschaft.
In this study of oyster culture precipitated by the impoverishment of natural oyster beds, Möbius provided the earliest description of a marine animal community maintained in a state of equilibrium by limitations of r…
1877
#1517
Zur Physiologie des Sehens und der Farbenempfindung.
Boll noted that visual purple is bleached on exposure to light.
1877 –1880
#2303
Vorlesungen über allgemeine Pathologie. 2 vols.
Apart from Virchow’s Cellularpathologie, this was the most influential textbook of pathology during the 19th century. It includes (vol. 1, p. 38) a report on the experimental production of heart murmurs. English trans…
1877
#2487
Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Anilinfärbungen und ihrer Verwendung in der mikroskopischen Technik.
Ehrlich’s first paper on the staining of specific granulation in white blood corpuscles by means of aniline dyes. His work immensely affected subsequent technical methods of staining.
1877
#2488
Verfahrungen zur Untersuchung, zum Conserviren und Photographiren der Bacterien.
Koch greatly improved staining methods; he laid the foundations of the technical procedures employed in bacteriology today. In the above paper he described his method of slide preparation, making films of bacteria on …
1877 –1878
#2489
On the lactic fermentation and its bearings on pathology.
Lister was the first to obtain a pure culture of a bacterium (Bact. lactis). Lister first presented the results of this research in an address to the Royal Society on December 18, 1877. Because of its historic signifi…
1877 –1878
#1749
Lehrbuch der gerichtlichen Medicin.
An important German work on the subject. Hofmann’s book went through many editions and was translated into several European languages.
1877
#1932.1
Charbon et septicémie.
Discovery of Vibrion septique (Cl. septicum), the first pathogenic anerobe to be found. Pasteur and Joubert were probably the first to realize the practical implications of antibiosis. They noted the antagonism betwee…
1877
#2491
Fermentation and its bearings on the phenomena of disease.
See No. 2495.
1877
#176
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.
1877
#3125.2
A case of progressive pernicious anaemia (idiopathic of Addison).
First complete account of pernicious anemia. "In 1877, William Gardner and Osler described a patient who was almost certainly the first with the clinical, hematologic, and pathologic features to leave no doubt it was …
1877
#3593
Studien zur Radikalbehandlung der Hernien.
1877
#2780
Du rétrécissement mitral pur.
First description of congenital mitral stenosis, “Duroziez’s disease.”
1877
#3386
Erkrankungen des Warzentheiles.
First clear description of mastoiditis.
1877
#3387.1
Ueber einen einheitlichen Hörmesser.
Politzer described an acumeter.
1877
#3942
Leçons sur le diabète et la glycogenèse animale.
Bernard showed that in diabetes there is primarily glycemia followed by glycosuria.
1877
#3943
Notes et reflexions à propos de 2 cas de diabète sucré avec altération du pancreas.
Lancereaux was the first definitely to claim a causal relationship between lesions of the pancreas and diabetes.
1877 –1878
#4073
The minute anatomy of dysidrosis.
1877
#4342
On the formation of synovial cysts in the leg in connection with disease of the knee joint.
“Baker’s cysts” of the knee-joint. Reprinted in Med. Classics, 1941, 5, 785-820.
1877
#4343
On a form of chronic inflammation of bones (osteitis deformans).
Paget was at one time Sergeant Surgeon to Queen Victoria. His classic description of osteitis deformans led that condition to be called “Paget’s disease”. Reprinted in Med. Classics, 1936, 1, 29-71.
1877
#4344.1
Spinal disease and spinal curvature, their treatment by suspension and the use of the plaster of Paris bandage.
Sayre’s monograph on his methods of treating tuberculosis of the spine and scoliosis is the first American surgical textbook to contain actual mounted photographs, some of which are remarkable for their artistic quali…
1877
#3693
The history of the reform movement in the dental profession in Great Britain during the last twenty years.
The history of the beginnings of an organized dental profession in Britain.
1877
#5168
Étude sur la maladie charbonneuse.
Pasteur confirmed Koch’s results regarding anthrax; with Joubert he carried the bacillus through 100 generations and succeeded in producing anthrax from the last, thus disposing of the idea of a separate virus.
1877
#4216.1
Eine eigenthümliche Nierenexstirpation.
First nephrectomy for malignant disease.
1877
#4216.2
Leçons sur les maladies du foie, des voies biliaires et des reins.
Charcot defined “scarlatinous nephritis” and “amyloid kidney” as distinct pathological entities. English translation, New York, 1878.
1877
#5510
Ueber eine neue Pilzkrankheit beim Rinde.
First effective description of Actinomyces bovis.
1877
#5345
Filaria sanguinis hominis.
1877
#5345.1
Further observations on Filaria sanguinis hominis.
Manson showed that Wuchereria bancrofti, the cause of filarial elephantiasis in man, develops in, and is transmitted by, the Culex mosquito. This was the first proof that infective diseases are spread by animal vector…
1877 –1878
#4850.1
Chirurgie d’Hippocrate. 2 vols
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A Greek-French edition with extensive notes and commentaries by J. E. Pétrequin, surgeon-in-chief of the Hôtel-Dieu of Lyon. Operations attributed to Hippocrates included trephination and paracentesis; his most import…
1877
#5994
Geschichte der Ophthalmologie. In: GRAEFE and SAEMISCH, Handbuch der gesammten Augenheilkunde 7, Theil 5, 235-554
The first systematic history of the subject.
1877 –1888
#5613
Mémoires de chirurgie. 5 vols.
Verneuil, Paris surgeon, introduced forcipressure in hemorrhage (see No. 5612), dry bandaging, and iodoform in the treatment of abscesses. All his works are included in his Mémoires.
1877
#5614
Du cautére Paquelin.
Paquelin introduced a thermocautery (“Paquelin’s cautery”).
1877
#6066.1
Uber drei Fälle von primärem Carcinom im Fundus und Corpus des Uterus.
Choriocarcinoma first reported.
1877
#6067
Ueber die Exstirpation normaler und nicht zu umfänglichen Tumoren degenerirter Eierstöcke.
Hegar developed Battey’s operation (No. 6062) and employed it for the treatment of various ovarian conditions.