1870–1879
662 entries with publication dates in this decade.
1877
#6068
Noveau procédé pour la guérison du prolapsus utérin.
Le Fort’s operation for prolapse.
1877
#6069
Anatomische Bedeutung der Erosionen am Scheidentheil.
1877
#6192
Description de deux nouveaux forceps.
Tarnier invented the axis-traction forceps. See also Ann. Gynéc., 1877, 7, 241-64
1877
#6485.91
[Charaka Samhita. Edited by Jibananda Vidyasagara.]
Sanskrit text. Authorities vary as to the date of Charaka. He is said to have lived at times varying between 800 BCE and 78 CE. The Samhita, or Sanhita, is one of the most ancient and complete systems of Hindu medicin…
1877 –1893
#6337
Handbuch der Kinderkrankheiten. Hrsg. von C. GERHARDT. 9 vols.
Gerhardt edited this great work, which was written by the foremost pediatricians of the time and which gives a close-up view of pediatric knowledge at the end of the 19th century.
1877
#6761.1
Die Uebersetzungen arabischer Werke in das Lateinische seit dem XI. Jahrhundert.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1877
#5915
Beziehungen der Allgemein-Leiden und Organ-Erkrankungen zu Veränderungen und Krankheiten des Sehorgans. In: GRAEFE and SAEMISCH, Handbuch der gesammten Augenheilkunde, 7, Theil 5, 59-234
Förster was among the first to study the relationship between eye disease and general and organic disease of the body.
1877
#7118
De observatione ciborum epistula ad Theudericum Regem Francorum. Iterum edidit Valentinus Rose.
De observatione ciborum ("On the Observance of Foods") by Anthimus, a Byzantine physician at the court of the Ostrogoth king Theodoric, concerns foods and their preparations as well as the use of foods for selected ai…
1877
#7484
The voyage of the "Challenger": The Atlantic: A preliminary account of the general results of th exploring voyage of H.M.S. "Challenger" during the year 1873 and the early part of the year 1876. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile of the first American edition (1878) from the Biodiversity Heritage Library, Internet Archive, at this link.
1877
#8417
L'ancienne faculté de médecine de Paris.
Digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this link.
1877 –1883
#8528
Traité des simples. 3 vols. Notices et extraits des manuscrits de la Bibliothèque nationale et autres bibliothèques, 1877, tome 23,1; tome 25,1; tome 26,1. Traduit par Lucien Leclerc.
Ibn al-Baytar systematically recorded the additions to pharmacy made by medieval Islamic physicians, who added between 300 and 400 types of medicines to the roughly one thousand known since antiquity. "Ibn al-Baitar’s…
1877
#8980
Early recollections and life of Dr. James Still.
Still's autobiography is probably the first biography or autobiography of an African American physician. "James Still, medical doctor and herbalist, was born on April 9, 1812 in Burlington County, New Jersey. Still wa…
1877
#9160
Public hygiene in America: Being the centennial discourse delivered before the International Medical Congress, Philadelphia, September, 1876 by Henry I. Bowditch. With extracts from correspondence from the various states. Together with a digest of American sanitary law by Henry G. Pickering.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1877
#9481
A biographical sketch of an infant.
The first significant paper on child psychology, written from Darwin's personal notes of his observations of the development of his first born son, William Erasmus. The text is available from Darwin Online at this link.
1877
#9532
The mortality of surgical operations in the upper lake states, compared with that of other regions.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1877 –1882
#9640
Bibliographie analytique des principaux phénomènes subjectifs de la vision, depuis les temps anciens jusqu'a la fin du XVIIIe siècle, suivie d'une bibliographie simple pour la partie écoulée du siècle actuel.
Première section: Persistance des impressions sur la rétine. Deuxième section: couleurs accidentelles ordinaires du succession. Troisième section: images qui succèdent à la contemplation d'objets brillants. Quatrième …
1877
#10722
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…
1877
#10787
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…
1877
#11096
Art anatomy.
Perhaps the first great American anatomy for artists by an American painter and sculptor. Rimmer not only drew the 900 drawings on the 81 heliotype plates, but he also wrote in the explanatory text on the sheets along…
1877 –1879
#11147
Catalogue des pièces du Musée Dupuytren, publié sous les auspices de la Faculté de Médecine de Paris. 5 vols. text plus 4 vols. atlas.
Detailed catalogue, illustrated by photography, of the Musée Dupuytren, a museum of gross pathology. When this catalogue was published the museum contained about 6000 items.
c. 1877
#11886
Catalogue or guide to the Liverpool Museum of Anatomy, 29, Paradise Street. This superb collection with all the latest additions, comprising upwards of 1000 models and diagrams, procured at the anatomical galleries of Paris, Florence, and Munich. Now forms the largest collection of anatomical preparations in England, with one exception only, namely of the Royal College of Surgeons’ Museum....
The dating and contents of this pamphlet are discussed in Hoolihan, An annotated catalogue of the Edward C. Atwater Collection of American popular medicine & health reform S-741.1.
1877
#11912
The question of rest for women during menstruation.The Boylston Prize Essay of Harvard University for 1876.
"Jacobi's paper was a response to Dr. Edward H. Clarke's earlier publication, Sex in Education; or, A Fair Chance for the Girls (1875), a book claiming that any physical or mental exertion during menstruation could le…
1877
#12318
Catalogue of physicians and surgeons who have presented their diplomas and other credentials to the Board of Examiners of the Medical Society of the State of California and received therefrom a license to practice medicine and surgery in said state, in obedience to an "Act to regulate the practice of medicine in the State of California, approved April 3, 1876. Compiled by W. A. Grover.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link. At the same link the Hathi Trust offers facsimiles of the same directory published from 1899 to 1921.
1877
#12324
Seeking the golden fleece: A record of pioneer life in California, to which is annexed footprints of early navigators, other than Spanish, in California, with an account of the voyage of the schooner Dolphin.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1877
#12504
Igiene dell' amore
Digital facsimile of the Milan, 1891 edition from the Internet Archive at this link.
1877
#12920
Traité des anomalies du système dentaire chez l'homme et les mammifères. Avec un atlas de 20 planches dessinées et gravées par C. Nicolet.
Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.
1877 –2021
#12940
Biographical memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences. Personal and scholarly views of America's most distinguished scientists.
http://www.nasonline.org/publications/biographical-memoirs/ "Published since 1877, Biographical Memoirs provide the life histories and selected bibliographies of deceased National Academy of Sciences members. Colleagu…
1877
#12948
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.
1877
#13110
The cottage hospital: Its origin, progress, management and work. With an alphabetical list of every cottage hospital at present opened, and a chapter on hospitalism in cottage hospital practice.
Digital facsimile of the first edition from Google Books at this link. Much expanded second edition: Cottage hospitals general, fever, and convalescent : their progress, management, and work with an alphabetical list …
1877
#13781
Materia medica of the Hindus compiled from Sanskrit medical works. With a glossary of Indian plants.
1877
#13837
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.
1877 –1907
#14349
An atlas of illustrations of pathology [and] An atlas of illustrations of clinical medicine, surgery and pathology ... a continuation of the "Atlas of Pathology." 30 fascicules numbered I - XXIV, XXIVbis, XXIVter, XXV, XXVbis, XXVI - XXVII.
Bay far the most elaborate publication published by The New Sydenham Society, issued in fascicules over 30 years and rarely found complete.
1878
#944
La pression barométrique. Recherches de physiologie expérimentale.
The most famous work in the history of altitude physiology, in which Bert proved that the principal symptoms of altitude sickness arise from reduced partial pressure of oxygen and not from diminution of total pressure…
1878
#4559
Neuropathologische Beobachtungen.
Bernhardt drew attention to meralgia paraesthetica in the leg (“Bernhardt’s disease”) due to disease of the external cutaneous nerve of the thigh.
1878
#633
Ueber Wärme und Oxydation der lebendigen Materie.
1878
#1012.1
Ueber die Pepsinbildung in den Pylorusdrusen.
Heidenhain pouch.
1878
#879
Recherches sur l’évolution des hématies dans le sang de l’homme et des vertébrés.
First accurate counts of the blood platelets.
1878
#700
La fermentation alcoolique.
Bernard disbelieved Pasteur’s definition of a ferment as “a living form originating from a germ”.
1878
#1120
Ueber secretorische und trophische Drüsennerven.
Investigation of the secretory and trophic nerves of glands. Heidenhain considered all secretory phenomena to be intracellular, rather than mechanical, processes.
1878
#499
The embryology of Clepsine.
The study of cell-lineage was initiated by Whitman’s paper on Clepsine.
1878
#1412
On the comparative structure of the cortex cerebri.
Lewis described the giant cells of the precentral convolution.
1878 –1879
#2034
Bibliotheca therapeutica, or bibliography of therapeutics, chiefly in reference to articles of the materia medica, with numerous critical, historical, and therapeutical annotations, and an appendix containing the bibliography of British mineral waters. 2 vols.
References to over 10,000 items, ‘arranged under 660 separate headings or articles,’ some with comments by the compiler. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1878
#1276
Leçons sur l’histologie du système nerveux. 2 vols.
Includes his description of the “nodes of Ranvier”, interruptions of the medullary nerve sheaths.
1878
#1519
Ueber den Sehpurpur.
Kühne was Professor of Physiology at Amsterdam and Heidelberg. Among his best work is his investigation of visual purple (rhodopsin) which he was first to extract from the retina. Several other papers by him on the sa…
1878
#2492
Les bactéries.
Translated into English by George M. Sternberg as The bacteria (Boston, 1880). Sternberg illustrated the American edition with 5 heliotype reproductions of his own photomicrographs.
1878 –1879
#2392
Das Contagium der Syphilis. Eine experimentelle Studie.
Klebs inoculated syphilis into apes and probably saw the spirochete before Schaudinn and Hoffmann.
1878
#2536
Untersuchungen über die Aetiologie der Wundinfectionskrankheiten.
Koch’s epochal work on the etiology of traumatic infectious disease established his reputation. He inoculated animals with material from various sources and produced six types of infection, each due to microorganisms.…
1878
#203.3
Finska kranier: Jämte några natur- och literatur-studier, inom andra områden af finsk antropologi.
1878
#3125.3
Die progressive perniziöse Anämie.
Comprehensive account.
1878
#3285.1