1870–1879
662 entries with publication dates in this decade.
1876
#5913
Ueber eine neue therapeutische Verwendung des Physostigmin.
Introduction of physostigmine in the treatment of glaucoma.
1876
#5914
Der Frühjahrskatarrh. In: GRAEFE and SAEMISCH, Handbuch der gesammten Augenheilkunde
First description of vernal conjunctivitis.
1876 –1877
#5916
Om färgblindheten i dess förhallande till jernvägstrafiken och sjöväsendet.
A serious railway accident in Sweden in 1875 was believed by Holmgren to be due to color-blindness, and resulted in the above important paper dealing with the condition and its relation to railway and maritime traffic…
1876
#5794
Chirurgie vor 100 Jahren; historische Studie.
Reprinted Berlin, Springer, 1978.
1876
#5795
A century of American surgery.
The first serious history of American surgery to 1876. Also published in No. 6586.
1876
#5993
Geschichte des grauen Staares.
An early history of cataract.
1876
#5636
Chirurgie antiseptique.
Lucas-Championnière, eminent French surgeon, was one of the first to adopt the principles of Listerism. He wrote the first authoritative work on antiseptic surgery and introduced antisepsis into France. First edition …
1876
#5674
On an apparatus for administering nitrous oxide gas and ether, singly or combined.
Clover’s ether inhaler. See also the same journal, 1877, 1, 69. He invented an inhaler in 1862; this was described, but not by Clover, in Med. Times Gaz., 1862, 2, 149.
1876
#6066
Zur Enucleation der intraparietalen Myome des Corpus uteri.
1876
#6190
Ueber das Verhalten des Uterus und Cervix in der Schwangerschaft und während der Geburt.
“Bandl’s ring”. Bandl was professor of obstetrics and gynaecology at Vienna and Prague.
1876
#6191
Extra-uterine pregnancy.
Lawson Tait regarded this as the first authoritative work on the subject. Parry showed the necessity for operation in such cases and it was this book, more than anything else, which determined Tait (No. 6196) to do so.
1876
#6469
Die ersten Anfänge der Heilkunde und die Medizin im alten Aegypten. Eine kulturgeschichteliche Skizze.
Sammlung gemeinverständlicher wissenscbaftlicher Vorträge, No. 255.
1876
#6240
Della amputazione utero-ovarica come complemento di taglio cesareo.
Caesarean section with excision of the uterus and adnexa (“Porro’s operation”).
1876
#6505
Histoire de la médecine arabe. Exposé complet des traductions du grec. Les sciences en Orient, leur transmission à l’Occident par les traductions latines. 2 vols.
An exhaustive history, for its time, of Arabian medical translations from East to West and vice versa. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive, at this link.
1876
#6761
History of American medical literature from 1776 to the present time.
1876
#6357.55
Et Tilfaelde af Subakut Tarminvagination.
Discouraged by the high mortality of intussusception, Hirschsprung instituted a plan of controlled hydrostatic pressure reduction. By 1905 he was able to present a 35 per cent mortality based on 107 personal cases in …
1876
#6360
Haemorrhagic periostitis of the shafts of several of the long bones, with separation of the epiphyses.
Craniohypophyseal xanthomatosis was first reported by Sir Thomas Smith (see also No. 6359). Hand in 1893 (No. 6361), Schüller in 1915 (No. 6362), and Christian in 1919 (No. 6363) also reported cases, and the condition…
1876
#6389
Grundriss der Geschichte der Medicin und des heilenden Standes.
Until superseded by Garrison, Baas’s book was the most important one-volume text on the history of medicine. For an expert evaluation of it, see Garrison’s History, 4th ed., p. 884. An English translation, by H.E. Han…
1876
#6586
A century of American medicine 1776-1876
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1876
#3285
Rhinitis chronica. Ozaena. Stockschnupfen. Stinknase. In Ziemssen’s Handbuch der speciellen Pathologie und Therapie 4, I, 125-34
Fraenkel established ozena (atrophic rhinitis) as a clinical entity.
1876
#4500
Rhumatisme.
Besnier wrote an important description of rheumatism.
1876
#4501
The treatment of acute rheumatism by salicin.
Introduction of salicylates in the treatment of rheumatism.
1876 –1880
#4558.1
Iconographie photographique de la Salpêtrière. Service de M. Charcot. 3 vols.
A photographic atlas devoted to cases of hysteria and epilepsy, with case histories; the third volume includes discussions of hypnotism, somnambulism and magnetism. Bourneville was Charcot’s assistant at the Salpêtriè…
1876
#497
Contributions à l’histoire de la vésicule germinative et du premier noyau embryonnaire.
Independently of Flemming, van Beneden discovered the centrosome.
1876
#7215
Études historiques, physiologiques et cliniques sur la transfusion du sang.
An excellent and well-documented treatise on blood transfusion, including a comprehensive history of the subject from its beginnings in the seventeenth century to its revival in the nineteenth after a long period of d…
1876
#8911
The effects of cross and self fertilisation in the vegetable kingdom.
Darwin's report on over 12 years of experimentation with cross and self-fertilization on 57 species. In these experiments Darwin discovered and demonstrated the concept of hybrid vigor or heterosis.
1876
#9316
Hygeia: A city of health.
Imaginative outline for an utopian city of 100,000 people which Richardson, as public health reformer, hoped would reduce mortality to five per thousand in two generations. Includes details of the laying out of street…
1876
#9527
Diseases of modern life.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1876
#10412
The people's medical advisor.
A graduate of the Eclectic Medical College in Cincinnati, Vaughn was a member of the New York State Senate (31st D.) in 1878 and 1879, and was elected as a Republican to the 46th United States Congress, holding office…
1876
#10494
Catalogue of dental materials, furniture, instruments, etc.
White, who characterized himself as "Manufacturer, importer, and wholesale dealer in all articles appertaining to dentistry," was the leading U.S. manufacturer of dental supplies during the 19th century. His 1876 cata…
1876
#10681
Cholera epidemics in East Africa. An account of the several diffusions of the disease in the country from 1821 till 1872, with an outline of the geography, ethnology, and trade connections of the regions through which the epidemics passed.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1876
#10795
The southern side: Or, Andersonville Prison. Complied from official documents. Together with an examination of the Wirz Trial: A comparison of the mortality in Northern and Southern prisons; remarks on the exchange bureau, etc. An appendix, showing the number of prisoners that died at Andersonville, and the causes of death; classified lists of all that died in stockade and hospital, etc., etc.
Stevenson was chief surgeon at the Confederate States Military Prison Hospitals in Andersonville, Georgia. The appendix lists the causes of death of 12,912 men. "Andersonville Prison, established in Georgia early in 1…
1876
#10839
Report of the Royal Commission on the Practice of Subjecting Live Animals to Experiments for Scientific Purposes: With minutes and evidence and appendix.
This commission, or others with a similar name, seems to have continued intermittently in England for several decades, with the fourth report of the Royal Commission on Vivisection issued as late as 1908. Digital facs…
1876
#11161
Du cancer chez les enfants.
Duzan's thesis was the first treatise exclusively on cancer in childhood. He was able to collect 182 cases. All 182 cases were of pediatric sarcoma: 70 of the eye, 45 of the kidney, 11 of the testicle, 8 of the prosta…
1876
#11222
Handbuch der Samenkunde: physiologisch-statistische Untersuchungen über den wirthschaftlichen Gebrauchswerth der land- und forstwirthschaftlichen, sowie gärtnerischen Saatwaren.
In 1869 Nobbe set up the first seed control station, establishing the science of seed testing. He set out to improve seed quality in a sustainable way, through systematic inspection. In his Handbuch der Samenkunde he …
1876
#11261
Specimen fasciculus of a catalogue of the National Medical Library, under the direction of the Surgeon-General, United States Army at Washington, D. C.
This analystical subject-author catalogue was a 96-page preview of what became known four years later as the Index-Catalogue of the Library of Surgeon General's Office. Reflecting Billings' long term view of the insti…
1876
#11574
Methodik der physiologischen experimente und vivisectionen. 2 vols.
"This textbook and its remarkable atlas [of 54 plates] was used by Europe's leading physiologists as they expanded animal experimentation in an attempt to understand human function in health and disease" (W. Bruce Fye…
1876
#12004
A catalogue of plants cultivated in the garden of John Gerard, in the years 1596-1599. Edited with notes, references to Gerard's Herball, the addition of modern names, and a life of the author by Benjamin Daydon Jackson.
Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.
1876
#12089
Female health and hygiene on the Pacific Coast.
This was probably the first book on female health and hygiene published in California and intended for the residents of the state. The book was written for women rather than for medical professionals. Little is known …
1876
#12220
Contribution a l’étude du phénomène respiratoire de Cheyne-Stokes.
Biot's respiration, "an abnormal pattern of breathing characterized by groups of quick, shallow inspirations followed by regular or irregular periods of apnea"
1876
#12891
A history of dental and oral science in America. Prepared under the direction of the American Academy of Dental Science.
The first history of dentistry in America written by James E. Dexter for the American Academy of Dental Science. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1876
#12995
Gerichtlich-medicinische Untersuchungen über das Skopzenthum in Russland nebst historischen Notizen.
Pelikan, professor of forensic medicine in St. Petersburg, published this German version of his treatise on the fanatical Russian Christian sect Skoptsy, known for its practice of castration, clitoridectomies, and mas…
1876
#13103
Nouveau traité élémentaire et pratique des maladies mentales. Suivi de considérations pratiques sur l'administration des asiles d'aliénés.
The first psychiatric textbook to utilize photographic illustrations of patients. This was the second edition of Dagonet's Traité élémentaire et pratique des maladies mentales (1862). The second edition included 8 Woo…
1876
#13160
International Exhibition of 1876. Medical Department, U.S. Army. Photographs illustrating rare books in the National Medical Library. Philadelphia, 1876. 2 vols.
These two volumes include a series of original photographs of primarily the title pages of rare medical books in the National Medical Library pasted onto specially printed sheets with manuscript entries indicating the…
1876
#14060
Explorations of the aboriginal remains of Tennessee.
The first major discussion of human skeletal pathology in American archeological samples. Jones introduced histopathological techniques in analysis of paleopathological material. Digital facsimile from Google Books at…
1876
#14097
Beobachtungen über die Befruchtung und Entwicklung des Kaninchens and Meerschweinchens.
Hensen's node. "Hensen’s research focused on the embryonic development of guinea pigs and rabbits. While studying those organisms he noticed something previously undiscovered—an enlarged area above the primitive strea…
1877
#534.65
Récherches sur la production artificielle des monstruosités, ou essais de teratologénie expérimentale.
Dareste devoted his career to experimental teratology, and in this work established the field as a science. The second edition (1891) was greatly revised and enlarged. Contains a valuable history of experimental terat…
1877
#823.1
Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Reizwell und Contractionswelle des Herzmuskels.
Marchand obtained the first electrocardiogram. Using the differential rheotome he measured the time course of the potential variations from the frog’s heart.
1877
#4554
Fat and blood and how to make them.
Includes full account of Weir Mitchell’s rest cure for nervous disorders.
1877
#4555
The relation of pain to weather, being a study of the natural history of a case of traumatic neuralgia.
First study of the subject.