1880–1889
768 entries with publication dates in this decade.
1886
#1329
On the structure, distribution, and function of the nerves which innervate the visceral and vascular system.
Gaskell established the origin of the preganglionic neurons (white rami).
1886
#4752
Contribution à l’étude de la myopathie atrophique progressive (myopathie atrophique progressive, à type scapulo-huméral).
“Landouzy–Dejerine type” of progressive muscular dystrophy.
1886 –1891
#84
Œuvres complètes ed J.-M. Charcot. Recueillies et publiées par D. M. Bourneville [and others]. 9 vols.
Charcot, famous teacher at La Salpêtrière, created there the greatest neurological clinic of his time. He was a pioneer of psychotherapy and left many memorable descriptions of nervous disorders. Pierre Marie, who die…
1886
#504
Lehrbuch der Entwicklungsgeschichte des Menschen und der Wirbelthiere.
1886
#1367
Physiological studies of the knee-jerk.
Demonstration that the knee-jerk can be reinforced by sensory stimulation.
1886
#1368
The structure and combination of the histological elements of the central nervous system.
Nansen, better known for his Arctic explorations, was the first to point out that the posterior root fibers divide on entering the spinal cord into ascending and descending branches. Digital facsimile from the Hathi T…
1886
#758
Praelectiones anatomiae universalis.
Facsimile reproduction with transliteration of Harvey’s manuscript notes for a Lumleian Lecture, 1616. These show that at that date Harvey had already completed his demonstration of the circulation of the blood. Engli…
1886
#707
A text-book of human physiology, including histology and microscopical anatomy....by L. Landois. Translated from the fifth German edition. With additions by William Stirling. 2 vols.
Second edition in English. Matthew Hay devised a test for the determination of bile acids in the urine, published in vol. 1, p. 381. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1886
#1416
Sulla fina anatomia degli organi centrali del sistema nervoso.
Golgi’s histological studies made a clear conception of the nervous system possible for the first time. He demonstrated the existence of multipolar nerve-cells (Golgi cells) by means of his silver nitrate stain, and d…
1886
#1882
Ueber Disulfone.
Preparation of sulphonal.
1886
#1883
Ichthyol und Resorcin als Repräsentanten der Gruppe reduzierender Heilmittel.
Unna introduced ichthyol and resorcinol into medicine. Supplement to Mh. prakt. Derm., No. 1.
1886
#1883.01
Om Periodiske Depressionstilstande og deres Patogenese.
Lange was the first to use a mixture of drugs containing lithium carbonate for the preventive treatment of periodic depression. This work contains the “first unequivocal account of prophylactic drug treatment for an e…
1886
#2106
Researches upon the venoms of poisonous serpents.
Mitchell (see also No. 2104) and Reichert showed that snake venom is protein, and demonstrated the presence of toxic albumins. Mitchell was one of the first to investigate snake venoms.
1886
#2306
Beitrag zur Kenntnis der amyloiden und der hyalinen Degeneration des Bindegewebes.
First reported case of primary amyloidosis.
1886 –1890
#2456
Traité de zoologie médicale. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1886
#2503.1
Ueber die Mosaikkrankheit des Tabaks.
Mayer was first to describe and name tobacco mosaic disease and to demonstrate its infectious nature, that it could be transferred between plants, similar to bacterial infections. Translation in Phytopathological Clas…
1886
#2504
An introduction to practical bacteriology based upon the methods of Koch.
Crookshank studied under Koch, and later became Professor of Bacteriology at King’s College, London.
1886
#2505
The bacterium of swine-plague.
Discovery of Salmonella choleraesuis. The Salmonellae tribe was named after Salmon, even though the discovery was made by Smith. See Bibel, Milestones in immunology (1988) 31-32.
1886
#2393
La syphilis héréditaire tardive.
Fournier, one of the greatest syphilologists, did more than any other person to develop the knowledge regarding congenital syphilis. Through his writings, the importance of syphilis as a cause of degenerative diseases…
1886
#181
Les signalements anthropométriques.
Bertillon invented a method (“Bertillonage”) of identifying persons by means of selected measurements, the five following measurements being used as the basis of his system: head length, head breadth, length of middle…
1886
#3067.1
A case of haemophilia: pedigree through five generations.
True hemophilia in a female. The family was the subject of several later investigations, the last being reported in Lancet, 1973, 2,734.
1886
#2230
The principles and practice of medicine. 2 vols.
Fagge was physician to Guy’s hospital and editor of Guy’s Hospital Reports. His important textbook was published posthumously.
1886
#3485
Neurasthénie et enteroptose.
Splanchnoptosis (“Glénard’s disease”).
1886
#3486
Ueber die Verwendung des Musculus rectus abdominis zum Verschlusse der künstlichen Magenfistel.
Von Hacker’s method of gastrostomy.
1886
#3487
Ein Fall von Resection des carcinomatösen Oesophagus mit plastischem Ersatz des excidierten Stückes.
Von Mikulicz was the first to make a plastic reconstruction of the oesophagus after the resection of its cervical portion for carcinoma.
1886
#3567
Perforating inflammation of the vermiform appendix, with special reference to its early diagnosis and treatment.
A conclusive demonstration of the pathology and symptoms of disease of the vermiform appendix. Fitz invented the term “appendicitis”; his paper, which records 25 cases collected by himself, convinced physicians of the…
1886
#3568
Suppurative peritonitis due to ulceration and suppuration of the vermiform appendix; laparotomy; resection of the vermiform appendix; toilette of the peritonaeum; drainage; recovery.
This is believed to be the first reported case of survival after removal of a perforated appendix. Hall worked with William Halsted during the 1880s and participated in Halsted’s experiments with cocaine as a local an…
1886
#3175
Die Mikrococcen der Pneumonie.
Fraenkel showed definitely that the organism found by Pasteur (No. 3172) and Sternberg (No. 3173) was a cause of pneumonia.
1886
#3176
Ueber die Aetiologie der acuten Lungen- und Rippenfellentzündungen.
Weichselbaum definitely established that Friedländer’s bacillus was responsible for pneumonia in a small percentage of cases.
1886
#3596
On the radical cure of oblique inguinal hernia by internal abdominal peritoneal pad, and the restoration of the valved form of the inguinal canal.
Macewen’s method for the radical cure of oblique inguinal hernia. The sac was folded into a pad and used as a plug at the internal ring, the ring being closed in layers. Reprinted in Brit. med. J., 1887, 2, 1263-71.
1886
#3629
The surgery of the pancreas, as based upon experiments and clinical researches.
In this review of the world literature and a report of animal experimentation, Senn concluded that complete extirpation of the pancreas was invariably followed by death, but that partial excision was feasible and just…
1886
#3790
Congenital absence of hair and mammary glands with atrophic condition of the skin and its appendages in a boy whose mother had been almost wholly bald from alopecia areata from the age of six.
First description of progeria.
1886
#3835
Functional nervous disorders due to the loss of thyroid gland and pituitary body.
1886
#3865
Ein Fall von doppelseitigem, völlig latent verlaufenen Nebennieren-tumor und gleichzeitiger Nephritis mit Veränderungen am Circulationsapparat und Retinitis.
Pheochromocytoma first described. Republished in book form.
1886
#3884
Sur deux cas d’acromégalie. Hypertrophie singulière non congénitale des extrémités supérieures, inférieures et céphalique.
In this, the first complete clinical description of the condition, Marie suggested the name “acromegaly”. The paper excited much interest and was translated into English and published by the New Sydenham Society, 1891.
1886
#3389.1
Ueber Nystagmus und associierte Augenbewegungsversuche bei Hystero-Epileptischen.
Rotational nystagmus described. First published in Magyar in Orvosi Hetilap, 1886, 30, 857, 889.
1886
#3949
Ueber experimentellen Diabetes.
Mering was able to produce experimental diabetes by means of phloridzin.
1886
#4086
Lichen ruber monileformis – Korallen schnurartiger Lichen ruber.
Kaposi is credited with the first description of this condition, sometimes called “Kaposi’s disease”, and probably a rare variety of lichen planus.
1886
#4087
Ueber Pemphigus vegetans (frambösioides).
“Neumann’s disease” – pemphigus vegetans. This was first described by Alibert. English translation (New Sydenham Society), 1897.
1886
#4088
Du lichen (lichen, prurigo, strophulus).
“Vidal’s disease” – neurodermatitis.
1886
#5080
Report on a disease of cows prevailing at a farm from which scarlatina had been distributed along with the milk of cows.
Contains the first suggestion of the streptococcal origin of scarlet fever.
1886
#4182
Some observations on rupture of the urinary bladder, with an account of two cases of intra-peritoneal rupture successfully treated by abdominal section and subsequent suture of the vesical rent.
MacCormac introduced an operation for the treatment of intraperitoneal rupture of the bladder.
1886
#5156
Die Aetiologie der Rotzkrankheit.
Discovery of Burkholderia mallei, causative organism of glanders. Preliminary notice in Dtsch. med. Wschr., 1882, 8, 707.
1886
#4944
Psychopathia sexualis; eine klinisch-forensische Studie.
Krafft-Ebing revised the book through 12 editions. Digital facsimile of the first edition from wellcomecollection.org at this link. English translation as Psychopathia sexualis, with special reference to contrary sexu…
1886
#5186
Zur Aetiologie der Dysenterie in Aegypten.
Kartulis discovered amoebae in liver abscess. It was principally through the work of Kartulis that amoebae came to be considered the cause of dysentery in man.
1886
#5332
Ueber eine eigenthümliche, mit Milztumor, Icterus und Nephritis einhergehende, acute Infectionskrankheit.
In his classic description of Leptospirosis icterohaemorrhagica Weil differentiated the disease from other types of acute jaundice. It is better known as “Weil’s disease”.
1886
#4572
D’un nouveau precédé opératoire applicable au ptosis congénital et au ptosis paralytique.
An operation for congenital and paralytic ptosis was introduced by Panas.
1886
#5930
The bacillus of acute conjunctival catarrh or “pink eye”.
In 1883 Koch discovered the bacilli of two different forms of infectious conjunctivitis (Egyptian ophthalmia); in 1886. Weeks discovered the same organism to be the cause of “pink-eye”. The organism has become known a…
1886
#5797
Memorials of the craft of surgery in England. From materials compiled by John Flint South. Edited by D'Arcy Power.
South, trained in Germany, became surgeon to St. Thomas’s Hospital. Through his efforts John Hunter’s body was reburied in Westminster Abbey and South himself wrote the inscription on the tablet there. Digital facsimi…
1886
#5356
Sobre a molestia vulgarmente denominada oppilaçao ou cançaço.
Wucherer confirmed Griesinger’s conclusion that the cause of tropical anemia was hookworm infestation. See also the same journal, 1869, 3, 170-72, 183-84, 198-200. English translation in Kean (No. 2268.1).