1880–1889
768 entries with publication dates in this decade.
1886
#5359
Remarks on parasites and scorpions.
Leidy found the hookworm in the cat and suggested that it might also be found in man as a cause of pernicious anemia.
1886
#5427
The life-history of the micro-organisms associated with variola and vaccinia. An abstract of results obtained from a study of smallpox and vaccination in the surgical laboratory of the University of Edinburgh.
The “Paschen elementary bodies” (No. 5430) were first recognized and demonstrated by Buist. Republished as an appendix to his Vaccinia and variola, London, 1887.
1886
#5680.1
Local anesthesia in general medicine and surgery.
The first textbook on local anesthesia.
1886
#6083
Ueber ventrale Operation bei Prolapsus und Retroversio uteri.
First account of Olshausen’s operation for retroversion of the uterus.
1886
#6084
Ablation des tumeurs flbreuses ou myomes du corps de l’utérus par la voie vaginale.
Péan’s method of morcellement of the uterus for the removal of tumors.
1886
#5476
Zur Pathologie und Therapie einer eigenthümlichen endemischen Krankheitsform.
This is generally regarded as the first description of pappataci fever.
1886
#5239
Sull infezione malarica.
Description of the development of the parasite of quartan malaria. Golgi differentiated the tertian and quartan parasites by the periods of their respective developments.
1886
#6341
Ueber Kindermilch und Säuglings-Ernährung.
Soxhlet wrote on the nature of milk droplets, estimated the specific gravity of milk with his lactodensimeter, described an apparatus for the sterilization of milk, and devised a test for the estimation of fats in milk.
1886 –1888
#6597
Historia de la medicina en México desde la epoca de los Indios hasta la presente. 3 vols.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1886
#269
Ueber neue Mikroskope.
Fundamental improvements in the microscope were made by Abbe, who was a mathematician. In 1878 he introduced the oil immersion lens; in 1886 he made an apochromatic objective corrected for three colors in which the se…
1886
#7070
Physical training in American colleges and universities. Circulars of information of the Bureau of Education. No. 5-1885.
Concerns training methods and equipment, primarily for men (3 pages devoted to women) in the United States, with a chapter on training in Germany. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1886
#7387
Index to the periodical literature of dental science and art, as presented in the English language.
Digital facsimile from the Medical Heritage Library, Internet Archive, at this link.
1886
#7708
Notes on the anomalies, injuries and diseases of the bones of the native races of North America.
The first American contribution to paleopathology. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1886 –1890
#7744
Klinicheskii sbornik po dermatologii i sifilologii. 4 vols.
Mansurov was the first dermatologist in Russia, and one of the first physicians to use photography systematically in medical illustration. This was a periodical, illustrated with original photographs, of which Manusro…
1886
#8848
Apuntes para la historia de la medicina en Michoacán desde los tiempos Pre-Colombianos hasta el año 1875.
1886
#9111
Die Bevölkerung der griechisch-römischen Welt.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1886
#9566
A nomenclature of colors for naturalists, and compendium of useful knowledge for ornithologists.
Ridgway proposed a simple classification system, doing away with many subjective and evocative names that were currently popular. The work illustrated 186 colors. Digital facsimile from the Biodiversity Heritage Libra…
1886
#9665
Atlas des poissons vénéneux et descriptions des ravages produits par eux sur l'organisme humain, et des contre-poisons à employer. Atlas iadovitykh ryb s opisaniem vida ikh, deistviia iada na organizm cheloveka i ukazaniem protivuiadii.
The first well-illustrated medical military manual on toxic marine organisms. Text in French and Russian.
1886
#10191
The "medicine-man"; or, Indian and Eskimo notions of medicine. Reprinted from the "Canada Medical and Surgical Journal" for March and April, 1886.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1886
#10207
Catalogue of anatomical models, charts and osteological preparations. Auzoux's papier mache anatomical models, Bocksteger models painted in natural colors, human skeletons.
One of the better illustrated American trade catalogues of the period describing available anatomical models, charts, skeletons for use in teaching. Reprinted, along with several other catalogues relating to instrumen…
1886
#10350
The relation of hospitals to medical education.
Withington, pp. 18-22, proposed Bills of Rights for subjects of experiments "to secure patients again any injustice from the votaries of science." Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1886
#10450
Beiträge zur Analyse der Empfindungen.
Translated into English by C. M .Williams and Sydney Waterlow as The Analysis of Sensations (1897). Revised and supplemented from the Fifth German edition by Sydney Waterlow (1914). Digital facsimile of the 1886 editi…
1886
#10521
Leprosy in Hawaii. Extracts from reports of presidents of the board of health, government physicians and others, and from official records, in regard to leprosy before and after the passage of the “Act to prevent the spread of leprosy”, approved Jan. 3, 1865. The laws and regulations in regard to leprosy in the Hawaiian Kingdom.
1886
#11163
Traité d'hygiène industrielle, à l'usage des médecins et des membres des conseils d'hygiène.
Poincaré reviewed 105 industries. He was the father of mathematician Henri Poincaré. Digital facsimile from BnFgallica at this link.
1886
#12269
Outlines of lectures on physiology, with an introductory chapter on general biology, and an appendix containing laboratory exercises in practical physiology.
Mills, a student of Osler, became the first professional physiologist in Canada. This outline of his lectures is probably the first Canadian physiology textbook. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1886
#12293
Über die Beziehung zwischen Reizung und Erregung im Tetanus.
One mechanism that has been implicated in the origin of arrhythmias is the Wedensky effect. This was first described in neuromuscular studies by Wedensky as a prolonged lowered threshold of excitability induced by a s…
1886
#12417
A system of hygienic medicine, or the only rational way of treating disease.
"In place of orthodox medicine, he [Allinson] promoted health through diet, exercise, fresh air and bathing. He advocated a vegetarian diet and the avoidance of alcohol, tobacco, coffee and tea. He especially promoted…
1886
#13052
The reptiles of Sind: A systematic account, with descriptions of all the species inhabiting the province, and a table of their geographical distribution in Persia, Bloochistan, Afghanistan, Punjab, Northwest Provinces, and the Peninsula of India generally, with woodcuts, lithographs, and colored illustrations.
A re-issue with additions to date, of "Reptilian fauna" in the author's Vertebrate zoology of Sind. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1886
#13108
Researches on Myohaematin and the Histohaematins.
First description of the respiratory pigment in blood, known today as Cytochrome1. Digital facsimile from the Royal Society at this link.
1886
#13281
On certain problems in the physiology of the blood corpuscles. I. The blood-plaque or third corpuscle; II. Degeneration and regeneration of the corpuscles; III. The relation of the corpuscles to coagulation and thrombosis. The Cartwright Lectures, delivered before the Association of the Alumni of the College Physicians and Surgeons, New York, March 23d, 27th, and 30th, 1886.
"These important lectures, based on original research, begun in 1882 on the blood - plates of Bizzozero (haematoblasts of Hayem), established Osler's reputation as an original investigator. The aggregation of blood pl…
1887
#833
A demonstration on man of electromotive changes accompanying the heart’s beat.
Waller was first to use electrodes and leads in demonstrating the action currents of the heart, avoiding the necessity of opening the chest of laboratory animals and preparing the way for present-day clinical electroc…
1887
#4627
Eine besondere Art der Wortblindheit.
Berlin first suggested the term “dyslexia”. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1887
#1018
D’une disposition à sphincter spéciale de l’ouverture du canal cholédoque.
“Sphincter of Oddi” of the bile duct, already known to Glisson in 1654. Reprinted as a pamphlet, Perugia, 1887.
1887
#4678
Ueber die Aetiologie der akuten Meningitis cerebro-spinalis.
Weichselbaum discovered the meningococcus, Neisseria meningitidis, causative agent of cerebrospinal meningitis.
1887
#710
Lehrbuch der physiologischen und pathologischen Chemie.
1887
#711
Die Rolle des osmotischen Druckes in der Analogic zwischen Lösungen und Gasen.
1887
#4705
On arrested cerebral development, with special reference to its cortical pathology.
Sachs described the cerebral changes in amaurotic familial idiocy. Earlier, Tay (No. 5918) had recorded the ocular manifestations of this condition, which became known as “Tay-Sachs’s disease”. Two further papers on t…
1887
#4784
Sur un cas de paraplégie par névrites périphériques, chez un ataxique morphiomane.
First description of peripheral neuritis, “Dejerine’s neurotabes”.
1887
#1368.1
Zur Geschichte der menschlichen Rückenmarkes und der Nervenwurzeln.
This is generally considered the first clear statement that nerve cells in the brain might be independent units rather than forming an anastomotic network—as Gerlach, Golgi, and most others believed—although there are…
1887
#1368.2
Einige hirnanatomische Betrachtungen und Ergebnisse.
Independently of His, Forel formulated the neuron theory.
1887
#1625
The health of nations: A review of the works of Edwin Chadwick, with a biographical dissertation by Benjamin Ward Richardson. 2 vols.
Chadwick may be said to have initiated the public health era. Largely through his efforts the Public Health Act 1848 came into existence in England. He was the greatest sanitarian of the 19th century; among other thin…
1887
#1626
Public health reports by John Simon. Edited for the Sanitary Institute of Great Britain by Edward Seaton. 2 vols.
Simon was the first medical officer for the City of London. Together with his English sanitary institutions, the above work played a great part in paving the way for modern reforms in the sphere of hygiene and public …
1887
#1416.1
A minute analysis (experimental) of the various movements produced by stimulating in the monkey different regions of the cortical centre for the upper limb, as defined by Professor Ferrier.
Beevor, physician to the National Hospital, Queen Square, London, collaborated with Horsley in an important series of investigations of the localization of cerebral function.
1887
#1417
Leçons sur les fonctions motrices du cerveau.
François-Franck’s studies on the excitability of the cerebral cortex and the localization of function followed work in collaboration with Pitres; Charcot wrote the preface. See also No. 1423.
1887
#1418
Ueber einen Fall von chronischer progressiver Lähmung der Augenmuskeln (Ophthalmoplegia externa) nebst Beschreibung von Ganglien-zellengruppen im Bereiche des Oculomotoriuskems.
“Westphal’s nucleus” – for accommodation – in the third cranial nerve. Called also “Edinger’s nucleus” (see the same journal, 1885, 16, 858-89).
1887
#1883.2
Sur l’action de l’antifébrine (acétanilide) et de quelques corps analogues.
Introduction of acetanilide (antifebrin).
1887
#1883.3
Ueber die Wirkung des Acetphenetidins.
Introduction of phenacetin.
1887
#145.62
The lake as a microcosm.
Forbes was the first to apply ecological principles to limnology. He emphasized population regulation and the dynamic nature of the community.
1887
#2250.1
The treatment of burns.
Introduction of the open or exposure method for the treatment of burns.
1887
#2505.1
Eine kleine Modification des Koch’schen Plattenverfahrens.
Petri dish. A similar dish was described by Cornil and Babès (see No. 2501) and by Nicati and Rietsch, Arch. Physiol. norm. path., 1885, 6, 72. Petri was an assistant of Koch.