1880–1889
768 entries with publication dates in this decade.
1887
#182
Les pygmées.
De Quatrefages showed that pygmies are descended from ancient races and are not, as was believed by many, a retrograde or degenerate type of negro of comparatively recent growth. English translation by Frederick Starr…
1887
#183
Der Bau des Menschen als Zeugniss für seine Vergangenheit.
English translation, London, 1893.
1887
#2791
Fibrillar contraction of the heart.
MacWilliam discovered that fibrillar contraction of the heart is due to “a rapid succession of incoordinated peristaltic contractions.” He clearly described auricular and ventricular fibrillation, and showed that vent…
1887
#3068
Ueber Purpura fulminans.
First description.
1887
#3488
Circular suture of the intestines; an experimental study.
Halsted set down some of the fundamental rules regarding intestinal anastomosis.
1887 –1888
#3489
Stuhlträgheit Neuegeborener in Folge von Dilatation und Hypertrophie des Colons.
Hirschsprung’s diseases (congenital megacolon).
1887
#3490
Die sacrale Methode der Exstirpation von Mastdarmkrebsen und die Resectio recti.
Kraske introduced the sacral method of resection of the rectum for carcinoma.
1887
#3569
Cases of exploratory laparotomy followed by appropriate remedial operation.
Thomas George Morton (1835-1903) was one of the first deliberately to operate for and remove the inflamed appendix after correct diagnosis, April 1887. The patient survived. Case reported by Woodbury.
1887
#3296
Erste Heilung eines Larynx-Cancroids vermittelst Ausrottung per vias naturales.
First successful intralaryngeal extirpation of a malignant growth.
1887
#3297
Zur operativen Behandlung des Empyems der Highmorshöhle.
Mikulicz’s Operation for the treatment of disease of the accessory nasal sinuses.
1887
#2579
Vorlesungen über die geschichtliche Entwickelung der Lehre von den Bacterien. Teil l.[All published].
Loeffler, Professor of Hygiene at Greifswald, made many discoveries in bacteriology. His history of the subject was the first and only history of bacteriology prior to the publication of Bulloch's History of bacteriol…
1887
#3597
Cure radicale des hernies.
1887
#3771
Das chronische Rückfallsfieber, eine neue Infektionskrankheit.
1887
#3836
Contribution à l’étude du myxoedème consécutif à l’extirpation totale ou partielle du corps thyroïde.
1887
#2908
L’artério-sclérose subaiguë dans ses rapports avec les spasmes vasculaires et son traitement par la trinitrine (nitroglycérine).
“Huchard’s disease” – continued hypertension causing arteriosclerosis. Huchard did much to develop the knowledge concerning arteriosclerosis and summarized his work in a classic monograph published in 1909.
1887
#3885
Lieber einen Fall von Akromegalie.
Minkowski called attention to the constancy of pituitary enlargement on acromegaly; he was the first definitely to note this relationship.
1887
#2984
Pathogenese (Histogenese und Aetiologie) der Aneurysmen einschliesslich des Aneurysma equi verminosum.
1887
#4089
Ueber die Aetiologie und Therapie der Impetigo, des Furunkels und der Sykosis.
First description of impetigo circumpilaris infantilis (“Bockhart’s impetigo”).
1887
#4090
Ueber die normale Entwicklung und über einige Veränderungen der menschlichen Haare.
“Giovanni’s disease”. He described the developmental defect of hair follicles known as pili multigemini.
1887
#4091
Impetigo herpetiformis.
Although not the first to describe this condition, Kaposi established its status.
1887
#4092
Das seborrhoische Ekzem.
Unna’s seborrhoeic eczema.
1887
#4093
Dermatitis venenata: An account of the action of external irritants upon the skin.
White, a pupil of Hebra, was an outstanding personality in American dermatology; he held the first chair in that subject in the U.S.A. The eponym “White’s disease” refers to his description of keratosis follicularis i…
1887
#4859
Die chirurgische Behandlung von Hirnkrankheiten.
Bergmann was the first in Germany to undertake an intensive study of the surgical aspects of brain diseases. From his experience as a military surgeon he learned that increased intracranial pressure was a consequence …
1887
#3686
Notes on orthodontia, with a new system of regulation and retention.
The specialty of orthodontics received a new impetus with the work of Angle. He organized and classified the various abnormalities of the teeth and jaws and devised many methods of treating them. Through a series of b…
1887
#5098
Note on the discovery of a micro-organism in Malta fever.
Malta fever was shown by Bruce to be due to Micrococcus (Brucella) melitensis. The disease was later named Brucellosis.
1887
#4945
Disturbance of psychic activity in alcoholic paralysis.
“Korsakoff’s psychosis” or syndrome – alcoholic polyneuritis with loss and falsification of memory. A second paper on the subject in Ezhened. klin. Gaz., 1889, 9, 85, 115, 136, is translated into English in Neurology,…
1887
#4946
Ueber die Einwirking fieberhafter Erkrankungen auf Psychosen.
Wagner von Jauregg’s first studies of the effect of fevers upon psychotic conditions. See also No. 4806.
1887
#5186.1
O úplavici. Předběžné sđělení.
Hlava induced experimental amoebiasis in cats by intrarectal inoculation of stools. In an abstract of this paper Kartulis confused the author’s name with that of the title, a mistake copied by writers for many years; …
1887
#5503
Lektsii ob ostrikh infektsionnîkh bolieznyakh u dietei. [Lectures on acute infectious diseases of children.] Vol. 2
On p. 113 is Filatov’s account of a form of rubella with a scarlatiniform rash. To this he gave the name “rubeola scarlatinosa”. (See also No. 5505.)
1887
#5754.4
The deformity termed “pug nose” and its correction, by a simple operation.
Roe invented the intranasal approach for corrective rhinoplasty.
1887 –1888
#5931
Die ärztliche Ueberwachung der Schulen zur Verhütung der Verbreitung der Kurzsichtigkeit.
Cohn was a pioneer in his advocacy of the routine examination of the eyes of schoolchildren.
1887
#5932
Wörterbuch der Augenheilkunde.
1887
#5638
Zur Sublimatfrage.
Bergmann was a pioneer in the evolution of asepsis. He gradually merged the corrosive sublimate method of antisepsis into steam sterilization of instruments and dressing material, demonstrating its superiority to chem…
1887
#6085
The gradual preparatory treatment of the complications of urinary and faecal fistulae in women.
Pyelitis complicating vesical and fecal fistulae in women was successfully treated by Bozeman.
1887
#6086
Hysterorrhaphy.
1887 –1888
#6087
On the method of flap-splitting in certain plastic operations.
Tait devised a flap-splitting operation for retocele which, with some modifications, is in use today.
1887
#6197
Beiträge zur Anatomie und zur operativen Behandlung der Extrauterinschwangerschaft.
1887
#6285
Les accouchements à la cour.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1887
#6286
Histoire des accouchements chez tous les peuples.
182-page appendix: "L'arsenal obstétrical", containing numerous illustrations of instruments, at end. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1887
#6342
The intestinal diseases of infancy and childhood.
Jacobi was the first in the United States to specialize in the practice of pediatrics. In 1862 he founded the first pediatric clinic in the U.S., in New York. He wrote extensively on pediatrics.
1887
#6605
Les démoniaques dans l’art.
Charcot was a talented artist; he collaborated with Richer, artist at La Salpêtrière, in the production of interesting books on disease and deformity, and aspects of medicine and art.
1887
#1883.1
Ephedrin.
Isolation of ephedrine from Ephedra distachya.
1887
#7796
Die psychischen Störungen des Kindesalters. IN: Carl Gerhardt's Handbuch der Kinderkrankheiten, Nachtrag II.
The first systematic monograph on child psychiatry. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1887
#7917
Über einige Derivate der Phenylmethacrylsäure und der Phenylisobuttersäure.
Synthesis of phenylisopropylamine, later known as amphetamine. Its stimulant effects were unknown until it was independently resynthesized by Gordon Alles.
1887
#8716
American medicinal plants; an illustrated and descriptive guide to the American plants used as homoeopathic remedies: Their history, preparation, chemistry and physiological effects. Illustrated by the author.
Plates printed by chromolithography. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1887
#8849
Apuntes par la historia de la medicina, cirurgía y obstetricia, en Michoacán desde los tiempos pre-Colombianos, hasta et año 1875.
1887
#9121
Ten days in a mad-house.
By newspaper reporter Nellie Bly, this book was initially published as a series of articles for the New York World newspaper. The book collected Bly's reportage while on an undercover assignment in which she feigned i…
1887
#9551
The student's manual and handbook for the dental laboratory. To which is appended Dr. E.H. Angle's system of appliances for correcting irregularities.
Angle's chapter, "The Angle system of regulation and retention of teeth," represented the first edition of what was later separately published as Angle's textbook on orthodontics with the same title. This chapter reap…
1887
#9623
Orificial surgery and its application to the treatment of chronic diseases.
Pratt's bizarre orificial surgery emerged from the the practice of homeopathy. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1887
#9964
Euthanasia; or, medical treatment in aid of an easy death.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.