1880–1889
768 entries with publication dates in this decade.
1887
#10596
Photography of bacteria. Illustrated with eight-six photographs reproduced in autotype.
The first book entirely devoted to the photography of bacteria. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1887
#11494
Militärmedicin: kurze Darstellung des gesamten Militär-Sanitätswesens. (Band 13 von Wreden’s Sammlung kurzer medizinischer Lehrbücher).
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1887
#11606
Catalogue of books in the medical and biological libraries at University College, London. With an appendix.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1887
#11756
The agricultural pests of India, and of eastern and southern Asia, vegetable and animal, injurious to man and his products.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1887
#12039
Hydrophobia: An account of M. Pasteur's system containing a translation of all his communications on the subject, the technique of his method, and the latest statistical results
The author, qualified M.D. in both Edinburgh and Paris, characterized himself on the title page of this work as "Commissioned by the Government of the Colony of Mauritius to study M. Pasteur's new treatment in Paris."…
1887
#12295
Sphygmographische Untersuchungen an Geisteskranken.
Ziehen, a student of Hermann Munk, wrote his habiltation thesis on sphygmographic studies of psychiatric patients. This was the first monograph on the subject.
1887 –1890
#13053
The avifauna of British India and its dependencies. A systematic account, with descriptions of all the known species of birds inhabiting British India, observations on their habits, nidification, &c., tables of their geographical distribution in Persia, Beloochistan, Afghanistan, Sind, Punjab, N.W. Provinces, and the peninsula of India generally, with woodcuts, lithographs, and coloured illustrations. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.
1887
#13259
Meine Wasser-Kur, durch mehr als 30 Jahre erprobt und geschrieben zur Heilung der Krankheiten und Erhaltung der Gesundheit.
Kneipp was a Bavarian priest and not a physician. He learned about hydrotherapy and other methods of treatment later called naturopathic during the time he suffered from tuberculosis. Digital facsimile of the 1889 10t…
1887
#14019
The topographical anatomy of the child.
The first part of this work concerns cross-sectional anatomy; the second part systematically discusses the differences between anatomy in children and adults of different parts of the body.
1887
#14172
Beiträge zur Anatomie und Pathogenese der Urticaria simplex und Pigmentosa.
Unna reported that skin lesions of urticaria pigmentosa contained numerous mast cells. This was the first report of a primary mast cell disorder. Digital facsimile from deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de at this link.
1888
#344
Mémoires sur le cerveau de l’homme et des primates publiés avec un introduction et des notes par Le docteur S. Pozzi.
Digital facsimile from the Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.
1888
#4574
Intracranial tumours.
1888
#4706
Ueber die Diagnose der Syringomyelie.
First complete description of syringomyelia.
1888
#4753
An atypical case of Thomsen’s disease (myotonia congenita).
Dana described a combination of myotonia and muscular atrophy.
1888
#505
Beiträge zur Entwickelungsmechanik des Embryo. Ueber die künstliche Hervorbringung halber Embryonen durch Zerstörung einer der beiden ersten Furchungskugeln, sowie über die Nachentwickelung (Postgeneration) der fehlenden Körperhalfte.
Roux is regarded as the founder of developmental mechanics (“Entwicklungsmechanik” as he named it). His work on the production of half-embryos initiated a turning point by shifting emphasis from descriptive to experim…
1888
#712
Ptomaines and leucomaines, or the putrefactive and physiological alkaloids.
1888
#1884
Sulfonal, ein neues Schlafmittel.
Introduction of sulphonal, previously discovered by Baumann.
1888
#1521
Kort öfversigt af läran om lokalisationen i hjernbarken.
Discovery of the cortical visual center.
1888
#2620.2
Demonstration der durch Impfung von Hund auf Hund erzeugten Carcinomknötchen.
A tumor transplant from dog to dog was reported by Wehr.
1888
#2506
Ueber die Fleischvergiftung in Frankenhausen. a.K. und den Erreger derselben.
Discovery of Salmonella enteritidis, a cause of food poisoning.
1888
#2792
Contribution à l’anatomie pathologique de la maladie bleu (cyanose cardiaque).
The “tetralogy of Fallot.” He gave an important, but not the first, account of this condition (see Nos. 2726.1 & 2761). Abstract translation in Willius & Keys, Cardiac classics, 1941, pp. 689-90.
1888
#2793
Remarks on failure of the heart from overstrain.
Important experimental work on cardiac overstrain was carried out by Roy and Adami who considered that mechanical overstrain caused chronic thickening of the cardiac valves.
1888 –1889
#2794
The murmur of high-pressure in the pulmonary artery.
First description of the pulmonary diastolic murmur – the “Graham Steell murmur.” Reproduced in Willius & Keys, Cardiac Classics, 1941, pp. 680-85.
1888
#2542
Experimente über die bacterienfeindlichen Einflüsse des thierischen Körpers.
Working with the defibrinated blood of certain animals, Nuttall was the first to describe the bactericidal action of blood. Abridged English translation in Bibel, Milestones in immunology (1988).
1888
#3489.1
Fälle von angeborener Pylorusstenose, beobachtet bei Säuglingen.
Hirschsprung first made the medical world aware of congenital hypertrophic pyloric stenosis as a distinct clinical entity. In this paper he made no suggestions concerning therapy.
1888
#3491
On the coeliac affection.
Coeliac disease (non-tropical sprue, idiopathic steatorrhoea) was first described by Gee. Later Thaysen (No. 3550) studied the disease, which acquired the eponym “Gee-Thaysen disease”.
1888
#3492
Zur Technik der Kolotomie.
First successful colostomy.
1888
#3492.1
Des polyadénomes gastriques et de leurs rapports avec le cancer de l’estomac.
“Menetrier’s disease” – giant hypertrophic gastritis.
1888
#3493
Zur operativen Behandlung des Prolapsus recti et coli invaginati.
Description of Mikulicz’s important operation for complete prolapse of the rectum.
1888
#3494
Rectal insufflation of hydrogen gas an infallible test in the diagnosis of visceral injury of the gastro-intestinal canal in penetrating wounds of the abdomen.
Senn’s method of detecting intestinal perforation by insufflation with hydrogen.
1888
#3129
Ueber einen Fall von Anämie mit Bemerkungen über regenerative Veränderungen des Knochenmarks.
Ehrlich was first to distinguish the aplastic type of anemia.
1888
#3630
Contribution à l’étude clinique et anatomo-pathologique du cancer primitif du pancréas.
“Bard-Pic syndrome” first described.
1888
#3631
Ueber den zungenförmigen Fortsatz des rechten Leberlappens und seine pathognostiche Bedeutung für die Erkrankung der Gallenblase nebst Bemerkungen über Gallensteinoperationen.
“Riedel’s lobe”, a form of constriction lobe of the liver.
1888 –1889
#3917
A subcutaneous connective tissue dystrophy of the arms and back, associated with symptoms resembling myxoedema.
First description of adiposis dolorosa (“Dercum’s disease”).
1888
#3998
Diseases of the skin.
1888
#3390
Education of deaf-mutes. A manual for teachers.
Includes a history of the subject. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1888
#3391
Krankenvorstellung: Geheilter Hirnabscess.
Radical mastoidectomy. (See No. 3392.)
1888
#2985
Traumatic aneurism of the left brachial artery. Failure of direct and indirect pressure; ligation of the artery immediately above tumor; return of pulsation on the tenth day; ligation immediately below tumor; failure to arrest pulsation; incision and partial excision of sac; recovery.
First aneurysmorrhaphy, April 6, 1888. See also Trans. Amer. surg.Ass.,1902, 20,396-434.
1888
#4262.1
On supra-pubic prostatectomy, with three cases in which the operation was successfully performed for chronic prostatic hypertrophy.
McGill pioneered the operation of suprapubic prostatectomy, first performed by him in March 1887.
1888 –1889
#4094
Folliculite épilante décalvante.
Folliculitis decalvans of Quinquaud first described. At about the same time, P. A. Robert described it independently in his thesis, Paris, 1889.
1888
#4860
A case of tumour of the spinal cord. Removal; recovery.
Horsley was the founder of neurosurgery in England. The above paper records the first successful operation for the removal of an extramedullary tumor of the spinal cord.
1888
#4350
Ueber freie Körper in den Gelenken.
König of Göttingen was the first to use the term “osteochondritis dissecans”.
1888
#5033
Untersuchungen über Typhus abdominalis.
Salmonella typhi first demonstrated in the gall-bladder in cases of typhoid.
1888
#5034
De l’immunité contre le virus de la fièvre typhoöde conférée par des substances solubles.
Experimental antityphoid inoculation.
1888 –1889
#5059
Contribution a l’étude de la diphtérie.
Confirmation of the work of Loeffler and demonstration of the exotoxin. This work is the starting point of the development of an immunizing serum.
1888
#5090.1
Sur les microbes de la dysentérie épidémique.
The dysentery bacillus was isolated by Chantemesse and Widal, although they failed to establish its etiological relationship to the disease.
1888
#4183
Leçons cliniques sur les affections chirurgicales de la vessie et de la prostate.
Guyon was Professor of genitourinary surgery at Paris, and a great teacher (see also No. 4177).
1888
#4221
Chronic pyelitis, successfully treated by kolpo-uretero-cystotomy.
Bozeman treated vesical and fecal fistulae in women, dealing with the complication of pyelitis by catheterization of the ureter through a vesicovaginal opening.
1888
#5512.1
Note sur la maladie des boeufs de la Guadeloupe, connue sous le nom de farcin.
The first pathogenic aerobic actinomycete to be described. It was later named Nocardia farcinica and is probably identical with N. asteroides.
1888
#4996
