1880–1889
768 entries with publication dates in this decade.
1888
#5323
Note on the occurrence of a minute blood-spirillum in an Indian rat.
Demonstration of Spirillum minus, later shown to be a cause of rat-bite fever. (See also No. 5327).
1888
#5933
Eine neue Methode der Hornhauttransplantation.
Modern keratoplasty is based on the technique introduced by von Hippel.
1888
#5619.1
Eine einfache Methode zurErzielung sicherer Asepsis.
Kocher introduced silk sutures.
1888
#6198
De l’accouchement provoqué; dilatation du canal génital (col de l’utérus, vagin et vulve) à l’aide de ballons introduits dans la cavité utérine pendant la grossesse.
The “Champetier de Ribes bag”.
1888
#6199
Lectures on ectopic pregnancy and pelvic haematocele.
1888
#5211
Die Blenorrhöe der Sexualorgane und ihre Complicationen.
1888
#231.1
Zellen-Studien.
Boveri gave decisive proof of the maintenance of chromosomal individuality.
1888
#4573
Sur une affection caractérisée par de l’astasie et de l’abasie.
“Blocq’s disease” – astasia–abasia.
1888 –1918
#4575
NOUVELLE Iconographie de la Salpêtriere. 28 vols.
Henry Meige, Richer, and other pupils of Charcot published many valuable studies of the constitutional aspects of nervous diseases in the above work, a series unique in the history of medicine and of great value for t…
1888
#7334
Estructura de los centros nerviosos de las aves.
"The foundational article of modern cellular neuroscience. . . . this is where Cajal first demonstrated with the Golgi method how neurons interact by contact not continuity in the adult central nervous system—in this …
1888
#8746
The medical profession in the United Kingdom.
(1200pp.) This is the greatly expanded edition of the book first published with the same title nine years earlier. "His most important and voluminous writings were the two Carmichael Prize essays of the Royal College …
1888
#8996
My story of the war: The Civil War memories of the famous nurse, relief organizer and suffragette.
1888
#9328
Untersuchungen zur Morphologie und Systematik der Vögel, zugleich ein Beitrag zur Anatomie der Stütz- und Bewegungsorgane. 2 vols.
Fürbringer specialized in avian morphology and classification; he undertook the first major phylogenetic ordering of bird groups based on a large scale study of skeletal, morphological and anatomical characteristics. …
1888
#9533
Rectal and anal surgery, with a description of the secret methods of the itinerants.
The authors were father and son. An unusual feature of this work was its critical analysis of the methods used by itinerant or untrained practitioners. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1888
#9754
Medical museums, with special reference to the Army Medical Museum at Washington. The president's address delivered before the Congress of American Physicians and Surgeons, September 20, 1888.
An historical and comparative study promoting the value of medical museums. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1888
#11271
Hereditary angio-neurotic oedema.
Osler was the first in the English-speaking world to describe what is now called hereditary angioedema. In this paper he presented "an interesting study of the heredity of a case, with a genealogical table" (Golden & …
1888
#11676
Physiologie des exercices du corps.
Digital facsimile of the revised and expanded 2nd edition, 1889, from BnFGallica at this link.
1888
#13059
Poëme sur la grande peste de 1348. Publié d'après le manuscrit de la Bibliothèque du Palais Saint-Pierre par Georges Geigue.
The book indicates that 175 copies were printed "sur papier de Hollande." The editor describes himself as the archivist of the city of Lyon. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1888
#13173
L'Enseignement et l'organisation de l'art dentaire aux États-Unis. Rapport adresse à Monsieur le Ministre de l'Instruction publique.
The first study of the American dental profession, and the system of teaching dentistry in the United States.
1888
#13468
Origines de La Maternité de Paris: Les maitresses sage-femmes et l'office des accouchées de l'ancien Hotel-Dieu (1378-1796).
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1888
#13617
Histoire de la Faculté de Médecine de Bordeaux et de l'enseignement médical dans cette ville 1441-1888.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1889
#947
On the regulation of respiration.
Demonstration of the action of the vagus in respiration.
1889
#362
Die Anatomie des Heinrich von Mondeville. Nach einer Handschrift der Königlichen Bibliothek zu Berlin von Jahre 1304 zum ersten Male herausgegeben von J. Pagel.
Mondeville was the first teacher known to have lectured with the aid of illustrations, using 13 charts of human anatomy. He lectured at Montpellier. Digital facsimile from the Medical Heritage Library, Internet Archiv…
1889
#4576
Tremblement avec paralysie croisée du moteur oculaire commun.
“Benedikt’s syndrome”–paralysis of the oculomotor nerve on one side with intensive trembling of the other side. English translation in Wolf, The classical brain stem syndromes, Springfield, Charles CThomas, 1971.
1889
#1013
Fisiologia del digiuni.
Luciani distinguished three stages of starvation in man – hunger, physiological inanition, and pathological inanition. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1889
#713
Ueber Nucleinsäuren.
Atlmann coined the term "nucleic acid", replacing Friedrich Miescher's term "nuclein" when it was demonstrated that nuclein was acidic.
1889
#714
Fixation de l’azote par la terre végétale nue ou avec le concours des légumineuses.
Berthelot showed that bacteria acting in clay soils are able to fix nitrogen.
1889 –1892
#428
Traité d’anatomie humaine. 3 vols.
7th edition, 1921-23.
1889
#1329.1
On the local paralysis of peripheral ganglia, and on the connexion of different classes of nerve fibres with them.
Langley and Dickinson studied the effect of nicotine on nerve fibers, and were able by this means to make a thorough investigation of the distribution of nerve fibers.
1889
#506
Uterus and embryo.
1889
#4785
Sur l’atrophie musculaire des ataxiques.
Dejerine ranks high in French neurology. He became clinical chief at the Salpêtrière. He separated peripheral from medullary tabes, wrote on the tabetic muscular atrophies, on the parietal lobe syndrome, and made many…
1889
#1177
Expérience démontrant la puissance dynamogénique chez l’homme d’un liquide extrait de testicules d’animaux.
Brown-Séquard injected into himself a testicular extract in order to bring about rejuvenation. He reported much benefit but his advocacy of this method evoked scepticism and criticism, although it stimulated research …
1889
#1419
A record of experiments upon the functions of the cerebral cortex.
A detailed analysis, by means of faradic stimulation, of the motor responses of the cerebral cortex, internal capsule, and spinal cord of higher primates.
1889
#1419.1
Laboratory notes of technical methods for the nervous system.
Van Gieson’s acid fuchsin and picric acid stain for nerve tissue.
1889 –1891
#2036
Aus pharmazeutischer Vorzeit in Bild und Wort. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile of the 1889 edition from the Internet Archive at this link. Translated into English by William Netter as Pictorial history of ancient pharmacy; with sketches of early medical practice (Chicago, G. P.…
1889
#1705
On vital and medical statistics.
1889
#2100
Des polynévrites en général et des paralysies et atrophies saturnines en particulier.
Madame Dejerine-Klumpke, famous neurologist, contributed an important work on lead palsies.
1889
#1932.2
Bakteriolytische Enzyme als Ursache der erworbenen Immunität und die Heilung von Infectionskrankheiten durch dieselben.
Emmerich and Löw prepared a water-soluble antibiotic substance, pyocyanase, from Pseudomonas pyocanea. It inhibited pathogenic cocci and the organisms responsible for diphtheria, plague, cholera, and typhoid.
1889
#2621
Erfolgreiche experimentelle Uebertragung von Carcinom.
Hanau successfully transplanted cancer in mammals.
1889
#1766.601
Geschichte des medizinischen Unterrichtes von den ältesten Zeiten bis zur Gegenwart.
The only comprehensive multinational study of the development of medical education, and of limited value for coverage of the 19th century. Translated into English by Evan H. Hare as A history of medical education from…
1889
#2394
Expériences sur la toxicité du bismuth.
Balzer was the first to suggest bismuth in the treatment of syphilis.
1889
#2795
De la tachycardie essentielle paroxystique.
Bouveret introduced the term “Paroxysmal tachycardia”. Partial English translation in No. 2241.
1889
#2796
Maladies du coeur et des vaisseaux.
In his important monograph on disorders of the cardiovascular system, Huchard was apparently the first to use the designation “Stokes–Adams disease”.
1889
#2797
Cardiac failure and sudden death from ventricular fibrillation.
First description of a case of death from ventricular fibrillation.
1889
#2798
Du sphygmomanomètre et de la mésure de la pression artérielle chez l’homme à l’état normale et pathologique.
Potain devised a simple portable air sphygmomanometer for blood-pressure estimation.
1889
#2543
Ueber die bakterientödtende Wirkung des zellenfreien Blutserums.
Following Nuttall’s work, Buchner discovered a substance in blood serum that was capable of destroying bacteria. He called the substance "alexin". He demonstrated that the bactericidal power of defibrinated blood was …
1889
#3495
Die Gastrodiaphanie.
Einhorn devised the method of exploration of the stomach by means of a tube – gastrodiaphany.
1889
#3496
Ueber Darmsaftgewinnung beim Menschen. (Vorläufige Mittheilung.)
Duodenal aspiration.
1889
#3130
Du sang et de ses altérations anatomiques
Includes (pp. 614-751) an important account of chlorosis; Hayem, by his accurate observation, placed knowledge of the disease on a firm basis.
1889
#3131
Ueber Leukaemia und Leukocytose im Kindesalter.
From this classic description of infantile pseudoleukemic anemia, the condition became known as “von Jaksch’s disease”.