1880–1889
768 entries with publication dates in this decade.
1884
#12279
Hertztamponade: Ein Beitrag zur Herzchirurgie.
Rose coined the term "Herztomponade" translated as "cardiac tamponade." He "described the pathophysiology of cardiac tamponade and recorded 23 case histories of ruptured or wounded hearts, several of which did not cau…
1884
#12892
Zur Anatomie der Zunge. Eine vergleichend-anatomische Studie.
One of the first and the most extensive comparative anatomical studies of the tongues of animals. The book contrasts the tongues of fish, amphibians and reptiles, birds and mammals, through various sectional illustrat…
1884 –1888
#12947
Plantae Davidianae ex Sinarum Imperio: Première partie: Plantes de Mongolie du Nord et du Centre de la Chine. Deuxieme Partie: Plantes du Thibet Oriental (Province de Moupine)
Catalogue of the very extensive collection of plants collected by the Lazarist missionary Father Armand David for the Musée d'Histoire Naturelle during his three major naturalist expeditions in China, Mongolia and Tib…
1884
#13051
The vertebrate zoology of Sind. A systematic account, with descriptions of all the known species of mammals, birds, and reptiles inhabiting the province; observations on their habits, &c; tables of their geographical distribution in Persia, Belochistan, and Afghanistan; Punjab, North-west provinces, and the peninsula of India generally, with woodcuts, lithographs, and coloured illustrations.
1884
#13063
Memoir upon the formation of a deaf variety of the human race.
Bell determined that deafness was an inheritable trait and that deaf individuals had a tendency to marry other deaf individuals. As a eugenicist Bell considered this a problem because he thought it risked the developm…
1884
#13341
Ibn Abi Useibia. Herausgegeben von August Müller.
Self-published. Arabic text with relatively brief commentary. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1884
#14278
Recherches sur la conductibilité galvanique des electrolytes. 1 & 2.
Arrhenius first published the theory of electrolytic dissociation in his doctoral thesis of 1884. In 1903 he received the Nobel Prize in chemistry "in recognition of the extraordinary services he has rendered to the a…
1885
#4502
Das Regimen bei der Gicht.
A pupil of Frerichs, Virchow, and Romberg, Ebstein became Professor of Medicine at Göttingen.
1885
#4568
Lectures on the diagnosis of diseases of the brain.
1885
#4626
Ueber Aphasie.
“Lichtheim’s disease”– subcortical sensory aphasia. Lichtheim noted that although the patient could not speak, he was able to indicate with his fingers the number of syllables in the word of which he was thinking (“Li…
1885
#4643
Ueber die akute Encephalitis der Kinder (Polioencephalitis acuta, cerebrale Kinderlähmung).
“Strumpell’s disease” – polioencephalomyelitis.
1885 –1886
#705
Ueber Ptomaine. 3 vols.
Brieger isolated and determined the composition of a number of the ptomaines.
1885
#706
Lois d’équilibre chimique dans l’état dilué, gazeux ou dissous.
Van’t Hoff stated that osmotic pressure is proportional to the concentration if the temperature remains invariable, and proportional to the absolute temperature if the concentration remains invariable. In 1901 Van't H…
1885
#4703
Über eine eigentümliche Form spastischer Lähmung mit Cerebralerscheinungen auf hereditärer Grundlage. (Multiple Sklerose.)
“Pelizaeus–Merzbacher disease” (see No. 4715).
1885
#4748
Contribution à l’étude des paralysies radiculaires du plexus brachial.
First description of atrophic paralysis of the muscles of the hand following lesion of the brachial plexus and eighth cervical and first dorsal nerves (“Klumpke’s paralysis”).
1885
#1366
Beitrag zur pathologischen Anatomie der Tabes dorsalis und zum Faserverlauf in menschlichen Rückenmark.
“Lissauer’s tract”, the marginal tract in the spinal cord.
1885
#1281
Note on the nature of nerve-force.
1885
#1283
Sulle degenerazioni descendenti consecutive a lesioni sperimentale in diverse zone della corteccia cerebrale.
Marchi’s stain, osmic acid, for degenerating myelin sheaths.
1885
#1470
Neue Thatsachen über die Hautsinnesnerven.
Goldscheider recorded important investigations on the nerves conveying the sensation of temperature and on the nerves of cutaneous sensation
1885
#1704
Vital statistics. A memorial volume of selections from the reports and writings of William Farr.
Farr applied statistical methods to epidemiology and was the first mathematically to express the rise and fall of epidemic diseases, thus making possible the more accurate prediction of the occurrence of epidemics.
1885
#1881
A text-book of pharmacology, therapeutics and materia medica.
Brunton was physician to St. Bartholomew’s Hospital and an eminent pharmacologist. He is notable for his introduction of amyl nitrite in the treatment of angina pectoris and for a vast amount of other work concerning …
1885
#1520
The anatomy of the muscles, ligaments and fasciae of the orbit, including an account of the capsule of Tenon, the check ligaments of the recti, and the suspensory ligaments of the eye.
“Lockwood’s suspensory ligament” of the globe of the eye.
1885
#2500
Vorlesungen über Bacterien.
1885
#2501
Les bactéries et leur rôle dans l’anatomie et l’histologie pathologiques des maladies infectieuses. 1 vol. and atlas.
Considered the first treatise on bacteriology.
1885
#2502
Ueber Fäulnissbacterien.
Isolation of Proteus vulgaris.
1885
#2503
Die Methoden der Bakterienforschung.
Hueppe, a colleague of Koch, wrote an admirable manual on bacteriological methods, a subject to which he gave several original contributions. English translation, New York, 1886.
1885
#179
Das Weib in der Natur-und Völkerkunde. 2 vols.
Ploss incorporated a vast amount of data concerning every aspect of woman in the unillustrated first edition, and died the year it was published. He covered anthropology, psychology, aesthetics, physiology, sexuality,…
1885 –1888
#180
Völkerkunde. 2 vols.
Ratzel emphasized the importance of the investigation of the history of primitive peoples in the study of ethnology.
1885
#2790
The Gulstonian Lectures, on malignant endocarditis.
First comprehensive description of subacute bacterial endocarditis.
1885
#2540
Das Sauerstoff-Bedürfniss des Organismus. Eine farbenanalytische Studie.
Includes the first statement of Ehrlich’s “side-chain” theory.
1885
#2541
Méthode pour prévenir la rage après morsure.
Pasteur’s papers describing his rabies vaccine, and the results he attained with it gave further proof of the value of attenuated virus as a protective inoculum against infective diseases in man and animals. This is c…
1885
#3294
Die Natur und die Behandlung der Ozaena.
Loewenberg described a bacillus found in the secretions of ozena (see No. 3307). He made the first attempt at the treatment of this condition.
1885
#3295
Über die Bedeutung der Bursa pharyngea für die Erkennung und Behandlung gewisser Nasenrachenraum-Krankheiten.
“Tornwaldt’s [Thornwaldt’s] bursitis”, first described by Wendt (see No. 3283).
1885
#3595
A case of strangulated hernia into the fossa intersigmoidea.
First definitely authenticated case of intersigmoid hernia.
1885
#3731
Untersuchungen über Osteomalacie und Rachitis.
Hess considered this the foremost contribution to the subject during the 19th century.
1885
#3740
On the cause and prevention of kakke.
Takaki was the first conclusively to show the dietary origin of beriberi. Measures introduced by him resulted in its eradication from the Japanese Navy, where it had previously been a serious problem.
1885
#3628
Eine Icterusepidemie.
Dr. Lürman, a general practitioner in Bremen, was first to report homologous serum hepatitis. English translation in Human viral hepatitis, by A. J. Zuckerman, 2nd ed., New York, 1972, pp. 4-10.
1885
#3770
Zur Symptomatologie der sog. Pseudo-Leukämie
“Pel-Ebstein disease”, a remittant pyrexia occurring in Hodgkin’s disease (see also No. 3771).
1885
#3226
A case of haemoptysis treated by the induction of pneumothorax so as to collapse the lung.
Artificial pneumothorax by pleural incision in intractable haemoptysis. See also Lancet, 1885, 1, 894-95.
1885
#3389
Ueber den Werth des Rinne’schen Versuches für die Diagnostik der Gehörkrankheiten.
Schwabach’s hearing test.
1885
#3948
Ueber Acetonurie und Diaceturie
An important investigation concerning acetone in diabetic urine.
1885
#4085
Ueber eine neue Form von Hautkrankheit, “Lymphodermia perniciosa”.
First description of lymphoderma perniciosa, premycotic or leukemic erythrodermia.
1885
#4858
Case of cerebral tumour.
First instance of diagnosis, accurate clinical localization, and operative removal of a tumor of the brain, 25 November, 1884. The patient survived for one month. Preliminary report in Lancet, 1884, 2, 1090-91.
1885
#3482.2
Case of acute extensive ulceration of the colon.
First detailed description of ulcerative colitis.
1885
#3482.3
On a case of acute intestinal obstruction in a boy, with remarks upon the treatment of acute obstruction.
Abdominal section and ileostomy for intestinal obstruction; surgeon’s report on pp. 130-35.
1885
#3483
Zur Casuistik und Statistik der Magenresectionen und Gastro-enterostomieen.
Billroth II pylorectomy, reported by von Hacker. Also published in Arch. klin. Chir., 1885, 32, 616-25.
1885
#3484
Application de la méthode naturelle à l’analyse de la dyspepsie nerveuse. – Détermination d’une espèce.
Important description of enteroptosis and gastroptosis.
1885
#3694
Dental bibliography: A standard reference list of books on dentistry published throughout the world from 1536 to 1885.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1885
#5057
Intubation of the larynx.
O’Dwyer perfected the operation of laryngeal intubation in croup.
1885
#4181
On cyclic albuminuria (albuminuria in the apparently healthy).
“Pavy’s disease” – recurrent albuminuria.