1880–1889
768 entries with publication dates in this decade.
1885
#4943
Les maladies de la personnalité.
1885
#4426.1
An operation for displaced semilunar cartilage.
The first deliberate and planned operation for the relief of internal derangement of the knee-joint caused by a displaced cartilage, i.e. repair of the meniscus. Annandale succeeded Lister as Professor of Clinical Sur…
1885 –1887
#5485
Lektsii ob ostrikh infektsionnîkh bolierznyakh u dietei. [Lectures on acute infectious diseases of children.] 2 vols.
Glandular fever (infectious mononucleosis) was first described by Filatov under the name of idiopathic adenitis (“Filatov’s disease”). A German translation of his book appeared in 1895-97.
1885
#5293
On the presence of peculiar parasitic organisms in the tissue of a specimen of Delhi boil.
Cunningham saw and described bodies in Delhi boil; these were almost certainly Leishman–Donovan bodies.
1885
#5003.1
The insane in the United States and Canada.
The first history of psychiatry in the United States and Canada. Chapter 5 is the first survey of psychiatry in Canada.
1885
#5528
Mycosis mucorina.
First authentic case reported in man.
1885
#5347
Notes upon the experimental breeding of Taenia echinococcus in the dog from the echinococci of man.
Thomas succeeded in transmitting Taenia echinococcus to the dog from human sources.
1885
#5926
Die periphere Atrophie des Sehnerven.
Peripheral atrophy of the optic nerve was described by Fuchs and called “Fuchs’s optic atrophy”.
1885
#5927
Der Electromagnet in der Augenheilkunde.
The introduction of the electromagnet into ophthalmology. A pupil of Helmholtz, Hirschberg was one of the most voluminous writers in the field of ophthalmology. Besides his dictionary (see No. 5932) he wrote a classic…
1885
#5928
On the surgical, physiological, and aesthetic advantages of the artificial vitreous body.
“Mules’s operation”, evisceration of the eyeball with insertion of artificial vitreous.
1885
#5679
Practical comments on the use and abuse of cocaine; suggested by its invariably successful employment in more than a thousand minor surgical operations.
The first experiments on local infiltration anesthesia were made by Halsted, who even produced anesthesia by the intradermal injection of water. Through the process of self-experimentation Halsted became addicted to c…
1885
#5680
Spinal anaesthesia and local medication of the cord.
Spinal anesthesia introduced. Corning showed experimentally that cocaine exerts a prolonged anesthetic effect while arresting the circulation in the anesthetized area. He first described injection of cocaine between t…
1885
#6082
Ueber Kraurosis vulvae, eine wenig beachtete Form von Hautatrophie am pudendum muliebre.
Although not the first to describe kraurosis vulvae, Breisky left an important account, and the condition became known as “Breisky’s disease”.
1885
#5209
Der Mikro-Organismus der gonorrhöischen Schleimhaut-Erkrankungen, Gonococcus-Neisser.
Bumm cultured the gonococcus. By human inoculations he demonstrated its pathogenicity in pure culture.
1885
#5210.1
Bericht über eine bei Kindern beobachtete Endemie infectiöser Colpitis.
The gonococcus shown to be the cause of vulvovaginitis in children.
1885
#6717
Eminent doctors; their lives and their work. Second edition. 2 vols.
Deals with British doctors only.
1885
#5238
Weitere Untersuchungen über die Malariainfection.
First accurate description of the malaria Plasmodium, discovered by Laveran in 1880. These writers were the first to adopt the name P. malariae.
1885
#5238.1
Zur Parasitologie des Blutes.
Discovery of malaria parasites in birds. See also Ann. Inst. Pasteur, 1890, 4, 427-31.
1885
#6264
Neuer Beitrag zur Aetiologie und Casuistik der Spondyl-olisthesis.
1885
#231
Die Bedeutung der Zellenkerne für die Vorgänge der Vererbung.
Along with Roux, Kölliker stated that hereditary characters were transmitted by the cell nucleus.
1885
#6604
Notes on the history of medical progress in Japan.
From Trans. Asiatic Soc. Japan, 1885, 12, 245-469. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1885
#7332
Topographical anatomy of the brain. 3 vols.
The most outstanding American neurological atlas of the nineteenth century and one of the best American photographically illustrated medical books of the period. The atlas reproduces the specimens, which Dalton prepar…
1885
#8416
Les médecins grecs depuis la mort de Galien jusqu'a la chute de l'empire d'orient (210-1453).
Digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this link.
1885
#9159
Women, plumbers, and doctors: or, household sanitation
Dedicated "To Dr. Henry I. Bowditch, whose early, persistent, and enthusiastic labors make him the apostle of sanitation in America." Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1885
#9500
A contribution to South African materia medica, chiefly from plants in use among the natives.
The first edition was a pamphlet of 23 pp. Smith issued a much-expanded second edition with 163 pp., also at Lovedale in 1888, and a further expanded third edition with 262 pp. (Cape Town, 1895). Digital facsimile of …
1885
#9544
Die elephantiastischen Formen. Eine umfassende Darstellung der angeborenen und erworbenen Elephantiasis sowie aller verwandten Leiden.
This atlas illustrates the various changes that occur under the collective term elephantiasis, including tumors of the blood and lymphatic vessels, fibromas, neuromas, papillomas. Goldschmid 258.
1885
#10192
Notes on diseases among the Indians frequenting York Factory, Hudson's Bay. Read before the Medico-Chirurgical Society of Montreal, February, 1885.
Mathews was a surgeon employed by the Hudson's Bay Company. "York Factory was a settlement and Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) factory (trading post) located on the southwestern shore of Hudson Bay in northeastern Manitoba…
1885
#10383
Untersuchungen über staubinhalation und staubmetastase.
On the effects of dust inhalation. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1885
#10575
Indigenous flowers of the Hawaiian Islands: Forty-four plates painted in water-colours and described by Mrs. Francis Sinclair, Jr.
The first color-illustrated book on Hawaiian flora. "The following collection of flowers was made upon the islands of Kauai and Niihau, the most northern of the Hawaiian archipelago. It is not by any means a large col…
1885
#11537
A text-book of nursing for the use of training schools, families, and private students. Compiled by Clara S. Weeks-Shaw.
This was the first textbook on nursing formally written by a nurse credited on the title page. Digital facsimile of the second edition (1899) from Google Books at this link.
1885 –1886
#11636
A system of medicine. Edited by William Pepper. 5 vols.
"The most comprehensive 19th century American work on medicine. Pepper assembled virtually all of the leading American physicians of the day, including D. Hayes Agnew, Roberts Bartholow, John Shaw Billings, William By…
1885
#12075
The field and limitation of the operative surgery of the human brain.
The first American monograph on surgery on the human brain, also published in 1885 the Transactions of the American Surgical Association. Roberts was "one of the few American surgeons to advocate an aggressive explora…
1885
#12122
Gleanings from the natural history of the ancients.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1885
#12502
Gli amori degli uomini. Saggio di una etnologie dell'amore. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile of the 1886 edition from the Hathi Trust at this link. Translated into English "from the latest Italian edition, as approved by the author, by Samuel Putnam, edited with an introduction by Victor Rob…
1885
#13153
Über das Gedachtnis: Untersuchungen zur experimentellen Psychologie.
Ebbinghaus conducted a series of experiments on memory and forgetting using himself as subject. Out of this came concepts such as the learning curve and the forgetting curve, and the serial position effect. Digital fa…
1885
#13805
La viruela en la América del Sud y principalmente en la República Argentina: Historia, estadística, clínica, y profilaxia.
Digital facsimile from wellcomecollection.org at this link.
1885
#13835
Médecine et moeurs de l'ancienne Rome d'après les poètes latins.
Translated into English as Medicine and morals of ancient Rome according to the Latin poets (Cincinnati: Cincinnati Lancet-clinic, 1901). Digital facsimile of the 1885 edition from Google Books at this link. Facsimile…
1885 –1901
#13866
Alphabetical catalogue of the library of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow preceded by an index of subjects. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile from wellcomecollection.org at this link.
1885
#13907
Untersuchungen über den Stoffwechsel isolirte Organe. I. Ein Respirationsapparat für isolirte Organe. II. Versuche über den Stoffwechsel des Muskels.
(Part 1 by Frey & Gruber; Part 2 by Frey.) Frey and Gruber developed the first heart-lung machine. Their machine "consisted of a double-acting pump in the form on an injection syringe with a capacity of 10 ml, which i…
1886
#554
Ueber die Methylenblaureaction der lebenden Nervensubstanz.
Ehrlich’s method of intravital staining.
1886 –1888
#4569
A manual of diseases of the nervous system. 2 vols.
Gowers was physician and Professor of Clinical Medicine at University College, London. He especially distinguished himself in the field of neurology, and the above set is his greatest work.Page 365 of vol. 1 includes …
1886
#4570
Paralyses, cerebral, bulbar and spinal.
Bastian was one of the founders of English neurology. He is remembered for “Bastian’s law” (see No. 4577).
1886
#4571
Two cases of associated paralysis of the tongue, soft palate, and vocal cord on the same side.
“Mackenzie’s syndrome”.
1886
#1017
Die Darmbakterien des Säuglings und ihre Beziehungen zur Physiologie der Verdauung.
Includes the first account of Bact. coli infection. The organism was later renamed Escherichia coli (E.coli).
1886
#708
Ueber den Niederschlag, welchen Pikrinsäure in normalen Harn erzeugt und über eine neue Reaction des Kreatinins.
Jaffe’s creatinine test.
1886
#427
Plastische Anatomie des menschlichen Körpers.
“Illustrated with lithographs from hand-drawings, photographs from the nude, ethnic studies of facial features…The text…is of unusual historic interest, and includes special chapters on the anatomy of the infant, huma…
1886
#4704
Ueber eine bestimmte Form der primären combinirten Systemerkrankungen des Rückenmarks.
“Strümpell’s disease” – hereditary spastic spinal paralysis, previously described by Erb and by Charcot.
1886
#1129
Functional nervous disorders due to loss of thyroid gland and pituitary body.
First successful experimental hypophysectomy; two dogs survived five and six months respectively after this operation.
1886
#4749
Sur une forme particuliére d’atrophie musculaire progressive souvent familiale débutant par les pieds et les jambes et atteignant plus tard les mains.
First description of the peroneal form of muscular atrophy, the so-called Charcot–Marie–Tooth type.
1886
#4750
The peroneal type of progressive muscular atrophy. Thesis for the degree of M.D. in the University of Cambridge.
Tooth described peroneal muscular atrophym a hereditary motor and sensory neuropathy of the peripheral nervous system, independently of, and in the same year as, Charcot and Marie. Known as Charcot-Marie-Tooth (CMT) d…