An Interactive Annotated World Bibliography of Printed and Digital Works in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences from Circa 2000 BCE to 2022 by Fielding H. Garrison (1870-1935), Leslie T. Morton (1907-2004), and Jeremy M. Norman (1945- ) Traditionally Known as “Garrison-Morton”

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VALENTIN, Gabriel Gustav

3 entries
  • 602

De phaenomeno generali et fundamentali motus vibratorii contini in membranis.

Wroclaw (Vratislava, Breslau): sumpt. A. Schulz et soc., , 1835.

Classical paper on ciliary epithelial motion. Reprinted in Purkynĕ’s Opera omnia (No. 82), pp. 277-371, 1918. English translation in Dublin J. med. chem. Sci., 1835, 7, 279-84.



Subjects: BIOLOGY › Cell Biology
  • 5267.1

Ueber ein Entozoon im Blute von Salmo fario.

Arch. Anat. Physiol. wiss. Med., 435-36, 1841.

Valentin was the first to discover a trypanosome; this was in a salmon. English translation in Kean (No. 2268.1).



Subjects: INFECTIOUS DISEASE › VECTOR-BORNE DISEASES › Triatomine Bug-Borne Diseases › Chagas Disease (American Trypanosomiasis) , PARASITOLOGY › Trypanosoma
  • 14165

Der Gebrauch des Spektroskopes zu physiologischen und ärztlichen Zwecken.

Leipzig & Heidelberg: C.F. Winter'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1863.

The first monograph on medical spectroscopy. After Hoppe-Seyler published the first paper on the application of spectroscopy to blood chemistry in 1862 (No. 870), Valentin decided to publish his own contributions to the spectroscopy of blood in this monograph, rather than a journal article.  Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

See Frederic L. Holmes, "Crystals and carriers: The chemical and physiological identification of hemoglobin," In No truth except In the details. Essays in honor of Martin J. Klein. Edited By A. J. Kox & Daniel M. Siegel (1995) 191-244. 



Subjects: HEMATOLOGY, Laboratory Medicine