LEIDY, Joseph (1823 – 1891)

1846

#5338

Entozoon in the superficial part of the extensor muscles of the thigh of the hog. Abstract

First description of trichinosis in the pig.

1848 –1849

#3450

On the existence of Entophyta in healthy animals, as a natural condition.

Discovery of the bacterial flora of the intestines.

1851

#2614

Transplantation of malignant tumors.

First experimental transplantation of tumors.

1857

#8825

Indigenous races of the earth; or new chapters of ethnological enquiry: Including monographs on special departments of philology, iconography, cranioscopy, palaeontology, pathology, archaeology, comparative geography and natural history: Contributed by Alfred Maury, Francis Pulszky, and J. Aiken Meigs. With contributions from Jos. Leiden and L. Agassiz. Presenting fresh investigations by J. C. Nott and Geo. R. Glidden.

Expensively produced, and sold in both standard and large paper subscriber editions, Nott and Gliddon's work was one of the most egregiously racist publications in the history of physical anthropology. Nott, a promine…

1861

#421

An elementary treatise on human anatomy.

Leidy illustrated this book himself. He was professor of anatomy at Philadelphia and the leading American anatomist of his time.

1886

#5359

Remarks on parasites and scorpions.

Leidy found the hookworm in the cat and suggested that it might also be found in man as a cause of pernicious anemia.

1904

#2459

Researches in helminthology and parasitology. With a bibliography of his contributions to science.

In vol. 46 of Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. Leidy was called the greatest descriptive naturalist in mid-19th century America.