Entry Nos. 2200–2299

1742 –1776

#2200

Commentaria in Hermanni Boerhaave aphorismos, de cognoscendis et curandis morbis. 6 vols.

A pupil of Boerhaave, van Swieten transplanted the latter’s method of teaching to Vienna and founded the Vienna School of Medicine. He spent many years on the preparation of his great Commentaria. English translation,…

1750

#2201

An essay on fevers.

Huxham’s best work. He was well known in the west of England and wrote important monographs on diphtheria and on Devonshire colic. Huxham seemed to appreciate that a difference existed between typhus and typhoid, at t…

1763

#2202

Nosologia methodica sistens morborum classes, genera et species juxtà Sydenhami mentem & botanicorum ordinem. 5 vols.

Sauvages de Lacroix, a friend of Linnaeus, adopted the botanical system of Linnaeus for the classification of diseases. His classification system listed 10 major classes of disease, which were further broken down into…

1769

#2204

Synopsis nosologiae methodicae.

This work made Cullen’s reputation. In it he divided diseases into fevers, neurosis, cachexias and local disorders. Cullen was the foremost British clinical teacher of his time, one of the first to give clinical lectu…

1780

#2205

Observations on fevers, especially those of the continued type, and on the scarlet fever attended with ulcerated sore-throat, as it appeared at Newcastle upon Tyne in the year 1778: Together with a comparative view of that epidemic with the scarlet fever as described by authors, and the angina maligna.

Digital facsimile from the Intenet Archive at this link.

1802

#2207

Commentarii de morborum historia et curatione.

Samuel Johnson called Heberden “the last of our learned physicians”. The above work included all his important papers, which had earned him his great reputation, and which are dealt with elsewhere in this database (se…

1812 –1822

#2208

Dictionnaire des sciences médicales par un Société de médecins et de chirurgiens. 60 vols.

1813

#2209

Observations on the nature and cure of dropsies.

Blackall predated Bright in detecting albuminuria in association with edema. His book, of which the second edition is more important than the first, includes reports on cases of angina pectoris.

1825

#2210

Collections from the unpublished writings of the late Caleb Hillier Parry. 3 vols.

Includes Parry’s interesting description of eight cases of exophthalmic goitre, the first of which was observed in 1786, and his notes on four cases of angina pectoris. Parry's paper, "Enlargement of the thyroid gland…

1830

#2211

A treatise on fever.

Both a doctor and a minister, Smith, physician to the London Fever Hospital, called himself, “physician to body and soul.” He argued that the poor are impoverished by fever and that fever was preventable. This book in…

1835

#2212

A discourse on self-limited diseases.

Bigelow was attached to the Massachusetts General Hospital. The above “did more than any other work or essay in our own language to rescue the practice of medicine from the slavery of the drugging system which was par…

1837

#2213

A treatise on the diagnosis and treatment of diseases of the chest.

Stokes, most prominent of the Irish school of medicine, established his reputation by his book on diseases of the chest. Important among its contents are his discovery of a stage of pneumonia prior to that described b…

1839

#2215

Elements of the practice of medicine. Vol. 1. (All Published.)

Originally issued in three parts from 1836 to 1839 when the authors were joint lecturers on medicine at Guy’s Hospital.

1836 –1838

#2217

Leçons sur les phénomènes physiques de la vie. 4 vols.

Magendie, pioneer experimental physiologist, regarded pathology as only a modification of physiology, “medicine the physiology of the sick man”. By him clinical medicine was reconstructed on physiological lines.

1843

#2218

A system of clinical medicine.

Graves was one of the founders of the Irish school of medicine and one of the most important figures in Irish medicine at the middle of the 19th century. Second edition of the book (as Clinical lectures on the practic…

1843

#2219

Lectures on the principles and practice of physic. 2 vols.

First published in the Medical Times & Gazette, 1840-42, Watson’s famous lectures appeared in book form and formed the most important treatise of medicine for a quarter-century. Watson wrote in a fine style, and his b…

1862

#2220

A treatise on the continued fevers of Great Britain.

Murchison was one of the greatest clinical teachers London has ever known; of his many writings his book on continued fever is probably the most important. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1861

#2221

Clinique médicale de l’Hôtel Dieu de Paris. 2 vols.

Trousseau, clinician of the Hôtel-Dieu, made important advances in the treatment of diphtheria, typhoid, scarlet fever and other conditions. In his book he emphasized the value of bedside observation. He supported the…

1867

#2222

Leçons sur les maladies des vieillards et les maladies chroniques.

Charcot inaugurated a course of study of geriatrics, at the Salpêtrière, in 1866; his lectures are embodied in the above work. English translation, 1881.

1868

#2223

A collection of the published writings.

Addison was a contemporary of Bright at Guy’s Hospital and a fine lecturer.

1871 –1878

#2224

Zur Fieberlehre. In his: Gesammelte Beiträge zur Pathologie und Physiologie, 2 (1871) pt. 1, 624-56, 679-83; 3 (1878) 503-05, 582-87.

Digital facsimile of Vol. 2, pt. 1 from the Internet Archive at this link, of Vol. 3 at this link.

1873

#2225

Untersuchungen über den fieberhaften Process und seine Behandlung.

Senator was a director of the Charité Hospital in Berlin and later at the university polyclinic. His study of fever represents his best work.

1875

#2226

Handbuch der Pathologie und Therapie des Fiebers.

1876 –1878

#2227

The collected works. 2 vols.

Latham, successively physician to Middlesex and St. Bartholomew’s hospitals, was an authority on cardiac disease and among the earliest in England to advocate auscultation. He held progressive views on medical educati…

1883 –1884

#2229

Lehrbuch der speciellen Pathologie und Therapie der inneren Krankheiten. 2 vols.

Strümpell gave an excellent description of ankylosing spondylitis (“Strümpell’s disease”, the “spondylose rhizomélique” of Pierre Marie, No. 4368) on p. 152 of his Lehrbuch. See No. 2229. He published an important pap…

1886

#2230

The principles and practice of medicine. 2 vols.

Fagge was physician to Guy’s hospital and editor of Guy’s Hospital Reports. His important textbook was published posthumously.

1892

#2231

The principles and practice of medicine.

Osler’s textbook was the best English work on medicine of its time. He became Regius Professor of Medicine at Oxford in 1904. Besides being one of the greatest of all clinicians, he was possessed of a fine literary st…

1894 –1896

#2232

A collection of the published writings. 2 vols.

Gull, one of the best clinicians of his time, spent most of his working life at Guy’s Hospital. He described the spinal lesion of tabes and left an important account of aneurysm. His best works are his description of …

1907

#2233

Die asthenische Konstitutionskrankheit.

“Stiller’s disease” – habitus asthenicus.

1910

#2234

Vagotonie: klinische Studie.

English translation, 1915.

1911

#2235

Vicious circles in disease.

1935

#2236

A diffuse disease of the peripheral circulation (usually associated with lupus erythematosus and endocarditis).

See No. 2237. With P. Klemperer and A. Schifrin.

1942

#2237

Diffuse collagen disease; acute disseminated lupus erythematosus and diffuse scleroderma.

P. Klemperer, A. D. Pollack, and G. Baehr combined a number of diseases, hitherto regarded as unrelated, into an entity which they termed diffuse collagen disease.

1950

#2238

The physiology and pathology of exposure to stress.

In his study of the etiology of the collagen disease Selye developed the idea that animals react to stress or injury by a certain sequence of physiological reactions – the “general adaptation syndrome”.

1930

#2239

Nosography, the evolution of clinical medicine in modern times. 2nd ed.

A well-illustrated and reliable account.

1932

#2241

Classic descriptions of disease.

A collection of classic descriptions of disease by 179 different writers, from ancient times to the present. Foreign papers are translated into English. A second edition of this most interesting and useful book appear…

1960

#2243

The history of internal medicine. Selected diseases.

Attempts to list and annotate every reference of fundamental importance in the development of 21 selected diseases.

1590

#2244

Historia natural y moral de las Indias.

One of the earliest detailed and realistic descriptions of the New World. Acosta hypothesized that the indigenous peoples of Latin America had migrated from Asia. He also divided the native peoples into three barbaria…

1607

#2245

De combustionibus.

First book devoted entirely to burns. Fabry was the first to classify burns. Translated into English by John Steer as: Gulielm, Fabricius Hildamus, his experiments in chyrurgerie concerning combustions or burnings mad…

1665

#2246

De siriasi.

A treatise on sunstroke.

1832 –1834

#2247

Leçons orales de clinique chirurgicale. 4 vols.

Dupuytren was born in poverty and died a millionaire. He became the best surgeon of his time in France. He was a “shrewd diagnostician, an operator of unrivaled aplomb, a wonderful clinical teacher, and a good experim…

1859

#2248

Remarks upon a tabular return (No. 1), or synopsis of sixteen cases of heat-apoplexy.

Longmore was an army surgeon in India; he gave an excellent account of heat-stroke.

1860

#2249

Contributions to the natural history of insolatio.

Barclay, an army surgeon in India, wrote an important paper on heat-stroke.

1872

#2250

Thermic fever, or sunstroke.

A study of the pathology of sunstroke. Wood held the chairs of botany, therapeutics, and neurology at the University of Pennsylvania.

1913

#2251

La kérithérapie (nouvelle balnéation thermocireuse).

Treatment of burns with ambrine (paraffin-resin solution); keritherapy.

1923

#2252

Blood concentration changes in extensive superficial burns, and their significance for systemic treatment.

F. P. Underhill, G. L. Carrington, R. Kapsinow, and G. T. Pack made important studies on the blood concentration following burns.

1925

#2253

Tannic acid in the treatment of burns.

Introduction of tannic acid in the treatment of burns.

1925

#2254

Zur Therapie schwerer Verbrennungen.

Riehl was an early advocate of blood transfusion in the treatment of shock after burns.

1927

#2255

Contribution to the study of burns, their classification and treatment.

Goldblatt’s classification of burns.

1930

#2256

Burns. Types, pathology and management.