Facets

1775 –1776

#75

Opera medica. 3 vols.

Werlhof, a contemporary and friend of Haller, is remembered for his classic description of purpura haemorrhagica (see No. 3052). He was Court physician at Hannover.

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…

1829 –1833

#2288

Traité d’anatomie pathologique. 2 vols. and atlas.

Includes a historical review of the subject from the time of the Ancient Egyptians to Corvisart, and a summary of the advances in pathology during the preceding 50 years. Vol. 2, pp. 553-600 deals with diseases of the…

1997

#12360

Rheumatic fever and streptococcal infection: Unraveling the mysteries of a dread disease.

1999

#12340

Rheumatic fever in America and Britain: A biological, epidemiological, and medical history.

2010

#12377

Cholesterol and beyond: The research on diet and coronary heart disease, 1900-2000.

"A concise overview of the chain of evidence accumulated during the past century supporting the relationship between dietary habits and blood levels of cholesterol and the associated relationship between blood total a…

2017

#12372

The coronary heart disease pandemic in the twentieth century: Emergence and decline in advanced countries.

"This book demonstrates that a pandemic of coronary heart disease occurred in North America, western and northern Europe, and Australia and New Zealand from the 1930s to about 2000. At its peak it caused more deaths t…