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ALLBUTT, Sir Thomas Clifford (1836 – 1925)

1836 – 1925

9 entries in the GMN corpus.

1868 CE

#4778

Case of cerebral disease in a syphilitic patient.

Syphilitic endarteritis of cerebral arteries described.

1869 CE

#4779

Remarks on a case of locomotor ataxy with hydrarthrosis.

An early description of the joint symptoms in tabes dorsalis.

1870 CE

#2679

Medical thermometry.

Allbutt introduced the modern clinical thermometer.

1871 CE

#11545

On the use of the ophthalmoscope in diseases of the nervous system and of the kidneys; also in certain other general disorders.

One of the earliest works on the wider appications of the ophthalmoscope. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1884 CE

#4847

On visceral neuroses.

Gulstonian Lectures.

1901 CE

#6644

Science and mediaeval thought.

1905 CE

#5803

The historical relations of medicine and surgery to the end of the sixteenth century.

1915 CE

#2894

Diseases of the arteries, including angina pectoris. 2 vols.

Includes his suggestion of the aortic genesis of angina pectoris, and (vol. 2, p. 368) his mechanical theory of cardiac pain in coronary occlusion.

1921 CE

#6479

Greek medicine in Rome.

FitzPatrick Lectures, 1909-10. Allbutt was Regius Professor of Physic at Cambridge and a great literary stylist. Underwood described him as the most learned and distinguished physician of the last hundred years.