CHEYNE, John (1777 – 1836)
1777 – 1836
4 entries in the GMN corpus.
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1808 CE
#4635
An essay on hydrocephalus acutus, or dropsy in the brain.
Acute hydrocephalus first described.
1809 CE
#3252
The pathology of the membranes of the larynx and bronchia.
Cheyne’s important book deals mainly with the lesions of croup.
1812 CE
#4519.1
Cases of apoplexy and lethargy: with observations upon the comatose diseases.
Cheyne believed that cerebral anemia might be the cause of apoplexy, and described pathological cases of cerebral infarction and of cerebral hemorrhage. The work contains the first illustration of a subarachnoid hemor…
1818 CE
#2743
A case of apoplexy in which the fleshy part of the heart was converted into fat.
First accurate description of the condition which later became known as “Cheyne–Stokes respiration.” Reprinted in F. A. Willius & T. E. Keys: Cardiac classics, 1941, pp. 317-20.