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WARDROP, James (1782 – 1869)

WARDROP, James (1782 – 1869)

1782 – 1869

3 entries in the GMN corpus.

Image source Andrew Geddes (1783–1844) · [1] [2] · Public domain

1808 CE–1818 CE

#5840

Essays on the morbid anatomy of the human eye. 2 vols.

Wardrop was the first to classify the various inflammations of the eye according to the structures attacked. He was also the first to use the term “keratitis”.

1827 CE

#2949

Case of carotid aneurism successfully treated by tying the artery above the aneurismal tumor.

Wardrop successfully treated aneurysm of the carotid artery by distal ligation, a procedure suggested by Pierre Brasdor (see No. 2951). Wardrop expanded this paper into a book: On aneurism, and its cure by a new opera…

1835 CE

#11723

On blood-letting: An account of the curative effects of the abstraction of blood; with rules for employing both local and general blood-letting in the treatment of diseases.

Wardrop "promoted blood-letting in an era when a few physicians, notably Pierre Louis of Paris, were discouraging the therapeutic approach" (W. Bruce Fye, "James Wardrop," Profiles in cardiology, 91.) Digital facsimil…