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WILSON, Sir William James Erasmus (1809 – 1884)

WILSON, Sir William James Erasmus (1809 – 1884)

1809 – 1884

6 entries in the GMN corpus.

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1836 CE–1842 CE

#13299

A series of anatomical plates. 5 vols.: The muscles of the human body. The vessels of the human body. The nerves of the human body. The viscera of the human body. The bones and ligaments of the human body.

1836 CE–1842 CE

#13300

A series of anatomical plates. 5 vols.: The muscles of the human body. The vessels of the human body. The nerves of the human body. The viscera of the human body. The bones and ligaments of the human body.

The most ambitious 19th century English anatomy illustrated by lithography. Some copies were issued with hand-colored plates. The five volumes, containing a total of 201 plates, describe the muscles, blood vessels, ne…

1855 CE

#9921

Portraits of diseases of the skin.

Wilson's atlas, with 48 plates drawn and engraved by the medical artist, William Bagg, was the first English large folio atlas of dermatology in the style of similar folios issued in France by Alibert and Cazenave. Th…

1861 CE

#10049

The eastern, or Turkish bath: Its history, revival in Britain, and application to the purposes of health.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1870 CE

#4061

On dermatitis exfoliativa.

Although Hippocrates mentioned this condition, Erasmus Wilson first named it and described it as we know it today. It has been called “Wilson’s disease”; an eponym discarded since its use to describe…

1871 CE–1878 CE

#3994

Lectures on dermatology. 4 vols.

Erasmus Wilson gave the original descriptions of several cutaneous diseases, and made a fine collection of dermatological preparations. He classified skin diseases on an anatomical basis. The above book consists of hi…