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CARTER, Henry Vandyke (1831 – 1897)

CARTER, Henry Vandyke (1831 – 1897)

1831 – 1897

6 entries in the GMN corpus.

Image source Henry Vandyke Carter · Wellcome Library · Public domain

1858 CE

#418

Anatomy, descriptive and surgical

Gray’s textbook of anatomy remains today a standard work on the subject in the English-speaking world. The 37th edition appeared in 1989; the first American edition was published at Philadelphia, 1859. Digital f…

1861 CE

#4047

On a new and striking form of fungus disease, principally affecting the foot, and prevailing endemically in many parts of India.

First modern description of mycetoma of the foot – “Madura foot”, “Carter’s mycetoma”. It was mentioned by E. Kaempfer in his Amoenitates exoticae, Lemgo, 1712, p. 561. Colebrook at…

1874 CE

#4066

On mycetoma, or the fungus disease of India.

See No. 4047.

1882 CE

#5316

Spirillum fever.

Asiatic relapsing fever; original work on this disease by Carter is remembered by the eponym “Carter’s fever” and the name Borrelia carteri. He reproduced the disease in the monkey.

1888 CE

#5323

Note on the occurrence of a minute blood-spirillum in an Indian rat.

Demonstration of Spirillum minus, later shown to be a cause of rat-bite fever. (See also No. 5327).

2008 CE

#13166

The making of Mr. Gray's Anatomy: Bodies, books, fortune, fame.

An exhaustive account of the creation, production, distribution and influence of this classic.