CARTER, Henry Vandyke (1831 – 1897)
1831 – 1897
6 entries in the GMN corpus.
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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.