BRODIE, Sir Benjamin Collins (1783 – 1862)

1814 CE

#986

Experiments and observations on the influence of the nerves of the eighth pair on the secretions of the stomach.

Before turning to surgery, Brodie did important work in physiology. Above is his study of the influence of the pneumogastric nerve on gastric secretion.

1816 CE

#2994

Observations on the treatment of varicose veins of the legs.

Brodie first operated for varicose veins in 1814.

1818 CE

#4311

Pathological and surgical observations on the diseases of the joints.

Brodie’s best work. It includes his description of hysterical pseudo-fracture of the spine and the first clinical description of ankylosing spondylitis. The fifth edition, 1850, gives (p. 77) a description of &l…

1828 CE

#4314

On trephining the tibia.

“Brodie’s abscess”. The patient was first seen in 1824. Brodie published an account of some further cases in Med.-chir. Trans., 1832, 17, 239-49, which paper is reprinted in Med. Classics, 1938, 2, 9…

1835 CE

#3440

Lectures on diseases of the rectum. III. Preternatural contraction of the sphincter ani.

“Brodie’s pile”. Reprinted in Medical Classics, 1938, 2, 929-40.

1840 CE

#5770

Lecture on sero-cystic tumors of the breast.

“Brodie’s tumor”. Reprinted in Med. Classics, 1938, 2, 941-54.

1846 CE

#2902

Lectures illustrative of various subjects in pathology and surgery.

Page 361 contains the first description of intermittent claudication in man. This was first reported (in the horse) by “Boullay” [?J. Bouley] in Arch. gén. Méd.,1831, 27, 425. P. 186: Brodie'…