Entry Nos. 6300–6399

1923 CE

#6353

History of pediatrics. In I. Abt, System of pediatrics, 1, 1-170.

Re-issued separately with an appendix on the history of pediatrics in recent times by A. F. Abt, Philadelphia, W. B. Saunders, 1965.

1925 CE

#6354

Pediatrics of the past: an anthology.

Contains sketches of the lives of the more important pediatricians of the past, with a comprehensive selection of their works, translated where necessary into English. Ruhräh has thrown much light on the importan…

1925 CE

#6355

Erstlinge der pädiatrischen Literatur.

Facsimile reproductions of the three earliest printed works on pediatrics: Bagellardo, Metlinger, and Roelans, together with a valuable prefatory essay on their importance.

1931 CE

#6356

The history of paediatrics. The progress of the study of diseases of children up to the end of the XVIIIth century.

This work covers the whole field of pediatrics to the end of the 18th century. It is a very readable, interesting and accurate history of the subject. Reprinted Folkstone, 1965. See No. 4503.

1943 CE

#6357

Pioneers of pediatrics. 2nd ed.

1792 CE

#6358

Von Menschen ohne Haare und Zähne.

Hereditary ectodermal dysplasia first described. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1865 CE

#6359

Skull-cap showing congenital deficiencies of bone.

1876 CE

#6360

Haemorrhagic periostitis of the shafts of several of the long bones, with separation of the epiphyses.

Craniohypophyseal xanthomatosis was first reported by Sir Thomas Smith (see also No. 6359). Hand in 1893 (No. 6361), Schüller in 1915 (No. 6362), and Christian in 1919 (No. 6363) also reported cases, and the cond…

1893 CE

#6361

Polyuria and tuberculosis.

“Hand–Schüller–Christian syndrome”, which Hand called polyuria and tuberculosis.

1915 CE–1916 CE

#6362

Ueber eigenartige Schädeldefekte im Jugendalter.

Schüller described two more cases of the condition to which his name, with those of Hand and Christian, has been attached.

1919 CE

#6363

Defects in membranous bones, exophthalmos, and diabetes insipidus; an unusual syndrome of dyspituitarism; a clinical study. IN: Contributions to medical and biological research, dedicated to Sir William Osler, 1, 390-401.

“Hand-Schüller-Christian syndrome”.

1916 CE

#6365

Sur un syndrome caractérisé par l’inflammation simultanée de toutes les muqueuses externes (conjunctivale, nasale, linguale, buccopharyngée, anale et balano-préputiale) coexistant avec une éruption varicelliforme puis purpurique des quatres membres.

First description of the “Stevens–Johnson syndrome” (see No. 4150).

1928 CE

#6366

Xanthomatosis and the reticulo-endothelial system.

“Rowland collected 14 cases of the Hand–Schüller–Christian syndrome, and made the important generalization that it was due to xanthomatosis” (Rolleston).

1900 CE

#6367

Dark sclerotics and fragilitas ossium.

“Eddowes’s syndrome” – blue sclerotics and fragility of the bones, occurring as a familial syndrome; osteogenesis imperfecta. See also No. 6358.1.

1866 CE

#6368

Four cases of “retinitis pigmentosa”, occurring in the same family, and accompanied by general imperfections of development.

Laurence–Moon (–Biedl) syndrome first described. See also No. 6369.

1922 CE

#6369

Geschwisterpaar mit adiposo-genitaler Dystrophie.

Laurence–Moon–Biedl syndrome (see also No. 6368). Biedl’s cases were more fully described by W. Raab, in Wien. Arch. inn. Med., 1924, 7, 443-530.

1916 CE

#6370

Contribution à l’étude d’une épidémie de dysenterie dans la Somme (juillet–octobre 1916).

Includes several references to the condition later known as “Reiter’s syndrome” (No. 6371).

1916 CE

#6371

Ueber eine bisher unerkannte Spirochäteninfektion (Spirochaetosis arthritica).

“Reiter’s syndrome”, a disease of males characterized by initial diarrhea, urethritis, conjunctivitis, and arthritis. Reiter was a German Nazi physician and war criminal who conducted medical experim…

1924 CE

#6372

Aleukämische Reticulose. (Ein Beitrag zu den proliferativen Erkrankungen des Retikuloendothelialapparates.)

“Letterer–Siwe disease”; see also No. 6373.

1933 CE

#6373

Die Reticuloendotheliose - eine neues Krankheitsbild unter den Hepatosplenomegalien.

See No. 6372.

1937 CE

#6374

Über rezidivierende, aphthöse, durch ein Virus verursachte Geschwüre am Mund, am Auge und an den Genitalien.

Behçet’s disease, previously described by H. Planner and F. Remenovsky, Arch. Derm. Syph. (Berlin), 1922, 140, 162-88.

1506 CE

#6376

De medicine claris scriptoribus in quinque partitus tractatus. In his: Libelli duo

French physician and writer Symphorien Champier's biographical study of famous medical writers, De medicine claris scriptoribus in quinque partibus tractatus, issued as part of his Libelli duo, has been called the fir…

1725 CE–1726 CE

#6378

The history of physick; from the time of Galen to the beginning of the sixteenth century. 2 vols.

Freind was the first English historian of medicine, and his book is a classic study of the period with which it treats. Freind dabbled in politics and planned the above work while committed to the Tower of London on a…

1729 CE

#6379

Histoire de la médecine.

The first large history of medicine; Le Clerc is sometimes called the “Father of the History of Medicine”. The first edition appeared in 1696, but later editions are more useful. English translation, 1699.…

1769 CE

#6380

A medical discourse, or an historical inquiry into the ancient and present state of medicine: The substance of which was delivered at opening the medical school, in the city of New York. Printed by Desire.

The first American publication on medical history. Digital facsimile from U.S. National Library of Medicine at this link.

1778 CE

#6381

History of the origin of medicine, delivered at the anniversary meeting of the Medical Society of London, January 19, 1778, and printed at their request. To which are since added, various historical illustrations.

The work covers the "origin of medicine" from the time of the Creation to the Trojan War (6000 – 1184 BCE), and describes both Old and New World medical practices of the period. The lectures were necessarily rel…

1792 CE–1803 CE

#6382

Versuch einer pragmatischen Geschichte der Arzneikunde. 5 vols.

A monumental work, full of information which was of great assistance to later historians. Includes a useful chronology. Third edition, 1821-28; fourth edition of vol. 1, 1846.

1822 CE–1829 CE

#6383

Geschichte der Heilkunde. 2 vols.

1845 CE

#6384

Lehrbuch der Geschichte der Medicin und der Volkskrankheiten.

As an historian, Haeser was eclipsed only by his fellow-countryman Sudhoff. A third edition, in three volumes, appeared in 1875-82 and was reprinted, Hildesheim, G.Olms, 1971.

1850 CE–1866 CE

#6385

Storia della medicina. 3 vols. in 4.

Vol. 2 was in 2 parts. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1859 CE

#6386

Geschichte der Medicin.

1870 CE

#6387

Histoire des sciences médicales. 2 vols.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1872 CE

#6388

Médecine et médecins.

1876 CE

#6389

Grundriss der Geschichte der Medicin und des heilenden Standes.

Until superseded by Garrison, Baas’s book was the most important one-volume text on the history of medicine. For an expert evaluation of it, see Garrison’s History, 4th ed., p. 884. An English translation,…

1883 CE

#6390

Medical essays: 1842-1882.

“The most important American book dealing with the history of medicine up to its day” (Garrison). Among the essays Holmes chose to include were his works on homeopathy, puerperal fever, and his address at …

1890 CE

#6392

Hauptmomente in der älteren Geschichte der medicinischen Klinik.

Reprinted Hildesheim, G. Olms, 1966.

1873 CE

#6393

Histoire de la médecine et des doctrines médicales. 2 vols.

1894 CE

#6395

Medical history from the earliest times.

A classic brief history up to the early 19th century. Reprinted 1964.

1898 CE

#6396

Geschichte der Medicin. 2 vols.

A collection of lectures. The bibliography of the revised edition of 1922, for which Sudhoff was responsible, is significantly improved over the first edition.

1898 CE

#6397

Die neueren Fortschritte in der Wissenschaft und ihr Einfluss auf Medicin und Chirurgie.

English translation in Disease, life and man. Selected essays by Rudolf Virchow. Selected, translated, annotated, and introduced by L. J. Rather, Stanford, 1958.

1902 CE–1905 CE

#6398

Handbuch der Geschichte der Medizin. Begründet von Theodore Puschmann. Herausgegeben von Max Neuburger und Julius Pagel. 3 vols.

Puschmann died before the completion of this work, and it was then edited by Pagel and Neuburger. It ranks with the work of Haeser; many authorities collaborated in the writing of the histories of the various subjects…

1902 CE

#6399

Iatromathematiker vornehmlich im 15. und 16. Jahrundert.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.