Historical Bibliography Updated: January 15, 2020
Practice of medicine: A treatise on special pathology and therapeutics. 2 vols.
Publication Details
Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchard, 1842 CE.
A case of chronic hereditary chorea in adults (“Huntington’s chorea”, see No. 4699) is described on pp. 312-13 of vol. 2. This is in the form of a letter from one of Dunglison's recently graduated students at Jefferson Medical College, Charles Oscar Waters. Waters account of the disease was one of the first to note that the disease is hereditary, "within the third generation at farthest." Dunglison included Waters' description of the disease in his book even though he had never personally seen a case. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
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Thematic Classifications
| Catalog Metadata | Reference Information |
|---|---|
| Entry Number | #4691 |
| Permanent Link | https://staging.historyofmedicine.com/entry/974 |
| Author Bio Link | Wikipedia ↗ |
| External URL | practice-of-medicine-vol-2 |
Geographic Context
Publication place: Philadelphia
Mentioned in annotation: Huntington, NY; Jefferson, NC