Facets

1534 CE

#4484.1

Ob das Podagra möglich zu generen oder nit. Nutzlich zu wissen allen denen, die damit behafft.

Abridged English translation by W. S. C. Copeman and M. Winder in Med. Hist., 1969, 13, 288-93, who write: "This small treatise contains a surprising amount of sound advice regarding the prevention and cure of the dis…

1720 CE

#4487

Observations concerning the nature and due method of treating the gout.

1848 CE

#4495

Observations on certain pathological conditions of the blood and urine in gout, rheumatism and Bright’s disease.

The “thread test” in gout was introduced by Garrod. Later he wrote more fully on gout and rheumatism (see No. 4497).

1782 CE

#1835

Observations on the medical uses of the oleum jecoris aselli, or cod liver oil, in the chronic rheumatism, and other painful disorders.

First record of the clinical use of cod liver oil in England.

1892 CE

#4360

Oderevenielost pozvonochnika s iskrivleniyem yevo, kak osobaya forma zabolievaniya. [Ankylosis of the spine with curvature as a special form of disease.]

Bechterev’s disease – ankylosing spondylitis, previously described by Strümpell. A German translation of the paper is in Neurol. Zbl., 1893, 12, 426-34.

1776 CE

#4516

Of a painful affection of the face.

Original description of facial neuralgia. Reprinted in Med. Classics, 1940, 5, 100-06.

1896 CE–1897 CE

#4503

On a form of chronic joint disease in children.

“Still’s disease”, chronic articular rheumatism in children. See also Nos. 4499 and 6356.

1831 CE

#4493

On a new practice in acute and chronic rheumatism.

First description of the neurotic spinal arthropathies.

1879 CE

#5917

On astigmatism as a cause for persistent headache and other nervous symptoms.

Thomson was a pioneer in the study of refraction. He was much interested in color-blindness and modified Holmgren’s wool-skein test. Himself affected with hypermetropia, he made important investigations on this …

1911 CE

#3319.1

On certain clinically obscure malignant tumours of the naso-pharyngeal wall.

“Trotter’s syndrome”; deafness, palatal paralysis, and facial neuralgia, usually due to a nasopharyngeal carcinoma.

1893 CE

#4581

On disturbances of sensation with especial reference to the pain of visceral disease.

“Head’s areas”, zones of hyperalgesia of skin, associated with visceral disease.

1866 CE

#2996

On gouty and some other forms of phlebitis

Paget-Schroetter syndrome, venous obstruction in the upper extremity.

1797 CE

#4287

On gouty and urinary concretions.

Wollaston showed that, in addition to stones consisting of uric acid, renal calculi might also consist of calcium phosphate, magnesium, ammonium phosphate, and calcium oxalate, or a mixture of these.

1873 CE

#2587

On megrim, sick-headache, and some allied disorders.

Liveing’s classic account of migraine showed the close association of this condition with tetany, asthma, and false angina pectoris, with epilepsy, and the alternation of all these conditions in the same subject…

1812 CE

#2740

On rheumatism of the heart.

David Pitcairn is accredited with the first reference to rheumatism as a cause of cardiac disease, in a lecture given in 1788. Jenner read a paper on the same subject in 1789, but the first clinical report on the subj…

1880 CE

#4501.1

On the association of affections of the throat with acute rheumatism.

Fowler drew attention to the association of throat infections with acute rheumatism.

1835 CE

#10108

On the influence of atmosphere and locality; change of air and climate; seasons; food; clothing; bathing; exercise; sleep; corporeal and intellectual pursuits, &c. &c. on human health; constituting elements of hygiéne.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1863 CE

#5609

On the influence of mechanical and physiological rest in the treatment of accidents and surgical diseases, and the diagnostic value of pain.

Hilton, surgeon to Guy’s Hospital, suggested that symptoms are disordered reflexes. He advocated complete rest in the treatment of surgical disorders of all parts of the body. Second and later editions were enti…

1938 CE

#4478.110

On the injuries to the ligaments of the knee joint: A clinical study.

Classic study of knee ligament injuries.

1940 CE

#10706

On the occurrence of a factor in human serum activating the specific agglutination of sheep blood corpuscles.

Discovery of the Rheumatoid factor.

1969 CE

#13809

Pain and the neurosurgeon.

This was the successor to an earlier work by White and Sweet: Pain. Its Mechanisms and Neurological Control. With the Assistance in the Psychiatric Sections of Chapters IV and X from Stanley Cobb and Frances J. Bonner…

1813 CE

#7543

Pedestrianism; or, An account of the performances of celebrated pedestrians during the last and present century : with a full narrative of Captain Barclay's public and private matches; and an essay on training.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1999 CE

#10179

Physical culture & body beautiful: Purposive exercise in the lives of American women 1800-1875.

The author, a professor of Kinesiology and Health Education at the University of Texas at Austin, is a powerlifter who was once considered the strongest woman in the world.

1846 CE

#11724

Physical education and the preservation of health.

An expanded version of a lecture first delivered and published as a pamphlet in 1830. This is the first edition in book form, and one of the first American works on the value of exercise for the preservation of health…

1941 CE

#12379

Physical medicine: The employment of physical agents for diagnosis and therapy.

1932 CE

#2056

Physical therapy.

“Clio medica” series.

1886 CE

#7070

Physical training in American colleges and universities. Circulars of information of the Bureau of Education. No. 5-1885.

Concerns training methods and equipment, primarily for men (3 pages devoted to women) in the United States, with a chapter on training in Germany. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1888 CE

#11676

Physiologie des exercices du corps.

Digital facsimile of the revised and expanded 2nd edition, 1889, from BnFGallica at this link.

1764 CE

#4488

Podagra. In his Commentaria in Hermanni Boerhaave aphorismos de cognoscendis et curandis morbis, 4, 287-393

1897 CE

#4504

Polyarthrite tuberculeuse simulant des lésions rhumatismales chroniques déformantes.

Tuberculous rheumatism (“Poncet’s disease”). See also his later paper in Bull. Acad. Méd. (Paris), 1902, 3 sér., 48, 97-114.

1791 CE

#5833.2

Praktische Beobachtungen über verschiedene, vorzüglich aber über jene Augenkrankheiten, welche aus allgemeinen Krankheiten des Körpers entspringen.

“This is the first monograph ever published dealing with ocular signs of systemic disease. It deals with lacrimal fistulas, trichiasis, adhesions of the lids, lid ulcers, ephiphora, and ocular inflammations. He …

1891 CE

#4865

Remarks on the various surgical procedures devised for the relief or cure of trigeminal neuralgia (tic douloureux).

Horsley, with J. Taylor and W. S. Coleman, devised an operation for treatment of trigeminal neuralgia in which the Gasserian ganglion was removed by a temporal approach.

1890 CE

#4863

Removal of the gasserian ganglion for severe neuralgia.

Gasserian ganglionectomy for trigeminal neuralgia; the patient lived for at least two years.

1947 CE

#11392

Research and writings on training, conditioning, treatment of athletic injuries, and corrective work. 2 vols.

Bohm was probably the first full-time professional physician in professional sports.

1892 CE

#4871

Resection des Trigeminus innerhalb der Schädelhöhle.

Hartley–Krause operation for relief of trigeminal neuralgia (see also No. 4870).

1968 CE

#12282

Response to exercise after bed rest and after training.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Saltin, Blomqvist, Mitchell, Johnson, Wildenthal, Chapman. Chapman planned the Dallas Bed Rest and Training Study, which defined the degree to which the level of habitu…

1875 CE

#4499.1

Rhumatisme articulaire subaigu avec production de tumeurs multiples dans les tissus fibreux périarticulaires et sur le périoste d’un grand nombre d’os.

Meynet was the first to draw special attention to the subcutaneous fibroid nodules in rheumatism.

1876 CE

#4500

Rhumatisme.

Besnier wrote an important description of rheumatism.

1925 CE

#4896

Section of the sensory root of the trigeminal nerve at the pons. Preliminary report of the operative procedure.

Intracranial section for glossopharyngeal neuralgia. For a more detailed account see his paper in Arch. Surg. (Chicago), 1929, 18, 687-734.

1933 CE

#13200

Sex efficiency through exercises. Special physical culture for women, with 480 cinematographic and 54 full-page illustrations.

Includes a series of 12 "cinematographic" films on 480 flicker cards. In all the photographs frontal nudity of the female model is covered by clothing, though her buttocks are exposed in some views. Having previously …

1884 CE

#4857

Study of the pathological changes occurring in trifacial neuralgia, with the report of a case in which three inches of the inferior dental nerve were excised.

Mears first suggested Gasserian ganglionectomy for trigeminal neuralgia.

1898 CE

#4368

Sur la Spondylose rhizomélique.

Marie described as “spondylose rhizomélique” the ankylosing spondylitis or spondylitis deformans originally reported by Strümpell and called variously “Strümpell’s disease&rdqu…

1976 CE

#4478.111

Textbook of sports for the disabled.

Pioneer treatise on sports for the handicapped by the physician who first introduced archery competition as a therapeutic measure for paraplegic war veterans in 1948.

1931 CE

#5785

The cause of “painful breasts” and treatment by means of ovarian residue.

Cutler was the first to employ ovarian hormone systematically in the treatment of chronic mastitis.

1913 CE

#7542

The complete athletic trainer, by S. A. Mussabini in collaboration with Charles Ranson.

Includes advice on health, diet, etc. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1933 CE

#4478.109

The control of football injuries.

Apparently the first book on the prevention and treatment of injuries in a single sport, written after fifty players were killed in the 1931 American football season. Stevens was an orthopedic surgeon who became head …

1901 CE

#4876

The division of the sensory root of the trigeminus for the relief of tic douloureux; an experimental, pathological, and clinical study, with a preliminary report of one surgically successful case.

Introduction of intracranial trigeminal neurotomy, using a modification of the techniques of Horsley (No. 4865) and Krause (No. 4871). Also published in Philad. med. J., 1901, 8, 1039-49.

1949 CE

#4508

The effects of a hormone of the adrenal cortex (17-hydroxy-11-dehydrocorticosterone: compound E) and of pituitary adrenocorticotropic hormone on rheumatoid arthritis.

Introduction of cortisone and A.C.T.H. in treatment of rheumatoid arthritis. With C. H. Slocumb, and H. F. Polley. In 1950 Hench and Kendall shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Tadeusz Reichstein (No…

1899 CE

#4478.105

The effects of training. A study of the Harvard University Crews.

Pioneering study of the physiological effects of training.

1948 CE

#7802

The estimation of acetanilide and its metabolic products, aniline, N-acetyl p-aminophenol and p-aminophenol (free and total conjugated) in biological fluids and tissues.

Brodie and Axelrod confirmed that paracetamol, also known as acetaminophen, was the major metabolite of acetanilide in human blood, and established that it was efficacious an analgesic. Unlike its precursors, paraceta…