Facets

1989 CE

#11907

The eternally wounded woman: Women, doctors, and exercise in the late nineteenth century.

1967 CE

#13258

The great American water-cure craze: A history of hydropathy in the United States.

1996 CE

#10120

The health consequences of 'modernisation': Evidence from circumpolar peoples.

"What are the health consequences of switching from an active 'hunter-gatherer' lifestyle to that of sedentary modern living? Here, the impact of 'modernisation' in circumpolar peoples is assessed. The hazards to huma…

1993 CE

#12882

The history of pain. Translated by Louise Elliott Wallace, J. A. Cadden, S. W. Cadden.

1901 CE

#651

The human figure in motion. An electro-photographic investigation of consecutive phases of muscular actions.

Muybridge, an Englishman, made exhaustive photographic investigations of consecutive animal movements while he was in America. More than 100,000 photographs were embodied in his Animal locomotion. An electro-photograp…

1798 CE

#8654

The influence of metallic tractors on the human body, in removing various painful inflammatory diseases, such as rheumatism, pleurisy, some gouty affections, &c. &c: Lately discovered by Dr. Perkins, of North America; and demonstrated in a series of experiments and observations....by which the importance of the discovery is fully ascertained, and a new field of enquiry opened in the modern science of Galvanism, or animal electricity

In 1795 Dr. Elisha Perkins (1741-1799) of Connecticut introduced the use of “Metallic Tractors” for the treatment of a wide range of disorders, including pains in the head, face, teeth, breast, side, stoma…

1911 CE

#4383

The lumbo-sacral articulation. An explanation of many cases of “lumbago”, “sciatica” and paraplegia.

Goldthwait suggested that lumbago and sciatica might be due to intervertebral disc injury.

1985 CE

#10094

The making rehabilitation: A political economy of medical specialization, 1890-1980.

1864 CE

#8975

The muscles and their story, from the earliest times: Including the whole text of Mercurialis, and the opinions of other writers, ancient and modern, on mental and bodily development

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

2009 CE

#10464

The nature and function of water, baths, bathing and hygiene from antiquity through the Renaissance. Edited by Cynthia Koss and Anne Scott.

1859 CE

#4497

The nature and treatment of gout and rheumatic gout.

Garrod was the leading authority of his time on gout, which he separated from other forms of arthritis by his discovery of excess of uric acid in the blood of gouty sufferers. He gave to rheumatoid arthritis its prese…

1932 CE

#4899

The operative treatment of facial palsy by the introduction of nerve grafts into the Fallopian canal and by other intratemporal methods.

A classic paper which includes some history of the surgical treatment of facial palsy.

1877 CE

#4555

The relation of pain to weather, being a study of the natural history of a case of traumatic neuralgia.

First study of the subject.

1930 CE

#4507

The relationship of throat infection to acute rheumatism in childhood.

Schlesinger showed that hemolytic streptococcal infection was a cause of acute rheumatism in children.

1910 CE

#4595

The syndrome of sphenopalatine-ganglion neurosis.

“Sluder’s neuralgia” first described.

1876 CE

#4501

The treatment of acute rheumatism by salicin.

Introduction of salicylates in the treatment of rheumatism.

1912 CE

#4883

The treatment of persistent pain of organic origin in the lower part of the body by division of the anterolateral column of the spinal cord.

Cordotomy for the relief of intractable pain.

1844 CE

#63

Thomae Sydenham, M. D., Opera omnia. Edidit Gulielmus Alexander Greenhill.

Sydenham has been called the “Father of English Medicine”. His reputation rests on his first-hand accounts of such conditions as the malarial fevers of his times, gout, scarlatina, measles, etc. A better e…

1918 CE

#4889

Tic douloureux and its treatment, with a review of the cases operated upon at the University Hospital in 1917.

Trigeminal nerve resection with conservation of the motor root, for treatment of trigeminal neuralgia.

1683 CE

#4486

Tractatus de podagra et hydrope.

Of the many great works of Sydenham, this is considered his masterpiece. He clearly differentiated gout from rheumatism. For an English translation, see his Works, published by the Sydenham Society, 1850, 2, 123-84.

1931 CE

#4478.108

Training, conditioning, and the care of injuries.

The first American book on sports medicine, co-authored by the legendary football coach, Knute Rockne.

1840 CE

#4494

Traité clinique du rhumatisme articulaire.

Extension of Bouillaud’s work on the coincidence of heart disease and acute rheumatism. He regarded fever as the effect of endocarditis (see also No. 2749).

1826 CE

#6829

Traité de acupuncture, d'après les observations de M. Jules Cloquet. Édité par Dantu de Vannes.

As adjunct chief surgeon at the Hôpital St. Louis, Cloquet had an ample number of patients at his disposal, and he was able to test acupuncture on upwards of 300 cases with mostly beneficial results. Cloquet did…

1664 CE

#4485.1

Traité de la maladie vénérienne, de ses causes et des accidens provenans du mercure, ou vif-argent.

First to describe gonococcal arthritis.

1822 CE

#9326

Traité des maladies des artisans, et de celles qui résultent des diverse professions, d'après Ramazzini; Ouvrage dans lequel on indique les précautions que doivent prendre, sous le rapport de la salubrité publique et particulière, les fabricans, les manufacturiers, les chefs d'ateliers, les artistes, et toutes les personnes qui exercent des professions insalubres.

This second French edition of Ramazzini's De morbis artificum diabriba by Philibert Patissier provides so much new material on the diseases of workers in France as to virtually double the length of Ramazzini’s t…

1839 CE–1841 CE

#4208

Traité des maladies des reins. 3 vols, and atlas.

Rayer insisted on the exhaustive analysis of the urine as an aid to the diagnosis of lesions. He classified “albuminus nephritis” into six distinct forms and distinguished these from other forms of nephrit…

1841 CE

#4526

Traité des néuralgies ou affections douloureuses des nerfs.

Includes (p. 40 et seq.) description of ”Valleix’s points”, tender points on the course of certain nerves in neuralgia.

1931 CE

#4898

Traitement des syndromes douloureux de la périphérie par 1’alcoolisation sub-arachnoïdienne des racines postérieures à leur émergence de la moelle épinière.

Subarachnoid injection of alcohol for the relief of pain.

1926 CE

#12298

Über den Energieverbrauch bei musikalischer Betätigung.

Specialized study on the energy consumption of musicians.

1889 CE

#12646

Über den Schwerpunkt des menschlichen Körpers mit Rücksicht auf die Ausrüstung des deutschen Infanteristen.

Translated into English by P.G.J. Maquet and R. Furlong as On the centre of gravity of the human body as related to the equipment of the German infantry soldier. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1985.

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.

1910 CE

#4382

Ueber Arthritis deformans juvenilis.

See No. 4380.

1908 CE

#4505.1

Ueber die Wirkung von Chinolincarbonsäuren und ihrer Derivate auf die Ausscheidung der Harnsäure.

Introduction of cinchophen in the treatment of gout.

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…

1921 CE

#4388.1

Une maladie congénitale et héréditaire de l’ossification: la pléonostéose familiale.

“Léri’s pleonosteosis” first described.

1911 CE

#3402

Vestibularapparat und Zentralnervensystem.

“Bárány’s syndrome” – unilateral deafness, vertigo, and pain in the occipital region.

1864 CE

#4211

Wandernde Nieren und deren Einklemmung.

“Dietl’s crisis”. Dietl described the sudden severe attacks of nephralgic or gastric pain, chills, fever, nausea and vomiting, and general collapse, ascribing them to partial turning of the kidney up…

1856 CE

#22

Тα ∑ωζομενα. The extant works of Aretaeus, the Cappadocian. Edited and translated by Francis Adams.

Aretaeus left many fine descriptions of disease; in fact Garrison ranks him second only to Hippocrates in this respect. In the printed editions of this bibliography, before the present online version, the Adams editio…