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Lee was Professor of Hygiene at Harvard.
The first comprehensive account of the history puerperal fever, the majority of the deaths from which were due to the single micro-organism Streptococcus pyogenes.
Manson is regarded as the father of tropical medicine.
Gorgas was chief sanitary officer of the Panama Canal while it was being built and later Surgeon General. He was, along with Walter Reed, instrumental in eradicating yellow fever.
Cook The Life of Florence Nightingale I: pp. 175-180 and II, p. 437. The report of the first commission sent to investigate the wretched medical conditions in the Crimea, submitted to the Duke of Newcastle. Its devastating conclusions were incorporated essentially in toto into the subsequent reports of the Roebuck commission submitted to Parliament, which ultimately led to the introduction of saitary methods in hospitals.Nightingale's third appearance in print and her first writing on the unsanitary medical conditions of the British military hospitals in the Crimea and Scutari. Nightingale's evidence is presented in pages 330-331 and 342-343, with numerous references to her testimony in the text of the Report. The three commissioners responsible for the Report were A. Cumming, P. Benson Maxwell, and P. Sinclair Laing.
Oliver was Professor of Bacteriology at Long Island College Hospital.
"The address was delivered at a service for students and visitors in connection with the Edinburgh Conference on Tuberculosis of the National Association for the Prevention of Consumption and Other Forms of Tuberculosis, July 1910" [Golden & Roland's Osler Bibliography, #996, not mentioning this 1913 Hoeber issue].
Perla was Pathologist and Bacteriologist to Montefiore Hospital, the position previously held by Marmorston who at the time of publication was Assistant in Pathology at Cornell Univesity Medical College.
"Raspail held a prominent place in the development of science in the nineteenth century. In organic chemistry he specified the properties of numerous substances . . . [and he] belonged to a group of biologists who prepared the way for the cell theory. Although it would be too strong to call him the creator of the modern concept of the cell, the definitions and descriptions he gave of the cell are truly remarkable. On the basis of precise observations he described the general characteristics of the plant cell long before Mohl . . . . As an expert microscopist, Raspail not only set forth theoretical considerations of great importance but also made many significant observations. . . . Scientists now agree that he was one of the founders of cytochemistry. As he himself put it, he brought chemical analysis under the microscope. . . . [Raspail] constructed a system of general pathology, which he set forth in his voluminous work on general health and illness . . . [in which] he provided valuable new data on the causes of various diseases. For example, he determined the agent of scabies, the itch mite . . . Raspail is therefore rightly considered one of the founders of parasitology" [DSB XI: 300-01].
Römer was head of the Institute of Hygiene and Experimental Medicine in Marburg.
Second American edition of Rush's first published book (as opposed to pamphlets and tracts). Collects 20 papers including his essays on the natural history of medicine among the North American Indians; "An Account of the Bilious Remitting Fever" [GM 5470: "One of the first important accounts of dengue]; on the climate of Pennsylvania; scarlatina anginosa; cholera infantum; pulmonary consumption; worms in the alimentary canal; the use of arsenic in the cure of cancers; tetanus & hydrophobia; the influence of the Amerian Revolution on the human body; the relation of tastes and aliments and their influence on human health & pleasure; the new mode of inoculation for small-pox; appendix on the duties of a physician.
Last edition of Rush's first published book (as opposed to pamphlets and tracts). Considerably reorganized from the earlier editions with the lecture on inoculation for smallpox omitted, the papers on the cure of obstinate intermittting fevers by blood-letting combined into one, and the addition of "An Account of the Cure of Several Diseases b the Extraction of Decayed Teeth."
Brittain Medico-Legal Bibliography p. 168; Sadoff Catalog page 69.
A collection of essays first published in the Quarterly Review. Includes chapters on overfishing in the North Sea; zebras, horses, and hybrids; Pasteur; malaria; flies as carriers of infectious disease; etc.
Sadoff Catalog page 10. FRP and Physician Extraordinary to His Majesty, Smyth published this account and another in 1796 of his use of nitrous oxide for combatting contagion. Though Johnstone and Guyton de Morveau contested priority in the use of acid vapor for this purpose, the College of Physicians judged Smyth the discoverer and Parliament awarded him £5000 in 1802 in recognition of his achievement.
GM cites 5 of Sticker's contributions to epidemiology and infectious diseases, although not this one.
Catalog of an exhibit at the Boston Public Library of 161 medical books (mostly from the author's own collection) intending to illustrate the evolution of the theory of animate contagion from Hippocrates to Sydenham. Most of the books listed are 15th and 16th century.
Strong's second publication after his 1909 thesis, before he turned to applied psychology, where he was the prime shaper of the field of vocational psychology.
Austin 1961 #1889. Class II of the author's nosological system deals with neuroses [ie, nervous and mental diseases], with discussions of coma, apoplexy, paralysis, fainting, dyspepsia, hypochondria, spasm, hysteria, epilepsy, chorea, convulsive laughter, tetany, hiccup, hydrophobia, vesaniae, mania, incubus (nightmare), yellow fever, small-pox, scarlet fever, etc. Miller's appendix is entirely devoted to yellow fever.
Austin #1890 ("Almost a page-for-page repint of the first American edition of 1811"). Class II of the author's nosological system deals with neuroses [ie, nervous and mental diseases], with discussions of coma, apoplexy, paralysis, fainting, dyspepsia, hypochondria, spasm, hysteria, epilepsy, chorea, convulsive laughter, tetany, hiccup, hydrophobia, vesaniae, mania, incubus (nightmare).
Cordasco 20-0576. A standard period medical textbook.
Class II of the author's nosological system deals with neuroses [ie, nervous and mental diseases], with discussions of coma, apoplexy, paralysis, fainting, dyspepsia, hypochondria, spasm, hysteria, epilepsy, chorea, convulsive laughter, tetany, hiccup, hydrophobia, vesaniae, mania, incubus (nightmare).
History of epidemics and plagues.
Vaughan was Professor of Hygiene and Physiological Chemistry in the University of Michigan. Along with Frederick Novy he pioneered the introduction of bacteriology in the midwest. See Clarke, pp. 237-45; Bulloch p. 401.
"Eminent Austrian bacteriologist and morbid anatomist. . . . In 1893 became ordinary Prof. of Pathological Anatomy at Vienna. Weichselbaum early took up Koch's methods and made many additions to bacteriology of the greatest importance. Discovered Meningococcus in 1887, and enriched our knowledge of pneumonia, tuberculosis, and other subjects" [Bulloch's History of Bacteriology, pp. 402-403].
Pioneer American woman bacteriologist, "now widely recognized for her contributions to the understanding of infectious diseases, diphtheria immunization, and rabies diagnosis and control. Her work saved countles lives" [Shearer & Shearer Notable Women in the Life Sciences, p. 391].
GM 1666.
Wood was pathologist to St. Luke's Hospital, New York. Contains sections on blood; examination of gastric contents; faeces; parasites; oral & nasal secretions; sputum; urine; transudates & exudates; milk.
Four essays on the history of diptheria in America.
"English pathologist and bacteriologist. Born in Huddersfield. Graduated in Edinburgh, 1877, where he excelled as an athlete. Became assistant Prof. of Pathology in Edinburgh, and (1890) Director of the Laboratories of the Conjoint Board of the Royal college of Physicians and Royal College of Surgeons, London. In 1899 he became Prof. off Pathology in the Univ. of Cambridge. Woodhead wrote many reports on bacteriology, especially in relation to public health, and he also published several text-books which had a wide vogue in England. he founded and edited the Journal of Pathology and Bacteriology He was knighted for military services in the Great War" [Bulloch's A History of Bacteriology, p. 404].Section 1: Public Health, Infectious Disease, Tropical Medicine, etc. (A-K)
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