An Interactive Annotated World Bibliography of Printed and Digital Works in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences from Circa 2000 BCE to 2022 by Fielding H. Garrison (1870-1935), Leslie T. Morton (1907-2004), and Jeremy M. Norman (1945- ) Traditionally Known as “Garrison-Morton”

15961 entries, 13944 authors and 1935 subjects. Updated: March 22, 2024

GREENHILL, William Alexander

4 entries
  • 11109

Theophili Protospatharii De corporis humani fabrica libri v. Edidit Gulielmus Alexander Greenhill.

Oxford: E Typographeo academico, 1842.

Extensively annotated Greek & Latin edition of this Byzantine treatise on anatomy and physiology, edited by William Alexander Greenhill. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.



Subjects: ANATOMY › Medieval Anatomy (6th to 15th Centuries), BYZANTINE MEDICINE, MEDIEVAL MEDICINE , PHYSIOLOGY
  • 63

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

London: Sydenham Society, 1844.

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 edition of the above (editio altera) appeared in 1846. The original work, printed in 1685, is called editio altera; although no earlier edition is known to exist. An edition of Sydenham’s Opuscula was published in Amsterdam, 1683. See K. Dewhurst’s Dr Thomas Sydenham, his life and original writings., London, Wellcome Institute, 1966. Digital facsimile of the 1844 edition from the Internet Archive at this link; of the 1846 edition from the Hathi Trust at this link.



Subjects: Collected Works: Opera Omnia, INFECTIOUS DISEASE, INFECTIOUS DISEASE › Measles, INFECTIOUS DISEASE › VECTOR-BORNE DISEASES › Mosquito-Borne Diseases › Malaria, Internal Medicine, RHEUMATOLOGY › Gout (Podagra)
  • 64

The works of Thomas Sydenham. Translated from the Latin edition of Dr. Greenhill with a life of the author by R.G. Latham. 2 vols.

London: Sydenham Society, 18481850.

Best English translation of Sydenham’s works.



Subjects: Collected Works: Opera Omnia, Internal Medicine
  • 5441

A treatise on the smallpox and measles. Translated from the Arabic by William Alexander Greenhill.

London: Sydenham Society, 1848.

Rhazes differentiated measles from smallpox. Reprinted in Med. Classics, 1939, 4, 22-84. For original publication see No. 5404. The first English translation appeared in No. 5417. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.



Subjects: INFECTIOUS DISEASE › Measles, INFECTIOUS DISEASE › Smallpox , MEDIEVAL MEDICINE , MEDIEVAL MEDICINE › Medieval Persian Islamic Medicine