An Interactive Annotated World Bibliography of Printed and Digital Works in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences from Circa 2000 BCE to 2024 by Fielding H. Garrison (1870-1935), Leslie T. Morton (1907-2004), and Jeremy M. Norman (1945- ) Traditionally Known as “Garrison-Morton”

16061 entries, 14144 authors and 1947 subjects. Updated: December 10, 2024

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Sur une forme spéciale de cyanose s’accompagnant d’hyperglobulie excessive et persistante.

C. R. Soc. Biol. (Paris), 44, 384-88, 1892.

Vaquez first described polycythemia vera (erythremia). Osler’s paper on the subject (No. 3073) made it generally known in the English-speaking world, and the condition has since been named “Vaquez–Osler disease”. For translation, see Major, Classic descriptions of disease, 3rd ed., 1945, p. 497.



Subjects: HEMATOLOGY › Blood Disorders
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