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”

16058 entries, 14142 authors and 1947 subjects. Updated: November 9, 2024

GERHARDT, Carl Adolph Christian Jacob

4 entries
  • 3270

Studien und Beobachtungen über Stimmbandlähmung.

Virchows Arch. path. Anal, 27, 68-98, 296-321, 1863.

An important study of paralysis of the vocal cords was made by Gerhardt. He diagnosed the growth in the larynx of Friedrich III, Emperor of Germany, whose eventual death from this condition was to have such disastrous effects on German history.



Subjects: OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGY (Ear, Nose, Throat) › Laryngology
  • 3937

Diabetes mellitus und Aceton.

Wien. med. Presse, 6, 672, 1865.

Gerhard’s iron-chloride reaction for aceto-acetic acid in acetonaemic urine.



Subjects: Metabolism & Metabolic Disorders › Diabetes
  • 3279

Ueber Diagnose und Behandlung der Stimmbandlähmung.

Samml. klin. Vortr., Nr. 36 (Inn. Med., Nr. 13), 271-82, 1872.

See No. 3270. Continuing his study of laryngeal paralysis. Gerhardt proposed the term “cadaveric position” to indicate the position of the vocal cord in total paralysis of the larynx.



Subjects: OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGY (Ear, Nose, Throat) › Laryngology
  • 6337

Handbuch der Kinderkrankheiten. Hrsg. von C. GERHARDT. 9 vols.

Tübingen: H. Laupp, 18771893.

Gerhardt edited this great work, which was written by the foremost pediatricians of the time and which gives a close-up view of pediatric knowledge at the end of the 19th century.



Subjects: PEDIATRICS