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

BRIGHT, Richard

10 entries
  • 13755

Travels in the island of Iceland, during the summer of the year MDCCCX.

Edinburgh: Archibald Constable & Co., 1811.

Only Mackenzie is credited with authorship on the title page. Holland and Bright accompanied Mackenzie on this voyage and exploration. On p. xi of the Preface Mackenzie indicates that he benefitted from Hooker's notes on the botany of Iceland. On p. xiii he credits Holland with the account of the diseases of the Icelanders, and credits Bright for the account of the zoology and botany of Iceland. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.



Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Iceland, VOYAGES & Travels by Physicians, Surgeons & Scientists
  • 7319

Travels from Vienna through Lower Hungary; with remarks on the state of Vienna during the congress in the year 1814.

Edinburgh: Archibald Constable, 1818.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.



Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Austria, COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Hungary, VOYAGES & Travels by Physicians, Surgeons & Scientists
  • 2285
  • 4206

Reports of medical cases, selected with a view of illustrating the symptoms and cure of diseases by a reference to morbid anatomy. 2 vols. in 3.

London: Longmans, 18271831.

Beside's Bright's classic description of chronic non-suppurative nephritis, known eponymically as “Bright’s disease”, the Reports contain numerous other outstanding contributions to general pathology, neuropathology, and nephrology. Bright differentiated renal from cardiac dropsy (edema) and was first to correlate this and the previously observed albuminuria with the nephritic changes observed at autopsy. Vol. 2, published in 2 parts, is one of the earliest and most important atlases of neuropathology. Superbly illustrated throughout with hand-colored plates. Facsimile reprint of vol. 1, London: Gower Publishers & Royal Society of Medicine, 1985. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.



Subjects: NEPHROLOGY › Renal Disease, NEPHROLOGY › Renal Disease › Nephritis, NEUROLOGY › Neuropathology, PATHOLOGY, PATHOLOGY › Pathology Illustration
  • 3615

Cases and observations connected with disease of the pancreas and duodenum.

Med.-chir. Trans., 18, 1-56, 1832.


Subjects: HEPATOLOGY › Diseases of the Gallbladder, Biliary Tract, & Pancreas
  • 4811

Fatal epilepsy, from suppuration between the dura mater and arachnoid, in consequence of blood having been effused in that situation.

Guy’s Hosp. Rep., 1, 36-40, London, 1836.

Bright was the first to describe unilateral (“Jacksonian”) epilepsy.



Subjects: NEUROLOGY › Epilepsy
  • 3617

Observations on jaundice.

Guy’s Hosp. Rep., 1, 604-37, 1836.

Original description of acute yellow atrophy of the liver.



Subjects: HEPATOLOGY › Diseases of the Liver
  • 4207

Cases and observations, illustrative of renal disease accompanied with the secretion of albuminous urine.

Guy’s Hosp. Rep., 1, 338-400; 1840, 5, 101-161, 1836.

As a result of greater experience on renal disease, Bright rounded off his work on the subject with the above paper, wherein he recorded his extended observations; by this time he had come to more definite conclusions, expecially with regard to the treatment of the condition. Bright’s papers on the subject were reprinted, London, 1937, edited by A. A. Osman.



Subjects: NEPHROLOGY › Renal Disease
  • 2215

Elements of the practice of medicine. Vol. 1. (All Published.)

London: Longmans, 1839.

Originally issued in three parts from 1836 to 1839 when the authors were joint lecturers on medicine at Guy’s Hospital.



Subjects: Medicine: General Works
  • 12222

Cases of spasmodic disease accompanying affections of the pericardium.

Med.-chir. Trans., 22, 1-19, 1839.

Digital facsimile of the separate offprint from wellcomecollection.org at this link.



Subjects: CARDIOLOGY › CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE › Rheumatic Heart Disease
  • 2616

Clinical memoirs on abdominal tumours and intumescence.

London: New Sydenham Society, 1860.


Subjects: ONCOLOGY & CANCER