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”

16031 entries, 14098 authors and 1943 subjects. Updated: October 7, 2024

HIS, Wilhelm, Sr.

14 entries
  • 1107

Untersuchungen über den Bau der Lymphdrüsen.

Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, 1861.

Histology of the lymphatics. His drew the illustrations.



Subjects: ANATOMY › Microscopic Anatomy (Histology), Lymphatic System
  • 1109

Ueber das Epithel der Lymphgefässwurzeln und über die von Recklinghausen’schen Saftcanälchen.

Z. wiss. Zool 13, 455-73, 1863.


Subjects: Lymphatic System
  • 203.1

Crania Helvetica: Sammlung schweizerischer Schädelformen.

Basel & Genf, Switzerland: H. Georg's Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1864.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.



Subjects: ANTHROPOLOGY › Craniology, ANTHROPOLOGY › Physical Anthropology, COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Switzerland
  • 489

Beobachtungen über den Bau des Säugethier-Eierstockes.

Arch mikr. Anat., 1, 151-202, 1865.

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Subjects: EMBRYOLOGY
  • 490

Die Häute und Höhlen des Körpers.

Basel: Schwighauser, 1865.

A new classification of tissues based on histogenesis.



Subjects: EMBRYOLOGY
  • 268

Beschreibung eines Mikrotoms.

Arch. mikr. Anat., 6, 229-32, 1870.

His was, more than any other person, responsible for the introduction of the microtome, although Ranvier and other French people had earlier employed microtomes of simpler types.



Subjects: MICROBIOLOGY, Microscopy
  • 494

Unsere Körperform und das physiologische Problem ihrer Entstehung.

Leipzig: F. C. W. Vogel, 1874.

In this work His compared the various layers and organs of the embryo to a series of elastic tubes and plates. He thought that the local inequalities of growth and the differences in the consistency of the tissues might account for the various organs and structures. This work led to the idea of “developmental mechanics”.



Subjects: EMBRYOLOGY
  • 501

Anatomie menschlicher Embryonen. 3 pts. and atlas.

Leipzig: F. C. W. Vogel, 18801885.

A systematic account of early human embryology that stimulated further investigation in a field in which His stood highest among his contemporaries. He was the first to study the human embryo as a whole.



Subjects: EMBRYOLOGY
  • 1368.1

Zur Geschichte der menschlichen Rückenmarkes und der Nervenwurzeln.

Abh. math.-phys. Cl. k. sächs. Ges Wiss. Leipzig, (1886), 13, 477-514, 1887.

This is generally considered the first clear statement that nerve cells in the brain might be independent units rather than forming an anastomotic network—as Gerlach, Golgi, and most others believed—although there are earlier hints of this from a variety of sources.  His’s conclusion was based on embryological observations in the spinal cord, suggesting that axons arise from nerve cell bodies (one per nerve cell), followed later by dendrites, and that any fusion of processes, if they occur at all, must be a secondary event. (Larry W. Swanson).



Subjects: ANATOMY › Neuroanatomy, EMBRYOLOGY › Neuroembryology, NEUROSCIENCE › NERVOUS SYSTEM › Spinal Cord
  • 7335

Die Neuroblasten und deren Entstehung im embryonalen Mark.

Abh. math.-phys. Cl. der Konig. Säch. Ges. d. Wiss. 15, 313-372., 1889.

In this paper on neuroblasts (young neurons) and their development in the embryonic spinal cord, His coined the term, “dendrite,” for what had been called protoplasmic processes since the term was introduced by Deiters in 1865 (Larry W. Swanson).



Subjects: ANATOMY › Neuroanatomy, EMBRYOLOGY › Neuroembryology
  • 836

Die Thätigkeit des embryonalen Herzens und deren Bedeutung für die Lehre von der Herzbewegung beim Erwachsenen.

Arb. med. Klin. Leipzig, 14-50, 1893.

His described the atrioventricular bundle which was later named after him. English translation in F. A. Willius and T. E. Keys, Cardiac classics, 1941, p. 695.



Subjects: CARDIOLOGY › CARDIOVASCULAR PHYSIOLOGY › Anatomy of the Heart & Circulatory System, CARDIOLOGY › CARDIOVASCULAR PHYSIOLOGY › Cardiac Electrophysiology
  • 432

Die anatomische Nomenclatur.

Leipzig: Veit & Co., 1895.

His was largely responsible for the Basle Nomina Anatomica, the first attempt to produce a standard anatomical nomenclature. English translation by L.F. Barker, 1907.



Subjects: ANATOMY › 19th Century
  • 7408

Anatomische Forschungen über Johann Sebastian Bach's Gebeine und Anlitz nebst Bemerkungen über dessen Bilder. Abh. Sächs. Ges. Wiss., 22/5.

Leipzig: S. Hirzel, 1895.

To authenticate the remains of Johann Sebastian Bach, Wilhelm His senior performed one of the earliest examples of scientific facial reconstructions, reconstructing the soft tissues onto a plaster cast of the skull using facial tissue measurements recorded from a number of cadavers. He employed a sculptor to produce the three-dimensional facial reconstruction. Tim Valentine & Josh P Davis, Forensic facial identification: Theory and practice of identification (2015) 100.



Subjects: ANTHROPOLOGY › Physical Anthropology, Forensic Medicine (Legal Medicine), Music and Medicine
  • 7339

Die Entwickelung des menschlichen Gehirns, während der ersten Monate.

Leipzig: S. Hirzel, 1904.

"This final summary of brain development, published in the year of his death, contains a wealth of classic illustrations that have been adapted ever since in textbooks" (Larry W. Swanson).



Subjects: ANATOMY › Neuroanatomy, EMBRYOLOGY › Neuroembryology