1536 GALEN, [Κλαύδιος Γαληνός; Galen of Pergamon] (129 – 216); MARCELLUS EMPIRICUS, (Marcellus Burdigalensis) (375 – 425); CORNARIUS, Janus (1500 – 1558)

De medicamentis empiricis physicis ac rationalibus liber.... Edited by Janus Cornarius. Item Claudii Galeni libri novem nunc primum Latini facti.... Jani Cornarii.

The Gallo-Roman physician Marcellus was born in Bordeaux. He may have served as magister officiorum under Theodosius I, or may have been royal physician. Sarton (Introduction to the history of science I, 391) consider…

GMN 10961 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13157

1846 HUTCHINSON, John (1811 – 1861)

On the capacity of the lungs, and on the respiratory functions, with a view of establishing a precise and easy method of detecting disease by the spirometer.

Invention of the spirometer, making possible the determination of the vital capacity of the lungs. Hutchinson used the spirometer while evaluating candidates for life insurance as a physician for Brittania Life. Parti…

GMN 930 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/149

1856 ARETAEUS OF CAPPADOCIA, (Ἀρεταῖος Καππάδοκος) (80 – 140); ADAMS, Francis (1796 – 1861)

Тα ∑ωζομενα. The extant works of Aretaeus, the Cappadocian. Edited and translated by Francis Adams.

Aretaeus left many fine descriptions of disease; in fact Garrison ranks him second only to Hippocrates in this respect. In the printed editions of this bibliography, before the present online version, the Adams editio…

GMN 22 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8934

1859 SMITH, Edward (1819 – 1874)

Experimental inquiries into the chemical and other phenomena of respiration, and their modifications by various physical agents.

Smith invented a respirometer to study changes in respiratory function under various conditions. See also the following paper (pp. 715-42) on the effects of foods on respiration. For an account of his work in this and…

GMN 935.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/182

1933 KARTAGENER, Manes (1897 – 1975)

Zur Pathogenese der Bronchiektasien. I. Mitteilung: Bronchiektasien bei Situs viscerum inversus.

Bronchiectasis and sinus maldevelopment associated with transposition of viscera – “Kartageners syndrome”.

GMN 3206 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4327