1490 AVENZOAR [IBN ZUHR (ARABIC: ابن زهر‎ ] (1092 – 1162); AVERROËS [IBN RUSHD (ARABIC: ابن رشد‎), FULL NAME ʾABŪ L-WALĪD MUḤAMMAD IBN ʾAḤMAD IBN RUŠD] (1126 – 1198); PARAVICIUS, [Paravicinus, Patavinus] (1250 – ); JACOBUS HEBRAEUS (1250 – )

Liber Teisir, sive rectificatio medicationis et regiminis. Antidotarium. Translated from Arabic into Hebrew by Jacobus Hebraeus; into Latin by Paravicius. Add: Averroes: Colliget.

This is a Latin translation from a Hebrew version dating from 1280. Avenzoar, the greatest Muslim physician of the Western Caliphate, described the itch-mite, Sarcoptes scabiei, serous pericarditis, mediastinal absces…

GMN 47 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8768

1931 STICKER, Georg (1860 – 1960); JADASSOHN, Josef (1863 – 1936)

Entwurf einer Geschichte der ansteckenden Geschlechtskrankheiten.

GMN 5227.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7849

1937 ROLLESTON, John Davy (1873 – 1946)

The history of the acute exanthemata.

Smallpox, chicken pox, scarlet fever, measles and German measles. Rolleston was the brother of Sir Humphrey Davy Rolleston.

GMN 8751 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10929

1942 KLEMPERER, Paul (1887 – 1964); ET AL

Diffuse collagen disease; acute disseminated lupus erythematosus and diffuse scleroderma.

P. Klemperer, A. D. Pollack, and G. Baehr combined a number of diseases, hitherto regarded as unrelated, into an entity which they termed diffuse collagen disease.

GMN 2237 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3809

1954 SCHÖNFELD, Walther Heinrich Paul (1888 – 1977)

Kurze Geschichte der Dermatologie und Venereologie und ihre kulturgeschichtliche Spiegelung.

GMN 4158.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5933

1995 PASTEUR, Louis (1822 – 1895); GEISON, Gerald Lynn (1943 – 2001)

The private science of Louis Pasteur.

"His biography of Pasteur was viewed as an outstanding work of scholarship which penetrated the secrecy that had surrounded much of the legendary scientist's laboratory work. Geison used Pasteur's laboratory notebooks…

GMN 11019 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13215

2001 –2013 DHOM, Georg (1922 – 2014)

Geschichte der Histopathologie. 2 vols.

Traces development of microscopy in disease research and diagnostics, as applied in surgical, gynecological, and dermatologic pathology in the 19th and 20th centuries.

GMN 8477 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10654

2007 BRAY, George A. (1931 – )

The battle of the bulge: A history of obesity research.

GMN 7059 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9226

2009 POWER, Michael L.; SCHULKIN, Jay

The evolution of obesity.

GMN 12144 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14353

2010 VIGARELLO, Georges (1941 – )

Les metamorphoses du gras: histoire de l'obésité.

Translated into English by C. Jon Delogu as The metamorphosis of fat: A history of obesity (New York: Columbia University Press, 2013).

GMN 9661 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11848

2010 GILMAN, Sander L. (1941 – )

Obesity: The biography.

GMN 9662 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11849

2015 SMITH, Matthew

Another person's poison: A history of food allergy.

GMN 8043 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10219