1792 DANZ, Ferdinand Georg (1761 – 1793)

Von Menschen ohne Haare und Zähne.

Hereditary ectodermal dysplasia first described. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

GMN 6358 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8255

1819 LAWRENCE, Sir William (1783 – 1867)

Lectures on physiology, zoology and the natural history of man.

This work set forth Lawrence's then radical and remarkably advanced ideas concerning evolution and heredity. Arguing that theology and metaphysics had no place in science, Lawrence relied instead on empirical evidence…

GMN 11240 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13437

1858 HUTCHINSON, Sir Jonathan (1828 – 1913)

Report on the effects of infantile syphilis in marring the development of the teeth.

Hutchinson of St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, is memorable for his original description of the notched incisors (“Hutchinson’s teeth”) in congenital syphilis. His name is also associated with “Hutchinson’s triad” (interst…

GMN 2386 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3298

1868 HAECKEL, Ernest Heinrich Philipp August (1834 – 1919)

Natürliche Schöpfungsgeschichte. Gemeinverständlich wissenschaftliche Vorträge über die Entwickelungslehre im Allgemeinen und diejenige von Darwin, Goethe und Lamarck im Besonderen, über die Anwendung derselben auf den Ursprung des Menschen . . .

Haeckel constructed the first of the now commonplace ancestral trees, depicting the evolution of life from the simplest organisms through 21 stages of development to modern man – the 22nd and final stage. Within this …

GMN 224 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4402

1876 –1877 MOON, Henry (1845 – 1892)

On irregular and defective tooth development.

“Moon’s molars”, the first molars in congenital syphilitics.

GMN 2391 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3320

1988 PROCTOR, Robert N. (1954 – )

Racial hygiene: Medicine under the Nazis.

GMN 10228 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12418

1994 CAVALLI-SFORZA, Luigi Luca (1922 – ); MENOZZI, Paolo; PIAZZA, Alberto (1941 – )

The history and geography of human genes.

The first full-scale attempt to reconstruct where human populations originated and the paths by which they spread throughout the world, using genetic data integrated with data from geography, ecology, archaeology, phy…

GMN 8538 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10715

1999 PERNICK, Martin S. (1948 – )

The black stork: Eugenics and the death of "defective" babies in American medicine and motion pictures since 1915.

GMN 10053 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12242

2010 BASHFORD, Alison (1963 – ); LEVINE, Philippa Judith Amanda (1957 – )

The Oxford handbook of the history of eugenics. Edited by Alison Bashford and Philippa Levine.

GMN 7844 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10016

2016 SOMMER, Marianne (1971 – )

History within: The science, culture, and politics of bones, organisms, and molecules.

GMN 8539 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10716

2018 PÄÄBO, Svante (1955 – ); SLON, Viviane; MAFESSONI, Fabrizio; VERNOT, Benjamin; ET AL

The genome of the offspring of a Neanderthal mother and a Denisovan father.

Paleogenomic study of a single bone fragment from a female hominin found in the Denisova Cave in the Altai mountains of Russia provided "direct evidence for genetic mixture between Neanderthals and Denisovans on at le…

GMN 14099 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16410

2020 PÄÄBO, Svante (1955 – ); ZEBERG, Hugo

The major genetic risk factor for severe COVID-19 is inherited from Neanderthals.

Expanding on previous findings by a genome wide association study of severe COVID-19, specifically with respiratory failure which had found that a gene cluster residing on chromosome 3 had a significant association wi…

GMN 14098 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16409