1563 –1564 EUSTACHI, Bartolomeo [EUSTACHIUS] (1510 – 1574)

Opuscula anatomica.

Eustachius is credited with several anatomical discoveries, among them the tensor tympani muscle and the Eustachian tube, published in his chapter entitled De auditus organis. In the last respect, however, he was anti…

GMN 1093 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/159

1590 ACOSTA, José de (1539 – 1600)

Historia natural y moral de las Indias.

One of the earliest detailed and realistic descriptions of the New World. Acosta hypothesized that the indigenous peoples of Latin America had migrated from Asia. He also divided the native peoples into three barbaria…

GMN 2244 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3843

1680 –1681 BORELLI, Giovanni Alfonso (1608 – 1679)

De motu animalium. 2 pts.

Borelli originated the neurogenic theory of the heart’s action and first suggested that the circulation resembled a simple hydraulic system. He was the first to insist that the heart beat was a simple muscular contrac…

GMN 3669.3 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1749

1800 BICHAT, Marie François Xavier (1771 – 1802)

Recherches physiologiques sur la vie et la mort.

When Volta questioned the validity of experiments claiming to show responsiveness of an ex vivo heart, devoid of blood flow and nervous connections, Bichat obtained permission to experiment upon the freshly killed bod…

GMN 597 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/387

1889 MACWILLIAM, John Alexander (1857 – 1937)

Cardiac failure and sudden death.

"Physiologists and physicians had proposed various theories to explain transient and fatal cardiac standstill in animals and humans who were apparently healthy. MacWilliam defined two distinct mechanisms depending on …

GMN 12267 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14484

1968 HARVARD AD HOC COMMITTEE ON BRAIN DEATH

A definition of irreversible coma. Report of the Ad Hoc Committee of the Harvard Medical School to examine the definition of brain death.

This report described the following characteristics of a permanently nonfunctioning brain, a condition it referred to as "irreversible coma," now known as brain death: 1. Unreceptivity and unresponsitivity--patient sh…

GMN 10044 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12233

1972 RENBOURN, Edward Tobias

Materials and clothing in health and disease by E. T. Renbourn (with The biophysics of clothing materials by W. H. Rees).

GMN 13806 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16094

1994 WILLIAMS, Elizabeth A. (1950 – )

The physical and the moral: Anthropology, physiology, and philosophical medicine in France, 1750-1850.

GMN 9890 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12078

2009 KICHIGINA, Galina

The imperial laboratory: Experimental physiology and clinical medicine in Post-Crimean Russia.

GMN 10189 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12378