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Birmingham, England

6 entries published in this place. (Birmingham, GB)

1774

#6157

Anatomia uteri humani gravidi tabulis illustrata. The anatomy of the human gravid uterus exhibited in figures.

Hunter originally trained as Smellie’s assistant. Once he achieved brilliant professional and financial success he became a great collector of rare books and manuscripts, coins, paintings, minerals, shells, and antiqu…

1785

#1836

An account of the foxglove, and some of its medical uses.

Before publication of Withering's book digitalis was a widely used folk remedy, occasionally mentioned in the literature. Withering established the correct dosages, and the action of digitalis in edema and on the hear…

1797

#11491

A practical inquiry into disordered respiration, distinguishing the species of convulsive asthma, their causes, and indications of cure,

Bree "embodied the numerous experiments in his own case, gave a more full and complete view of asthma and dyspnœa than had hitherto appeared, and laid down some important therapeutic rules, the practical value of whic…

1884

#6081

General summary of conclusions from one thousand cases of abdominal section.

Tait was probably the greatest of the ovariotomists. He abandoned Listerian principles of antisepsis, relying on “scrupulous attention to cleanliness of every kind and in all directions”.

1888

#6199

Lectures on ectopic pregnancy and pelvic haematocele.

1985

#8882

William Osler's collected papers on the cardiovascular system. Edited by W. Bruce Fye.

Includes a previously unpublished essay by Maude Abbott, "Osler's contributions to our knowledge of heart disease."