1876 LEGG, John Wickham (1843 – 1921)
A case of haemophilia complicated with multiple naevi.
First description of multiple hereditary telangiectasis (“Rendu–Osler–Weber disease”).
GMN 2707 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4422
1884 OERTEL, Max Joseph (1835 – 1934)
Therapie der Kreislauf-Störungen.
English translation in von Ziemssen’s Handbook of general therapeutics, Vol. 7, London, 1887.
GMN 2708 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4424
1896 RENDU, Henri Jules Louis (1844 – 1902)
Epistaxis répété chez un sujet porteur de petits angiomes cutanés et muqueux.
Rendu’s account of multiple hereditary telangiectasis (“Rendu–Osler–Weber disease”).
GMN 2710 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4428
1903 PAULI, Wolfgang Joseph (1869 – 1955)
Ueber Ionenwirkung und ihre therapeutische Verwendung.
Hypotensive action of thiocyanates first noted. Pauli was the father of the physicist Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958).
GMN 2712 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4432
1905 PÁL, Jakob (1863 – 1936)
Gefässkrisen.
GMN 2713 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4434
1907 WEBER, Frederick Parkes (1863 – 1962)
Multiple hereditary developmental angiomata (telangiectases) of the skin and mucous membranes associated with recurring haemorrhages.
“Rendu–Osler–Weber disease.”
GMN 2714 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4436
1927 MOSCHCOWITZ, Eli (1879 – 1964)
Hypertension of the pulmonary circulation.
GMN 2715 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4438
1929 KEITH, Norman Macdonnell (1885 – 1976); WAGENER, Henry Patrick (1890 – 1961); ET AL
Some different types of essential hypertension; their course and prognosis.
The Keith-Wagener-Barker classification of hypertension. With N. W. Barker.
GMN 2716 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4440
1932 HINES, Edgar Alphonso Jr. (1905 – 1978); BROWN, George Elgie (1885 – 1935)
A standard stimulus for measuring vasomotor reactions: its application in the study of hypertension.
Cold-pressor test.
GMN 2717 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4441
1933 TARR, Leonard (1901 – ); ET AL
The circulation time in various clinical conditions determined by the use of sodium dehydrocholate.
Use of decholin sodium for estimation of circulation time. With B. S. Oppenheimer and R. V. Sagar.
GMN 2718 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4443
1934 GOLDBLATT, Harry (1891 – 1977); ET AL
Studies on experimental hypertension. 1. The production of persistent elevation of systolic blood pressure by means of renal ischemia.
Goldblatt discovered the role of the kidneys in the regulation of blood pressure. This was the first of Goldblatt’s papers on experimental hypertension, which established an aetiologic role for renal ischemia in the p…
GMN 2719 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4445
1936 BARKER, Marion Herbert (1899 – 1947)
The blood cyanates in the treatment of hypertension.
Barker made thiocyanate treatment a practical proposition in hypertension.
GMN 2720 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4447
1939 HOMANS, John (1877 – 1955)
Circulatory diseases of the extremities.
GMN 2722 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4452
1944 KEMPNER, Walter (1903 – 1997)
Treatment of kidney disease and hypertensive vascular disease with rice diet.
Kempner rice diet for the treatment of hypertension.
GMN 2725 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4461
