1614 PLATER, Felix [PLATTER] (1536 – 1614)

Observationum in hominis affectibus plerisque, corpori & animo, functionum laesione, dolore, aliave molestia & vitio incommodantibus, libri tres.

First known report of a case of death from hypertrophy of the thymus, in an infant, is reported on p. 172; it is reproduced on p. 239 of J. Ruhräh’s Pediatrics of the past, New York, 1925. Platter first described flex…

GMN 3789 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4706

1853 TÜRCK, Ludwig (1810 – 1868)

Ein Fall von Hamorrhagie der Netzhaut beider Augen.

Türck was the first to note the correlation of retinal hemorrhage with tumors of the brain.

GMN 5870 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7261

1888 BRAMWELL, Sir Byrom (1847 – 1931)

Intracranial tumours.

GMN 4574 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/444

1906 CUSHING, Harvey Williams (1869 – 1939)

Sexual infantilism with optic atrophy in cases of tumor affecting the hypophysis cerebri.

GMN 3890 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4953

1906 SCHLOFFER, Hermann (1868 – 1937)

Zur Frage der Operationen an der Hypophyse.

Schloffer’s Operation for acromegaly. He was the first successfully to operate upon a pituitary tumor in man (See No. 3892).

GMN 3891 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4954

1907 SCHLOFFER, Hermann (1868 – 1937)

Erfolgreiche Operation eines hypophysen Tumors auf nasalem Wege.

Schloffer’s Operation by the nasal route.

GMN 3892 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4955

1909 HIRSCH, Oskar (1877 – 1965)

Eine neue Methode der endonasalen operation von Hypophysentumoren.

Hirsch first demonstrated the transnasal transseptal exposure of the sphenoid sinus and pituitary gland in a cadaveric specimen in front of the medical society of Vienna.

GMN 3895 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4959

1926 CUSHING, Harvey Williams (1869 – 1939); BAILEY, Percival (1892 – 1973)

A classification of the tumors of the glioma group on a histogenetic basis with a correlated study of prognosis.

From 1922 to 1925 Bailey undertook extensive pathological and histological studies of brain tumors, and based on cellular configuration, he created a classification system of thirteen categories. In 1927 he reduced th…

GMN 4608 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/568

1927 EGAS MONIZ, Antonio Caetano de Abreu Freire (1874 – 1955)

L’encéphalographie artérielle, son importance dans la localisation des tumeurs cérébrales.

Introduction of cerebral arteriography. See also Presse méd., 1928, 36, 689-93. English translation in J. Neurosurg., 1964, 21, 145-56.

GMN 4610 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/578

1932 CUSHING, Harvey Williams (1869 – 1939)

The basophil adenomas of the pituitary body and their clinical manifestations (pituitary basophilism).

“Cushing’s syndrome”.

GMN 3904 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4978

1938 CUSHING, Harvey Williams (1869 – 1939); EISENHARDT, Louise Charlotte (1891 – 1967)

Meningiomas: Their classification, regional behavior, life history, and surgical end results.

Begun in 1915, soon after Cushing's monograph on pituitary disorders, this represents 25 years of work, and is, by common consent, regarded as Cushing’s greatest clinical monograph. Reprint, 2 vols., New York, Hafner,…

GMN 4612 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/590