1865 SMITH, Sir Thomas (1833 – 1909)

Skull-cap showing congenital deficiencies of bone.

GMN 6359 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8258

1866 LAURENCE, John Zachariah (1830 – 1874); MOON, Robert Charles (1844 – 1914)

Four cases of “retinitis pigmentosa”, occurring in the same family, and accompanied by general imperfections of development.

Laurence–Moon (–Biedl) syndrome first described. See also No. 6369.

GMN 6368 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8294

1893 HAND, Alfred (1868 – 1949)

Polyuria and tuberculosis.

“Hand–Schüller–Christian syndrome”, which Hand called polyuria and tuberculosis.

GMN 6361 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8263

1915 –1916 SCHÜLLER, Artur (1874 – 1958)

Ueber eigenartige Schädeldefekte im Jugendalter.

Schüller described two more cases of the condition to which his name, with those of Hand and Christian, has been attached.

GMN 6362 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8266

1916 RENDU, Robert (1886 – )

Sur un syndrome caractérisé par l’inflammation simultanée de toutes les muqueuses externes (conjunctivale, nasale, linguale, buccopharyngée, anale et balano-préputiale) coexistant avec une éruption varicelliforme puis purpurique des quatres membres.

First description of the “Stevens–Johnson syndrome” (see No. 4150).

GMN 6365 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8283

1916 FIESSINGER, Noel (1881 – 1946); LEROY, Edgar

Contribution à l’étude d’une épidémie de dysenterie dans la Somme (juillet–octobre 1916).

Includes several references to the condition later known as “Reiter’s syndrome” (No. 6371).

GMN 6370 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8302

1916 REITER, Hans Conrad Julius (1881 – 1969)

Ueber eine bisher unerkannte Spirochäteninfektion (Spirochaetosis arthritica).

“Reiter’s syndrome”, a disease of males characterized by initial diarrhea, urethritis, conjunctivitis, and arthritis. Reiter was a German Nazi physician and war criminal who conducted medical experiments at Buchenwald…

GMN 6371 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8304

1917 HUNTER, Charles (1872 – 1955)

A rare disease in two brothers.

First definite description of the Hurler syndrome (No. 6371.2). Hunter became Professor of Medicine in the University of Manitoba.

GMN 6371.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8306

1919 CHRISTIAN, Henry Asbury (1876 – 1951)

Defects in membranous bones, exophthalmos, and diabetes insipidus; an unusual syndrome of dyspituitarism; a clinical study. IN: Contributions to medical and biological research, dedicated to Sir William Osler, 1, 390-401.

“Hand-Schüller-Christian syndrome”.

GMN 6363 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8278

1922 BIEDL, Artur (1869 – 1933)

Geschwisterpaar mit adiposo-genitaler Dystrophie.

Laurence–Moon–Biedl syndrome (see also No. 6368). Biedl’s cases were more fully described by W. Raab, in Wien. Arch. inn. Med., 1924, 7, 443-530.

GMN 6369 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8298

1924 LETTERER, Erich (1895 – 1982)

Aleukämische Reticulose. (Ein Beitrag zu den proliferativen Erkrankungen des Retikuloendothelialapparates.)

“Letterer–Siwe disease”; see also No. 6373.

GMN 6372 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8309

1928 ROWLAND, Russell Sturgis (1874 – 1938)

Xanthomatosis and the reticulo-endothelial system.

“Rowland collected 14 cases of the Hand–Schüller–Christian syndrome, and made the important generalization that it was due to xanthomatosis” (Rolleston).

GMN 6366 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8285

1933 SIWE, Sture August (1897 – 1966)

Die Reticuloendotheliose - eine neues Krankheitsbild unter den Hepatosplenomegalien.

See No. 6372.

GMN 6373 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8312