1676 SENNERT, Daniel (1572 – 1637)
Opera. 6 vols.
Besides giving early accounts of scarlatina and rubella, Sennert added to the knowledge of scurvy, dysentery and alcoholism. He was an able clinician and also a believer in witchcraft. His Opera was first published in…
GMN 61 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/975
1779 –1787 LETTSOM, John Coakley (1744 – 1815)
Some remarks on the effects of lignum quassiae amarae.
Includes (p. 151) “original account of alcoholism, which is incidentally the first paper on the drug habit” (Garrison).
GMN 2071 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2523
1804 TROTTER, Thomas (1760 – 1832)
An essay, medical, philosophical, and chemical, on drunkenness, and its effects on the human body.
The first book on alcoholism, expanded from Trotter's MD dissertation: Dissertatio medica inauguralis, quædam de ebrietate, ejusque effectibus in corpus humanum complectens, quam ... pro gradu doctoris ... (Edinburgh:…
GMN 2071.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2527
1813 SUTTON, Thomas (1767 – 1835)
Tracts on Delirium tremens, on peritonitis, and on some other internal inflammatory affections, and on the gout.
Sutton named and described alcoholic delirium tremens, differentiating the condition from phrenitis. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 4925 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6126
1822 JACKSON, James (1777 – 1867)
On a peculiar disease resulting from the use of ardent spirits.
Jackson drew attention to alcoholic neuritis – arthrodynia a potu. Jackson was professor at Boston Medical School.
GMN 4521 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/383
1828 DRAKE, Daniel (1785 – 1852)
Discourse on intemperance; delivered at Cincinnati, March 1, 1828, before The Agricultural Society of Hamilton County, and subsequently pronounced, by request, to a popular audience.
Digital facsimile from U.S. National Library of Medicine at this link.
GMN 13268 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15534
1841 SEWALL, Thomas (1786 – 1845)
The pathology of drunkeness, or the effects of alcoholic drinks with drawings of the drunkard's stomach.
Including four chromolithographed plates by J. H. Hall, Albany, N.Y., this is the earliest illustrated book published in the U.S. on the pathological effects of alcoholism. Digital facsimile from the U.S. National Lib…
GMN 13521 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15796
1849 –1851 HUSS, Magnus (1807 – 1890)
Alkoholismus Chronicus eller Chronik Alkoholssjukdom. Ett bidrag till dyskrasiernas kännedom; enligt egen och andras erfarenheit. . . . Första afdelningen.
The first monograph on alcoholism considered as a disease. Huss was the first to define alcoholism and to give a scientific analysis of its physical, psychological, moral and social effects. Translated into German, 1852.
GMN 12168 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14378
1868 WILKS, Sir Samuel (1824 – 1911)
Drunkard’s or alcoholic paraplegia.
Classic account of alcoholic paraplegia.
GMN 4539 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/400
1878 BAER, Abraham Adolf (1834 – 1908)
Der Alkoholismus seine Verbreitung und Wirkung auf den Individuellen und sozialen Organismus, sowie die Mittel Ihn zu Bekämpfen.
GMN 13475 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15749
1887 KORSAKOFF, Sergei Sergeievich (1853 – 1900)
Disturbance of psychic activity in alcoholic paralysis.
“Korsakoff’s psychosis” or syndrome – alcoholic polyneuritis with loss and falsification of memory. A second paper on the subject in Ezhened. klin. Gaz., 1889, 9, 85, 115, 136, is translated into English in Neurology,…
GMN 4945 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6233
1903 MARCHIAFAVA, Ettore (1847 – 1935); BIGNAMI, Amico (1862 – 1929)
Sopra un’ alterazione del corpo calloso osservata in soggetti alcoolisti.
Marchiafava–Bignami disease – degeneration of the corpus callosum in alcoholism.
GMN 4955 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6287
1903 BOWDITCH, Henry Pickering (1840 – 1911); ATWATER, Wilbur Olin (1844 – 1907); CHITTENDEN, Russell Henry (1856 – 1943); WELCH, William Henry (1850 – 1934); BILLINGS, John Shaw (1838 – 1913)
Physiological aspects of the liquor problem. Investigations made by and under the direction of W. O. Atwater, John S. Billings, H. P. Bowditch, R. H. Chittenden, and W. H. Welch Sub-Committee of the Committee of Fifty to Investigate the Liquor Problem. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 11627 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13827
1937 PATEK, Arthur Jackson Jr. (1904 – 1991)
Treatment of alcoholic cirrhosis of the liver with high vitamin therapy.
A pioneer paper on the dietary treatment of cirrhosis.
GMN 3661 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4808
1939 WILSON, William Griffith (1895 – 1971)
Alcoholics Anonymous: The story of how many thousands of men and women have recovered from alcoholism.
"Describes how to recover from alcoholism, primarily written by William G. "Bill W." Wilson, one of the founders of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA). It is the originator of the seminal "twelve-step method" widely used to tr…
GMN 10226 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12416
1948 HALD, Jens
The sensitizing effect of tetraethylthiuramdisulphide (Antabuse) to ethyl alcohol.
Introduction of “antabuse” in the treatment of alcoholism. With E. Jacobsen and V. Larsen. See also Lancet, 1948, 2, 1004.
GMN 2091 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2572
1995 MANCALL, Peter C. (1959 – )
Deadly medicine: Indians and alcohol in early America.
GMN 9630 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11817
2004 TRACY, Sarah W. (1963 – )
Altering American Consciousness: The history of alcohol and drug use in the United States, 1800-2000.
GMN 8044 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10220
2005 TRACY, Sarah W. (1963 – )
Alcoholism in America, from Reconstruction to Prohibition.
GMN 8045 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10221
2013 AGNEW, Jeremy
Alcohol and opium in the Old West: Use, abuse and influence.
GMN 12102 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14311
2016 MURTHY, Vivek (1977 – )
Facing addiction in America: The Surgeon General's report on alcohol, drugs, and health.
The first U.S. Surgeon General's report on substance misuse and the wide range of adverse health effects from alcohol and both legal and illegal drugs. It brought together evidence on prevention; treatment; and recove…
GMN 7826 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9998
