1519 ABULCASIS (ABU AL-QASIM KHALAF IBN AL-ABBAS AL-ZAHRAWI; أبو القاسم خلف بن العباس الزهراوي), [Albucasis] (936 – 1013)
Liber theoricae nec non practicae Alsaharavii.
This is the first printing of the medical and therapeutic section of Abul Qasim’s medical encyclopedia or al-Tasrif. It contains what is probably the earliest description of hemophilia (fol. 145). Digital facsimile fr…
GMN 3048 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3653
1803 OTTO, John Conrad (1774 – 1844)
An account of an haemorrhagic disposition existing in certain families.
Otto recognized and adequately described hemophilia, noting that females are not affected but may transmit the disease. His paper is one of the first great contributions to medicine in North America. Reproduced in Maj…
GMN 3054 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3680
1855 GRANDIDIER, Johann Ludwig (1810 – )
Die Haemophilie oder die Bluterkrankheit.
First full clinical description of hemophilia.
GMN 3063 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3715
1886 TREVES, Sir Frederick (1853 – 1923)
A case of haemophilia: pedigree through five generations.
True hemophilia in a female. The family was the subject of several later investigations, the last being reported in Lancet, 1973, 2,734.
GMN 3067.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3721
1890 KÖNIG, Franz (1832 – 1910)
Die Gelenkerkrankungen bei Blutern mit Berücksichtigung der Diagnose.
König gave a detailed description of joint involvement in hemophilia.
GMN 3069 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3723
1911 BULLOCH, William (1868 – 1941); FILDES, Sir Paul Gordon (1882 – 1971)
Haemophilia.
Bulloch and Fildes, in their detailed account of hemophilia, claimed to have established immunity to the disease in females, and denied the authenticity of published cases of female hemophilia. They confirmed the law …
GMN 3081 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3741
1934 MACFARLANE, Robert Gwyn (1907 – 1987); BARNETT, Burgess (1888 – 1944)
The haemostatic possibilities of snake-venom.
Snake venom used in the treatment of hemophilia.
GMN 3093 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3777
1935 QUICK, Armand James (1894 – 1977)
The prothrombin in hemophilia and in obstructive jaundice.
Quick’s method for determination of prothrombin clotting time. See also Amer. J. med. Sci.,1935, 190,501-11.
GMN 3095 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3782
1937 PATEK, Arthur Jackson Jr. (1904 – 1991); TAYLOR, Francis Henry Laskey (1900 – 1959)
Hemophilia. II. Some properties of a substance obtained from normal human plasma effective in accelerating the coagulation of hemophilic blood.
Antihemophilic globulin (factor VIII).
GMN 3096.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3787
1952 BIGGS, Rosemary Peyton (1921 – 2001); ET AL
Christmas disease, a condition previously mistaken for haemophilia.
Christmas disease, hemophilia B, due to lack of Factor IX. Named after the patient whose case was the first recorded example. With six co-authors.
GMN 3108.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3824
2011 PEMBERTON, Stephen
The bleeding disease: Hemophilia and the unintended consequences of medical progress.
GMN 10972 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13168
