1797 BAILLIE, Matthew (1761 – 1823)
The morbid anatomy of some of the most important parts of the human body. 2nd ed.
First clinical description of chronic obstructive pulmonary emphysema. The lung on which Baillie performed an autopsy before describing this condition is said to have been that of Samuel Johnson. P. 46: Baillie sugges…
GMN 2736 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4126
1809 DUNDAS, David
An account of a peculiar disease of the heart.
Account of nine cases of rheumatic endocarditis.
GMN 2739 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4574
1812 WELLS, William Charles (1757 – 1817)
On rheumatism of the heart.
David Pitcairn is accredited with the first reference to rheumatism as a cause of cardiac disease, in a lecture given in 1788. Jenner read a paper on the same subject in 1789, but the first clinical report on the subj…
GMN 2740 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4578
1835 BOUILLAUD, Jean Baptiste (1796 – 1881)
Traité cliniques des maladies du coeur. 2 vols.
Bouillaud applied Laennec's technique of auscultation to diseases of the heart. Vol. 2, page 238: “Bouillaud’s disease” – rheumatic endocarditis. Although not first to note the cardiac manifestations of acute rheumati…
GMN 2749 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4633
1836 BOUILLAUD, Jean Baptiste (1796 – 1881)
Nouvelles recherches sur le rhumatisme articulaire en général, et spécialement sur la loi de coincidence de la péricardite et de l'endocardite avec cette maladie, ainsi que sur l'efficacité de la formule des émissions sanguines coup sur coup dans son traitement.
"In this volume he [Bouillaud] irrevocably established the etiologic relationship between rheumatic fever and heart disease. Early reports on this relationship had been contributed by Pitcairn, Jenner, and Wells, but …
GMN 11556 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13755
1839 BRIGHT, Richard (1789 – 1858)
Cases of spasmodic disease accompanying affections of the pericardium.
Digital facsimile of the separate offprint from wellcomecollection.org at this link.
GMN 12222 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14434
1924 COOMBS, Carey Franklin (1879 – 1932)
Rheumatic heart disease.
The first systematic textbook on rheumatic heart disease.
GMN 2854 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3641
1931 COBURN, Alvin Frederick (1899 – 1975)
The factor of infection in the rheumatic state.
Coburn demonstated that streptococcus is the infective agent in rheumatic fever that can lead to rheumatic heart disease.
GMN 11570 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13769
1948 MASSELL, Benedict Frank (1906 – 2008); DOW, J. W.; JONES, Thomas Duckett (1899 – 1954)
Orally administered penicillin in patients with rheumatic fever.
Massell and colleagues demonstrated that rheumatic fever could be prevented by penicillin treatment of streptococcal throat infections. (Order of authorship in the original publication: Massell, Dow, Jones.) See also:…
GMN 12359 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14583
1997 MASSELL, Benedict Frank (1906 – 2008)
Rheumatic fever and streptococcal infection: Unraveling the mysteries of a dread disease.
GMN 12360 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14584
