1762 NICHOLLS, Frank (1699 – 1778)
Observations concerning the body of his late Majesty, October 26, 1760.
Nicholls was the first to describe dissecting aneurysm of the aorta, the patient being King George II, to whom he was physician from 1753-60. Nicholls was also the first to give a correct description of the mode of pr…
GMN 2734.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4518
1859 MALMSTEN, Pehr Henrik (1811 – 1883); DÜBEN, Gustav Wilhelm Johann (1822 – 1892)
Fall af ruptura cordis.
An important account of myocardial infarction, with a histological finding of myocardial necrosis. Abbreviated translation, in German, in Acta med. scand., 1930, 73, 448-50.
GMN 2761.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4683
1872 COHNHEIM, Julius Friedrich (1839 – 1884)
Untersuchungen über die embolischen Processe.
Cohnheim developed the doctrine of infarction as a result of occlusion of terminal arteries. He explained the haemorrhagic nature of certain infarcts on the basis of a reflux flow and diapedesis through the altered ca…
GMN 3010 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5370
1880 WEIGERT, Carl (1845 – 1904)
Ueber die pathologische Gerinnungs-Vorgänge.
First description (p. 106) of myocardial infarction. Leibowitz called this "the most significant contribution by a pathologist to the history of coronary heart disease." He also wrote, "This work not only provides a g…
GMN 2783 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3379
1896 DOCK, George (1860 – 1951)
Notes on the coronary arteries.
Dock recorded one of the earliest diagnoses of myocardial infaction in a living patient: "The diagnosis was mymalacia folling coronary sclerosis with secondary pericarditis. This was based on the history of increasing…
GMN 11584 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13783
1906 EHRLICH, Paul (1854 – 1915); WEIGERT, Carl (1845 – 1904); EDINGER, Ludwig (1855 – 1918); RIEDER, Robert
Carl Weigert Gesammelte Abhandlungen unter Mitwirkung von Ludwig Edinger und Paul Ehrlich. Herausgegeben und Eingeleitet von Robert Rieder. 2 vols.
GMN 11731 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13932
1948 WRIGHT, Irving Sherwood (1901 – 1997); ET AL
Report of the Committee for the Evaluation of Anticoagulants in the Treatment of Coronary Thrombosis with Myocardial Infarction.
With C. D. Marple and D. F. Beck.
GMN 3020 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5425
1955 LADUE, John Samuel (1911 – 1980); WROBLEWSKI, Felix (1921 – 2013)
The significance of the serum glutamic oxalacetic transaminase activity following acute myocardial infarction.
Diagnostic test for myocardial infarction.
GMN 2883.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4246
1959 COOLEY, Denton Arthur (1920 – 2016); ET AL
Ventricular aneurysm following myocardial infarction: Results of surgical treatment.
Cardiopulmonary bypass and open excision of the aneurysm. With W.S. Henly, K.H. Amad, & D.W. Chapman.
GMN 3047.13 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3611
1968 CHAPMAN, Carelton B. (1915 – 2000); SALTIN, Bengt (1935 – 2014); BLOMQVIST, Gunnar; MITCHELL, Jere H.; JOHNSON, R. L. Jr.; WILDENTHAL, Kern
Response to exercise after bed rest and after training.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Saltin, Blomqvist, Mitchell, Johnson, Wildenthal, Chapman. Chapman planned the Dallas Bed Rest and Training Study, which defined the degree to which the level of habitu…
GMN 12282 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14503
1974 KOBAYASHI, Noboru (1927 – 2019); MATSUYA, Shoji; YANAGISAWA, Masayoshi
Myocardial infarction due to coronary thromboarteritis following acute febrile mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome (MLNS) in an infant.
The authors reported the case of a 6 month old baby who died from a myocardiac infarction after "recovering" from Kawasaki disease. Autopsy showed that the baby died from classical coronary artery thrombosis accompani…
GMN 12718 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14964
2007 SIKRI, Nikhil; BARDIA, Amit
A history of streptokinase use in acute myocardial infarction.
A history of thrombolytic therapy. Digital facsimile from PubMedCentral at this link.
GMN 12280 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14500
