1689 MORTON, Richard (1637 – 1698)
Phthisiologia, seu exercitationes de phthisi.
The first application of the principles of pathology to the study of pulmonary tuberculosis. Morton showed that the formation of tubercles is a necessary part of the development of this lung disease, and pointed out t…
GMN 3216 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4388
1720 MARTEN, Benjamin (1690 – 1750)
A new theory of consumptions : more especially of a phthisis, or consumption of the lungs.
Marten believed that an infectious micro-organism was the cause of tuberculosis, thus forecasting the existence of the tubercle bacillus 162 years before its actual discovery. Though Leeuwenhoek reported seeing bacter…
GMN 3217 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4394
1756 GILCHRIST, Ebenezer (1707 – 1774)
The use of sea voyages in medicine.
Gilchrist recommended sea voyages as treatment for pulmonary tuberculosis and other diseases. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link. Much expanded French translation by Edme-Claude Bourru as Utilité des voy…
GMN 11158 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13355
1793 BAILLIE, Matthew (1761 – 1823)
The morbid anatomy of some of the most important parts of the human body.
Baillie was a nephew and pupil of William Hunter. The above is the first systematic textbook of morbid anatomy, treating the subject for the first time as an independent science. See also Nos. 2736, 3167.1. Baillie wa…
GMN 2281 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2898
1806 CORVISART DES MAREST, Jean Nicolas (1755 – 1821)
Essai sur les maladies et les lésions organiques du coeur et des gros vaisseaux.
Corvisart really created cardiac symptomatology and made possible the differentiation between cardiac and pulmonary disorders. He was first to explain heart failure mechanically and to describe the dyspnoea of effort.…
GMN 2737 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4558
1819 LAENNEC, René Théophile Hyacinthe (1781 – 1826)
De l’auscultation médiate, ou traité du diagnostic des maladies des poumons et du coeur. 2 vols.
This book revolutionized the study of diseases of the chest. Auscultation in the instrumental sense dates from Laennec’s invention of the stethoscope (at first merely a roll of stiff paper) with a view to amplifying t…
GMN 2673 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3518
1822 CARSON, James (1772 – 1843)
Essays, physiological and practical.
Carson proposed the induction of open pneumothorax for the treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis (p. 64). Later he attempted it on a patient (see his An inquiry into the cause of respiration, etc. 2nd ed., London, 1833,…
GMN 3220 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5002
1825 LOUIS, Pierre Charles Alexandre (1787 – 1872)
Recherches anatomico-pathologiques sur la phthisis.
Louis’ researches were based on 358 dissections and 1,960 clinical cases, and included a numerical study of extra-pulmonary lesions. First edition in English, London, 1835. English translation, Boston, 1836. A transla…
GMN 3221 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5008
1826 LAENNEC, René Théophile Hyacinthe (1781 – 1826)
Traité de l'auscultation médiate ou traité diagnostic des maladies des poumons et du coeur. 2 vols.
Second edition, hugely revised, expanded, and improved. The pagination of the first edition (1819) was 456 pp. in vol. 1 and 472 pp. in vol. 2. The second edition was expanded to 728pp. in vol. 1 and 790 pp. in vol. 2…
GMN 14323 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16648
1834 MORTON, Samuel George (1799 – 1851)
Illustrations of pulmonary consumption.
Morton published an important collection of illustrations delineating pulmonary tuberculosis which epitomized the knowledge of his time. It was also the first book on the subject published in the United States. Digita…
GMN 3222 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5011
1840 BODINGTON, George (1799 – 1882)
Essay on the treatment of and cure of pulmonary consumption.
Bodington was one of the first to advocate the sanatorium treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis, with “cold dry air for healing and closing cavities and ulcers of the lungs”. His idea was much criticized and he was disc…
GMN 3223 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5012
1851 WALSHE, Walter Hayle (1812 – 1892)
A practical treatise on the diseases of the lungs and heart, including the principles of physical diagnosis.
Walshe, physician to University College Hospital, London, was one of the first to recognize the presystolic character of the direct mitral murmur in mitral stenosis.
GMN 2757 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4661
1853 FRANCIS, D. J. T.
Change of climate considered as a remedy in dyspetic, pulmonary, and other chronic affections; with an account of the most eligible places of residence for invalids in Spain, Portugal, Algeria, etc., at different seasons of the year; and an appendix on the mineral springs of the Pyrenees, Vichy, and Aix les Bains.
The author, a pulmonary specialist at Cavendish Square, London, provides a detailed manual for invalid travellers, seeking cures for tuberculosis, and indigestion and "nervous affections." It may be one of the first t…
GMN 10235 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12425
1863 BIRD, Samuel Dougan (1832 – 1904)
On Australasian climates and their influence in the prevention and arrest of pulmonary consumption.
Digital facsimile from wellcomecollection.org at this link.
GMN 10894 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13090
1868 RASMUSSEN, Fritz Valdemar (1833 – 1877)
Om Haemoptyse navnlig den lethale, i anatomisk og klinisk Henseende.
Tuberculous aneurysm of the lung (“Rasmussen’s aneurysm”). English translation in Edinb.med.J.,1868, 14,385-401, 486-503; 1869, 15,97-104, 228-36.
GMN 2981 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5154
1876 PARROT, Joseph (1829 – 1883)
Recherches sur les relations qui existent entre les lésions des poumons et celles des ganglions trachéo-bronchiques.
The primary lesion in pulmonary tuberculosis in children (“Ghon’s primary focus”) was first described by Parrot.
GMN 3224 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5015
1879 ESTLANDER, Jakob August (1831 – 1881)
Resektion af refben vid kroniskt empyem. C. R. Sur la résection des côtes dans l'empyème chronique.
Esklander proposed a new method of surgery, involving sectioning of the ribs, to cure a condition previously considered incurable caused by chronic purulent pleurisy.
GMN 12418 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14648
1882 FORLANINI, Carlo (1847 – 1918)
A contribuzione della terapia chirurgica della tisi; ablazione de polmone? pneumotorace artificiale?
Forlanini first discussed the induction of artificial pneumothorax in the above papers; he applied it in 1888. For his report on its application, see Gazz. med. Torino, 1894, 45, 381, 401. English translation in Tuber…
GMN 3225 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5017
1885 CAYLEY, William (1836 – 1916)
A case of haemoptysis treated by the induction of pneumothorax so as to collapse the lung.
Artificial pneumothorax by pleural incision in intractable haemoptysis. See also Lancet, 1885, 1, 894-95.
GMN 3226 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5020
1893 LOWSON, David (1850 – 1907)
A case of pneumonectomy.
Partial lobectomy in pulmonary tuberculosis.
GMN 3227 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5023
1895 LENOIR, Pierre-Jean-Baptiste (1859 – )
Des insufflations d'air dans le traitement des péritonites tuberculeuses. Thèse de médecine, Lille.
Describes the earliest experiments with artificial pneumoperitoneum by Mosetig-Moorhof, Duran and Nolen and Folet, which were not published formally. See Jean-Jacques Peumery, "1993: Le centenaire du penumopéritoine a…
GMN 8482 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10659
1897 TUFFIER, Théodore (1857 – 1929)
Chirurgie du poumon en particulier dans les cavernes tuberculeuses et la gangrène pulmonaire.
Describes (p. 31) first cure of tuberculosis by removal of lung apex.
GMN 3228 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3841
1906 MACEWEN, Sir William (1848 – 1924)
On some points in the surgery of the lung.
Removal of left lung for tuberculosis, April 24, 1895. The patient was alive in 1940; see Bowman, Life and teaching of Sir William Macewen (London, 1942), p. 344.
GMN 3229 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3850
1908 BRAUER, Ludolph (1865 – 1951)
Indications du traitement chirurgical de la tuberculose pulmonaire.
First radical thoracoplasty.
GMN 3231 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3852
1911 WILMS, Carl Max Wilhelm (1867 – 1918)
Eine neue Methode zur Verengung des Thorax bei Lungentuberkulose.
Wilms’s operation.
GMN 3232 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3853
1912 GHON, Anton (1866 – 1936)
Der primäre Lungenherd bei der Tuberkulose der Kinder.
Ghon described the anatomical distribution and development of the lesions in pulmonary tuberculosis among children – “Ghon’s primary focus”. His book was translated into English in 1916. See also No. 3224.
GMN 3233 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3854
1913 SAUERBRUCH, Ernst Ferdinand (1875 – 1951)
Die Beeinflüssung von Lungenerkrankungen durch künstliche Lähmung des Zwerchfells (Phrenikotomie).
Phrenicotomy in the treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis.
GMN 3234 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3855
1916 JACOBAEUS, Hans Christian (1879 – 1937)
Endopleurale Operationen unter der Leitung des Thorakoskops.
Jacobaeus introduced adhesion-section with the cautery, to secure collapse in artificial pneumothorax.
GMN 3235 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3856
1921 WESTERGREN, Alf Vilhelm Albertsson (1891 – 1968)
Studies of the suspension stability of the blood in pulmonary tuberculosis.
Westergren’s method of measuring the erythrocyte sedimentation rate.
GMN 3085 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3752
1933 VAJDA, Ludwig
Ob das Pneumoperitoneum in der Kollapstherapie der beiderseitigen Lungentuberkulose angewandt werden kann?
Introduction of artificial pneumoperitoneum for the treatment of bilateral pulmonary tuberculosis.
GMN 3236 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3857
1934 BANYAI, Andrew Ladislaus (1893 – )
Therapeutic pneumoperitoneum. A review of 100 cases.
Banyai combined artificial pneumoperitoneum with phrenic nerve paralysis.
GMN 3237 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3858
1935 FREEDLANDER, Samuel Oscar (1893 – 1971)
Lobectomy in pulmonary tuberculosis. Report of a case.
The modern era in lung resection for tuberculosis begins with the work of Freedlander. He performed the first planned lobectomy for pulmonary tuberculosis.
GMN 3238 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3859
1936 FANCONI, Guido (1892 – 1979); ET AL
Das Coeliakiesyndrom bei angeborener zysticher Pankreasfibromatose und Bronchiektasien.
Cystic fibrosis (mucoviscidosis) described. With E. Uehlinger and C. Knauer.
GMN 3659.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4793
1939 KAYNE, George Gregory (1901 – 1945); O’SHAUGHNESSY, Laurence Frederick (1900 – 1940); PAGEL, Walter Traugott Ulrich (1898 – 1983)
Pulmonary tuberculosis. Pathology, diagnosis, management and prevention.
Third edition, 1953, by W. Pagel, F. A. H. Simmonds, and N. Macdonald.
GMN 3240 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3861
1946 LEHMANN, Jörgen (1898 – 1989)
Para-aminosalicylic acid in the treatment of tuberculosis.
p-Aminosalicylic acid used in pulmonary tuberculosis. See also his earlier paper in Svenska LäkT., 1946, 43, 2029-40.
GMN 3241 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3863
1982 LAENNEC, René Théophile Hyacinthe (1781 – 1826); GRMEK, Mirko Dražen (1924 – 2000); BOULLE, Lydie; LUPOVICI, Catherine; SAMION-CONTET, Janine
Laennec: Catalogue des manuscrits scientifiques
Documents manuscripts by Laennec preserved in the Archives de l'Académie des Sciences, and Musée Laennec de la Bibliothèque Universitaire de Nantes, Section médecine-pharmacie.
GMN 11055 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13251
1998 DERICKSON, Alan (1948 – )
Black lung: Anatomy of a public health disaster.
GMN 13294 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15560
