1582 RAUWOLF, Leonhard (1535 – 1596)
Aigentlich Beschreibung der Raiss, so er vor diser Zeit gegen Auffgang inn die Morgenländer, fürnemlich Syriam, Iudaeam, Arabiam, Mesopotamiam, Babyloniam, Assyriam, Armeniam etc....
Rauwolf provided the first modern descriptions of the flora of the area east of the Levantine coast. He was also the first to describe the riparian flora of the Euphrates, and the first European to publish an account …
GMN 7327 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9498
1658 WEPFER, Johann Jacob (1620 – 1695)
Observationes anatomicae, ex cadaveribus eorum, quos sustulit apoplexia.
Wepfer showed apoplexy to be a result of hemorrhage into the brain. He described four cases, with clinical and post mortem findings. He preceded Willis (No. 1378) in describing the “circle of Willis”. Partial English …
GMN 2703 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/359
1876 KRIES, Nathanael von
Ueber den Druck in den Blutcapillaren der menschlichen Haut.
Kries attempted to measure blood pressure in the capillaries by using a skin blanching method.
GMN 781 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1767
1880 WALDENBURG, Louis (1837 – 1881)
Die Messung des Pulses und des Blutdrucks am Menschen.
Probably the first book published on the messurement blood pressure in mankind. Mostly concerned with normal physiologic conditions, with a small section on fluctuations in illness. Digital facsimile from Google Books…
GMN 11721 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13922
1887 HUCHARD, Henri (1844 – 1910)
L’artério-sclérose subaiguë dans ses rapports avec les spasmes vasculaires et son traitement par la trinitrine (nitroglycérine).
“Huchard’s disease” – continued hypertension causing arteriosclerosis. Huchard did much to develop the knowledge concerning arteriosclerosis and summarized his work in a classic monograph published in 1909.
GMN 2908 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4869
1904 JANEWAY, Theodore Caldwell (1872 – 1917)
The clinical study of blood-pressure. A guide to the use of the sphygmomanometer in medical, surgical and obstetrical practice, with a summary of the experimental and clinical facts relating to the blood-pressure in health and disease.
The earliest American monograph on hypertension and its detection. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
GMN 11572 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13771
1927 MOSCHCOWITZ, Eli (1879 – 1964)
Hypertension of the pulmonary circulation.
GMN 2715 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4438
1929 KEITH, Norman Macdonnell (1885 – 1976); WAGENER, Henry Patrick (1890 – 1961); ET AL
Some different types of essential hypertension; their course and prognosis.
The Keith-Wagener-Barker classification of hypertension. With N. W. Barker.
GMN 2716 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4440
1932 HINES, Edgar Alphonso Jr. (1905 – 1978); BROWN, George Elgie (1885 – 1935)
A standard stimulus for measuring vasomotor reactions: its application in the study of hypertension.
Cold-pressor test.
GMN 2717 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4441
1935 –1936 PEET, Max Minor (1885 – 1949)
The surgical treatment of hypertension.
Peet operation for hypertension. Preliminary communication in Univ. Hosp. Bull. (Ann Arbor), 1935, 1,17-18.
GMN 3036 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3428
1936 BARKER, Marion Herbert (1899 – 1947)
The blood cyanates in the treatment of hypertension.
Barker made thiocyanate treatment a practical proposition in hypertension.
GMN 2720 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4447
1939 KEITH, Norman Macdonnell (1885 – 1976); WAGENER, Henry Patrick (1890 – 1961)
Diffuse arteriolar disease with hypertension and the associated retinal lesions.
The Keith–Wagener classification of fundal lesions. They classified essential hypertension into four groups.
GMN 2723 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4454
1940 SMITHWICK, Reginald Hammerick (1899 – 1987)
A technique for splanchnic resection for hypertension; preliminary report.
Smithwick operation for hypertension.
GMN 3041 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3469
1956 RUSKIN, Arthur
Classics in arterial hypertension.
GMN 3160.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4097
1996 BOOLELL, Mau; OSTERLOH, Ian; ET AL
Sildenafil: an orally active type 5 cyclic GMP-specific phosphodiesterase inhibitor for the treatment of penile erectile dysfunction.
Osterloh and team working at Pfizer's Sandwich, Kent research facility in England, demonstrated that sildenafil citrate (Viagra) initally studied for use in hypertension and angina pectoris, is effective in the treatm…
GMN 8872 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11050
1997 POSTEL-VINAY, Nicholas
A century of arterial hypertension: 1896-1996. Edited by Nicholas Postel-Vinay in collaboration with the International Society of Hypertension. Translated by Richard Edelstein and Christopher Coffin.
GMN 12367 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14591
1998 BLAUFOX, M. Donald; NAQVI, Nasir H.
Blood pressure measurement: An illustrated history.
GMN 11591 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13790
2019 ZIMMERMANN, Michael B.; SIMMERMAN-KOGADEEVA, Maria; WEGMANN, Rebekka; ET AL
Mapping human microbiome drug metabolism by gut bacteria and their genes.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Zimmermann, Simmerman-Kogadeeva, Wegmann....The authors looked at 271 drugs and 68 different species from the main taxonomic microbiome groups. Of the 271 drugs, 176 un…
GMN 11482 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13681
