1614 PLATER, Felix [PLATTER] (1536 – 1614)

Observationum in hominis affectibus plerisque, corpori & animo, functionum laesione, dolore, aliave molestia & vitio incommodantibus, libri tres.

First known report of a case of death from hypertrophy of the thymus, in an infant, is reported on p. 172; it is reproduced on p. 239 of J. Ruhräh’s Pediatrics of the past, New York, 1925. Platter first described flex…

GMN 3789 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4706

1831 DUPUYTREN, Guillaume, Le Baron (1777 – 1835)

De la rétraction des doigts par suite d’une affection de l’aponévrose palmaire, opération chirurgicale qui convient dans ce cas.

Dupuytren devised an operation for the treatment of contracture of the palmar fascia (“Dupuytren’s contracture”). Reprinted, with translation, in Med. Classics, 1939, 4, 127-50. The condition was first mentioned by Pl…

GMN 4317 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5532

1963 HUESTON, John (1926 – 1993)

Recurrent Dupuytren's contracture.

Hueston described Dupuytren's diathesis, including early onset, bilateral involvement, postive family history, and presence of ectopic lesions. He noted that patents presenting Dupuytren's diathesis experience more se…

GMN 14103 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16414

1972 STACK, H. Graham

The palmar fascia.

"There have been many descriptions of the palmar fascia by anatomists and in papers dealing with the surgical treatment of Dupuytren's contracture, but what seems to be lacking is an overall view of the problem, based…

GMN 7433 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9605