1473 METLINGER, Bartholomäus ( – 1491)
Regiment der jungen Kinder.
This work has very little originality, being mainly derived from the Arabic physicians of 500 years before, but is noteworthy as being the first book on pediatrics printed in German. It includes what is probably the f…
GMN 6316 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8074
1557 LYCOSTHENES, Conrad Wolffhart (Lykosthenes, Konrad) (1518 – 1561)
Prodigiorum ac ostentorum chronicon.
This encyclopedic chronology of portentious events in human history includes many monstrous births, both human and animal. Actual cases are uncritically mingled with mythical creatures. German translation, 1557. Engli…
GMN 534.5 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1797
1573 PARÉ, Ambroise (1510 – 1590)
Deux livres de chirurgie. I. De la generation de l’homme… II. Des monstres tant terrestres que marins avec leurs portraits.
Many reports of real malformations are intermixed with mythical accounts. English translations, 1634, and later. Recent English translation, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1982. Digital facsimile of the 1573 ed…
GMN 534.51 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1798
1609 SCHENCK VON GRAFENBERG, Johann Georg (1560 – 1620)
Monstrorum historia memorabilis, monstrosa humanorum partuum miracula, stupendis conformationum formulis ab utero materno enata, viuis exemplis, observationibus, & picturis, referens. Accessit analogicum argumentum de monstris brutis, supplementi loco ad observationes medicas Schenckianas edita.
Schenck described nearly 100 human and animal examples, illustrated with engravings by Theodor de Bry (1528-98). Most of the examples are from the 16th century. Not all the cases are teratological in the strictest sen…
GMN 7819 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9991
1616 LICETI, Fortunio (1577 – 1657)
De monstrorum caussis, natura, & differentiis libri duo.
One of the earliest classifications of deformities, Liceti’s work was still under review in works on malformation in the 19th century. Includes both real and imaginary cases. The first of many illustrated editions app…
GMN 534.52 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1799
1642 ALDROVANDI, Ulisse [ALDROVANDUS] (1522 – 1605); AMBROSINI, Bartolomeo (1588 – 1657)
Monstrorum historia cum Paralipomenis historiae omnium animalium Bartholomaeus Ambrosinus… volumen composuit.
Aldrovandi assembled a large collection of specimens and notes on monsters which were published posthumously by Ambrosini, who added a number of personally observed cases. Those included the first detailed description…
GMN 534.53 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1802
1695 RIVILLA BONET Y PUEYO, José de; PERALTA Y BARNUEVO, Pedro de (1663 – 1743)
Desvios de la naturaleza: O Tratado de el origen de los monstros. A que va anadido vn compendio de curaciones chyrurgicas en monstruosos accidentes.
On conjoined twins, including the record of autopsy of conjoined twins in Lima in 1694. Pedro de Peralta Barnuevo edited work for publication at the request of the Viceroy, Melchor Fernandez Portocarrero. Digital facs…
GMN 13151 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15410
1768 HALLER, Albrecht von (1708 – 1777)
Operum anatomici argumenti minorum tomus tertius, De Monstris.
Reprints and updates Haller’s earlier essays on various malformations. This work marks the beginning of scientific teratology, placing it on a foundation of sound anatomical description.
GMN 534.54 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1804
1791 SOEMMERRING, Samuel Thomas von (1755 – 1830)
Abbildungen und Beschreibungen einiger Missgeburten.
Most of the plates demonstrate a progressive series of specimens with duplication anomalies of the face and head, from midfacial cleft to complete dicephalus. This arrangement of malformations into a continuous series…
GMN 534.55 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1807
1793 RIVIERA, Tarsizio Folesani (1759 – 1801)
Storia di un monocolo con alcune riflessioni.
A rather elegantly produced and illustrated medical monograph on a cyclops, with plates printed in sepia. Engraved headpieces allude to monsters from classical mythology Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 11576 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13775
1812 –1816 MECKEL, Johann Friedrich (1781 – 1833)
Handbuch der pathologischen Anatomie. 2 vols.
Meckel classified malformations systematically, on the basis of altered developmental mechanisms, basing his work on embryology. See No. 2284.
GMN 534.56 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1809
1817 –1826 MECKEL, Johann Friedrich (1781 – 1833)
Tabulae anatomico-pathologicae. 4 pts.
Meckel’s work on embryology brought a better understanding of congenital malformations, which had previously been attributed by many to supernatural influence. This work illustrates a number of anomalies and other dis…
GMN 2284 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2902
1818 –1822 GEOFFROY SAINT-HILAIRE, Étienne (1772 – 1844)
Philosophie anatomique. Tome Premier. Des organes respiratoires sou le rapport de la détermination et de l'identité de leur pièces osseuses. Avec figures de 116 nouvelles preparations d'anatomie. [Tome Deuxième]. Des monstruosités humaines, ouvrage contenant une classification des monstres; la description et la comparaison des principaux genres; une histoire raisonnée des phénomènes de la monstruosité et des faits primitifs qui la produisent; des vues nouvelles touchant la nutrition du foetus et d'autres circonstrances de son développement....Avec figures des détails anatomiques. 2 vols.
The elder Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire is credited with coining the word teratology, and was the first seriously to attempt the experimental production of anomalies, by manipulating chick eggs. See T. Cahn, La vie et l'oeuv…
GMN 534.57 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1811
1820 FEILER, Johann Nepomuk (1768 – 1822)
Ueber angeborne menschliche Missbildungen im Allgemeinen und Hermaphroditen insbesondere. Ein Beitrag zur Physiologie, pathologischen Anatomie, und gerichtlichen Arzneiwissenschaft.
Includes an account of the Prussian intersex man, Karl Dürrge (also known as Maria Dorothea Derrier: 1780–1835). With two hand-colored plates of hermaphroditic genitalia. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 13385 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15656
1831 –1849 GURLT, Ernst Friedrich (1794 – 1882)
Lehrbuch der pathologischen Anatomie der Haus-Saugethiere. 3 vols.
The most comprehensive treatise on malformations of domesticated animals, as well as an important contribution to general teratology. The superb atlas illustrates many rare animal terata. See also his Uber thierische …
GMN 534.59 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1817
1832 –1837 GEOFFROY SAINT-HILAIRE, Isidore (1805 – 1861)
Histoire générale et particulière des anomalies de l’organisation chez l’homme et les animaux. 3 vols. and atlas.
Isidore, the son of Étienne (See No. 534.57) organized all known human and animal malformations taxonomically. Many principles governing abnormal development were enunciated for the first time in this work. It also in…
GMN 534.58 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1815
1841 OTTO, Adolph Wilhelm (1786 – 1845)
Monstrorum sexcentorum descriptio anatomica.
Brief but accurate descriptions of 600 human and animal specimens, with 30 outstanding plates.
GMN 534.6 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1820
1842 AMMON, Friedrich August von (1799 – 1861)
Die angeborenen chirurgischen Krankheiten des Menschen in Abbildungen dargestellt und durch erläuternden Text erklärt. Mit fünfhundert vierundsiebzig Figuren auf vierunddreissig Kupfertafeln in Folio. 2 vols.
A treatise on malformations of particular interest to surgeons, including facial clefts, urogenital anomalies, anorectal atresias, parasitic twins, and limb duplications. Digital facsimile of the text, without the vol…
GMN 14132 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16443
1849 VROLIK, Willem (1801 – 1863)
Tabulae ad illustrandam embryogenes in hominis et mammalium tam naturalem quam abnormem.
The 100 plates of this volume contain some of the most accurate and beautiful depictions of human and animal malformations ever published. Text in Dutch and Latin. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 534.61 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1822
1860 PANUM, Peter Ludvig (1820 – 1885)
Untersuchungen über die Entstehung der Missbildungen Zunächst in den Eiem der Vögel.
The first monograph on experimental teratology.
GMN 534.62 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1825
1860 BODENHAMER, William (1808 – 1905)
A practical treatise on the aetiology, pathology, and treatment of the congenital malformations of the rectum and anus.
The first systematic treatise on the subject, and a landmark in pediatric surgery. Includes an early account of colostomy and one of the earliest histories of that procedure. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at …
GMN 3459.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8221
1861 FÖRSTER, August (1822 – 1865)
Die Missbildungen des Menschen, systematisch dargestellt. 2 vols.
An encyclopedia of cases from the literature and from Forster’s personal experience. It contains an extremely useful bibliography of teratology, which served as the basis for all subsequent bibliographies of the subject.
GMN 534.63 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1828
1865 FISHER, George Jackson (1825 – 1893)
Diploteratology.
Includes a valuable history of teratology with a detailed bibliography. Fisher assembled one of the largest of all libraries on teratology. Digital facsimile from U.S. National Library of Medicine at this link.
GMN 534.64 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/106
1865 VROLIK, Willem (1801 – 1863)
Catalogue de la superbe bibliothèque d'ethnographie, de zoologie, d'anatomie comparée, etc....
The auction catalogue of Vrolik's library, sold two years after his death, organized by subject. Prefaced by an essay about Vrolik's life and work by J. van der Hoeven, and a chronological list of Vrolik's publication…
GMN 6938 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9103
1872 LOWNE, Benjamin Thompson (1839 – 1925)
Descriptive catalogue of the teratological series in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 7831 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10003
1873 –1892 SANGALLI, Giacomo Francesco (1821 – 1897)
La scienza e la pratica della anatomia patologica.
Divided into six parts, as follows: Book I: Delle alterazioni di prima formazione (on teratology) Book II: Delle ipertrofie Book III: Delle atrofie Book IV: Dell’infiammazione e della mortificazione Book V: Dei tumori…
GMN 7473 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9645
1877 DARESTE DE LA CHAVANNE, Gabriel-Madeleine-Camille (Camille Darest) (1822 – 1899)
Récherches sur la production artificielle des monstruosités, ou essais de teratologénie expérimentale.
Dareste devoted his career to experimental teratology, and in this work established the field as a science. The second edition (1891) was greatly revised and enlarged. Contains a valuable history of experimental terat…
GMN 534.65 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/110
1880 –1882 AHLFELD, Johann Friedrich (1843 – 1929)
Die Missbildungen des Menschen. Eine systematische Darstellung der beim Menschen angeboren vorkommenden Missbildungen und erklärung ihrer Entstehungsweise. 2 vols. and atlas.
Reproduces plates of important specimens from otherwise inaccessible sources. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 534.66 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/117
1880 MARTIN, Ernest (1833 – 1897)
Histoire des monstres, depuis l'antiquité jusqu'a nos jours.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 7874 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10046
1880 –1882 GUÉRIN, Jules
Recherches sur les difformités congénitales chez les monstres, le foetus et l'enfant.
Published as Vol. 1 of Oeuvres de Docteur Jules Guerin, of which this work was all published. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 11153 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13350
1881 –1894 TARUFFI, Cesare (1821 – 1902)
Storia della teratologia. 8 vols. (Tomo 1-3, 5-7 called pt. 1; t. 4 and 8 called pt. 2, Note ed osservazioni.)
The most extensive history and bibliography of teratology ever published, even though the section on malformations of single organs and parts was never completed. Contains excerpts and detailed abstracts of innumerabl…
GMN 534.67 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/122
1891 –1893 HIRST, Barton Cooke (1861 – 1935); PIERSOL, George Arthur (1856 – 1924)
Human monstrosities. 4 vols.
The first large work on the subject illustrated primarily by photographs of specimens, and one of the last to use to the term "monster" as a medical descriptor. Digital facsimile of the 4 volumes from the Internet Arc…
GMN 534.68 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/126
1896 GOULD, George Milbry (1848 – 1922); PYLE, Walter Lytle (1871 – 1921)
Anomalies and curiosities of medicine: Being an encyclopedic collection of rare and extraordinary cases, and of the most striking instances of abnormality in all branches of medicine and surgery, derived form an exhaustive research of medical literature from its origin to the present day, abstracted, classified, annotated, and indexed.
Digital facsimile of the 1900 edition from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 10793 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12989
1900 –1908 MALL, Franklin Paine (1862 – 1917)
Contributions to the study of the pathology of early human embryos. 3 pts. : (1). A contribution to the study of the pathology of early human embryos. Welch Festschrift, Johns Hopkins Hospital Reports, IX (1900). (2). Second contribution to the study of the pathology of early human embryos. Contributions to medical research. Dedicated to Victor C. Vaughan. Ann Arbor (1903). (3). A study of the causes underlying the origin of human monsters. Third contribution to the study of the pathology of human embryos. Reprinted from Journal of morphology, 29, No. 1 (1908).
Part 3, with 365 pages and illustrations was the main work of this series. Mall began the introduction to the third part as follows: "The present communication is the outcome of a study of 163 pathological human embry…
GMN 516 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1572
1902 –1904 BALLANTYNE, John William (1861 – 1923)
Manual of antenatal pathology and hygiene. Volume 1, The foetus. Volume 2, The embryo.
Ballantyne was a pioneer advocate of antenatal care. Volume 2, The Embryo, is the most complete history of teratology in English, and among the best in any language. American edition, New York, 1905. Digital facsimile…
GMN 534.69 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7601
1906 –1960 SCHWALBE, Ernst (1871 – 1920); GRUBER, Georg Benno (1884 – 1977)
Die Morphologie der Missbildungen des Menschen und der Thiere. Ein Lehrbuch für morphologen, physiologen, praktische Ärzte und Studierende. 3 vols. in 6 parts, plus supplements.
The first volume is an important contribution to general teratology, including a good history of the topic, and enunciating Schwalbe’s “teratogenic termination period”, the guiding principle for estimating the timing …
GMN 534.7 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/138
1922 HOLLANDER, Eugen (1867 – 1932)
Wunder, Wundgeburt und Wundergestalt in Einblattdrucken des 15-18. Jahrhunderts.
History of teratology in art from 15th to 18th centuries.
GMN 6609.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8583
1927 SONDEREGGER, Albert
Missgeburten und Wundergestalten in Einblattdrucken und Handzeichnungen des 16. Jahrhunderts.
GMN 6298 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8036
1931 THOMPSON, Charles John Samuel (1862 – 1943)
The mystery and lore of monsters. With account of some giants, dwarfs and prodigies.
Digital facsimile of the New York 1931 issue from the Hathi Trust at this link.
GMN 7880 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10052
1933 HALE, Fred
Pigs born without eyeballs.
Hale demonstrated that pregnant pigs fed a diet deficient in vitamin A gave birth to piglets with a variety of malformations, predominantly a lack of eyes. See also: Hale, F., 'The relation of vitamin A to anophthalmo…
GMN 7829 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10001
1940 WARKANY, Josef (1902 – 1992); NELSON, R. C.
Appearance of skeletal abnormalities in the offspring of rats on a deficient diet.
Warkany was the first to prove that congenital developmental disorders can be induced by exogenous factors in mammals. His studies led to the definition of both genetic and environmentally induced structural defects. …
GMN 7830 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10002
1963 –1964 GRUBER, Georg Benno (1884 – 1977)
Studien zur Historik der Teratologie.
GMN 534.9 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/147
1971 WARKANY, Josef (1902 – 1992)
Congenital malformations. Notes and comments.
Warkany's contributions span all aspects of teratology, both clinical and experimental. This has been called his magnum opus. It includes 124 chapters, each with detailed bibliography, on a total of 1271 pages.
GMN 534.71 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/142
1977 PERSAUD, T. Vidhya N.
Problems of birth defects from Hippocrates to thalidomide and after. Edited by T.V.N. Persaud.
An anthology of classic papers edited with introductions by Persaud.
GMN 7828 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10000
2003 KALTER, Harold (1924 – 2019)
Teratology in the twentieth century: Congenital malformations in humans and how their environmental causes were established.
Book form publication with extensive bibliography and index, reprinted from Neurotoxicology and Teratology, 25 (2003) 132-282.
GMN 7873 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10045
2003 QUIGLEY, Christine (1963 – )
Conjoined twins: An historical, biological and ethical issues encyclopedia.
GMN 10709 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12903
2005 BATES, A. W. H.
Emblematic monsters: Unnatural conceptions and deformed births in early modern Europe.
GMN 10232 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12422
2009 VROLIK, Willem (1801 – 1863); KNEPPER, Simon; KORTENRAY, Johan; MOORMAN, Anton; ROOY, Laurens de; BOGAARD, Hans van den (1947 – )
Forces of form. Laurens de Rooy and Hans van den Bogaard (photographs). Compliled and edited by Simon Knepper, Johan Kortenray, Antoon Moorman.
A visually spectacular panorama of extraordinary color photographs, with significant historical and interpretive text, of the Vrolik Museum at the University of Amsterdam, collected by Gerard Vrolik and his son Willem…
GMN 7655 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9827
