1774 ESPER, Johann Friedrich (1732 – 1781)

Ausfürliche Nachricht von neuentdeckten Zoolithen, unbekannter vierfüsiger Thiere…

Esper was the first to record the finding, in Gailenreuth Cave, of human bones alongside the remains of unknown and probably extinct animals. The implications of this dramatic observation published in a color plate bo…

GMN 203.7 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3834

1825 GRANVILLE, Augustus Bozzi (1783 – 1872)

An essay on Egyptian mummies; with observations on the art of embalming among the ancient Egyptians.

Granville was the first to perform a dissection of an Egyptian mummy. He reported histological observations of samples from a twenty-seventh dynasty Egyptian mummy that he dissected, and he illustrated dissected views…

GMN 7702 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9874

1839 MORTON, Samuel George (1799 – 1851)

Crania Americana; or, A comparative view of the skulls of various aboriginal nations of North and South America. To which is prefixed an essay on the varieties of the human species.

In his day Morton was the most eminent craniologist in the United States. He had a collection of nearly 1,000 skulls. In this work, which described both modern and fossil skulls, Morton described fractures and anthrop…

GMN 201 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3545

1867 BROCA, Pierre Paul (1824 – 1880)

Cas singulier de trépanation chez le Incas.

Broca attributed a defect in an ancient Peruvian skull to antemortem trepanation; prior to this paleopathologists and paleoanthropologists were unaware that the Incas practiced trepanation.

GMN 7704 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9876

1874 PRUNIÈRES, Pierre Marie Barthélémy (1828 – 1893)

Sur les crânes artificiellement perforés à l'époque des dolmens.

Prunières separated postmortem trepanations and rondelles from antemortem operations, and also described tuberculous lesions in Neolithic bones.

GMN 7705 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9877

1876 JONES, Joseph (1833 – 1896)

Explorations of the aboriginal remains of Tennessee.

The first major discussion of human skeletal pathology in American archeological samples. Jones introduced histopathological techniques in analysis of paleopathological material. Digital facsimile from Google Books at…

GMN 14060 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16370

1878 LUCAS-CHAMPIONNIÈRE, Just-Marie-Marcellin (1843 – 1913)

Etude historique et clinique sur la trépanation du crâne; la trépanation guidée par les localisations cérébrales.

Lucas-Chamionnière asserted that the operation was performed by ancient surgeons for both magical and therepeutic reasons, and noted that ancient surgeons prevented lethal hemorrhage from the sagittal sinus by avoidin…

GMN 7706 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9878

1879 CZERMAK, Johann Nepomuk (1828 – 1873)

Gesammelte Schriften. 2 vols.

In "Beschreibung und mikroskopische Untersuchungen von Mumien", published in I, 114-156, Czermak used histology to identify arterioschlerosis in an Egyptian mummy. Digital facsimile of this specific paper from ECHO at…

GMN 7703 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9875

1881 LE BARON, Jules Prosper (1855 – 1902)

Lésions osseuses de l'homme préhistorique en France et en Algérie.

Le Baron attempted diagnosis and predicted etiology on thousands of bones collected at the Musée Broca, the Musée Dupuytren, and the Musée d'Histoire Naturelle.. Digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this link.

GMN 7707 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9879

1886 WHITNEY, William Fiske (1850 – 1921)

Notes on the anomalies, injuries and diseases of the bones of the native races of North America.

The first American contribution to paleopathology. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

GMN 7708 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9880

1910 SMITH, Sir Grafton Elliot (1871 – 1937); RUFFER, Sir Marc Armand (1859 – 1917)

Pott’sche Krankheit an einer ägyptischen Mumie.

The fact that tuberculosis was present among the ancient Egyptians was proved when Elliot Smith and Ruffer described a genuine case of Pott’s disease in a mummy of 1000 B.C.E.

GMN 2320 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3013

1921 RUFFER, Sir Marc Armand (1859 – 1917)

Studies in the palaeopathology of Egypt. Edited by Roy Lee Moodie.

A collection of papers published previously in various journals. Ruffer spent many years in Egypt in the study of palaeopathology. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

GMN 2312.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2975

1923 MOODIE, Roy Lee (1880 – 1934)

Paleopathology; an introduction to the study of ancient evidences of disease.

Surveys the ancient evidence of disease in plants, invertebrates and vertebrates, including man.

GMN 2312.3 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2977

1923 MOODIE, Roy Lee (1880 – 1934)

The antiquity of disease.

An account intended for general audiences, as compared to Moodie's Palaeopathology published the same year. Digital facsimile of The Antiquity of Disease from the Internet Archive at this link.

GMN 7709 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9881

1929 WILLIAMS, Herbert Upham (1866 – 1938)

Human paleopathology, with some original observations on symmetrical osteoporosis of the skull.

GMN 2312.4 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2979

1930 PALES, Léon (1905 – 1988)

Paleopathologie et pathologie comparative.

Pales described a broad range of diseases and noted relationships between disease, evolution and species extinction.

GMN 7710 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9882

1944 JONCKHEERE, Frans (1903 – 1956)

Une maladie Égyptienne: l'hématurie parasitaire.

GMN 8470 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10647

1950 UNDERWOOD, Edgar Ashworth (1899 – 1980)

Catalogue of an exhibition illustrating prehistoric man in health and sickness. With an introduction by E. Ashworth Underwood.

GMN 13912 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16206

1964 WELLS, Calvin Percival Bampfylde (1908 – 1978)

Bones, bodies, and disease. Evidence of disease and abnormality in early man.

GMN 7712 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9884

1966 JARCHO, Saul Wallenstein (1906 – 2000)

Human palaeopathology. Edited by S. Jarcho.

Includes material on the history of paleopathology in the United States.

GMN 2312.5 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2982

1966 SAHLY, Ali

Les main mutilées dans l'art prehistorique.

A comprehensive study by a physician of the numerous tracings and impressions of mutilated hands that appear in prehistoric painted caves or parietal art.

GMN 11090 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13286

1967 BROTHWELL, Donald Reginald (1933 – 2016); SANDISON, Andrew Tawse (1923 – 1982)

Diseases in antiquity: a survey of the diseases, injuries and surgery of early populations.

GMN 2312.6 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2985

1976 STEINBOCK, Robert Ted (1952 – )

Paleopathological diagnosis and interpretation: bone diseases in ancient human populations.

The first text providing diagnostic criteria for evaluating ancient skeletal remains.

GMN 2312.7 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2987

1980 COCKBURN, Aidan (1912 – 1981); COCKBURN, Eve

Mummies, disease, and ancient cultures.

GMN 2312.8 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2990

1983 HART, Gerald David (1927 – )

Disease in ancient man: A report of an international symposium on disease in ancient man. Edited by Gerald D. Hart.

GMN 11091 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13287

1983 GRMEK, Mirko Dražen (1924 – 2000)

Les maladies à l'aube de la civilisation occidentale. Recherches sur la réalité pathologique dans le monde grec préhistorique, archaïque et classique.

GMN 12308 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14530

1985 ORTNER, Donald J. (1938 – 2012); PUTSCHAR, Walter J. G. (1904 – 1987)

Identification of pathological conditions in human skeletal remains.

Second edition by Ortner as sole author (2003).

GMN 7713 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9885

1995 ROBERTS, Charlotte A. (1957 – ); MANCHESTER, Keith

The archaeology of disease.

GMN 7714 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9886

1998 AUFDERHEIDE, Arthur C. (1922 – 2013); RODRÍGUEZ-MARTÍN, Conrado; LANGSJOEN, Odin Monro (1923 – 2008)

The Cambridge encyclopedia of human paleopathology by Arthur C. Auderheide and Conrado Rodríguez-Martín, including a dental chapter by Odin Langsjoen.

Includes a significant historical introduction.

GMN 7701 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9873

2003 AUFDERHEIDE, Arthur C. (1922 – 2013)

The scientific study of mummies.

GMN 12132 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14341

2009 SILVA VEIGA, Paula Alexandra da

Health and medicine in ancient Egypt. Magic and science (British Archaeological Reports [BAR] International Series 1967).

Detailed study of documentation (papyri, ostraca and mummies) followed by a list of pathologies by types and some considerations on medicines and their materia medica.

GMN 10001 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12190

2012 BUIKSTRA, Jane Ellen (1945 – ); ROBERTS, Charlotte A. (1957 – )

The global history of paleopathology: Pioneers and prospects. Edited by Jane Buikstra & Charlotte Roberts.

GMN 7711 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9883

2015 PICCIOLI, Andrea; GAZZANIGA, Valentina; CATALANO, Paola

Bones: Orthopaedic pathologies in Roman Imperial age.

GMN 9429 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11612