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
1698 FLOYER, Sir John (1649 – 1734)
A treatise of the asthma.
Floyer provided the first clear descriptions of cases of bronchial asthma. Floyer himself suffered from asthma for over 30 years. He recognized the influence of heredity in asthma. The above includes (p. 239) an impor…
GMN 3166 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4120
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
1746 WATSON, Sir William (1715 – 1787)
An account of what appeared on opening the body of an asthmatic person.
Probably the earliest comprehensive clinical and pathological account of emphysema.
GMN 3166.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4122
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
1808 BADHAM, Charles (1780 – 1845)
Observations on the inflammatory affections of the mucous membrane of the bronchiae.
Badham distinguished acute and chronic bronchitis from pneumonia and pleurisy, with which it had previously been confused. He gave the disease its present name. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 3168 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4129
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
1851 BROCKMANN, Carl Heinrich
Die metallurgischen Krankheiten des Oberharzes.
Brockmann's book on the pulmonary disease of miners, including black lung disease, was first book on occupational health published in Germany. Brockmann published a preliminary paper on the subject in 1845. Digital fa…
GMN 8942 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11121
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
1856 VIRCHOW, Rudolf Ludwig Karl (1821 – 1902)
Beiträge zur Lehre von den beim Menschen vorkommenden pflanzlichen Parasiten.
First description of pulmonary aspergillosis.
GMN 3169 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4134
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
1884 KRÖNLEIN, Rudolph Ulrich (1847 – 1910)
Ueber Lungenchirurgie.
Resection of portion of a lobe that was invaded by sarcoma of the rib.
GMN 3174.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4162
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
1889 KÜSTER, Ernst Georg Ferdinand von (1839 – 1930)
Ueber die Grundsätze der Behandlung von Eiterungen in starrwandigen Höhlen, mit besonderer Berücksichtigung des Empyems der Pleura.
First thoracotomy for empyema.
GMN 3177 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4173
1890 SCHEDE, Max (1844 – 1902)
Die Behandlung der Empyeme.
Schede introduced the method of extensive rib resection for the treatment of empyema.
GMN 3177.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4176
1893 FOWLER, George Ryerson (1848 – 1906)
A case of thoracoplasty for the removal of a large cicatricial fibrous growth from the interior of the chest, the result of an old empyema.
First thoracoplasty.
GMN 3179 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4188
1893 LOWSON, David (1850 – 1907)
A case of pneumonectomy.
Partial lobectomy in pulmonary tuberculosis.
GMN 3227 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5023
1894 DELORME, Edmond (1847 – 1929)
Nouveau traitement des empyèmes chroniques.
The procedure of decortication of the lung for treatment of chronic empyema was introduced by Delorme. For his later work on the subject, see Congr. franç. Chir., 1896, 10, 379.
GMN 3180 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4192
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 MARCET, William (1829 – 1900)
A contribution to the history of the respiration of man.
GMN 1573 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1310
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
1898 KILLIAN, Gustav (1860 – 1921)
Ueber directe Bronchoskopie.
Introduction of direct bronchoscopy.
GMN 3336 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4597
1904 HORTON-SMITH HARTLEY, Sir Percival (1867 – 1952); MULLINGS, William Thomas (1875 – 1949)
A descriptive catalogue of pathological specimens in the museum of the Hospital for Consumption and Diseases of the Chest, Brompton.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 7652 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9824
1904 RICKETTS, Benjamin Merrill (1858 – 1926)
The surgery of the heart and lungs. A history and résumé of surgical conditions found therein, and experimental and clinical research in man and lower animals with reference to pneumonotomy, pneumonectomy and bronchotomy, and cardiotomy and cardiorraphy.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
GMN 10738 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12933
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
1906 STRONG, Richard Pearson (1872 – 1948)
A study of some tropical ulcerations of skin with particular reference to their etiology.
Strong described organisms consistent with Histoplasma capsulatum before Darling, although his work was overshadowed by the latter.
GMN 5531.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6675
1906 DARLING, Samuel Taylor (1872 – 1925)
A protozoon general infection producing pseudotubercles in the lungs and focal necroses in the liver, spleen and lymphnodes.
Histoplasmosis (Histoplasma capsulatum), “Darling’s disease”.
GMN 5532 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6676
1907 NOWOTNY, Franz (1872 – 1925)
Bronchoskopie und bronchoskopische Behandlung von Bronchialasthma.
Introduction of therapeutic bronchoscopy, for treatment of asthma.
GMN 3186 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4211
1907 JACKSON, Chevalier (1865 – 1958)
Tracheo-bronchoscopy, esophagoscopy and gastroscopy.
First textbook on endoscopy.
GMN 3337 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4599
1908 BRAUER, Ludolph (1865 – 1951)
Indications du traitement chirurgical de la tuberculose pulmonaire.
First radical thoracoplasty.
GMN 3231 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3852
1908 TRENDELENBURG, Friedrich (1844 – 1924)
Ueber die operative Behandlung der Embolie der Lungenarterie.
Pulmonary embolectomy first attempted, “Trendelenburg’s operation” – first successfully performed by Kirschner (see No. 3016).
GMN 3012 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5386
1909 KÖRTE, Werner (1853 – 1937)
Ueber Lungenresektion wegen bronchiektatischer Cavernen.
Körte was the first successfully to remove bronchiectatic lobes.
GMN 3187 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4213
1910 JACOBAEUS, Hans Christian (1879 – 1937)
Ueber die Möglichkeit die Zystoscopie bei Untersuchungen seröser Höhlungen anzuwenden.
Jacobaeus adapted the cystoscope for the study of the interior of the body; this led to the introduction of the thoracoscope.
GMN 3189 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4218
1910 TUFFIER, Théodore (1857 – 1929)
Gangrène pulmonaire ouverte dans les bronches et traitée par décollement pleuro-pariétal, et greffe d’une masse lipomateuse entre la plèvre décollée et les espaces intercostaux.
Tuffier’s method of extrapleural pneumolysis.
GMN 3191 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4227
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
