1664 LA MARTINIÈRE, Pierre Martin de (1634 – 1690)
Traité de la maladie vénérienne, de ses causes et des accidens provenans du mercure, ou vif-argent.
First to describe gonococcal arthritis.
GMN 4485.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/344
1800 LANDRÉ-BEAUVAIS, Augustin Jacob (1772 – 1840)
Doit-on admettre une nouvelle espèce de goutte sous la dénomination de goutte asthénique primitive? an VIII
Landré-Beauvais gave the first reasonably accurate description of rheumatoid arthritis.
GMN 4490 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8879
1856 ARETAEUS OF CAPPADOCIA, (Ἀρεταῖος Καππάδοκος) (80 – 140); ADAMS, Francis (1796 – 1861)
Тα ∑ωζομενα. The extant works of Aretaeus, the Cappadocian. Edited and translated by Francis Adams.
Aretaeus left many fine descriptions of disease; in fact Garrison ranks him second only to Hippocrates in this respect. In the printed editions of this bibliography, before the present online version, the Adams editio…
GMN 22 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8934
1857 ADAMS, Robert (1791 – 1875)
A treatise on rheumatic gout, or chronic rheumatic arthritis, of all the joints.
An excellent description of chronic rheumatic arthritis. Adams also published Illustrations of the effects of rheumatic gout, London, 1857.
GMN 4496 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/94
1859 GARROD, Sir Alfred Baring (1819 – 1907)
The nature and treatment of gout and rheumatic gout.
Garrod was the leading authority of his time on gout, which he separated from other forms of arthritis by his discovery of excess of uric acid in the blood of gouty sufferers. He gave to rheumatoid arthritis its prese…
GMN 4497 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/95
1864 CORNIL, André Victor (1837 – 1908)
Mémoire sur les coincidences pathologiques du rhumatisme articulaire chronique.
First description of chronic arthritis in childhood.
GMN 4499 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8883
1893 HÖCK, Heinrich
Ein Beitrag zur Arthritis blennorrhoica.
Gonococci isolated from an arthritic joint.
GMN 4502.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/97
1910 PERTHES, Georg Clemens (1869 – 1927)
Ueber Arthritis deformans juvenilis.
See No. 4380.
GMN 4382 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5895
1916 REITER, Hans Conrad Julius (1881 – 1969)
Ueber eine bisher unerkannte Spirochäteninfektion (Spirochaetosis arthritica).
“Reiter’s syndrome”, a disease of males characterized by initial diarrhea, urethritis, conjunctivitis, and arthritis. Reiter was a German Nazi physician and war criminal who conducted medical experiments at Buchenwald…
GMN 6371 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8304
1924 FELTY, Augustus Roi (1895 – 1964)
Chronic arthritis in the adult, associated with splenomegaly and leucopenia.
“Felty syndrome”.
GMN 4506 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/351
1949 HENCH, Philip Showalter (1896 – 1965); KENDALL, Edward Calvin (1886 – 1972)
The effects of a hormone of the adrenal cortex (17-hydroxy-11-dehydrocorticosterone: compound E) and of pituitary adrenocorticotropic hormone on rheumatoid arthritis.
Introduction of cortisone and A.C.T.H. in treatment of rheumatoid arthritis. With C. H. Slocumb, and H. F. Polley. In 1950 Hench and Kendall shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Tadeusz Reichstein (No…
GMN 4508 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/354
1953 CAPLAN, Anthony
Certain unusual radiological appearances in the chest of coal-miners suffering from rheumatoid arthritis.
Caplan's syndrome, originally identified in coal miners with progressive massive fibrosis. It is a combination of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and pneumoconiosis that manifests as intrapulmonary nodules, which appear hom…
GMN 11839 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14043
1976 STEERE, Allen Caruthers; MALAWISTA, Stephen Evan (1934 – 2013); SNYDMAN, David R.
A cluster of arthritis in children and adults in Lyme, Connecticut.
The first publication on Lyme Disease. Abstract from the Proceedings of the 40th Annual Scientific Session of the American Rheumatism Association. Order of authorship in the original paper was Steere, Malawista, Snydm…
GMN 10781 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12977
