ROKITANSKY, Carl Freiherr von (1804 – 1878)
1804 – 1878
4 entries in the GMN corpus.
Image source Photograph by Fritz Lackhardt · Benedek, István (1983) Ignaz Phillip Semmelweis 1818-1865 , Gyomaendrőd, Hungary: Corvina Kiadó ISBN : 9631314596 . plate 5 · Public domain
1839 CE
#6258
Beyträge zur Kenntniss der Rückgrathskrümmungen, und der mit demselben zusammentreffenden Abweichungen des Brustkorbes und Beckens.
Original description of spondylolisthesis.
1842 CE–1846 CE
#2293
Handbuch der pathologischen Anatomie. 3 vols.
Rokitansky ranks with Morgagni as among the greatest of all writers on gross pathology. He is said to have performed over 30,000 autopsies himself. His Handbuch was for many years pre-eminent among its contemporaries.…
1852 CE
#2904
Ueber einige der wichtigsen Krankheiten der Arterien.
One of Rokitansky’s best works. He described atheroma and calcification in the intima of arteries, and various congenital malformations. Rokitansky "is credited with the initial case report of polyarteritis nodo…
1875 CE
#2778
Die Defecte der Scheidewände des Herzens.
Rokitansky’s memoir on defects of the septum of the heart was his last work, and possibly his greatest. It represented 14 years’ study of the subject.