ADDISON, William (1802 – 1881)
1802 – 1881
2 entries in the GMN corpus.
1843 CE
#3059
Experimental and practical researches on inflammation and on the origin and nature of tubercles of the lungs.
Addison made important observations on the blood corpuscles. He is by some considered “the world’s first hematologist”. He gave the first description of leucocytosis, so named by Virchow in 1858, and…
1843 CE
#2294
Experimental and practical researches on the structure and function of blood corpuscles; on inflammation; and on the origin and nature of tubercles in the lungs.
Addison gave an important account of the process of inflammation. See L.J. Rather, Addison and the white corpuscles: An aspect of nineteenth-century biology. London, Wellcome Institute, 1972. See also No. 3059.