LATHAM, Peter Mere (1789 – 1875)
1789 – 1875
2 entries in the GMN corpus.
Image source Henry William Pickersgill · St Bartholomew’s Hospital Museum and Archive · Public domain
1846 CE
#2755.1
Lectures on subjects connected with clinical medicine, comprising disease of the heart. Second edition, 2 vols.
Includes (vol. 2, pp. 373-79) a classic description of coronary thrombosis, although not using the term. The patient was Thomas Arnold, the educationist, and the report was signed by Joseph Hodgson and by S. Bucknill,…
1876 CE–1878 CE
#2227
The collected works. 2 vols.
Latham, successively physician to Middlesex and St. Bartholomew’s hospitals, was an authority on cardiac disease and among the earliest in England to advocate auscultation. He held progressive views on medical e…