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GOWERS, Sir William Richard (1845 – 1915)

GOWERS, Sir William Richard (1845 – 1915)

1845 – 1915

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1873 CE–1875 CE

#5910

Atlas der pathologischen Anatomie des Augapfels. Atlas of the pathological anatomy of the eyeball

GOWERS, Sir William Richard (1845 – 1915)
GOWERS, Sir William Richard (1845 – 1915)
PAGENSTECHER, Hermann (1844 – 1932)
PAGENSTECHER, Hermann (1844 – 1932) GENTH, Carl Philipp (1844 – 1904)

Text in German and English; Sir W. R. Gowers was responsible for the English translation. Digital facsimile from the Bayerische StaatsBibliothek at this link.

1876 CE

#4216

The state of the arteries in Bright’s disease.

GOWERS, Sir William Richard (1845 – 1915)
GOWERS, Sir William Richard (1845 – 1915)

Gowers’s important account of the changes in the retinal vessels in Bright’s disease is reproduced in Willius & Keys, Cardiac classics, 1941, pp. 605-11.

1879 CE

#878

An apparatus for the clinical estimation of haemoglobin.

GOWERS, Sir William Richard (1845 – 1915)
GOWERS, Sir William Richard (1845 – 1915)

Gowers introduced the colorimetric method of estimating hemoglobin and devised a hemoglobinometer for the purpose. This was modified by Haldane (see No. 891). Previously Hoppe-Seyler had used a hematinometer.

1880 CE

#4562

The diagnosis of diseases of the spinal cord.

GOWERS, Sir William Richard (1845 – 1915)
GOWERS, Sir William Richard (1845 – 1915)

Gowers demonstrated the dorsal spinocerebellar tract, “Gowers’s tract”, and introduced the terms myotatic and knee-jerk, which he elicited with the rubber edge of his stethoscope or a percussion hammer.

1881 CE

#4818

Epilepsy and other chronic convulsive diseases.

GOWERS, Sir William Richard (1845 – 1915)
GOWERS, Sir William Richard (1845 – 1915)

Gowers left a classic account of epilepsy, a book which today is still one of the most important on the subject. He was first to note the tetanic nature of the epileptic convulsion.

1885 CE

#4568

Lectures on the diagnosis of diseases of the brain.

GOWERS, Sir William Richard (1845 – 1915)
GOWERS, Sir William Richard (1845 – 1915)

1886 CE–1888 CE

#4569

A manual of diseases of the nervous system. 2 vols.

GOWERS, Sir William Richard (1845 – 1915)
GOWERS, Sir William Richard (1845 – 1915)

Gowers was physician and Professor of Clinical Medicine at University College, London. He especially distinguished himself in the field of neurology, and the above set is his greatest work.Page 365 of vol. 1 includes …

1888 CE

#4860

A case of tumour of the spinal cord. Removal; recovery.

GOWERS, Sir William Richard (1845 – 1915)
GOWERS, Sir William Richard (1845 – 1915)
HORSLEY, Sir Victor Alexander Haden (1857 – 1916)
HORSLEY, Sir Victor Alexander Haden (1857 – 1916)

Horsley was the founder of neurosurgery in England. The above paper records the first successful operation for the removal of an extramedullary tumor of the spinal cord.

1902 CE

#4762

On myopathy and a distal form.

GOWERS, Sir William Richard (1845 – 1915)
GOWERS, Sir William Richard (1845 – 1915)

“Distal myopathy of Gowers”, a form of progressive muscular dystrophy.

1907 CE

#4821

The border-land of epilepsy. Faints, vagal attacks, vertigo, migraine, sleep symptoms, and their treatment.

GOWERS, Sir William Richard (1845 – 1915)
GOWERS, Sir William Richard (1845 – 1915)