GERHARD, William Wood (1809 – 1872)
1809 – 1872
2 entries in the GMN corpus.
1834 CE
#4636
Cerebral affections of children.
Accurate clinical description of tuberculous meningitis.
1837 CE
#5024
On the typhus fever which occurred at Philadelphia in the spring and summer of 1836; illustrated by clinical observations at the Philadelphia Hospital; showing the distinction between this form of disease and dothinenteritis, the typhoid fever with alteration of the follicles of the small intestine.
Gerhard, a pupil of Louis, correctly differentiated between typhus and typhoid. Part of his paper is reproduced in R. H. Major, Classic descriptions of disease, 3rd ed., 1945, p. 174.