Facets

1865 CE

#3064.2

Hereditary epistaxis.

1951 CE

#12238

Hydraulic formula for calculation of the area of the stenotic mitral valve; other cardiac valves, and central circulatory shunts.

In collaboration with his father, S. G. Gorlin, a mechanical engineer who designed hydraulic systems for gasoline engines at the beginning of the century, Richard Gorlin developed a formula to calculate the area of st…

1652 CE

#3050

Iatrologismorum seu medicinalium observationum pentecostae quinque utilibus praeceptis.

Panaroli described hemolytic jaundice of the newborn.

1938 CE

#14088

Icterus gravis (erythroblastosis) neonatorum.

Darrow was the first to identify the cause of hemolytic disease of the newborn (HDN). Three years prior to the discovery of antibodies against the Rh antigen, Darrow correctly hypothesized that the disease was caused …

1937 CE

#11568

La angio-cardiografía radio-opaca.

Intravenous angiocardiography. This was the first publication that dealt with the normal cardiac structure and the changes seen in ventricular septal defect and pulmonary stenosis.

1519 CE

#3048

Liber theoricae nec non practicae Alsaharavii.

This is the first printing of the medical and therapeutic section of Abul Qasim’s medical encyclopedia or al-Tasrif. It contains what is probably the earliest description of hemophilia (fol. 145). Digital facsim…

1907 CE

#3025.3

Ligation of the ductus arteriosus.

Munro was first to suggest the feasibility of ligation of a patent ductus arteriosus.

1966 CE

#3155.4

Man’s haemoglobins: including the haemoglobinopathies and their investigation.

Explains the current distribution of sickling throughout the world.

1936 CE

#3148.1

Mediterranean disease – thalassemia (erythroblastic anemia of Cooley); associated pigment abnormalities simulating hemochromatosis.

Whipple and Bradford contributed a classic paper on the pathology of thalassemia, a name introduced by them.

1968 CE

#6916

Molecular pathology of human haemoglobin.

Perutz opened up "the field of 'molecular pathology,' relating a structural abnormality to a disease" (Aaron Klug, "Max Perutz 1914-2002," Science 295 ([2002] 2383). Specifically Perutz showed that hemoglobin molecule…

1858 CE

#2761

On malformations, etc., of the human heart.

Includes an account of the “tetralogy of Fallot” (see No. 2792). Peacock’s book was “the first comprehensive study covering the whole field” (Maude Abbott). Reprinted, Boston, Mass., 1973.

1814 CE

#2740.1

Pathological researches. Essay I. On malformations of the human heart. [All published.]

The first monograph on congenital defects of the heart.

1910 CE

#3133

Peculiar elongated and sickle-shaped red blood corpuscles in a case of severe anemia.

Identification of the sickle-cell type of anemia. Abstract "This case is reported because of the unusual blood findings, no duplicate of which I have ever seen described. Whether the blood picture represents merely a …

1954 CE

#11887

Protection afforded by sickle-cell trait against subtertian malarial infection.

Allison was the first to connect a hereditary disease (sickle cell disease) to an infectious disease (malaria). He proved that heterozygous and homozygous individuals to the sickle cell trait or disease respectively s…

1948 CE

#3046

Pulmonary valvulotomy for the relief of congenital pulmonary stenosis. Report of three cases.

"Brock performed the first successful valvotomies for isolated pulmonary stenosis in 1948. He gained access to the blood-filled beating heart through a small incision in the right ventricle through which he passed a v…

1879 CE

#2782

Recherches cliniques sur la communication congénitales des deux coeurs par inocclusion du septum intervenniculare.

Roger drew attention to an important anomaly of the septum, interventricular patency (“maladie de Roger”), demonstrating the presence of a murmur in this condition. This is sometimes called “Roger&rs…

1938 CE

#3148.2

Recherches sur l’anémie érythroblastique infantile des peuples de la Méditerranée orientale. Étude anthropologique, étiologique et pathogénique. La transmission héréditaire de la maladie.

First evidence that thalassemia is genetically determined. Earlier report in Kliniki, Athens, 1936, 12, No. 5.

1948 CE

#3107.1

Replacement transfusion as a treatment for erythroblastosis fetalis.

Exchange transfusion.

1973 CE

#14089

Rh: The intimate history of a disease and its conquest.

1949 CE

#3154.1

Sickle cell anemia, a molecular disease.

First recognition, by Pauling and colleagues, of a structural hemoglobin variant, and the beginning of the molecular approach to disease.

1922 CE

#3136.1

Sickle-cell anemia.

Mason gave sickle-cell anemia its present name.

1961 CE

#3155.3

Stomatocytosis: a hereditary red cell anomaly associated with haemolytic anaemia.

With R. Sephton Smith and R. M. Hardisty.

1903 CE

#2814

Sur la lésion dite sténose congénitale de l’aorte dans la région de l’isthme.

Distinction of infantile and adult types of coarctation of the aorta.

1945 CE

#3044.1

Surgical correction for coarctation of the aorta.

Resection of coarctation and direct anastomosis of remaining ends. See also his report of 60 cases in J. Amer.med.Assoc.,1949, 139,285-92.

1939 CE

#3039

Surgical ligation of a patent ductus arteriosus: Report of first successful case.

One of the earliest successful surgical repairs for congenital heart disease. See also later paper in Ann. Surg.,1939, 110, 321-56.

2011 CE

#10972

The bleeding disease: Hemophilia and the unintended consequences of medical progress.

1995 CE

#12364

The developing heart: A "history" of pediatric cardiology.

A memoir, largely from personal experience, of the developments in embryology, pathology, clinical features, treatment of congenital heart disease.

1937 CE

#2576.5

The genetic and antigenic basis of tumour transplantation.

Gorer made the initial discoveries which formed the basis of transplantation genetics. He studied mouse blood groups and described an antigen in erythrocytes (antigen II). His studies established the laws of transplan…

1934 CE

#3093

The haemostatic possibilities of snake-venom.

Snake venom used in the treatment of hemophilia.

1949 CE

#3154.2

The inheritance of sickle cell anemia.

Genetic evidence that sickle-cell disease is inherited in a simple Mendelian manner.

1793 CE

#2281

The morbid anatomy of some of the most important parts of the human body.

Baillie was a nephew and pupil of William Hunter. The above is the first systematic textbook of morbid anatomy, treating the subject for the first time as an independent science. See also Nos. 2736, 3167.1. Baillie wa…

1935 CE

#3095

The prothrombin in hemophilia and in obstructive jaundice.

Quick’s method for determination of prothrombin clotting time. See also Amer. J. med. Sci.,1935, 190,501-11.

1948 CE

#3107.2

The reduction of methaemoglobin in red blood cells and studies on the cause of idiopathic methaemoglobinaemia.

Cause of hereditary methemoglobinemia elucidated.

1941 CE

#3100

The rôle of iso-immunization in the pathogenesis of erythroblastosis fetalis.

Erythroblastosis fetalis due to rhesus incompatibility (Rh disease) between mother and child. With L. Burnham, E. M. Katzin, and P. Vogel.

1945 CE

#3043

The surgical treatment of malformations of the heart in which there is pulmonary stenosis or pulmonary atresia.

The “Blalock-Taussig operation” for the relief of congenital defects of the pulmonary artery, Tetralogy of Fallot ("blue baby syndrome"). "The first surgical repair was carried out in 1944 at Johns Hopkins…

1784 CE

#2734.3

Three cases of mal-conformation of the heart.

Three cases of congenital heart disease recorded. Two plates are opposite pp. 417-18 of the journal.

1829 CE–1833 CE

#2288

Traité d’anatomie pathologique. 2 vols. and atlas.

Includes a historical review of the subject from the time of the Ancient Egyptians to Corvisart, and a summary of the advances in pathology during the preceding 50 years. Vol. 2, pp. 553-600 deals with diseases of the…

1921 CE

#11677

Traité des maladies congenitales du coeur.

1908 CE

#3080.1

Ueber den habituellen Ikterus de Neugeborenen.

First detailed description of familial icterus gravis neonatorum.

1866 CE

#2764.1

Ueber einen sehr seltenen Fall von Insufficienz der Valvula tricuspidalis, bedingt durch eine angeborene hochgradige Missbildung derselben.

“Ebstein’s anomaly,” a congenital abnormality of the tricuspid valve. Translation in Amer. J. Cardiol, 1968, 22, 867-72.

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…

1889 CE

#3916

Ueber Haemochromatose.

Recklinghausen gave to hemochromatosis its present name.

1910 CE

#898

Ueber Vererbung gruppenspezifischer Strukturen des Blutes.

Proof that blood groups are inherited according to Mendelian laws.

1933 CE

#3206

Zur Pathogenese der Bronchiektasien. I. Mitteilung: Bronchiektasien bei Situs viscerum inversus.

Bronchiectasis and sinus maldevelopment associated with transposition of viscera – “Kartageners syndrome”.