Medicine in 1815 : an exhibition to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the end of the Napoleonic wars, 15 April to 31 December, 1965.

  • Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and Library
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[1965]
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Credit: Medicine in 1815 : an exhibition to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the end of the Napoleonic wars, 15 April to 31 December, 1965. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    In this work Farre accurately describes and illustrates fifteen cases of the condition now known as the 'tetralogy of Fallot' (the 'blue baby syndrome') and which was first noted by Steno in the 17th century. Farre was physician at the Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital (Moorfields) of which he was co-founder. 173. Joseph Hodgson (1788-1869). A treatise on the diseases of arteries and veins. London, 1815. This classic account of aneurisms and valvular disease contains the first description of the dilatation of the aortic arch which came to be known as 'Hodgson's disease'. The book is based on Hodgson's successful Jacksonian Prize essay (1811) for the Royal College of Surgeons. 174. Contemporary instruments used in the surgical treatment of aneurism. 175. R. T. H. Laennec (1781-1826). De Vauscultation mediate. 2 vols. Paris, 1819. This is the book in which Laennec's invention of the stethoscope was made known to the world. He was the greatest authority of his time on tuberculosis, a disease with which he was himself affected and from which he died. 176. Laennec using his new stethoscope on a patient in the Hopital Necker in Paris in 1816. From the mural by Theobald Chartran in the Sorbonne. 177. An original Laennec stethoscope, presented by Laennec to Dr. Beguin, a French army surgeon, whose widow gave it to Dr. F. N. Humphreys in 1863. 178. Gaspard Laurent Bayle (1774-1816). Researches on pulmonary phthisis. [Translated] From the French ... By William Barrow. London, 1815. The translator says that this book was recommended to him during his studies in Paris. He deplores the low state of knowledge of this disease in Britain, a subject in which France was pre-eminent, and attributes the cause to the ignorant prejudice in England against anatomical dissection and post-mortem studies. At the time of writing, this disease was the greatest single cause of death in the population. 179. Joseph Adams (1756-1818). A treatise of the supposed hereditary properties of diseases. London, 1814. Strongly influenced by John Hunter, the author denies that 'Gout,