Thomas Spens - bibliography

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Biography

British physician, born 1764, Edinburgh; died May 27, 1842, Edinburgh.

Bibliography

  • De amenorrhoea. Doctoral dissertation; Edinburgh, 1784.
  • Pharmacopoeia in usum nosocomii Edinburgensis.
    Edinburgh, 1811.
  • History of a case in which there took place a remarkable slowness of the pulse.
    [Andrew] Duncan’s Medical Commentaries. Edinburgh, 1792. Volume 7, pp. 458-465.
  • History of three cases of erythema mercuriale.
    Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal, 1805; I.
  • Case of conversion of the substance of the heart, accompanied by the production of a sac at the mouth of the aorta.
    Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal, 1816; XII.
  • C. E. Lea:
    Dr. Thomas Spens, the first describer of the Stokes-Adams syndrome.
    Edinburgh Medical Journal, n.s. 1914; 13: 51-55.
  • T. G. Dickson:
    The identity of Dr. Thomas Spens. Lancet, 1913; 2: 1357.

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