Thomas Wharton - bibliography

Bibliography

• Adenographia: sive glandularum totius corporis descriptio.
  Londini, typ. J. G. Impens. Authoris, 1656; reprinted in Amsterdam, 1659; Nijmegen, 1664; Wessel 1671; Leiden, 1679; Geneva 1685; Düsseldorf, 1730. Contains descriptions of “Wharton’s duct” on 128-137 and of “Wharton’s jelly” on 243-244.
  In the preface to Adenographia he thanked Cromwell’s physician, John French, and his surgeon, Thomas Trapham (died 1683), for their help in his research.
• Joseph Frank Payne (1840-1910):
  On Some Old Physicians of St. Thomas’s Hospital.
  St. Thomas’s Hospital Reports, London, 1897; n.s. 26: 8-15. With portrait.
• Bertha Porter:
  In Dictionary of National Biography. With references to sources and earlier studies.
• Izaak Walton (1593-1983):
  The Compleat Angler.
  1653. Chapter 19 describes Wharton as “a man of great learning and experience and of equal freedom to communicate it.”
• Thomas Bartholin (1616-1680):
  Spicilegia bina ex vasis lymphaticis. Amsterdam, 1661.
  Part 2, chapter 5, praises Wharton’s discoveries and “incomparable accuracy.”
• Girolamo Barbato:
  Dissertatio elegantissima de sanguine et ejus sero. Pavia and Frankfurt, 1667.
  Barbato, discoverer of blood serum, here mentions Wharton’s work several times.
• Hermann Boerhaave (1668-1738):
  Method of Studying Physick.
  London, 1719. With praise of Adenographia (page 228).
• Elias Ashmole:
  Autobiographical and Historical Notes.
  H. Josten, editor, 5 volumes; Oxford, 1966.
• Sir Humphry Davy Rolleston (1862-1944):
  The Endocrine Glands With an Historical Review.
  Oxford, 1936. Discusses Wharton’s accounts of the thyroid (p. 142) and the adrenals (p. 317).
• H. Speert:
  The Jelly of the Umbilical Cord.
  Obstetrics and Gynecology, 1956, 8 (3): 380-382. Translates and comments on Wharton’s description.
• K. F. Russell:
  British Anatomy.
  Melbourne, 1963. Nos. 854-859 records the editions of Adenographia.