Thomas Spencer Wells - bibliography

Bibliography

• Report of cases treated in the Royal Naval Hospital Malta in 1843 and 1844.
  The Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal, 1846, 65: 1.
• Case of hydrophobia following the bite of a cat. Employment of ether vapour and belladonna. The Malta Times, August 24, 1847: 3.
• On the radical cure of reducible inguinal hermia.
  Medico-Chirurgical Transactions, London, 1858.
  The Dublin Quarterly Journal of Medical Science, 1858.
• Three cases of tetanus in which "woorara" was used.
  Proceedings. Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society of London, 1859, 3: 142-157.
• Cases of tetanus treated by woorara. Med.-Chir. Proc., 1860.
• Cancer cures and cancer curers. London, 1860.
• Bronchotomy. In: William B. Costello (1800-1867: The Cyclopaedia of Practical Surgery, including an etymological and critical terminology. 4 volumes, London, 1844-1861.
• Diseases of bone. In: The Cyclopaedia of Practical Surgery.
• Encephalocele. In: The Cyclopaedia of Practical Surgery.
• Burns. In: Samuel Cooper (1789-1848): Surgical Dictionary, 1861.
• Harelip. In: Samuel Cooper. Surgical Dictionary, 1861.
• Diseases of the ovaries, their diagnosis and treatment. 1865, 1872
  New York, 1873; German translation, Leipzig, 1866, 1874. Italian, Milano, 1882.
• Note book for cases of Ovarian and Other Abdominal Tumours".
  1865. Went through seven editions.
• Cure of vaginal fistulae. St. Thomas’s Hospital Reports, London, 1870.
• Relation of puerperal fever to infective diseases and pyaemia.
  Transactions of the Obstetrical Society of London, 1875.
• Lectures on diagnosis and surgical treatment of abdominal tumours.
  Medical Times and Gazette, London, 1878.
  German translation in [Volkmann’s] Sammlung klinischer Vorträge, Leipzig, 1878, No. 148-150.
• Ovarian and uterine tumours.
  1882. Philadelphia, 1882. Italian translation, Milano, 1883.
• Note book for cases of abdominal tumours.
  London, 1865; 2nd edition, 1868; 6th edition, 1881; 7th edition, 1887. Italian translation, Milano, 1882.
• Hunterian oration 1883. Medical Times and Gazette, London, 1883.
• Diagnosis and Surgical Treatment of Abdominal Tumours. London, 1885.
  Philadelphia, 1885. German translation, Vienna, 1886. French, Paris, 1886.
• The Morton Lecture on Cancer and Cancerous Diseases. London, 1889.
  German translation in Sammlung klinischer Vorträge, Leipzig, 1889, 103: 3193-3232.
• Die Operationen von Gebärmuttergeschwülsten, die Oophorectomie und die Castration der Frauen bei Geistes- und Nervenkrankheiten.
  German translation in Sammlung klinischer Vorträge, Leipzig, Neue Folge 1891, 32: 287-288.
  French translation in: Annales de gynécologie et d'obstétrique, 1891: 36.
  Original in: British Medical Journal, London, 1890, 32: 1465-1468.
• Modern abdominal Chirurgy.
  Bradshaw Lecture, British Medical Journal, 1890, 2: 1413-1416.
  Wodd’s Med. Surg Monography N. Y., 1891, 11: 285-313.
  German translation in Sammlung klinischer Vorträge, Leipzig, 1891, 31: 185-210.
• Cremation or Burial?
  In Sir H. Thompson: Cremation. 3rd edition, London, 1884: 39-49.
  Sir Henry Thompson (1820-1904), Surgeon to Queen Victoria, was the first to recommend the practice of cremation on health grounds. In 1874 he founded The Cremation Society of England.
• List of Sir Thomas Spencer Wells published Writings arranged chronologically.
  Transactions of the Obstetrical Society of London, 1899, 40: 91-101.
• B. Brahma, M. Singh:
  What lies behind a name? (Sir Thomas Spencer Wells 1818-1897).
  NATNews, July 1981, 18 (7):15.
• F. M. Forster:
  A case of ovariotomy instruments sent by Thomas Spencer Wells to Richard Thomas Tracy.
  The Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology of the British Commonwealth, October 1965, 75 (5): 810-815.
• J. A. Shepherd:
  Spencer Wells - Surgeon RN.
  Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine, 1970, 63: 306-308.
• C. Savona-Ventura:
  The naval career of Sir Thomas Spencer Wells in the Mediterranean: 1842-1853.
  Maltese Medical Journal, 1999, 10(2):41-46.