Thomas Blizard Curling - bibliography

Bibliography

• A practical treatise on the diseases of the testis, and of the spermatic cord and scrotum.
  London 1843. Philadelphia: Carey and Hart, 1843.
  This book was first published in London in 1843 and was edited for republication in the United States by Paul Beck Goddard (1811-1866). Goddard made several revisions and additions to the book, and, in the preface, indicated that Curling's book surpasses Sir Astley Paston Cooper's earlier work on the testis.
• Treatise on tetanus.
  London, 1837; Philadelphia, 1837. Winner of the Jackson Prize.
• The advantages of ether and chloroform in operative surgery. London, 1848.
• Two cases of absence of the thyroid body and symmetrical swellings of fat tissue at the sides of the neck, connected with defective cerebral development.
  Medico-Chirurgical Transactions, London, 1850. 33: 303-306.
  Curling was one of the first to present a clinical description of cretinism and to suggest that it was caused by a deficiency of the thyroid gland. William Miller Ord (1834-1902) later coined the term "myxoedema" for this condition
• Observations on diseases of the rectum. 1851. 4 editions. Biographical and bibliographical:
• August Hirsch, publisher:
  Biographisches Lexikon der hervorragenden Ärzte aller Zeiten und Völker.
  Urban & Schwarzenberg. 2nd edition, Berlin, 1929.
  First published in 6 volumes 1884-1888. 3rd edition, München 1962.
• F. S. Lamb, Y. J. Silva, A. J. Walt:
  Thomas Blizard Curling – the man and the ulcer.
  Surgery, April 1971, 69 (4): 646-649.
• Heirs of Hippocrates. Friends of the University of Iowa Libraries. Iowas City, 1980.
• Barry G. Firkin and Judith A. Whitworth:
  Dictionary of Medical Eponyms.
  The Parthenon Publishing Group. 1989. New edition in 2002.
• Jeremy M. Norman, editor:
  Morton’s Medical Bibliography. An annotated Check-list of Texts Illustrating the History of Medicine (Garrison and Morton).
  Fifth edition. Scolar Press, 1991.