Thomas Addison - bibliography
Related eponyms
- Addison's crisis
- Addison's disease
- Addison-Biermer disease
- Addison-Schilder syndrome
- Addisonism
- Alibert's disease I
- Allgrove's syndrome
- Rayer's disease
- Schilder's disease
Biography
English physician, born October 1795, Long Benton, Northumberland, near Newcastle; died June 29, 1860, 15 Wellington Villas, Brighton.
Bibliography
- De Syphilide et Hydrargyro. Doctoral thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1815.
"Concerning Syphilis and Mecury" - An Essay on the Operation of Poisonous Agents upon the Living Body. Written with John Morgan (1797-1847). London, Longman Rees, 1829.
First book in English on the action of poisons on the living body. - Observations on the Disorders of Females Connected with Uterine Irritation. London 1830.
- Observations on Fatty Degeneration of the Liver.
- Elements of the Practice of Medicine.
Written with Richard Bright (1789-1858). 3 parts, London, 1836-1839. - On the influence of electricity, as a remedy in certain convulsive and spasmodic diseases.
Guy’s Hospital Reports, London, 1837, 2: 493-507.
First therapeutic employment of static electricity. - Observations on the Anatomy of the Lungs.
1840. In: Collected Writings, London 1868. - Observations on Pneumonia and its Consequences.
In: Guy's Hospital Reports, 2nd Series, 1843, 1: 365-402. - On the Pathology of Phthisis.
Guy's Hospital Reports, London 1845, 3: 1-38. - Chronic Suprarenal Insufficiency, Usually due to Tuberculosis of Suprarenal Capsule.
Addisons’ disease. 1st announcement in: London Medical Gazette, n.s. 1849, 43: 517-518. - On a Certain Affection of the Skin, Vitilgoidea - a. plana, b. tuberosa. With remarks. Written with William Gull.
Guy's Hospital Reports, London, 2nd Series, 1851, 7: 265-276. - On the Constitutional and Local Effects of Disease of the Supra-renal Capsules. London 1855.
- Elements of the Practice of Medicine.
Written with Richard Bright.
Issued in three parts from 1836 to 1839. - On the keloid of Alibert, and on true keloid.
Medico-Chirurgical Transactions, London, 1854, 37: 27-47.
Addison described two forms of keloid, that described by Alibert, and the ”true keloid” (the skin disease morphoea), ”Addison’s keloid”. - A Collection of the Published Writings of Thomas Addison. Edited by Dr. Wilks and Dr. Daldy.
239 pages. London, the New Sydenham Society, 1868.
Dr. Wilks is Sir Samuel Wilks, 1824-1911. - F. M. Sutherland:
Nova et Vetera. Thomas Addison 1793-1860.
British Medical Journal, London, 1960, 5194: 304-305.
