Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie - bibliography

Bibliography

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society:

• Account of the dissection of a human foetus, in which the circulation of the blood was carried on without a heart. 1809.
• The Croonian lecture on some physiological researches, respecting the influence of the brain on the action of the heart, and on generation of animal heat. 1809.
• Experiments and observations on the different modes in which death is produced by certain vegetable poisons. 1809.
• Further experimenst and observations on the action of poisons on the animal system. 1809.
• Experiments and observations on the influence of the nervous system on the action of the muscles in general and of the heart in particular. 1809.
• Physiological Researches.
  A compilation of four of the above papers. Medico-Chirurgical Transactions, London, 1813:
  
• Pathological researches respecting the diseases of joints.
  Brodie’s knee.
• Further observations on the diseases which affect the synovial membranes of joints.
• Further observations on the ulceration of the cartilages of joints.
  The following work is a collection of above three articles:
  
• Pathological and surgical observations on diseases of the joints. London, 1818, 1822, 1834, 1836; 5th edition, 1850.
  Philadelphia, 1843.
  French translation by Léon Marchand, Paris, 1819.
  German by Georg Philipp Holscher (1792-1852), Hannover, 1821.
  Brodie’s treatise on diseases of the joints is his most important work and includes pathological observations and case studies on inflammation (including Brodie's abscess), ulceration and tumours of the joints. Medico-Chirurgical Transactions, London, 1816:
  
• Observations on the treatment of varicose veins of the legs.
• Pathological and surgical observations relating to injuries of the brain.
• Pathological and surgical observations relating to injuries of the spinal cord.
• An account of a case of aneurism by anastomosis of the forehead, treated by the application of ligatures.
• An account in which a foreign body was located in the right bronchus. Others:
  
• On abscess in the brain.
  Transaction of the Society for the Improvement of Medical and Chirurgical Knowledge, London, 1812.
• Lectures on diseases of the urinary organs.
  London, 1832; 4th edition, 1849; Philadelphia, 1843.
  French translation by Patron, Montpellier.
  German translation in Chirurgische Handbibliothek, volume XV, Weimar, 1833.
• An account of some cases of chronic abscess of the tibia.
  Medico-Chirurgical Transactions, London, 1832, 17: 239-249.
  Brodie’s abscess.
• Lectures on diseases of the rectum. III. Preternatural contraction of the sphincter ani.
  London Medical Gazette, 1835; 16: 26-31. Brodie’s pile.
• On the influence of the nervous system on the action of the muscles in general and the heart in particular.
  Croonian lecture in the Royal Society, 1836.
• Lectures illustrative of certain nervous affections.
  London, Longman, 1837.
  German translation by Kirschner, Marburg, 1838.
  Brodie’s disease I.
• Lectures on serocustic tumors of the breast.
  London Medical Gazette, 1839, 25: 808-814.
  Brodie’s syndrome I.
• Clinical Lectures on Surgery. Delivered at St. George’s Hospital.
  Philadelphia, Lea & Blanchard, 1846: 201-210.
  Brodie’s syndrome II.
• Lectures illustrative of various subjects in pathology and surgery. London, 1846.
• Psychological inquiries. Part I.
  Anonymous, 1854, 1855, 1856, 1862. Part II, 1862.
• On quacks and quackery. 1842.
• On the use and abuse of tobacco. 1860.
• On homeopathy. 1861.
• Clinical Remarks. Ulcers.
  Lancet, London, 1839-1840, I, 231-234.