An Interactive Annotated World Bibliography of Printed and Digital Works in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences from Circa 2000 BCE to 2022 by Fielding H. Garrison (1870-1935), Leslie T. Morton (1907-2004), and Jeremy M. Norman (1945- ) Traditionally Known as “Garrison-Morton”

15961 entries, 13944 authors and 1935 subjects. Updated: March 22, 2024

WALDEYER-HARTZ, Heinrich Wilhelm Gottfried von

4 entries
  • 2620

Die Entwicklung der Carcinome.

Virchows Arch. path, Anat. 41, 470-523, 55, 67-159, 1867, 1872.

Waldeyer confirmed the work of Thiersch (No. 2618) on the epithelial origin of cancer, disproving Virchow’s theory (No. 2617). So great was the authority of the latter that it was not until the appearance of the second of the above papers that Virchow’s error was finally recognized.



Subjects: DERMATOLOGY, ONCOLOGY & CANCER › Carcinoma
  • 492

Eierstock und Ei.

Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, 1870.

Waldeyer discovered the germinal epithelium.



Subjects: EMBRYOLOGY
  • 1111

Ueber den lymphatischenApparat des Pharynx.

Dtsch. med. Wschr., 10, 313, 1884.

“Waldeyer’s tonsillar ring”, the lymphoid ring of the nasopharynx.



Subjects: ANATOMY › 19th Century, OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGY (Ear, Nose, Throat) › Laryngology
  • 1369

Ueber einige neuere Forschungen im Gebiete der Anatomie des Centralnervensystems.

Dtsch. med. Wschr. 17, 1213-18, 1244-46, 1287-89, 1331-32, 1352-56, 1891.

A statement of the neuron theory, to which Waldeyer gave the name.



Subjects: ANATOMY › Neuroanatomy, NEUROSCIENCE › NERVOUS SYSTEM › Spinal Cord