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

FRIEDREICH, Nikolaus

5 entries
  • 3064.1

Ein neuer Fall von Leukämie.

Virchows Arch. path. Anat., 12, 37-58., 1857.

Acute leukemia first described.



Subjects: HEMATOLOGY › Blood Disorders, ONCOLOGY & CANCER › Leukemia
  • 5344.1

Ein Beitrag zur Pathologie der Trichinenkrankheit beim Menschen.

Virchows Arch. path. Anat., 25, 399-413, 1862.

First confirmed diagnosis of trichinosis in a living person.



Subjects: INFECTIOUS DISEASE › DISEASES DUE TO METAZOAN PARASITES, INFECTIOUS DISEASE › Food-Borne Diseases › Trichinosis
  • 4696

Ueber degenerative Atrophie der spinalen Hinterstränge.

Virchows Arch. path. Anat., 26, 391-419, 433-59; 27, 1-26; 68, 145-245; 70, 140-52, 1863, 18761877.

Friedreich was the first to describe a form of ataxia (“Friedreich’s ataxia”), hereditary, attended with impairment of speech, lateral curvature of the spine, and with paralysis of the muscles of the lower limbs. The titles of the last two papers vary.



Subjects: GENETICS / HEREDITY › HEREDITARY / CONGENITAL DISEASES OR DISORDERS › Inherited Neurological Disorders › Hereditary Ataxias › Friedreich's Ataxia, NEUROLOGY › Degenerative Disorders
  • 2765

Krankheiten des Herzens. 2te. Aufl.

Erlangen: Ferdinand Enke, 1867.

First appeared in Virchow’s Handbuch der speciellen Pathologie und Therapie, Erlangen, 1854, 5, 1 Abt., 385-530.



Subjects: CARDIOLOGY › CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE
  • 4564

Paramyoklonus multiplex.

Virchows Arch. path. Anat., 86, 421-30, 1881.

First description of paramyoclonus multiplex, “Friedreich’s disease”.



Subjects: NEUROLOGY › Diseases of the Nervous System