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

ESMARCH, Johann Friedrich August von

3 entries
  • 2168

Der erste Verband auf dem Schlachtfelde.

Kiel: Schwers, 1869.

Esmarch introduced the first-aid bandage on the battlefield.



Subjects: MILITARY MEDICINE, SURGERY & HYGIENE
  • 5611

Ueber künstliche Blutleere bei Operationen.

Samml. klin. Vortr., Nr. 58 (Chir., Nr. 19), 373-84, 1873.

Esmarch bandage for surgical hemostasis. English translation New Sydenham Society, 1876.



Subjects: SURGERY: General
  • 9544

Die elephantiastischen Formen. Eine umfassende Darstellung der angeborenen und erworbenen Elephantiasis sowie aller verwandten Leiden.

Hamburg: J. F. Richter, 1885.

This atlas illustrates the various changes that occur under the collective term elephantiasis, including tumors of the blood and lymphatic vessels, fibromas, neuromas, papillomas.  Goldschmid 258.



Subjects: DERMATOLOGY, INFECTIOUS DISEASE › Leprosy, INFECTIOUS DISEASE › VECTOR-BORNE DISEASES › Mosquito-Borne Diseases › Lymphatic Filariasis (Elephantiasis), PATHOLOGY › Pathology Illustration