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

LUYS, Jules Bernard

3 entries
  • 4737

Atrophie musculaire progressive. Lésions histologiques de la substance grise de la moëlle épinière.

Gaz. méd. Paris, 3 sér., 15, 505, 1860.

Luys was the first to note the degeneration of the anterior horn cells in progressive muscular atrophy.



Subjects: NEUROLOGY › Myopathies
  • 1402

Recherches sur le système nerveux cérébro-spinal; sa structure, ses fonctions, et ses maladies. 1 vol. and atlas.

Paris: J.-B. Baillière, 1865.

The beginning of knowledge of thalamic function. This work contains Luys’s descriptions of the two structures which bear his name: the subthalamic nucleus and the center median of the thalamus.



Subjects: NEUROSCIENCE › NERVOUS SYSTEM › Brain, including Medulla: Cerebrospinal Fluid, NEUROSCIENCE › Neurophysiology
  • 1406.01

Iconographie photographique des centres nerveux.

Paris: J.-B. Baillière, 1873.

Contains 70 photographs of brain sections taken by Luys himself, with 64 lithographed schemas based on his drawings. Luys undertook this work when the evidence of his lithographs published in 1865 (No. 4012) was disputed. It is the first large-scale photographic atlas of the anatomy of the brain.



Subjects: ANATOMY › Neuroanatomy, IMAGING › Photography / Photomicrography , NEUROSCIENCE › NERVOUS SYSTEM › Brain, including Medulla: Cerebrospinal Fluid