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Parkes Weber, Frederick (1863-1962)

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Re Dr Philippopoulos's cases of the 'Sturge-Weber' disease and correspondence

For comparison with Sturge-Weber syndrome.

The first case 1951-52 of 'Hemispherectomy' for the Sturge-Weber disease (Sir Hugh Cairns)

Acrocyanosis

Acromegaly, gigantism and acromegaloid conditions, including familial cases more or less resembling acromegaly

Acroparaesthesia with Heberden's nodes

Action and reaction

Addison's disease

Adenomatous Tumours of the Abdominal Viscera

Ageing

Albuminuria and Life Assurance

Albuminuria in Health, Rheumatic albuminuria, etc 1900

Massive albuminuria not due apparently to nephrosis

Alcohol in Health and Disease

Alopecia universalis, alopecia areata, neurotic alopecia, congenital alopecia

Temporary or sudden (unilateral or bilateral) Ambylopia or blindness

Amyloidosis

Amyoplasia congenita, myodystrophia foetalis deformans dysmyoplasia, hypomyoplasia

Achlorhydric anaemia

Anaemia, hypochlorhydria, and alopecia (especially loss of sexual hair) with pituitary and gonadal insufficiency--also some cases of alopecia

Anaemia and leukaemia and 'leukaemia' in children and young adults and some cases of anaemia connected with thrombocytopenic purpura

Grave anaemia in association with haemorrhoids, menorrhagia, gastric or duodenal ulceration etc

Anaemia, acute haemolytic

Anaemias, pernicious and aplastic and some others

Hysterical anaesthesia especially in connection with [?....] vasomotor neurosis, acrocyanosis, weak [....]. Some other forms of anaesthesia for comparison

Angina Pectoris etc

Angioma serpiginosum (second series). Schamberg's 'Progressive pigmentary dermatosis' (for comparison)

Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine

Re mild cases of anorexia nervosa (for diagnosis) and mild cases of 'Simmonds disease' and Korbsch's 'gastritis atrophicans juvenilis'

Antagonistic phases in the same disease

Appendicitis and Life Assurance

The vermiform appendix--appendicitis etc

Arachnodactylia (acrodolicomelia) etc (Marfan's syndrome) (Dolichstenomelia, acrodolicomelia)

Argentaffinic tumours (carcinoids)

Arsenical treatment in connection with the occurence of herpes zoster, pneumonia etc

Arteriosclerosis

Arteritis Obliterans

Arthropathia psoriatica and possibly allied cases.

Ascites: operative treatments; spontaneous cures; medical treatment; and cures after paracentesis

B Stiller: Asthenic constitution 1907

Biliary cirrhosis

Blood-viscosity

Bone tumours

Modern teleology in regard to the structure ('architecture') of bones. Diametaphysial transverse striation etc

Bradycardia

Osteo-liposima and other (chiefly small) tumours of the brain, mostly necropsy findings not diagnosed (and probably without symptoms) during life

<i>Brain</i> Vol XXXIV pt IV with notes and cuttings

R W Parker etc: Bronchitis Obliterans--1906

Calcification and decalcification

(Calcinosis) Case of Patricia Allpress, aged 2 years in whom calcinosis commenced before birth

Cancer [general]

W. Sampson Handley, The Genesis of Cancer (London 1931)

Cancer and Life Assurance 1905

Cancer of extrahepatic bile ducts and hepatostomy

The capillary circulation etc. The skin microscope. 'Peripheral hearts'

Modern work on carcinoma, sarcoma and tumours of various kinds, and heterotopia

Carcinoma telangiectatum. Carcinoma erysipelitodes

Cardiac and circulatory affections and symptoms

Cardiac Thrombosis

'Cardiospasm' -- megaloesophagus -- 'Achalasia' of the cardia, etc. Spasmodic stricture and dilation of oesophagus ('Idiopathic dilation')

Medals of Centenarians 1895-7

The Cerebro-spinal Fluid: its spontaneous escape from the nose by St Clair Thomson (London, 1899), with observations on its composition and function in the human subject

Charcot's Teaching--1893

[Loose items]

Congenital-Developmental stenosis of the ostia of the hepatic veins--'Chiari's disease' (1952 Med Press, 1955 Lancet)

Chordoma and conditions allied to it or which may be mistaken for it

Chorion-epithelioma (chorionic carcinoma) in the liver and other organs, especially in males

'Circles' and 'vicious circles' in biology and medicine

Circulatory and trophic disorders of the legs

Colitis, dysentery and (mostly obscure) rectal diseases

Allergic colitis haemorrhagica

Congenital-developmental diseases

[Congenital indifference to pain]

Constipation

O Naegeli: Allgemeini Konstitutionslehre in naturwissenschaftlicher un medizinischer betrachtung 1927

Clinical Coprology

Craft palsies, spasms and neuritis. Occupation neuroses.

Some curious affections (including plasmocytoma to be distinguished from the plasmocytomatous type of multiple myeloma) of the cranium and jaws {see elsewhere for congenital or acquired deficiencies ('holes') in the vault of the skull

Cryptorchidism in man and animals, and ectopic testes (mal-descent of testes)

Cutaneous diseases of feet and hands and nails

Cutis striata. Cutis verticis gyrata etc

Cystic dilation of the choleoductus

Dental disease, Dental disease and life assurance

Modern Trends in Dermatology

Dermatomyositis

Hastings Gilford: The Disorders of Post-Natal Growth and Development (1911)

Very remarkable examples of developmental diseases etc (Ass Physicians Gt Brit and Irel 25 May 1950)

Diabetes Insipidus, varieties of polydipsia, etc, also the condition of the pituitary gland in diabetes mellitus etc

Diabetes melitus

Diathermy (long-wave therapy) and short-wave ('Kuzwellen') therapy--or marconi therapy

Pes Cavus and 'clawfoot' of obscure and various origin. Aran-Duchenne hand and 'main-en-griffe'. 'Hammertoes' (and 'Hammer-fingers') [Digits]

Dilatations and hypertrophies

The definition and classification of disease

Disease at various psychic levels

Re the question of mild disseminated sclerosis and 'formes fruste'

Diverticulitis and 'colitis sinistra' and 'diverticulosis'.

Discussion and correspondence, on Bernard Myers on diverticulosis etc (for correspondence etc)

Dreaming (second series)

Dysarthria

Ear, Nose, Throat, and Mouth, and Life Assurance etc

Milky and chyliform effusions--Chyluria and loss of chyle with the faeces

Emphysema, asthma etc (second series)

Encephalitis

Small subcutaneous and cutaneous growths (Series 1)

Suprarenal hyperplasia and arteriosclerosis and atheroma (1906)

Surgical operations and injuries in regard to subsequent life assurance and prognosis

'Recurrent suppurative hidradenitis'. Recurrent inflammation of the axillary sweat glands. Also the so-called Fox-Fordyce disease

Arteriosclerosis and atheroma ('atherosclerosis') and aortitis[...]. Syphilitic disease of big arteries--aortic aneurysms, etc

Syphilis and Atheroma and Lardaceous Disease 1895-6

Syphilitic diseases of the bones and joints and bursae and tendon-sheaths (especially in inherited syphilis) (including syphilitic spondylitis)

Syphilitic fever and syphilis of the alimentary canal (excepting mouth, pharnyx, and oesophagus) 1907

Health resorts and hygiene in syphilis

Inherited syphilis

Syphilis and Life Assurance

Syphilitic cirrhosis of the liver

Syphilitic Disease of Lung [....] Bronchi, Trachea, Larynx, Nose, Palate [and ?pharynx] second series

[Syphilitic nephritis....etc] Syphilis of the urinary[? tract]. Resolution of Dropsy [....] (Diuretic) and Diarrhoeal Gi[....]

Syphilis and parasyphilis of the nervous system

Early syphilitic paraplegia 1898

The relation of syphilis to other diseases, and some questions of diagnosis connected with this subject

Telangiectasia

Thrombocythaemia (Hyperthrombocythaemia FPW)

Traumatic and other venous thrombosis, especially in regard to life assurance etc; also regarding causes and nature of thrombosis in the circulation

Thymus Gland (Second series)

Thyroid Gland and Goitres, and 'paragoitrous' affections

Tics

Mamillated Tongues etc

The tonic leiomyospasms (suggested communication) Hysteria and the thalamo-cortical connections etc. Gas in the alimentary canal (for comparison)

Senile, Familial, Congenital and Function Tremors

Tremors, athetosis and ataxia, sometimes familial, and especially in children, and ataxia of some kinds in adults for instance (idiopathic) cerebellar (progressive cerebellar) atrophy.

Re familial ('grimacing') tremor or choreiform movements, especially on voluntary movement or with emotional excitement.

Trichinosis (for comparison)

Arrested Pulmonary tuberculosis 1904

Congenital tuberculosis (congenital leprosy for comparison)

Diet in Tuberculosis

Tuberculosis - Early diagnosis from bacteriological and vaccine methods (ophthalmic and cuti. reactions etc)

Tuberculosis: general problems:--prevention and treatment and diagnosis--state and sanatorium methods etc

Tuberculosis and Life Assurance. Heredity and Tuberculosis.

Open Air treatment of Tuberculosis 1900

Peritoneal tuberculosis, tuberculosis mesenteric lymph-glands, so called 'Tabes mesenterica'. Foreign body peritonitis, imitating peritoneal tuberculosis and diagnosis re various kinds of pseudo-tuberculosis

Pulmonary tuberculosis (actual and suspected). Miscellaneous cases, notes and cuttings--questions of diagnosis, haemophysis cases etc

Relation of Tuberculosis to other diseases

Traumatic tuberculosis

Tuberous sclerosis (2nd series 1954)

Chronic ulcers of the leg: differential diagnosis (Castellani etc)

Anuria, haematuria, very acute nephritis. Questions of pyelography etc

Laminated fibrinous bulbs in the urinary bladder and elsewhere

Diseases of the urinary system

Green and aniline-dyed urines

Oxaluria

Urinary pigments, urinoblinuria, and indicanuria (and Indigo-uria) (also re diagnosis bilirubin crystals in urine of jaundice)

Pyeletis, pyuria

Vaccinotherapy, chemotherapy, non-specific protein therapy, Modern vaccinotherapy and protective anti-serum treatment

Vanished and vanishing diseases and changes in the clinical aspects of disease

F P Weber--Apparent Thickening of Veins-1899

Venesection for acute and chronic conditions: polycythaemia, distention of right heart, high blood pressure etc

Viruses, rickettsia, bacteriophages, spontaneous fibrinolysis ('coagulolysis'), living and dead ferments, enzymes, drugs, hormones etc.

Workmen's Insurance

'Sturge-Weber' disease

'Sturge-Weber' disease

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