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Parkes Weber, Frederick (1863-1962)

Subject Collections (medical)

Hodgkin's Disease; FPW 1909 Case!

Hodgkin's Disease etc (Second series)

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

Holidays and Spa treatment

Some principles of homeostatic reactions

The Social Problem of Homosexuality (Medical Press 1947) (for comparison)

Hydrocephalus

HW and FPW: Hydrotherapy and Balneotherapy. Includes also cuttings etc on Climatotherapy

Hyperparathyroidism--chronic and rarely acute (parathormone intoxication), primary and secondary (continued) also various allied questions

Hypertrichosis lanuginosa (various types)

[Hypogl]ykaemic attacks, [....] hyperinsulinism, [.....] new series

So called 'hypogonadism' and 'hypergonadism' in both sexes--primary and secondary} Eunuchoidism

Self-mutilations for various purposes, needle-swallowing etc. Hysterical malingering and simulation or aggravation of symptoms without hysteria. Some 'shell-shock' cases

Idiosyncrasies

Archibald E. Garrod: <i>The Inborn Factors in Disease</i> (Oxford, 1931)

Infantilism

Inheritance and Eugenics

Insanity, Degeneracy, Syphilis

Insects

Intermittent ailings (avoidable and unavoidable) and 'safety-valve action'

Simple jaundice and family cirrhosis, 1903

Infective and epidemic jaundice, including 'spirochaetal jaundice' (Weil's disease) and non-spirochaetal infective catarrhal jaundice (also Weil's disease without jaundice)

Toxic jaundice and hepatic atrophy amongst munition workers etc, and from drugs such as luminol, apiol etc---also prontosil (from salvarsan see elsewhere)

A new type of congenital life-long jaundice (case of Mr Dawswell) Med Press 11 Dec 1946

The Kast-Recklingshausen syndrome, a compound developmental dysplasia: on osteo-chondro-dysplasia with haemangiomata. The above syndrome is better termed 'Mafucci syndrome'

Various forms of kidney disease, especially 'ischaemic nephritis' and chronic nephritis

Affections of the lachrimal glands and involving the tear-producing apparatus including involuntary lacrimation and 'crocodile tears'

Galactorrhoea, persistent lactation, etc, and various disorders (including the Chiari-Frommel disease) in the secretion of milk--Reflex mammary disorders

Recurrent laryngeal nerve paralysis (various causes)

Clinical study of leucomychia Br J Derm 1953 April by J C Mitchell (Reprint F Parkes Weber Br J Derm 1933 Leucomychia striata (Kathe Wendelbaum))

Acute Leukaemia and Classification 1903

Leukaemia--atypical leukaemia and myeloid anaemia--anaemia with haemopoietic reaction in liver and spleen 1904

Leukaemia, chloro-leukaemia, leukanaemia, New Series

Lichen planus (notably lichen planus limited to the mouth or vulva or penis)

Lichenification and neurodermatitis etc and 'eczematisation' (for comparison)

Life assurance claims, especially early claims

Influence of Light

Lipodystrophica progressiva, etc

Intestinal lipodystrophy (Whipple's disease)

Lipoid Dermato-arthritis--preferred by FPW (reticulohistiocytosis--FPW) A review of the Disease and report of a case with histiochemical studies by Lyell (Alan) and Carr (AJ) answered 28th June 1958

Liver: cirrhosis and other  diseases of

Primary tumours of the liver (especially malignant, but also non-mal[ignant] adeno[mas]

Hermann Weber: Longevity and means for prolongation of life (edited by F Parkes Weber (London 1919)

Complete agenesis of lung

F E Saxby and J Almeyden Willis: Cystic disease of the lung (broncho-alveolar cysts) (from Tubercule 1943)

Lupus erythematosus, especially acute, and acute disseminated types (series 3) and type of Kaposi's 'erysipelas perstans faciei'

Lupus vulgaris

Re hyperplasia of lymph-nodes and 'germinal areas of Fleming'

[no label on envelope]

Lymphocytopenia, etc

MS of the 'Maggot' paper, Nov 1951

Health and Disease in Relation to Marriage and the Married State by Prof Dr H Senator and Dr S Kaminer, trans J Dulberg, Vol I (1904)

Mediastinal leucosarcomatosis (Sternberg) and mediastinal aleukaemic lymphocyomatosis, etc

Notes and cuttings to supplement my copy of W Gurney Benham's (Cassell's) Book of Quotations. This collection includes many medical and semi-medical aphorisms

[Medic]al (Diagnosis etc) and Therapeutical Practical Notes

Medical/Surgical/Scientific Eponyms

[....]s, Medals, [...]t, Epigram [....]nd the Medical Sciences.

Immense progress in modern medicine

Meniere's syndrome

The menstrual cycle and its disorders. Theoretical explanations etc of it

Mind Disease and Therapeutics

Mineral metabolism and medical problems

[Miscellane]ous growths (Series II) [Miscellan]eous cysts of the head etc

[Mondor's Disease]

Mongolism and mongoloid idiocy

Muscular cramp and angina pectoris

Mycosis fungoides. Cutaneous symptoms in leukaemia and Hodgkin's Disease

Multiple myeloma

Nocturnal myoclonus

Myopathies

'Myotonic pupil' and Markus's and Adie's syndrome

Myotony

Myxoedema

Naevi

Neoplasms or neoplastic diseases

Nervous system and diseases

Neuralgia Paraesthetica 1902: includes neuritis, from pressure of a wristlet watch, etc (for comparison)

Neurofibromatosis and Recklingshausen's disease

Neutropenia (granolocytopenia) and agranulocytosis, with some cases of aplastic anaemia (second series)

Nystagmus and 'Head nystagmus' (familial and non-familial)

Obesity

Ocular palsies, including Pannaud's syndrome including some cases of palsies

Oedema

Secondary osteo-arthropathy (Pierre Marie etc)

Osteoporosis

Osteosclerosis

Paget's Disease etc

Diseases of the pancreas

Gastro-intestinal parasites (especially parasitic worms) in man and animals, including distoma hepaticum or Liver fluke (trichina spiralis [deleted] see special collection) cysticercus cellulosae, hydatid infestation of bone etc, also lung flukes

Hodgkin's Disease

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