WARDROP, James
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Essays on the morbid anatomy of the human eye. 2 vols.Edinburgh: G. Ramsay & Co, 1808 – 1818.Wardrop was the first to classify the various inflammations of the eye according to the structures attacked. He was also the first to use the term “keratitis”. Subjects: OPHTHALMOLOGY › Diseases of the Eye |
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Case of carotid aneurism successfully treated by tying the artery above the aneurismal tumor.Med.-chir. Trans., 13, 217-26, 1827.Wardrop successfully treated aneurysm of the carotid artery by distal ligation, a procedure suggested by Pierre Brasdor (see No. 2951). Wardrop expanded this paper into a book: On aneurism, and its cure by a new operation, London, Longman, 1828. Subjects: VASCULAR SURGERY › Ligations |
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On blood-letting: An account of the curative effects of the abstraction of blood; with rules for employing both local and general blood-letting in the treatment of diseases.London: J.-B. Baillière, 1835.Wardrop "promoted blood-letting in an era when a few physicians, notably Pierre Louis of Paris, were discouraging the therapeutic approach" (W. Bruce Fye, "James Wardrop," Profiles in cardiology, 91.) Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link. Subjects: THERAPEUTICS › Bloodletting |