An Interactive Annotated World Bibliography of Printed and Digital Works in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences from Circa 2000 BCE to 2024 by Fielding H. Garrison (1870-1935), Leslie T. Morton (1907-2004), and Jeremy M. Norman (1945- ) Traditionally Known as “Garrison-Morton”

16077 entries, 14165 authors and 1948 subjects. Updated: October 12, 2025

FOERSTER, Otfrid

6 entries
  • 4880

Ueber eine neue operative Methode der Behandlung spastischer Lähmungen mittels Resektion hinterer Rückenmarkswurzeln.

Z. orthop. Chir., 22, 203-23, 1908.

Foerster’s operation of rhizotomy for spastic paralysis.



Subjects: NEUROSURGERY
  • 4881

Ueber operative Behandlung gastrischer Krisen durch Resektion der 7-10. hinteren Dorsalwurzel.

Beitr. klin. Chir., 63, 245-56, 1909.

Foerster’s operation for tabes.



Subjects: NEUROLOGY › Neurosyphilis, NEUROSURGERY
  • 4604

Zur Analyse und Pathophysiologie der striären Bewegungsstörungen.

Z. ges. Neurol. Psychiat., 73, 1-169, 1921.

Foerster made a most important contribution to the literature on extra pyramidal diseases.



Subjects: NEUROLOGY › Diseases of the Nervous System
  • 1377.1

The dermatomes in man.

Brain, 56, 1-39, 1933.


Subjects: DERMATOLOGY, NEUROSCIENCE › NERVOUS SYSTEM › Spinal Cord
  • 4613

Handbuch der Neurologie. 17 vols. [in 18].

Berlin: Julius Springer, 1935 – 1937.

For its era, the definitive encyclopedia of neurology.



Subjects: NEUROLOGY
  • 1450

The motor cortex in man in the light of Hughlings Jackson’s doctrines.

Brain, 59, 135-59, 1936.

In this Hughlings Jackson Lecture, Foerster published his famous cytoarchitectonic map of the human cerebral cortex.



Subjects: ANATOMY › Neuroanatomy, NEUROSCIENCE › NERVOUS SYSTEM › Brain, including Medulla: Cerebrospinal Fluid