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”

16061 entries, 14144 authors and 1947 subjects. Updated: December 10, 2024

VOLKMANN, Richard von

3 entries
  • 2126

Beiträge zur Chirurgie, anschliessend an einen Bericht über die Thätigkeit der chirurgischen Universitäts-Klinik zu Halle im Jahre 1873.

Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1875.

Contains (pp. 370-81) first description of industrial tar and paraffin cancer.



Subjects: OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH & MEDICINE , ONCOLOGY & CANCER
  • 3470

Ueber den Mastdarmkrebs und die Extirparlo recti.

Samml. klin. Vortr., Nr. 131 (Chir., Nr. 42), 1113-28, 1878.

First excision of the rectum for cancer.



Subjects: Colon & Rectal Diseases & Surgery
  • 5617

Die ischaemischen Muskellähmungen und Kontrakturen.

Zhl. Chir., 8, 801-03, 1881.

“Volkmann’s ischemic contracture” first described. English translation in Bick, Classics of orthopaedics.



Subjects: ORTHOPEDICS › Diseases of or Injuries to Bones, Joints & Skeleton