BRODIE, Sir Benjamin Collins
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Experiments and observations on the influence of the nerves of the eighth pair on the secretions of the stomach.Phil. Trans., 104, 102-06, 1814.Before turning to surgery, Brodie did important work in physiology. Above is his study of the influence of the pneumogastric nerve on gastric secretion. Subjects: GASTROENTEROLOGY › Anatomy & Physiology of Digestion |
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Observations on the treatment of varicose veins of the legs.Med.-chir. Trans., 7, 195-210, 1816.Brodie first operated for varicose veins in 1814. Subjects: VASCULAR SURGERY |
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Pathological and surgical observations on the diseases of the joints.London: Longman, 1818.Brodie’s best work. It includes his description of hysterical pseudo-fracture of the spine and the first clinical description of ankylosing spondylitis. The fifth edition, 1850, gives (p. 77) a description of “Brodie’s disease” – chronic synovitis with a pulpy degeneration of the affected parts. Subjects: ORTHOPEDICS › Diseases of or Injuries to Bones, Joints & Skeleton |
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On trephining the tibia.Lond. med. Gaz., 2, 70-74, 1828.“Brodie’s abscess”. The patient was first seen in 1824. Brodie published an account of some further cases in Med.-chir. Trans., 1832, 17, 239-49, which paper is reprinted in Med. Classics, 1938, 2, 900-06. Subjects: ORTHOPEDICS › Diseases of or Injuries to Bones, Joints & Skeleton |
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Lectures on diseases of the rectum. III. Preternatural contraction of the sphincter ani.Lond. med. Gaz., 16, 26-31, 1835.“Brodie’s pile”. Reprinted in Medical Classics, 1938, 2, 929-40. Subjects: Colon & Rectal Diseases & Surgery |
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Lecture on sero-cystic tumors of the breast.Lond. med. Gaz., 25, 808-14, 1840.“Brodie’s tumor”. Reprinted in Med. Classics, 1938, 2, 941-54. Subjects: ONCOLOGY & CANCER, SURGERY: General › Diseases of the Breast |
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Lectures illustrative of various subjects in pathology and surgery.London: Longman, 1846.Page 361 contains the first description of intermittent claudication in man. This was first reported (in the horse) by “Boullay” [?J. Bouley] in Arch. gén. Méd.,1831, 27, 425. P. 186: Brodie's test for insufficiency of the valves in varicose veins, later associated with the name of Trendelenburg. Subjects: CARDIOLOGY › CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE › Arterial Disease, CARDIOLOGY › CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE › Venous Disease, PATHOLOGY, SURGERY: General |