Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1327

JEAN FRéDéRIC LOBSTEIN (1777-1835) De nervi sympathetici humani fabrica usu et morbis. Apud F. G. Levrault 1823 xii, 174, viii pp., 10 plates (1 fold., 6 col.). 30.3 cm.

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Lobstein was one of several French and German neuroanatomists and pathologists who made significant contributions to the study of the nervous system during the first half of the nineteenth century. Lobstein was trained at Strasbourg where he later served for many years as chairman of the first department of pathology. He is well known for his contributions to pathology and his introduction of the terms pathogenesis, arteriosclerosis, and arteriectasia. He also devised a classification of pathological lesions based on the anatomical character of the change rather than its location. In this treatise, he describes a small accessory autonomic ganglion (Lobstein's ganglion) which is a part of the lower thoracic autonomic chain and lies just above the diaphragm. The ganglion, beautifully depicted in Plate VI, is no longer noted as a separate or important entity in modern neurology.

Cited references: Garrison-Morton 1317; Waller 5963; Wellcome III, p. 534

Gift of John Martin, M.D.