Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1773

THOMAS BLIZARD CURLING (1811-1888) A practical treatise on the diseases of the testis, and of the spermatic cord and scrotum. Carey and Hart 1843 xiii [24]-568 pp., illus. 23 cm.

Curling, surgeon at the London Hospital for many years, was president of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1873. He was one of the first to present a clinical description of cretinism and to suggest that it was caused by a deficiency of the thyroid gland. William M. Ord (1834-1902) later coined the term myxoedema for this condition. This book was first published in London in 1843 and was edited for republication in the United States by Paul B. Goddard (see No. 1760 ff.). Goddard made several revisions and additions to the book and, in the preface, indicated that Curling's book surpasses Sir Astley Paston Cooper's (see No. 1224 ff.) earlier work on the testis.

See Related Record(s): 1760 1224

Cited references: Wellcome II, p. 420 (London ed., 1843)

Gift of H. C. Bulis and A. F. Barfoot