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Includes Mark Jansen: <i>Feebleness of Growth and Congenital Dwarfism</i> (Oxford Medical Publications, 1921), annotated and with cuttings etc., and 2 cuttings by H A Harris, 1926, 1928.

Parkes Weber, Frederick (1863-1962)

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Acrocyanosis

Acromegaly, gigantism and acromegaloid conditions, including familial cases more or less resembling acromegaly

Acroparaesthesia with Heberden's nodes

Action and reaction

Addison's disease

Adenomatous Tumours of the Abdominal Viscera

Ageing

Albuminuria and Life Assurance

Albuminuria in Health, Rheumatic albuminuria, etc 1900

Massive albuminuria not due apparently to nephrosis

Alcohol in Health and Disease

Alopecia universalis, alopecia areata, neurotic alopecia, congenital alopecia

Temporary or sudden (unilateral or bilateral) Ambylopia or blindness

Amyloidosis

Amyoplasia congenita, myodystrophia foetalis deformans dysmyoplasia, hypomyoplasia

Achlorhydric anaemia

Anaemia, hypochlorhydria, and alopecia (especially loss of sexual hair) with pituitary and gonadal insufficiency--also some cases of alopecia

Anaemia and leukaemia and 'leukaemia' in children and young adults and some cases of anaemia connected with thrombocytopenic purpura

Grave anaemia in association with haemorrhoids, menorrhagia, gastric or duodenal ulceration etc

Anaemia, acute haemolytic

Anaemias, pernicious and aplastic and some others

Hysterical anaesthesia especially in connection with [?....] vasomotor neurosis, acrocyanosis, weak [....]. Some other forms of anaesthesia for comparison

Angina Pectoris etc

Angioma serpiginosum (second series). Schamberg's 'Progressive pigmentary dermatosis' (for comparison)

Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine

Re mild cases of anorexia nervosa (for diagnosis) and mild cases of 'Simmonds disease' and Korbsch's 'gastritis atrophicans juvenilis'

Antagonistic phases in the same disease

Appendicitis and Life Assurance

The vermiform appendix--appendicitis etc

Arachnodactylia (acrodolicomelia) etc (Marfan's syndrome) (Dolichstenomelia, acrodolicomelia)

Argentaffinic tumours (carcinoids)

Arsenical treatment in connection with the occurence of herpes zoster, pneumonia etc

Arteriosclerosis

Arteritis Obliterans

Arthropathia psoriatica and possibly allied cases.

Ascites: operative treatments; spontaneous cures; medical treatment; and cures after paracentesis

B Stiller: Asthenic constitution 1907

Biliary cirrhosis

Blood-viscosity

Bone tumours

Bradycardia

Osteo-liposima and other (chiefly small) tumours of the brain, mostly necropsy findings not diagnosed (and probably without symptoms) during life

<i>Brain</i> Vol XXXIV pt IV with notes and cuttings

R W Parker etc: Bronchitis Obliterans--1906

Calcification and decalcification

(Calcinosis) Case of Patricia Allpress, aged 2 years in whom calcinosis commenced before birth

Cancer [general]

W. Sampson Handley, The Genesis of Cancer (London 1931)

Cancer and Life Assurance 1905

Cancer of extrahepatic bile ducts and hepatostomy

The capillary circulation etc. The skin microscope. 'Peripheral hearts'

Modern work on carcinoma, sarcoma and tumours of various kinds, and heterotopia

Carcinoma telangiectatum. Carcinoma erysipelitodes

Cardiac and circulatory affections and symptoms

Cardiac Thrombosis

'Cardiospasm' -- megaloesophagus -- 'Achalasia' of the cardia, etc. Spasmodic stricture and dilation of oesophagus ('Idiopathic dilation')

Medals of Centenarians 1895-7

The Cerebro-spinal Fluid: its spontaneous escape from the nose by St Clair Thomson (London, 1899), with observations on its composition and function in the human subject

Charcot's Teaching--1893

[Loose items]

Congenital-Developmental stenosis of the ostia of the hepatic veins--'Chiari's disease' (1952 Med Press, 1955 Lancet)

Chordoma and conditions allied to it or which may be mistaken for it

Chorion-epithelioma (chorionic carcinoma) in the liver and other organs, especially in males

'Circles' and 'vicious circles' in biology and medicine

Circulatory and trophic disorders of the legs

Colitis, dysentery and (mostly obscure) rectal diseases

Allergic colitis haemorrhagica

Congenital-developmental diseases

[Congenital indifference to pain]

Constipation

O Naegeli: Allgemeini Konstitutionslehre in naturwissenschaftlicher un medizinischer betrachtung 1927

Clinical Coprology

Craft palsies, spasms and neuritis. Occupation neuroses.

Some curious affections (including plasmocytoma to be distinguished from the plasmocytomatous type of multiple myeloma) of the cranium and jaws {see elsewhere for congenital or acquired deficiencies ('holes') in the vault of the skull

Cryptorchidism in man and animals, and ectopic testes (mal-descent of testes)

Cutaneous diseases of feet and hands and nails

Cutis striata. Cutis verticis gyrata etc

Cystic dilation of the choleoductus

Dental disease, Dental disease and life assurance

Modern Trends in Dermatology

Dermatomyositis

Hastings Gilford: The Disorders of Post-Natal Growth and Development (1911)

Very remarkable examples of developmental diseases etc (Ass Physicians Gt Brit and Irel 25 May 1950)

Diabetes Insipidus, varieties of polydipsia, etc, also the condition of the pituitary gland in diabetes mellitus etc

Diabetes melitus

Diathermy (long-wave therapy) and short-wave ('Kuzwellen') therapy--or marconi therapy

Pes Cavus and 'clawfoot' of obscure and various origin. Aran-Duchenne hand and 'main-en-griffe'. 'Hammertoes' (and 'Hammer-fingers') [Digits]

Dilatations and hypertrophies

The definition and classification of disease

Disease at various psychic levels

Re the question of mild disseminated sclerosis and 'formes fruste'

Diverticulitis and 'colitis sinistra' and 'diverticulosis'.

Discussion and correspondence, on Bernard Myers on diverticulosis etc (for correspondence etc)

Dreaming (second series)

Dysarthria

Ear, Nose, Throat, and Mouth, and Life Assurance etc

Milky and chyliform effusions--Chyluria and loss of chyle with the faeces

Emphysema, asthma etc (second series)

Encephalitis

Cases clinically simulating encephalitis lethargica

Endocarditis and nephritis

Endocrine Tumours

Epidemic nausea and vomiting (to distinguish from 'gastric influenza' etc)

The 'Epilepsies', epileptoid conditions and epilepsy 'equivalents' . {Trance-like conditions and premature burial, also 'sleepwalking' for comparison.

[one line illegible] Erythema Iris and similar erythema multiforme. Erythema centrifugumannulare ver gyratum perstans and various chronic and hardly-elevated serpiginous and gyrate eruptions

Erythrokeratodermia [....]roful angiokeratoma. Ichthyosiform erythrodermia, etc. Hyperkeratosis (tylosis) of hands and feet

Erythroblastaemia: -- acute erythraemic ('erythroblastaemic' FPW) myelosis of infants

Erythroblastosis foetalis. Icterus gravis neonatorum

Erythromelalgia (series IB). Persisent lividities, erythema or redness of feet and hands or other areas of skin--or rather, persistent telangiectatic redness or erythematous conditions of feet etc

Congenital (including birth trauma) and various other diseases and anomalies of the eye

Eyestrain and its results, such as headache, migraine, attacks resembling slight epilepsy ('petit mal') etc

Faecal vomiting and anti-peristalsis

Familial amaurotic idiocy and Neimann-Pick disease for comparison. Familial cerebro-macular degeneration and familial retinal degeneration--'retinal aliotrophy'

[Ther]apeutic fasting; starvation; and the role of starvation in health and disease--etc

Female risks and gynaecological troubles in relation to life assurance

Flushing

Forgotten nosographs of rare diseases and syndromes

Fungi in Human Pathology, and also some protozoal parasites, etc

Ganglia, 'Baker's cysts' , Bursal tumours, Bursitis, calcarea, Heberden's nodes, tenosynovitis, 'juxta-articular nodes' etc

Certain cases* * gargoyle disease or 'gargoylism'--or polydystrophia of Hurler's types (Hurler's syndrome). The Marquio-Brailsford disease'--cf abnormalities of skeletal development sometimes accompanied by enlargement of spleen and liver (?splanchomegaly), anaemia, stiff or bent or 'contracted' (flexed) joints (eg hands and feet), dwarfism, unchildlike facies, opacity of cornea, mental deficiency etc

Phlegmonous gastritis (also phlegmonous enteritis and phlegmonous proctitis for comparison); and other septic gastritis

Acute dilatation (atony) of stomach and also of intestines--acute gastro-intestinal dilatation (atony)

Glandular fever, infectious mononucleosis etc

Glomus and Glomus-Tumour (Masson)

Gout, Rheumatism, Meat Diet etc

Gynaecomastia, especially unilateral gynaecomastia. Question of unilateral and local constitutions: unilaterality, local predispositions, special 'soils', in regard to hormonic action.

Haemangiectatic hypertrophy of limbs etc

[?Various] cases of haematemesis. [?dis]charges and skin eruptions in regard to 'Menstrual Equivalents', 'vicarious menstruation' ('complementary menstruation') and 'Supplementary' ('complementary') menstruation (and premenstrual vomiting and other premenstrual troubles, psychos[?omatic])

Life history of haemoglobin and its derivatives and also of melanin, lipochromes and other pigments of the body (Langdon Brown etc)

Haemolysis, haemoglobinuria, and supposed 'haemolytic fever'--and haemolytic jaundice

Haemophilia

Theoretical doctrines of haemopoesis. Various kinds of haemopoeitic and myeloid reactions

Spontaneous haemorrhage [...] and haemorrhagic oedemas (especially the case of Edward Khaan); also interesting traumatic haematomata; also spontaneous and traumatic haemorrhage into tumours, into serous cavities etc

'Haemotologische Beobachtungen'

Hamartoma, Hamartomata, Choristoma, Choristomatosis-- synovial osteochondromatosis, 'organoid tumours'

Paroxysmal and postural headaches due to intraventicular cysts and tumours

Health resorts

Perforations of the valves and walls of the heart

Heart Disease, Congenital

Traumatic affections, and various ruptures (also including idiopathic cases) of the Heart and great Blood vessels

Modern teleology in regard to the structure ('architecture') of bones. Diametaphysial transverse striation etc

Modern teleology in regard to the structure ('architecture') of bones. Diametaphysial transverse striation etc

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