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Pelger-leucoctye families. 'Siderocytes'. 'Constitutional familial polyphilia'. Inherited red cell abnormalities

Parkes Weber, Frederick (1863-1962)

Subject Collections (medical)

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

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

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

Pellagra

'Peradenitis mucosa recurrens' (necrotica)

Periarteritis (polyarteritis) nodosa (first series)--acute multiple aneurysms of small arteries

Rare pericardial diseases

Peripheral neuritis (neuritis and polyneuritis), neuromyositis of various kinds

Pigmentary disorders of skin

Cholesterol pituitary tumour (craniopharyngioma, etc)

Pleurisy and non-tuberculous lung diseases (sclerosis fibrosis etc). Pathology, treatment, and Life Insurance

Pneumatoses in gas cysts of peritoneum, mesentery, intestines etc: diffuse emphysema of intestinal wall

Pneumococcal peritonitis, septicaemia, 'Influenza', pharyngitis, tonsillitis, laryngitis, eye troubles and other non-pulmonary pneumococcal infections

Benign circumscribed pneumonia etc

H Weber--Epidemic pneumonia 1900

Pneumothorax

Poliomyelitis

Splenomegalic polycythaemia

Polycythaemia, Erythrocytosis and erythraemia (Vaquez-Osler Disease: F Parkes Weber (London H K Lewis and Co 1921)

Secondary or symptomatic polycythaemias etc:- polycythaemia and cyanosis in congenital and acquired heart and lung diseases etc

Polycythaemia etc (Monographs etc)

Polyneuritis

Precocious development

Persistent Priapism

Prostatic enlargement and cancer, and prostatic obstruction, and various prostatic tumours (may contain bone) [...] including questions of diagnosis etc; also of prognosis and life assurance.

Prurigo

Psittacosis etc

Psychological factors in organic diseases--case notes etc

Psychoneuroses, malingering etc

Pulmonary and other fat-embolism. Pulmonary concussion.

('Idiopathic') pulmonary haemosiderosis

(1) Pulmonary leiomyometosis (infiltration of bronchi and lungs) with intense secondary polycythaemia. Sarcomatous

Paroxysmal (Acute) Pulmonary Oedema: cases regarding its diagnosis etc

Purpura

Race climate environment occupation and bodily build in relation to Life Assurance

Radium and X-rays

Raynaud's Disease, Raynaud's phenomena, and 'Rothmurd's disease'

Recurrence of diseases. Reactivation of syphilis and other diseases by drugs and (other) infections or toxins

[....] knee-jerks [tr]epidatia, ankle clonus, Babinski's toe-phenomenon (presence and absence of ) and similar signs of organic or functional nervous disease ('Defensive reflexes')

Renal angiospasm and necrosis of the renal cortex. Experimental work by Peter Daniel and his colleagues (up to 1955)

Rheostosis (melorheostosis) (First and Second Series) especially in combination with tuberous sclerosis of the brain etc

Rheumatic disorders amd rheumatoid arthritis

Cutaneous and subcutaneous nodules and nodular conditions associated with rheumatoid arthritis and symptoms resembling acute, sub-acute or chronic rheumatism

Palindromic Rheumatism and--especially allergic--phenomema bearing on the subject

Cervical ribs and other supernumerary ribs (both dorsal and lumbar ribs). Family history--relation to congenital scoliosis, scoliosis, and various congenital abnormalities. Neuropathic tendency--relation to syringomelia, congenital syphilis etc

Roentgen Rays: Cuttings

Saliva and salivary glands

Salvarsan, neo-salvarsan, bismuth, sovarsol, etc. Treatment and dangers, bad results etc (First series)

Sarcoidosis etc (2nd series)

Sarcoma

'Scalenus auticus syndrome' and also cervical rib cases and doubtful Raynaud's syndrome cases (for comparison) (including Dr Bernard Myer's lady-housekeeper)

Sclerodermia

Sea Air, Voyages, Mountain climates etc

Seasickness etc

[....S]ecretions in general. [...]otherapy, organotherapy, animal extracts, hormones--?'anti-hormones' (Collip etc)

Eulenberg: Sexuale Neuropathie

August Forel: Die Sexuelle Frage, Munich 1905

Sjogren's syndrome

E A Cockayne: Inherited abnormalities of the skin and its appendages (Oxford Medical Publications 1933) [2 copies]

Spleen

Indications for splenectomy etc (question of 'hypersplenism' etc)

Splenic anaemia and splenomegaly

State Medical Service

Steatorrhea, sprue (including European sprue) and fatty diarrhoea (and coeliac disease in adults)  with or without anaemia, with or without tetany. Folic acid therapy

Stenosis (coarctation) of the Aortic Isthmus

Still's disease

'Sturge-Weber' disease

Small subcutaneous and cutaneous growths (Series 1)

Suprarenal hyperplasia and arteriosclerosis and atheroma (1906)

Surgical operations and injuries in regard to subsequent life assurance and prognosis

'Recurrent suppurative hidradenitis'. Recurrent inflammation of the axillary sweat glands. Also the so-called Fox-Fordyce disease

Arteriosclerosis and atheroma ('atherosclerosis') and aortitis[...]. Syphilitic disease of big arteries--aortic aneurysms, etc

Syphilis and Atheroma and Lardaceous Disease 1895-6

Syphilitic diseases of the bones and joints and bursae and tendon-sheaths (especially in inherited syphilis) (including syphilitic spondylitis)

Syphilitic fever and syphilis of the alimentary canal (excepting mouth, pharnyx, and oesophagus) 1907

Health resorts and hygiene in syphilis

Inherited syphilis

Syphilis and Life Assurance

Syphilitic cirrhosis of the liver

Syphilitic Disease of Lung [....] Bronchi, Trachea, Larynx, Nose, Palate [and ?pharynx] second series

[Syphilitic nephritis....etc] Syphilis of the urinary[? tract]. Resolution of Dropsy [....] (Diuretic) and Diarrhoeal Gi[....]

Syphilis and parasyphilis of the nervous system

Early syphilitic paraplegia 1898

The relation of syphilis to other diseases, and some questions of diagnosis connected with this subject

Telangiectasia

Thrombocythaemia (Hyperthrombocythaemia FPW)

Traumatic and other venous thrombosis, especially in regard to life assurance etc; also regarding causes and nature of thrombosis in the circulation

Thymus Gland (Second series)

Thyroid Gland and Goitres, and 'paragoitrous' affections

Tics

Mamillated Tongues etc

The tonic leiomyospasms (suggested communication) Hysteria and the thalamo-cortical connections etc. Gas in the alimentary canal (for comparison)

Senile, Familial, Congenital and Function Tremors

Tremors, athetosis and ataxia, sometimes familial, and especially in children, and ataxia of some kinds in adults for instance (idiopathic) cerebellar (progressive cerebellar) atrophy.

Re 'Pelger leucocytes' etc

Re 'Pelger leucocytes' etc

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