An Interactive Annotated World Bibliography of Printed and Digital Works in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences from Circa 2000 BCE to 2022 by Fielding H. Garrison (1870-1935), Leslie T. Morton (1907-2004), and Jeremy M. Norman (1945- ) Traditionally Known as “Garrison-Morton”

15961 entries, 13944 authors and 1935 subjects. Updated: March 22, 2024

ASCHOFF, Karl Albert Ludwig

5 entries
  • 2816

Zur Myocarditisfrage.

Verh, dtsch. path. Ges., 8, 46-53, 1904.

In his work on rheumatic myocarditis, Aschoff described the characteristic lesion (Aschoff body or nodule) and presented a histopathological picture of myocarditis that was to exert a great influence on the classification of the disease. Translated in Willius & Keys, Cardiac classics, 1941, pp. 733-39.



Subjects: CARDIOLOGY › CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE › Myocarditis
  • 3572

Die Wurmfortsatzentzündung.

Jena: Gustav Fischer, 1908.

Aschoff’s theory of the enterogenous origin of appendicitis.



Subjects: SURGERY: General › Appendicitis
  • 3645

Die Cholelithiasis.

Jena: Gustav Fischer, 1909.


Subjects: HEPATOLOGY › Diseases of the Gallbladder, Biliary Tract, & Pancreas › Gallstones
  • 3722

Der Skorbut.

Jena: Gustav Fischer, 1919.


Subjects: NUTRITION / DIET › Deficiency Diseases › Scurvy
  • 562

Das reticulo-endotheliale System.

Ergebn. inn. Med., 26, 1-118, 1924.

In an earlier paper on this subject (Münch, med. Wschr., 1922, 69, 1352-56) Aschoff introduced the term “reticulo-endothelial system”; as early as 1914 he grouped certain phagocytic cells into his system.



Subjects: BIOLOGY › Cell Biology, DERMATOLOGY