An Interactive Annotated World Bibliography of Printed and Digital Works in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences from Circa 2000 BCE to 2024 by Fielding H. Garrison (1870-1935), Leslie T. Morton (1907-2004), and Jeremy M. Norman (1945- ) Traditionally Known as “Garrison-Morton”

16061 entries, 14144 authors and 1947 subjects. Updated: November 17, 2024

WILSON, Samuel Alexander Kinnier

3 entries
  • 4717

Progressive lenticular degeneration, a familial nervous disease associated with cirrhosis of the liver.

Brain, 34, 295-509, 1912.

Classic description of progressive familial hepatolenticular degeneration (“Wilson’s disease”), first described by Frerichs in 1861 (see No. 4693), now considered to be a disorder of copper and ceruloplasmin metabolism.



Subjects: NEUROLOGY › Degenerative Disorders
  • 4606

Some problems in neurology. No. 2. Pathological laughing and crying.

J. Neurol. Psychopath., 4, 299-333, 1924.

An important paper on the pathology of facial movements.



Subjects: NEUROLOGY › Diseases of the Nervous System
  • 4614

Neurology 2 pts. Edited by A.N. Bruce.

London: E. Arnold & Co., 1940.

Wilson died before this monumental work was completed, and it was edited by A. N. Bruce. It includes a vast amount of history and hundreds of references. Second edition, 1954.



Subjects: NEUROLOGY, NEUROLOGY › History of Neurology