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”

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ADDISON, William

2 entries
  • 2294

Experimental and practical researches on the structure and function of blood corpuscles; on inflammation; and on the origin and nature of tubercles in the lungs.

Trans. prov. med. surg. Ass., 11, 233-306., 1843.

Addison gave an important account of the process of inflammation. See L.J. Rather, Addison and the white corpuscles: An aspect of nineteenth-century biology. London, Wellcome Institute, 1972. See also No. 3059.



Subjects: HEMATOLOGY, INFECTIOUS DISEASE › Tuberculosis, PATHOLOGY
  • 3059

Experimental and practical researches on inflammation and on the origin and nature of tubercles of the lungs.

London: John Churchill, 1843.

Addison made important observations on the blood corpuscles. He is by some considered “the world’s first hematologist”. He gave the first description of leucocytosis, so named by Virchow in 1858, and he anticipated Cohnheim’s conception of inflammation. He was first to observe diapedesis. See Lancet, 1907, 1,182-83. See also No. 2294.



Subjects: HEMATOLOGY, HEMATOLOGY › Blood Disorders