A Biographical History of Endocrinology

Description

For the first time A Biographical History of Endocrinology brings together in one brief volume the complete biographical history of endocrinology from Hippocrates to the modern day, highlighting the important leaders and their contributions to the medical field. Encompassing all the watershed moments in the history of the profession, each chapter focuses on a key figure and their role in the progression of endocrinology related medicine and science.

This is the only text that provides a concise yet comprehensive biographical history of endocrinology that will benefit not only trainee and qualified endocrinologists but also non-specialists in the medical profession as well as historians of medicine.

Table of Contents

Preface
CHAPTER 1 Diabetes and the Ebers Papyrus (1552 B.C.)
D. Lynn Loriaux
CHAPTER 2 The Greek Myths and the First Physicians (1100 B.C.)
D. Lynn Loriaux
CHAPTER 3 Kos and Alexandria (400 B.C.E. – 400 C.E.) – The First Human Anatomy
D. Lynn Loriaux
CHAPTER 4 Hippocrates (400 B.C.) – Western Medicine Begin
D. Lynn Loriaux
CHAPTER 5 Aristotle (384-322 B.C.) – Experiments of Nature
D. Lynn Loriaux
CHAPTER 6 Soranus of Ephesus (98-138) – Obstetrics and Gynecology
Leon Speroff
CHAPTER 7 Aretaeus of Cappadocia (First and Second Centuries A.D.) – The First Description of Diabetes
D. Lynn Loriaux
CHAPTER 8 Galen (130-200) – The First “Human Anatomy”
D. Lynn Loriaux
CHAPTER 9 Avicenna (980-1037) – Preservation of “Classical” Medicine
D. Lynn Loriaux
CHAPTER 10 Andreas Vesalius (1514-1564) – The Renaissance in Medicine
D. Lynn Loriaux
CHAPTER 11 Bartolomeo Eustachi (Eustachius) (1520-1574) – The Adrenal Gland
D. Lynn Loriaux
CHAPTER 12 Santorio Santorio (1561-1636) – Insensible Loss
D. Lynn Loriaux
CHAPTER 13 William Harvey (1578-1657) – The First Great Experiment, “de Motu Cordis”
D. Lynn Loriaux
CHAPTER 14 Thomas Wharton (1614-1673) – Codifying the Glands
Clark Sawin
CHAPTER 15 Marcello Malpighi (1628-1694) – The Capillary
D. Lynn Loriaux
CHAPTER 16 Richard Lower (1631-1691) – The Pituitary Gland
D. Lynn Loriaux
CHAPTER 17 Regnier de Graaf (1641-1673) – The Graffian Follicle
Clark Sawin
CHAPTER 18 Anton Van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723) – The First of the Great Microscopists
D. Lynn Loriaux
CHAPTER 19 John Hunter (1728-1793) – Embryology of the Hind
D. Lynn Loriaux
CHAPTER 20 Caleb Hillier Parry (1755-1822) – Thyrotoxicosis
Clark Sawin
CHAPTER 21 Thomas Addison (1795-1860) – Adrenal Insufficiency
D. Lynn Loriaux
CHAPTER 22 Robert James Graves (1796-1853) – Thyrotoxicosis
Clark Sawin
CHAPTER 23 Armand Trousseau (1801-1867) – Diabetes Insipidus
Clark Sawin
CHAPTER 24 Arnold Adolph Berthold (1803-1861) – Transplantation of Testes
Clark Sawin
CHAPTER 25 Claude Bernard (1813-1878) – The Discovery of Homeostasis and Internal Secretion
D. Lynn Loriaux
CHAPTER 26 Adolphe Chatin (1813-1901) – Iodine in the Prevention of Goiter
Clark Sawin
CHAPTER 27 Sir James Paget (1813-1899) – Osteitis Deformans
Clark Sawin
CHAPTER 28 Sir William Gull (1816-1890) – Adult Cretinism, and “Jack the Ripper”
Clark Sawin
CHAPTER 29 Charles-Edouard Brown-Sequard (1817-1894) – “Glandular Extract Therapy”
Clark Sawin
CHAPTER 30 Franz Leydig (1814–1899) – Testosterone Secreting Cells
D. Lynn Loriaux
CHAPTER 31 Adolf Kussmaul (1817-1894) – Diabetic Ketoacidosis
D. Lynn Loriaux
CHAPTER 32 Jean-Martin Charcot (1825-1893) – Exophthalmic Goiter
Clark Sawin
CHAPTER 33 Jean Baptiste Boussingault (1825-1887) – Iodine and the Goiter
Clark Sawin
CHAPTER 34 Bernard Naunyn (1839-1925) – Dietary Treatment of Diabetes
D. Lynn Loriaux
CHAPTER 35 Enrico Sertoli (1842-1910) – Gametes and the Testes
D. Lynn Loriaux
CHAPTER 36 William Osler (1849-1919) – Treatment of Addison’s Disease
D. Lynn Loriaux
CHAPTER 37 Emil Fischer (1852-1919) – The Stereochemical Nature of Sugars
James Magner
CHAPTER 38 William Stewart Halsted (1852-1922) – Surgery of the Thyroid Gland
Clark Sawin
CHAPTER 39 Charles Eucharist de Medicis Sajous (1852-1929) – The First President of the Endocrine Society
Clark Sawin
CHAPTER 40 Pierre Marie (1853-1940) – Acromegaly
D. Lynn Loriaux
CHAPTER 41 Victor Horsley (1857-1916) – The First President of the Endocrine Society
Clark Sawin
CHAPTER 42 Archibald Edward Garrod (1857-1936) – Ochronosis and Human Genetics
D. Lynn Loriaux
CHAPTER 43 John J. Abel (1857-1938) – Isolation of Hormones
Clark Sawin
CHAPTER 44 Oskar Minkowski (1858-1931) – Diabetes and the Pancreas
D. Lynn Loriaux
CHAPTER 45 Frederic Gowland Hopkins (1861-1947) – Vitamins
Clark Sawin
CHAPTER 46 George R. Murray (1825–1939) - Treatment of Hypothyroidism
Clark Sawin
CHAPTER 47 William M. Bayliss and Ernest H. Starling (1866-1927) – Molecular Messengers
Clark Sawin
CHAPTER 48 Harvey Williams Cushing (1869-1939) – Pituitary Basophilism
D. Lynn Loriaux
CHAPTER 49 Leo Loeb (1869–1959) – Thyrotropin
Clark Sawin
CHAPTER 50 W.G. MacCallum (1874–1944) – Tetany and the Parathyroid Gland
Clark Sawin
CHAPTER 51 Moses Barron (1883-1974) – Pancreatic Duct Stone
D. Lynn Loriaux
CHAPTER 52 Frederick Grant Banting (1891-1941) – The Discovery of Insulin
D. Lynn Loriaux
CHAPTER 53 James Bertram Collip (1893-1965) – Isolation of Insulin
D. Lynn Loriaux
CHAPTER 54 Frederic Madison Allen (1879-1964) – The Diabetic Diet
D. Lynn Loriaux
CHAPTER 55 Elliott Proctor Joslin (1869-1962) – Insulin and the Treatment of Diabetes
D. Lynn Loriaux
CHAPTER 56 J.J.R. Macleod (1876-1935) – Discovery of Insulin
Michael Bliss
CHAPTER 57 Frederick L. Hisaw (1891-1972) – Relaxin
Clark Sawin and Harry K. Ziel
CHAPTER 58 Henry S. Plummer (1874-1936) – Toxic Nodular Thyroid Gland
Clark Sawin
CHAPTER 59 Henry H. Dale (1875-1968) – Catecholamines
Clark Sawin
CHAPTER 60 Robert McCarrison (1878-1960) – Iodine Deficiency and Goiter
Clark Sawin
CHAPTER 61 Hakaru Hashimoto (1881-1934) – Thyroiditis
Clark Sawin
CHAPTER 62 Eugene F. DuBois (1882-1959) – Basal Metabolic Rate
Clark Sawin
CHAPTER 63 Herbert McLean Evans (1882-1971) – Pituitary Hormones
Clark Sawin
CHAPTER 64 Philip E. Smith (1884-1970) – Trophic Hormones of the Pituitary
Clark Sawin
CHAPTER 65 Edward C. Kendall (1886-1972) – The Structures of Cortisol and Thyroxine
Clark Sawin
CHAPTER 66 David Marine (1888-1976) – Iodine and Goiter
Clark Sawin
CHAPTER 67 George Washington Corner (1889-1981) – Progesterone
D. Lynn Loriaux
CHAPTER 68 Henry H. Turner (1892-1970) – Gonadal Dysgenesis
Ron Rosenfeld
CHAPTER 69 Ernest Basil Verney (1894-1967) – Vasopressin is a Hormone
Clark Sawin
CHAPTER 70 Gerty and Carl Cori (1896–1957/1896–1984) – Glucose Metabolism and Lactic Acid
Clark Sawin
CHAPTER 71 Charles Robert Harington (1897-1972) – Synthesis of Thyroxine
Clark Sawin
CHAPTER 72 Dorothy Price and Carl Moore (1899-1980/1892-1955) – Regulation of Gonadal Hormone Secretion
Clark Sawin
CHAPTER 73 Fuller Albright (1900-1969) – Uncharted Seas
D. Lynn Loriaux
CHAPTER 74 Charles Brenton Huggins (1901-1997) – Androgen Ablation Therapy for Prostate Cancer
D. Lynn Loriaux
CHAPTER 75 Vincent du Vigneaud (1901–1978) –Antidiuretic Hormone
D. Lynn Loriaux
CHAPTER 76 Russell Earl Marker (1902-1995) – The Mexican Yam
D. Lynn Loriaux
CHAPTER 77 Gregory Goodwin Pincus (1903-1967) – The Birth Control Pill
Leon Speroff
CHAPTER 78 G.F. Marrian (1904-1981) – Urinary Estrogens and Progestins
Clark Sawin
CHAPTER 79 Berta and Ernst Scharrer (1906-1995/1905-1965) – Neurosecretion
Clark Sawin
CHAPTER 80 Ulf Svante von Euler (1905-1983) – The Neurosecretion of Norepinephrine
Clark Sawin
CHAPTER 81 Saul Hertz (1905-1950) – Radioactive Iodine and the Treatment of Grave’s Disease
D. Lynn Loriaux
CHAPTER 82 George Widmer Thorn (1906-2004) – The Treatment of Addison’s Disease
D. Lynn Loriaux
CHAPTER 83 Hans Hugo Bruno Selye (1907-1982) – Stress and the Endocrine System
D. Lynn Loriaux
CHAPTER 84 Jerome W. Conn (1907-1994) – Hypertension and the Adrenal Gland
D. Lynn Loriaux
CHAPTER 85 Frank G. Young (1908-1988) – Pituitary Gland and Diabetes Mellitus
Clark Sawin
CHAPTER 86 Edwin B. Astwood (1909-1976) – Goitrogens
Clark Sawin
CHAPTER 87 Roy Hertz (1909-2002) – The Cure of Choriocarcinoma
D. Lynn Loriaux
CHAPTER 88 Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin (1910-1994) – The Structure of Insulin
D. Lynn Loriaux
CHAPTER 89 Harry F. Klinefelter (1912-1990) – Genetic Hypogonadism
D. Lynn Loriaux
CHAPTER 90 Julius Axelrod (1912-2004) – Epinephrine, Synthesis, Secretion and Reuptake
Clark Sawin
CHAPTER 91 Geoffrey W. Harris (1913-1967) – Hypothalamic Control of the Pituitary Gland
Clark Sawin
CHAPTER 92 Frederic C. Bartter (1914-1983) – Disorders of “the Pump”
Clark Sawin
CHAPTER 93 Earl W. Sutherland (1915-1974) – Cyclic AMP: The Second Messenger
Clark Sawin
CHAPTER 94 Maurice S. Raben (1915-1977) – The Treatment of Growth Hormone Deficiency
Clark Sawin
CHAPTER 95 Alfred Jost (1916-1991) – Sexual Ambiguity
D. Lynn Loriaux
CHAPTER 96 Robert Burns Woodward (1917-1979) – Synthesis of Cholesterol
D. Lynn Loriaux
CHAPTER 97 Sylvia Agnes Sophia Tait (1917-2003) – Aldosterone
D. Lynn Loriaux
CHAPTER 98 Solomon Berson (1918-1972) – Radioimmunoassay
D. Lynn Loriaux
CHAPTER 99 Rosalyn Sussman Yallow (1921-1972) – Radioimmunoassay
D. Lynn Loriaux
CHAPTER 100 Mort Lipsett (1921-1984) – The Syndromes of Adrenal Insufficiency
D. Lynn Loriaux
CHAPTER 101 Griff Terry Ross (1921-1985) – The ß Subunit of hCG
D. Lynn Loriaux
CHAPTER 102 Grant Liddle (1921-1989) – Differential Diagnosis of Cushing’s Syndrome
D. Lynn Loriaux
CHAPTER 103 Monte Arnold Greer (1922-2002) – Thyroid Nodules
Clark Sawin
CHAPTER 104 Jacob Robbins (1923-2008) –Radiation Induced Thyroid Cancer
D. Lynn Loriaux
CHAPTER 105 Donald S. Frederickson (1924-2002) – Lipid Dyscrasia
D. Lynn Loriaux
CHAPTER 106 John Doppman (1928-2000) – Interventional Radiology
D. Lynn Loriaux
CHAPTER 107 Gerry Aurbach (1927-1991) – Parathormone
D. Lynn Loriaux
CHAPTER 108 Roger Guillemin (1924-) and Andrew Schalley (1926-) – The Hypothalamic Releasing Hormones
D. Lynn Loriaux