A biographical history of endocrinology

Content: Chapter 1 Diabetes and the Ebers Papyrus (1552 B.C.E.) 1 / D. Lynn Loriaux --
Chapter 2 The Greek Myths and the First Physicians (1100 B.C.E.) 3 / D. Lynn Loriaux --
Chapter 3 Kos and Alexandria (400 B.C.E.-400 C.E.) - The First Human Anatomy 6 / D. Lynn Loriaux --
Chapter 4 Hippocrates (400 B.C.E) --
Western Medicine Begins 11 / D. Lynn Loriaux --
Chapter 5 Aristotle (384-322 B.C.E.) - Experiments of Nature 17 / D. Lynn Loriaux --
Chapter 6 Soranus of Ephesus (98-138 C.E.) --
Obstetrics and Gynecology 20 / Leon Speroff --
Chapter 7 Aretaeus of Cappadocia (First and Second Centuries C.E.) 23 / D. Lynn Loriaux --
Chapter 8 Galen (130-200) - The First Human Anatomy 28 / D. Lynn Loriaux --
Chapter 9 Avicenna (980-1037 C.E.) --
Preservation of Classical Medicine 32 / D. Lynn Loriaux --
Chapter 10 Andreas Vesalius (1514-1564) - The Renaissance in Medicine 36 / D. Lynn Loriaux --
Chapter 11 Bartolomeo Eustachi (Eustachius) (1520-1574) --
The Adrenal Gland 39 / D. Lynn Loriaux --
Chapter 12 Santorio Santorio (1561-1636) - Insensible Loss 41 / D. Lynn Loriaux --
Chapter 13 William Harvey (1578-1657) --
The First Great Experiment 'De Motu Cordis' 44 / D. Lynn Loriaux --
Chapter 14 Thomas Wharton (1614-1673) - Codifying the Glands 49 / Clark T. Sawin --
Chapter 15 Marcello Malpighi (1628-1694) --
The Capillary 55 / D. Lynn Loriaux --
Chapter 16 Richard Lower (1631-1691) - The Pituitary Gland 58 / D. Lynn Loriaux --
Chapter 17 Regnier de Graaf (1641-1673) - The Graafian Follicle 61 / D. Lynn Loriaux --
Chapter 18 Antonie van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723) - The First of the Great Microscopists 69 / D. Lynn Loriaux --
Chapter 19 John Hunter (1728-1793) --
Embryology of the Hind 72 / D. Lynn Loriaux --
Chapter 20 Caleb Hillier Parry (1755-1822) - Thyrotoxicosis 77 / Clark T. Sawin --
Chapter 21 Thomas Addison (1795-1860) --
Adrenal Insufficiency 82 / D. Lynn Loriaux --
Chapter 22 Robert James Graves (1796-1853) - Thyrotoxicosis 85 / Clark T. Sawin --
Chapter 23 Armand Trousseau (1801-1867) - Diabetes Insipidus 88 / Clark T. Sawin --
Chapter 24 Arnold Adolph Berthold (1803-1861) - Transplantation of Testes 91 / Clark T. Sawin --
Chapter 25 Claude Bernard (1813-1878) --
The Discovery of Homeostasis and Internal Secretion 97 / D. Lynn Loriaux --
Chapter 26 Adolphe Chatin (1813-1901) - Iodine in the Prevention of Goiter 100 / Clark T. Sawin --
Chapter 27 Sir James Paget (1814-1899) --
Osteitis Deformans 105 / Clark T. Sawin --
Chapter 28 Sir William Gull (1816-1890) - Adult Cretinism and Jack the Ripper 114 / Clark T. Sawin --
Chapter 29 Charles Edouard Brown Sequard (1817-1894) --
Glandular Extract Therapy 123 / Clark T. Sawin --
Chapter 30 Franz Leydig (1821-1908) - Testosterone Secreting Cells 126 / D. Lynn Loriaux --
Chapter 31 Adolf Kussmaul (1822-1902) - Ketoacidosis 128 / D. Lynn Loriaux --
Chapter 32 Jean-Martin Charcot (1825-1893) - Exophthalmic Goiter 130 / Clark T. Sawin --
Chapter 33 Jean Baptiste Boussingault (1802-1887) - Iodine and the Goiter 135 / Clark T. Sawin --
Chapter 34 Bernhard Naunyn (1839-1925) - Dietary Treatment of Diabetes 140 / D. Lynn Loriaux --
Chapter 35 Enrico Sertoli (1842-1910) - Gametes and the Testes 143 / D. Lynn Loriaux --
Chapter 36 William Osler (1849-1919) - Treatment of Addison's Disease 145 / D. Lynn Loriaux --
Chapter 37 Emil Fischer (1852-1919) - The Stereochemical Nature of Sugars 150 / James Magner --
Chapter 38 William Stewart Halsted (1852-1922) - Surgery of the Thyroid Gland 153 / Clark T. Sawin --
Chapter 39 Charles Eucharist de Medicis Sajous (1852-1929) - The First President of the Endocrine Society 160 / Clark T. Sawin --
Chapter 40 Pierre Marie (1853-1940) --
Acromegaly 165 / D. Lynn Loriaux --
Chapter 41 Victor Horsley (1857-1916) - Treating Myxedema with Thyroid Extract 167 / Clark T. Sawin --
Chapter 42 Archibald Edward Garrod (1857-1936) --
Orchronosis and Human Genetics 170 / D. Lynn Loriaux --
Chapter 43 John J. Abel (1857-1938) - Isolation of Hormones 174 / Clark T. Sawin --
Chapter 44 Oskar Minkowski (1858-1931) - Diabetes and the Pancreas 182 / D. Lynn Loriaux --
Chapter 45 Frederick Gowland Hopkins (1861-1947) - Vitamin(e)s and Biochemistry 184 / Clark T. Sawin --
Chapter 46 George R. Murray (1865-1939) - Treatment of Hypothyroidism 191 / Clark T. Sawin --
Chapter 47 William Bayliss and Ernest Starling (1860-1924) (1866-1927) - Molecular Messengers 195 / Clark T. Sawin --
Chapter 48 Harvey Williams Cushing (1869-1939) - Pituitary Basophilism 202 / D. Lynn Loriaux --
Chapter 49 Leo Loeb and Max Aron (1869-1959) (1892-1974) - Thyrotropin 207 / Clark T. Sawin --
Chapter 50 W.G. MacCallum (1874-1944) - Tetany and the Parathyroid Gland 212 / Clark T. Sawin --
Chapter 51 Moses Barron (1883-1974) - Pancreatic Duct Stone 216 / D. Lynn Loriaux --
Chapter 52 Frederick Grant Banting (1891-1941) - The Discovery of Insulin 220 / D. Lynn Loriaux --
Chapter 53 James Bertram Collip (1893-1965) - Isolation of Insulin 225 / D. Lynn Loriaux --
Chapter 54 Frederick Madison Allen (1879-1964) - The Diabetic Diet 229 / D. Lynn Loriaux --
Chapter 55 Elliott Proctor Joslin (1869-1962) - Insulin and the Treatment of Diabetes 231 / D. Lynn Loriaux --
Chapter 56 J.J.R. Macleod (1876-1935) - Discovery of Insulin 234 / Michael Bliss --
Chapter 57 Frederick L. Hisaw (1891-1972) - Relaxin 245 / Clark T. Sawin and Harry K. Ziel --
Chapter 58 Henry S. Plummer (1874-1936) - Toxic Nodular Thyroid Gland 251 / Clark T. Sawin --
Chapter 59 Henry H. Dale (1875-1968) - Catecholamines 256 / Clark T. Sawin --
Chapter 60 Robert McCarrison (1878-1960) - Iodine Deficiency and Goiter 264 / Clark T. Sawin --
Chapter 61 Hakaru Hashimoto (1881-1934) - His Disease 269 / Clark T. Sawin --
Chapter 62 Eugene F. DuBois (1882-1959) - Basal Metabolism and the Thyroid 274 / Clark T. Sawin --
Chapter 63 Herbert McLean Evans (1882-1971) - Pituitary Hormones 279 / Clark T. Sawin --
Chapter 64 Philip E. Smith (1884-1970) - Trophic Hormones of the Pituitary 284 / Clark T. Sawin --
Chapter 65 Edward C. Kendall (1886-1972) - Structures of Cortisol and Thyroxin 288 / Clark T. Sawin --
Chapter 66 David Marine (1880-1976) - Iodine and Goiter 292 / Clark T. Sawin --
Chapter 67 George Washington Corner (1889-1981) - Progesterone 297 / D. Lynn Loriaux --
Chapter 68 Henry H. Turner (1892-1970) - Gonadal Dysgenesis 302 / Ron Rosenfeld --
Chapter 69 Ernest Basil Verney (1894-1967) - Vasopressin is a Hormone 306 / Clark T. Sawin --
Chapter 70 Gerty and Carl Cori (1896-1957) (1896-1984) - Glucose Metabolism and Lactic Acid 311 / Clark T. Sawin --
Chapter 71 Charles Robert Harington (1897-1972) - Synthesis of Thyroxine 316 / Clark T. Sawin --
Chapter 72 Dorothy Price and Carl Moore (1899-1980) (1892-1955) - Regulation of Gonadal Hormone Secretion 320 / Clark T. Sawin --
Chapter 73 Fuller Albright (1900-1969) - Uncharted Seas 325 / D. Lynn Loriaux --
Chapter 74 Charles Brenton Huggins (1901-1997) - Androgen Ablation Therapy for Prostate Cancer 331 / D. Lynn Loriaux --
Chapter 75 Vincent du Vigneaud (1901-1978) - Antidiuretic Hormone 333 / D. Lynn Loriaux --
Chapter 76 Russell Earl Marker (1902-1995) - The Mexican Yam 335 / D. Lynn Loriaux --
Chapter 77 Gregory Goodwin Pincus (1903-1967) - The Birth Control Pill 338 / Leon Speroff --
Chapter 78 G.F. Marrian (1904 -1981) - Isolation of Estrogens 344 / Clark T. Sawin --
Chapter 79 Berta and Ernst Scharrer (1906-1995) (1905-1965) - Concept of Neurosecretion 348 / Clark T. Sawin --
Chapter 80 Ulf Svante von Euler (1905-1983) - Neurosecretion of Norepinephrine 354 / Clark T. Sawin --
Chapter 81 Saul Hertz (1905-1950) - Radioactive Iodine and the Treatment of Graves Disease 360 / D. Lynn Loriaux --
Chapter 82 George Widmer Thorn (1906-2004) - The Treatment of Addison's Disease 364 / D. Lynn Loriaux --
Chapter 83 Hans Hugo Bruno Selye (1907-1982) --
Stress and the Endocrine System 368 / D. Lynn Loriaux --
Chapter 84 Jerome W. Conn (1907-1994) --
Adrenal Mediated High Blood Pressure 371 / D. Lynn Loriaux --
Chapter 85 Frank G. Young (1908-1988) --
The Pituitary Gland and Diabetes Mellitus 373 / Clark T. Sawin --
Chapter 86 Edwin B. Astwood (1909-1976) - Radioiodine Treatment for Thyrotoxicosis 379 / Clark T. Sawin --
Chapter 87 Roy Hertz (1909-2002) --
Cure of Choriocarcinoma 384 / D. Lynn Loriaux --
Chapter 88 Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin (1910-1994) --
The Structure of Insulin 387 / D. Lynn Loriaux --
Chapter 89 Harry F. Klinefelter (1912-1990) - Genetic Hypogonadism 390 / D. Lynn Loriaux --
Chapter 90 Julius Axelrod (1912-2004) --
Epinephrine Synthesis, Secretion, and Reuptake 393 / Clark T. Sawin --
Chapter 91 Geoffrey W. Harris (1913-1967) - The Brain's Control of the Pituitary Gland 399 / Clark T. Sawin --
Chapter 92 Frederic C. Bartter (1914-1983) - Disorders of 'The Pump' 406 / Clark T. Sawin --
Chapter 93 Earl W. Sutherland (1915-1974) - Discovery of Cyclic AMP 411 / Clark T. Sawin --
Chapter 94 Maurice S. Raben (1915-1977) - The Treatment of Growth Hormone Deficiency 418 / Clark T. Sawin --
Chapter 95 Alfred Jost (1916-1991) --
Sexual Ambiguity 424 / D. Lynn Loriaux --
Chapter 96 Robert Burns Woodward (1917-1979) - Synthesis of Cholesterol 426 / D. Lynn Loriaux --
Chapter 97 Sylvia Agnes Sophia Tait (1917-2003) - Steroid Metabolism 428 / D. Lynn Loriaux --
Chapter 98 Solomon Berson (1918-1972) - Radioimmunoassay 430 / D. Lynn Loriaux --
Chapter 99 Rosalyn Sussman Yalow (1921-2011) - Radioimmunoassay 433 / D. Lynn Loriaux --
Chapter 100 Mort Lipsett (1921-1984) --
The Syndromes of Adrenal Insufficiency 436 / D. Lynn Loriaux --
Chapter 101 Griff Terry Ross (1921-1985) - The &beta
 Subunit of hCG 439 / D. Lynn Loriaux --
Chapter 102 Grant Liddle (1921-1989) - Differential Diagnosis of Cushing's Syndrome 442 / D. Lynn Loriaux --
Chapter 103 Monte Arnold Greer (1922-2002) - Thyroid Nodules 444 / Clark T. Sawin --
Chapter 104 Jacob Robbins (1923-2008) - Radiation-Induced Thyroid Cancer 452 / D. Lynn Loriaux --
Chapter 105 Donald S. Fredrickson (1924-2002) --
Lipid Dyscrasiasis 455 / D. Lynn Loriaux --
Chapter 106 John Doppman (1928-2000) - Interventional Radiology 458 / D. Lynn Loriaux --
Chapter 107 Gerald Aurbach (1927-1991) --
Parathormone 461 / D. Lynn Loriaux --
Chapter 108 Roger Guillemin and Andrew Schally (1924-) (1926-) - The Hypothalamic-Releasing Hormones 464 / D. Lynn Loriaux.