{"title":"Milestones in the evolution of phaeochromocytoma diagnosis.","authors":"William P Tormey","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The history of the discovery of phaeochromocytoma and the original pathological descriptions are described. The clinical history first described in 1886 later led to the realisation that the clinical symptoms and the raised blood pressure were a consequence of catecholamine and the other hormone production by the tumour. The elucidation of its clinical associations with von Hippel Lindau disease neurofibromatosis, multiple endocrine neoplasias and Carney's triad are detailed. Pathologists and scientists are credited with establishing the current biochemical diagnoses. The developments of magnetic resonance imaging and computerised tomography have allowed accurate anatomical localisation. Gene mutations for the clinical syndromes have been identified over the last 14 years. Thus the diagnosis and treatment of this potentially lethal tumour has been made progressively easier.</p>","PeriodicalId":81718,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Irish Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons","volume":"31 4","pages":"222-31"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22112266","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The genesis of the Faculty of Occupational Medicine.","authors":"Peter Froggatt","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":81718,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Irish Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons","volume":"31 2","pages":"107-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22142613","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Whipple's disease: a malady defined by medical progress in the twentieth century.","authors":"Morton N Swartz","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":81718,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Irish Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons","volume":"31 2","pages":"69-71"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22142611","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Royal College of Surgeons 19th-century textbook of paediatrics and its authors Evanson and Maunsell.","authors":"O Conor Ward","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Richard T. Evanson, Professor of Medicine in the RCSI and Henry Maunsell, Professor of Obstetrics, jointly published a textbook of paediatrics which went through five editions between 1836 and 1847. The textbook was based on their practical experience in the treatment of children in the Institution of the Diseases, founded in 1821. This was probably the first Children's Hospital in these islands. The textbook reviews neonatal care, normal development, and the diagnosis and treatment of childhood illnesses. It was well received at home and abroad and it was a major contribution to contemporary literature.</p>","PeriodicalId":81718,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Irish Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons","volume":"31 2","pages":"101-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22142612","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Richard and Emma Stevens and the new photography.","authors":"A Evans","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Richard and Emma Stevens were an enterprising couple from an Indian Army background. When they were stationed at Athlone with the Royal Engineers in the 1890s they visited Birr Castle Observatory and later built their own reflector telescope. Less than a year after the publication of Röntgen's discovery of X-rays, they were producing their own radiographs. Some images and also some of the equipment which they used have survived. The couple subsequently returned to India where Captain Stevens died in 1900. Emma, possibly the first woman to take X-rays, survived into old age and enjoyed a varied and interesting life.</p>","PeriodicalId":81718,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Irish Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons","volume":"29 4","pages":"229-32"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"24122859","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}