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Published in Anton Sebastian, A Dictionary of the History of Medicine, 2018
Bright Disease Richard Bright (1789–1858), an eminent physician at Guy’s Hospital, was the first to associate the symptoms and signs in nephritis with the peculiar inflammation found in the kidneys on postmortem. His classic description was published in the Reports of Medical Cases published in 1827.
Catalog of Herbs
Published in James A. Duke, Handbook of Medicinal Herbs, 2018
The paste of the bulb in a cataplasm is said to be a folk remedy for chronic and indurated tumors.4 A poultice of the leaf is said to remedy corns. A decoction of the seed is said to remedy leukemia.4 Reportedly alterative, diuretic, laxative, poison, sedative, and sudorific, Colchicum has been advocated in many diseases. Bright’s disease, cancer, cholera-typhoid, colic, enlarged prostate, gout, palsies, rheumatism, and skin complaints.12
The Semantics of Disease Terms
Published in Lawrie Reznek, The Nature of Disease, 1987
The fourth position is not correct either. The discovery that ‘Bright’s disease’ does not pick out a natural kind did not lead to the term assuming a descriptive meaning and expressing the nominal essence of ‘syndrome of proteinuria, dropsy, and morbid changes in the kidney’. We do not say that Bright’s disease exists after all.
In memoriam: Henry Szczȩsny Schutta, MD (1928–2020)
Published in Journal of the History of the Neurosciences, 2021
Schutta published works on various aspects of the history of neurology (Porcel and Schutta 2015; Schutta 2000, 2009; Schutta, Abu-Amero, and Bosley 2010; Schutta and Howe 2006), but his favorite historical subject came to be the British physician Richard Bright (1789–1858), who was active in the first half of the nineteenth century (Schutta 2018, 2021). Schutta, in fact, named his German shepherd Bright, in honor of his medical hero (Figure 10). At the time of his death at age 92, Schutta was actively working on a monograph on Bright’s contributions to neurology: Richard Bright … is famous because of his work on [the] kidneys. Bright’s disease, for a while, was a recognized disease. And after that, he published a book with over 300 cases of brain disease (Bright 1827, 1831), and he gets very little credit for it—absolutely nothing. … I’ve got all the material together, but now I’m sort of struggling with the discussion, you see, because I have made up my mind that Bright was one of the founders of neurology. Nobody knows it. … His main contribution was that he provided excellent descriptions, which he illustrated with beautiful paintings [colored lithographs] of a number of brain diseases—quite a lot of brain diseases! (Schutta, quoted in Lanska 2021)