An Interactive Annotated World Bibliography of Printed and Digital Works in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences from Circa 2000 BCE to 2022 by Fielding H. Garrison (1870-1935), Leslie T. Morton (1907-2004), and Jeremy M. Norman (1945- ) Traditionally Known as “Garrison-Morton”

15961 entries, 13944 authors and 1935 subjects. Updated: March 22, 2024

BAYLE, Antoine Laurent Jessé

2 entries
  • 4795

Recherches sur l’arachnitis chronique, la gastrite et la gastro-entérite chroniques, et la goutte: Considerées comme causes de l'aliénation mentale. Thèse No. 247.

Paris: De L'Imprimerie de Didot le jeune, 1822.

First description of  general paresis, or paralytic dementia, general paralysis of the insane, or "maladie de Bayle". This is considered the first demonstation of an organic cause for a "psychiatric" disorder; it was influential in drawing the attention of psychiatrists to other disorders of the nervous system as possible causes of other "mental" disorders. Commercial issue: Paris, Didot le Jeune, 1822. Partial English translation in Arch. Neurol. Psychiat. (Chicago), 1934, 32, 808-829. Digital facsimile from the University of Calgary at this link.



Subjects: NEUROLOGY › Paralysis › General Paresis, PSYCHIATRY
  • 6712

Biographie médicale par ordre chronologique. 2 vols.

Paris: A. Delahaye, 1855.

Reprinted, Amsterdam, B. M. Israël, 1967.



Subjects: BIOGRAPHY (Reference Works)