An Interactive Annotated World Bibliography of Printed and Digital Works in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences from Circa 2000 BCE to 2024 by Fielding H. Garrison (1870-1935), Leslie T. Morton (1907-2004), and Jeremy M. Norman (1945- ) Traditionally Known as “Garrison-Morton”

16061 entries, 14144 authors and 1947 subjects. Updated: December 10, 2024

TAY, Waren

2 entries
  • 9969

Diseases of the skin, including the exanthemata by Ferdinand Hebra. Vol. 1: Translated and edited by C. Hilton Fagge. Vol. 2: Tr. and ed. by C. Hilton Fagge and P. H. Pye-Smith. Vols. 3-5 are by Ferdinand Hebra and Moritz Kaposi, tr. and ed. by Waren Tay. 5 vols.

London: New Sydenham Society, 1866 – 1880.

Digital facsimile of vol. 1 from the Hathi Trust at this link.



Subjects: DERMATOLOGY
  • 5918

Symmetrical changes in the region of the yellow spot in each eye of an infant.

Trans. ophthal. Soc. U. K., 1, 55-57, 1880 – 1881.

Tay was the first to describe amaurotic familial idiocy, his paper dealing mainly with the ocular manifestations. The condition later became known as “Tay-Sachs’s disease” (see also No. 4705).



Subjects: GENETICS / HEREDITY › HEREDITARY / CONGENITAL DISEASES OR DISORDERS › Inherited Metabolic Disorders, NEUROLOGY › Neurodevelopmental Disorders, OPHTHALMOLOGY , PEDIATRICS