George Frederic Still

Blue plaque for George Frederic Still in London

George Frederic Still (born February 27, 1868 in London , United Kingdom , † June 28, 1941 in Salisbury , United Kingdom) was a British pediatrician . Among other things, he described juvenile idiopathic arthritis (also Still syndrome or Still's disease ) in 1896 and the symptoms of attention deficit / hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in 1902 .

Publications

Selection of publications stills (with respective author names; all in English):

• George F. Still: On a Form of Chronic Joint Disease in Children . In: Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society of London (Ed.): Medico-Chirurgical Transactions . Vol. 80, London 1897, pp. 47-59, PMC 2036674 (free full text).
• George F. Still: The Goulstonian Lectures On Some Abnormal Psychical Conditions In Children . In: The Lancet . 159th year
  • Lecture I . No. 4102, April 12, 1902, pp. 1008-1012.
  • Lecture II . No. 4103, April 19, 1902, pp. 1077-1082.
  • Lecture III . No. 4104, April 26, 1902, pp. 1163-1168.
• George Frederic Still: Common disorders and diseases of childhood . 1st edition. Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, Oxford 1910. 2nd edition 1912, Text Archive - Internet Archive ; (several further editions).
• George Frederic Still: The History of Paediatrics . The Progress of the Study of Diseases of Children up to the End of the XVIIIth Century. Oxford University Press, Oxford 1931; Reprint: Dawsons of Pall Mall, London 1965.
• G. Frederic Still: Common Happenings in Childhood . Oxford University Press, Oxford 1938.

literature

• Peter M. Dunn: Sir Frederic Still (1868-1941): the father of British paediatrics . In: Archives of Disease in Childhood. Fetal and Neonatal Edition . 91. Vol., No. 4, 2006, pp. F308-F310 (English; PMC 2672740 (free full text)).
• SJ Farrow: Sir George Frederick Still (1868-1941) . In: British Society for Rheumatology (Ed.): Rheumatology . Volume 45, No. 6, Oxford University Press, June 2006, pp. 777-778 (English; online, with portrait ).
• GJ Piller: Still, Sir (George) Frederic (1868-1941). In: Henry Colin Gray Matthew, Brian Harrison (Eds.): Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , from the earliest times to the year 2000 (ODNB). Oxford University Press, Oxford 2004, ISBN 0-19-861411-X , ( oxforddnb.com license required ), Last updated: 2004, accessed August 13, 2019.

Web links

• Sir George Still. Publications by Sir George Frederic Still (1868–1941) . University College London , Institute of Child Health (English; short biography with portrait and list of publications stills)
• Sir George Frederick Still . In: Whonamedit? (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Book review: Common Happenings in Childhood . In: Postgraduate Medical Journal . Vol. 15, No. 161, March 1939, pp. 100-101 (English).