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: November 17, 2024

WEICHSELBAUM, Anton

2 entries
  • 3176

Ueber die Aetiologie der acuten Lungen- und Rippenfellentzündungen.

Med. Jb., n.F. 1, 483-554, 1886.

Weichselbaum definitely established that Friedländer’s bacillus was responsible for pneumonia in a small percentage of cases.



Subjects: BACTERIOLOGY › BACTERIA (mostly pathogenic; sometimes indexed only to genus) › Gram-Negative Bacteria › Klebsiella pneumoniae, INFECTIOUS DISEASE › Pneumonia, RESPIRATION › Respiratory Diseases
  • 4678

Ueber die Aetiologie der akuten Meningitis cerebro-spinalis.

Fortschr. Med., 5, 573-83, 620-26, 1887.

Weichselbaum discovered the meningococcus, Neisseria meningitidis, causative agent of cerebrospinal meningitis.



Subjects: BACTERIOLOGY › BACTERIA (mostly pathogenic; sometimes indexed only to genus) › Gram-Negative Bacteria › Neisseria meningitidis, INFECTIOUS DISEASE › Neuroinfectious Diseases › Meningitis, NEUROLOGY › Inflammatory Conditions › Cerebrospinal Meningitis