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1,279 entries match Plagues & Epidemics [C01.252]
1890
#5060.1
Immunisirungsversuche bei Diphtherie.
Artificial immunity to diphtheria produced in guinea-pigs by injection of attenuated cultures of the bacillus. Fraenkel's account appeared one day before the paper of Behring and Kitasato. Behring, Die Geschichte der …
1890
#5240.1
Études sur l’infection malarique. Sur la variété parasitaire des corps en croissant de Laveran et sur les fièvres palustres qui en dérivent.
Canalis demonstrated and clearly differentiated Plasmodium falciparum from the species vivax and malariae.
1891 –1894
#1680
A history of epidemics in Britain. Vol. 1: From A. D. 664 to the extinction of plague. Vol. 2: From the extinction of plague to the present time.
A classical contribution to modern epidemiology, of which Creighton may be said to have been the founder. Reprinted with new introductory material, 1965. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1891 –1895
#2422
Syphilis today and among the ancients. 2 vols.
1891
#3498
Ueber Magensyphilis.
Important study of gastric syphilis.
1891
#4868
Four cases of tubercular meningitis in which paracentesis of the theca vertebralis was performed for the relief of fluid pressure.
Lumbar puncture. Reprinted in Middx. Hosp. J., 1951, 51, 147.
1891
#4359.1
Wiring of the vertebrae as a means of immobilization in fracture and Pott’s disease.
“In a case of fracture-dislocation of the cervical spine (C 6-7) he [Hadra] performed open reduction, twisting metal wires around the spinous processes to stabilize the injured sector” (Bick). This is the first report…
1891
#4359.2
Wiring the spinal processes in Pott’s disease.
First spinal fusion.
1891
#5061
The histological changes in experimental diphtheria.
An account of the pathological changes brought about by experimental inoculation of diphtheria toxins.
1891
#5513.1
Ueber eine neue, pathogene Cladothrix und eine durch sie hervorgerufene Pseudotuberculosis (cladothrichica).
Eppinger isolated Cladothrix (Nocardia) asteroides in a patient suffering from pseudotuberculosis with brain abscesses and meningitis.
1891
#5241
Malariaparasiten in den Vögeln.
Confirmation of the work of Laveran.
1891
#5241.1
Ueber die Wirkung des Methylenblau bei Malaria.
Guttmann and Ehrlich demonstrated methylene blue to be lethal in vitro for the malaria parasite – the beginning of Ehrlich’s work on chemotherapy.
1891
#5242
K voprosu o parazitologii i terapii bolotnoi likhoradki. [Parasitology and treatment of malarial fever.]
Romanovsky made important studies of the malaria parasite and introduced a special stain for its demonstration. German version in St. Petersburger med. Wschr., 1891, 8, 297-302, 306-15. English translation in Kean (No…
1891
#5272
Étude sur les parasites du sang chez les paludiques.
Nepveu, whilst in Algeria, was the first to see trypanosomes in human blood.
1892 –1982
#355
Index-catalogue of medical and veterinary zoology.
An index to the world's literature on parasites and parasitisms of man, of domestic animals, and of wild animals whose parasites may be transmitted to man and domestic animals. It also contains references to fur-beari…
1892
#5109
Le choléra asiatique chez le cobaye.
Haffkine’s vaccine against cholera was the first to meet with any success.
1892
#5490
Vorläufige Mittheilungen über die Erregerder Influenza.
Pfeiffer discovered a bacillus, Haemophilus influenzae, “Pfeiffer’s bacillus”, which he believed to be the causal organism of influenza.
1892
#5439.1
Das Auftreten von Varizellen unter eigentümlichen Verhältnissen.
Bokay was the first to suggest an etiological relationship between varicella and herpes zoster. See also his paper in Wien. klin. Wschr., 1909, 22, 1323-26.
1892
#5243
Azione della chinina sui parasite malarici e sui corrispondente accessi febbrili.
French translation in Arch. ital. Biol., 1892, 17, 456-71.
1892
#5244
Sulle febbre malariche estivo-autumnali.
A summary of the Italian work on malaria. English translation, 1894.
1892 –1896
#10621
Atlas of clinical medicine. 3 vols.
Published at the end of the 19th century, and employing the wide variety of illustration technologies then available, including color lithography, lithography, and photography, this work testifies to the breadth and d…
1893
#4502.1
Ein Beitrag zur Arthritis blennorrhoica.
Gonococci isolated from an arthritic joint.
1893
#5062
Die Behandlung der Diphtherie mit Diphtherieheilserum.
In 1890 Behring and Kitasato discovered the diphtheria and tetanus antitoxins (see No. 5060). The above papers deal more fully with the use of the diphtheria antitoxin.
1893
#5080.1
Sur la pathogénie de la scarlatine.
Bergé stated all the essential facts concerning the aetiology of scarlet fever, and definitely attributed its cause to a streptococcus. He published a thesis on the subject in 1895.
1893
#5529
Investigations into the nature, causation and prevention of Texas or Southern cattle fever.
U.S. Bureau of Animal Industry, Bulletin No. 1. Discovery of the parasite of Texas cattle fever, Pyrosoma bigeminum, and proof that its transmission is due to the cattle tick, Boöphilus bovis. This was the first demon…
1893
#5428
Ricerche sulla patogenesi ed etiologia dell’ infezione vaccinica e vaiolosa.
Guamieri described bodies found in the specific lesions of smallpox. Cytorrhyctes variolae guarnieri, which he believed to be the causative organism of the disease. Guarnieri bodies are found in all poxvirus infection…
1893
#6361
Polyuria and tuberculosis.
“Hand–Schüller–Christian syndrome”, which Hand called polyuria and tuberculosis.
1894
#2546
Ueber die specifische Bedeutung der Choleraimmunität (Bakteriolyse).
Pfeiffer and Isayev recorded the occurrence of bacteriolysis in cholera vibrios under certain conditions: immune bacteriolysis, “Pfeiffer’s phenomenon”. Abridged English translation of second part in Bibel, Milestones…
1894
#5063
Contribution à l’étude de la diphtérie (sérum thérapie).
Roux and Martin demonstrated the value of Behring’s specific antitoxin in the treatment of human diphtheria, and showed how it could be produced on a large scale.
1894
#5120
Loimographia. An account of the great plague of London in the year 1665
This work was written in 1666 and first published as above. Boghurst, an apothecary, did good work during the great plague; in his book he differentiated plague from typhus. Payne’s introduction to the book contains s…
1894
#5125
La peste bubonique à Hong-Kong.
Yersin discovered the plague bacillus Pasteurella (Yersinia) pestis, isolating it from excised buboes. He published the first account of this organism. Preliminary note in C. R. Acad. Sci. (Paris), 1894, 119, 356.
1894
#5126
The plague in the East.
Rennie appears to be the first seriously to support the theory of transmission of the plague bacillus by rats and to present evidence in support of that theory.
1894
#5245
On the nature and significance of the crescentic and flagellated bodies in malarial blood.
Manson’s mosquito–malaria hypothesis. See also his Gulstonian Lectures in Lancet, 1896, 1, 695-98, 751-55, 831-33.
1895
#2396
Therapeutische Versuche bei Syphilis.
Jarisch-Herxheimer reaction; see also No. 2397.
1895
#2985.1
Ueber Aortenerkrankung bei Syphilitischen und deren Beziehung zur Aneurysmenbildung.
Döhle clearly defined a specific syphilitic lesion of the aorta as a prerequisite of aortic aneurysm.
1895
#5127
La peste bubonique. By Alexandre Yersin with L.C.A. Calmette and A. Borrel.
Successful inoculation of animals with anti-plague vaccine.
1895
#5170
Sulla preparazione del siero anti-carbonchioso.
Specific anti-anthrax serum. German translation in Zbl. Bakt., 1895, 1 Abt., 18, 744-45.
1895
#5293.1
Beitrag zum klinischen und bacteriologischen Studium der brasilianischen Framboesie oder “Boubas”.
“Breda’s disease” – Brazilian yaws. English translation New Sydenham Society, 1897.
1895
#5530
La erupción en la enfermedad de Carrión (verruga peruana).
“Carrion’s disease” (Oroya fever) was named by the Peruvian physician Ernesto Odriozola, after Daniel Alcides Carrión Garcia (1859-85), a student. In order to prove or disprove the connection between Oroya fever and v…
1895
#5347.1
Case of Filaria loa in which the parasite was removed from under the conjunctiva.
First detailed description of Loa loa. See also Trans. ophthal. Soc. U.K., 1897, 17, 227-32. Robertson first briefly mentioned this procedure and the Loa Loa worm in a brief article written for him by the editor of La…
1895
#6099
Ueber Uterus-Gonorrhöe.
Wertheim emphasized the importance of latent uterine gonorrhoea.
1895
#5227
Die Geschichte der venerischen Krankheiten. 2 vols.
Vol. 1. Alterthum und Mittelalter. Vol. 2. Neuzeit.
1895
#5273
Preliminary report on the tsetse fly disease or nagana, in Zululand.
In 1895 Bruce found that nagana, the tsetse fly disease of Zululand, was due to a trypanosome (T. brucei). He described a hematozoon in the blood of the affected animals that had not been previously described. Digital…
1895
#8482
Des insufflations d'air dans le traitement des péritonites tuberculeuses. Thèse de médecine, Lille.
Describes the earliest experiments with artificial pneumoperitoneum by Mosetig-Moorhof, Duran and Nolen and Folet, which were not published formally. See Jean-Jacques Peumery, "1993: Le centenaire du penumopéritoine a…
1895
#9528
Leprosy: In its clinical & pathological aspects. Translated by Norman Walker.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1896
#2549
Eine neue Methode zur raschen Erkennung des Choleravibrio und des Typhusbacillus.
The discovery of bacterial agglutination. Gruber and Durham discovered the agglutinating action of the serum of typhoid patients upon the typhoid bacillus. First briefly reported by Durham: On a special action of seru…
1896
#4122
Des “tubercules” cutanées.
Darier grouped together, under the heading “tuberculides”, the skin eruptions associated with tuberculosis.
1896
#5035
Infections paratyphoïdiques.
Isolation of Salmonella paratyphi B. First use of the term “paratyphoid fever”.
1896
#5088
Der Keuchhusten.
An important history of whooping cough.
1896
#5111
Zur aktiven Immunisierung des Menschen gegen Cholera.
Kolle introduced the killed cholera vaccine.