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1,279 entries match Plagues & Epidemics [C01.252]
1907
#4683
Concerning a serum therapy for experimental infection with Diplococcus intracellularis.
Flexner prepared an antiserum for use in cerebrospinal meningitis.
1907
#2337
Sur un nouveau procédé de diagnostic de la tuberculose chez l’homme par l’ophtalmo-reaction à la tuberculine.
Calmette’s conjunctival reaction test for tuberculosis.
1907
#2338
Der diagnostische Wert der kutanen Tuberkulinreaktion bei der Tuberkulose des Kindesalters auf Grund von 100 Sektionen.
Introduction of Pirquet’s test – a cutaneous reaction employed in the diagnosis of tuberculosis.
1907
#5281
Chemotherapeutische Trypanosomen-Studien.
The first account of induced microbial drug resistance. Ehrlich encountered induced drug resistance in microbes while researching arsenical preparations as cures for sleeping sickness and other trypanosome-caused illn…
1907
#5321
The part played by Pediculus corporis in the transmission of relapsing fever.
Proof that relapsing fever is conveyed by the body louse, Pediculus corporis.
1907
#5333
Note on an organism found in yellow-fever tissue.
Stimson discovered a spirochete in the organs of persons dying of (?) yellow fever. He called it Sp. interrogans, but it was almost certainly Leptospira icterohaemorrhagiae.
1907
#5350.1
Ueber den Wohnort von Schistosomum japonicum. [Japanese text.]
Fujinami and Nakamura identified the intermediate host of S. japonicum. Abstract in Arch. Schiffs-u. Tropenhyg., 1908, 12,471. Later (1909, 6, 224-52) they demonstrated that infection occurred by skin penetration. Eng…
1907
#5447
Alcune esperienze di sieroimmunizzazione e sieroterapia nel morbillo.
First use of convalescent serum in prophylaxis against measles.
1907
#5473
Experimental investigations regarding the aetiology of dengue fever, with a general consideration regarding the disease.
Proof that the causal organism of dengue is a filterable virus. Published also in J. infect. Dis., 1907, 4, 440-75.
1908 –1912
#1681
Abhandlungen aus der Seuchengeschichte und Seuchenlehre. Pt. 1: Die Pest. Pt. 2: Die Cholera. 2 vols. in 3.
1908
#2339
Ueber eine diagnostische verwertbare Reaktion der Haul auf Einreibung mit Tuberkulinsalbe.
Moro’s percutaneous tuberculin reaction, employed as a diagnostic measure.
1908
#2340
Die kutane und konjunktivale Tuberkulinreaktion, ihre Bedeutung für Diagnostik und Prognose der Tuberkulose.
Wolff-Eisner’s conjunctival tuberculin reaction.
1908
#2341
Intradermo-réaction de la tuberculine.
Mantoux’s intradermal tuberculin skin test.
1908
#5065
Kutanreaktion beil Impfung mit Diphtherietoxin.
The Schick test for the determination of susceptibility to diphtheria.
1908
#5282
Further results of the experimental treatment of trypanosomiasis in rats.
Trial of antimony in the treatment of trypanosomiasis.
1908
#5477
Ueber ein neues invisibles Virus.
Doerr showed the relation of phlebotomus fever to the sandfly, Phlebotomus.
1908
#12385
Die von Pirquet'sche Hautreaktion und die intravenöse Tuberkulinbehandlung.
First publication on the The Mantoux test or Mendel–Mantoux test (also known as the Mantoux screening test, tuberculin sensitivity test, Pirquet test, or PPD test for purified protein derivative) is a tool for screeni…
1909
#5283
Nova tripanozomiaze humana. Estudos sobre a morfolojia e o ciclo evolutivo do Schizotrypanum cruzi n.gen., n.sp., ajente etiolojico de nova entidade morbida do homen.
Chagas discovered T. cruzi, causal organism in American trypanosomiasis (“Chagas’s disease”). Partial English translation in Kean (No. 2268.1).
1909
#5283.1
Positive Infektionsversuche mit Trypanosoma brucei durch Glossina palpalis.
Glossina was believed to transmit Trypanosoma mechanically to the new host until Kleine showed that the latter undergoes a developmental cycle in Glossina. English translation in Kean (No. 2268.1).
1909
#5284
Le mécanisme d’action des dérivés arsenicaux dans les trypanosomiases.
A study of the action of atoxyl and arsacétine.
1909
#5478
Weitere Untersuchungen über das Pappatacifieber.
Doerr and Russ suggested that the virus of phlebotomus fever may be transmitted from one generation of infected Phlebotomus papatasii to another.
1909
#5479
Das Pappatacifieber.
An Austrian military commission consisting of R. Doerr, K. Franz, and S. Taussig proved that the causal organism of pappataci fever was a virus and that Phlebotomus papatasii was the vector.
1909
#5289.2
Bibliography of trypanosomiasis.
Subject index…with additional references and corrections, 1910.
1909
#5299.1
L’ulcère de Bauru ou le bouton d’orientau Brésil.
Muco-cutaneous leishmaniasis of South America. English translation in Kean (No. 2268.1).
1909
#5300
Le kala azar infantile.
Nicolle considered infantile kala-azar to be caused by a distinct species of Leishmania; to this he gave the name L. infantum.
1909
#5533
Descripción de elementos endo-globulares hallados en las enfermos de fiebre verrucosa.
The causal organism of Oroya fever and verruga peruana, endemic in Peru, was named Bartonella bacilliformis after Barton, who was one of the first to observe it.
1909
#5379
A micro-organism which apparently has a specific relationship to Rocky Mountain spotted fever. A preliminary report.
Description of the causal organism, in blood smears.
1909
#5381
On heterologous agglutinins more particularly those present in the blood serum of cerebro-spinal fever and typhus fever cases.
The reaction described by Wilson was later developed by Weil and Felix and named after them (see No. 5390). See also the paper by Wilson in J. Hyg., 1920, 19, 115-30.
1909
#5460
Sanitation of the tropics with special reference to malaria and yellow fever.
1909
#5263
Malaria and Greek history. To which is added the history of Greek therapeutics and the malaria theory by E.T. Withington.
The view is put forward by the writer that malarial infection was the cause of the decadence of the Greeks. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1909
#10406
Eradicating plague in San Francisco. Report of the Citizen's Health Committee and an account of its work. With brief descriptions of the measures taken, copies of ordinances in aid of sanitation, articles by sanitarians on the nature of plague and the best means of getting rid of it, facsimiles of circulars issued by the committee and a list of subscribers to the health fund. March 31, 1909. Prepared by Frank Morton Todd, historian for the Committee.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1909
#13476
The great white plague: Tuberculosis.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1909
#13795
Smallpox and vaccination in British India.
Includes the history of the introduction of vaccination in India from 1799 onward. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1910
#4670.1
Anterior poliomyelitis. Methods of diagnosis from spinal fluid and blood in monkeys and in human beings.
Gay and Lucas were the first to make accurate cell counts of the spinal fluid in poliomyelitis.
1910
#4670.3
La poliomyélite experimental.
Serum from a monkey that had recovered from experimental poliomyelitis was mixed with an emulsion containing active polio virus; it failed to produce paralytic disease when injected into fresh monkeys.
1910
#2267
Manual of tropical medicine.
Castellani made several discoveries of great importance in tropical medicine. The above work is a standard text on tropical medicine in English. Third edition, 1919.
1910
#2439
Histotechnik der leprösen Haut.
Unna was among the first to maintain that the lymphatics were involved in leprosy and that it was curable.
1910
#2320
Pott’sche Krankheit an einer ägyptischen Mumie.
The fact that tuberculosis was present among the ancient Egyptians was proved when Elliot Smith and Ruffer described a genuine case of Pott’s disease in a mummy of 1000 B.C.E.
1910
#2403
Die experimentelle Chemotherapie der Spirillosen (Syphilis, Rückfallfieber, Hühnerspirillose, Frambösie).
After many experiments on the action of synthetic drugs upon spirochetal diseases, Ehrlich and Hata in 1909 discovered Arsphenamine (Salvarsan, "the arsenic that saves", also known as “606”), an effective treatment fo…
1910
#5285
On the peculiar morphology of a trypanosome from a case of sleeping sickness and the possibility of its being a new species.
T. rhodesiense discovered.
1910
#5506
Roseola infantilis.
Roseola (exanthema) subitum first described as a distinct entity.
1910
#5380
The relation of typhus fever (tabardillo) to Rocky Mountain spotted fever.
Ricketts and Wilder differentiated Rocky Mountain spotted fever and typhus.
1910
#5380.1
The etiology of the typhus fever (tabardillo) of Mexico City. A further preliminary report.
Demonstration of the causal organism of typhus.
1910
#5382
An acute infectious disease of unknown origin. A clinical study based on 221 cases.
“Brill’s disease” – recrudescent typhus; first description.
1910
#5383
Une fièvre éruptive observée en Tunisie.
First description of fievre boutonneuse, a form of tick-borne typhus found in Tunisia.
1910 –1911
#5384
Recherches experimentales sur le typhus exanthématique.
Nicolle demonstrated the transmission of typhus by the body louse Pediculus corporis. He also produced the disease in monkeys and guinea-pigs by the injection of infected blood. Preliminary communication in C. R. Acad…
1910
#13217
Hygiene and morality: A manual for nurses and others, giving an outline of the medical, social, and legal aspects of the venereal diseases.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1911
#2404
A method for the pure cultivation of pathogenic Treponema pallidum (Spirochaeta pallida).
Pure culture of T. pallidum first obtained. Digital facsimile from digitalcommon.oshu.edu at this link.
1911
#5137
La peste de 1720 à Marseille et en France d’après des documents inédits.
1911
#5171
La precipitina nella diagnosi del carbonchio ematico.
Ascoli’s thermoprecipitin reaction for the diagnosis of anthrax. German translation in Zbl. Bakt., 1911, 1 Abt., 58, Orig., 63-70. Preliminary note in Patbologica, 1910, 3, 101.