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1,279 entries match Plagues & Epidemics [C01.252]

1925

#5394

Tropical typhus in the Federated Malay States, with a compilation on epidemic typhus.

Bull. Inst. med. Res., F. M. S., No. 2. Drew attention to scrub typhus in Malaya.

1925

#5432

Studies of the viruses of vaccinia and variola.

Medical Research Council Special Report No. 98; a summary of the more important additions to the knowledge of the subject.

1925

#5218

Eine neue Hautreaktion bei “Lymphogranuloma inguinale”.

The Frei skin test for the diagnosis of lymphogranuloma venereum.

1925

#10197

Arrowsmith.

"This novel has been inspirational for several generations of pre-medical and medical students. There is much agonizing along the way concerning career and life decisions. While detailing Arrowsmith's pursuit of the n…

1926

#1915

On the chemotherapy of neurosyphilis and trypanosomiasis.

Study of the effect of twelve different substances in neurosyphilis and trypanosomiasis.

1926

#2345

Ueber Versuche, schwere Formen der Tuberkulose durch diätetische Behandlung zu beeinflussen.

Gerson introduced a salt-restricted diet in the treatment of tuberculosis; this was subsequently modified by Sauerbruch and Herrmannsdorfer, becoming known as the “Gerson–Sauerbruch–Hermannsdorfer diet”. The scientifi…

1926

#5130

A treatise on pneumonic plague.

Publication of the League of Nations, III. Health III, 13.

1926

#5141

Die ersten gedruckten Pestschriften.

Includes descriptions of 130 incunabula.

1926

#5289

Essai de prophylaxie des trypanosomiases par des dérivés phénylarsiniques administré

First attempt to induce prophylaxis by chemical means in trypanosomiasis. With S. Nicolau and I. Galloway.

1926

#5395

The Weil-Felix reaction in sporadic tropical typhus.

Bull. Inst. Med. Res., F. M. S., 1926, No. 1. Demonstration that scrub-typhus patients developed agglutinins against the OX-K strain of B. proteus but not the OX-19 strain.

1926

#5396

Clinical observations on endemic typhus (Brill’s disease) in Southern United States.

Maxcy described murine (flea-borne) typhus (“Maxcy’s disease”).

1926

#5433

Studies on variola, vaccinia, and avian molluscum.

Ledingham’s diagnostic test.

1926 –1927

#5256

Die Wirkung des Plasmochins auf die Vogelmalaria.

Introduction of plasmoquine (pamaquin) in the treatment of malaria.

1926

#10467

Health, wealth and population in the early days of the industrial revolution.

Chapters on water supply, 18th physicians and pioneers of public health, the hospital and dispensary movement, general hygiene and midwifery, rickets and scurvy, antiseptics, smallpox, anti-typhus campaign, malaria, etc.

1926

#12386

Isolation of a crystalline protein with tuberculin activity.

Siebert identified the active agent in tuberculin as a protein.

1926

#12574

Medical report of the Hamilton Rice Seventh expedition to the Amazon In conjunction with the Department of Tropical Medicine of Harvard University, 1924-1925

"The Hamilton Rice Seventh Expedition to Amazonia was undertaken [under the leadership of Richard Pearson Strong] partly for general geographical exploration and partly for medical investigation in a section of the Am…

1927

#4653

A leukoenkephalitis periaxialis concentricaról.

“Baló’s disease” – encephalitis periaxialis concentrica. Translation in Arch. Neurol. Psychiat. (Chicago), 1928, 19, 242-64.

1927

#2346

Sur la vaccination préventive des enfants nouveau-nés contre la tuberculose par le B.C.G.

1927

#2414

Bismuth arsphenamine sulphate.

Clinical introduction of bismarsen, synthesized by G. W. Raiziss in 1924.

1927

#5142

The plague in Shakespeare’s London.

1927

#5350.8

The insect transmission of Onchocerca volvulus (Leuckart, 1893), the cause of worm nodules in man in Africa.

The fly Simulium damnosum shown to be the vector of onchocerciasis.

1927

#5219

Contribución al estudio de la linfogranulomatosis inguinal subaguda o ulcera venérea adenógena de Nicolás y Favre.

Gay Prieto was the first actually to see the infective agent of lymphogranuloma venereum.

1927

#11994

La vaccination préventive contre la tuberculose par le "BGG". Par Albert Calmette avec la collaboration de C. Guérin, A. Boquet et L. Nègre.

A 250-page monograph, with bibliographical references, on the development of the BCG vaccine from M. bovis, from 1909 to 1927 by the scientists involved. (Thanks to Ron Cox for this reference.)

1928

#4654

Ueber die Encephalitis epidemica in Japan.

Japanese encephalitis distinguished from encephalitis lethargica.

1928

#5070

L’anatoxine diphtérique. Ses propriétés–ses applications.

In 1923 Ramon so modified the diphtheria toxin with formaldehyde that it lost its toxic properties while retaining its antigenic virtues. This modified “anatoxin” (toxoid) superseded toxin–antitoxin as an immunizing a…

1928

#5396.1

Experiments relating to the pathology and the etiology of Mexican typhus (tabardillo).

Mooser differentiated murine from epidemic typhus. The causative organism was later named Rickettsia mooseri.

1928

#5434

The reaction of the skin of the normal rabbit following intradermal injection of material from smallpox lesions: the specificity of this reaction and its application as a diagnostic test.

McKinnon’s diagnostic test.

1928

#5434.1

Cultivation of vaccinia virus without tissue culture.

Introduction of “Maitland’s medium”.

1928

#5461

A yellow fever vaccine.

First vaccine for immunization against yellow fever. Hindle devised a method for the transportation of frozen infected material from West Africa to London, making it possible to carry on experimental work in Britain.

1928

#5462

Experimental transmission of yellow-fever to laboratory animals.

Experimental infection of the monkey, Macacus rhesus, with the yellow fever virus. Stokes succumbed to yellow fever while investigating the disease. With J. H. Bauer and N. P. Hudson.

1928

#5256.1

Studies in malaria, with special references to treatment. Part IX. Plasmoquine in the treatment of malaria.

Clinical trials of pamaquin.

1929

#3202.2

Serum treatment in type I lobar pneumonia.

Introduction of monovalent antiserum.

1929

#5538.2

Etiology of Oroya fever. XIV. The insect vectors of Carrión’s disease.

Phlebotomus sand flies shown to be the vector of Oroya fever. With R. C. Shannon, E. B. Tilden, and J. B. Tyler.

1929 –1931

#12146

Ticks, mites and venomous animals of medical and veterinary importance. Part 1: Medical. Part 2: Public health.

Part 1 by Patton and the female entomologist Alwen Evans; part 2 by Patton alone.

1929

#12642

Die Encephalitis lethargica, ihre Nachkrankheiten und ihre Behandlung.

Translated and adapted by K. O. Newman as Encephalitis lethargica its sequelae and treatment. London: Oxford University Press, 1931.

1930

#5071

Insoluble precipitates in diphtheria and tetanus immunization.

Alum-precipitated toxoid for active immunization.

1930

#5177

Ueber Identität von “Yato-Byo” (Ohara’s disease) und “Tularämie”, sowie ihren Erreger.

In Japan tularemia is known as “Ohara’s disease”.

1930

#5538.3

Tick-borne infections in Colorado. I. The diagnosis and management of infections transmitted by the wood tick.

Becker first clearly described Colorado tick fever as a separate entity and suggested that the causal organism was transmitted by the tick, Dermacentor andersoni.

1930

#5463

Studies on the action of yellow fever virus in mice.

The intracerebral protection test in mice, a test for the diagnosis of yellow fever and for the determination of its past existence in a community, was made possible by Theiler’s discovery that white mice are suscepti…

1930

#5220

Meningo-enzephalitische Veränderungen bei Affen nach intra-cerebraler Impfung mit Lymphogranuloma inquinale.

The authors transmitted lymphogranuloma venereum to animals and attributed it to a virus. See also C. R. Soc. Biol. (Paris), 1931, 106, 802-03.

1930

#12459

The African Republic of Liberia and the Belgian Congo based on the observations made and material collected during the Harvard African Expedition, 1926-1927. Edited by Richard P. Strong. 2 vols.

"The Harvard Medical African Expedition of 1926-1927 was an eight-man venture sent by Harvard University for the primary purpose of conducting a medical and biological survey of Liberia; the secondary purpose being to…

1931

#4670.5

Immunological differences between strains of poliomyelitis virus.

1931

#2428

Histoire de la syphilis.

Forms tome I of Traité de la syphilis, ed. by E. Jeanselme and E. Shulmann.

1931

#2355

Historie de la tuberculose.

1931

#5072

On the existence of two forms of diphtheria bacillus B. diphtheria gravis and B. diphtheriae mitis.

J. S. Anderson, F. C. Happold, J. W. McLeod, and J. G. Thomson were the first to distinguish the gravis, mitis, and intermediate types of C. diphtheriae.

1931

#5087.1

The phases of Haemophilus pertussis.

Leslie and Gardner classified H. pertussis cultures into four types and established an experimental basis for the development of an effective vaccine.

1931

#5142.1

The black death and men of learning.

1931

#5493

Swine influenza. III. Filtration experiments and etiology.

Isolation in pigs of influenzavirus A or influenza A virus. Full text available from PubMedCentral at this link.

1931

#5541

Enzootic hepatitis or Rift Valley fever. An undescribed virus disease of sheep, cattle and man from East Africa.

First description.

1931

#5352

The bibliography of schistosomiasis (bilharziasis).