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”

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Massenhafte Entwickelung von Amöben im Dickdarm.

Virchows Arch. path. Anat., 65, 196-211, 1875.

Lösch discovered Entamoeba histolytica as the infective agent in amoebic dysentery. Before this time distinction between the different forms of dysentery had been made on purely clinical grounds. English translation in Kean (No. 2268.1).



Subjects: INFECTIOUS DISEASE › Amoebiasis, PARASITOLOGY › Amoeba
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