1936 TANIGUCHI, Tenji (1889 – 1961); ET AL
A virus isolated in 1935 epidemic of summer encephalitis in Japan.
T. Taniguchi, M. Hosokawa, and S. Kuga established a virus etiology for Japanese B encephalitis.
GMN 4659 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/774
1936 SABIN, Albert Bruce (1906 – 1993); OLITSKY, Peter Kosciusko (1886 – 1964)
Cultivation of poliomyelitis virus in vitro in human embryonic nervous tissue.
Isolation and propagation of the poliomyelitis virus in pure culture.
GMN 4670.6 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/868
1937 KENNY, Elizabeth (1886 – 1952)
Infantile paralysis and cerebral diplegia: Methods used for the restoration of function.
GMN 4671 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/870
1937 SCHWENTKER, Francis Frederic (1904 – 1954); ET AL
The treatment of meningococcic meningitis with sulfanilamide.
With S. Gelman and P. H. Long.
GMN 4689 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/968
1938 FOTHERGILL, Leroy Dryden (1901 – 1967); ET AL
Human encephalitis caused by the virus of the Eastern variety of equine encephalomyelitis.
Isolation of the virus of Eastern equine encephalitis from man. With J. H. Dingle, S. Farber, and M. L. Connerley.
GMN 4659.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/780
1938 HOWITT, Beatrice Fay (1891 – )
Recovery of the virus of equine encephalomyelitis from the brain of a child.
Western equine encephalitis virus recovered from man.
GMN 4660 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/783
1939 ZILBER, Lev Aleksandrovich (Alexandrovich) (1894 – 1966)
Vesennij (vesenne-letnij) endemiceskij klescevoj encefalit. [Vernal (verno-aestival) endemic tick-borne encephalitis.]
Isolation of the virus of spring–summer (Russian Far East) encephalitis.
GMN 4660.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/785
1939 ARMSTRONG, Charles (1886 – 1967)
Successful transfer of the Lansing strain of poliomyelitis virus from the cotton rat to the white mouse.
Armstrong adapted the Lansing strain of poliomyelitis to the cotton rat and then to the mouse, greatly facilitating experimental work on the disease.
GMN 4671.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/878
1940 DURAND, Paul (1895 – 1961)
Virus filtrant pathogène pour l’homme et les animaux de laboratoire, et à affinité meningée et pulmonaire.
“Durand’s disease” – D virus infection. Durand isolated the virus from his own blood. See also the paper by G. M. Findlay, Trans. roy. Soc. trop. Med., 1942, 35, 303-18.
GMN 4661 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/787
1940 JUNGEBLUT, Claus Washington (1897 – 1976); SANDERS, Murray Jonathan (1910 – 1987)
Studies of a murine strain of poliomyelitis virus in cotton rats and white mice.
Isolation of encephalomyocarditis virus.
GMN 4661.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/789
1944 ROSENBERG, David Harry (1903 – ); ARLING, Philip Arthur (1908 – 1955)
Penicillin in the treatment of meningitis.
GMN 4689.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/970
1949 ENDERS, John Franklin (1897 – 1985); WELLER, Thomas Huckle (1915 – 2008); ROBBINS, Frederick Chapman (1916 – 2003)
Cultivation of the Lansing strain of poliomyelitis virus in cultures of various human embryonic tissues.
Enders, Weller, and Robbins grew the poliomyelitis virus in cultures of different tissues. Their method proved of great value in virus research, and removed the final obstacles to vaccine production. In 1974 Enders, W…
GMN 4671.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/874
1951 SALMONSEN, Ella Maud (1885 – 1971); FISHBEIN, Morris (1889 – 1976); HEKTOEN, Ludvig (1863 – 1951)
A bibliography of infantile paralysis 1789-1949. With selected abstracts and annotations. 2nd edition.
An exhaustive list of books and papers.
GMN 4672.4 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/900
1952 HAMMON, William McDowell (1904 – 1989); ET AL
Evaluation of Red Cross gamma globulin as a prophylactic agent for poliomyelitis.
Trial of gamma globulin in the prophylaxis of poliomyelitis. With L. L. Coriell, J. Stokes, P. F. Wehrle, and C. R. Klimt.
GMN 4672 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/881
1952 KOPROWSKI, Hilary (1916 – 2013); ET AL
Immune responses in human volunteers upon oral administration of a rodent-adapted strain of poliomyelitis virus.
Successful immunization against poliomyelitis with a living attenuated virus vaccine. With G. A. Jervis and T. W. Norton.
GMN 4672.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/885
1952 ENDERS, John Franklin (1897 – 1985); WELLER, Thomas Huckle (1915 – 2008); ROBBINS, Frederick Chapman (1916 – 2003); ET AL
Studies on the cultivation of poliomyelitis viruses in tissue culture.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Weller, Enders, Robbins. In this paper the authors describe their improved method for culturing poliomyelitis viruses in "normal kidney tissue." Followed by Robbins, We…
GMN 11103 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13299
1953 SALK, Jonas Edward (1914 – 1995); ET AL
Studies in human subjects on active immunization against poliomyelitis. 1. A preliminary report of experiments in progress.
Killed-virus vaccine. With four co-authors.
GMN 4672.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/889
1955 SABIN, Albert Bruce (1906 – 1993)
Immunization of chimpanzees and human beings with avirulent strains of poliomyelitis virus.
Sabin reported the successful immunization of chimpanzees by oral and I.M. route using the Brunhilde, Mahoney and Leon strains of polio virus. On p. 1055 he reported the experimental results on humans given a "single …
GMN 4672.3 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/894
1955 SCHAFFER, Frederick Leland (1921 – ); SCHWERDT, Carlton Everett (1917 – 1995)
Crystallization of purified MEF-1 poliomyelitis virus particles.
First crystallization of an animal virus.
GMN 2527.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3471
1958 LUMSDEN, Leslie Leon (1875 – 1946)
St. Louis encephalitis in 1933; observations on epidemiological features.
In a report to the Surgeon General in 1933, Lumsden concluded that the Culex mosquito was the vector of the St. Louis encephalitis virus. His report was not published until 1958.
GMN 4661.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/791
1971 PAUL, John Rodman (1893 – 1971)
A history of poliomyelitis.
GMN 4672.5 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/937
1973 SACKS, Oliver Wolf (1933 – 2015)
Awakenings.
Revised editions, 1976 and 1991. "It recounts the life histories of those who had been victims of the 1920s encephalitis lethargica epidemic.[2] Sacks chronicles his efforts in the late 1960s to help these patients at…
GMN 9131 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11310
1995 VENTER, John Craig (1946 – ); SMITH, Hamilton Othanel (1931 – ); FLEISCHMANN, Robert D.; ADAMS, Mark D.; WHITE, Owen; ET AL
Whole-genome random sequencing and assembly of Haemophilus influenzae Rd.
First sequence of the complete genome of a free-living non-viral organism—Haemophilus influenzae—the bacterium that causes lower respiratory tract infections and meningitis in infants and young children. This genome c…
GMN 11343 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13541
2013 ARTENSTEIN, Andrew W.
In the blink of an eye: The deadly story of epidemic meningitis.
GMN 8100 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10276
2013 WILLIAMS, Gareth
Paralysed with fear: The story of polio.
GMN 10219 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12409
