1879 GALTIER, Pierre-Victor (1846 – 1908)

Études sur la rage.

Galtier demonstrated the transmissibility of rabies from dog to rabbit to rabbit in a series, a matter of considerable interest to Pasteur.

GMN 5481.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6375

1880 PASTEUR, Louis (1822 – 1895)

Sur les maladies virulentes, et en particulier sur la maladie appelée vulgairement choléra des poules.

This paper marked the beginning of Pasteur’s work on the attenuation of the infective organism. Noting that fowls inoculated with an attenuated form of the chicken cholera bacterium acquired immunity, he developed the…

GMN 2537 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3526

1880 PASTEUR, Louis (1822 – 1895); CHAMBERLAND, Charles (1851 – 1908); ROUX, Pierre Paul Émile (1853 – 1933)

Sur l’étiologie du charbon.

First use of attenuated bacteria for therapeutic purposes. See also the same journal, 1881, 92, 1378-83.

GMN 5169 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6251

1880 PONFICK, Emil (1844 – 1913)

Ueber Actinomykose.

Ponfick recognized the causative role of Actinomyces in human actinomycosis; he established the identity of the human and animal forms of the disease. He published a book on the subject, Die Actinomykose des Menschen,…

GMN 5512 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6513

1881 GALTIER, Pierre-Victor (1846 – 1908)

Les injections de virus rabique dans le torrent circulatoire ne provoquent pas l’éclosion de la rage et semblant conférer l’immunité. La rage peut être transmise par l’ingestion de la matiére rabique.

Galtier immunized sheep by inoculating rabid saliva in the veins; this did not produce the disease and protected the animals from a further inoculation. His work aroused the interest of Pasteur.

GMN 5481.3 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6378

1881 EVANS, Griffith (1835 – 1935)

On a horse disease in India known as “surra”, probably due to a haematozoon.

While serving in India as a veterinary surgeon, Evans discovered parasites in the blood of horses suffering from surra; this was the first pathogenic trypanosome to be described.

GMN 5271 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8576

1883 MALASSEZ, Louis Charles (1842 – 1909); VIGNAL, W.

Sur une forme de tuberculose sans bacilles.

Isolation of Pasteurella pseudotuberculosis.

GMN 2498 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3178

1884 GORDON, Sir Charles Alexander (1821 – 1899)

An epitome of the reports of the medical officers to the Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs Office from 1871 to 1882. With chapters on the history of medicine in China: Materia medica: Epidemics: Famine: Ethnology: And chronology in relation to medicine and public health.

Apart from studies of common diseases, public health issues, and epizootics, this work contains a chapter on opium smoking and a chapter on the castration of Chinese eunuchs, of which there were around a thousand work…

GMN 9422 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11605

1885 THOMAS, John Davies (1844 – 1893)

Notes upon the experimental breeding of Taenia echinococcus in the dog from the echinococci of man.

Thomas succeeded in transmitting Taenia echinococcus to the dog from human sources.

GMN 5347 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6813

1885 DANILEVSKI, Vasili Iakovlevich (1852 – 1934)

Zur Parasitologie des Blutes.

Discovery of malaria parasites in birds. See also Ann. Inst. Pasteur, 1890, 4, 427-31.

GMN 5238.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7893

1886 SMITH, Theobald (1859 – 1934); SALMON, Daniel Elmer (1850 – 1914)

The bacterium of swine-plague.

Discovery of Salmonella choleraesuis. The Salmonellae tribe was named after Salmon, even though the discovery was made by Smith. See Bibel, Milestones in immunology (1988) 31-32.

GMN 2505 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3214

1886 KLEIN, Edward Emanuel (1844 – 1925)

Report on a disease of cows prevailing at a farm from which scarlatina had been distributed along with the milk of cows.

Contains the first suggestion of the streptococcal origin of scarlet fever.

GMN 5080 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5937

1886 LOEFFLER, Friedrich August Johann (1852 – 1915)

Die Aetiologie der Rotzkrankheit.

Discovery of Burkholderia mallei, causative organism of glanders. Preliminary notice in Dtsch. med. Wschr., 1882, 8, 707.

GMN 5156 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6204

1886 LEIDY, Joseph (1823 – 1891)

Remarks on parasites and scorpions.

Leidy found the hookworm in the cat and suggested that it might also be found in man as a cause of pernicious anemia.

GMN 5359 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6959

1888 NOCARD, Edmond Isidore Etienne (1850 – 1903)

Note sur la maladie des boeufs de la Guadeloupe, connue sous le nom de farcin.

The first pathogenic aerobic actinomycete to be described. It was later named Nocardia farcinica and is probably identical with N. asteroides.

GMN 5512.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6515

1889 STRAUS, Isidore (1845 – 1896)

Sur un moyen de diagnostic rapide de la morve.

Straus reaction for the diagnosis of glanders.

GMN 5157 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6207

1889 PARINAUD, Henri (1844 – 1905); GALEZOWSKI, Xavier (1832 – 1907)

Conjonctivite infectieuse transmise par les animaux.

Parinaud described an infectious tuberculous conjunctivitis transmissible from animals to man. In 1924 Gifford suggested the name “Parinaud’s oculo-glandular syndrome” as a more suitable description. See also Rec. Oph…

GMN 5936 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6889

1891 BABES, Victor (Babeş) (1854 – 1926)

Observations sur la morve.

Mallein reaction for the diagnosis of glanders.

GMN 5158 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6210

1891 ISRAEL, James Adolf (1848 – 1926); WOLFF, Max (1844 – 1923)

Ueber Reincultur des Actinomyces und seine Uebertragbarkeit auf Thiere.

Isolation of Actinomyces bovis, later called Actinomyces israelii.

GMN 5514 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6520

1891 SMITH, Sir Frederick (1857 – 1929)

A manual of saddles and collars, sore backs and sore shoulders.

"The subject of saddles and sore backs [of horses] is such an important one that I have considered the lectures delivered by me on the subject, in this school, might be of more permanent value if printed. "Every offic…

GMN 10152 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12341

1892 –1982 HASSALL, Albert (1862 – 1942); STILES, Charles Wardell (1867 – 1941); ET AL

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…

GMN 355 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/289

1893 SMITH, Theobald (1859 – 1934); KILBORNE, Frederick Lucius (1858 – 1936)

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…

GMN 5529 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6646

1895 SCLAVO, Achille (1861 – 1930)

Sulla preparazione del siero anti-carbonchioso.

Specific anti-anthrax serum. German translation in Zbl. Bakt., 1895, 1 Abt., 18, 744-45.

GMN 5170 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6253

1898 KOCH, Robert Heinrich Hermann (1843 – 1910)

Reise-Bericht über Rinderpest, Bubonenpest in Indien und Afrika, Tsetse-oder Surrakrankheit, Texasfieber, tropische Malaria, Schwarzwasserfieber.

GMN 2457 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2986

1898 SMITH, Theobald (1859 – 1934)

A comparative study of bovine tubercle bacilli and of human bacilli from sputum.

First clear differentiation between the bovine and human types of tubercle bacillus.

GMN 2335 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3074

1898 LOEFFLER, Friedrich August Johann (1852 – 1915); FROSCH, Paul (1860 – 1928)

Bericht der Kommission zur Erforschung der Maul-und Klauenseuche bei dem Institut für Infektionskrankheiten.

Loeffler and Frosch proved that foot-and-mouth disease is caused by a filter-passing virus; this was the first recognition that a virus causes disease.

GMN 2511 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3251

1898 ROUX, Pierre Paul Émile (1853 – 1933); NOCARD, Edmond Isidore Etienne (1850 – 1903)

Le microbe de la péripneumonie.

Discovery of the causal organism of bovine pleuropneumonia, also known as lung plague. Nocard and Roux considered it a filterable virus but now known to be a mycoplasma.

GMN 3182 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4195

1898 OPIE, Eugene Lindsay (1873 – 1971)

On the haemocytozoa of birds.

Demonstration of sexual conjugation in the malaria parasite. See also No. 5250.

GMN 5249 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7906

1898 MACCALLUM, William George (1874 – 1944)

Notes on the pathological changes in the organs of birds infected with haemocytozoa.

MacCallum and Opie discovered the sexual phase of malaria parasites.

GMN 5250 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7907

1898 ROSS, Sir Ronald (1857 – 1932)

The rôle of the mosquito in the evolution of the malarial parasite.

Ross provided the last link in the chain demonstrating the complete life-cycle of the parasite of bird malaria. He found that mosquitoes which had fed on malaria-infected birds, and which had allowed the parasites to …

GMN 5251 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7908

1901 EVANS, Griffith (1835 – 1935)

Elephants and their diseases: A treatise on elephants.

Digital facsimile of the 1910 edition from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.

GMN 10138 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12327

1901 ODER, Eugen (1862 – 1926)

Claudii Hermeri. Mulomedicina Chironis editit Eugenius Oder.

Edition of the Mulomedicina in Codex Monacensis Latinus 243 saec. xv, a translation in vulgar Latin (by Claudis Hermeros?) of a Greek treatise. In the subscriptions of books 1 and 2, 9, 10, "Chiron Centaurus", "Chiron…

GMN 10139 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12328

1902 LIGNIÈRES, Joseph Léon Marcel (1868 – 1933); SPITZ, J

Actinobacilosis.

Discovery of the actinobacillus.

GMN 5531 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6671

1903 VEGETIUS RENATUS, Publius Flavius (365 – ); MARTIALIS, Quintus Gargilius (250 – ); LOMMATZSCH, Ernst Otto Franz (1871 – 1949)

P. Vegeti Renati digestorum artis mulomedicinae libri edidit Ernestus Lommatzsch. Accedit Gargili Martialis de curis boum fragmentum.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link. Includes an edition of the Late Antique Latin writer Quintus Gargilius Martialis's fragmentary treatise on the tending of cattle.

GMN 12176 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14386

1906 ROSENAU, Milton Joseph (1869 – 1946); ANDERSON, John Fleetezelle (1873 – 1958)

A study of the cause of sudden death following the injection of horse serum.

Forms Bulletin No. 29 of the Hygienic Laboratory, U. S. Marine Hospital Service. Rosenau and Anderson drew attention to the fact that animals receiving an injection of a foreign protein became sensitive to a second do…

GMN 2595 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2959

1907 MAREK, József (1868 – 1952)

Multiple Nervenentzündung (Polyneuritis) bei Hühnern.

Marek's disease (fowl paralysis) later named by Peter Biggs, who determined that the disease was caused by Gallid alphaherpesvirus 2, and developed the first generation Marek's disease vaccine.

GMN 13400 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15672

1908 UHLENHUTH, Paul Theodor (1870 – 1957); HUBENER, Erich August (1870 – )

Weitere Mitteilungen über Schweinepest mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Bakteriologie der Hogcholeragruppe.

First description of Salmonella paratyphi C.

GMN 5041 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5815

1908 PLIMMER, Henry George (1856 – 1918); THOMSON, John D.

Further results of the experimental treatment of trypanosomiasis in rats.

Trial of antimony in the treatment of trypanosomiasis.

GMN 5282 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6343

1911 ASCOLI, Alberto (1877 – 1957)

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.

GMN 5171 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6255

1912 MCCOY, George Walter (1876 – 1952); CHAPIN, Charles Willard (1877 – )

Further observations on a plague-like disease of rodents with a preliminary note on the causative agent, Bacterium tularense.

Isolation of Pasteurella tularensis, causal organism in tularemia.

GMN 5174 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6273

1912 –1914 SMITH, Sir Frederick (1857 – 1929)

A veterinary history of the war in South Africa, 1899-1902. Supplement to: Veterinary record May 25, 1912-Sept. 26, 1914.

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

GMN 10151 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12340

1914 DELCOURT, Joseph (1873 – 1946)

Medicina de quadrupedibus: An early English version with introduction, translation, notes, and glossary.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

GMN 9438 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11621

1915 –1921 MENNESSIER DE LA LANCE, Gabriel René (1835 – 1924)

Essai de bibliographie hippique donnant la description détaillée des ouvrages publiés ou traduits en Latin et en Français sur le cheval et la cavalerie avec de nombreuses biographies d’auteurs hippiques.... 2 vols. & supplement.

General Mennessier de la Lance was former commander of the 3rd division of cavalry in France. His comprehensive bio-bibliography on all things equestrian includes veterinary medicine. William Osler published a very co…

GMN 10135 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12324

1917 STANTON, Sir Ambrose Thomas (1875 – 1938)

A form of pseudo-tuberculosis (melioidosis).

Stanton identified the bacillus of melioidosis and reproduced the disease in animals by feeding and inoculation of cultures.

GMN 5159.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6218

1919 –1933 SMITH, Sir Frederick (1857 – 1929); BULLOCK, Fred (1878 – 1937)

The early history of veterinary literature and its British development

Digital facsimile of vol. 1 and limited (search only) of vol. 2-4 from the Hathi Trust at this link.

GMN 10149 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12338

1921 MONTGOMERY, R. Eustace

On a form of swine fever occurring in British East Africa (Kenya Colony).

First description of African Swine Fever. Montgomery was "Veterinary Adviser to the Government of Uganda, formerly Veterinary Pathologist to the East Africa Protectorate."

GMN 11762 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13963

1924 –1927 ODER, Eugen (1862 – 1926); HOPPE, Karl (1868 – 1946)

Corpus hippiatricorum Graecorum. 2 vols. 1. Hippiatrica Berolinensia. 2. Hippiatrica Parisina, Cantabrigiensia, Londinensia, Lugdunensia; Appendix.

GMN 7156 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9323

1925 EVANS, Alice Catharine (1881 – 1975)

Studies on Brucella (Alkaligenes) melitensis.

Forms Bulletin No. 143 of the U.S. Public Health Service Hygienic Laboratory. Alice Evans showed that the causal organism of Malta fever was closely related to Brucella abortus, responsible for contagious abortion in …

GMN 5103 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6034

1926 MURRAY, Everitt George Dunne (1890 – 1964); ET AL

A disease of rabbits characterised by a large mononuclear leucocytosis, caused by a hitherto undescribed bacillus acterium monocytogenes (n. sp.).

Isolation of Listeria monocytogenes. With R. A. Webb and M. B. R. Swann.

GMN 2522.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3312

1927 SMITH, Sir Frederick (1857 – 1929)

A history of the Royal Army Veterinary Corps 1796-1919.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

GMN 10150 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12339