1928 –1929 THOMSON, David (1884 – 1969); THOMSON, Robert (1888 – )
The pathogenic streptococci. An historical survey of their role in human and animal disease.
Documents over 1,600 studies.
GMN 2523 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3321
1928 DEW, Sir Harold Robert (1891 – 1962)
Hydatid disease. Its pathology, diagnosis and treatment.
Dew’s book remains the authoritative source. His many contributions to the knowledge of hydatid disease are summarized in it.
GMN 5351 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6877
1929 –1931 PATTON, Walter Scott (1876 – 1960); EVANS, Alwen Myfanwy (1895 – 1937)
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.
GMN 12146 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14356
1931 WOODRUFF, Alice Miles; GOODPASTURE, Ernest William (1886 – 1960)
The susceptibility of the chorio-allantoic membrane of chick embryos to infection with the fowl-pox virus.
By their demonstration of the infection of the chorio-allantoic membrane with the virus of fowl pox, Woodruff and Goodpasture initiated wide-spread adoption of this host for the study of viruses.
GMN 2524.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3331
1931 SHOPE, Richard Edwin (1901 – 1966)
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.
GMN 5493 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6443
1931 DAUBNEY, Robert (1891 – ); HUDSON, John Richard
Enzootic hepatitis or Rift Valley fever. An undescribed virus disease of sheep, cattle and man from East Africa.
First description.
GMN 5541 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6730
1933 KLARENBEEK, Arie (1888 – ); SCHÜFFNER, Wilhelm August Paul (1867 – 1949)
Het voorkomen van een afwijkend Leptospira-ras in Nederland.
Leptospira canicola first isolated (1913) from the urine of a dog.
GMN 5335 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6683
1934 DHONT, C. M.; ET AL
De leptospiroses bij den hond, en de beteekenis der Leptospira canicola.
First reported cases of human infection with L. canicola. With A. Klarenbeek, W. A. P. Schüffner, and J. Voet.
GMN 5336 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6696
1936 –1949 LAIGNEL-LAVASTINE, Paul-Marie Maxime (1875 – 1953)
Histoire générale de la médecine, de la pharmacie, de l’art dentaire et de l’art véterinaire. 3 vols.
This splendidly produced work, beautifully illustrated, was written by experts in each branch of the subject, with Laignel-Lavastine as general editor.
GMN 6430 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8421
1937 BEAUDETTE, Fred Robert; HUDSON, C. B.
Cultivation of the virus of infectious bronchitis.
The authors were the first to isolate a pathogenic coronavirus in chickens. This was the first pathogenic coronavirus described. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.)
GMN 12008 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14216
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
1938 JAMES, Sydney Price (1870 – 1946); TAIT, P
Exo-erythrocytic schizogony in Plasmodium gallinaceum Brumpt, 1935.
The term “exo-erythrocytic stage” introduced to describe the unpigmented schizonts found in tissue cells. The parasite Plasmodium gallincaceum described by Alexandre Joseph Emile Brumpt causes malaria in poultry.
GMN 5258 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8541
1939 STERNE, Max (1905 – 1997)
The use of anthrax vaccines prepared from avirulent (uncapsulatec) variants of Bacillus anthracis.
Nonencapsulated spore vaccine.
GMN 5172.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6264
1940 MUDROW, Lilly (1908 – 1957)
Klinische und parasitologische Befunde und chemotherapeutische Ergebnisse bei der Hühnermalaria.
Discovery of the developmental forms of P. gallinaceum in the incubation period.
GMN 5259 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8542
1940 SHORTT, Henry Edward (1887 – 1987); ET AL
The form of Plasmodium, gallinaceum present in the incubation period of the infection.
Independently of Mudrow, H. E. Shortt, K. P. Menon, and P. V. Seetharama Iyer found pre-erythrocytic forms of P. gallinaceum in the tissues.
GMN 5259.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8543
1944 HUFF, Clay G. (1900 – ); COULSTON, Frederick (1914 – 2003)
The development of Plasmodium gallinaceum from sporozoite to erythrocytic trophozoite.
First detailed account of the full cycle of development of the avian malaria parasite P. gallinaceum.
GMN 5259.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8544
1948 SHORTT, Henry Edward (1887 – 1987); ET AL
The pre-erythrocytic stage of mammalian malaria.
Demonstration of the pre-erythrocytic stage of P. cynomolgi in the monkey. With P. C. C. Garnham and B. Malamos. Preliminary communication in Nature (Lond.), 1948, 161, 126.
GMN 5262 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8549
1955 –1970 GRMEK, Mirko Dražen (1924 – 2000)
Bibliographia medica Croatica. Hrvatska medicinska bibliografija. 2 vols.
Croatian medical, pharmaceutical and veterinary bibliography; Dio 1, Sr. I, 1470-1875; Sr. II, 1875-1918.
GMN 6581.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8489
1955 LECLAINCHE, Auguste-Louis Emmanuel (1861 – 1953)
Histoire illustrée de la médecine vétérinaire. 2 vols.
GMN 10153 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12342
1959 HADLOW, W. J.
Scrapie and Kuru.
In 1959 Hadlow, a veterinarian, visited a medical exposition in England where Carlton Gajdusek posted pathological slides of autopsied Kuru brains and a clinical description of the illness. He realized that Gajdusek's…
GMN 10840 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13036
1961 MILLER, Everett B.
Medical Department of the United States Army in World War II. United States Army Veterinary Service in World War II.
"The Army Veterinary Service has three major missions: (1) Inspection of food used by the military including its processing and the sanitary inspections of the establishments producing it; (2) provision of a comprehen…
GMN 9223 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11405
1962 PUGH, Leslie Penrhys (1895 – 1983)
From farriery to veterinary medicine, 1785-1795.
A history of the founding and earliest years of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons in England.
GMN 10947 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13143
1964 SCHWABE, Calvin W. (1927 – 2006)
Veterinary medicine and human health.
Foundational work on veterinary epidemiology. At the University of California, Davis in 1966 Schwabe founded the first epidemiology department and graduate program in a school of veterinary medicine. Unusually extensi…
GMN 10363 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12555
1966 BEAUJOUAN, Guy (1925 – 2007); POULLE-DRIEUX, Yvonne; DUREAU-LAPEYSSONNIE, Jeanne-Marie
Médecine humaine et vétérinaire à la fin du Moyen Âge.
GMN 8072 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10248
1968 PASTEUR, Louis (1822 – 1895); THUILLIER, Louis (1856 – 1883); FRANK, Robert M.; WROTNOWSKA, Denise
Correspondence of Pasteur & Thuillier concerning anthrax and swine fever vaccinations. Translated and edited by Robert M. Frank and Denise Wrotnowska. Preface by Louis Pasteur Vallery-Radot.
Edition and translation of about 60 letters mostly between Pasteur and his protegé Louis Thuillier in the Reynolds Historical Library at the University of Alabama. During the period involved in this correspondence "Th…
GMN 12038 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14246
1970 BIGGS, Peter Martin (1926 – ); ET AL
Field trials with an attentuated cell associated vaccine for Marek's disease.
In 1959 Biggs moved to the Houghton Poultry Research Station (HPRS) to form and head a unit to study lymphoid tumor conditions of the domestic fowl. He gave the name Marek’s disease to one of the tumor conditions, aft…
GMN 2660.26 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3438
1973 PALAU CLAVERAS, Agustín
Bibliografia hispanica de veterinaria y equitacion anterior a 1901. Ordenada, comentada en algunos epigrafes y dividida en tres partes. I: Repertorio cronologico: Tratados. II: Repertorio cronologico: Textos legales. III: Indices.
GMN 10159 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12348
1975 STUBBS, George (1724 – 1806); DOHERTY, Terence
The anatomical works of George Stubbs.
Reproduces all of the known anatomical drawings of the painter, George Stubbs (1724-1806), together with his midwifery illustrations and the text and plates for his work on anatomy of the horse. (No. 308.1).
GMN 6610.11 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8599
1980 FISCHER, Klaus-Dietrich (1948 – ); PELAGONIUS (350 – )
Pelagonii Ars veterinaria. Edited by K. D. Fischer.
GMN 8426 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10603
1981 PODESCHI, John B.
Books on the horse and horsemanship: Riding, hunting, breeding & racing 1400-1941. The Paul Mellon Collection. Compiled by John B. Podeschi.
Includes annotated descriptions of numerous classics on veterinary medicine for horses.
GMN 10690 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12883
1982 PRUSINER, Stanley Benjamin (1942 – )
Novel proteinaceous infectious particles cause Scrapie.
In 1997 Prusiner was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for his discovery of Prions - a new biological principle of infection." In his 1982 paper Prusiner proposed a completely novel explanation for th…
GMN 10140 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12329
1982 PRUSINER, Stanley Benjamin (1942 – ); BOLTON, David C.; MCKINLEY, Michael P.
Identification of a protein that purifies with the Scrapie prion.
Research with the biochemist Bolton enabled Prusiner to discover and characterize the specific protein causing prion disease. This paper was dated December 24, 1982. Nearly simultaneously, Prusiner and the same co-aut…
GMN 10842 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13038
1983 CAMPBELL, William Cecil (1930 – ); FISHER, M. H.; STAPLEY, E. O.; ET AL
Ivermectin: A potent new antiparasitic agent.
Abstract "Ivermectin is the 22,23-dihydro derivative of avermectin B1, a macrocyclic lactone produced by an actinomycete, Streptomyces avermitilis. It is active at extremely low dosage against a wide variety of nemato…
GMN 12632 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14873
1984 HIGUCHI, Russell; RYDER, Oliver Allison III
DNA sequences from the quagga, an extinct member of the horse family.
Probably the first study of DNA isolated from ancient specimens, or ancient DNA (aDNA). By Higuchi, Barbara Bowman, and Mary Freiberger from the Department of Biochemistry, University of California, Berkeley and Ryder…
GMN 7428 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9600
1985 KANKI, Phyllis J.; ESSEX, Myron Elmer "Max" (1939 – ); MCLANE, M. F.; ET AL
Serologic identification and characterization of a macaque T-lymphotropic retrovirus closely related to HTLV-III.
Order of authorship in the original paper: Kanki, McLane... Essex. This paper was followed in the issue of Science by: Daniel, M., Letvi, N. L., King, N.W., "Isolation of T-cell tropic HTLV-3 - like retrovirus from ma…
GMN 10965 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13161
1986 AINSWORTH, Geoffrey Clough (1905 – 1998)
Introduction to the history of medical and veterinary mycology.
Authoritative and well-illustrated history with excellent chronological bibliography.
GMN 4158.3 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5942
1989 DRIESCH, Angela von den (1934 – 2012)
Geschichte der Tiermedizin. 5000 Jahre Tierheilkunde.
GMN 8429 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10606
1991 CRANEFIELD, Paul Frederick (1925 – 2003)
Science and empire: East Coast Fever in Rhodesia and the Transvaal.
East Coast fever (theileriosis) is an animal disease in Africa caused by the protozoan parasite Theileria parva.
GMN 8627 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10804
1995 PELAGONIUS (350 – ); ADAMS, James Noel (1943 – )
Pelagonius and Latin veterinary terminology in the Roman Empire.
GMN 12760 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15006
1996 DUNLOP, Robert H.; WILLIAMS, David J.
Veterinary medicine: An illustrated history.
GMN 9800 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11988
1996 WILL, R. G.; IRONSIDE, J. W.; ZEIDLER, M.; ET AL
A new variant of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in the UK.
During the 1990s England was plagued with cases of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) seen in cows, popularly known as "Mad Cow Disease." Then physicians in England started noticing an uptick in cases of what look…
GMN 10844 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13040
1996 ENGELHARDT, Dietrich von (1941 – )
Internationaler biographischer Index der Medizin : Arzte, Naturheilkundler, Veterinarmediziner und Apotheker. 3 vols.
GMN 11063 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13259
1997 SMITHCORS, J. Frederick; SMITHCORS, Ann
Five centuries of veterinary medicine: A short-title catalog of the Washington State University Veterinary History Collection.
Checklist of over 1800 books, journals, manuscripts, illustrations, and other rare documents.
GMN 13054 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15305
2003 GUERINI, Anita (1953 – )
Experimenting with humans and animals: From Galen to animal rights.
GMN 9898 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12086
2003
Histoire de la Médecine et des Sciences Vétérinaires.
http://www.histoire-medecine-veterinaire.fr/ http://www.histoire-medecine-veterinaire.fr/en/
GMN 10154 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12343
2003 SPINAGE, Clive A.
Cattle plague: A history.
"Cattle Plague: A History is the most comprehensive general study of the history of cattle plague or rinderpest yet attempted, of which there has not been a book in English since 1866. With its stranglehold on the eco…
GMN 11755 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13955
2004 SMITH, Theobald (1859 – 1934); WOLFE, Richard J.; DOLMAN, Claude Ernest (1906 – 1994)
Suppressing the diseases of animals and man: Theobald Smith, microbiologist
GMN 7648 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9820
2004 SWIDERSKI, Richard M.
Anthrax: A history.
GMN 9652 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11839
2004 HUNTER, Pamela
Veterinary medicine: A guide to historical sources.
Includes archival materials.
GMN 10141 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12330
