1804 ZINKE, Georg Gottfried (1813 – )
Neue Ansichten der Hundswuth, ihrer Ursachen und Folgen, nebst einer sichem ehandlungsart der von tollen Thieren gebissenen Menschen.
Zinke transmitted rabies from a rabid dog to a normal one, and to a rabbit and a hen, by injection of saliva and proved the disease to be infectious. Digital facsimile from wellcomecollection.org at this link.
GMN 5481 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6370
1826 KRÜGELSTEIN, Franz Christian Karl (1779 – 1864)
Die Geschichte der Hundswuth und der Wasserscheu und deren Behandlung.
A full account of rabies, summarizing current knowledge, with a bibliography of about 300 items.
GMN 5481.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6372
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
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 PASTEUR, Louis (1822 – 1895); CHAMBERLAND, Charles (1851 – 1908); ROUX, Pierre Paul Émile (1853 – 1933); THUILLIER, Louis (1856 – 1883)
Sur la rage.
This paper marks the beginning of Pasteur’s studies on rabies. English translation in R. Suzor, Hydrophobia: An account of M. Pasteur’s system…London, 1887.
GMN 5481.4 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6382
1884 PASTEUR, Louis (1822 – 1895); CHAMBERLAND, Charles (1851 – 1908); ROUX, Pierre Paul Émile (1853 – 1933)
Nouvelle communication sur la rage.
Demonstration in the blood of the rabies virus. English translation in R. Suzor, Hydrophobia: An account of M. Pasteur’s system…London, 1887.
GMN 5482 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6383
1885 PASTEUR, Louis (1822 – 1895)
Méthode pour prévenir la rage après morsure.
Pasteur’s papers describing his rabies vaccine, and the results he attained with it gave further proof of the value of attenuated virus as a protective inoculum against infective diseases in man and animals. This is c…
GMN 2541 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3549
1887 PASTEUR, Louis (1822 – 1895); SUZOR, Renaud
Hydrophobia: An account of M. Pasteur's system containing a translation of all his communications on the subject, the technique of his method, and the latest statistical results
The author, qualified M.D. in both Edinburgh and Paris, characterized himself on the title page of this work as "Commissioned by the Government of the Colony of Mauritius to study M. Pasteur's new treatment in Paris."…
GMN 12039 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14247
1903 NEGRI, Adelchi (1876 – 1912)
Contributo alio studio dell’ eziologia della rabia.
Discovery of the “Negri bodies” in rabies, the size of which makes viewing possible with a light microscope, and allows prompt microscopic diagnosis. German translation in Z. Hyg. InfektKr., 1903, 43, 507-28. Even tho…
GMN 5484 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6388
1908 FERMI, Claudio (1862 – 1952)
Über die Immunisierung gegen Wutkrankheit.
Fermi was the first to use chemical treatment of tissue suspensions of fixed rabies virus for the preparation of vaccine (Fermi vaccine). He introduced the use of carbolic acid for this purpose.
GMN 5484.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6389
1908 WELLMANN, Max (1863 – 1933); PHILUMENOS, [Philumenus; Φιλούμενος] ( – 200)
Philumeni de venenatis animalibus eorumque remediis capita XXXVIII ed. M. Wellmann. Corpus medicorum graecorum X 1, 1.
This work on venoms and their antidotes is the only surviving work of the Byzantine physician Philomenos. Within this context Philomenos also discusses the bites of rabid dogs. Digital facsimile from Corpus medicorum …
GMN 9018 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11197
1936 WEBSTER, Leslie Tillotson (1894 – 1943); CLOW, Anna D. (1905 – 1992)
Propagation of rabies virus in tissue culture and the successful use of culture virus as antirabic vaccine.
Webster and Clow succeeded in growing rabies virus in tissue culture.
GMN 5484.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6390
1939 DAWSON, James Robertson Jr. (1908 – 1986)
Infection of chicks and chick embryos with rabies.
Cultivation of rabies virus in the chick embryo. Soon afterwards I. J. Kligler and H. Bernkopf, Nature, 1939, 143, 899, made a similar report.
GMN 5484.3 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6391
1973 WIKTOR, Tadeusz Jan (1921 – 1986)
Human cell culture rabies vaccine. Antibody response in man.
Human diploid cell vaccine. With S. A. Plotkin and D. W. Grella. See also Develop, biol. Standard., 1978, 40, 3-9.
GMN 5484.4 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6393
2007 PEMBERTON, Neil; WORBOYS, Michael
Rabies in Britain: Dogs, disease and culture, 1830-2000.
Also published as Mad dogs and Englishmen: Rabies in Britain, 1830-2000.
GMN 9777 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11965
