1784 UNDERWOOD, Michael (1737 – 1820)

A treatise on the diseases of children.

Underwood laid the foundation of modern pediatrics. His work was superior to anything that had previously appeared and remained the most important book on the subject for sixty years, passing through many editions. Th…

GMN 2734.4 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8101

1835 –1836 BASSI, Agostino (1773 – 1856)

Del mal del segno calcinaccio o moscardino malattia che affligge i bachi da seta e sul modo di liberarne le bigattaje anche le piu infestate. 2 vols.

Bassi preceded Louis Pasteur in the discovery that microorganisms can be the cause of disease (the germ theory of disease). He discovered that the muscardine disease of silkworms--a disease that was destroying the sil…

GMN 2532 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3515

1839 SCHÖNLEIN, Johann Lucas (1793 – 1864)

Zur Pathogenie der Impetigines.

The discovery of a fungus as the cause of favus (Achorion schönleinii). Schönlein communicated this important discovery in a letter of less than 200 words and one illustration. It represents the first conspicuous step…

GMN 4029 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5312

1839 LANGENBECK, Bernard Rudolf Conrad von (1810 – 1887)

Auffindung von Pilzen auf der Schleimhaut der Speiseröhre einer Typhus-Leiche.

Discovery of Candida albicans, which Berg (No. 5518) showed to be the causal organism in thrush.

GMN 5517 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6534

1841 BERG, Fredrik Theodor (1806 – 1887)

Torsk i mikroskopiskt anatomiskt hänseende.

Discovery of Candida albicans in thrush.

GMN 5518 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6537

1842 GRUBY, David (1810 – 1898)

Sur une espèce de mentagre contagieuse résultant du développement d’un nouveau cryptogame dans la racine des poils de la barbe de l’homme.

First accurate description of Trichophyton mentagrophytes, the fungus responsible for sycosis barbae. English translation of this and Gruby’s other five papers read to l’Académie des Sciences in Zakon & Benedek, David…

GMN 4034 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5330

1842 GRUBY, David (1810 – 1898)

Recherches anatomiques sur une plante cryptogame qui constitue le vrai muguet des enfants.

Independently of Berg, Gruby found Candida albicans in thrush. He demonstrated its fungal nature.

GMN 5519 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6542

1842 BENNETT, John Hughes (1812 – 1875)

On the parasitic fungi found growing in living animals.

Bennett confirmed and extended the observations and experiments of Gruby concerning the mycodermatous vegetations found in the crusts of the disease called Tinea favosa, or Zorigo lupinosa of Bateman; he announced the…

GMN 12423 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14654

1843 GRUBY, David (1810 – 1898)

Recherches sur la nature, le siège et le développement du Porrigo decalvans ou phytoalopécie.

First accurate description of Microsporon audouini, the fungus of Willan’s porrigo decalvans, tinea tonsurans, “Gruby’s disease”.

GMN 4035 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5333

1844 GRUBY, David (1810 – 1898)

Recherches surles cryptogames qui constituent la maladie contagieuse du cuir chevelu décrite sous le nom de Teigne tondante (Mahon). Herpes tonsurans (Cazenave).

Gruby discovered a fungus, Trichophyton tonsurans, in ringworm of the scalp.

GMN 4036 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5335

1846 EICHSTEDT, Carl Ferdinand (1816 – 1892)

Pilzbildung in der Pityriasis versicolor.

Eichstedt discovered Pityrosporum orbiculare, fungus of pityriasis versicolor (“Eichstedt’s disease”).

GMN 4039 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5344

1856 DEVERGIE, Marie-Guillaume-Alphonse (1798 – 1879)

Pityriasis pilaris, maladie de peau non décrite par les dermatologistes.

Devergie is remembered for his clear description of pityriasis rubra pilaris, (“Devergie’s disease”). He was the first to demonstrate the presence of a fungus in eczema marginatum.

GMN 4044 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5364

1861 CARTER, Henry Vandyke (1831 – 1897)

On a new and striking form of fungus disease, principally affecting the foot, and prevailing endemically in many parts of India.

First modern description of mycetoma of the foot – “Madura foot”, “Carter’s mycetoma”. It was mentioned by E. Kaempfer in his Amoenitates exoticae, Lemgo, 1712, p. 561. Colebrook at the Madura Dispensary is said to ha…

GMN 4047 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5379

1874 CARTER, Henry Vandyke (1831 – 1897)

On mycetoma, or the fungus disease of India.

See No. 4047.

GMN 4066 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5459

1878 ISRAEL, James Adolf (1848 – 1926)

Neue Beobachtungen auf dem Gebiete der Mykosen des Menschen.

Israel contributed an important early paper on the ray fungus Actinomyces. He included some drawings made by Langenbeck in 1845 and was the first to describe a human case of actinomycosis.

GMN 5511 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6512

1898 SCHENCK, Benjamin Robinson (1873 – 1920)

On refractory subcutaneous abscesses caused by a fungus possibly related to the sporotricha.

Schenck first described a form of sporotrichosis, due to a pathogenic fungus, which later became known as Sporotrichum beurmanni, after more thorough studies upon it by de Beurmann in 1903.

GMN 4127 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5734

1900 OPHÜLS, William (1871 – 1933); MOFFITT, Herbert Charles (1867 – 1951)

A new pathogenic mould (formerly described as a protozoon: Coccidioides immitis pyogenes). Preliminary report.

Recognition that the protozoan was the pathogenic phase of a mycelial fungus.

GMN 5530.3 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6667

1900 SEEBER, Guillermo Rodolfo (1876 – )

Un nuevo esporozoario parásito del hombre. Dos casos encontrados en pólipos nasales: Tesis presentada para optar al grado de doctor en medicina.

Rhinosporidiosis first described. Digital facsimile from bibliomedicinadigital.fmed.uba.ar at this link.

GMN 4131.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8628

1906 –1907 ABEL, John Jacob (1857 – 1938); FORD, William Webber (1871 – 1941)

On the poisons of Amanita phalloides.

Abel and Ford showed that there were two poisons in the fungus Amanita phalloides, and that immunity against them could be attained. A further study on the subject by the same authors is in Arch. exp. Path. Pharmak., …

GMN 2084 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2561

1923 ASHWORTH, James Hartley (1874 – 1936)

On Rhinosporidium seeberi (Wernicke, 1903), with special reference to its sporulation and affinities.

Ashworth was the first to show that Rhinosporidium was a fungus.

GMN 5538.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6716

1924 KELLY, Howard Atwood (1858 – 1943); KRIEGER, Louis Charles Christopher (1873 – 1940)

Catalogue of the mycological library of Howard A. Kelly. Compiled by Louis C. C. Krieger.

The catalogue was prepared for Kelly by Louis Krieger, an eminent mycologist and botanical illustrator. Entries for this library were not numbered; however in his introduction Kelly stated that the library "herewith c…

GMN 11226 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13423

1925 BASSI, Agostino (1773 – 1856)

Opere di Agostino Bassi n. a Mairago 1778-m. a Lodi 1856- scelte e pubblicate a cura del comitato nazionale per la ristampa auspice la Società medico-chirurgica di Pavia.

GMN 11108 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13304

1929 FLEMING, Sir Alexander (1881 – 1955)

On the antibacterial action of cultures of a penicillium, with special reference to their use in the isolation of B. influenzae.

Discovery of the growth-inhibiting action of Penicillium on certain bacteria. In 1945 Fleming shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Ernst Boris Chain and Sir Howard Walter Florey "for the discovery of …

GMN 1933 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2774

1934 DEMONBREUN, William Andrew (1899 – 1968)

The cultivation and cultural characteristics of Darling’s Histoplasma capsulatum.

Demonstration of the fungal nature of the pathogen.

GMN 5542 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6742

1949 SMITH, Alexander Hanchett (1904 – 1986)

Mushrooms in their natural habitats.

A distinctively published work illustrated stereoscopically with color View-Master slides, and incorporating the View-Master "reels" and a View-Master viewer in a box along with the conventional bound text.

GMN 11102 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13298

1968 WASSON, Robert Gordon (1898 – 1986)

Soma: Divine mushroom of immortality.

Ethnomycologist and banker Wasson provided evidence for the important role that hallucinogenic mushrooms - in particular the ubiquitous mushroom Amanita muscaria (fly agaric) - play in various ancient and modern cultu…

GMN 9848 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12036

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

2003 ESPINEL-INGROFF, Ana Victoria

Medical mycology in the United States: A historical analysis (1894–1996).

GMN 9806 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11994

2006 VOLBRACHT, Christian (1945 – )

MykoLibri. Die Biliothek der Pilzbücher.

GMN 11772 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13973