1903 CASTELLANI, Aldo (1877 – 1971)
On the discovery of a species of trypanosoma in the cerebrospinal fluid of cases of sleeping sickness.
While in Uganda, Castellani discovered T. gambiense in human cerebrospinal fluid. A paper in Notes Rec. roy. Soc., 1973, 23, 93-110, discounts Castellani’s claim that although he first discovered trypanosomes in the c…
GMN 5276 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8585
1940 SMITHBURN, K. C.; HUGHES, T. P.; BURKE, A. W.; ET AL
A neurotropic virus isolated from the blood of a native in Uganda.
Order of authorship in the original paper: Smithburn, Hughes, Burke. In 1937 the authors isolated a virus from the blood of an adult female with fever from the Omogo West Nile district of Uganda, and named it West Nil…
GMN 10951 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13147
1952 DICK, George Williamson Auchinvole (1914 – 1997); KITCHEN, S. F.; HADDOW, Alexander John (1912 – 1978)
Zika virus (I). Isolations and serological specificity.
First description of Zika virus, an arbovirus native to Africa. The authors named the virus after the Zika forest in Uganda, where they were searching for Yellow Fever. Instead they isolated a new virus in samples tak…
GMN 7864 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10036
1952 DICK, George Williamson Auchinvole (1914 – 1997)
Zika virus. (II). Pathogenicity and physical properties.
Dick's second paper on the Zika virus, immediately following his first paper in the same volume of the same journal (see no. 7864). First statement that the Aedes aegypti mosquito is the vector of transmission of the …
GMN 10939 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13135
1952 SMITHBURN, K. C.
Neutralizing antibodies against certain recently isolated viruses in the sera of human beings residing in East Africa.
First report of human illness caused by Zika virus, detected in Uganda and Tanzania. 38 patients had neutralizing antibodies to Zika virus in their blood serum, proving that they had been infected by the virus. (Thank…
GMN 10940 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13136
1967 LANGLANDS, Bryan Wooleston (1928 – 1989)
The sleeping sickness epidemic of Uganda 1900-1920: A study in historical geography.
GMN 10679 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12872
1970 BECK, Ann Frank (1900 – 2002)
A history of the British medical administration of East Africa, 1900-1950.
Concerns modernization and development of scientific health services in Kenya, Uganda, and Tanganyika (now Tanzania) during the first half of the twentieth century.
GMN 8496 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10673
1970 FOSTER, William Derek (1925 – 1981)
The early history of scientific medicine in Uganda.
GMN 9894 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12082
2007 CROZIER, Anna
Practising colonial medicine: The Colonial Medical Service in British East Africa.
The Colonial Medical Service was the branch of the Colonial Serice responsible for healthcare provision in the British overseas territories. This book profiles Colonial Medical Officers (MOs) serving in Kenya, Uganda …
GMN 8413 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10590
2015 GREENWOOD, Anna
Beyond the state: The colonial medical service in British Africa.
GMN 12408 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14638
2017 HOKKANEN, Markku
Medicine, mobility and the empire: Nyasaland networks, 1859-1960.
"David Livingstone's Zambesi expedition marked the beginning of an ongoing series of medical exchanges between the British and Malawians. This book explores these entangled histories by placing medicine in the framewo…
GMN 12409 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14639
