1700 ANDRY, Nicolas (1658 – 1742)

De la géneration des vers dans le corps de l’homme.

The first medical parasitology text– an exhaustive study of the parasites of man, the diseases associated with them and their treatment. Andry’s views were often ahead of his time. Unlike most of his contemporaries, h…

GMN 2448.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2958

1773 –1774 MÜLLER, Otto Friedrich (1730 – 1784)

Vermium terrestrium et fluviatilium, seu animalium infusoriorum, helminthecorum, et testaceorum non marinorum, succincta historia. 2 vols.

In this work Müller arranged the Infusoria into genera and species for the first time. Digital facsimile from the Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.

GMN 11779 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13980

1853 KÜCHENMEISTER, Gottlob Friedrich Heinrich (1821 – 1890)

Ueber Cestoden im allgemeinen und die des Menschen insbesondere, hauptsächlich mit Berücksichtigung ihrer Entwickelungsgeschichte, geographischen Verbreitung, Prophylaxe und Abtreibung; für Freunde der Naturwissenschaften, Aerzte, Medicinalpolizei-Beamte, Staats- und Privat-Oekonomen.

Kuchenmeister conducted research on tapeworms, trichinosis, and other parasites and wrote about it several works. In 1852, his theory that bladder-worms are juvenile tapeworms gained the attention of the medical profe…

GMN 2450 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2965

1863 BASTIAN, Henry Charlton (1837 – 1915)

On the structure and nature of the Dracunculus or Guinea worm.

First detailed description.

GMN 5344.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6768

1864 COBBOLD, Thomas Spencer (1828 – 1886)

Entozoa.

Cobbold suggested (p. 36) that a mollusc was the intermediate host in bilharziasis.

GMN 5344.4 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6774

1886 –1890 BLANCHARD, Raphaël Anatole Émile (1857 – 1919)

Traité de zoologie médicale. 2 vols.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

GMN 2456 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2983