1788 BEARDSLEY, Hezekiah (1748 – 1790)
Case of a scirrhus in the pylorus of an infant.
First American case report on congenital hypertrophic pyloric stenosis. Cases and observations by the Medical Society of New-Haven County…was the first American medical periodical. Only one volume was published. Beard…
GMN 3426 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5363
1810 STRONG, Nathan (1781 – 1837)
An inaugural dissertation on the disease termed petechial, or spotted fever. Submitted to the Examining Committee of the Medical Society of Connecticut, for the county of Hartford.
This graduation dissertation was the first published brochure on cerebrospinal meningitis. Digital facsimile from U.S. National Library of Medicine at this link.
GMN 4675 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/942
1878 CONNECTICUT TRAINING-SCHOOL FOR NURSES
A hand-book of nursing for family and general use. Published under the direction of the Connecticut Training-School for Nurses, State Hospital, New Haven, Connecticut.
The Connecticut Training-School for Nurses opened in 1873, and the first edition of this manual was copyright 1878, the same year as the Bellevue manual. However, it is believed that the first copies of this work were…
GMN 11538 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13737
1976 STEERE, Allen Caruthers; MALAWISTA, Stephen Evan (1934 – 2013); SNYDMAN, David R.
A cluster of arthritis in children and adults in Lyme, Connecticut.
The first publication on Lyme Disease. Abstract from the Proceedings of the 40th Annual Scientific Session of the American Rheumatism Association. Order of authorship in the original paper was Steere, Malawista, Snydm…
GMN 10781 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12977
1999 ANDERSON, John F.; ANDREADIS, Theodore G.; VOSSBRINCK, Charles R.
Isolation of West Nile virus from mosquitoes, crows, and a Cooper's hawk in Connecticut.
First definite identification of the West Nile virus in the Western hemisphere. This paper was immediately followed in the same issue of Science by Lanciott, R.S., Roehrig, J.T., Deubet, V. et al, "Origin of the West …
GMN 10954 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13150
2002 BURROW, Gerald Noel (1933 – 2013)
A history of Yale's School of Medicine: Passing torches to others.
GMN 10955 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13151
