1855 WALLACE, Alfred Russel (1823 – 1913)

On the law which has regulated the introduction of new species.

This paper is sometimes referred to as the Sarawak Law paper since it was written while Wallace was on a specimen collecting expedition in the province of Sarawak (East Malayasian States) on the great island of Borneo…

GMN 13712 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15996

1925 FLETCHER, William ( – 1938); LESSLAR, J. E.

Tropical typhus in the Federated Malay States, with a compilation on epidemic typhus.

Bull. Inst. med. Res., F. M. S., No. 2. Drew attention to scrub typhus in Malaya.

GMN 5394 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7160

1940 LEWTHWAITE, Raymond (1894 – 1972); SAVOOR, S. R. (1900 – 1980)

Rickettsia disease of Malaya. Identity of tsutsugamushi and rural typhus.

Lewthwaite and Savoor showed scrub typhus to be identical to tsutsugamushi fever.

GMN 5398.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7195