1891 EHRLICH, Paul (1854 – 1915); GUTTMANN, Paul (1834 – 1893)

Ueber die Wirkung des Methylenblau bei Malaria.

Guttmann and Ehrlich demonstrated methylene blue to be lethal in vitro for the malaria parasite – the beginning of Ehrlich’s work on chemotherapy.

GMN 5241.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7898

1919 JACOBS, Walter Abraham (1883 – 1967); HEIDELBERGER, Michael (1888 – 1991)

Chemotherapy of trypanosome and spirochete infections. Chemical series. I. N-phenylglycineamide-p-arsonic acid.

Introduction of tryparsamide.

GMN 1907 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2660

1926 LOEVENHART, Arthur Salomon (1878 – 1929); STRATMAN-THOMAS, Warren Kidwell (1894 – 1946)

On the chemotherapy of neurosyphilis and trypanosomiasis.

Study of the effect of twelve different substances in neurosyphilis and trypanosomiasis.

GMN 1915 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2682

1932 –1934 FISCHL, Viktor; SCHLOSSBERGER, Hans (1887 – 1960)

Handbuch der Chemotherapie. 2 vols.

GMN 1921 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2705

1938 WHITBY, Sir Lionel Ernest Howard (1895 – 1956)

Chemotherapy of pneumococcal and other infections with 2-(p-aminobenzenesulphonamido) pyridine.

Experimental proof of the efficacy of sulfapyridine (M & B 693) in pneumococcal pneumonia.

GMN 1951 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2827

1940 ROBLIN, Richard Owen Jr. (1907 – 1985); ET AL

Chemotherapy, II. Some sulfanilamido heterocycles.

Synthesis of sulphamerazine, by R. O. Roblin, J. H. Williams, P. S. Winnek, and J. P. English.

GMN 1955 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2835

1946 HART, Philip Montagu D'Arcy (1900 – 2006)

Chemotherapy of tuberculosis. Researches during the past 100 years.

GMN 2359 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3167

1947 HEWITT, Reginald Irving (1911 – ); ET AL

Experimental chemotherapy of filariasis. III. Effect of 1-diethylcarbamyl-4-methyl-piperazine hydrochloride against naturally acquired filarial infections in cotton rats and dogs.

Proof of antifilarial action of diethylcarbarmazine citrate (hetrazan). With S. Kushner, H. W. Stewart, E. White, W. S. Wallace, and Y. Subbarow.

GMN 5351.3 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6884

1947 VAN HOOF, L.

Sur la chimiothérapie de l’onchocercose. (Note préliminaire).

First effective chemotherapy (suramin) for onchocerciasis. With C. Heurard, E. Peel, and M. Wanson.

GMN 5351.4 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6887

1952 ROBITZEK, Edward Heinrich (1912 – 1984); ET AL

Chemotherapy of human tuberculosis with hydrazine derivatives of isonicotinic acid. (Preliminary report of representative cases.)

Introduction of isoniazid. With I. J. Selikoff and G. G. Omstein. See also Amer. Rev. Tuberc., 1952, 65, 257-442.

GMN 2353 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3139

1956 –1960 EHRLICH, Paul (1854 – 1915); HIMMELWEIT, Fred (1902 – 1977)

Collected papers of Paul Ehrlich. Compiled and edited by F. Himmelweit. 3 vols.

Vol. I: Histology, biochemistry, and pathology, Vol. 2: Immunology and cancer research; Vol. 3: Chemotherapy. Most texts are in German. English translations are also published when available. The set includes new Engl…

GMN 86.4 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1453

1964 LAMBERT, C. R.

Chemotherapy of experimental Schistosoma mansoni infections with a nitro-thiazole derivative, CIBA 32, 644-Ba.

Introduction of niridazole (Ambilhar).

GMN 5351.6 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6892