1817 KERNER, Christian Andreas Justinus (1786 – 1862)
Vergiftung durch verdorbene Würste.
Botulism first described. Kerner published an expanded study as Neue Beobachtungen über die in Würtemberg so häufig vorfallenden tödtlichen Vergiftung durch den Genuss geräuchter Würstem, Tübingen, 1820. He published …
GMN 2468 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3039
1821 TIEDEMANN, Friedrich (1781 – 1861)
Description of the calcified cysts of trichinosis in human muscle. (A brief notice with no title).
GMN 5336.4 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8610
1833 HILTON, John (1804 – 1878)
Notes of a peculiar appearance observed in human muscle, probably depending upon the formation of very small cysticerci.
Hilton described Trichinella spiralis and suggested its parasitic nature.
GMN 5336.5 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6718
1835 OWEN, Sir Richard (1804 – 1892); PAGET, Sir James (1814 – 1899)
Description of a microscopic entozoon infesting the muscles of the human body.
While a first-year student at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, James Paget discovered trichina in muscle during dissection. Richard Owen, his teacher, named it Trichina spiralis and published an account, barely mentioning …
GMN 5337 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6724
1846 LEIDY, Joseph (1823 – 1891)
Entozoon in the superficial part of the extensor muscles of the thigh of the hog. Abstract
First description of trichinosis in the pig.
GMN 5338 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8611
1851 HERBST, Ernst Friedrich Gustav (1803 – 1893)
Beobachtungen über Trichina spiralis in Betriff der Uebertragung der Eingeweidewürmer.
Herbst was the first to demonstrate that an animal eating trichinous flesh would thereby develop trichinae in its own muscles. English translation of part I in Kean (No. 2268.1).
GMN 5338.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6737
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
1856 PANUM, Peter Ludvig (1820 – 1885)
Bidrag til Laeren om den saakaldte putride eller septiske Infection.
Panum was the first to investigate the chemical products of putrefaction. His work had great significance for the doctrine of putrid intoxication. An abstract of the above paper is in jb. in-u. ausländ. ges. Med., 185…
GMN 2534 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3520
1860 ZENKER, Friedrich Albert von (1825 – 1898)
Ueber die Trichinen-Krankheit des Menschen.
The intestinal and muscular forms of trichinosis were first noted by Zenker, who established their connection with the disease. English translation in Kean (No. 2268.1).
GMN 5342 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6753
1860 LEUCKART, Karl Georg Friedrich Rudolf (1823 – 1898)
Untersuchungen über Trichina spiralis.
Leuckart provided an articulate and detailed description of Trichinella spiralis.
GMN 5343 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6759
1862 FRIEDREICH, Nikolaus (1825 – 1882)
Ein Beitrag zur Pathologie der Trichinenkrankheit beim Menschen.
First confirmed diagnosis of trichinosis in a living person.
GMN 5344.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6765
1886 ESCHERICH, Theodor (1857 – 1911)
Die Darmbakterien des Säuglings und ihre Beziehungen zur Physiologie der Verdauung.
Includes the first account of Bact. coli infection. The organism was later renamed Escherichia coli (E.coli).
GMN 1017 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/877
1888 GÄRTNER, August Anton Hieronymous (1848 – 1934)
Ueber die Fleischvergiftung in Frankenhausen. a.K. und den Erreger derselben.
Discovery of Salmonella enteritidis, a cause of food poisoning.
GMN 2506 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3223
1897 ERMENGEM, Émile Pierre Marie van (1851 – 1932)
Contribution à l’ètude des intoxications alimentaires. Recherches sur des accidents à caractères botuliniques provoqués par du jambon.
Cl. botulinum was discovered by van Ermengem in cases of food poisoning.
GMN 2510 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3244
1898 DURHAM, Herbert Edward (1866 – 1945)
On an epidemic of gastro-enteritis associated with the presence of a variety of the Bacillus enteritidis (Gaertner), and with positive sero-diagnostic evidence (in vivo and in vitro).
Discovery of Salm. Aertrycke in patients suffering from food poisoning.
GMN 2513 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3256
1898 BROWN, Thomas Richardson (1872 – 1950)
Studies on trichinosis, with especial reference to the increase of the eosinophilic cells in the blood and muscle, the origin of these cells and their diagnostic importance.
Brown pointed out the occurrence of eosinophilia in trichinosis. A preliminary communication upon the subject, by W. S. Thayer, was published in C. R. XII Congr. int. Med., Moscou, 1897, 126-31.
GMN 5348 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6821
1911 PETERS, O. H.
Observations upon the natural history of epidemic diarrhoea.
Diarrhoea was one of the chief causes of child mortality in Great Britain at the turn of the century. Peters begins with a statistical study of age incidence, prevalence, and fatality of the condition and then in succ…
GMN 7762 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9934
1932 AUGUSTINE, Donald Leslie (1895 – ); THEILER, Hans (1894 – )
Precipitin and skin tests as aids in diagnosing trichinosis.
Intradermal test for trichinosis.
GMN 5351.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6880
1960 BLOOMFIELD, Arthur Leonard (1888 – 1962)
A bibliography of internal medicine: Selected diseases.
Literature on "selected diseases" presented in chronological order, beginning with auricular fibrillation and ending with trichinosis, emphasizing cardiovascular and metabolic diseases.
GMN 11219 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13416
1983 RILEY, Lee W.; REMIS, Robert S.; HELGERSON, Steven D.; ET AL
Hemorrhagic colitis associated with a rare Escherichia coli serotype.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Riley, Remis, Helgerson. First description in print of a particularly virulent E.coli (0157-H7) infection, for which no antibiotics were effective; the only treatment b…
GMN 11376 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13575
1983 CAMPBELL, William Cecil (1930 – )
Trichinella and trichinosis. Edited by William C. Campbell.
The first chapter of this authoritative study is a very detailed historical introduction by William C. Campbell, with a comprehensive bibliography. Campbell also authored Chapter 10: Chemotherapy and Chapter 13: Epide…
GMN 12658 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14902
1985 KARMALI, Mohamed A.; PETRIC, Martin; LIM, Corazon; ET AL
The association between idiopathic hemolytic uremic syndrome and infection by Verotoxin-producing Escherichia coli.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Karmali, Petric, Lim. The authors discovered that a hemolytic uremic syndrome, associated with E. coli 0157-H7 (first described in No. 11376), and which could not be cu…
GMN 11377 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13576
1997 BLATTNER, Frederick R.; PLUNKETT, Guy III; BLOCH, Craig B.; ET AL
The complete genome sequence of Escherichia coli K-12.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Blattner, Plunkett, Bloch.... Complete genome sequence of E. coli, the first complete genome sequence of an organism. Following p. 1462 there are two large, unpaginated…
GMN 11408 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13607
2016 GRANDE, Laura; MICHELACCI, Valeria; BONDI, Roslen; ET AL
Whole-genome characterization and strain comparison of VT2f-producing Escherichia coli causing hemolytic uremic syndrome.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Grande, Michelacci, Bondi.... Demonstration that a phage infecting E. coli conveys the genes into the E. coli that code for the production of the verotoxin that causes …
GMN 11409 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13608
