1879 RITTER, Jacob

Beitrag zur Frage des Pneumotyphus. (Eine Hausepidemie in Uster[Schweiz] betreffend.)

First description of psittacosis in a human.

GMN 5527 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6634

1930 LEVINTHAL, Claude Walter (1886 – 1963)

Die Ätiologie der Psittakosis.

Discovery of the causal agent of psittacosis, Chlamydia psittaci. Simultaneously A. C. Coles (Lancet, 1930, 1, 1011-12) and R. D. Lillie (Publ. Hlth. Rep., Wash., 1930, 45, 773-78) made the same discovery, and the ele…

GMN 5539 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6726

1932 BEDSON, Sir Samuel Phillips (1886 – 1969); BLAND, J. O. W.

A morphological study of psittacosis virus, with the description of a developmental cycle.

Conclusive proof of the causal relationship of the psittacosis agent to the infection.

GMN 5541.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6735

1935 RIVERS, Thomas Milton (1888 – 1962); BERRY, George Packer (1898 – 1986)

Diagnosis of psittacosis in man by means of injections of sputum into white mice.

GMN 5544 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6751