1949 POWELL, John Harvey (1914 – 1971)

Bring out your dead: The great plague of yellow fever in Philadelphia in 1793.

Reprinted with a new introduction by Kenneth R. Foster, Mary F. Jenkins, and Anna Coxe Toogood (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1993).

GMN 9384 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11567

1950 FLORIO, Lloyd Joseph (1910 – 1975); ET AL

Colorado tick fever. Isolation of the virus from Dermacentor andersoni in nature and a laboratory study of the transmission of the virus in the tick.

Isolation of the virus of Colorado tick fever. With M. S. Miller and E. R. Mugrage.

GMN 5546.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6766

1950 PAN AMERICAN HEALTH ORGANIZATION

Bibliography of onchocerciasis.

Publication No. 242.

GMN 5352.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6918

1950 EDGCOMB, John Harold (1924 – 2007); ET AL

Primaquine, S.N. 13,272, a new curative agent in vivax malaria: a preliminary report.

Introduction of primaquine.

GMN 5262.3 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8552

1950 JARAMILLO-ARANGO, Jaime (1897 – 1962)

The conquest of malaria.

GMN 5264.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8558

1951 FALCO, E. A.

2:4-Diaminopyrimidines – a new series of antimalarials.

Preparation and laboratory tests of pyrimethamine. With L. G. Goodwin, G. H. Hutchings, I. M. Rollo, and P. B. Russell.

GMN 5262.4 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8553

1951 ROLLO, Ian McIntosh (1926 – 2015)

A 2:4-diamino pyrimidine in the treatment of proguanil-resistant laboratory malarial strains.

Pyrimethamine (daraprim).

GMN 5262.5 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8554

1952 DICK, George Williamson Auchinvole (1914 – 1997); KITCHEN, S. F.; HADDOW, Alexander John (1912 – 1978)

Zika virus (I). Isolations and serological specificity.

First description of Zika virus, an arbovirus native to Africa. The authors named the virus after the Zika forest in Uganda, where they were searching for Yellow Fever. Instead they isolated a new virus in samples tak…

GMN 7864 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10036

1952 DICK, George Williamson Auchinvole (1914 – 1997)

Zika virus. (II). Pathogenicity and physical properties.

Dick's second paper on the Zika virus, immediately following his first paper in the same volume of the same journal (see no. 7864). First statement that the Aedes aegypti mosquito is the vector of transmission of the …

GMN 10939 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13135

1952 SMITHBURN, K. C.

Neutralizing antibodies against certain recently isolated viruses in the sera of human beings residing in East Africa.

First report of human illness caused by Zika virus, detected in Uganda and Tanzania. 38 patients had neutralizing antibodies to Zika virus in their blood serum, proving that they had been infected by the virus. (Thank…

GMN 10940 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13136

1953 HIRST, Leonard Fabian (1882 – 1964)

Conquest of plague. A study of the evolution of epidemiology.

GMN 5143 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6160

1953 RODENWALDT, Ernst Robert Karl (1878 – 1965)

Pest in Venedig 1575-1577. Ein Beitrag zur Frage der Infektkette bei den Pestepidemien West-Europas.

Rodenwaldt studied of the course of plague in Venice from 1575-1577 and the measures taken to combat the epidemic, considering symptoms, transmitter, environment, climatic influences, and the success and failure of th…

GMN 10504 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12697

1954 POLLITZER, Robert (1885 – 1968)

Plague.

Includes a section on the history of plague. WHO Monograph Series, No. 22.

GMN 5131 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6138

1954 –1960 IYENGAR, Mandayam Osuri Tirunarayana (1895 – 1963)

Annotated bibliography of filariasis and elephantiasis. 5 parts.

South Pacific Commission Technical Papers, Nos. 65, 88, 109 (and Supplement), 124, and 160.

GMN 5352.3 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6921

1954 ALLISON, Anthony Clifford (1925 – 2014)

Protection afforded by sickle-cell trait against subtertian malarial infection.

Allison was the first to connect a hereditary disease (sickle cell disease) to an infectious disease (malaria). He proved that heterozygous and homozygous individuals to the sickle cell trait or disease respectively s…

GMN 11887 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14091

1955 RUSSELL, Paul Farr (1894 – 1983)

Man’s mastery of malaria.

Heath Clark Lectures, 1953.

GMN 5264.3 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8559

1957 ŠKRABALO, Zdenko (1929 – 2014); DEANOVIC, Z.

Piroplasmosis in man: Report on a case.

Order of authorship in the original paper was Škrabalo, Deanovic. First report of a case of babesiosis in a human, in this case an immunocompromised patient in Zagreb, (now Croatia). Piroplasmosis is another term for …

GMN 10886 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13082

1958 WIJERS, D. J. B.

Factors that may influence the infection rate of Glossina palpalis with Trypanomosoma gambiense. 1. The age of the fly at the time of the infected feed.

Wijers showed that the tsetse fly is infected during its first or second blood meal, but not afterwards, information of considerable importance in determining the criteria for the transmission of trypanosomiasis.

GMN 5289.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6373

1960 WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION

Bibliography of bilharziasis, 1949-1958.

Continues and supplements Nos. 5352 and 5352.1

GMN 5352.4 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6924

1960 CHRISTOPHERS, Samuel Rickard (1873 – 1978)

Aëdes Aegypti (L.) The yellow fever mosquito: Its life history, bionomics and structure.

GMN 9390 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11573

1962 MCLEAN, Donald M.; MCQUEEN, Joan; PETITIE, H. Elizabeth; ET AL

Powassan virus: Field investigations in Northern Ontario, 1959-1961.

The authors isolated a virus from the brain of a child who died of encephalitis in Powassan, Ontario, and named it the Powassan virus. They posited a tick vector and possible rodent natural hosts. (Thanks to Juan Weis…

GMN 10920 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13116

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

1964 KEAN, Benjamin Harrison (1912 – 1993); BRESLAU, Roger C.

Parasites of the human heart.

GMN 11672 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13873

1965 –1971 FINLAY, Carlos Juan (1833 – 1915); EXPÓSITO, César Rodriguez (1904 – 1972)

Obras completa. Compiladas por César Rodriguez Expósito. 5 vols.

GMN 9423 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11606

1966 POLLITZER, Robert (1885 – 1968)

Plague and plague control in the Soviet Union: History and bibliography through 1964.

GMN 12125 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14334

1967 WARREN, Kenneth S. (1929 – 1996); NEWILL, Vaun Archie (1923 – 2012)

Schistosomiasis. A bibliography of the world’s literature from 1852 to 1962. 2 vols.

GMN 5352.5 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6928

1967 LANGLANDS, Bryan Wooleston (1928 – 1989)

The sleeping sickness epidemic of Uganda 1900-1920: A study in historical geography.

GMN 10679 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12872

1967 NATHAN, Carl F.

Plague prevention and politics in Manchuria, 1910-1931.

"The Chinese winter of 1910-1911 was one of death and discontent: an epidemic of pneumonic plague—the greatest since the Black Death of the fourteenth century—scourged China's three Eastern Provinces (Manchuria), and …

GMN 12581 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14820

1969 FRANCO, Odair

História da febre-amarela no Brasil.

Digital facsimile from bvsms.saude.gov.br at this link.

GMN 8936 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11114

1970 SHREWSBURY, John Findlay Drew (1898 – 1971)

A history of bubonic plague in the British Isles.

From The Great Pestilence of 1348 to the Plague of London in 1665, discussing efforts to control the disease, and its impacts on social and economic life.

GMN 5145 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6171

1970 MILES, M. A.

Chagas’s disease (South American trypanosomiasis). A bibliography compiled from Sleeping Sickness Bureau Bulletin 1908-1912, and Tropical Diseases Bulletin, 1912-1970.

Supplement to Trop. Dis. Bull., vol. 67.

GMN 5289.3 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6379

1970 HOOGSTRAAL, Harry (1917 – 1986)

Bibliography of ticks and tickborne diseases from Homer (about 800 B.C.) to 31 December, 1969. Vol. 1.

Digital facsimile from Washington State University Digital Collections at this link.

GMN 5546.8 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6788

1970 WESTERN, Karl A.; BENSON, Gordon D.; GLEASON, Neva N.; ET AL

Babesiosis in a Massachusetts resident.

Order of authorship in the original paper was Western, Benson, Gleason. First report of babesiosis in a non-immuncompromised patient, confirming the potential wide spread of this tick-transmitted illness. (Thanks to J…

GMN 10887 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13083

1971 FORD, John (1910 – )

The role of the trypanosomiases in African ecology: A study of the Tsetse fly problem.

GMN 10678 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12871

1972 OLIVIER, Margaret C.

A bibliography on Chagas’s disease (1909-1969)

Index-Catalogue of Medical and Veterinary Zoology, Special Publication No. 2.

GMN 5289.4 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6400

1973 WARREN, Kenneth S. (1929 – 1996)

Schistosomiasis: the evolution of a medical literature. Selected abstracts and citations, 1852-1952.

Includes 384 core references and bibliography (without abstracts) covering 1963-72.

GMN 5352.6 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6932

1976 BIRABEN, Jean-Noël

Les hommes et la peste en France et dans les pays européens et méditerranéens. Tome I: La peste dans l'histoire. Tome II: Les hommes face à la peste. 2 vols.

GMN 9236 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11418

1976 MCNEILL, William H. (1917 – 2016)

Plagues and peoples.

GMN 9689 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11876

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

1976 MILLER, Louis Howard (1935 – ); MASON, Steven J.; CLYDE, David Francis (1925 – 2002); ET AL

The resistance factor to Plasmodium vivax in blacks.

The authors showed that the Plasmodium vivax parasite requires the Fya/Fyb Duffy antigen/chemokine receptor on the surface of red blood cells for penetration of human red blood cells. Because most African and American…

GMN 11888 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14093

1977 DOLS, Michael Walters (1942 – )

The black death in the Middle East.

GMN 5145.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6174

1978 STEERE, Allen Caruthers; MALAWISTA, Stephen Evan (1934 – 2013); BRODERICK, Thomas F.

Erythema chronicum migrans and Lyme arthritis: Epidemiologic evidence for a tick vector.

The authors showed that a tick was the insect vector for Lyme disease. The tick (the "Deer Tick") is named lxodes dammini. Order of authorship in the original paper was Steere, Broderick, and Malawista. (Thanks to Jua…

GMN 10783 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12979

1978 GOTTFRIED, Robert Steven

Epidemic disease in fifteenth century England: The medical response and the demographic consequences.

GMN 13020 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15270

1979 SPIELMAN, Andrew (1930 – 2006); CLIFFORD, Carlton M.; PIESMAN, Joseph; ET AL

Human babesiosis on Nantucket Island, USA: Description of the vector, Ixodes dammini, N. Sp. (Acarina: Ixodidae)

Order of authorship in the original paper was Spielman, Clifford, Piesman. The authors identified and described the insect vector of Babesiosis. This was a new species; the same species causes Lyme disease. (Thanks to…

GMN 10888 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13084

1980 ALEXANDER, John T.

Bubonic plague in early modern Russia: Public health & urban disaster.

GMN 5145.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6177

1981 CIPOLLA, Carlo M. (1922 – 2000)

Fighting the plague in seventeenth century Italy.

GMN 8028 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10204

1982 KUNO, Goro (1940 – ); FLORES, Bess

Bibliography of dengue fever and dengue-like illnesses, 1780-1981.

GMN 5475.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7625

1982 BURGDORFER, Willy (1925 – 2014); BARBOUR, Alan G.; HAYES, Stanley F.

Lyme disease - a tick-borne spirochetosis?

Discovery of the agent causing Lyme disease. Though the authors initially thought the disease might be a spirochetosis, the agent was attributed to a bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi, named for Burgdorfer who discovered…

GMN 10782 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12978

1983 GOTTFRIED, Robert Steven

The Black Death: Natural and human disaster in medieval Europe.

GMN 13021 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15271

1986 CARMICHAEL, Anne G.

Plague and the poor in Renaissance Florence.

"This book uses Florentine death registers to show the changing character of plague from the first outbreak of the Black Death in 1348 to the mid-fifteenth century. Through an innovative study of this evidence, Profes…

GMN 11851 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14055