1864 COBBOLD, Thomas Spencer (1828 – 1886)
Entozoa.
Cobbold suggested (p. 36) that a mollusc was the intermediate host in bilharziasis.
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1864 HARLEY, John (1833 – 1921)
On the endemic haematuria of the Cape of Good Hope.
Like Cobbold, Harley expressed the view that a mollusc was the intermediate host in bilharziasis.
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1904 KATSURADA, Fujiro (1867 – 1946)
The aetiology of a parasitic disease (in Japanese)
First description of Schistosoma japonicum. Translation in Kean (No. 2368.1), p. 518.
GMN 5349.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6829
1904 SYMMERS, William St Clair (1863 – 1937)
Note on a new form of liver cirrhosis due to the presence of the ova of Bilharzia haematobia.
“Symmers’s fibrosis”, pipe stem fibrosis of the liver, occurring in cases of certain forms of schistosomiasis.
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1907 FUJINAMI, Akira (1870 – 1934); NAKAMURA, Hachitaro
Ueber den Wohnort von Schistosomum japonicum. [Japanese text.]
Fujinami and Nakamura identified the intermediate host of S. japonicum. Abstract in Arch. Schiffs-u. Tropenhyg., 1908, 12,471. Later (1909, 6, 224-52) they demonstrated that infection occurred by skin penetration. Eng…
GMN 5350.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6841
1914 MIYAIRI, Keinosuke (1865 – 1946); SUZUKI, Masatsugu
Der Zwischenwirt des Schistosomum japonicum Katsurada.
Miyairi and Suzuki confirmed that snails are the intermediate hosts of S. japonicum, and their paper completed the description of the life cycle from ova to snail intermediate host. Translation in Kean (No. 2268.1), p…
GMN 5350.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6847
1915 –1916 LEIPER, Robert Thomson (1881 – 1969)
Reports of the results of the bilharzia mission in Egypt, 1915.
Leiper identified the snail responsible for the transmission of Schistosoma mansoni and S. haematobium.
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1915 LEIPER, Robert Thomson (1881 – 1969); ATKINSON, Edward Leicester (1882 – 1928)
Observations on the spread of Asiatic schistosomiasis.
First paper in English giving a detailed account of the development of S. japonicum in the snail and its subsequent development in man. Atkinson, a surgeon in the Royal Navy, was a member of Scott’s Antarctic expediti…
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1918 CHRISTOPHERSON, John Brian (1868 – 1955)
The successful use of antimony in bilharziosis.
Introduction of tartar emetic (antimony) in the treatment of schistosomiasis.
GMN 5350.6 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6869
1931 KHALIL, Mohamed
The bibliography of schistosomiasis (bilharziasis).
GMN 5352 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6900
1949 BOUILLON, Albert
Bibliographie des schistosome et des schistosomiases (bilharzioses) humaines et animales de 1931 á 1948.
Continues and supplements No. 5352.
GMN 5352.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6912
1960 WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION
Bibliography of bilharziasis, 1949-1958.
Continues and supplements Nos. 5352 and 5352.1
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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
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
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.
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