1875 O’NEILL, John

On the presence of a Filaria in “craw-craw”.

In 1874, while examining skin snips from craw-craw patients in Ghana, during his service on the H. M. S. Decoy, the Irish surgeon O’Neill discovered the subcutaneous microfilaria. This was the earliest known visual id…

GMN 5344.10 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6790

1927 BLACKLOCK, Donald Breadalbane (1879 – 1955)

The insect transmission of Onchocerca volvulus (Leuckart, 1893), the cause of worm nodules in man in Africa.

The fly Simulium damnosum shown to be the vector of onchocerciasis.

GMN 5350.8 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6874

1934 STRONG, Richard Pearson (1872 – 1948); BEQUAERT, Joseph Charles (1886 – 1982); SANDGROUND, Jack Henry (1899 – 1987); OCHOA, Miguel Muños

Onchocerciasis: With special reference to the Central American form of the disease. Parts I, II, III, and IV

In depth study of onchcerciasis in Guatemala, where "the disease was of real importance to human beings" at the time. Each of the 4 authors contributed a separate part of the report.

GMN 12575 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14814

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

1950 PAN AMERICAN HEALTH ORGANIZATION

Bibliography of onchocerciasis.

Publication No. 242.

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