1920 ZAHORSKY, John (1871 – 1963)

Herpetic sore throat.

First description of herpangina, an acute infection associated with Coxsackie viruses.

GMN 5538 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6713

1930 SYLVEST, Ejnar Oluf Sorenson (1880 – 1931)

En Bornholmsk epidemi-myositis epidemica.

First full description of epidemic myositis, “Bornholm disease”. See also Sylvest’s monograph on the subject, London, 1934.

GMN 5540 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6728

1948 DALLDORF, Gilbert Julius (1900 – 1979); SICKLES, Grace Mary (1898 – 1959)

An unidentified, filterable agent isolated from the feces of children with paralysis.

Isolation of the Coxsackie virus from the stool of a patient residing in Coxsackie, New York.

GMN 5545 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6761

1949 CURNEN, Edward Charles Jr. (1909 – 1997); MELNICK, Joseph Louis (1914 – 2001); ET AL

Disease resembling nonparalytic poliomyelitis associated with a virus pathogenic for infant mice.

Isolation of the Coxsackie virus from patients with poliomyelitis. With E. W. Shaw.

GMN 5546 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6763