1861 –1862 BÄRENSPRUNG, Friedrich Wilhelm Felix von (1822 – 1864)

Die Gürtelkrankheit.

Herpes zoster first ascribed to a lesion of the spinal ganglia.

GMN 4640 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8866

1884 LANDOUZY, Louis Théophile Joseph (1845 – 1917)

Fièvre zoster etexanthèmes zosteriformes.

Landouzy first suggested the infective nature of herpes.

GMN 4642 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/717

1892 BÓKAY, János (1858 – 1937)

Das Auftreten von Varizellen unter eigentümlichen Verhältnissen.

Bokay was the first to suggest an etiological relationship between varicella and herpes zoster. See also his paper in Wien. klin. Wschr., 1909, 22, 1323-26.

GMN 5439.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7460

1900 HEAD, Sir Henry (1861 – 1940); CAMPBELL, Alfred Walter (1868 – 1937)

The pathology of herpes zoster and its bearing on sensory localisation.

Head and Campbell showed herpes zoster to be a hemorrhagic inflammation of the posterior nerve roots and the homologous spinal ganglia.

GMN 4644 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/724

1921 LIPSCHÜTZ, Benjamin (1878 – 1931)

Untersuchungen über die Ätiologie der Krankheiten der Herpesgruppe (Herpes zoster, Herpes genitalis, Herpes febrilis).

Lipschütz’s account of herpes virus diseases included identification of the characteristic inclusion bodies (“Zosterkörperchen”).

GMN 2521.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3300

1925 KUNDRATITZ, Karl (1889 – 1975)

Experimentelle Übertragung von Herpes zoster auf den Menschen und die Beziehungen von Herpes zoster zu Varicellen.

First demonstration of the infectivity of herpes.

GMN 4652 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/753

1953 WELLER, Thomas Huckle (1915 – 2008)

Serial propagation in vitro of agents producing inclusion bodies derived from varicella and herpes zoster.

Isolation of the varicella-herpes virus.

GMN 5440.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7466