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
1907 HUNT, James Ramsay (1872 – 1937)
On herpetic inflammations of the geniculate ganglion: A new syndrome and its complications.
Herpes zoster oticus, also known as Ramsay Hunt syndrome type 2.
GMN 12253 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14468
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
