1652 PANAROLI, Domenico (1587 – 1657)

Iatrologismorum seu medicinalium observationum pentecostae quinque utilibus praeceptis.

Panaroli described hemolytic jaundice of the newborn.

GMN 3050 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3657

1908 PFANNENSTIEL, Hermann Johann (1862 – 1909)

Ueber den habituellen Ikterus de Neugeborenen.

First detailed description of familial icterus gravis neonatorum.

GMN 3080.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3740

1932 DIAMOND, Louis Klein (1902 – 1999); BLACKFAN, Kenneth Daniel (1883 – 1941); BATY, James M.

Erythroblastosis fetalis and its association with universal edema of the fetus, icterus gravis neonatorum and anemia of the newborn.

The authors described and named this syndrome/illness of newborns for the first time, including pathological findings, clinical data, lab abnormalities, presentation and course of illness. Order of authorship in the o…

GMN 14087 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16398

1938 DARROW, Ruth Renter (1895 – 1956)

Icterus gravis (erythroblastosis) neonatorum.

Darrow was the first to identify the cause of hemolytic disease of the newborn (HDN). Three years prior to the discovery of antibodies against the Rh antigen, Darrow correctly hypothesized that the disease was caused …

GMN 14088 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16399

1941 LEVINE, Philip (1900 – 1987); ET AL

The rôle of iso-immunization in the pathogenesis of erythroblastosis fetalis.

Erythroblastosis fetalis due to rhesus incompatibility (Rh disease) between mother and child. With L. Burnham, E. M. Katzin, and P. Vogel.

GMN 3100 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3796

1948 DIAMOND, Louis Klein (1902 – 1999)

Replacement transfusion as a treatment for erythroblastosis fetalis.

Exchange transfusion.

GMN 3107.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3816

1958 CREMER, Richard J.; PERRYMAN, P. W.; RICHARDS, D. H.

Influence of light on the hyperbilirubinaemia of infants.

In 1956 Sister Jean Ward of the Premature Unit of the Rochford General Hospital in Essex, England noted the benefit of phototherapy when she took infants outside because she assumed that fresh air had healing benefits…

GMN 12971 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15219

1973 ZIMMERMAN, David R.

Rh: The intimate history of a disease and its conquest.

GMN 14089 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16400