1806 ALIBERT, Jean Louis Marc (1768 – 1837)
Description des maladies de la peau observées à l’hôpital Saint Louis.
The largest and most spectacular of the early classics of dermatology, with hand-colored illustrations unsurpassed for their quality of execution. The illustrations are also the first on the subject in a French book. …
GMN 3986 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4998
1853 BAZIN, Pierre Antoine Ernest (1807 – 1878)
Recherches sur la nature et le traitement des teignes.
Bazin proved the fungal origin of favus and tinea; this was the first work to incorporate mycotic skin diseases into dermatological literature. Digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this link.
GMN 7313 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9483
1894 SABOURAUD, Raymond Jacques Adrien (1864 – 1938)
Les tricophyties humaines.
In his extensive studies of the role of fungi in skin diseases, Sabouraud revived and elaborated the discoveries of Gruby (Nos. 4030, 4034-36), which had remained neglected for half a century. See also No. 4116.
GMN 3999 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5065
1895 BUSSE, Otto Emil Franz Ulrich (1867 – 1922)
Ueber parasitäre Zelleinschlüsse und ihre Züchtung.
“Busse–Buschke disease” –blastomycosis of the skin due to Cryptococcus neoformans. See also No. 5529.2. Busse first described it in Zbl. Bakt., 1894, 16, 175-80.
GMN 5529.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6648
1896 GILCHRIST, Thomas Caspar (1862 – 1927)
A case of blastomycetic dermatitis in man.
Gilchrist’s description of blastomycosis (“Gilchrist’s disease”, “Busse-Buschke disease”, Nos. 5529.1 and 5529.2), is an important contribution to the knowledge of the infectious granulomata involving the skin.
GMN 5530.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6659
1904 SABOURAUD, Raymond Jacques Adrien (1864 – 1938)
Surla radiothérapie des teignes.
Sabouraud’s method of radiological treatment of ringworm.
GMN 4004 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5099
1914 MAGROU, Joseph Émile (1883 – 1951)
Les grains botryomycotiques. Leur signification en pathologie et en biologie générales.
Thèse de Paris, No. 267, 1914. Magrou showed botriomycosis (granuloma pyogenicum) to be due to a staphylococcus.
GMN 5536 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6699
1958 GENTLES, James Clark (1921 – 1987)
Experimental ringworm in guinea pigs: oral treatment with griseofulvin.
Use of griseofulvin in the treatment of ringworm.
GMN 4011.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5165
