1490 AVENZOAR [IBN ZUHR (ARABIC: ابن زهر‎ ] (1092 – 1162); AVERROËS [IBN RUSHD (ARABIC: ابن رشد‎), FULL NAME ʾABŪ L-WALĪD MUḤAMMAD IBN ʾAḤMAD IBN RUŠD] (1126 – 1198); PARAVICIUS, [Paravicinus, Patavinus] (1250 – ); JACOBUS HEBRAEUS (1250 – )

Liber Teisir, sive rectificatio medicationis et regiminis. Antidotarium. Translated from Arabic into Hebrew by Jacobus Hebraeus; into Latin by Paravicius. Add: Averroes: Colliget.

This is a Latin translation from a Hebrew version dating from 1280. Avenzoar, the greatest Muslim physician of the Western Caliphate, described the itch-mite, Sarcoptes scabiei, serous pericarditis, mediastinal absces…

GMN 47 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8768

1687 BONOMO, Giovanni Cosimo (1663 – 1696); CESTONI, Giacinto (Diacinto) (1637 – 1718)

Osservazioni intorno a’ pellicelli del corpo umano.

First clinical and experimental proof of infection by a microparasite. Bonomo observed Sarcoptes scabiei, the scabies mite. This gave researchers grounds to think in terms of objective, exogenous pathogenic agents as …

GMN 2529.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5177

1834 RASPAIL, François-Vincent (1794 – 1878)

Mémoire comparatif sur l'histoire naturelle de l'insecte de la gale.

Raspail first described and illustrated the Sarcoptes scabei, diffrentiating it from the horse's sarcopt and the cheese moth that Galès and Patrix, followed by Alibert, had confused with the scabies parasite. Raspail …

GMN 13415 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15687

1835 RENUCCI, Simon François (1794 – 1874)

Thèse inaugurale sur la découverte de l’insecte qui produit la contagion de la gale, du prurigo et du phlyzacia.

Demonstration of the human itch-mite, Sarcoptes scabiei. It was due to Renucci that the Sarcoptes was recognized as the one cause of scabies and its parasitic nature finally accepted.

GMN 4027 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5301

1842 BOECK, Carl Wilhelm (1808 – 1875)

Om den spedalske sygdom. Elephantiasis graecorum.

Boeck, eminent Norwegian dermatologist and syphilologist, was the first to describe Norwegian itch, scabies crustosa (“Boeck’s scabies”).

GMN 4033 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5327