1912 WHITMORE, Alfred (1876 – 1946); KRISHNASWAMI, C. S.

An account of the discovery of a hitherto undescribed infective disease occurring among the population of Rangoon.

First description of melioidosis. Together with C.S. Krishnaswami, Whitmore identified Burkholderia pseudomallei, the causative agent of melioidosis (also known as "Whitmore's disease") in opium addicts in Rangoon in …

GMN 5159 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6213

1917 STANTON, Sir Ambrose Thomas (1875 – 1938)

A form of pseudo-tuberculosis (melioidosis).

Stanton identified the bacillus of melioidosis and reproduced the disease in animals by feeding and inoculation of cultures.

GMN 5159.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6218