1881 KLEBS, Theodor Albrecht Edwin (1834 – 1913)

Der Bacillus des Abdominaltyphus und dertyphöse Process.

Klebs probably saw the typhoid bacillus before Eberth, reporting it later.

GMN 5031 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5741

1884 GAFFKY, Georg Theodor August (1850 – 1918)

Zur Aetiologie des Abdominaltyphus.

Gaffky was the first to grow pure cultures of Salmonella typhi; he showed it to be the true activator of the disease. English translation, New Sydenham Society, 1886. Digital facsimile of the 1884 printing from Google…

GMN 5032 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5747

1896 DURHAM, Herbert Edward (1866 – 1945); GRUBER, Max von (1853 – 1927)

Eine neue Methode zur raschen Erkennung des Choleravibrio und des Typhusbacillus.

The discovery of bacterial agglutination. Gruber and Durham discovered the agglutinating action of the serum of typhoid patients upon the typhoid bacillus. First briefly reported by Durham: On a special action of seru…

GMN 2549 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3604