1877 BOLLINGER, Otto (1843 – 1909)

Ueber eine neue Pilzkrankheit beim Rinde.

First effective description of Actinomyces bovis.

GMN 5510 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6511

1878 ISRAEL, James Adolf (1848 – 1926)

Neue Beobachtungen auf dem Gebiete der Mykosen des Menschen.

Israel contributed an important early paper on the ray fungus Actinomyces. He included some drawings made by Langenbeck in 1845 and was the first to describe a human case of actinomycosis.

GMN 5511 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6512

1880 PONFICK, Emil (1844 – 1913)

Ueber Actinomykose.

Ponfick recognized the causative role of Actinomyces in human actinomycosis; he established the identity of the human and animal forms of the disease. He published a book on the subject, Die Actinomykose des Menschen,…

GMN 5512 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6513

1888 NOCARD, Edmond Isidore Etienne (1850 – 1903)

Note sur la maladie des boeufs de la Guadeloupe, connue sous le nom de farcin.

The first pathogenic aerobic actinomycete to be described. It was later named Nocardia farcinica and is probably identical with N. asteroides.

GMN 5512.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6515

1890 BOSTROEM, Eugen Woldemar (1850 – 1928)

Untersuchungen über die Aktinomykose des Menschen.

Isolation of Actinomyces graminis from human actinomycosis, and staining method for Actinomyces.

GMN 5513 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6516

1891 ISRAEL, James Adolf (1848 – 1926); WOLFF, Max (1844 – 1923)

Ueber Reincultur des Actinomyces und seine Uebertragbarkeit auf Thiere.

Isolation of Actinomyces bovis, later called Actinomyces israelii.

GMN 5514 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6520

1894 VINCENT, Jean Hyacinthe (1862 – 1950)

Étude sur le parasite du “pied de Madura”.

Isolation of Streptothrix (Actinomyces) madurae.

GMN 4117 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5703

1914 SCHOTTMÜLLER, Hugo (1867 – 1936)

Zurt Aetiologie und Klinik der Bisskrankheit.

Isolation of Streptothrix (Actinomyces) muris ratti from human patients bitten by rats.

GMN 5325 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6627