1838 EHRENBERG, Christian Gottfried (1795 – 1876)

Die Infusionsthierchen als vollkommene Organismen. 1 vol. and atlas of 64 hand-colored engraved plates.

In this monumental work in folio format Ehrenberg extended Otto Friedrich Müller’s bacteriological classification. Like Müller, he made no distinction between protozoa and bacteria, classing them both as infusoria. Hi…

GMN 111 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1664

1916 FUTAKI, Kenzo (1873 – 1966); ET AL

The cause of rat-bite fever.

K. Futaki, I. Takaki, T. Taniguchi, and S. Osumi found a spirillum (Sp. morsus muris) in the lymphatic glands and blood stream in cases of rat-bite fever (sodoku).

GMN 5326 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6630

1924 ROBERTSON, Andrew

Observations on the causal organism of rat-bite fever in man.

Robertson proved one of the causal organisms of rat-bite fever to be Sp. morsus muris. He re-named it Spirillum minus Carter, 1887, identifying it as the first spiral micro-organism to be described from a rodent.

GMN 5327 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6633