1796 BAYLEY, Richard (1745 – 1801)
An account of the epidemic fever which prevailed in the city of New York, during part of the summer and fall of 1795.
Traces the spread of yellow fever in late July, 1795, to the ship Zephyr, recently arrived from the West Indies. After spreading to nearby ships and then into the neighborhoods surrounding the port, the epidemic kille…
GMN 13162 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15421
1806 VINCENT, DE MARCIAC, J.
Dissertation sur la fièvre-jaune qui a régné épidémiquement à Saint-Domingue, et qui a fait tant de ravages dans l'Armée expéditionnaire, en l'an X et en l'an XI, et sur les causes qui l'ont rendue si funeste.
Describes the yellow fever epidemic that swept through French troops on the island of Saint Domingue (Haiti) in 1802. In the midst of the slave uprising that led to the island’s independence, Napoleon sent an expediti…
GMN 13161 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15420
1840 CLOT, Antoine Barthélemy (Clot-Bey) (1793 – 1868)
De la peste observée en Égypte. Recherches et considérations sur cette maladie.
Includes two hand-colored lithographs depicting costumes of "plague doctors" -- one from the Middle Ages in Marseille, the other from Marseille in 1819; the similarities are striking! Digital facsimile from wellcomeco…
GMN 13663 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15945
1888 LA HAYE, Olivier de
Poëme sur la grande peste de 1348. Publié d'après le manuscrit de la Bibliothèque du Palais Saint-Pierre par Georges Geigue.
The book indicates that 175 copies were printed "sur papier de Hollande." The editor describes himself as the archivist of the city of Lyon. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 13059 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15311
1907 HAM, Bertie Burnett (1865 – )
Plague in Queensland, 1900-1907.
Ham was Queensland's first Commissioner of Public Health. Extensively illustrated. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 12138 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14347
1917 CRUCHET, Jean René (1875 – 1959); CALMETTE, Léon Charles Albert (1863 – 1933); ET AL
Quarante cas d’encéphalo-myélite subaiguë.
Cruchet’s account of epidemic encephalitis was given on 27 April 1917, preceding that of Economo by 13 days. With F. Moutier
GMN 4649 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/743
1917 ECONOMO, Constantin von (1876 – 1931)
Encephalitis lethargica.
Economo’s classic description of epidemic encephalitis (“von Economo’s disease”) was published on 10 May 1917; see No. 4649.
GMN 4650 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8868
1918 U.S. PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE
"Spanish influenza," "Three-day fever," "The flu".
Public health advice from the U.S. Public Health Service published during the pandemic.
GMN 11922 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14127
1919 LOEWE, Leo (1896 – ); STRAUSS, Israel (1873 – 1955)
Etiology of epidemic (lethargic) encephalitis. Preliminary note.
Experimental transmission of encephalitis lethargica.
GMN 4651 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/750
1920 GREAT BRITAIN. MINISTRY OF HEALTH
Report on the pandemic of influenza 1918-19.
Reports on Public Health and Medical Subjects, No. 4. The most widespread and serious pandemic of influenza occurred in 1918-19. It spread throughout Europe, Russia, Canada, S. America, New Zealand, Australia, Africa,…
GMN 5492 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6441
1920 U.S. BUREAU OF THE CENSUS
Special tables of mortality from influenza and pneumonia in Indiana, Kansas, and Philadelphia, Pa., September 1 to December 31, 1918.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
GMN 11921 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14126
1920 U.S. BUREAU OF THE CENSUS
Mortality Statistics 1918. Nineteenth Annual Report.
From Causes of Death, p. 27: "Influenza and pneumonia (All forms). "In 1918 the registration area (exclusive of Hawaii) 477,467 deaths wee assigned to influenza and pneumonia (all forms). In the latter part of that ye…
GMN 12068 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14277
1921 VAUGHAN, Warren Taylor (1893 – 1944)
Influenza: An epidemiological study. The American Journal of Hygiene. Monographic Series No. 1.
A comprehensive survey written two years after the pandemic, including historical information back to 1893. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 11920 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14125
1921 U.S. BUREAU OF THE CENSUS
Mortality statistics 1919. Twentieth annual report.
From "Influenza and pneumonia (All forms)" p. 28: "In the later part of 1918 a pandemic of influenza swept over the country and did not fully spend its force until well into 1919.... "In the registration area (exclusi…
GMN 12069 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14278
1922 ZINSSER, Hans (1878 – 1940)
The etiology and epidemiology of influenza.
Digital facsimile from Harvard Library at this link.
GMN 11919 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14124
1922 STERN, Felix (1884 – 1941)
Die epidemische Encephalitis. (Monographien aus dem Gesamtgebiete der Neurologie und Psychiatrie. Bd. 30).
Felix Stern was the leading German specialist in encephalitis lethargica . No national statistics for this disease, first described in Vienna in 1916, were kept in Germany. For this reason, the data collected by Stern…
GMN 12637 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14878
1923 SEN, Rajendra Kumar
A treatise on influenza, with special reference to the pandemic of 1918.
Sen, company doctor on the Hurmutty Tea Estate in Assam, estimated that the pandemic killed about 15,000,000 people in India.
GMN 12109 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14318
1929 ECONOMO, Constantin von (1876 – 1931)
Die Encephalitis lethargica, ihre Nachkrankheiten und ihre Behandlung.
Translated and adapted by K. O. Newman as Encephalitis lethargica its sequelae and treatment. London: Oxford University Press, 1931.
GMN 12642 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14883
1942 BURNET, Sir Frank Macfarlane (1899 – 1985); CLARKE, Ellen
Influenza: A survey of the last fifty years in the light of modern work on the virus of epidemic influenza.
GMN 12108 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14317
1968 CASH, Richard Alan (1941 – 2024); NALIN, David R. (1941 – ); ISLAM, Rafiqul; PHILLIPS, Robert Allan (1906 – 1976); ET AL
Oral maintenance therapy for cholera in adults.
Abstract: "An oral solution containing glucose, sodium chloride, sodium bicarbonate, and potassium chloride or citrate was used as maintenance therapy for acute cholera. In comparison with control patients who receive…
GMN 14303 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16628
1971 CASH, Richard Alan (1941 – 2024); NALIN, David R. (1941 – )
Oral or nasogastric maintenance therapy in pediatric cholera patients.
GMN 14304 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16629
1973 SACKS, Oliver Wolf (1933 – 2015)
Awakenings.
Revised editions, 1976 and 1991. "It recounts the life histories of those who had been victims of the 1920s encephalitis lethargica epidemic.[2] Sacks chronicles his efforts in the late 1960s to help these patients at…
GMN 9131 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11310
1985 MARQUEZ, Gabriel García José de la Concordia (1927 – 2014)
El amor en los tiempos de cólera.
"Set in a country on the Caribbean coast of South America, the story ranges from the late nineteenth century to the early decades of our own, tracing the lives of three people and their entwined fates. And yet, at fir…
GMN 12147 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14357
1986 NAHMIAS, André J. (1930 – ); WEISS, Juan E. (1952 – ); YAO, X.; KANKI, Phyllis J.; ESSEX, Myron Elmer "Max" (1939 – )
Evidence for human infection with an HTLV III/LAV-like virus in Central Africa, 1959.
Order of authorship in the original paper: Nahmias, Weiss, Yao...Kanki, Essex. The authors presented evidence for the first or earliest infection with HIV in a human. This paper reported on a patient from Kinshasa, Za…
GMN 9331 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11513
1989 CROSBY, Alfred W. Jr. (1931 – 2018)
America's forgotten pandemic: The influenza of 1918.
First published as Epidemic and peace 1918, Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1976. New edition, 2003.
GMN 11924 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14129
1990 GRMEK, Mirko Dražen (1924 – 2000)
History of AIDS. Emergence and origin of a modern pandemic. Translated by Russell C. Maulitz and Jacalyn Duffin.
GMN 6994 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9160
1991 PATTERSON, Karl David (1941 – ); PYLE, Gerald F. (1937 – )
The geography and mortality of the 1918 influenza pandemic.
A summary of the international impact of the 1918 pandemic, its movement around the globe, and mortality estimates for various countries.
GMN 12110 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14319
1995 KOHN, George Childs
Encyclopedia of plague and pestilence.
GMN 11795 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13997
1996 PATTERSON, Karl David (1941 – )
Pandemic influenza 1700-1900: A study in historical epidemiology.
GMN 12106 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14315
1999 KOLATA, Gina Bari (1948 – )
Flu: The story of the great influenza pandemic of 1918 and the search for the virus that caused it.
GMN 11925 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14130
2004 BARRY, John M. (1947 – )
The great influenza: The epic story of the greatest plague in history.
GMN 9974 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12163
2005 TAUBENBERGER, Jeffery K. (1961 – ); TUMPEY, Terence M.; BASLER, Christopher F.; AGUILAR, Patricia V.; ET AL
Characterization of the reconstructed 1918 Spanish Influenza Pandemic virus.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Tumpey, Basler, Aguilar... Taubenberger. Reconstruction of the genome of the 1918 Spanish Influenza virus from frozen tissue samples from a mass grave of victims of the…
GMN 11335 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13533
2005 KNOBLER, Stacey L.; MACK, Alison; MAHMOUD, Adel (1941 – 2018); LEMON, Stanley M.
The threat of pandemic influenza: Are we ready? Workshop summary prepared for Forum on Microbial Threats Board on Global Heath. Edited by Stacey L. Knobler, Alison Mack, Adel Mahmoud, Stanley M. Lemon.
Digital edition from http://www.nap.edu/catalog/11150.html.
GMN 12072 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14281
2006 KILBOURNE, Edwin Dennis (1920 – 2011)
Influenza pandemics of the 20th century.
Abstract: "Three worldwide (pandemic) outbreaks of influenza occurred in the 20th century: in 1918, 1957, and 1968. The latter 2 were in the era of modern virology and most thoroughly characterized. All 3 have been in…
GMN 11872 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14076
2007 PACKARD, Randall M. (1945 – )
The making of a tropical disease: A short history of malaria.
GMN 13290 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15556
2009 FOLEY, Paul Bernard
Encephalitis lethargica and influenza. 1: The role of the influenza virus in the influenza pandemic of 1918/1919. 2: The influenza pandemic of 1918/19 and encephalitis lethargica: Epidemiology and symptoms. 3: The influenza pandemic of 1918/19 and encephalitis lethargica: Neuropathology and discussion.
Parts 2 and 3 are freely available from PubMedCentral at this link, and at this link.
GMN 12641 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14882
2009 BRILLIANT, Lawrence Brent "Larry" (1944 – ); GINSBURG, Jeremy; MOHEBBI, Matthew H.; ET AL
Detecting influenza epidemics using search engine query data.
Abstract "Seasonal influenza epidemics are a major public health concern, causing tens of millions of respiratory illnesses and 250,000 to 500,000 deaths worldwide each year1. In addition to seasonal influenza, a new …
GMN 13728 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16012
2013 SMITH, Billy G.
Ship of death: A voyage that changed the Atlantic world.
A multi-disciplinary account from the perspectives of the history of the slave trade, the anti-slavery movement and medical history, of the voyage of the Hankey, a small British ship that circled the Atlantic in 1792-…
GMN 9374 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11557
2014 U.S. NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE
Global Health Events web archive.
Global Health Events web archive "Collected by: National Library of Medicine "Archived since: Oct, 2014 "Description: "A selective collection of over 12,000 web resources archived by the National Library of Medicine b…
GMN 12155 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14365
2015 AKIRA, Hayami (1929 – )
The influenza pandemic in Japan, 1918-1920: The first world war between humankind and a virus. Translation by Lynne E. Riggs and Takechi Manbu.
GMN 11923 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14128
2015 TU (TU YOUYOU), Youyou (1930 – )
NOBEL LECTURE: Discovery of Artemisinin - A gift from traditional Chinese medicine to the world.
In 1972 Tu Youyou discovered Artemisinin, the standard treatment worldwide for P. falciparum malaria as well as malaria due to other species of Plasmodium. Artemisinin is extracted from Artemisia annua (sweet wormwood…
GMN 14260 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16581
2016 MARKEL, Howard (1960 – ); NAVARRO, J. Alexander
Influenza encyclopedia: The American influenza epidemic of 1918 - 1919: A digital encyclopedia. Second edition.
ABOUT "Historians, journalists, and the public at large have long been interested in the 1918 “Spanish flu” epidemic, a dramatic chapter in American life that has spawned an impressive body of books, articles, and mul…
GMN 14068 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16379
2017 SPINNEY, Laura
Pale Rider: The Spanish flu of 1918 and how It changed the world.
GMN 9691 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11878
2018 CILEK, Laura; CHOWELL, Gerardo; FARIÑAS, Diego Ramiro
Age-specific excess mortality patterns during the 1918–1920 influenza pandemic in Madrid, Spain.
Abstract "Although much progress has been made to uncover age-specific mortality patterns of the 1918 influenza pandemic in populations around the world, more studies in different populations are needed to make sense …
GMN 12103 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14312
2018 FOLEY, Paul Bernard
Encephalitis lethargica: The mind and brain virus.
Both an historical and a scientific study.
GMN 12636 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14877
2020 GARDNER, Lauren Marie; DONG, Ensheng; DU, Hongru
An interactive web-based dashboard to track COVID-19 in real time.
https://doi.org/10.1016/S1473-3099(20)30120-1 "During the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic, Gardner recognised that the public, researchers and health authorities needed clear, accessible and up-to-date information.[8] Wo…
GMN 12062 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14271
2020 HOLSHUE, Michelle L.; DEBOLT, Chas; LINDQUIST, Scott; COHN, Amanda C.; ET AL
First case of 2019 novel coronavirus in the United States.
Published on March 5, 2020. Order of authorship in the original publication: Holshue, DeBolt, Lindquist....Cohn. "Summary "An outbreak of novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) that began in Wuhan, China, has spread rapidly, w…
GMN 12073 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14282
2020 SHI, Zhengli (1964 – ); ZHOU, Peng; YANG, Xing-Lou
A pneumonia outbreak associated with a new coronavirus of probable bat origin.
This article was published in Nature on 3 February 2020. Prior to that a version with a different title and numerous other co-authors was published in bioRxiv on 23 January 2020, as "Discovery of a novel coronavirus a…
GMN 12074 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14283
2020 MURRAY, Christopher J. L.
IHME COVID-19 health service utilization forecasting team. Forecasting COVID-19 impact on hospital bed-days, ICU-days, ventilator days and deaths by US state in the next 4 months.
This paper was published online on March 26, 2020 and updated periodically. When I added it to this database on April 2, 2020 it had been updated on March 31, 2020. At that time the paper was available from healthdata…
GMN 12100 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14309
2020 HOLMES, Edward Charles (1965 – ); WU, Fan; ZHAO, Su; ZHANG, Yong-Zhen (Zhang Yongzhen) (1964 – ); ET AL
A new coronavirus associated with human respiratory disease in China.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Wu, Zhao...Holmes, Zang. This was the first paper written in China, and published in a Western language, on the first COVID-19 patient admitted to any Wuhan hospital on…
GMN 12119 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14328
