1886 BUIST, John Brown (1846 – 1915)

The life-history of the micro-organisms associated with variola and vaccinia. An abstract of results obtained from a study of smallpox and vaccination in the surgical laboratory of the University of Edinburgh.

The “Paschen elementary bodies” (No. 5430) were first recognized and demonstrated by Buist. Republished as an appendix to his Vaccinia and variola, London, 1887.

GMN 5427 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7375

1893 GUARNIERI, Guiseppe (1856 – 1918)

Ricerche sulla patogenesi ed etiologia dell’ infezione vaccinica e vaiolosa.

Guamieri described bodies found in the specific lesions of smallpox. Cytorrhyctes variolae guarnieri, which he believed to be the causative organism of the disease. Guarnieri bodies are found in all poxvirus infection…

GMN 5428 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7380

1915 NOGUCHI, Hideyo (1876 – 1928)

Pure cultivation in vivo of vaccine virus free from bacteria.

Noguchi obtained a pure culture of vaccinia virus.

GMN 5430.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7400

1925 GORDON, Mervyn Henry (1872 – 1953)

Studies of the viruses of vaccinia and variola.

Medical Research Council Special Report No. 98; a summary of the more important additions to the knowledge of the subject.

GMN 5432 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7409

1926 LEDINGHAM, Sir John Charles Grant (1875 – 1944)

Studies on variola, vaccinia, and avian molluscum.

Ledingham’s diagnostic test.

GMN 5433 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7412

1928 MAITLAND, Hugh Bethune (1895 – 1972); MAITLAND, Mary L. Cowan ( – 1972)

Cultivation of vaccinia virus without tissue culture.

Introduction of “Maitland’s medium”.

GMN 5434.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7422

1980 WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION

The global eradication of smallpox. Final report of the Global Commission for the Certification of Smallpox Eradication.

On 8 May 1980, the World Health Organization officially announced that “smallpox eradication has been achieved throughout the world”. The upper cover of this report reproduces an electron micrograph of a specimen of v…

GMN 5434.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8621

1988 FENNER, Frank John (1914 – 2010); HENDERSON, Donald Ainslie (1928 – 2016); ARITA, Isao (1926 – ); JEŽEK, Zdenēk (1932 – 2019); LADNYJ, Ivan Danilovich ( – 1987)

Smallpox and its eradication.

The definitive archival history in 1460 pages. In 2016 a PDF of this entire book could be downloaded from the W.H.O. at this link.

GMN 7549 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9721