1821 TIEDEMANN, Friedrich (1781 – 1861)
Description of the calcified cysts of trichinosis in human muscle. (A brief notice with no title).
GMN 5336.4 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8610
1835 OWEN, Sir Richard (1804 – 1892); PAGET, Sir James (1814 – 1899)
Description of a microscopic entozoon infesting the muscles of the human body.
While a first-year student at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, James Paget discovered trichina in muscle during dissection. Richard Owen, his teacher, named it Trichina spiralis and published an account, barely mentioning …
GMN 5337 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6724
1846 LEIDY, Joseph (1823 – 1891)
Entozoon in the superficial part of the extensor muscles of the thigh of the hog. Abstract
First description of trichinosis in the pig.
GMN 5338 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8611
1853 KÜCHENMEISTER, Gottlob Friedrich Heinrich (1821 – 1890)
Ueber Cestoden im allgemeinen und die des Menschen insbesondere, hauptsächlich mit Berücksichtigung ihrer Entwickelungsgeschichte, geographischen Verbreitung, Prophylaxe und Abtreibung; für Freunde der Naturwissenschaften, Aerzte, Medicinalpolizei-Beamte, Staats- und Privat-Oekonomen.
Kuchenmeister conducted research on tapeworms, trichinosis, and other parasites and wrote about it several works. In 1852, his theory that bladder-worms are juvenile tapeworms gained the attention of the medical profe…
GMN 2450 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2965
1860 ZENKER, Friedrich Albert von (1825 – 1898)
Ueber die Trichinen-Krankheit des Menschen.
The intestinal and muscular forms of trichinosis were first noted by Zenker, who established their connection with the disease. English translation in Kean (No. 2268.1).
GMN 5342 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6753
1898 BROWN, Thomas Richardson (1872 – 1950)
Studies on trichinosis, with especial reference to the increase of the eosinophilic cells in the blood and muscle, the origin of these cells and their diagnostic importance.
Brown pointed out the occurrence of eosinophilia in trichinosis. A preliminary communication upon the subject, by W. S. Thayer, was published in C. R. XII Congr. int. Med., Moscou, 1897, 126-31.
GMN 5348 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6821
1932 AUGUSTINE, Donald Leslie (1895 – ); THEILER, Hans (1894 – )
Precipitin and skin tests as aids in diagnosing trichinosis.
Intradermal test for trichinosis.
GMN 5351.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6880
1983 CAMPBELL, William Cecil (1930 – )
Trichinella and trichinosis. Edited by William C. Campbell.
The first chapter of this authoritative study is a very detailed historical introduction by William C. Campbell, with a comprehensive bibliography. Campbell also authored Chapter 10: Chemotherapy and Chapter 13: Epide…
GMN 12658 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14902
