1835 –1836 BASSI, Agostino (1773 – 1856)

Del mal del segno calcinaccio o moscardino malattia che affligge i bachi da seta e sul modo di liberarne le bigattaje anche le piu infestate. 2 vols.

Bassi preceded Louis Pasteur in the discovery that microorganisms can be the cause of disease (the germ theory of disease). He discovered that the muscardine disease of silkworms--a disease that was destroying the sil…

GMN 2532 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3515

1839 SCHÖNLEIN, Johann Lucas (1793 – 1864)

Zur Pathogenie der Impetigines.

The discovery of a fungus as the cause of favus (Achorion schönleinii). Schönlein communicated this important discovery in a letter of less than 200 words and one illustration. It represents the first conspicuous step…

GMN 4029 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5312

1841 GRUBY, David (1810 – 1898)

Mémoire sur une végétation qui constitue la vraie teigne.

Independently of Schönlein (No. 4029) Gruby discovered the achorion of favus, describing it definitely as the cause of the disease, a point about which Schönlein was in doubt.

GMN 4030 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5317