1892 POSADAS, Alejandro (1870 – 1902)

Un nuovo caso de micosis fungoides con psorospermias.

As an intern in Buenos Aires, Posadas described an Argentine soldier who had a dermatological problem since 1889. Posadas had seen the patient while a medical student in 1891, and skin biopsies revealed organisms rese…

GMN 5528.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6639

1892 WERNICKE, Roberto Johann (1854 – 1922)

Pentastomas.

Posadas (No. 5528.1) and Wernicke, a professor pathology in Buenos Aires, were the first to report cases of coccidioidomycosis. German translation of Wernicke’s paper in Zbl. Bakt., 1892, 12, 859-61.

GMN 5528.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6642

1900 OPHÜLS, William (1871 – 1933); MOFFITT, Herbert Charles (1867 – 1951)

A new pathogenic mould (formerly described as a protozoon: Coccidioides immitis pyogenes). Preliminary report.

Recognition that the protozoan was the pathogenic phase of a mycelial fungus.

GMN 5530.3 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6667