1909 GOUGEROT, Henri (1881 – 1955); CARAVEN, Pierre Jean Baptiste (1879 – 1958)
Mycose nouvelle: l’hémisporose. Ostéite humaine primitive du tibia due à l’Hemispora Stellata.
Hemisporosis described.
GMN 5535 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6694
1909 RICKETTS, Howard Taylor (1871 – 1910)
A micro-organism which apparently has a specific relationship to Rocky Mountain spotted fever. A preliminary report.
Description of the causal organism, in blood smears.
GMN 5379 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7059
1909 WILSON, William James (1879 – 1954)
On heterologous agglutinins more particularly those present in the blood serum of cerebro-spinal fever and typhus fever cases.
The reaction described by Wilson was later developed by Weil and Felix and named after them (see No. 5390). See also the paper by Wilson in J. Hyg., 1920, 19, 115-30.
GMN 5381 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7072
1909 GORGAS, William Crawford (1854 – 1920)
Sanitation of the tropics with special reference to malaria and yellow fever.
GMN 5460 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7564
1909 JONES, William Henry Samuel (1876 – 1963); WITHINGTON, Edward Theodore (1860 – 1947)
Malaria and Greek history. To which is added the history of Greek therapeutics and the malaria theory by E.T. Withington.
The view is put forward by the writer that malarial infection was the cause of the decadence of the Greeks. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 5263 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8555
1909 TODD, Frank Morton
Eradicating plague in San Francisco. Report of the Citizen's Health Committee and an account of its work. With brief descriptions of the measures taken, copies of ordinances in aid of sanitation, articles by sanitarians on the nature of plague and the best means of getting rid of it, facsimiles of circulars issued by the committee and a list of subscribers to the health fund. March 31, 1909. Prepared by Frank Morton Todd, historian for the Committee.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 10406 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12599
1909 OTIS, Edward Osgood (1848 – 1943)
The great white plague: Tuberculosis.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 13476 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15750
1909 JAMES, Sydney Price (1870 – 1946)
Smallpox and vaccination in British India.
Includes the history of the introduction of vaccination in India from 1799 onward. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 13795 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16082
1910 GAY, Frederick Parker (1874 – 1939); LUCAS, William Palmer (1880 – 1960)
Anterior poliomyelitis. Methods of diagnosis from spinal fluid and blood in monkeys and in human beings.
Gay and Lucas were the first to make accurate cell counts of the spinal fluid in poliomyelitis.
GMN 4670.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/837
1910 LANDSTEINER, Karl (1868 – 1943); LEVADITI, Constantin (1874 – 1953)
La poliomyélite experimental.
Serum from a monkey that had recovered from experimental poliomyelitis was mixed with an emulsion containing active polio virus; it failed to produce paralytic disease when injected into fresh monkeys.
GMN 4670.3 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/853
1910 UNNA, Paul Gerson (1850 – 1929)
Histotechnik der leprösen Haut.
Unna was among the first to maintain that the lymphatics were involved in leprosy and that it was curable.
GMN 2439 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2911
1910 SMITH, Sir Grafton Elliot (1871 – 1937); RUFFER, Sir Marc Armand (1859 – 1917)
Pott’sche Krankheit an einer ägyptischen Mumie.
The fact that tuberculosis was present among the ancient Egyptians was proved when Elliot Smith and Ruffer described a genuine case of Pott’s disease in a mummy of 1000 B.C.E.
GMN 2320 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3013
1910 EHRLICH, Paul (1854 – 1915); HATA, Sahachiro (1873 – 1938)
Die experimentelle Chemotherapie der Spirillosen (Syphilis, Rückfallfieber, Hühnerspirillose, Frambösie).
After many experiments on the action of synthetic drugs upon spirochetal diseases, Ehrlich and Hata in 1909 discovered Arsphenamine (Salvarsan, "the arsenic that saves", also known as “606”), an effective treatment fo…
GMN 2403 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3366
1910 LIBMAN, Emanuel (1872 – 1946); CELLER, Herbert Louis (1878 – 1928)
The etiology of subacute infective endocarditis.
Libman and Celler found Strep. endocarditis to be the most common cause of subacute bacterial endocarditis.
GMN 2834 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3560
1910 SCHOTTMÜLLER, Hugo (1867 – 1936)
Endocarditis lenta. Zugleich ein Beitrag zur Artunterscheidung der pathogenen Streptokokken.
First to isolate Strep viridans in cases of bacterial endocarditis, Schottmüller named the condition Endocarditis lenta.
GMN 2836 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3569
1910 RUSSELL, Brigadier Frederick Fuller (1870 – 1960)
The control of typhoid in the Army by vaccination.
Russell carried out important and long-continued investigations on anti-typhoid vaccination in the U.S. Army, demonstrating beyond question its value in selected groups. The war of 1914-18 confirmed the value of the w…
GMN 5042 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5817
1910 STEPHENS, John William Watson (1865 – 1946); FANTHAM, Harold Benjamin (1875 – 1937)
On the peculiar morphology of a trypanosome from a case of sleeping sickness and the possibility of its being a new species.
T. rhodesiense discovered.
GMN 5285 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6351
1910 ZAHORSKY, John (1871 – 1963)
Roseola infantilis.
Roseola (exanthema) subitum first described as a distinct entity.
GMN 5506 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6491
1910 NICHOLS, Henry James (1877 – 1927)
Experimental yaws in the monkey and rabbit.
A monkey was first infected and from it the infection was transmitted to a rabbit.
GMN 5308 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6562
1910 PERRONCITO, Edoardo (1847 – 1936)
La malattia dei minatory dal S. Gottardo al Sempione.
Includes reprints of Perroncito’s earlier papers. He insisted on the parasitic origin of the disease as it occurred among the St. Gotthard tunnellers in 1880, and he introduced Felix mas as a vermifuge against hookworm.
GMN 5366 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6990
1910 RICKETTS, Howard Taylor (1871 – 1910); WILDER, Russell Morse (1885 – 1959)
The relation of typhus fever (tabardillo) to Rocky Mountain spotted fever.
Ricketts and Wilder differentiated Rocky Mountain spotted fever and typhus.
GMN 5380 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7064
1910 RICKETTS, Howard Taylor (1871 – 1910); WILDER, Russell Morse (1885 – 1959)
The etiology of the typhus fever (tabardillo) of Mexico City. A further preliminary report.
Demonstration of the causal organism of typhus.
GMN 5380.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7067
1910 BRILL, Nathan Edwin (1860 – 1925)
An acute infectious disease of unknown origin. A clinical study based on 221 cases.
“Brill’s disease” – recrudescent typhus; first description.
GMN 5382 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7077
1910 CONOR, Alfred Leon Joseph (1870 – 1914); BRUCH, A
Une fièvre éruptive observée en Tunisie.
First description of fievre boutonneuse, a form of tick-borne typhus found in Tunisia.
GMN 5383 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7084
1910 –1911 NICOLLE, Charles Jules Henri (1866 – 1936)
Recherches experimentales sur le typhus exanthématique.
Nicolle demonstrated the transmission of typhus by the body louse Pediculus corporis. He also produced the disease in monkeys and guinea-pigs by the injection of infected blood. Preliminary communication in C. R. Acad…
GMN 5384 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7096
1910 BASS, Charles Cassedy (1885 – 1975); DOCK, George (1860 – 1951)
Hookworm disease; Etiology, pathology, diagnosis, prognosis, prophylaxis, and treatment
When the authors published this book hookworm disease was endemic in the American south, partly because so many people walked in the soil without wearing shoes, so the hookworms entered their body through the soles of…
GMN 11616 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13816
1910 DOCK, Lavinia Lloyd (1858 – 1956)
Hygiene and morality: A manual for nurses and others, giving an outline of the medical, social, and legal aspects of the venereal diseases.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 13217 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15481
1911 NOGUCHI, Hideyo (1876 – 1928)
A method for the pure cultivation of pathogenic Treponema pallidum (Spirochaeta pallida).
Pure culture of T. pallidum first obtained. Digital facsimile from digitalcommon.oshu.edu at this link.
GMN 2404 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3368
1911 GAFFAREL, Paul Louis Jacques (1843 – 1920); DURANTY, Marquis de
La peste de 1720 à Marseille et en France d’après des documents inédits.
GMN 5137 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6149
1911 ASCOLI, Alberto (1877 – 1957)
La precipitina nella diagnosi del carbonchio ematico.
Ascoli’s thermoprecipitin reaction for the diagnosis of anthrax. German translation in Zbl. Bakt., 1911, 1 Abt., 58, Orig., 63-70. Preliminary note in Patbologica, 1910, 3, 101.
GMN 5171 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6255
1911 BECKER, Georg
Die bakteriologische Blutuntersuchung beim Milzbrand des Menschen.
Salvarsan first used in the treatment of anthrax.
GMN 5172 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6263
1911 MCCOY, George Walter (1876 – 1952)
A plague-like disease of rodents.
Tularemia first recorded (in rodents).
GMN 5173 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6269
1911 VEDDER, Edward Bright (1878 – 1952)
Experiments undertaken to test the efficacy of the ipecac treatment of dysentery.
Vedder demonstrated the amoebicidal action of emetine; his work led to the general adoption of emetine in the treatment of amoebic dysentery.
GMN 5189 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6337
1911 VIANNA, Gaspar Oliviera (1885 – 1914)
Contribuiçao para o estudo da anatomia patolojica da “molestia de Carlos Chagas”.
Demonstration of the mode of reproduction of T. cruzi. Text in Portuguese and German. See also the paper by Chagas in pp. 219-75 of the same journal.
GMN 5285.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6354
1911 GOLDBERGER, Joseph (1874 – 1929); ANDERSON, John Fleetezelle (1873 – 1958)
Experimental measles in the monkey.
Measles transmitted to monkeys.
GMN 5448 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7490
1911 FRANCO, Roberto; TORO, Gabriel; MARTINEZ, Jorge
Fiebre amarilla y fiebre espiroquetal; endemias y epidemias en Muzo, de 1907 a 1910.
Franco, J. Martínez-Santamaria, and G. Toro-Villa described epidemics of yellow fever spread by mosquitoes other than Ae. aegypti. Later F. L. Soper, et al., Amer. J. Hyg., 1933, 18, 555-87, substantiated this.
GMN 5460.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7567
1911 CRAWFURD, Sir Raymond Henry Payne (1865 – 1938)
The king’s evil.
A classic account of the history of touching for the “king’s evil” or scrofula— a practice of kings from ancient times until the 18th century.
GMN 6646 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7769
1911 PETERS, O. H.
Observations upon the natural history of epidemic diarrhoea.
Diarrhoea was one of the chief causes of child mortality in Great Britain at the turn of the century. Peters begins with a statistical study of age incidence, prevalence, and fatality of the condition and then in succ…
GMN 7762 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9934
1911 REED, Walter (1851 – 1902); CARROLL, James (1854 – 1907)
Yellow fever: A compilation of various publications. Results of the work of Maj. Walter Reed, Medical Corps, United States Army, and the Yellow Fever Commission. Presented by Mr. Owen.
A convenient compilation of the work of Reed and his associates, including the work of James Carroll published after the death of Walter Reed. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 9373 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11556
1912 SCHILDER, Paul Ferdinand (1886 – 1940)
Zur Kenntnis der sogenannten diffusen Sklerose (über Encephalitis periaxialis diffusa).
“Schilder’s disease” – encephalitis periaxialis diffusa.
GMN 4646 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/730
1912 KOCH, Robert Heinrich Hermann (1843 – 1910); GAFFKY, Georg Theodor August (1850 – 1918); SCHWALBE, Julius (1866 – 1930); PFUHL, Ernst (1876 – 1940)
Gesammelte Werke von Robert Koch. Unter Mitwirkung von G. Gaffky and E. Pfuhl. Herausgegeben von J. Schwalbe. 2 vols. [in 3).
For his work on tuberculosis Koch received the Nobel Prize in 1905. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link. See T.D. Brock, Robert Koch: A life in medicine and bacteriology, Madison, WS: Science-Tech…
GMN 86 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1437
1912 SUDHOFF, Karl Friedrich Jakob (1853 – 1938)
Aus der Frühgeschichte der Syphilis.
Sudhoff believed in the pre-Columbian existence of syphilis.
GMN 2424 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2883
1912 EHRLICH, Paul (1854 – 1915)
Ueber Laboratoriumsversuche und klinische Erprobung von Heilstoffen.
Introduction of neoarsphenamine (neosalvarsan).
GMN 2405 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3371
1912 BAEHR, George (1887 – 1978)
Glomerular lesions of subacute bacterial endocarditis.
Baehr drew attention to the renal lesions in subacute bacterial endocarditis.
GMN 2838 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3574
1912 LIBMAN, Emanuel (1872 – 1946)
A study of the endocardial lesions of subacute bacterial endocarditis.
GMN 2841 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3589
1912 SUDHOFF, Karl Friedrich Jakob (1853 – 1938)
Mal Franzoso in Italien in der ersten Hälfte des 15. Jahrhunderts.
Forms Heft 5 of K. Sudhoff & G. Sticker: Zur historischen Biologie der Krankheitserreger.
GMN 2425 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3650
1912 WHITMORE, Alfred (1876 – 1946); KRISHNASWAMI, C. S.
An account of the discovery of a hitherto undescribed infective disease occurring among the population of Rangoon.
First description of melioidosis. Together with C.S. Krishnaswami, Whitmore identified Burkholderia pseudomallei, the causative agent of melioidosis (also known as "Whitmore's disease") in opium addicts in Rangoon in …
GMN 5159 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6213
1912 MCCOY, George Walter (1876 – 1952); CHAPIN, Charles Willard (1877 – )
Further observations on a plague-like disease of rodents with a preliminary note on the causative agent, Bacterium tularense.
Isolation of Pasteurella tularensis, causal organism in tularemia.
GMN 5174 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6273
1912 KINGHORN, Allan (1880 – 1955); YORKE, Warrington (1883 – 1943)
On the transmission of human trypanosomes by Glossina morsitans, Westw.; and on the occurrence of human trypanosomes in game.
Glossina morsitans shown to be the transmitting fly of T. rhodesiense.
GMN 5285.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6357
1912 BRUMPT, Alexandre Joseph Émile (1877 – 1951)
Le trypanosoma cruzi évolue chez Conorhinus megistus, Cimex lectularius, Cimex Boueti et Ornithodorus moubata. Cycle évolutif de ce parasite.
Life cycle of T. cruzi described. English translation in Kean (No. 2268.1).
GMN 5285.3 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6359
