1960 WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION
Bibliography of bilharziasis, 1949-1958.
Continues and supplements Nos. 5352 and 5352.1
GMN 5352.4 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6924
1960 ENDERS, John Franklin (1897 – 1985); KATZ, Samuel Lawrence (1927 – ); ET AL
Studies on an attenuated measles-virus vaccine. I. Development and preparation of the vaccine: technics for assay of effects of vaccination.
Live virus vaccine. With M. V. Milovanovič, and A. Holloway.
GMN 5449.4 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7502
1960 CHRISTOPHERS, Samuel Rickard (1873 – 1978)
Aëdes Aegypti (L.) The yellow fever mosquito: Its life history, bionomics and structure.
GMN 9390 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11573
1960 BLOOMFIELD, Arthur Leonard (1888 – 1962)
A bibliography of internal medicine: Selected diseases.
Literature on "selected diseases" presented in chronological order, beginning with auricular fibrillation and ending with trichinosis, emphasizing cardiovascular and metabolic diseases.
GMN 11219 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13416
1961 THOMAS, J. P.; ET AL
A new synthetic compound with antituberculous activity in mice; ethambutol (dextro-2, 2’-(ethylenediimino)-di-l-butanol).
Ethambutol for the treatment of tuberculosis. With C. O. Baughn, R. G. Wilkinson and R. G. Shepherd.
GMN 2353.3 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3149
1961 YARDLEY, John Howard (1926 – 2011); HENDRIX, Thomas Russell (1920 – 2013)
Combined electron and light microscopy in Whipple's disease. Demonstration of "bacillary bodies" in the intestine.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Yardley, Hendrix. The authors made the first observations of previously uncultured, unseen and unidentified bacilli associated with Whipple's disease, suggesting that i…
GMN 11979 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14187
1962 DENNIE, Charles Clayton (1883 – 1971)
A history of syphilis.
GMN 2432.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2891
1962 CHANOCK, Robert Merritt (1904 – 2010); HAYFLICK, Leonard (1928 – 2024)
Growth on artificial medium of an agent associated with atypical pneumonia and its identification as a PPLO.
Using a novel agar and fluid medium formulation he had devised, Hayflick isolated a unique mycoplasma Mycoplasma pneumoniae, a mycoplasma shown to be the cause of some cases of primary atypical pneumonia, or "walking …
GMN 3215.5 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4377
1962 WELLER, Thomas Huckle (1915 – 2008); NEVA, Franklin Allen (1922 – 2011)
Propagation in tissue culture of cytopathic agents from patients with rubella-like illness.
Isolation of rubella virus. It was simultaneously isolated by P. D. Parkman, et al. (No. 5509.2.)
GMN 5509.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6505
1962 PARKMAN, Paul Douglas (1932 – ); BUESCHER, Col. Edward L. (1925 – 1989); ARTENSTEIN, Malcolm S. (1930 – 1976)
Recovery of rubella virus from army recruits.
Isolation of the rubella virus.
GMN 5509.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6507
1962 ROSENBERG, Charles Ernest (1936 – )
The cholera years: The United States in 1832, 1849, and 1866.
Edition with new Afterword published in 1987.
GMN 7927 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10100
1962 MCLEAN, Donald M.; MCQUEEN, Joan; PETITIE, H. Elizabeth; ET AL
Powassan virus: Field investigations in Northern Ontario, 1959-1961.
The authors isolated a virus from the brain of a child who died of encephalitis in Powassan, Ontario, and named it the Powassan virus. They posited a tick vector and possible rodent natural hosts. (Thanks to Juan Weis…
GMN 10920 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13116
1962 MEYER, Karl Friedrich (1884 – 1974); RAVASINI, Carlo
Disinfected mail: Historical review and tentative listing of cachets, handstamp markings, wax seals, wafer seals and manuscript certifications alphabetically arranged according to countries, by K.F. Meyer, in collaboration with C. Ravasini ...[et al.].
From the 15th to near the end of the 19th century attempts were made to decontaminate mail which had been in contact with plague, smallpox, cholera, and other contagious diseases.
GMN 11850 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14054
1963 HACKETT, Cecil John (1905 – 1995)
On the origin of the human treponematoses (pinta, yaws, endemic syphilis and venereal syphilis).
“Perhaps the most scholarly investigation of the origin of syphilis” (Wesley Spink).
GMN 5308.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6568
1963 WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION
Bibliography of yaws, 1905-62.
Over 1,700 items.
GMN 5308.3 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6570
1963 COCKBURN, Aidan (1912 – 1981)
The evolution and eradication of infectious diseases.
GMN 5546.7 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6783
1964 HUNTER, Elizabeth F.; ET AL
An improved FTA test for syphilis; the absorption procedure (FTA-ABS).
Absorbed fluorescent treponemal antibody (FTA-ABS) test. With W. E. Deacon and P. E. Meyer. The text is available from the NLM PubMedCentral at this link.
GMN 2419.3 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2878
1964 FEENY, Patrick
The fight against leprosy.
GMN 2447.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2947
1964 EPSTEIN, Michael Anthony (1921 – ); BARR, Yvonne (1932 – 2016)
Cultivation in vitro of human lymphoblasts from Burkitt’s malignant lymphoma.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Epstein, Barr. Discovery of the Epstein-Barr virus, a human herpes virus causing infectious mononucleosis, and implicated in Burkitt’s lymphoma and other forms of cance…
GMN 2660.17 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3410
1964 LAMBERT, C. R.
Chemotherapy of experimental Schistosoma mansoni infections with a nitro-thiazole derivative, CIBA 32, 644-Ba.
Introduction of niridazole (Ambilhar).
GMN 5351.6 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6892
1964 KEAN, Benjamin Harrison (1912 – 1993); BRESLAU, Roger C.
Parasites of the human heart.
GMN 11672 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13873
1965 BLUMBERG, Baruch Samuel (1925 – 2011); ALTER, Harvey James (1935 – ); VISNICH, S.; ET AL
A “new” antigen in leukemia sera.
(Order of authorship in the original publication: Blumberg, Alter, Visnich.) Discovery of Australia antigen, hepatitis B antigen, Aa, later called HBsAg. Blumberg received half of the Nobel Prize for Medicine in Biolo…
GMN 3666.4 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4823
1965 RASI, D
A new, active metabolite of ‘Miracil D’.
Lucanthone. With five co-authors.
GMN 5351.5 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6890
1965 WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION
Bibliography of hookworm disease (ancylostomiasis) 1920-62.
GMN 5369.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7000
1965 –1971 FINLAY, Carlos Juan (1833 – 1915); EXPÓSITO, César Rodriguez (1904 – 1972)
Obras completa. Compiladas por César Rodriguez Expósito. 5 vols.
GMN 9423 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11606
1965 GAJDUSEK, Daniel Carleton (1923 – 2008); GIBBS, Clarence Joseph Jr. (1924 – 2001); ALPERS, Michael
Attempts to demonstrate a transmissible agent in Kuru, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, and other subacute and chronic progressive nervous system degenerations in man. Addendum p. 46 in: Slow, latent, and temperate virus infections. NINDB Monograph No. 2. Edited by D. Carleton Gajdusek, Clarence J. Gibbs, Jr., and Michael Alpers.
In their Addendum on p. 46 the authors stated that 20 and 21 months post innocculation in the brain with brain material from Kuru patients two chimpanzees showed symptoms of an illness suggestive of Kuru. Digital facs…
GMN 13914 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16208
1965 LISTER, Joseph, 1st Baron Lister (1827 – 1912); LEFANU, William Richard (1904 – 1995)
A list of the original writings of Joseph Lord Lister, O.M.
Published as a 20-page pamphlet.
GMN 14338 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16666
1966 PARKMAN, Paul Douglas (1932 – ); MEYER, Harry Martin Jr. (1928 – 2001); ET AL
Attenuated rubella virus. II. Production of an experimental live-virus vaccine and clinical trial.
With T. C. Panos.
GMN 5509.3 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6509
1966 POLLITZER, Robert (1885 – 1968)
Plague and plague control in the Soviet Union: History and bibliography through 1964.
GMN 12125 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14334
1967 RATHLEV, Tara (1927 – 2009)
Haemagglutination test utilizing pathogenic Treponema pallidum for the sero-diagnosis of syphilis.
Treponemal hemagglutination (TPHA) test.
GMN 2419.4 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2879
1967 KRUGMAN, Saul (1911 – 1995); ET AL
Infectious hepatitis. Evidence for two distinctive clinical, epidemiological, and immunological types of infection.
With J. P. Giles and J. Hammond.
GMN 3666.5 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4824
1967 STEWART, George Louis (1936 – ); ET AL
Rubella-virus hemagglutination-inhibition test.
With five co-authors.
GMN 5509.4 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6510
1967 WARREN, Kenneth S. (1929 – 1996); NEWILL, Vaun Archie (1923 – 2012)
Schistosomiasis. A bibliography of the world’s literature from 1852 to 1962. 2 vols.
GMN 5352.5 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6928
1967 SIEGERT, Rudolf (1914 – 1988); ET AL
Zur Ätiologie einer unbekannten, von Affen ausgegangenen menschlichen Infektionskrankheit.
Isolation, identification and structure of the Marburg virus. WITH H. L. Shu, W. Sienczka, D. Peters, and G. Müller.
GMN 7865 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10037
1967 LANGLANDS, Bryan Wooleston (1928 – 1989)
The sleeping sickness epidemic of Uganda 1900-1920: A study in historical geography.
GMN 10679 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12872
1967 NATHAN, Carl F.
Plague prevention and politics in Manchuria, 1910-1931.
"The Chinese winter of 1910-1911 was one of death and discontent: an epidemic of pneumonic plague—the greatest since the Black Death of the fourteenth century—scourged China's three Eastern Provinces (Manchuria), and …
GMN 12581 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14820
1967 KAWASAKI, Tomisaku (1925 – )
In Japanese: [Acute febrile mucocutaneous syndrome with lymphoid involvement with specific desquamation of the fingers and toes in children.]
Kawasaki first reported this disease in 1961 in a four-year-old child with a rash and fever at the Red Cross Hospital in Tokyo; by the time he wrote this paper he had seen 50 cases. The mysterious novel illness was ev…
GMN 12716 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14962
1967 GRIFFITH, John Stanley (1928 – 1972)
Self replication and scrapie.
Griffith discussed complex physical chemistry mechanisms by which the scrapie agent could arise from information encoded in protein structure which could then be transferred to other protein molecules. He also conside…
GMN 12833 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15079
1967 ALPER, Tikvah (1909 – 1995); CRAMP, W. A.; HAIG, D. A.; ET AL
Does the agent of scrapie replicate without nucleic acids?
This paper, which predated Griffith's' paper (No. 12833), demonstrated that the scrapie agent replicates without nucleic acids. Alper and colleagues irradiated scrapie infected mouse brain extracts with lethal ultravi…
GMN 12834 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15080
1968 HAHON, Nicholas (1924 – 2016)
Selected papers on the pathogenic rickettsiae. Edited by Nicholas Hahon.
"The selected papers ... range from the sixteenth century to the modern era. A number of the papers are classics in the field and several of the selections appear in English translation for the first time. The editor …
GMN 2581.7 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4347
1968 HENLE, Gertrude Szpingier (1912 – 2006); HENLE, Werner (1910 – 1987); DIEHL, Volker S. (1938 – )
Relation of Burkitt’s tumor-associated herpes-type virus to infectious mononucleosis.
The Henles and Diehl showed that Epstein-Barr virus is the aetiological agent in infectious mononucleosis.
GMN 5487.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6427
1968 BLUMBERG, Baruch Samuel (1925 – 2011); BAYER, Manfred E. (1928 – 2015); WERNER, Barbara G.
Particles associated with Australia antigen in the sera of patients with leukemia, Down's syndrome and hepatitis.
Particles with the appearance of a virus were detected by electron microscopy in the serum of individuals with Au. These were subsequently shown to be the surface antigen particles, different from the whole virus part…
GMN 6840 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9004
1968 MATTHEWS, John D.; GLASSE, Robert M. (1930 – 1993); LINDENBAUM, Shirley
Kuru and cannibalism.
Medical anthropologists Lindenbaum and Glass demonstrated that Kuru was transmitted in New Guinea by cannibalism--particularly by eating the brains of infected victims, which were the reservoir of prions. Order of aut…
GMN 10841 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13037
1968 PASTEUR, Louis (1822 – 1895); THUILLIER, Louis (1856 – 1883); FRANK, Robert M.; WROTNOWSKA, Denise
Correspondence of Pasteur & Thuillier concerning anthrax and swine fever vaccinations. Translated and edited by Robert M. Frank and Denise Wrotnowska. Preface by Louis Pasteur Vallery-Radot.
Edition and translation of about 60 letters mostly between Pasteur and his protegé Louis Thuillier in the Reynolds Historical Library at the University of Alabama. During the period involved in this correspondence "Th…
GMN 12038 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14246
1968 CASH, Richard Alan (1941 – 2024); NALIN, David R. (1941 – ); ISLAM, Rafiqul; PHILLIPS, Robert Allan (1906 – 1976); ET AL
Oral maintenance therapy for cholera in adults.
Abstract: "An oral solution containing glucose, sodium chloride, sodium bicarbonate, and potassium chloride or citrate was used as maintenance therapy for acute cholera. In comparison with control patients who receive…
GMN 14303 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16628
1969 RICHARDS, Hugh Colin; FOSTER, Raymond
A new series of 2-aminomethyltetrahydroquinoline derivatives displaying schistosomicidal activity in rodents and primates.
Oxamniquinine.
GMN 5351.7 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6898
1969 BRUNELL, Philip Alfred (1931 – ); ET AL
Prevention of varicella by zoster immune globulin.
With A. Ross, L. H. Miller, and B. Kuo.
GMN 5440.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7468
1969 –1972 BLUMBERG, Baruch Samuel (1925 – 2011); MILLMAN, Irving (1923 – 2012)
Vaccine against viral hepatitis and process. Serial No. 864,788 filed 10 /8 /[19]69. Patent 3636191 issued 1/ 18/ [19]72.
First description of the hepatitis B vaccine, the first cancer vaccine, US patent 3636191A. Millman and Blumberg discovered that the blood of individuals carrying the hepatitis B virus contained particles of the outsi…
GMN 6841 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9005
1969 FRANCO, Odair
História da febre-amarela no Brasil.
Digital facsimile from bvsms.saude.gov.br at this link.
GMN 8936 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11114
1970 REES, Richard John William (1917 – 1998); ET AL
Experimental and clinical studies on rifampicin in treatment of leprosy.
With J. M. H. Pearson and M. F. R. Waters.
GMN 2442.5 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2936
