1970 SHREWSBURY, John Findlay Drew (1898 – 1971)
A history of bubonic plague in the British Isles.
From The Great Pestilence of 1348 to the Plague of London in 1665, discussing efforts to control the disease, and its impacts on social and economic life.
GMN 5145 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6171
1970 MILES, M. A.
Chagas’s disease (South American trypanosomiasis). A bibliography compiled from Sleeping Sickness Bureau Bulletin 1908-1912, and Tropical Diseases Bulletin, 1912-1970.
Supplement to Trop. Dis. Bull., vol. 67.
GMN 5289.3 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6379
1970 FRAME, John Davidson (1917 – 2008)
Lassa fever, a new virus disease of man from West Africa. I. Clinical description and pathological findings.
An arenovirus infection first noted in Lassa, N. E. Nigeria, in 1969. With J. M. Baldwin, D. J. Gocke, and J. M. Troup.
GMN 5546.4 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6773
1970 BUCKLEY, Sonja Margaret (1918 – 2005); CASALS-ARIET, Jordi (1911 – 2004)
Lassa fever, a new virus disease of man from West Africa. III. Isolation and characterization of the virus.
Preliminary note in Nature (Lond.), 1970, 227, 174. Lassa Hemorrhagic Fever is endemic to the West African countries of Nigeria, Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.
GMN 5546.5 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6776
1970 HOOGSTRAAL, Harry (1917 – 1986)
Bibliography of ticks and tickborne diseases from Homer (about 800 B.C.) to 31 December, 1969. Vol. 1.
Digital facsimile from Washington State University Digital Collections at this link.
GMN 5546.8 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6788
1970 WESTERN, Karl A.; BENSON, Gordon D.; GLEASON, Neva N.; ET AL
Babesiosis in a Massachusetts resident.
Order of authorship in the original paper was Western, Benson, Gleason. First report of babesiosis in a non-immuncompromised patient, confirming the potential wide spread of this tick-transmitted illness. (Thanks to J…
GMN 10887 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13083
1970 DANE, David Maurice Surrey (1923 – 1998); CAMERON, C. H.; BRIGGS, E. Moya
Virus-like particles in serum of patients with Australia-antigen-associated hepatitis.
(Order of authorship in the original publication: Dane, Cameron, Briggs.) The authors showed that the "Australian antigen" was a virus causing hepatitis B. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretati…
GMN 12305 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14527
1970 SHERLOCK, Sheila Patricia Violet Dame (1918 – 2001); NIAZI, S. P.; FOX, R. A.
Chronic liver disease and primary liver-cell cancer with hepatitis-associated (Australia) antigen in serum.
(Order of authorship in the original publication: Sherlock, Niazi, Fox...). The authors demonstrated that the hepatitis B virus can cause cancer. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.)
GMN 12306 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14528
1970 BLUMBERG, Baruch Samuel (1925 – 2011); MILLMAN, Irving (1923 – 2012); BAYER, Manfred E. (1928 – 2015); LOEB, Lawrence A.
Australia antigen (a hepatitis-associated antigen). Purification and physical properties.
Purification of the Australia antigen and investigation of its physical properties. (Order of authorship in the original publication: Millman, Loeb, Bayer, Blumberg.) Blumberg shared the 1976 Nobel Prize in Physiology…
GMN 12321 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14544
1971 PAUL, John Rodman (1893 – 1971)
A history of poliomyelitis.
GMN 4672.5 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/937
1971 GAJDUSEK, Daniel Carleton (1923 – 2008); GIBBS, Clarence Joseph Jr. (1924 – 2001)
Transmission of two subacute spongiform encephalopathies of man (Kuru and Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease) to New World monkeys.
Following Hadlow's suggestion (1959), Gadjusek was able to transmit Kuru and Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease to primates through cerebral inoculations. Similarity in the clinical course of the diseases and in the cellular p…
GMN 4729.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1255
1971 FORD, John (1910 – )
The role of the trypanosomiases in African ecology: A study of the Tsetse fly problem.
GMN 10678 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12871
1971 FOEGE, William Herbert (1936 – ); MILLAR, John Donald (1934 – 2015); LANE, John Michael (1936 – 2020)
Selective epidemiologic control in smallpox eradication.
Foege showed that "ring containment", selective vaccination of those at greatest risk, in closest proximity to an outbreak, was more effective in eradicating smallpox than mass vaccination.
GMN 13787 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16074
1971 CASH, Richard Alan (1941 – 2024); NALIN, David R. (1941 – )
Oral or nasogastric maintenance therapy in pediatric cholera patients.
GMN 14304 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16629
1972 OLIVIER, Margaret C.
A bibliography on Chagas’s disease (1909-1969)
Index-Catalogue of Medical and Veterinary Zoology, Special Publication No. 2.
GMN 5289.4 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6400
1972 CAULFIELD, Ernest (1893 – 1972)
Disease and society in provincial Massachusetts: Collected accounts, 1736-1939.
Includes Caulfield's "A history of the terrible epidemic, vulgarly called the throat distemper, as it occurred in His Majesty's New England colonies between 1735 and 1740," Yale J Biol Med. 11 (1939) 219–272. availabl…
GMN 9189 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11370
1972 LADNYJ, Ivan Danilovich ( – 1987); ZIEGLER, P.; KIMA, E.
A human infection caused by monkeypox virus in Basankusu Territory, Democratic Republic of Congo.
Reports the first described case of Mpox in humans. It was thought that acquisition occurred through zoonotic contact. Order of authorship in the original paper: Ladnyj, Ziegler, Kima. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this r…
GMN 14296 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16620
1973 WIKTOR, Tadeusz Jan (1921 – 1986)
Human cell culture rabies vaccine. Antibody response in man.
Human diploid cell vaccine. With S. A. Plotkin and D. W. Grella. See also Develop, biol. Standard., 1978, 40, 3-9.
GMN 5484.4 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6393
1973 WARREN, Kenneth S. (1929 – 1996)
Schistosomiasis: the evolution of a medical literature. Selected abstracts and citations, 1852-1952.
Includes 384 core references and bibliography (without abstracts) covering 1963-72.
GMN 5352.6 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6932
1973 TUSKEGEE SYPHILIS STUDY AD HOC ADVISORY PANEL
Final report of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study Ad Hoc Advisory Panel.
Digital facsimile from http://biotech.law.lsu.edu/ at this link.
GMN 8136 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10312
1973 SACKS, Oliver Wolf (1933 – 2015)
Awakenings.
Revised editions, 1976 and 1991. "It recounts the life histories of those who had been victims of the 1920s encephalitis lethargica epidemic.[2] Sacks chronicles his efforts in the late 1960s to help these patients at…
GMN 9131 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11310
1973 FEINSTONE, Stephen Mark; KAPIKIAN, Albert Zaven (1930 – 2014); PURCELL, Robert Harry (1935 – )
Hepatitis A: Detection by immune electron microscopy of a viruslike antigen associated with acute illness.
Identification of the Hepatitis A virus.
GMN 12652 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14895
1974 KAWASAKI, Tomisaku (1925 – ); KOSAKI, Fumio; OKAWA, Sumio; ET AL
A new infantile acute febrile mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome (MLNS) prevailing in Japan.
The first report on Kawasaki Disease in English. By 1973, 6,000 cases of Kawasaki disease were reported in Japan. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.)
GMN 12717 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14963
1974 KOBAYASHI, Noboru (1927 – 2019); MATSUYA, Shoji; YANAGISAWA, Masayoshi
Myocardial infarction due to coronary thromboarteritis following acute febrile mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome (MLNS) in an infant.
The authors reported the case of a 6 month old baby who died from a myocardiac infarction after "recovering" from Kawasaki disease. Autopsy showed that the baby died from classical coronary artery thrombosis accompani…
GMN 12718 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14964
1975 COSSART, Yvonne E.; FIELD, A. M.; CANT, B.; ET AL
Parvovirus-like particles in human sera. Preliminary communication.
Order of authorship in the original paper: Cossart, Field, Cant. First description of Parvovirus B19, the first human parvovirus discovered. It is among the smallest DNA viruses and is most often known for causing dis…
GMN 11190 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13387
1976 BIRABEN, Jean-Noël
Les hommes et la peste en France et dans les pays européens et méditerranéens. Tome I: La peste dans l'histoire. Tome II: Les hommes face à la peste. 2 vols.
GMN 9236 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11418
1976 MCNEILL, William H. (1917 – 2016)
Plagues and peoples.
GMN 9689 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11876
1976 STEERE, Allen Caruthers; MALAWISTA, Stephen Evan (1934 – 2013); SNYDMAN, David R.
A cluster of arthritis in children and adults in Lyme, Connecticut.
The first publication on Lyme Disease. Abstract from the Proceedings of the 40th Annual Scientific Session of the American Rheumatism Association. Order of authorship in the original paper was Steere, Malawista, Snydm…
GMN 10781 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12977
1976 MILLER, Louis Howard (1935 – ); MASON, Steven J.; CLYDE, David Francis (1925 – 2002); ET AL
The resistance factor to Plasmodium vivax in blacks.
The authors showed that the Plasmodium vivax parasite requires the Fya/Fyb Duffy antigen/chemokine receptor on the surface of red blood cells for penetration of human red blood cells. Because most African and American…
GMN 11888 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14093
1976 HENDERSON, Donald Ainslie (1928 – 2016)
The eradication of smallpox.
Henderson's paper in the October 1976 issue of Scientific American was one of the first published announcements of the completion of the eradication of smallpox. Illustrating the iconic photograph of a mother holding …
GMN 14127 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16438
1977 FRASER, David William
Legionnaires’ disease. Description of an epidemic of pneumonia.
First major scientific account. With 11 co-authors. Legionnaire's disease acquired its name after an outbreak of a then-unknown "mystery disease" sickened 221 persons, causing 34 deaths. The people affected were atten…
GMN 3215.7 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4380
1977 SHEPARD, Charles Carter (1914 – 1985); FRASER, David William; MCDADE, Joseph E.; ET AL
Legionnaires’ disease. Isolation of a bacterium and demonstration of its role in other respiratory disease.
Order of authorship in the original publication: McDade, Shepard, Fraser.... See also p. 1218.
GMN 3215.8 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4382
1977 DOLS, Michael Walters (1942 – )
The black death in the Middle East.
GMN 5145.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6174
1977 BEVERIDGE, William Ian Beardmore (1908 – 2006)
Influenza: The last great plague.
GMN 5500.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6469
1977 PATTYN, Stefaan Rogier (1927 – 2008); GROEN, Guido van der
Isolation of Marburg-like virus from a case of haemorrhagic fever in Zaire.
Ebola virus, named after the Ebola River where an outbreak occurred in 1976. Specifically the outbreak was centered in Yambuku, a small village in Mongala Province in northern Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerl…
GMN 7866 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10038
1977 JOHNSON, Karl M.; LANGE, James V.; WEBB, Patricia; ET AL
Isolation and partial characterization of a new virus causing acute haemorrhagic fever in Zaire.
The first of three papers published in Lancet back to back describing the discovery of Ebola Virus Disease. In this paper the authors described isolation of the virus, imaged it with an electron microscope, and named …
GMN 10923 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13119
1977 BUTLER, Thomas Campbell (1941 – ); WEAVER, Robert E.; RAMANI, T. K. Venata; BOBO, Raymond A.
Unidentified gram-negative rod infection: A new disease of man.
Order of authorship in the original paper: Butler, Weaver, Ramani....Bobo....First description of a newly discovered bacterium associated with dog bites, affecting in this case alcoholic patients or patients predispos…
GMN 11245 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13442
1978 SPINK, Wesley William (1904 – 1988)
Infectious diseases. Prevention and treatment in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
GMN 5546.9 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6793
1978 STEERE, Allen Caruthers; MALAWISTA, Stephen Evan (1934 – 2013); BRODERICK, Thomas F.
Erythema chronicum migrans and Lyme arthritis: Epidemiologic evidence for a tick vector.
The authors showed that a tick was the insect vector for Lyme disease. The tick (the "Deer Tick") is named lxodes dammini. Order of authorship in the original paper was Steere, Broderick, and Malawista. (Thanks to Jua…
GMN 10783 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12979
1978 PATTYN, Stefaan Rogier (1927 – 2008)
Ebola virus haemorrhagic fever. Edited by Stefan R. Pattyn.
Among the essays in this book two are of special note: 1. Piot, P., Sureau, P., Breman, J.G., Clinical aspects of Ebola virus infection in Yambuku area, Zaire, 1976 (pp. 157-166). This is the first clinical descriptio…
GMN 10924 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13120
1978 GOTTFRIED, Robert Steven
Epidemic disease in fifteenth century England: The medical response and the demographic consequences.
GMN 13020 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15270
1979 SPIELMAN, Andrew (1930 – 2006); CLIFFORD, Carlton M.; PIESMAN, Joseph; ET AL
Human babesiosis on Nantucket Island, USA: Description of the vector, Ixodes dammini, N. Sp. (Acarina: Ixodidae)
Order of authorship in the original paper was Spielman, Clifford, Piesman. The authors identified and described the insect vector of Babesiosis. This was a new species; the same species causes Lyme disease. (Thanks to…
GMN 10888 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13084
1979 MCDADE, Joseph E.; BRENNER, Don J.; STEIGERWALT, A. G.
Classification of the Legionnaires' disease bacterium: Legionella pneumophila, genus novum, species nova, of the family Legionellaceae, familia nova.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Brenner, Steigerwalt, McDade. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.)
GMN 11256 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13453
1979 JEŽEK, Zdenēk (1932 – 2019); BASU, Rabindra Nath (1928 – ); WARD, Nicholas Anthony (1936 – )
The eradication of smallpox from India.
GMN 13788 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16075
1979 SHURKIN, Joel N. (1938 – )
The invisible fire: The story of mankind's victory over the ancient scourge of smallpox.
GMN 13796 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16083
1980 ALEXANDER, John T.
Bubonic plague in early modern Russia: Public health & urban disaster.
GMN 5145.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6177
1980 WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION
The global eradication of smallpox. Final report of the Global Commission for the Certification of Smallpox Eradication.
On 8 May 1980, the World Health Organization officially announced that “smallpox eradication has been achieved throughout the world”. The upper cover of this report reproduces an electron micrograph of a specimen of v…
GMN 5434.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8621
1980 EWALD, Paul W. (1953 – )
Evolutionary biology and the treatment of signs and symptoms of infectious disease.
"When viewed from an evolutionary perspective, manifestations of infectious diseases can be classified as (1) adaptations of the host to counteract harmful aspects of the disease, (2) adaptations of the pathogen to ma…
GMN 8988 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11167
1980 GALLO, Robert Charles (1937 – ); POIESZ, Bernard J.; RUSCETTI, Francis W.; ET AL
Detection and isolation of type C retrovirus particles from fresh and cultured lymphocytes of a patient with cutaneous T-cell lymphoma.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Poiesz, Ruscetti,... Gallo. Gallo and associates announced the discovery of a human retrovirus with type C morphology causing a cutaneous T-cell lymphoma. Gallo named t…
GMN 11057 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13253
1980 ROWBOTHAM, Timothy J.
Preliminary report on the pathogenicity of Legionella pneumophila for freshwater and soil amoebae.
Discovery of the pathogenic relationship between amoebas and Legionella bacteria--a key step in understanding how this bacteria infects mankind. Legionella bacteria, along with amoeba, live in the organic contaminatio…
GMN 11257 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13454
