1980 JOARDER, A. Kashem; TULLOCH, Jim; TARANTOLA, Daniel (1942 – )
The eradication of smallpox from Bangladesh.
GMN 13803 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16090
1981 CRISSEY, John Thorne (1924 – 2009); PARISH, Lawrence Charles
The dermatology and syphilology of the nineteenth century.
A scholarly work written in a particularly entertaining style.
GMN 4158.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5938
1981 CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION (CDC)
Kaposi's sarcoma and pneumocystis pneumonia among homosexual men--New York City and California.
The second published report on what later became the AIDS epidemic. The report described 26 homosexual men in New York and California with Kaposi's sarcoma, and 10 more Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP) cases in ho…
GMN 6995 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9161
1981 CIPOLLA, Carlo M. (1922 – 2000)
Fighting the plague in seventeenth century Italy.
GMN 8028 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10204
1981 JONES, James H. (1943 – )
Bad blood: The Tuskegee syphilis experiment.
"From 1932 to 1972, the United States Public Health Service conducted a non-therapeutic experiment involving over 400 black male sharecroppers infected with syphilis. The Tuskegee Study had nothing to do with treatmen…
GMN 8091 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10267
1981 CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION (CDC); GOTTLIEB, Michael Stuart (1947 – )
Pneumocystis pneumonia - Los Angeles.
The first paper on HIV/AIDS, reporting on June 5, 1981 on five cases of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP) seen at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) medical center. PCP was then a rare infection; ho…
GMN 9329 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11511
1981 NUTTON, Vivian (1943 – ); BYNUM, William F. (1943 – )
Theories of fever from antiquity to the enlightenment. Edited by W. F. Bynum and Vivian Nutton. Medical History, Supplement No. 1.
GMN 11909 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14114
1982 KUNO, Goro (1940 – ); FLORES, Bess
Bibliography of dengue fever and dengue-like illnesses, 1780-1981.
GMN 5475.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7625
1982 PRUSINER, Stanley Benjamin (1942 – )
Novel proteinaceous infectious particles cause Scrapie.
In 1997 Prusiner was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for his discovery of Prions - a new biological principle of infection." In his 1982 paper Prusiner proposed a completely novel explanation for th…
GMN 10140 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12329
1982 BURGDORFER, Willy (1925 – 2014); BARBOUR, Alan G.; HAYES, Stanley F.
Lyme disease - a tick-borne spirochetosis?
Discovery of the agent causing Lyme disease. Though the authors initially thought the disease might be a spirochetosis, the agent was attributed to a bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi, named for Burgdorfer who discovered…
GMN 10782 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12978
1982 PRUSINER, Stanley Benjamin (1942 – ); BOLTON, David C.; MCKINLEY, Michael P.
Identification of a protein that purifies with the Scrapie prion.
Research with the biochemist Bolton enabled Prusiner to discover and characterize the specific protein causing prion disease. This paper was dated December 24, 1982. Nearly simultaneously, Prusiner and the same co-aut…
GMN 10842 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13038
1982 GALLO, Robert Charles (1937 – ); KALYANARAMAN, V. S.; SARNGADHARAN, M. G.; ET AL
A new subtype of human T-cell leukemia virus (HTLV-II) associated with a T-cell variant of hairy cell leukemia.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Kalyanaraman, Sarngadharan,... Gallo. Discovery by Gallo of HTLV-II, which like HTLV-I, is carcinogenic. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this entry and its interpretation.)
GMN 11058 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13254
1982 GAJDUSEK, Daniel Carleton (1923 – 2008); MASTERS, Colin Louis (1947 – )
The spectrum of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and the virus-induced subacute spongiform encephalopathies. IN: Smith & Cavanagh, editors, Recent advances in neuropathology, Vol. 2., Chapter 6, pp. 129-163.
The authors reported a detailed and complete analysis of the original slides of the brain done by Afons Jakob, and provided a partial translation into English, with a detailed analysis of Jakob's clinical description,…
GMN 12595 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14835
1983 HOPKINS, Donald R. (1941 – )
Princes and peasants: Smallpox in history.
Reissued in 2002 with a new introduction as The greatest killer: Smallpox in history.
GMN 5436.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7443
1983 MONTAGNIER, Luc Antoine (1932 – ); BARRÉ-SINOUSSI, Françoise (1947 – ); ET AL
Isolation of a T-lymphotropic retrovirus from a patient at risk for acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS).
Isolation of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV-1). In 2008 Barré-Sinoussi and Montagnier shared half of the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine "for their discovery of human immunodeficiency virus." The other h…
GMN 6996 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9162
1983 ANDERSON, M. J.; JONES, S. E.; FISHER-HOCH, Susan P.; ET AL
Human parvovirus, the cause of erythema infectiosum (Fifth disease)?
This single page document was published as a Letter to the Editor of The Lancet. Order of authorship of the letter: Anderson, Jones, Fisher-Hoch.... Identification of human parvovirus as the cause of "Fifth disease". …
GMN 11191 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13388
1983 RILEY, Lee W.; REMIS, Robert S.; HELGERSON, Steven D.; ET AL
Hemorrhagic colitis associated with a rare Escherichia coli serotype.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Riley, Remis, Helgerson. First description in print of a particularly virulent E.coli (0157-H7) infection, for which no antibiotics were effective; the only treatment b…
GMN 11376 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13575
1983 CAMPBELL, William Cecil (1930 – )
Trichinella and trichinosis. Edited by William C. Campbell.
The first chapter of this authoritative study is a very detailed historical introduction by William C. Campbell, with a comprehensive bibliography. Campbell also authored Chapter 10: Chemotherapy and Chapter 13: Epide…
GMN 12658 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14902
1983 GOTTFRIED, Robert Steven
The Black Death: Natural and human disaster in medieval Europe.
GMN 13021 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15271
1984 GALLO, Robert Charles (1937 – ); POPOVIC, Mikulas; ET AL
Detection, isolation, and continuous production of cytopathic retroviruses (HTLV-III) from patients with AIDS and pre-AIDS.
Gallo, Popovic, and colleagues demonstrated that a retrovirus they had isolated, called HTLV-III, was the cause of AIDS. M. G. Sarngadharan, and E. Read. Bibcode:1984Sci...224..497P. doi:10.1126/science.6200935. PMID …
GMN 6997 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9163
1984 MONTAGNIER, Luc Antoine (1932 – ); BARRÉ-SINOUSSI, Françoise (1947 – ); DAUGUET, C.; ET AL
A new type of retrovirus isolated from patients presenting with lymphadenopathy and acquired immune deficiency syndrome: Structural and antigenic relatedness with equine infectious anemia virus.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Montagnier, Dauguet,... Barré-Sinoussi. In this paper Montagnier and colleagues showed that, contrary to the views of Gallo and his group, LAV (Lymphadenopathy Associat…
GMN 11059 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13255
1984 MONTAGNIER, Luc Antoine (1932 – ); BARRÉ-SINOUSSI, Françoise (1947 – ); KALYANARAMAN, V. S.; CABRADILLA, C. D.; ET AL
Antibodies to the core protein of lymphadenopathy-associated virus (LAV) in patients with AIDS.
The authors mentioned in a footnote added at the end of the paper that "A specific ELISA test with total LAV proteins detects LAV-speciic antibodies in 95% of LAS patients and 70-95% of AIDS depending on the risk grou…
GMN 12600 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14840
1985 KANKI, Phyllis J.; BARIN, Francis; M'BOUP, Souleymane; ET AL
Serological evidence for virus related to Simian T-Lymphotropic retrovirus III in residents of West Africa.
First report of the discovery of what became known as HIV-2 by the U.S. research group led by Kanki. This group published before the French group, but the French group had reported their data one day prior to the U.S.…
GMN 10789 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12985
1985 JENNER, Edward (1749 – 1823); LEFANU, William Richard (1904 – 1995)
A bibliography of Edward Jenner, 1749-1823
Revised second edition of Lefanu's A bio-bibliography of Edward Jenner (1951). The annotations in this bibliography form a kind of biographical narrative of Jenner's life and achievements.
GMN 11206 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13403
1985 KARMALI, Mohamed A.; PETRIC, Martin; LIM, Corazon; ET AL
The association between idiopathic hemolytic uremic syndrome and infection by Verotoxin-producing Escherichia coli.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Karmali, Petric, Lim. The authors discovered that a hemolytic uremic syndrome, associated with E. coli 0157-H7 (first described in No. 11376), and which could not be cu…
GMN 11377 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13576
1985 BRILLIANT, Lawrence Brent "Larry" (1944 – )
The management of smallpox eradication in India.
GMN 13727 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16011
1986 QUÉTEL, Claude (1939 – )
Le mal de Naples. Histoire de la syphilis.
Translated into English by Judith Braddock and Brian Pike as The history of syphilis (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992).
GMN 8743 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10921
1986 NAHMIAS, André J. (1930 – ); WEISS, Juan E. (1952 – ); YAO, X.; KANKI, Phyllis J.; ESSEX, Myron Elmer "Max" (1939 – )
Evidence for human infection with an HTLV III/LAV-like virus in Central Africa, 1959.
Order of authorship in the original paper: Nahmias, Weiss, Yao...Kanki, Essex. The authors presented evidence for the first or earliest infection with HIV in a human. This paper reported on a patient from Kinshasa, Za…
GMN 9331 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11513
1986 CLAVEL, François; GUÉTARD, D.; BRUN-VEZINET, François; ET AL
Isolation of a new human retrovirus from West African patients with AIDS.
HIV-2 was discovered essentially simultaneously by French and U.S. teams. This was the first publication by the French team. Order of authorship of the original publication was Clavel, Guettard, Brun-Vezinet. See thei…
GMN 10788 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12984
1986 LUGARESI, Elio (1926 – 2015); MEDORI, Rosella; GAMBETTI, Pierluigi; ET AL
Fatal familial insomnia and dysautonomia with selective degeneration of thalamic nuclei.
The authors coined the name Fatal Familial Insomnia to describe a family cohort of individuals who were dying from a prion illness causing an inability to sleep. This disease has been characterized as one of the most …
GMN 10843 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13039
1986 MCDOUGAL, J. S.; MADDON, P. J.; DALGLEISH, A. G.; ET AL
The T4 glycoprotein is a cell-surface receptor for the AIDS virus.
Order of authorship in the original paper: McDougal, Maddon, Dalgleish. The authors discovered that the T4 lymphocyte cell has an outer glycoprotein on its surface that specifically acts as the receptor for HIV. Witho…
GMN 11042 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13238
1986 YARCHOAN, Robert (1950 – ); WEINHOLD, Kent James; LYERLY, Herbert Kim; ET AL
Administration of 3'-Azido-3'-Deoxythmymidine, an inhibitor of HTLV-III/LAV replication, to patients with AIDS or AIDS-related complex.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Yarchoan, Weinhold, Lyerly. The first antiviral AIDS drug, later named "Retrovir"/ Zidovudine/AZT. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.)
GMN 11106 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13302
1986 CARMICHAEL, Anne G.
Plague and the poor in Renaissance Florence.
"This book uses Florentine death registers to show the changing character of plague from the first outbreak of the Black Death in 1348 to the mid-fifteenth century. Through an innovative study of this evidence, Profes…
GMN 11851 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14055
1987 SHILTS, Randy (1951 – 1994)
And the band played on: Politics, people, and the AIDS epidemic.
Shilts, an investigative journalist, chronicled the discovery and spread of HIV / AIDS with special emphasis on government indifference and political infighting—specifically in the United States—to what was then perce…
GMN 6998 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9164
1987 UCSF ARCHIVES AND SPECIAL COLLECTIONS; GLBT HISTORICAL SOCIETY
The AIDS History Project.
https://www.library.ucsf.edu/archives/aids/ "In 1987, the Archives & Special Collections initiated, in collaboration with the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Historical Society (GLBHT HS) and University of Califor…
GMN 10557 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12750
1987 MAEDA, Koichi; MARKOWITZ, Norman; HAWLEY, Robert C.; ET AL
Human infection with Ehrlichia canis, a leukocytic rickettsia.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Maeda, Markowitz, Hawley. First description of Ehrlichiosis in humans, description of the organism, and successful drug treatment with doxycycline. The pathogen was lat…
GMN 10899 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13095
1987 ANAND, Aditi; GRAY, Elizabeth S.; BROWN, Thomas
Human parvovirus infection in pregnancy and hydrops fetalis.
Demonstration of the devastating effect of human parvovirus B19 on the human fetus. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.)
GMN 11192 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13389
1987 CARPENTER, Priscilla D.; HEPPNER, Bradley T.; GNANN, John W.
DF-2 bacteremia following cat bites. Report of two cases.
Order of authorship in the original paper: Carpenter, Heppner, Gnann. Report of two cases of infection from cat bites by the bacterium then identified by the CDC as DF-2 (later called Capnocytophaga canimorsus) in non…
GMN 11246 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13443
1987 BRANDT, Allen Morris (1953 – )
No magic bullet: A social history of venereal disease in the United States since 1880.
GMN 12487 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14720
1987 OGDEN, Horace G.
CDC and the smallpox crusade.
Recounts the work toward the eradication of smallpox by the CDC, as distinct from the World Health Organization (WHO). Digital facsimile from stacks.cdc.gov at this link.
GMN 13798 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16085
1988 FENNER, Frank John (1914 – 2010); HENDERSON, Donald Ainslie (1928 – 2016); ARITA, Isao (1926 – ); JEŽEK, Zdenēk (1932 – 2019); LADNYJ, Ivan Danilovich ( – 1987)
Smallpox and its eradication.
The definitive archival history in 1460 pages. In 2016 a PDF of this entire book could be downloaded from the W.H.O. at this link.
GMN 7549 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9721
1988 WINN, Washington C. Jr. (1941 – 2011)
Legionnaires disease: Historical perspective.
Digital facsimile from cmr.asm.org at this link.
GMN 11255 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13452
1988 FALKOW, Stanley (1934 – 2018)
Molecular Koch's postulates applied to microbial pathogenicity.
"Molecular Koch's postulates are a set of experimental criteria that must be satisfied to show that a gene found in a pathogenic microorganism encodes a product that contributes to the disease caused by the pathogen. …
GMN 11780 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13981
1988 BÉRIAC, Françoise (1949 – )
Histoire de lépreux au Moyen Âge, une société d'exclus.
GMN 12314 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14536
1988 FOX, Daniel M. (1938 – ); FEE, Elizabeth (1946 – 2018)
Aids: The burdens of history. Edited by Elizabeth Fee and Daniel M. Fox.
GMN 13682 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15964
1989 CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION (CDC); VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH
Ebola virus infection in imported primates - Virginia, 1989.
Also published with same title in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, 38 (1989) 831, 832-837. Discovery of the "Ebola Reston" strain of the Ebola virus. The strain is lethal in monkeys; it turned out to be non-path…
GMN 10926 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13122
1989 BRENNER, Don J.; HOLLIS, D. G.; FANNING, G. R.; ET AL
Capnocytophaga canimorsus sp. nov. (formerly CDC group DF-2), a cause of septicemia following dog bite, and C. cynodegmi sp. nov., a cause of localized wound infection following dog bite.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Brenner, Hollis, Fanning....The authors defined the genus and species of previously unclassified bacteria that infect dog and cat bites, previous identified as DF-2, an…
GMN 11247 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13444
1989 HOUGHTON, Michael; CHOO, Qui-Lim; KUO, George Ching-Hung; BRADLEY, Daniel W. (1941 – ); OVERBY, Lacy Rasco (1920 – 1994); WEINER, A. J.
Isolation of a cDNA clone derived from a blood-borne non-A, non-B viral hepatitis genome.
In this paper Houghton and colleagues named “hepatitis C” for the first time. They cloned and isolated the viral RNA genome and demonstrated that a patient who had high antibodies to a ‘native/wild strain’, reacted sp…
GMN 12653 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14896
1990 GRMEK, Mirko Dražen (1924 – 2000)
History of AIDS. Emergence and origin of a modern pandemic. Translated by Russell C. Maulitz and Jacalyn Duffin.
GMN 6994 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9160
1990 RELMAN, David Arnold; LOUTIT, Jeffrey S.; SCHMIDT, Thomas M.; ET AL
The agent of bacillary angiomatosis - An approach to the identification of uncultured pathogens.
To identify an uncultured and unidentified pathogen that was often visualized in tissue sections of lesions of bacillary angiomatosis with Warthin-Starry staining, the authors utilized two different techniques that we…
GMN 11929 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14134
