1990 HENSEL, Diane Marie (1948 – 2017); SLATER, Leonard N.; WELCH, David F.; ET AL
A newly recognized fastidious gram-negative pathogen as a cause of fever and bacteremia.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Slater, Welch, Hensel.... Hensel, a medical technologist working in the clinical microbiology laboratory, University Hospitals, Oklahoma City, used innovative culture m…
GMN 11930 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14135
1990 MURPHY, James S.
The condom industry in the United States.
GMN 13391 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15662
1991 CRANEFIELD, Paul Frederick (1925 – 2003)
Science and empire: East Coast Fever in Rhodesia and the Transvaal.
East Coast fever (theileriosis) is an animal disease in Africa caused by the protozoan parasite Theileria parva.
GMN 8627 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10804
1991 FARLEY, John (1936 – 2015)
Bilharzia: A history of imperial tropical medicine.
GMN 9262 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11444
1991 BLISS, Michael John William (1941 – 2017)
Plague: A story of smallpox in Montreal.
GMN 10984 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13180
1991 SYDENHAM, Thomas (1624 – 1689); MEYNELL, Geoffrey Guy
Thomas Sydenham's observationes medicae (London, 1676) and his Medical observations (Manuscript 572 of the Royal College of Physicians of London), with new transcripts of related Locke MSS in the Bodleian Library. Edited by G. G. Meynell.
Limited to 200 copies.
GMN 11712 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13913
1991 FOX, Daniel M. (1938 – ); FEE, Elizabeth (1946 – 2018)
Aids: The making of a chronic disease. Edited by Elizabeth Fee and Daniel M. Fox.
GMN 13683 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15965
1992 NÚÑEZ, Marcelo Frías
Enfermedad y sociedad en la crisis colonial del antiguo régimen: Nueva Granada en el tránsito del siglo XVIII al XIX, las epidemias de viruelas.
GMN 8005 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10181
1992 CIPOLLA, Carlo M. (1922 – 2000)
Miasmas and disease: Public health and the environment in the pre-industrial age. Translated by Elizabeth Potter.
GMN 8804 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10982
1992 LYONS, Maryinez
The colonial disease: A social history of sleeping sickness in colonial Zaire, 1900-1940.
GMN 9264 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11446
1992 REGNERY, Russell L.; ANDERSON, Burt E.; CLARRIDGE, Jill E. III; ET AL
Characterization of a novel Rochalimaea species, R. henselae sp. nov., isolated from blood of a febrile, human immunodeficiency virus-positive patient.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Regnery, Anderson, Clarridge....The authors paid homage to the innovative work of medical technologist Diane Hensel by naming the species after her. It was initially gr…
GMN 11931 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14136
1992 RELMAN, David Arnold; SCHMIDT, Thomas M.; MACDERMOTT, Richard P.; ET AL
Identification of the uncultured bacillus of Whipple's disease.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Relman, Schmidt, MacDermott....The authors used 16S ribosomal RNA sequencing to identify the bacillus associated with Whipple's disease that had resisted culturing meth…
GMN 11980 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14188
1993 KIPLE, Kenneth F. (1939 – 2016)
The Cambridge world history of human disease. Edited by Kenneth F. Kiple [and 12 co-editors].
An encyclopedic world history of disease, incorporating a geographic approach.
GMN 6963 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9128
1993 ARNOLD, David (1946 – )
Colonizing the body: State medicine and epidemic disease in nineteenth-century India.
An authoritative account of the way that medicine was practiced in India in adaptation to the situation faced by physicians and the state in India, focusing on three major epidemic diseases: smallpox, cholera plague.
GMN 8811 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10989
1993 REGNERY, Russell L.; DOLAN, Matthew J.; WONG, Michael T.; ET AL
Syndrome of Rochalimea henselae adenitis suggesting cat scratch disease.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Dolan, Wong, Regnery....The authors demonstrated that Rochalimea henselae (now Bartonella henselae) is the infectious agent causing cat scratch fever. (Thanks to Juan W…
GMN 11932 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14137
1993 BUSVINE, James Robert
Disease transmission by insects: Its discovery and 90 years of effort to prevent it.
GMN 13187 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15448
1994 HORROX, Rosemary (1951 – )
The black death.
A collection of documents written by those who lived and died in the mid-fourteenth century, translated and accompanied with commentaries.
GMN 8453 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10630
1994 EWALD, Paul W. (1953 – )
Evolution of infectious disease.
GMN 8989 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11168
1994 CHANG, Yuan (1959 – ); MOORE, Patrick S. (1956 – ); CESARMAN, Ethel; PESSIN, Melissa S.; ET AL
Identification of herpesvirus-like DNA sequences in AIDS-associated Kaposi's sarcoma.
Dated December 16, 1994. Order of authorship in the original paper was Chang, Cesarman, Pessin,...Moore. The authors reported a new human herpesvirus associated with Kaposi's sarcoma, and gave it the descriptive name …
GMN 10880 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13076
1994 BAKKEN, Johan S.; DUMLER, John Stephen; CHEN, Sheng-Min; ET AL
Human granulocytic Ehrlichiosis in the Upper Midwest United States. A new species emerging?
Order of authorship in the original paper: Bakken, Dumler, Chen. First description of the Ehrlichia ewingii species of Ehrlichiosis (HGE) from a patient in Duluth, Minnesota, though the infectious agent was not yet na…
GMN 10901 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13097
1995 BARNES, David S.
The making of a social disease: Tuberculosis in nineteenth-century France.
GMN 8036 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10212
1995 FELDBERG, Georgina D. (1956 – )
Disease and class: Tuberculosis and the shaping of modern North American society.
GMN 8103 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10279
1995 COSMACINI, Giorgio (1931 – )
Storia della medicina e della sanità in Italia: dalla peste europea alla guerra mondiale, 1348-1918.
GMN 8703 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10881
1995 CHANG, Yuan (1959 – ); MOORE, Patrick S. (1956 – )
Detection of herpesvirus-like DNA sequences in Kaposi's sarcoma in patients with and those without HIV infection.
Dated May 4, 1995. Order of authorship in the original publication was Moore, Chang. That the virus causing Kaposi's sarcoma appeared in healthy as well as HIV patients suggested that this virus causes cancer only in …
GMN 10881 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13077
1995 PERSING, David H.; HERWALDT, Barbara L.; GLASER, Carol; ET AL
Infection with a Babesia-like organism in Northern California.
Order of authorship in the original paper was Persing, Herwaldt, Glaser. First report of a Basisa duncani infection in humans (4 patients). The authors designated the infection as Babesia (WA1) strain transmitted by I…
GMN 10889 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13085
1995 PANCHOLI, Preeti; KOLBERT, Chris P.; MITCHELL, Paul D.; ET AL
Ixodes dammini as a potential vector of human granulocytic Ehrlichiosis.
Order of authorship in the original paper was Pancholi,Kolbert, Mitchell. The authors provided convincing evidence that the tick Ixodes dammini is a common vector for the transmission of HGE (Ehrlichia ewingii). (Than…
GMN 10902 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13098
1995 CHANG, Yuan (1959 – ); MOORE, Patrick S. (1956 – ); CESARMAN, Ethel; ET AL
Kaposi's Sarcoma-associated herpesvirus-like DNA sequences in AIDS-related body-cavity-based lymphomas.
Chang, Moore and colleagues showed that the virus causing Kaposi's Sarcoma also causes body cavity lymphomas and lymphomatous effusions in humans. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.)
GMN 10914 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13110
1995 PASTEUR, Louis (1822 – 1895); GEISON, Gerald Lynn (1943 – 2001)
The private science of Louis Pasteur.
"His biography of Pasteur was viewed as an outstanding work of scholarship which penetrated the secrecy that had surrounded much of the legendary scientist's laboratory work. Geison used Pasteur's laboratory notebooks…
GMN 11019 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13215
1995 VENTER, John Craig (1946 – ); SMITH, Hamilton Othanel (1931 – ); FLEISCHMANN, Robert D.; ADAMS, Mark D.; WHITE, Owen; ET AL
Whole-genome random sequencing and assembly of Haemophilus influenzae Rd.
First sequence of the complete genome of a free-living non-viral organism—Haemophilus influenzae—the bacterium that causes lower respiratory tract infections and meningitis in infants and young children. This genome c…
GMN 11343 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13541
1995 KOHN, George Childs
Encyclopedia of plague and pestilence.
GMN 11795 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13997
1995 SØRENSON, Anne L.; NAGAI, Sadamu; HOUEN, Gunnar; ANDERSEN, Peter Lawaetz; ET AL
Purification and characterization of a low-molecular-mass T-cell antigen secreted by Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
Andersen and colleagues found that a protein fraction obtained from M. tuberculosis was immunologically active in mice, suggesting that it was one of the proteins recognized by T cells. In this paper the authors ident…
GMN 11997 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14205
1996 BADO, Jean-Paul
Médecine coloniale et grandes endémies en Afrique 1900-1960. Lèpre, trypanosomiase humaine et onchocercose.
GMN 7922 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10095
1996 ECKERT, Edward A. (1920 – )
The structure of plagues and pestilences in early modern Europe. Central Europe, 1560-1640.
"The most in-depth study ever undertaken of how plague and other infectious diseases affected populations in Central Europe between 1560 and 1640. Based on quantitative data gleaned from over 800 parish registers, the…
GMN 9235 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11417
1996 WILL, R. G.; IRONSIDE, J. W.; ZEIDLER, M.; ET AL
A new variant of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in the UK.
During the 1990s England was plagued with cases of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) seen in cows, popularly known as "Mad Cow Disease." Then physicians in England started noticing an uptick in cases of what look…
GMN 10844 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13040
1996 BIGONI, B.; DOLCETTI, Riccardo; DE LELLIS, L.; ET AL
Human herpesvirus 8 Is present in the lymphoid system of healthy persons and can reactivate in the course of AIDS.
Dated June 22, 1995. Order of authorship in the original paper was Bigoni, Dolcetti, de Lellis....By this time Kaposi sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV) was also known as human herpesvirus-8 (HHV-8). The authors wr…
GMN 10882 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13078
1996 DENG, HongKui; LIU, Rong; ELLMEIER, Wilfried; ET AL
Identification of a major co-receptor for primary isolates of HIV-1.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Deng, Liu, Ellmeier.... This paper was immediately followed in the same issue of Nature by: Tatjana Dragic, Virginia Litwin, Graham P. Allaway et al. "HIV-1 entry into …
GMN 11365 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13564
1996 BENEDICT, Carol Ann
Bubonic plague in nineteenth-century China.
The first work in English on the history of disease in China traces an epidemic of bubonic plague that began in Yunnan province in the late eighteenth century, spread throughout much of southern China in the nineteent…
GMN 11852 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14056
1996 CHOMEL, Bruno B.; KASTEN, Rickie W.; FLOYD-HAWKINS, Kim; ET AL
Experimenal transmission of Bartonella henselae by the cat flea.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Chomel, Kasten, Floyd-Hawkins.... Chomel and colleagues studied 47 cattery cats from a private home for 12 months. They found that such cats typically are bacteremic. S…
GMN 11933 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14138
1996 MAHAIRAS, Gregory G.; SABO, Peter J.; HICKEY, Mark J.; ET AL
Molecular analysis of genetic differences between Mycobacterium bovis BCG and virulent M. bovis.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Mahairas, Sabo, Hickey.... From the Abstract: "The live attenuated bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine for the prevention of disease associated with Mycobacterium tu…
GMN 11995 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14203
1996 PRUSINER, Stanley Benjamin (1942 – ); TELLING, Glenn C.; PARCHI, Piero (1951 – ); DE ARMOND, Stephen J.; ET AL
Evidence for the conformation of the pathologic isoform of the prion protein enciphering and propagating prion diversity.
The authors showed that the " 'normal prion protein' in the brains of living mice can be converted into different forms depending on the type of abnormal human prion that initiated the conversion. The result is differ…
GMN 12835 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15081
1996 HENDERSON, John; FRENCH, Roger Kenneth (1938 – 2002); ARRIZABALAGA, Jon
The great pox. The French disease in Renaissance Europe.
GMN 14050 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16360
1997 BOS, Gerrit; IBN AL JAZZĀR, Ahmed Bin Jaafar Bin Brahim (Algizar) (895 – 979)
Ibn Al-Jazzār on sexual diseases and their treatment: A critical edition of Zād al-musāfir wa-qūt al-hādir. Translated and edited by Gerrit Bos.
GMN 8237 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10413
1997 ESTES, J. Worth (1934 – 2000); SMITH, Billy G.
A melancholy scene of devastation: The public response to the 1793 Philadelphia yellow fever epidemic. Edited by J. Worth Estes and Billy G. Smith.
GMN 9385 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11568
1997 LEWIS, Milton James; BAMBER, Scott; WAUGH, Michael
Sex, disease, and society: A comparative history of sexually transmitted diseases and HIV/AIDS in Asia and the Pacific. Edited by Milton J. Lewis, Scott Bamber and Michael Waugh.
GMN 10030 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12219
1997 BLATTNER, Frederick R.; PLUNKETT, Guy III; BLOCH, Craig B.; ET AL
The complete genome sequence of Escherichia coli K-12.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Blattner, Plunkett, Bloch.... Complete genome sequence of E. coli, the first complete genome sequence of an organism. Following p. 1462 there are two large, unpaginated…
GMN 11408 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13607
1997 MASSELL, Benedict Frank (1906 – 2008)
Rheumatic fever and streptococcal infection: Unraveling the mysteries of a dread disease.
GMN 12360 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14584
1998 OLDSTONE, Michael B. A.
Viruses, plagues & history: Past, present, and future.
Revised and updated edition, 2010.
GMN 7960 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10135
1998 LERNER, Barron H. (1960 – )
Contagion and confinement: Controlling tuberculosis along the skid road.
GMN 9650 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11837
1998 ROLAND, William E.; EVERETT, E. Dale; CYR, Tracy L.; ET AL
Ehrlichia chaffeensis in Missouri ticks.
Order of authorship in the original paper: Roland, Everett, Cyr. Using PCR, the authors demonstrated that the tick Amblyoma americanum (the Lone Star Tick) was the insect vector of Ehrlichia chaffeensis. Digital facsi…
GMN 10900 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13096
1998 SWEDO, Susan E.; LEONARD, Henrietta L. (1954 – 2007); GARVEY, Marjory; ET AL
Pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders associated with streptococcal infections: Clinical description of the first 50 cases.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Swedo, Leonard, Garvey.... Pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders associated with streptococcal infections (PANDAS), "an hypothesis that there exists a subset …
GMN 11079 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13275