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 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
1971 PAUL, John Rodman (1893 – 1971)
A history of poliomyelitis.
GMN 4672.5 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/937
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 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
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
1976 MCNEILL, William H. (1917 – 2016)
Plagues and peoples.
GMN 9689 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11876
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 DENEVAN, William Maxfield (1931 – )
The native population of the Americas in 1492. Edited by William M. Devevan.
"The discovery of America was followed by possibly the greatest demographic disaster in the history of the world." Research by some scholars provides population estimates of the pre-contact Americas to be as high as 1…
GMN 7977 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10153
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 GOTTFRIED, Robert Steven
Epidemic disease in fifteenth century England: The medical response and the demographic consequences.
GMN 13020 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15270
1980 DAWBER, Thomas Royle "Roy" (1913 – 2005)
The Framingham Study: The epidemiology of atherosclerotic disease.
"The twenty-four year Framingham Study is a landmark in epidemiological investigation. Largely as a result of this study of the life habits and health of almost 6,000 men and women, atherosclerosis is no longer viewed…
GMN 11579 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13778
1982 COOK, Noble David (1941 – )
Demographic collapse: Indian Peru, 1520-1620.
The first in depth study of the demographic effects of the Spanish conquest. Cook estimated population size on the basis of archaeology, carrying capacity of the agricultural systems, disease mortality, depopulation r…
GMN 10572 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12765
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
1985 MARQUEZ, Gabriel García José de la Concordia (1927 – 2014)
El amor en los tiempos de cólera.
"Set in a country on the Caribbean coast of South America, the story ranges from the late nineteenth century to the early decades of our own, tracing the lives of three people and their entwined fates. And yet, at fir…
GMN 12147 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14357
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 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 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 OWEN, Norman G.
Death and disease in Southeast Asia: Explorations in social, medical, and demographic history. Edited by Norman G. Owen.
GMN 12107 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14316
1989 BOYLE, Peter (1951 – ); MUIR, Calum S.; GRUNDMANN, Ekkehard (1921 – )
Cancer mapping, edited by Peter Boyle, Calum S. Muir, and Ekkehard Grundmann.
The first chapter, by G. M. Howe is "Historical evolution of disease mapping in general and specifically of cancer mapping." The book as a whole discusses the wide range of cancer maps and atlases in U.S., Europe and …
GMN 10340 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12532
1989 CROSBY, Alfred W. Jr. (1931 – 2018)
America's forgotten pandemic: The influenza of 1918.
First published as Epidemic and peace 1918, Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1976. New edition, 2003.
GMN 11924 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14129
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
1991 MATOSSIAN, Mary Kilbourne
Poisons of the past: Molds, epidemics, and history.
GMN 10036 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12225
1991 BLISS, Michael John William (1941 – 2017)
Plague: A story of smallpox in Montreal.
GMN 10984 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13180
1991 PATTERSON, Karl David (1941 – ); PYLE, Gerald F. (1937 – )
The geography and mortality of the 1918 influenza pandemic.
A summary of the international impact of the 1918 pandemic, its movement around the globe, and mortality estimates for various countries.
GMN 12110 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14319
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
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
1994 YOUNG, T. Kue
The health of Native Americans: Towards a biocultural epidemiology.
GMN 10084 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12273
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
1995 YOUNG, T. Kue; WALDRAM, James B.; HERRING, D. Anne
Aboriginal health in Canada: Historical, cultural, and epidemiological perspectives.
Revised second edition, same publisher, 2006.
GMN 10083 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12272
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 KOHN, George Childs
Encyclopedia of plague and pestilence.
GMN 11795 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13997
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 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 PATTERSON, Karl David (1941 – )
Pandemic influenza 1700-1900: A study in historical epidemiology.
GMN 12106 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14315
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 CLIFF, Andrew David; HAGGETT, Peter (1933 – ); SMALLMAN-RAYNOR, Matthew
Deciphering global epidemics: Analytical approaches to the disease records of world cities, 1888-1912.
GMN 9375 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11558
1998 COOK, Noble David (1941 – )
Born to die: Disease and New World conquest, 1492-1650.
"The biological mingling of the previously separated Old and New Worlds began with the first voyage of Columbus. The exchange was a mixed blessing: It led to the disappearance of entire peoples in the Americas, but it…
GMN 10574 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12767
1999 WATTS, Sheldon
Epidemics and history: Disease, power and imperialism.
GMN 9761 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11949
1999 CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION (CDC)
Outbreak of West Nile-like viral encephalitis -- New York, 1999.
On October 1, 1999 the CDC reported a cluster of human encephalitis cases; prior to these cases many crows had been dying. The "sentinel event" in this outbreak was the report to the New York Health Dept. by Dr. D. As…
GMN 10953 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13149
1999 KOLATA, Gina Bari (1948 – )
Flu: The story of the great influenza pandemic of 1918 and the search for the virus that caused it.
GMN 11925 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14130
2000 WEINDLING, Paul Julian (1953 – )
Epidemics and genocide in Eastern Europe, 1890-1945.
GMN 8061 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10237
2000 GRELL, Ole Peter (1950 – ); CUNNINGHAM, Andrew
The four horsemen of the Apocalypse: Religion, war, famine and death in Reformation Europe.
GMN 8360 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10536
2000 HIPPOCRATES, [Ἱπποκράτης; Hippocrates of Kos] (-460 – -370); GRMEK, Mirko Dražen (1924 – 2000); JOUANNA, Jacques (1935 – )
Hippocrate, Oeuvres complètes, Tome IV, 3e partie: Epidémies V et VII. Texte établi, traduit et annoté par Jacques Jouanna. (Collection des universités de France). Commentaire médical par Mirko Grmek.
Epidemics V and VII are dated sometime around mid 4th century BCE, and compiled by a member of Hippocrates' circle.
GMN 10013 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12202
2001 SHAH, Nahan (1962 – )
Contagious divides: Epidemics and race in San Francisco's Chinatown.
GMN 10534 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12727
2001 SCHEIDEL, Walter (1966 – )
Death on the Nile. Disease and the Demography of Roman Egypt.
GMN 10695 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12888
2001 SCOTT, Susan (1953 – ); DUNCAN, Christopher J.
Biology of plagues: Evidence from historical populations.
GMN 11853 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14057
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