1954 ABRAHAM, Sir Edward Penley (1913 – 1999); ET AL
Purification and some properties of cephalosporin N, a new penicillin.
With G. G. F. Newton and C. W. Hale.
GMN 1947 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2813
1955 ABRAHAM, Sir Edward Penley (1913 – 1999); NEWTON, Guy G. F. (1920 – 1969)
Cephalosporin C, a new antibiotic containing sulpher and d-x aminoadipic acid.
GMN 1947.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2814
1955 –1956 GOLD, W; ET AL
Amphotericins A and B, antifungal antibiotics produced by a streptomycete.
With six co-authors.
GMN 1947.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2815
1955 FARBER, Sidney (1903 – 1973)
Carcinolytic action of antibiotics: puromycin and actinomycin.
GMN 2660.8 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3389
1955 MCGUIRE, James Myrlin (1909 – ); MCCORMICK, M. H.; PITTENGER, G. E.
Vancomycin, a new antibiotic. I. Chemical and biologic properties.
Edmund Kornfeld, an organic chemist working at Eli Lilly, first isolated Vancomycin in 1953 from a soil sample collected from the interior jungles of Borneo by a missionary, Rev. William M. Bouw (1918-2006). The organ…
GMN 11468 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13667
1956 HATA, Toju (1908 – 2004); ET AL
Mitomycin, a new antibiotic from streptomyces.
Isolation of mitomycin C, effective in Hodgkin’s disease and lymphoma. With six co-authors.
GMN 1947.3 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2817
1957 UMEZAWA, Hamao; ET AL
Production and isolation of a new antibiotic, kanamycin.
With nine co-authors.
GMN 1947.4 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2818
1957 SHEEHAN, John Clark (1915 – 1992); HENERY-LOGAN, Kenneth Robert (1921 – 2006)
The total synthesis of penicillin V.
Sheehan and Henery-Logan reported the step by step synthesis of penicillin V (phenoxymethylpenicillin) and the cyclization of the beta lactam ring, key to creation of beta-lactam antibiotics. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for…
GMN 12633 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14874
1963 BÖTTCHER, Helmuth Maximillian (1895 – 1979)
Miracle drugs: A history of antibiotics.
First published in German, 1959.
GMN 2068.3 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2373
1963 WEINSTEIN, Marvin Joseph (1916 – 2011); ET AL
Gentamicin, a new antibiotic complex from Micromonospora.
With nine co-authors.
GMN 1947.5 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2820
1966 BAUER, Alfred W.; KIRBY, W. M. M.; SHERRIS, John C.; ET AL
Antibiotic susceptibility testing by a standardized single disk method.
The disk diffusion test, or agar diffusion test, or Kirby–Bauer test (disc-diffusion antibiotic susceptibility test, disc-diffusion antibiotic sensitivity test, KB test), for the antibiotic sensitivity of bacteria. (T…
GMN 11105 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13301
1970 HARE, Ronald (1899 – 1986)
The birth of penicillin.
“Disposes of many myths deeply embedded in the literature” (Macfarlane, see No. 1934).
GMN 2068.15 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2452
2005 TAYLOR, Mark J.; MAKUNDE, Williams Holmes; MCGARRY, Helen F.; ET AL
Macrofilaricidal activity after doxycycline treatment of Wuchereria bancrofti: A double blind randomized placebo-controlled trial.
Order of authorship in the original paper: Taylor, Makunde, McGarry.... The authors treated infection by the parasitic worm Wuchereria bancrofti, cause of elephantiasis (lymphatic filariasis), by killing the Wolbachia…
GMN 11193 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13390
2018 SANTESMASES, María Jesús
The circulation of penicillin in Spain: Health, wealth and authority.
GMN 12614 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14854
