1883 MANSON, Sir Patrick (1844 – 1922)
The Filaria sanguinis hominis and certain new form of parasitic disease in India, China and warm countries.
A collection of several papers written by Manson.
GMN 2455 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2980
1883 KOCH, Robert Heinrich Hermann (1843 – 1910)
Bericht über die Thätigkeit der deutschen Cholerakommission in Aegypten und Ostindien.
Koch–Weeks bacillus, Hemophilus conjunctivitidis, or Hemophilus aegyptius. Koch discovered the bacilli of two varieties of Egyptian conjunctivitis. See also No. 5930.
GMN 5923 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6839
1889 KELSCH, Louis Félix Achille (1841 – 1911); KIENER, Paul Louis André (1895 – )
Traité des maladies des pays chauds: Région prétropicale.
GMN 11541 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13740
1891 NEPVEU, Gustav (1841 – 1903)
Étude sur les parasites du sang chez les paludiques.
Nepveu, whilst in Algeria, was the first to see trypanosomes in human blood.
GMN 5272 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8578
1892 –1982 HASSALL, Albert (1862 – 1942); STILES, Charles Wardell (1867 – 1941); ET AL
Index-catalogue of medical and veterinary zoology.
An index to the world's literature on parasites and parasitisms of man, of domestic animals, and of wild animals whose parasites may be transmitted to man and domestic animals. It also contains references to fur-beari…
GMN 355 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/289
1895 BRUCE, Sir David (1855 – 1931)
Preliminary report on the tsetse fly disease or nagana, in Zululand.
In 1895 Bruce found that nagana, the tsetse fly disease of Zululand, was due to a trypanosome (T. brucei). He described a hematozoon in the blood of the affected animals that had not been previously described. Digital…
GMN 5273 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8580
1896 BRUCE, Sir David (1855 – 1931)
Further report on the tsetse fly disease or nagana, in Zululand.
In this more-detailed follow-up to his "preliminary" paper of 1895 published in Durban, South Africa, Bruce provided definitive proof that the Trypanosoma was the cause of nagana, and the tsetse fly was the vector of …
GMN 11077 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13273
1898 MANSON, Sir Patrick (1844 – 1922)
Tropical diseases.
Manson has been called the “father of modern tropical medicine”. He had vast experience of disease in the Tropics and himself made many valuable contributions to the knowledge of this subject. He described tinea nigra…
GMN 2266 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2823
1900 REED, Walter (1851 – 1902); CARROLL, James (1854 – 1907); AGRAMONTE Y SIMONI, Aristides (1868 – 1931); LAZEAR, Jesse William (1866 – 1900)
The etiology of yellow fever. A preliminary note.
First definite proof that the organism causing yellow fever is transmitted to man by the mosquito Aëdes aegypti. During the period spent by these workers in the investigation of the disease in Cuba Lazear and Carroll …
GMN 5457 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7559
1903 –1919 BRUCE, Sir David (1855 – 1931); NABARRO, David N.
Reports of the Sleeping Sickness Commission of the Royal Society, 1903-1912. 17 pts.
Bruce and D.N. Nabarro were sent to Africa by the Royal Society to study sleeping sickness, and in their report they showed that the tsetse fly was the vector of trypanosomiasis. They also found that Gambia fever and …
GMN 5277 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8587
1903 WRIGHT, James Homer (1871 – 1928)
Protozoa in a case of tropical ulcer (Delhi sore).
Wright found Leishmania tropica in Delhi sore. He was unaware of Borovskii’s paper (No. 5294).
GMN 5297 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8607
1903 GORGAS, William Crawford (1854 – 1920)
Notes on the treatment of yellow fever at Las Animas Hospital, the hospital of the Sanitary Department, during the epidemic of 1900 at Havana, Cuba.
In 1901 Gorgas was sent to Havana to undertake a special campaign against the yellow fever mosquito Aëdes aegypti. His methods of sanitation were so successful that in three months yellow fever was practically eradica…
GMN 13923 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16217
1904 LEISHMAN, Sir William Boog (1865 – 1926)
Note on the nature of the parasitic bodies found in tropical splenomegaly.
GMN 5298 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6473
1904 ROGERS, Sir Leonard (1868 – 1962)
Note on the occurrence of Leishman–Donovan bodies in “cachexial fevers” including kala-azar.
Rogers demonstrated the Leishman–Donovan bodies in kala-azar. See also the same journal, 1904, 2, 645-50. At about the same time Bentley reported similar findings in India.
GMN 5299 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6478
1904 AUDAIN, Léon (1862 – 1930)
Pathologie intertropicale. Doctrines et clinique.
Digital facsimile from BnF Gallaica at this link.
GMN 13362 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15633
1905 DUTTON, Joseph Everett (1877 – 1905); TODD, John Lancelot (1876 – 1949)
The nature of tick fever in the eastern part of the Congo Free State.
Independently of Ross and Milne, Dutton and Todd demonstrated relapsing fever in monkeys conveyed by infected ticks, Omithodorus moubata. The organism was named Sp. (now Borrelia) duttoni. Both Dutton and Todd contrac…
GMN 5318 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6610
1905 THOMAS, Harold Wolferstan (1875 – 1931); BREINL, Anton (1880 – 1944)
Report on trypanosomes, trypanosomiasis, and sleeping sickness, being an experimental investigation into their pathology and treatment.
Thomas and Breinl discovered that arsanilic acid, was more potent in the treatment of laboratory trypanosomiasis than arsenic in inorganic form. As a crystalline powder it was introduced medically as Atoxyl. Thomas an…
GMN 5279 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8592
1910 CASTELLANI, Aldo (1877 – 1971); CHALMERS, Albert John (1870 – 1920)
Manual of tropical medicine.
Castellani made several discoveries of great importance in tropical medicine. The above work is a standard text on tropical medicine in English. Third edition, 1919.
GMN 2267 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2825
1913 LEIPER, Robert Thomson (1881 – 1969)
Important discovery in tropical medicine: Metamorphosis of Filaria Loa.
Leiper discovered diurnal periodicity in Filaria Loa, as the worm embryos are found in the blood only during day, as an adaptation to the day-biting habits of their insect vector, a biting fly of the genus Chrysopa. T…
GMN 11249 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13446
1915 GORGAS, William Crawford (1854 – 1920)
Sanitation in Panama.
"Gorgas capitalized on the momentous work of ... Walter Reed, who had himself built much of his work on insights of a Cuban doctor, Carlos Finlay, to prove the mosquito transmission of yellow fever. He won internation…
GMN 9259 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11441
1915 TYZZER, Ernest Edward (1875 – 1965); STRONG, Richard Pearson (1872 – 1948); SELLARDS, Andrew Watson (1884 – 1941); BRUES, Charles Thomas (1879 – 1955); GASTIABURU, J. C.; HARVARD SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE
Report of first expedition to South America 1913.
Strong was the first professor of tropical medicine at Harvard. The Harvard School of Tropical Medicine was founded in 1913, the year they undertook this expedition. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 12573 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14812
1926 STRONG, Richard Pearson (1872 – 1948); SHATTUCK, George Cheever (1879 – 1972); BEQUAERT, Joseph Charles (1886 – 1982); WHEELER, Ralph Emerson (1901 – 1980)
Medical report of the Hamilton Rice Seventh expedition to the Amazon In conjunction with the Department of Tropical Medicine of Harvard University, 1924-1925
"The Hamilton Rice Seventh Expedition to Amazonia was undertaken [under the leadership of Richard Pearson Strong] partly for general geographical exploration and partly for medical investigation in a section of the Am…
GMN 12574 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14813
1929 –1931 PATTON, Walter Scott (1876 – 1960); EVANS, Alwen Myfanwy (1895 – 1937)
Ticks, mites and venomous animals of medical and veterinary importance. Part 1: Medical. Part 2: Public health.
Part 1 by Patton and the female entomologist Alwen Evans; part 2 by Patton alone.
GMN 12146 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14356
1930 STRONG, Richard Pearson (1872 – 1948)
The African Republic of Liberia and the Belgian Congo based on the observations made and material collected during the Harvard African Expedition, 1926-1927. Edited by Richard P. Strong. 2 vols.
"The Harvard Medical African Expedition of 1926-1927 was an eight-man venture sent by Harvard University for the primary purpose of conducting a medical and biological survey of Liberia; the secondary purpose being to…
GMN 12459 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14691
1931 DAUBNEY, Robert (1891 – ); HUDSON, John Richard
Enzootic hepatitis or Rift Valley fever. An undescribed virus disease of sheep, cattle and man from East Africa.
First description.
GMN 5541 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6730
1932 OLPP, Gottlieb (1872 – 1950)
Hervorragende Tropenärzte in Wort und Bild.
GMN 6733 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7853
1938 WILLS, Lucy (1888 – 1964); EVANS, Barbara Dorothy Fordyce (1909 – 1995)
Tropical macrocytic anaemia: Its relation to pernicious anaemia.
GMN 3149 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3996
1938 SHATTUCK, George Cheever (1879 – 1972); BEQUAERT, Joseph Charles (1886 – 1982); SANDGROUND, Jack Henry (1899 – 1987); HILFERTY, Margaret M.; CLARK, Samuel Drury
A medical survey of the republic of Guatemala, by George Cheever Shattuck. With the collaboration of Joseph C. Bequaert, Margaret M. Hilferty, Jack H. Sandground [and] Samuel Drury Clark.
Organized and directed by the Department of Tropical Medicine, Harvard School of Public Health. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
GMN 12593 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14833
1939 SCOTT, Sir Henry Harold (1874 – 1956)
A history of tropical medicine. 2 vols.
An exhaustive history of the subject to the time of writing.
GMN 2268 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2830
1958 –1959 BURKITT, Denis Parsons (1911 – 1993)
A sarcoma involving the jaws in African children.
Burkitt’s lymphoma (African lymphoma), first described in detail by Sir Albert Cook, a medical missionary, but not published by him.
GMN 2660.12 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3397
1963 HACKETT, Cecil John (1905 – 1995)
On the origin of the human treponematoses (pinta, yaws, endemic syphilis and venereal syphilis).
“Perhaps the most scholarly investigation of the origin of syphilis” (Wesley Spink).
GMN 5308.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6568
1965 –1971 FINLAY, Carlos Juan (1833 – 1915); EXPÓSITO, César Rodriguez (1904 – 1972)
Obras completa. Compiladas por César Rodriguez Expósito. 5 vols.
GMN 9423 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11606
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
1977 ALLEN, Alfred M.; OGNIBENE, Andre J.; BARRETT, O'Neill Jr.
Medical Department, United States Army Internal medicine in Vietnam. Volume I. Skin diseases in Vietnam, 1965-72. Vol. II. General medicine and infectious diseases, edited by Andre J. Ognibene and O'Neill Barrett, Jr.
Digital facsimile of Vol. 1 from the Hathi Trust at this link. Vol. 2 is availabel from the U.S. Army Medical Department, Office of Medical History at this link.
GMN 9211 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11392
1978 KEAN, Benjamin Harrison (1912 – 1993); MOTT, Kenneth Eugene (1939 – 1997); RUSSELL, Adair J.
Tropical medicine and parasitology: Classic investigations. 2 vols.
About 200 key papers, reproduced in whole or in part, in English translation where necessary. Includes useful biographical notes.
GMN 2268.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2832
1979 BORDES, Ary
Evolution des sciences de la santé et de l'hygiène publique en Haiti. Vol.1, Fin de la période coloniale-1915.
GMN 13368 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15639
1985 SHERIDAN, Richard B. (1918 – )
Doctors and slaves: A medical and demographic history of slavery in the British West Indies.
GMN 8820 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10998
1985 PLUCHON, Pierre
Histoire des médecins et pharmaciens de marine et des colonies.
GMN 13367 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15638
1988 LAPEYSSONNIE, Léon (1915 – 2001)
La médecine coloniale: Mythe et réalités.
GMN 11542 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13741
1990 KEAN, Benjamin Harrison (1912 – 1993)
One doctor's adventures among the famous and infamous from the jungles of Panama to a Park Avenue practice. With Tracy Dahlby.
GMN 12649 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14890
1991 FARLEY, John (1936 – 2015)
Bilharzia: A history of imperial tropical medicine.
GMN 9262 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11444
1992 LYONS, Maryinez
The colonial disease: A social history of sleeping sickness in colonial Zaire, 1900-1940.
GMN 9264 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11446
1996 COX, F. E. G.
The Wellcome Trust illustrated history of tropical diseases. Edited by F. E. G. Cox.
GMN 8626 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10803
1997 RIBEIRO, Marcia Moisés
A ciéncia dos trópicos: A arte médica no Brasil do sécolo XVIII.
GMN 8862 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11040
1999 PEARD, Julyan G.
Race, place, and medicine: The idea of the tropics in nineteenth-century Brazilian medicine.
GMN 7838 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10010
2000 GREEN, Edward C. (1944 – )
Indigenous theories of contagious disease.
GMN 8504 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10681
2003 BRUYN, George Willem (1928 – 2002); POSER, Charles Marcel (1923 – 2010)
The history of tropical neurology: Nutritional disorders.
GMN 9452 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11635
2006 ANDERSON, Warwick Hugh (1958 – )
Colonial pathologies: American tropical medicine, race, and hygiene in the Philippines.
GMN 8251 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10427
