1944 GOODMAN, Herman (1894 – 1971)
Notable contributors to the knowledge of syphilis.
GMN 2432 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2890
1946 HARRIS, A
A microflocculation test for syphilis using cardiolipin antigen: preliminary report.
V. D. Research Laboratory test (Harris test). With A. A. Rosenberg and L. M. Riedel.
GMN 2418.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3423
1948 POPPE, John Karl (1911 – 2012)
Cellophane treatment of syphilitic aneurysms with report of results in six cases.
GMN 2993 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5273
1949 NELSON, Robert Armstrong (1921 – ); MAYER, Manfred Martin (1916 – 1984)
Immobilization of Treponema pallidum in vitro by antibody produced in syphilitic infection.
Nelson’s treponemal immobilization test.
GMN 2419 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2875
1954 SCHÖNFELD, Walther Heinrich Paul (1888 – 1977)
Kurze Geschichte der Dermatologie und Venereologie und ihre kulturgeschichtliche Spiegelung.
GMN 4158.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5933
1957 CANNEFAX, George Radford (1911 – ); GARSON, Warfield (1918 – 2007)
Reiter protein complement fixation test for syphilis.
See also H. Reiter, Brit. J. vener. Dis., 1960, 36, 18-20.
GMN 2419.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2876
1957 DEACON, Wilbur Eugene (1907 – ); ET AL
A fluorescent test for treponemal antibodies.
Fluorescent treponemal antibody test. With V. H. Falcone and A. Harris.
GMN 2419.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2877
1962 DENNIE, Charles Clayton (1883 – 1971)
A history of syphilis.
GMN 2432.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2891
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
1964 HUNTER, Elizabeth F.; ET AL
An improved FTA test for syphilis; the absorption procedure (FTA-ABS).
Absorbed fluorescent treponemal antibody (FTA-ABS) test. With W. E. Deacon and P. E. Meyer. The text is available from the NLM PubMedCentral at this link.
GMN 2419.3 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2878
1967 RATHLEV, Tara (1927 – 2009)
Haemagglutination test utilizing pathogenic Treponema pallidum for the sero-diagnosis of syphilis.
Treponemal hemagglutination (TPHA) test.
GMN 2419.4 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2879
1973 TUSKEGEE SYPHILIS STUDY AD HOC ADVISORY PANEL
Final report of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study Ad Hoc Advisory Panel.
Digital facsimile from http://biotech.law.lsu.edu/ at this link.
GMN 8136 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10312
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 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
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
1998 VENTER, John Craig (1946 – ); SMITH, Hamilton Othanel (1931 – ); FRASER, Claire M. (1955 – ); NORRIS, Steven J.; WEINSTOCK, George M. (1949 – ); ET AL
Complete genome sequence of treponema pallidum, the syphilis spirochete.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Fraser, Norris, Weinstock....Smith, Venter. Sequence of the genome of the bacterium that causes syphilis. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.)
GMN 11342 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13540
2000 REVERBY, Susan Mokotoff (1946 – )
Tuskegee's truths: Rethinking the Tuskegee Syphilis Study. Edited by Susan M. Reverby.
GMN 12328 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14552
2004 DUTOUR, Olivier; PÁLFI, György; BERATO, Jacques; BRUN, Jean-Pierre
L’origine de la syphilis en Europe: Avant ou après 1493? / The origin of syphilis in Europe: Before or after 1493? Proceedings of an international colloquium, Toulon, France, 25–28 November 1993. Edited by Olivier Dutour, György Pálfi, Jacques Berato, and Jean-Pierre Brun.
The occasion of this meeting was the discovery in 1989 near Hyères (Var, France) of a human skeleton of the third or fourth century CE presenting lesions similar to those of syphilis. The volume contains fifty papers …
GMN 14086 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16397
2008 PARASCANDOLA, John (1941 – )
Sex, sin, and science: A history of syphilis in America.
GMN 12214 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14425
2011 HARPER, Kristin N.; ZUCKERMAN, Molly K.; HARPER, Megan L.; ARMELAGOS, George J. (1936 – 2014); KINGSTON, John D.
The origin and antiquity of syphilis revisited: An Appraisal of Old World pre‐Columbian evidence for treponemal infection.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Harper, Zuckerman, Harper, Kingston, Armelagos. Abstract: "For nearly 500 years, scholars have argued about the origin and antiquity of syphilis. Did Columbus bring the…
GMN 12080 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14289
2015 MROCZKOWSKI, Tomasz F.
History, sex and syphilis: Famous syphilitics and their private lives.
GMN 8800 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10978
2015 VESALIUS, Andreas (1514 – 1564); GARRISON, Daniel H.
Vesalius: The China Root epistle. A new translation and critical edition, edited and translated by Daniel H. Garrison, with added illustrations from the 1543 and 1555 De humani corporis fabrica.
GMN 13024 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15274
2017 PIETRZAK-FRANGER, Monika
Syphilis in Victorian literature and culture: Medicine, knowledge and the spectacle of invisibility.
GMN 13910 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16203
