1847 DANIELSSEN, Daniel Cornelius (1815 – 1894); BOECK, Carl Wilhelm (1808 – 1875)
Om spedalskhed. Udgivet efter Foranstaltning af den Kongelige Norske Regjerings Department for det Indre. 1 vol. and atlas.
First modern description of leprosy (“Danielssen-Boeck disease’’). Danielssen, physician to the leprosy hospital at Bergen, was the founder of scientific leprology. The extremely rare Atlas consists of 24 plates and t…
GMN 2434 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2894
1854 MOUAT, Frederic John (1816 – 1897)
Notes on native remedies. No. 1. The chaulmoogra.
Chaulmoogra oil was first introduced into Western medicine by Mouat, having been used for many centuries previously by the Chinese
GMN 2435 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2897
1856 ARETAEUS OF CAPPADOCIA, (Ἀρεταῖος Καππάδοκος) (80 – 140); ADAMS, Francis (1796 – 1861)
Тα ∑ωζομενα. The extant works of Aretaeus, the Cappadocian. Edited and translated by Francis Adams.
Aretaeus left many fine descriptions of disease; in fact Garrison ranks him second only to Hippocrates in this respect. In the printed editions of this bibliography, before the present online version, the Adams editio…
GMN 22 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8934
1874 HANSEN, Gerhard Henrik Armauer (1841 – 1912)
Indberetning til det Norske mediciniske Selskab i Christiania om en med understottelse af selskabet foretaghen reise for at anstille undersogelser angaende spedalskhedens arsager, tidels udforte sammen med forstander Hartwig.
Hansen discovered the leprosy bacillus on 28 February 1873. He had been stimulated by the previous work of Danielssen and Boeck, and his own demonstration of the leprosy bacillus is one of the earliest observations of…
GMN 2436 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2901
1877 CUNNINGHAM, David Douglas (1843 – 1914); LEWIS, Timothy Richards (1841 – 1886)
Leprosy in India. A report.
The first quantitative study of leprosy in India. Leprosy first appeared in India at least 2,000 years ago and continued to exist throughout the subcontinent over the succeeding centuries. Upon the establishment of th…
GMN 10722 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12916
1879 NEISSER, Albert Ludwig Siegmund (1855 – 1916)
Über die Ätiologie des Aussatzes.
Neisser obtained leprosy tissue from Hansen and, using aniline dyes for staining Myco. leprae, was able to demonstrate it more convincingly than Hansen.
GMN 2436.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2903
1881 HILLIS, John D.
Leprosy in British Guiana. An account of West Indian Leprosy. Illustrated with twenty lithographic plates, coloured and plain, from original drawings and photographs of patients at the asylum, and several engravings from camera-lucida drawings, by E. Noble Smith, of pathological specimens, mounted and prepared, with explanatory remarks by P. S. Abraham....
The author was medical superintendent of the General Leper Asylum, British Guiana, West Indies. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 13045 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15296
1885 ESMARCH, Johann Friedrich August von (1823 – 1908); KULENKAMPFF, Diedrich (1846 – )
Die elephantiastischen Formen. Eine umfassende Darstellung der angeborenen und erworbenen Elephantiasis sowie aller verwandten Leiden.
This atlas illustrates the various changes that occur under the collective term elephantiasis, including tumors of the blood and lymphatic vessels, fibromas, neuromas, papillomas. Goldschmid 258.
GMN 9544 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11730
1886 HAWAII. BOARD OF HEALTH
Leprosy in Hawaii. Extracts from reports of presidents of the board of health, government physicians and others, and from official records, in regard to leprosy before and after the passage of the “Act to prevent the spread of leprosy”, approved Jan. 3, 1865. The laws and regulations in regard to leprosy in the Hawaiian Kingdom.
GMN 10521 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12714
1895 HANSEN, Gerhard Henrik Armauer (1841 – 1912); LOOFT, Carl (1863 – 1943)
Leprosy: In its clinical & pathological aspects. Translated by Norman Walker.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 9528 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11714
1903 STEFANSKY, W. K.
Eine Lepraähnliche Erkrankung der Haut und der Lymphdrtüsen bei Wanderratten.
Murine leprosy described.
GMN 2436.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2905
1904 POWER, Frederick Belding (1853 – 1927); GORNALL, Frank Howorth
The constituents of chaulmoogra seeds.
Hydnocarpus wightiana or Chaulmoogra is a tree in the Achariaceae family. The oil from seeds of Hydnocarpus wightiana or Chaulmoogra, a tree in the Achariaceae family, was widely used in Indian medicine and Chinese tr…
GMN 2437 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2907
1904 ROST, Ernest Reinhold (1872 – )
The cultivation of the Bacillus leprae.
Rost cultivated the leprosy bacillus, and he prepared leprolin, formerly used in treating leprosy.
GMN 2438 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2909
1910 UNNA, Paul Gerson (1850 – 1929)
Histotechnik der leprösen Haut.
Unna was among the first to maintain that the lymphatics were involved in leprosy and that it was curable.
GMN 2439 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2911
1914 ZAMBACO, Demetrius Alexandre (1830 – 1913)
La lèpre à travers les siècles et les contrées.
GMN 2443 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2938
1915 MERCIER, Charles Arthur (1852 – 1919)
Leper houses and mediaeval hospitals.
GMN 2444 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2940
1916 MOURITZ, Arthur Albert St. M. (1861 – 1943)
"The path of the destroyer": A history of leprosy in the Hawaiian Islands, and thirty years research into the means by which it has been spread.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 10522 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12715
1919 MITSUDA, Kensuke (1876 – 1964)
On the value of a skin reaction to a suspension of leprous nodules.
Mitsuda (lepromin) reaction. English translation by the author in Int. J. Leprosy, 1953, 21, 347-58.
GMN 2440 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2914
1924 WADE, Herber Windsor (1886 – 1968); LARA, C. B.
A plea for the early recognition of leprosy, with notes on diagnosis and methods.
The scraped-incision slit-skin method for bacterial examination in leprosy.
GMN 2440.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2917
1934 JEANSELME, Antoine Edouard (1858 – 1935)
La lèpre.
A handsome folio volume of some seven hundred pages, well printed on fine paper and beautifully illustrated, the book is a tribute to the printer's art as well as to the scientist's efforts. Of special interest is the…
GMN 11131 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13327
1938 BUTTLE, Gladwin Albert Hurst (1899 – 1983); ET AL
The action of substances allied to 4:4'-diaminodiphenylsulphone in streptococcal and other infections in mice.
G. A. H. Buttle, T. Dewing, G. E. Foster, W. H. Gray, S. Smith, and D. Stephenson discovered the potency of dapsone (DDS).
GMN 1926 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2722
1938 WEYMOUTH, Anthony [Pseudonym]
Through the leper-squint. A study of leprosy from pre-Christian times to the present day.
GMN 2446 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2942
1943 FAGET, Guy Henry (1891 – 1947); ET AL
The promin treatment of leprosy. A progress report.
Promin (sodium glucosulphone) introduced in the treatment of leprosy. With R. C. Pogge, F. A. Johansen, J. F. Dinan, B. M. Prejean, and C. G. Eccles.
GMN 2441 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2921
1944 MUIR, Ernest (1880 – 1974)
Preliminary report on diasone in the treatment of leprosy.
Muir found diasone (a sulphone) valuable in the treatment of leprosy.
GMN 2442 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2923
1944 –1948 KEFFER, Luiza
Indice bibliográfico de lepra, 1560-1943. 3 vols.
Supplements 1-5, 1952-62.
GMN 2447 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2944
1948 HARKNESS, Arthur Herbert (1889 – 1970); BROWNLEE, G
Leprosy treated with sulphetrone in 1943.
Clinical use of solapsone (sulphetrone).
GMN 2442.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2925
1956 DAVEY, Thomas Frank (1908 – 1983); CURRIE, Gordon
Clinical trials of diphenyl thiourea compound SU 1906 (Ciba 1509E) in the treatment of leprosy. Progress during the first year.
Introduction of diphenylthiourea (thiambutosine) therapy.
GMN 2442.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2927
1959 DAVEY, Thomas Frank (1908 – 1983); HOGERZEIL, L. M.
Diethyl dithiolisophthalate in the treatment of leprosy (ETIP or “Etisul”); a progress report.
Ditophal (Etisul) in leprosy.
GMN 2442.3 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2932
1960 SHEPARD, Charles Carter (1914 – 1985)
Acid-fast bacilli in nasal excretions in leprosy, and results of inoculation of mice.
Transmission of leprosy to animals. See also J. exp. Med., 1960, 112, 445.
GMN 2442.4 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2934
1964 FEENY, Patrick
The fight against leprosy.
GMN 2447.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2947
1970 REES, Richard John William (1917 – 1998); ET AL
Experimental and clinical studies on rifampicin in treatment of leprosy.
With J. M. H. Pearson and M. F. R. Waters.
GMN 2442.5 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2936
1988 BÉRIAC, Françoise (1949 – )
Histoire de lépreux au Moyen Âge, une société d'exclus.
GMN 12314 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14536
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
2006 EDMOND, Rod
Leprosy and empire: A medical and cultural history.
"An interdisciplinary study of why a disease that is so difficult to catch has caused such alarm. It examines how the fear of leprosy was part of nineteenth-century imperial expansion, as colonial officials and missio…
GMN 8905 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11083
2014 MILLER, Timothy S.; NESBITT, John W.
Walking corpses: Leprosy in Byzantium and the Medieval West.
Leprosy first became known to Europeans during the 12th century when a frightening epidemic ravaged Catholic Europe. The Church responded by constructing charitable institutions called leprosariums to treat the rapidl…
GMN 7220 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9388
2016 DIOKNO, Maria Serena Icasiano
Hidden lives, concealed narratives: A history of leprosy in the Philippines. Edited by Maria Serena I. Diokno.
GMN 11437 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13636
