1908 DANLOS, Henri-Alexandre (1844 – 1912)

Un cas de cutis laxa avec tumeurs par contusion chronique des coudes et des genoux.

Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (see also No. 4132). Danlos noted the subcutaneous tumors that may occur in this condition.

GMN 4144 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5806

1908 LEINER, Karl (1871 – 1930)

Ueber Erythrodermia desquamativa, eine eigenartige universelle Dermatose der Brustkinder.

Desquamative erythroderma of nurslings (Leiner); apparently a toxic eruption peculiar to breast-fed children suffering from enteritis.

GMN 4145 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5809

1909 HEERFORDT, Christian Frederik (1872 – 1953)

Ueber eine “Febris uveo-parotidea subchronica”, an der Glandula parotis und der Uvea des Auges lokalisiert und häufig mit Paresen cerebrospinaler Nerven kompliziert

“Heerfordt’s syndrome”, uveo-parotid fever, a form of sarcoidosis.

GMN 4145.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5816

1911 QUEYRAT, Louis Auguste (1856 – 1933)

Érythroplasia du gland.

Erythroplasia of Queyrat, a condition similar to the precancerous dermatosis described by Bowen (No. 4148).

GMN 4146 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5820

1912 BEURMANN, Charles Lucien de (1851 – 1923); GOUGEROT, Henri (1881 – 1955)

Les sporotrichoses.

First complete description of sporotrichosis (“de Beurmann–Gougerot disease”).

GMN 4147 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5830

1912 BOWEN, John Templeton (1857 – 1940)

Precancerous dermatosis. A study of two cases of chronic atypical epithelial proliferation.

Bowen, a Boston dermatologist, first described a precancerous dermatosis (“Bowen’s disease”), which is now considered to be a variant of an intra-epidermal basal cell epithelioma.

GMN 4148 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5835

1914 MAGROU, Joseph Émile (1883 – 1951)

Les grains botryomycotiques. Leur signification en pathologie et en biologie générales.

Thèse de Paris, No. 267, 1914. Magrou showed botriomycosis (granuloma pyogenicum) to be due to a staphylococcus.

GMN 5536 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6699

1917 SCHAUMANN, Jörgen Nilsen (1879 – 1953)

Étude sur le lupus pernio et ses rapports avec les sarcoïdes et la tuberculose.

“Besnier–Boeck–Schaumann disease” (see also Nos. 4095, 4128). Through Schaumann’s paper the systemic nature of sarcoidosis came to be recognized.

GMN 4149 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5839

1921 LIPSCHÜTZ, Benjamin (1878 – 1931)

Untersuchungen über die Ätiologie der Krankheiten der Herpesgruppe (Herpes zoster, Herpes genitalis, Herpes febrilis).

Lipschütz’s account of herpes virus diseases included identification of the characteristic inclusion bodies (“Zosterkörperchen”).

GMN 2521.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3300

1922 STEVENS, Albert Mason (1884 – 1945); JOHNSON, Frank Chambliss (1894 – 1934)

A new eruptive fever associated with stomatitis and ophthalmia; report of two cases in children.

“Stevens-Johnson syndrome”, a generalized eruption, continued fever, inflamed buccal mucosa, and severe purulent conjunctivitis. B.A. Thomas (Brit. med. J., 1950, 1, 1393) believes this to be merely a severe form of H…

GMN 4150 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5844

1925 KUNDRATITZ, Karl (1889 – 1975)

Experimentelle Übertragung von Herpes zoster auf den Menschen und die Beziehungen von Herpes zoster zu Varicellen.

First demonstration of the infectivity of herpes.

GMN 4652 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/753

1925 MENDES DA COSTA, Samuel (1862 – 1943)

Erythro- et keratodermia variabilis in a mother and daughter.

“Mendes Da Costa’s syndrome” – erythrokeratoderma variabilis.

GMN 4150.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5846

1925 WEBER, Frederick Parkes (1863 – 1962)

A case of relapsing non-suppurative nodular panniculitis, showing phagocytosis of subcutaneous fat-cells by macrophages.

Weber–Christian disease (see No. 4152).

GMN 4151 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5851

1926 ABRIKOSOV, Aleksi Ivanovitch (1875 – 1955)

Über Myome, ausgehend von der quergestreiften willkürlichen Muskulatur.

“Abrikosov’s tumor”, granular-cell myoblastoma.

GMN 4151.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5853

1926 SENEAR, Francis Eugene (1889 – 1958); USHER, Barney David (1899 – 1978)

An unusual type of pemphigus, combining features of lupus erythematosus.

Pemphigus erythematodes. “Senear–Usher syndrome”.

GMN 4151.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5857

1928 CHRISTIAN, Henry Asbury (1876 – 1951)

Relapsing febrile nodular nonsuppurative panniculitis.

See No. 4151.

GMN 4152 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5860

1936 SÉZARY, Albert (1880 – 1956); LEVY-COBLENTZ, G.; CHAUVILLON, P.

Dermographisme et mastocytose.

Sézary and colleagues first reported systemic mastocytosis.

GMN 14173 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16488

1938 SAENZ RICART, Braulio (1886 – 1961)

Demonstratión de un treponema en el borde activo un caso de pinto de las manos y pies y en la linfa de ganglios superficiales (reporte preliminar).

B. Saenz, J. Grau Triana, and J. Alfonso Armenteros indicated that pinta is caused by a treponeme, T. carateum.

GMN 5308.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6564

1939 HAILEY, William Howard (1898 – 1967); HAILEY, Hugh Edward (1909 – 1963)

Familial benign chronic pemphigus.

“Hailey–Hailey disease”, earlier described by H. Gougerot, Arch. derm. – syph. Clin. St Louis, 1933, 5, 255-57.

GMN 4152.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5864

1941 KVEIM, Morten Ansgar (1892 – 1966)

En ny og spesifikk kutan-reaksjon ved Boecks sarcoid. En foreløbig meddelelse.

Kveim’s test for sarcoidosis.

GMN 4153 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5868

1942 DEGOS, Robert (1904 – 1987); ET AL

Dermatite papulo-squameuse atrophiante.

“Degos’s disease”, malignant atrophic papulosis. With J. Delort and R. Tricot. Earlier described by W. Köhlmeier, Frankf. Z. Path., 1940, 54, 413.

GMN 4154 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5871

1949 BECKER, Samuel William (1894 – 1964)

Concurrent melanosis and hypertrichosis in distribution of nevus unius lateris.

“Becker’s nevus”, pigmented hairy epidermal nevus.

GMN 4154.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5876

1950 ZOON, Johannes Jacobus (1902 – 1958)

Balanitis circumscripta chronica met plasmacellen-infiltraat.

Zoon’s plasma cell balanitis.

GMN 4154.3 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5879

1951 WAARDENBURG, Petrus Johannes (1886 – 1979)

A new syndrome combining developmental anomalies of the eyelids, eyebrows and nose root with pigmentary defects of the iris and head hair with congenital deafness.

“Waardenburg’s syndrome”.

GMN 4154.4 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5883

1953 WELLER, Thomas Huckle (1915 – 2008)

Serial propagation in vitro of agents producing inclusion bodies derived from varicella and herpes zoster.

Isolation of the varicella-herpes virus.

GMN 5440.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7466

1957 PINKUS, Hermann (1905 – 1985)

Alopecia mucinosa. Inflammatory plaques with alopecia characterized by root-sheath mucinosis.

Follicular mucinosis.

GMN 4154.5 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5885

1958 GENTLES, James Clark (1921 – 1987)

Experimental ringworm in guinea pigs: oral treatment with griseofulvin.

Use of griseofulvin in the treatment of ringworm.

GMN 4011.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5165

1958 NETHERTON, Earl Weldon (1893 – 1967)

A unique case of trichorrhexis nodosa – “bamboo hairs”.

“Netherton’s syndrome”.

GMN 4154.6 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5903

1961 DENTON, James Fred (1914 – ); ET AL

Isolation of Blastomyces dermatitidis from soil.

With E.S. McDonough, L. Ajello and R.J. Ausherman.

GMN 4154.7 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5910

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 WELLS, Robert Stuart; KERR, Charles Baldwin (1933 – )

Genetic classification of ichthyosis.

Sex-linked recessive ichthyosis shown to be an important but not uncommon entity. See also Kerr & Wells: Sex-linked ichthyosis. Ann. hum. Genet., 1965, 29, 33-50.

GMN 4154.8 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5916

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 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

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