1921 LÉRI, André (1875 – 1930)
Une maladie congénitale et héréditaire de l’ossification: la pléonostéose familiale.
“Léri’s pleonosteosis” first described.
GMN 4388.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5952
1924 FELTY, Augustus Roi (1895 – 1964)
Chronic arthritis in the adult, associated with splenomegaly and leucopenia.
“Felty syndrome”.
GMN 4506 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/351
1929 FORESTIER, Jacques (1890 – 1978)
L’aurothérapie dans les rhumatismes chroniques.
Introduction of gold therapy.
GMN 4506.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/353
1930 SCHLESINGER, Bernard (1896 – 1984)
The relationship of throat infection to acute rheumatism in childhood.
Schlesinger showed that hemolytic streptococcal infection was a cause of acute rheumatism in children.
GMN 4507 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/100
1940 WAALER, Erik (1903 – 1997)
On the occurrence of a factor in human serum activating the specific agglutination of sheep blood corpuscles.
Discovery of the Rheumatoid factor.
GMN 10706 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12899
1949 HENCH, Philip Showalter (1896 – 1965); KENDALL, Edward Calvin (1886 – 1972)
The effects of a hormone of the adrenal cortex (17-hydroxy-11-dehydrocorticosterone: compound E) and of pituitary adrenocorticotropic hormone on rheumatoid arthritis.
Introduction of cortisone and A.C.T.H. in treatment of rheumatoid arthritis. With C. H. Slocumb, and H. F. Polley. In 1950 Hench and Kendall shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Tadeusz Reichstein (No…
GMN 4508 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/354
1953 CAPLAN, Anthony
Certain unusual radiological appearances in the chest of coal-miners suffering from rheumatoid arthritis.
Caplan's syndrome, originally identified in coal miners with progressive massive fibrosis. It is a combination of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and pneumoconiosis that manifests as intrapulmonary nodules, which appear hom…
GMN 11839 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14043
1964 COPEMAN, William Sydney Charles (1900 – 1970)
A short history of the gout and the rheumatic diseases.
GMN 4509.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/101
1976 STEERE, Allen Caruthers; MALAWISTA, Stephen Evan (1934 – 2013); SNYDMAN, David R.
A cluster of arthritis in children and adults in Lyme, Connecticut.
The first publication on Lyme Disease. Abstract from the Proceedings of the 40th Annual Scientific Session of the American Rheumatism Association. Order of authorship in the original paper was Steere, Malawista, Snydm…
GMN 10781 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12977
1984 LECA, Ange-Pierre
Histoire illustrée de la rhumatologie.
GMN 13811 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16100
