1598 WATESON, George
The cures of the diseased, in remote regions. Preventing mortalitie, incident in forraine attempts, of the English nation.
This book is the earliest work in English devoted to tropical medicine. It discusses sunstroke, tabardilla (possibly typhus or yellow fever), prickly heat, dysentery, erysipelas and scurvy. Facsimile reproduction, wit…
GMN 2262 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2805
1767 ZIMMERMANN, Johann Georg Ritter von (1728 – 1795)
Von der Ruhr unter dem Volke im Jahr 1765.
The first important monograph on bacillary dysentery. Translated into English by C. R. Hopson as A treatise on the dysentery, with a description of the epidemic dysentery that happened in Switzerland in the year 1765 …
GMN 5090 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5994
1818 BALLINGALL, Sir George (1780 – 1855)
Practical observations on fever, dysentery and liver complaints as they occur amongst European troops in India. With introductory remarks on the disadvantages of selecting boys for Indian military service.
Ballingall distinguished between amoebic and bacillary dysentery. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 5182.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6307
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
1870 –1888 WOODWARD, Joseph Janvier (1833 – 1884); OTIS, George Alexander (1830 – 1881); HUNTINGTON, David Low (1834 – 1899); BARNES, Joseph K. (1817 – 1883); SMART, Charles (1830 – 1881); LETTERMAN, Jonathan (1824 – 1872)
The medical and surgical history of the War of the Rebellion, 1861-65. 6 vols.
UNITED STATES. War Dept. Surgeon General
Written by Woodward, Smart, Otis, and Huntington under the direction of Joseph K. Barnes, Surgeon General of the Army. This massive, graphically illustrated set has been called the “first comprehensive American medica…
GMN 2171 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1174
1888 WIDAL, Georges-Fernand Isidor (1862 – 1929); CHANTEMESSE, André (1851 – 1919)
Sur les microbes de la dysentérie épidémique.
The dysentery bacillus was isolated by Chantemesse and Widal, although they failed to establish its etiological relationship to the disease.
GMN 5090.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5996
1898 SHIGA, Kiyoshi (1870 – 1957)
Ueber den Dysenteriebacillus (Bacillus dysenteriae).
Discovery of the dysentery bacillus, Shigella. Preliminary paper in the same journal, 1898, 23, 599-600.
GMN 5091 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6000
1900 KRUSE, Walther (1864 – 1943)
Ueber die Ruhr als Volkskrankheit und ihren Erreger.
Further work on dysentery by Kruse led to the coupling of his name with Shiga to designate both the “Shiga–Kruse bacillus” and “Shiga–Kruse disease”.
GMN 5092 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6002
1900 FLEXNER, Simon (1863 – 1946)
On the etiology of tropical dysentery.
The organism isolated by Flexner was at first thought to be identical with Shiga’s bacillus. Later Martini and Lentz, Z. Hyg., 1902, 41, 540, showed it to be different; it was named Bact. flexneri, and later Shigella …
GMN 5093 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6006
1915 SONNE, Carl Olaf (1882 – 1948)
Ueber die Bakteriologie der giftarmen Dysenteriebacillen (Para-dysenteriebacillen).
Sonne’s bacillus (Shigella sonnei) was probably described earlier by others, but it was Sonne who first drew serious attention to it. First published as inaugural dissertation, 1914.
GMN 5094 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6008
1917 SCHMITZ, Karl Eitel Friedrich (1889 – )
Eine neuer Typus aus der Gruppe der Ruhrbazillen als Erreger einer grösseren Epidemie.
Schmitz’s bacillus – Bact. ambiguum (Shigella schmitzii),a cause of dysentery.
GMN 5095 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6010
1918 ANDREWES, Sir Frederick William (1859 – 1932)
Dysentery bacilli: the differentiation of the true dysentery bacilli from allied species.
Shigella alkalescens described.
GMN 3542 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4049
1918 HURST, Sir Arthur Frederick (1879 – 1944)
Medical diseases of the war. Second edition
Roughly the first half of this work is on "war neuroses." The second half is on "infective and other disorders," including gas poisoning. Hurst greatly expanded the first section after experience as a neurologist in E…
GMN 8604 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10781
1941 MARSHALL, Eli Kennerly Jr. (1889 – 1966); ET AL
Sulfanilylguanidine in the treatment of acute bacillary dysentery in children.
E. K. Marshall, A. C. Bratton, L. B. Edwards, and E. L. Walker were the first to use sulphaguanidine in the treatment of bacillary dysentery.
GMN 5096 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6014
