1664 LA MARTINIÈRE, Pierre Martin de (1634 – 1690)
Traité de la maladie vénérienne, de ses causes et des accidens provenans du mercure, ou vif-argent.
First to describe gonococcal arthritis.
GMN 4485.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/344
1767 BALFOUR, Francis ( – 1812)
De gonorrhoea virulenta.
Balfour is said to have been the first to re-affirm the duality of gonorrhoea and syphilis.
GMN 5196 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7779
1793 BELL, Benjamin (1749 – 1806)
A treatise on gonorrhoea virulenta, and lues venerea. 2 vols.
Bell was the first to differentiate between gonorrhoea and syphilis.
GMN 2378 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7786
1835 JULLIARD, Etienne François
De l’emploi de l’excision et de la cautérisation à l’aide du nitrate d’argent fondu dans l’ophthalmie blennorrhagique.
Silver nitrate for treatment of gonococcal ophthalmia. Digital facsimile from wellcomecollection.org at this link.
GMN 5850 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7177
1872 NOEGGERATH, Emil Oscar Jacob Bruno (1827 – 1895)
Die latente Gonorrhoe im weiblichen Geschlecht.
Noeggerath was the first to point out the late effects of gonorrhoea in women, particularly its role in the production of sterility.
GMN 6064 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7430
1879 NEISSER, Albert Ludwig Siegmund (1855 – 1916)
Ueber eine der Gonorrhoe eigentümliche Micrococcusform.
Discovery of the gonococcus – causal organism in gonorrhoea.
GMN 5208 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7802
1880 LEISTIKOW, Leo (1847 – 1917)
Ueber Bacterien bei den venerischen Krankheiten.
Leistikow was first to report the cultivation of the gonococcus.
GMN 5209 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7804
1885 BUMM, Ernst (1858 – 1925)
Der Mikro-Organismus der gonorrhöischen Schleimhaut-Erkrankungen, Gonococcus-Neisser.
Bumm cultured the gonococcus. By human inoculations he demonstrated its pathogenicity in pure culture.
GMN 5209 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7808
1885 FRAENKEL, Eugen (1853 – 1925)
Bericht über eine bei Kindern beobachtete Endemie infectiöser Colpitis.
The gonococcus shown to be the cause of vulvovaginitis in children.
GMN 5210.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7810
1888 FINGER, Ernest Anton Franz (1856 – 1939)
Die Blenorrhöe der Sexualorgane und ihre Complicationen.
GMN 5211 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7811
1893 HÖCK, Heinrich
Ein Beitrag zur Arthritis blennorrhoica.
Gonococci isolated from an arthritic joint.
GMN 4502.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/97
1895 WERTHEIM, Ernst (1864 – 1920)
Ueber Uterus-Gonorrhöe.
Wertheim emphasized the importance of latent uterine gonorrhoea.
GMN 6099 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7526
1896 WERTHEIM, Ernst (1864 – 1920)
Über Blasen-Gonorrhöe.
Wertheim demonstrated the gonococcus in acute cystitis.
GMN 6103 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7536
1896 THAYER, William Sydney (1864 – 1932); BLUMER, George Alder (1857 – 1940)
Ulcerative endocarditis due to the gonococcus; gonorrheal septicemia.
Thayer and Blumer found the gonococcus in cases of gonorrheal endocarditis.
GMN 5212 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7812
1906 HAGNER, Francis Randall (1873 – 1940)
The operative treatment of acute gonorrheal epididymitis.
Hagner devised the open operation for the relief of acute epididymitis.
GMN 4194 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6131
1906 MÜLLER, Rudolf (1877 – ); OPPENHEIM, Moritz (1876 – 1949)
Ueber den Nachweis von Antikörpern im Serum eines an Arthritis gonorrhoica Erkrankten mittels Komplementablenkung.
“Müller–Oppenheim reaction” – a complement fixation test for the diagnosis of gonorrhoea.
GMN 5213 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7815
1937 LEVADITI, Constantin (1874 – 1953); VAISMAN, A
La toxi-infection gonococcique expérimentale et son traitement chimiothérapique.
Levaditi and Vaisman showed that sulfanilamide protected mice against gonococcal infection.
GMN 5213.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7817
1937 DEES, John Essary (1910 – 1993); COLSTON, John Archibald Campbell (1886 – 1971)
The use of sulfanilamide in gonococcic infections. Preliminary report.
GMN 5214.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7818
1943 HERRELL, Wallace Edgar (1909 – 1992); ET AL
Use of penicillin in sulfonamide resistant gonorrheal infections.
With E. N. Cook and L. Thompson.
GMN 5214.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7820
