1833 WALLACE, William (1791 – 1837)
A treatise on the venereal disease and its varieties.
On p. 371 commences the first description of lymphogranuloma venereum, which Wallace called “indolent primary syphilitic bubo”.
GMN 5215 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7822
1849 HUGUIER, Pierre Charles (1804 – 1873)
Mémoire sur l’esthioméne, ou dartre rongeante de la région vulvo-anale.
Huguier gave the name esthiomène to the characteristic induration and discoloration of the affected parts in lymphogranuloma venereum.
GMN 5216 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7823
1913 DURAND, Joseph (1876 – ); NICOLAS, Joseph (1868 – 1960); FAVRE, Maurice (1876 – 1955)
Lymphogranulomatose inguinale subaiguë d’origine génitale probable, peut-être vénérienne.
First important description. Sometimes called “Nicolas–Favre disease” and “Nicolas–Durand–Favre disease”.
GMN 5217 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7826
1925 FREI, Wilhelm Siegmund (1885 – 1943)
Eine neue Hautreaktion bei “Lymphogranuloma inguinale”.
The Frei skin test for the diagnosis of lymphogranuloma venereum.
GMN 5218 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7828
1927 GAY PRIETO, José Antonio (1905 – 1979)
Contribución al estudio de la linfogranulomatosis inguinal subaguda o ulcera venérea adenógena de Nicolás y Favre.
Gay Prieto was the first actually to see the infective agent of lymphogranuloma venereum.
GMN 5219 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7830
1930 HELLERSTRÖM, Sven Curt Alfred (1901 – 1977); WASSÉN, Erik
Meningo-enzephalitische Veränderungen bei Affen nach intra-cerebraler Impfung mit Lymphogranuloma inquinale.
The authors transmitted lymphogranuloma venereum to animals and attributed it to a virus. See also C. R. Soc. Biol. (Paris), 1931, 106, 802-03.
GMN 5220 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7831
1933 STANNUS, Hugh Stannus (1877 – 1957)
A sixth venereal disease. Climatic bubo, lymphogranuloma inguinale, esthioméne, chronic ulcer and elephantiasis of the genito-ano-rectal region, inflammatory stricture of the rectum.
In this exhaustive review of the literature, Stannus considered all the conditions he discussed to be different manifestations of infection by the same organisms – the agent causing lymphogranuloma venereum. Includes …
GMN 5221 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7838
1934 TAMURA, Joseph Takao (1903 – )
Cultivation of the virus of lymphogranuloma inguinale and its use in therapeutic inoculation. Preliminary report.
GMN 5222 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7839
1940 MCKEE, Clara M.
Complement-fixation test in lymphogranuloma venereum.
Diagnosis of lymphogranuloma venereum by complement-fixation test. With G. W. Rake and M. F. Shaffer.
GMN 5224 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7840
1941 OTTOLINA, Carlos (1903 – 1960)
The vesicular test. Diagnostic method of infection by poradenic (lymphogranuloma inguinale)virus.
Vesicular test for diagnosis of lymphogranuloma venereum.
GMN 5224.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7841
1949 BEDSON, Sir Samuel Phillips (1886 – 1969); ET AL
The laboratory diagnosis of lymphogranuloma venereum.
Skin-test antigen. With C. F. Barwell, E. J. King, and L. W. J. Bishop.
GMN 5225 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7842
