1648 PISO, Willem [Guillaume le Pois] (1611 – 1678); MARGGRAF, Georg (Marcgrave) (1610 – 1644)
Historia naturalis Brasiliae.
Piso's study of the natural history of Brazil was also a pioneer work on tropical medicine, and also the largest work from the standpoint of format published by the Elzeviers. The folio includes De medicina brasiliens…
GMN 2263.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2828
1769 BANCROFT, Edward (1774 – 1821)
Essay on the natural history of Guiana, in South America. Containing a description of many curious productions in the animal and vegetable systems of that country. Together with an account of the religion, manners, and customs of several tribes of its Indian inhabitants. Interspersed with a variety of literary and medical observations. In several letters....
Bancroft was an English physician who lived for many years in South America. He noted the transmission of yaws by flies (p. 385 of his book). Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 5304 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6554
1776 ARTHAUD, Charles (1748 – 1791)
Traité des pians.
One of the earliest medical publications printed in Haiti. Duvivier, Bibliographie générale et méthodique d'Haiti, 2, p. 197.
GMN 13364 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15635
1895 BREDA, Achille (1850 – 1933)
Beitrag zum klinischen und bacteriologischen Studium der brasilianischen Framboesie oder “Boubas”.
“Breda’s disease” – Brazilian yaws. English translation New Sydenham Society, 1897.
GMN 5293.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6435
1905 CASTELLANI, Aldo (1877 – 1971)
On the presence of spirochaetes in two cases of ulcerated parangi (yaws).
Castellani demonstrated in scrapings of yaws tissue a spirochaete, T. pertenue, later found to be the causal organism. He thus finally established it as a distinct organism from the syphilis spirochaete. Preliminary n…
GMN 5306 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6557
1905 WELLMANN, Frederick Creighton (1871 – 1960)
On a spirochaete found in yaws papules.
Independently of Castellani (No. 5306) Wellmann discovered Treponema pertenue. "In addition to being an author, Wellman was also a doctor of tropical medicine, scientist, administrator, artist, educator, spy, and engi…
GMN 5307 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6559
1910 NICHOLS, Henry James (1877 – 1927)
Experimental yaws in the monkey and rabbit.
A monkey was first infected and from it the infection was transmitted to a rabbit.
GMN 5308 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6562
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
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
1963 WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION
Bibliography of yaws, 1905-62.
Over 1,700 items.
GMN 5308.3 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6570
