1770 RUTTY, John (1698 – 1775)

A chronological history of the weather and seasons and of the prevailing diseases in Dublin. With their various periods, successions, and revolutions, during the space of forty years. With a comparative view of the difference of the Irish climate and diseases, and those of England and other countries ...

Rutty kept continuous records of weather and diseases in Dublin from 1724-64. On page 75 of this work is the first clear description of relapsing fever. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

GMN 1772 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6572

1843 CORMACK, Sir John Rose (1815 – 1882)

Natural history, pathology and treatment of the epidemic fever at present prevailing in Edinburgh and other towns.

The epidemic of relapsing fever in Edinburgh in 1843 was well described by Cormack. He was first editor of the Association Medical Journal which later became the British Medical Journal.

GMN 5310 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6575

1843 CRAIGIE, David (1793 – 1866)

Notice of a febrile disorder which has prevailed at Edinburgh during the summer of 1843.

Relapsing fever was given its name by Craigie, in his description of the Edinburgh epidemic.

GMN 5311 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6577

1844 HENDERSON, William (1810 – 1872)

On some of the characters which distinguish the fever at present epidemic from typhus fever.

Henderson, professor of pathology at Edinburgh, gave a good account of relapsing fever seen during the epidemic in 1843. He was one of the first to differentiate it from typhus.

GMN 5311.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6582

1869 SILLIAU, Pierre Marie (1813 – 1871)

Fièvre à rechutes. (Thesis.)

Silliau gave a good account of the epidemic of relapsing fever at Réunion, 1865. He showed the contagious nature of the disease.

GMN 5312 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6585

1870 PARRY, John Stubbs (1843 – 1876)

Observations on relapsing fever, as it occurred in Philadelphia in the winter of 1869 and 1870.

Parry called attention to infection from articles of clothing worn by victims of the epidemic of relapsing fever in Philadelphia in 1869.

GMN 5313 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6589

1873 OBERMEIER, Otto Hugo Franz (1843 – 1873)

Vorkommen feinster, eine Eigenbewegung zeigender Fäden im Blute von Recurrenskranken.

Discovery (in 1868) of Borrelia recurrentis, causative agent in relapsing fever.

GMN 5314 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6602

1879 MOCZUTKOWSKI, Osip Osipovich (Józef Broislaw Moczutkowski) (1845 – 1903)

Materialien zur Pathologie und Therapie des Rückfallstyphus.

By inoculating healthy subjects with blood of patients suffering from replapsing fever, and producing the fever in the former, Mochutkovski demonstrated not only the communicability of the disease but also the specifi…

GMN 5315 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6604

1882 CARTER, Henry Vandyke (1831 – 1897)

Spirillum fever.

Asiatic relapsing fever; original work on this disease by Carter is remembered by the eponym “Carter’s fever” and the name Borrelia carteri. He reproduced the disease in the monkey.

GMN 5316 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6607

1904 ROSS, Philip Hedgeland (1876 – 1929); MILNE, Arthur Dawson (1867 – 1932)

“Tick fever”.

Ross and Milne discovered the causative agent in the African variety of relapsing (tick) fever.

GMN 5317 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6608

1905 DUTTON, Joseph Everett (1877 – 1905); TODD, John Lancelot (1876 – 1949)

The nature of tick fever in the eastern part of the Congo Free State.

Independently of Ross and Milne, Dutton and Todd demonstrated relapsing fever in monkeys conveyed by infected ticks, Omithodorus moubata. The organism was named Sp. (now Borrelia) duttoni. Both Dutton and Todd contrac…

GMN 5318 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6610

1906 NORRIS, Charles (1867 – 1935); ET AL

Study of a spirochete obtained from a case of relapsing fever in man, with notes on morphology, animal reactions, and attempts at cultivation.

Spirochaete causing the American variety of relapsing fever first isolated. With A. W. Pappenheimer and T. Flournoy.

GMN 5319 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6613

1906 NOVY, Frederick George (1864 – 1957); KNAPP, Richard Edward (1884 – )

Studies in Spirillum obermeieri and related organisms.

Novy and Knapp made important observations on the spirochaete isolated by Norris et al. from a case of (American) relapsing fever, proving it to be different from Borrelia obermeieri, sometimes referred to as “Novy’s …

GMN 5320 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6616

1907 MACKIE, Frederick Percival (1875 – 1944)

The part played by Pediculus corporis in the transmission of relapsing fever.

Proof that relapsing fever is conveyed by the body louse, Pediculus corporis.

GMN 5321 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6617