1863 MARSTON, Jeffery Allen (1831 – 1911)
Report on fever (Malta).
Marston wrote the first description of Malta fever as a distinct disease. He contracted the disease while serving in the Mediterranean area and described his own case. Marston was apparently the first to describe “Wei…
GMN 5097 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6018
1883 LANDOUZY, Louis Théophile Joseph (1845 – 1917)
Fièvre bilieuse ou hépatique.
An early account of “Weil’s disease”, Leptospirosis icterohaemorrhagica.
GMN 5331 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6653
1886 WEIL, Adolf (1848 – 1916)
Ueber eine eigenthümliche, mit Milztumor, Icterus und Nephritis einhergehende, acute Infectionskrankheit.
In his classic description of Leptospirosis icterohaemorrhagica Weil differentiated the disease from other types of acute jaundice. It is better known as “Weil’s disease”.
GMN 5332 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6657
1907 STIMSON, Arthur Marston (1876 – )
Note on an organism found in yellow-fever tissue.
Stimson discovered a spirochete in the organs of persons dying of (?) yellow fever. He called it Sp. interrogans, but it was almost certainly Leptospira icterohaemorrhagiae.
GMN 5333 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6661
1916 INADA, Ryukichi (1874 – 1950); ET AL
The etiology, mode of infection, and specific therapy of Weil’s disease (Spirochaetosis icterohaemorrhagica)
Inada, Y. Ido, R. Hoki, R. Kaneko, and H. Ito proved that Sp. (Leptospira) icterohaemorrhagiae is the causal organism in Weil’s disease (Leptospirosis). Preliminary report (in Japanese) in Tokyo Ijishinshi, 1915, No. …
GMN 5334 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6668
1917 IDO, Yutaka (1881 – 1919); ET AL
The rat as a carrier of Spirochaeta icterohaemorrhagiae, the causative agent in Weil’s disease (spirochaetosis icterohaemorrhagica)
Rats shown to be the carriers of Leptospira. With R. Hoki, H. Ito, and H. Wani.
GMN 5334.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6673
1918 IDO, Yutaka (1881 – 1919)
Spirochaeta hebdomadis, the causative agent of seven-day fever (nanukayami)
Discovery of Leptospira hebdomadis, carried by a mouse. With H. Ito and H. Wani.
GMN 5334.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6679
1933 KLARENBEEK, Arie (1888 – ); SCHÜFFNER, Wilhelm August Paul (1867 – 1949)
Het voorkomen van een afwijkend Leptospira-ras in Nederland.
Leptospira canicola first isolated (1913) from the urine of a dog.
GMN 5335 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6683
1933 WANI, Hidetsune
Ueber die Prophylaxe der Spirochaetosis icterohaemorrhagica Inada (Weilschen Krankheit) durch Schutzimpfung.
Prophylactic vaccination against leptospirosis.
GMN 5335.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6688
1934 DHONT, C. M.; ET AL
De leptospiroses bij den hond, en de beteekenis der Leptospira canicola.
First reported cases of human infection with L. canicola. With A. Klarenbeek, W. A. P. Schüffner, and J. Voet.
GMN 5336 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6696
