1904 SYMMERS, William St Clair (1863 – 1937)

Note on a new form of liver cirrhosis due to the presence of the ova of Bilharzia haematobia.

“Symmers’s fibrosis”, pipe stem fibrosis of the liver, occurring in cases of certain forms of schistosomiasis.

GMN 5349.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6832

1905 –1911 LOOSS, Arthur (1861 – 1923)

The anatomy and life history of Agchylostoma duodenale Dub. A. monograph. 2 pts.

Vols. 3 and 4 of Records of the School of Medicine, Cairo. In 1898 Looss discovered that hookworm larvae can penetrate the skin. His monograph epitomized all knowledge of the condition to 1911.

GMN 5365 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6987

1907 FLEIG, Charles Auguste (1883 – 1912); LISBONNE, Marcel (1883 – 1946)

Recherches sur un séro-diagnostic du kyste hydatique par la méthode des précipitines.

Precipitin reaction for the diagnosis of hydatid disease.

GMN 5350 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6837

1907 FUJINAMI, Akira (1870 – 1934); NAKAMURA, Hachitaro

Ueber den Wohnort von Schistosomum japonicum. [Japanese text.]

Fujinami and Nakamura identified the intermediate host of S. japonicum. Abstract in Arch. Schiffs-u. Tropenhyg., 1908, 12,471. Later (1909, 6, 224-52) they demonstrated that infection occurred by skin penetration. Eng…

GMN 5350.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6841

1910 PERRONCITO, Edoardo (1847 – 1936)

La malattia dei minatory dal S. Gottardo al Sempione.

Includes reprints of Perroncito’s earlier papers. He insisted on the parasitic origin of the disease as it occurred among the St. Gotthard tunnellers in 1880, and he introduced Felix mas as a vermifuge against hookworm.

GMN 5366 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6990

1910 BASS, Charles Cassedy (1885 – 1975); DOCK, George (1860 – 1951)

Hookworm disease; Etiology, pathology, diagnosis, prognosis, prophylaxis, and treatment

When the authors published this book hookworm disease was endemic in the American south, partly because so many people walked in the soil without wearing shoes, so the hookworms entered their body through the soles of…

GMN 11616 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13816

1912 SCHÜFFNER, Wilhelm August Paul (1867 – 1949); VERVOORT, Herman

Das Oleum chenopodii anthelmintici gegen Ankylostomiasis im Vergleich zu anderen Wurmmitteln.

Schüffner and Vervoort introduced oil of chenopodium for the treatment of ankylostomiasis as early as 1900.

GMN 5367 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6995

1913 LEIPER, Robert Thomson (1881 – 1969)

Important discovery in tropical medicine: Metamorphosis of Filaria Loa.

Leiper discovered diurnal periodicity in Filaria Loa, as the worm embryos are found in the blood only during day, as an adaptation to the day-biting habits of their insect vector, a biting fly of the genus Chrysopa. T…

GMN 11249 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13446

1914 MIYAIRI, Keinosuke (1865 – 1946); SUZUKI, Masatsugu

Der Zwischenwirt des Schistosomum japonicum Katsurada.

Miyairi and Suzuki confirmed that snails are the intermediate hosts of S. japonicum, and their paper completed the description of the life cycle from ova to snail intermediate host. Translation in Kean (No. 2268.1), p…

GMN 5350.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6847

1914 TURKHUD, Dnyaneshwar Atmaran (1863 – 1926)

Report of the Bombay Bacteriological laboratory for the year 1913.

Experimental demonstration, on pp. 14-16, of the complete life cycle of Dracunculus medinensis, the parasite causing Dracunculiasis, popularly known as Guinea-worm disease.

GMN 5350.3 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8614

1915 –1916 LEIPER, Robert Thomson (1881 – 1969)

Reports of the results of the bilharzia mission in Egypt, 1915.

Leiper identified the snail responsible for the transmission of Schistosoma mansoni and S. haematobium.

GMN 5350.4 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6861

1915 LEIPER, Robert Thomson (1881 – 1969); ATKINSON, Edward Leicester (1882 – 1928)

Observations on the spread of Asiatic schistosomiasis.

First paper in English giving a detailed account of the development of S. japonicum in the snail and its subsequent development in man. Atkinson, a surgeon in the Royal Navy, was a member of Scott’s Antarctic expediti…

GMN 5350.5 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6864

1918 CHRISTOPHERSON, John Brian (1868 – 1955)

The successful use of antimony in bilharziosis.

Introduction of tartar emetic (antimony) in the treatment of schistosomiasis.

GMN 5350.6 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6869

1921 NAKAGAWA, Koan (1874 – 1959)

On the life cycle of Fasciolopsis buski Lankester.

GMN 5350.7 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6872

1921 HALL, Maurice Crowther (1881 – 1938)

The use of carbon tetrachloride for the removal of hookworms.

Introduction of the carbon tetrachloride treatment of ankylostomiasis.

GMN 5368 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6996

1922 INTERNATIONAL HEALTH BOARD

Bibliography of hookworm disease.

Contains 5,680 references to all aspects of hookworm disease, prefaced by a short history. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

GMN 5369 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6998

1927 BLACKLOCK, Donald Breadalbane (1879 – 1955)

The insect transmission of Onchocerca volvulus (Leuckart, 1893), the cause of worm nodules in man in Africa.

The fly Simulium damnosum shown to be the vector of onchocerciasis.

GMN 5350.8 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6874

1928 DEW, Sir Harold Robert (1891 – 1962)

Hydatid disease. Its pathology, diagnosis and treatment.

Dew’s book remains the authoritative source. His many contributions to the knowledge of hydatid disease are summarized in it.

GMN 5351 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6877

1931 KHALIL, Mohamed

The bibliography of schistosomiasis (bilharziasis).

GMN 5352 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6900

1932 AUGUSTINE, Donald Leslie (1895 – ); THEILER, Hans (1894 – )

Precipitin and skin tests as aids in diagnosing trichinosis.

Intradermal test for trichinosis.

GMN 5351.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6880

1946 KIKUTH, Walter (1896 – 1968); ET AL

Miracil, ein neues Chemotherapeuticum gegen die Darmbilharziose.

Lucanthone hydrochloride (Miracil D). With R. Gönnert and H. Mauss.

GMN 5351.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6883

1947 HEWITT, Reginald Irving (1911 – ); ET AL

Experimental chemotherapy of filariasis. III. Effect of 1-diethylcarbamyl-4-methyl-piperazine hydrochloride against naturally acquired filarial infections in cotton rats and dogs.

Proof of antifilarial action of diethylcarbarmazine citrate (hetrazan). With S. Kushner, H. W. Stewart, E. White, W. S. Wallace, and Y. Subbarow.

GMN 5351.3 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6884

1947 VAN HOOF, L.

Sur la chimiothérapie de l’onchocercose. (Note préliminaire).

First effective chemotherapy (suramin) for onchocerciasis. With C. Heurard, E. Peel, and M. Wanson.

GMN 5351.4 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6887

1949 BOUILLON, Albert

Bibliographie des schistosome et des schistosomiases (bilharzioses) humaines et animales de 1931 á 1948.

Continues and supplements No. 5352.

GMN 5352.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6912

1950 PAN AMERICAN HEALTH ORGANIZATION

Bibliography of onchocerciasis.

Publication No. 242.

GMN 5352.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6918

1954 –1960 IYENGAR, Mandayam Osuri Tirunarayana (1895 – 1963)

Annotated bibliography of filariasis and elephantiasis. 5 parts.

South Pacific Commission Technical Papers, Nos. 65, 88, 109 (and Supplement), 124, and 160.

GMN 5352.3 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6921

1960 WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION

Bibliography of bilharziasis, 1949-1958.

Continues and supplements Nos. 5352 and 5352.1

GMN 5352.4 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6924

1964 LAMBERT, C. R.

Chemotherapy of experimental Schistosoma mansoni infections with a nitro-thiazole derivative, CIBA 32, 644-Ba.

Introduction of niridazole (Ambilhar).

GMN 5351.6 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6892

1965 RASI, D

A new, active metabolite of ‘Miracil D’.

Lucanthone. With five co-authors.

GMN 5351.5 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6890

1965 WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION

Bibliography of hookworm disease (ancylostomiasis) 1920-62.

GMN 5369.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7000

1967 WARREN, Kenneth S. (1929 – 1996); NEWILL, Vaun Archie (1923 – 2012)

Schistosomiasis. A bibliography of the world’s literature from 1852 to 1962. 2 vols.

GMN 5352.5 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6928

1969 RICHARDS, Hugh Colin; FOSTER, Raymond

A new series of 2-aminomethyltetrahydroquinoline derivatives displaying schistosomicidal activity in rodents and primates.

Oxamniquinine.

GMN 5351.7 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6898

1973 WARREN, Kenneth S. (1929 – 1996)

Schistosomiasis: the evolution of a medical literature. Selected abstracts and citations, 1852-1952.

Includes 384 core references and bibliography (without abstracts) covering 1963-72.

GMN 5352.6 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6932

1991 FARLEY, John (1936 – 2015)

Bilharzia: A history of imperial tropical medicine.

GMN 9262 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11444

2007 CARTER, Jimmy (1924 – )

Beyond the White House, waging peace, fighting disease, and building hope.

President Carter devoted half of this book to Guinea worm disease, nature of the illness, its epidemiology, its cause and the current importance from a public health and human suffering standpoint. Carter's leadership…

GMN 14128 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16439

2016 GROSS, Miriam

Farewell to the god of plague: Chairman Mao's campaign to deworm China.

GMN 10096 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12285