1546 FRACASTORO, Girolamo [FRACASTORIUS] (1478 – 1553)
De sympathia et antipathia rerum liber unus. De contagione et contagiosis morbis et curatione.
Though Fracastoro wrote this book more than a century before Leewenhoek invented the microscope, and could only express the theory of contagion in very general terms, this book represents a landmark in the development…
GMN 2528 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3485
1879 BÄLZ, Erwin Otto Eduard von (1849 – 1933); KAWAKAMI
Das japanische Fluss- oder Ueberschwemmings-fieber, eine acute Infectionskrankheit.
Early scientific account of tsutsugamushi fever.
GMN 5376.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7038
1899 MAXEY, Edward Ernest (1867 – 1934)
Some observations on the so-called spotted fever of Idaho.
Rocky Mountain spotted fever first described.
GMN 5377 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7044
1906 RICKETTS, Howard Taylor (1871 – 1910)
The transmission of Rocky Mountain spotted fever by the bite of the wood-tick (Dermacentor occidentalis).
Ricketts (who himself died of typhus) demonstrated that the wood tick Dermacentor andersoni is a vector of Rocky Mountain spotted fever.
GMN 5378 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7054
1909 RICKETTS, Howard Taylor (1871 – 1910)
A micro-organism which apparently has a specific relationship to Rocky Mountain spotted fever. A preliminary report.
Description of the causal organism, in blood smears.
GMN 5379 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7059
1915 GRAHAM, John Henry Porteus (1869 – 1957)
A note on a relapsing febrile illness of unknown origin.
First reported case of “trench fever”.
GMN 5385 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7113
1915 HUNT, George Herbert (1884 – 1926); RANKIN, Allan Coats (1877 – 1959)
Intermittent fever of obscure origin, occurring among British soldiers in France. The so-called “trench-fever”.
In this paper trench fever is so named for the first time.
GMN 5386 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7118
1916 HIS, Wilhelm Jr. (1863 – 1934)
Ueber eine neue periodische Fiebererkrankung (Febris Wolhynica).
His encountered a form of “trench fever” in Volhynia, Russia, and named it after that district.
GMN 5387 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7134
1916 TÖPFER, Hans Willi (1876 – )
Zur Ursache und Uebertragung des Wolhynischen Fiebers.
Isolation of Rickettsia quintana (now called Bartonella quintana) from lice found on patients suffering from trench fever.
GMN 5389 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7140
1931 OGATA, Norio (1883 – )
Aetiologie der Tsutsugamushi-Kiankheit: Rickettsia tsutsugamushi.
Ogata isolated the causal agent of tsutsugamushi disease, Orientia Tsutsugamushi, in 1927.
GMN 5396.3 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7176
1935 ZINSSER, Hans (1878 – 1940)
Rats, lice and history: being a study in biography, which, after 12 preliminary chapters indispensable for the preparation of the lay reader, deals with the life history of typhus fever.
GMN 5403 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7242
1937 DERRICK, Edward Holbrook (1898 – 1976)
“Q” fever, a new fever entity: clinical features and laboratory investigation.
First account of “Q” (query) fever. See also No. 5398.
GMN 5397 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7184
1937 BURNET, Sir Frank Macfarlane (1899 – 1985); FREEMAN, Mavis Louisa (1907 – 1992)
Experimental studies on the virus of “Q” fever.
Discovery of Rickettsia burneti, causal agent in Q fever.
GMN 5398 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7187
1946 HUEBNER, Robert Joseph (1914 – 1998); ET AL
Rickettsialpox. A newly recognized rickettsial disease. IV. Isolation of a rickettsia apparently identical with the causative agent of rickettsialpox from Allodermanyssus sanguineus, a rodent mite.
Isolation of Rickettsia akari, aetiologic agent of rickettsialpox. With W. L. Jellison and C. Pomerantz.
GMN 5400 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7212
1946 SUSSMAN, Leon Nathaniel (1907 – 2000)
Kew Gardens spotted fever.
Rickettsialpox described.
GMN 5401 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7215
1949 STOKER, Sir Michael George Parke (1918 – 2013)
Serological evidence of Q fever in Great Britain.
Relationship of primary atypical pneumonia and Q fever.
GMN 5402.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7237
1968 HAHON, Nicholas (1924 – 2016)
Selected papers on the pathogenic rickettsiae. Edited by Nicholas Hahon.
"The selected papers ... range from the sixteenth century to the modern era. A number of the papers are classics in the field and several of the selections appear in English translation for the first time. The editor …
GMN 2581.7 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4347
