1915 NOGUCHI, Hideyo (1876 – 1928)
Pure cultivation in vivo of vaccine virus free from bacteria.
Noguchi obtained a pure culture of vaccinia virus.
GMN 5430.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7400
1915 PAUL, Gustav (1859 – 1935)
Zur Differentialdiagnose der Variola und der Varicellen. Die Erscheinungen an der variolierten Hornhaut des Kaninchens und ihre frühzeitige Erkennung.
Paul’s test for the diagnosis of smallpox.
GMN 5431 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7405
1925 GORDON, Mervyn Henry (1872 – 1953)
Studies of the viruses of vaccinia and variola.
Medical Research Council Special Report No. 98; a summary of the more important additions to the knowledge of the subject.
GMN 5432 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7409
1926 LEDINGHAM, Sir John Charles Grant (1875 – 1944)
Studies on variola, vaccinia, and avian molluscum.
Ledingham’s diagnostic test.
GMN 5433 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7412
1928 MCKINNON, Neil E. (1894 – 1985); DEFRIES, Robert Davies (1889 – 1975)
The reaction of the skin of the normal rabbit following intradermal injection of material from smallpox lesions: the specificity of this reaction and its application as a diagnostic test.
McKinnon’s diagnostic test.
GMN 5434 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7416
1928 MAITLAND, Hugh Bethune (1895 – 1972); MAITLAND, Mary L. Cowan ( – 1972)
Cultivation of vaccinia virus without tissue culture.
Introduction of “Maitland’s medium”.
GMN 5434.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7422
1945 STEARN, Allen Edwin (1894 – ); STEARN, Esther Wagner
The effect of smallpox on the destiny of the Amerindian.
GMN 13801 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16088
1950 ALIVIZATOS, G. P.
The early smallpox epidemics in Europe and the plague of Athens after Thucydides.
GMN 13804 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16091
1957 MILLER, Genevieve (1914 – 2013)
The adoption of inoculation for smallpox in England and France.
The appendices contain the early histories of inoculation, a list of German doctoral dissertations on inoculation 1720-52, and a bibliography.
GMN 5436.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7441
1971 FOEGE, William Herbert (1936 – ); MILLAR, John Donald (1934 – 2015); LANE, John Michael (1936 – 2020)
Selective epidemiologic control in smallpox eradication.
Foege showed that "ring containment", selective vaccination of those at greatest risk, in closest proximity to an outbreak, was more effective in eradicating smallpox than mass vaccination.
GMN 13787 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16074
1976 HENDERSON, Donald Ainslie (1928 – 2016)
The eradication of smallpox.
Henderson's paper in the October 1976 issue of Scientific American was one of the first published announcements of the completion of the eradication of smallpox. Illustrating the iconic photograph of a mother holding …
GMN 14127 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16438
1979 JEŽEK, Zdenēk (1932 – 2019); BASU, Rabindra Nath (1928 – ); WARD, Nicholas Anthony (1936 – )
The eradication of smallpox from India.
GMN 13788 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16075
1979 SHURKIN, Joel N. (1938 – )
The invisible fire: The story of mankind's victory over the ancient scourge of smallpox.
GMN 13796 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16083
1980 WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION
The global eradication of smallpox. Final report of the Global Commission for the Certification of Smallpox Eradication.
On 8 May 1980, the World Health Organization officially announced that “smallpox eradication has been achieved throughout the world”. The upper cover of this report reproduces an electron micrograph of a specimen of v…
GMN 5434.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8621
1980 JOARDER, A. Kashem; TULLOCH, Jim; TARANTOLA, Daniel (1942 – )
The eradication of smallpox from Bangladesh.
GMN 13803 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16090
1983 HOPKINS, Donald R. (1941 – )
Princes and peasants: Smallpox in history.
Reissued in 2002 with a new introduction as The greatest killer: Smallpox in history.
GMN 5436.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7443
1985 JENNER, Edward (1749 – 1823); LEFANU, William Richard (1904 – 1995)
A bibliography of Edward Jenner, 1749-1823
Revised second edition of Lefanu's A bio-bibliography of Edward Jenner (1951). The annotations in this bibliography form a kind of biographical narrative of Jenner's life and achievements.
GMN 11206 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13403
1985 BRILLIANT, Lawrence Brent "Larry" (1944 – )
The management of smallpox eradication in India.
GMN 13727 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16011
1987 OGDEN, Horace G.
CDC and the smallpox crusade.
Recounts the work toward the eradication of smallpox by the CDC, as distinct from the World Health Organization (WHO). Digital facsimile from stacks.cdc.gov at this link.
GMN 13798 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16085
1988 FENNER, Frank John (1914 – 2010); HENDERSON, Donald Ainslie (1928 – 2016); ARITA, Isao (1926 – ); JEŽEK, Zdenēk (1932 – 2019); LADNYJ, Ivan Danilovich ( – 1987)
Smallpox and its eradication.
The definitive archival history in 1460 pages. In 2016 a PDF of this entire book could be downloaded from the W.H.O. at this link.
GMN 7549 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9721
1991 BLISS, Michael John William (1941 – 2017)
Plague: A story of smallpox in Montreal.
GMN 10984 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13180
1993 ARNOLD, David (1946 – )
Colonizing the body: State medicine and epidemic disease in nineteenth-century India.
An authoritative account of the way that medicine was practiced in India in adaptation to the situation faced by physicians and the state in India, focusing on three major epidemic diseases: smallpox, cholera plague.
GMN 8811 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10989
2001 ROBERTSON, Roland G.
Rotting face: Smallpox and the American Indian.
GMN 13710 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15994
2002 RUSNOCK, Andrea A.
Vital accounts: Quantifying health and population in eighteenth-century England and France.
Focuses several chapters on the debates over innoculation for smallpox, and statistical measurement of results, statistical studies of the effect of climate on disease, etc.
GMN 8041 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10217
2002 CAMPBELL, Judy
Invisible invaders: Smallpox and other diseases in Aboriginal Australia 1780-1880.
"An epidemic of smallpox among Aboriginal people around the infant colony of Sydney in 1789 puzzled the British, for there had been no cases on the ships of the First Fleet. Where, then, did the epidemic come from? "A…
GMN 13567 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15845
2002 FENN, Elizabeth Anne (1959 – )
Pox Americana: The great smallpox epidemic of 1775-82.
GMN 13793 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16080
2004 GLYNN, Ian Michael (1928 – ); GLYNN, Jenifer
The life and death of smallpox.
GMN 11244 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13441
2006 BHATTACHARYA, Sanjoy (1968 – )
Expunging variola: The control and eradication of smallpox in India 1947-1977.
GMN 13890 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16180
2007 SHUTTLETON, David E.
Smallpox and the literary imagination, 1660-1820.
GMN 9704 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11891
2008 BRUNTON, Deborah
The politics of vaccination: Practice and policy in England, Wales, Ireland and Scotland, 1800-1874.
GMN 9878 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12066
2008 HERVÉ, Bazin
L'Histoire des vaccinations.
Translated and significantly revised and enlarged as Vaccination: A history from Lady Montagu to genetic engineering (Montrouge: John Libbey Eurotext: 2011).
GMN 10014 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12203
2009 HENDERSON, Donald Ainslie (1928 – 2016)
Smallpox--the death of a disease: The inside story of eradicating a worldwide killer.
GMN 7548 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9720
2010 WILLIAMS, Gareth
Angel of death: The story of smallpox.
GMN 10220 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12410
2010 ARITA, Isao (1926 – )
The smallpox eradication saga: An insider's view.
GMN 13789 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16076
2011 FOEGE, William Herbert (1936 – )
House on fire: The fight to eradicate smallpox.
Foege, as director of the Centers for Disease Control, is credited with "devising the global strategy that led to the eradication of smallpox in the late 1970s".[4]
GMN 10625 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12818
2013 KOTAR, Susan Louellen; GESSLER, J. E.
Smallpox: A history.
GMN 10772 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12968
2015 KELTON, Paul
Cherokee medicine, colonial germs: An indigenous nation’s fight against smallpox, 1518–1824.
GMN 7504 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9676
2015 THOMPSON, C. Michele
Vietnamese traditional medicine: A social history.
Reception of foreign medical ideas and techniques through the case study of smallpox.
GMN 8042 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10218
2015 REINHARDT, Rob H.
The end of a global pox: America and the eradication of smallpox in the cold war era.
GMN 13891 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16183
2019 SKELTON, James W. Jr.
Eradicating smallpox in Ethiopia. Peace Corps Volunteers' Accounts of their Advantures, Challenges and Achievements. Edited by James W. Skelton, Gene L. Bartley, John Scott Porterfield, Alan Schnur.
GMN 13797 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16084
2022 WEHRMAN, Andrew M.
The contagion of liberty: The politics of smallpox in the American revolution.
"The Revolutionary War broke out during a smallpox epidemic, and in response, General George Washington ordered the inoculation of the Continental Army. But Washington did not have to convince fearful colonists to pro…
GMN 14090 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16401
