1553 INGRASSIA, Giovanni Filippo (Ioannis Philippi Ingrassiae) (1510 – 1580)

De tumoribus praeter naturam.

This treatise on tumors includes (p. 194) the first known description of an epidemic disease resembling scarlet fever. This was a malady prevalent in Italy, and was commonly called rossania or rossalia. Ingrassia was …

GMN 5073 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5915

1730 FULLER, Thomas (1654 – 1734)

Exanthematologia ; or, an attempt to give a rational account of eruptive fevers, especially of the measles and small pox, In two parts. Parts I Of the blood, the air, venoms, Infection: fever of all kinds in general with their varieties, descriptions, names & C but more professedly and fully of the measles ... Part II Of the small pox ... To which is added. An appendix concerning inoculation.

Includes the first clear account of chicken pox as a distinct disease, and the first distinction between the spots made by flea bites from those seen in eruptive fevers.

GMN 10109 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12298

1768 HEBERDEN, William Sr. (1710 – 1801)

On the chickenpox.

In a paper read before the (Royal) College of Physicians on 11 August 1767, Heberden first definitely differentiated chickenpox from smallpox.

GMN 5438 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7454

1882 HUTCHINSON, Sir Jonathan (1828 – 1913)

On gangrenous eruptions in connection with vaccination and chickenpox.

Original description of varicella gangrenosa.

GMN 5439 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7457

1892 BÓKAY, János (1858 – 1937)

Das Auftreten von Varizellen unter eigentümlichen Verhältnissen.

Bokay was the first to suggest an etiological relationship between varicella and herpes zoster. See also his paper in Wien. klin. Wschr., 1909, 22, 1323-26.

GMN 5439.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7460

1905 –1906 TYZZER, Ernest Edward (1875 – 1965)

The histology of the skin lesions in varicella.

Tyzzer was first to recognize inclusion bodies in varicella.

GMN 5440 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7464

1925 KUNDRATITZ, Karl (1889 – 1975)

Experimentelle Übertragung von Herpes zoster auf den Menschen und die Beziehungen von Herpes zoster zu Varicellen.

First demonstration of the infectivity of herpes.

GMN 4652 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/753

1953 WELLER, Thomas Huckle (1915 – 2008)

Serial propagation in vitro of agents producing inclusion bodies derived from varicella and herpes zoster.

Isolation of the varicella-herpes virus.

GMN 5440.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7466

1969 BRUNELL, Philip Alfred (1931 – ); ET AL

Prevention of varicella by zoster immune globulin.

With A. Ross, L. H. Miller, and B. Kuo.

GMN 5440.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7468