1676 SYDENHAM, Thomas (1624 – 1689)

Observationes medicae circa morborum acutorum historiamet curationem.

Sydenham recorded significant observations on dysentery, scarlet fever (p. 387), scarlatina, measles and other conditions. He stressed the clinical study of medicine and kept careful case records. Includes (pp. 272-80…

GMN 2198 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1522

1677 THACHER, Thomas (1620 – 1678)

A brief rule to guide the common-people of New-England how to order themselves and theirs in the small pocks, or measels.

The first medical publication of North America and the only one to appear in the 17th century. Only one copy of the original printing of this broadside survived, written by Thacher, a Boston minister. The sheet was re…

GMN 5406 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7256

1683 MOURÃO, Simão Pinheiro [Morão] (1620 – 1686)

Trattado unico das bexigas, e sarampo, offerecido a D. João de Sousa, composto por Romaõ Mõsia Reinhipo.

One of the first works on medicine practiced in Brazil, published by Mourão under the pseudonym Romaõ Mõsia Reinhipo. Mourão distinguished clearly between smallpox and measles. There was still much confusion in the se…

GMN 8934 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11112

1685 SYDENHAM, Thomas (1624 – 1689)

Observationes medicae circa morborum acutorum historiam et curationem. Ed. quarta.

Contains (Book 3, Cap. 2; Book 5, Cap. 4) an important account of smallpox, particularly the epidemics of 1667-69 and 1674-75. Sydenham attributed smallpox to a specific inflammation of the blood; he clearly distingui…

GMN 5407 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7260

1747 RHAZES [MUHAMMAD IBN ZAKARIYĀ AL-RĀZĪ (PERSIAN: محمد زکریای رازی‎ ] (854 – 925); MEAD, Richard (1673 – 1754)

De variolis et morbillis liber.

Includes a Latin translation of Rhazes’s commentary on smallpox. Mead favored inoculation, and his great authority and influence contributed to a more general acceptance of this measure. English translation entitled A…

GMN 5417 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7330

1759 HOME, Francis (1719 – 1813)

Medical facts and experiments.

Experimental human transmission of measles (pp. 266-88). Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

GMN 5442 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7476

1791 BEER, Georg Joseph (1763 – 1821)

Praktische Beobachtungen über verschiedene, vorzüglich aber über jene Augenkrankheiten, welche aus allgemeinen Krankheiten des Körpers entspringen.

“This is the first monograph ever published dealing with ocular signs of systemic disease. It deals with lacrimal fistulas, trichiasis, adhesions of the lids, lid ulcers, ephiphora, and ocular inflammations. He illust…

GMN 5833.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7103

1844 SYDENHAM, Thomas (1624 – 1689); GREENHILL, William Alexander (1814 – 1894)

Thomae Sydenham, M. D., Opera omnia. Edidit Gulielmus Alexander Greenhill.

Sydenham has been called the “Father of English Medicine”. His reputation rests on his first-hand accounts of such conditions as the malarial fevers of his times, gout, scarlatina, measles, etc. A better edition of th…

GMN 63 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/991

1847 PANUM, Peter Ludvig (1820 – 1885)

Iagttagelser, anstillede under Maeslinge-Epidemien paa Faerøerne i Aaret 1846.

When only 26 years of age, Panum was sent by the Danish Government to investigate the epidemic of measles then raging in the Faroe Islands. His report on the subject was a valuable contribution to medical literature. …

GMN 5443 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7478

1848 RHAZES [MUHAMMAD IBN ZAKARIYĀ AL-RĀZĪ (PERSIAN: محمد زکریای رازی‎ ] (854 – 925); GREENHILL, William Alexander (1814 – 1894)

A treatise on the smallpox and measles. Translated from the Arabic by William Alexander Greenhill.

Rhazes differentiated measles from smallpox. Reprinted in Med. Classics, 1939, 4, 22-84. For original publication see No. 5404. The first English translation appeared in No. 5417. Digital facsimile from the Internet A…

GMN 5441 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7473

1896 KOPLIK, Henry (1858 – 1927)

The diagnosis of the invasion of measles from a study of the exanthema as it appears on the buccal mucous membrane.

Koplik, American pediatrician, was the first to note and report on “Koplik’s spots”, the buccal spots which are an important early diagnostic sign in measles.

GMN 5444 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7480

1898 JOSIAS, Albert Henri Louis (1852 – 1906)

Recherches expérimentales sur la transmissibilité de la rougeole animaux.

Measles transmitted to animals.

GMN 5445 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7482

1905 HEKTOEN, Ludvig (1863 – 1951)

Experimental measles.

Experimental human transmission of measles.

GMN 5446 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7484

1907 CENCI, Francesco

Alcune esperienze di sieroimmunizzazione e sieroterapia nel morbillo.

First use of convalescent serum in prophylaxis against measles.

GMN 5447 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7486

1911 GOLDBERGER, Joseph (1874 – 1929); ANDERSON, John Fleetezelle (1873 – 1958)

Experimental measles in the monkey.

Measles transmitted to monkeys.

GMN 5448 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7490

1938 PLOTZ, Harry (1890 – 1947)

Culture “in vitro” du virus de la rougeole.

Successful cultivation of measles virus.

GMN 5449 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7492

1944 ORDMAN, Charles William (1914 – ); ET AL

Chemical, clinical, and immunological studies on the products of human plasma fractionation. XII. The use of concentrated normal human serum gamma globulin (human immune serum globulin) in the prevention and attenuation of measles.

Gamma globulin used for passive immunization against measles. With C. G. Jennings and C. A. Janeway.

GMN 5449.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7494

1954 ENDERS, John Franklin (1897 – 1985); PEEBLES, Thomas C. (1921 – 2010)

Propagation in tissue cultures of cytopathogenic agents from patients with measles.

Isolation of measles virus.

GMN 5449.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7498

1958 ENDERS, John Franklin (1897 – 1985); KATZ, Samuel Lawrence (1927 – ); ET AL

Propagation of measles virus in cultures of chick embryo cells.

With M. V. Milovanovič.

GMN 5449.3 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7500

1960 ENDERS, John Franklin (1897 – 1985); KATZ, Samuel Lawrence (1927 – ); ET AL

Studies on an attenuated measles-virus vaccine. I. Development and preparation of the vaccine: technics for assay of effects of vaccination.

Live virus vaccine. With M. V. Milovanovič, and A. Holloway.

GMN 5449.4 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7502