1780 SAILLANT, Charles Jacques (1747 – 1804)
Tableau historique et raisonné des épidémies catharrales vulgairement dites la grippe; depuis 1510 jusques et y compris celle de 1780.
GMN 5488 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6429
1824 MARX, Karl Friedrich Heinrich (1796 – 1877)
Origines contagii.
History of contagious disease in the ancient world through readings from the texts. A supplementary “Additamenta” was published in 1826. Digital facsimile of the 1824 edition from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 2531 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3512
1845 ROSENBAUM, Julius (1807 – 1874)
Geschichte der Lustseuche. Erster Theil. Die Lustseuche im Alterthume.
French translation, 1847; English translation as The plague of lust, being a history of venereal disease in classical antiquity, and including: Detailed investigations into the cult of Venus, and phallic worship, brot…
GMN 2421 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2880
1855 LA ROCHE, René (1795 – 1872)
Yellow fever, considered in its historical, pathological, etiological, and therapeutical relations: including a sketch of the disease as it has occurred in Philadelphia from 1699 to 1854, with an examination of the connections between it and the fevers known under the same name in other parts of temperate, as well as in tropical, regions. 2 vols.
The most important 19th century American monograph on yellow fever. La Roche’s work sketched the disease in its appearances from 1699 to 1854 at Philadelphia, which saw some of the worst yellow fever epidemics, and pr…
GMN 5454.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7545
1866 BROCKETT, Linus Pierpont (1820 – 1893)
Asiatic cholera: Its origin, history, and progress, for over two hundred years, and the devastations it has caused in the East and West; Its ravages in Europe and America in 1831-2, in 1848-9, in 1854-5, and in 1865-6 with a full description of the causes, nature, and character of the disease, its means of propagation, whether by the atmosphere or by contagion; its premonitory and distinctive symptoms; the best known means of preventing its attack both in communities and individuals; and the most effectual remedies for it according to the celebrated physicians who have treated It; Together with simple and plain directions for the care of those who from any cause can not obtain medical aid.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 11487 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13686
1889 CREIGHTON, Charles (1847 – 1927); JENNER, Edward (1749 – 1823)
Jenner and vaccination: A strange chapter of medical history.
Creighton, one of the founders of epidemiology, disputed the germ theory of infectious disease, and became "one of the anti-vaccination movement's 'most ardent and distinguished spokesmen.' Creighton argued that vacci…
GMN 12348 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14572
1896 STICKER, Georg (1860 – 1960)
Der Keuchhusten.
An important history of whooping cough.
GMN 5088 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5980
1911 REED, Walter (1851 – 1902); CARROLL, James (1854 – 1907)
Yellow fever: A compilation of various publications. Results of the work of Maj. Walter Reed, Medical Corps, United States Army, and the Yellow Fever Commission. Presented by Mr. Owen.
A convenient compilation of the work of Reed and his associates, including the work of James Carroll published after the death of Walter Reed. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 9373 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11556
1931 KHALIL, Mohamed
The bibliography of schistosomiasis (bilharziasis).
GMN 5352 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6900
1931 CARTER, Henry Rose (1852 – 1925)
Yellow fever: an epidemiological and historical study of its place of origin. Edited by Laura Armistead Carter and Wade Hampton Frost.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 5468 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8625
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 ROLLESTON, John Davy (1873 – 1946)
The history of the acute exanthemata.
Smallpox, chicken pox, scarlet fever, measles and German measles. Rolleston was the brother of Sir Humphrey Davy Rolleston.
GMN 8751 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10929
1943 WINSLOW, Charles-Edward Amory (1877 – 1957)
The conquest of epidemic diseases. A chapter in the history of ideas.
Reprinted 1980.
GMN 1666 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2229
1949 POWELL, John Harvey (1914 – 1971)
Bring out your dead: The great plague of yellow fever in Philadelphia in 1793.
Reprinted with a new introduction by Kenneth R. Foster, Mary F. Jenkins, and Anna Coxe Toogood (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1993).
GMN 9384 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11567
1954 SCHÖNFELD, Walther Heinrich Paul (1888 – 1977)
Kurze Geschichte der Dermatologie und Venereologie und ihre kulturgeschichtliche Spiegelung.
GMN 4158.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5933
1958 BLOOMFIELD, Arthur Leonard (1888 – 1962)
A bibliography of internal medicine. Communicable diseases.
An extensive bibliography, and substantial excerpts from practically every important reference made to each of 30 communicable diseases, from 1800 onwards.
GMN 5546.6 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6780
1962 ROSENBERG, Charles Ernest (1936 – )
The cholera years: The United States in 1832, 1849, and 1866.
Edition with new Afterword published in 1987.
GMN 7927 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10100
1963 COCKBURN, Aidan (1912 – 1981)
The evolution and eradication of infectious diseases.
GMN 5546.7 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6783
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
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
1970 HOOGSTRAAL, Harry (1917 – 1986)
Bibliography of ticks and tickborne diseases from Homer (about 800 B.C.) to 31 December, 1969. Vol. 1.
Digital facsimile from Washington State University Digital Collections at this link.
GMN 5546.8 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6788
1971 PAUL, John Rodman (1893 – 1971)
A history of poliomyelitis.
GMN 4672.5 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/937
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
1977 BEVERIDGE, William Ian Beardmore (1908 – 2006)
Influenza: The last great plague.
GMN 5500.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6469
1978 SPINK, Wesley William (1904 – 1988)
Infectious diseases. Prevention and treatment in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
GMN 5546.9 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6793
1981 NUTTON, Vivian (1943 – ); BYNUM, William F. (1943 – )
Theories of fever from antiquity to the enlightenment. Edited by W. F. Bynum and Vivian Nutton. Medical History, Supplement No. 1.
GMN 11909 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14114
1982 KUNO, Goro (1940 – ); FLORES, Bess
Bibliography of dengue fever and dengue-like illnesses, 1780-1981.
GMN 5475.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7625
1988 WINN, Washington C. Jr. (1941 – 2011)
Legionnaires disease: Historical perspective.
Digital facsimile from cmr.asm.org at this link.
GMN 11255 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13452
1990 GRMEK, Mirko Dražen (1924 – 2000)
History of AIDS. Emergence and origin of a modern pandemic. Translated by Russell C. Maulitz and Jacalyn Duffin.
GMN 6994 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9160
1991 CRANEFIELD, Paul Frederick (1925 – 2003)
Science and empire: East Coast Fever in Rhodesia and the Transvaal.
East Coast fever (theileriosis) is an animal disease in Africa caused by the protozoan parasite Theileria parva.
GMN 8627 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10804
1991 FARLEY, John (1936 – 2015)
Bilharzia: A history of imperial tropical medicine.
GMN 9262 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11444
1992 NÚÑEZ, Marcelo Frías
Enfermedad y sociedad en la crisis colonial del antiguo régimen: Nueva Granada en el tránsito del siglo XVIII al XIX, las epidemias de viruelas.
GMN 8005 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10181
1992 LYONS, Maryinez
The colonial disease: A social history of sleeping sickness in colonial Zaire, 1900-1940.
GMN 9264 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11446
1993 KIPLE, Kenneth F. (1939 – 2016)
The Cambridge world history of human disease. Edited by Kenneth F. Kiple [and 12 co-editors].
An encyclopedic world history of disease, incorporating a geographic approach.
GMN 6963 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9128
1993 BUSVINE, James Robert
Disease transmission by insects: Its discovery and 90 years of effort to prevent it.
GMN 13187 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15448
1995 PASTEUR, Louis (1822 – 1895); GEISON, Gerald Lynn (1943 – 2001)
The private science of Louis Pasteur.
"His biography of Pasteur was viewed as an outstanding work of scholarship which penetrated the secrecy that had surrounded much of the legendary scientist's laboratory work. Geison used Pasteur's laboratory notebooks…
GMN 11019 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13215
1996 BADO, Jean-Paul
Médecine coloniale et grandes endémies en Afrique 1900-1960. Lèpre, trypanosomiase humaine et onchocercose.
GMN 7922 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10095
1997 ESTES, J. Worth (1934 – 2000); SMITH, Billy G.
A melancholy scene of devastation: The public response to the 1793 Philadelphia yellow fever epidemic. Edited by J. Worth Estes and Billy G. Smith.
GMN 9385 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11568
1997 MASSELL, Benedict Frank (1906 – 2008)
Rheumatic fever and streptococcal infection: Unraveling the mysteries of a dread disease.
GMN 12360 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14584
1999 KOLATA, Gina Bari (1948 – )
Flu: The story of the great influenza pandemic of 1918 and the search for the virus that caused it.
GMN 11925 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14130
1999 ENGLISH, Peter C.
Rheumatic fever in America and Britain: A biological, epidemiological, and medical history.
GMN 12340 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14564
2003 ARMUS, Diego
Disease in the history of modern Latin America: From malaria to aids. Edited by Diego Armus.
GMN 7941 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10116
2003 CARTER, K. Codell (1939 – )
The rise of causal concepts of disease: Case histories.
"The philosopher K Codell Carter's authoritative study of the transition from an assumption that diseases have multiple causes to the modern belief in universal, necessary causes is such a book. For decades, historian…
GMN 9885 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12073
2004 BRIGGS, Charles Leslie (1953 – ); MANTINI-BRIGGS, Clara
Stories in the time of cholera: Racial profiling during a medical nightmare.
'In 1992-93, some five hundred people died from cholera in the Orinoco Delta of eastern Venezuela. In some communities, a third of the adults died in a single night, as anthropologist Charles Briggs and Clara Mantini-…
GMN 9025 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11204
2004 SWIDERSKI, Richard M.
Anthrax: A history.
GMN 9652 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11839
2004 BARRY, John M. (1947 – )
The great influenza: The epic story of the greatest plague in history.
GMN 9974 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12163
2005 PIERCE, John R.; WRITER, James V.
Yellow Jack: How yellow fever ravaged American and Walter Reed discovered its deadly secrets.
GMN 9386 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11569
2006 BADO, Jean-Paul
Les conquêtes de la médecine moderne en Afrique. Edited by Jean-Paul Bado.
GMN 7924 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10097
2008 GREENWOOD, David (1935 – 2015)
Antimicrobial drugs: Chronicle of a twentieth century medical triumph.
Concerns the history of all anti-infectives, including antibacterial, antiviral, antifungal, antiprotozoal and anthelminthic agents.
GMN 9683 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11870
2009 MANN, Barbara Alice (1947 – )
The tainted gift: The disease method of frontier expansion.
GMN 13711 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15995