Entry Nos. 5100–5199

1830

#5153

On the glanders in the human subject.

Proof that glanders in the horse is communicable to man.

1837

#5154

De la morve et du farcin chez l’homme.

In this treatise on glanders and farcy in man Rayer showed that glanders is contagious, but is not a form of tuberculosis. Rayer began the work with a thoroughly documented historical chapter. Digital facsimile of the…

1886

#5156

Die Aetiologie der Rotzkrankheit.

Discovery of Burkholderia mallei, causative organism of glanders. Preliminary notice in Dtsch. med. Wschr., 1882, 8, 707.

1889

#5157

Sur un moyen de diagnostic rapide de la morve.

Straus reaction for the diagnosis of glanders.

1891

#5158

Observations sur la morve.

Mallein reaction for the diagnosis of glanders.

1912

#5159

An account of the discovery of a hitherto undescribed infective disease occurring among the population of Rangoon.

First description of melioidosis. Together with C.S. Krishnaswami, Whitmore identified Burkholderia pseudomallei, the causative agent of melioidosis (also known as "Whitmore's disease") in opium addicts in Rangoon in …

1653

#5160

Thesis de carbunculo.

1681

#5161

Epistola… qua simul de anthrace, carbunculo, bubone et altauna, philologice disseritur.

1780

#5162

Description et traitement du charbon dans les animaux.

First important clinical description of anthrax. For some time after the appearance of Chabert’s short book, the condition was known as “Chabert’s disease”. Chabert was Directeur & Inspecteur général of the Écoles Roy…

1850

#5163

Inoculation du sang de rate.

Rayer inoculated sheep with blood of other sheep dead of anthrax. Microscopically he saw the anthrax bacillus in the blood of the inoculated sheep. Rayer was associated with Davaine, who later, in Bull. Acad. Méd., 18…

1855

#5164

Mikroskopische und mikrochemische Untersuchung des Milzbrandblutes sowie über Wesen und Kurdes Milzbrandes.

Pollender discovered the B. anthracis in 1849, but did not record this fact until 1855. He gave a more exact account of the organism than did Rayer (No. 5163).

1863

#5165

Recherches sur les infusoires du sang dans la maladie connue sous le nom de sang de rate.

Davaine showed that anthrax could be transmitted to sheep, horses, cattle, guinea-pigs, and mice, and that in such animals the bacilli did not appear in the blood until 4-5 hours before death.

1865

#5166

Recherches sur la nature et la constitution anatomique de la pustule maligne.

Davaine was the first conclusively to prove that a definite disease (anthrax) was due to a definite micro-organism (B. anthracis), and was thus one of the first to prove the germ theory of disease. He showed that the …

1876

#5167

Die Aetiologie der Milzbrand-Krankheit, begründet auf die Entwicklungsgeschichte des Bacillus anthracis.

In 1876 Koch first obtained pure cultures of B. anthracis and described its complete life history. With Davaine (Nos. 5165-66) he did much to prove that infectious diseases are caused by living reproductive microorgan…

1877

#5168

Étude sur la maladie charbonneuse.

Pasteur confirmed Koch’s results regarding anthrax; with Joubert he carried the bacillus through 100 generations and succeeded in producing anthrax from the last, thus disposing of the idea of a separate virus.

1880

#5169

Sur l’étiologie du charbon.

First use of attenuated bacteria for therapeutic purposes. See also the same journal, 1881, 92, 1378-83.

1895

#5170

Sulla preparazione del siero anti-carbonchioso.

Specific anti-anthrax serum. German translation in Zbl. Bakt., 1895, 1 Abt., 18, 744-45.

1911

#5171

La precipitina nella diagnosi del carbonchio ematico.

Ascoli’s thermoprecipitin reaction for the diagnosis of anthrax. German translation in Zbl. Bakt., 1911, 1 Abt., 58, Orig., 63-70. Preliminary note in Patbologica, 1910, 3, 101.

1911

#5172

Die bakteriologische Blutuntersuchung beim Milzbrand des Menschen.

Salvarsan first used in the treatment of anthrax.

1911

#5173

A plague-like disease of rodents.

Tularemia first recorded (in rodents).

1912

#5174

Further observations on a plague-like disease of rodents with a preliminary note on the causative agent, Bacterium tularense.

Isolation of Pasteurella tularensis, causal organism in tularemia.

1914

#5175

Infection of man with Bacterium tularense

Wherry and Lamb were first to isolate P. tularensis from lesions in man.

1925

#5176

Tularemia

Francis demonstrated the transmission of tularemia to man from rodents through insects, particularly the deerfly. He gave the disease its present name; it is also called “Francis’s disease” by some writers.

1930

#5177

Ueber Identität von “Yato-Byo” (Ohara’s disease) und “Tularämie”, sowie ihren Erreger.

In Japan tularemia is known as “Ohara’s disease”.

1932

#5178

Tularemia: Accurate and earlier diagnosis by means of the intradermal reaction.

Skin test for the diagnosis of tularemia. Digital facsimile from Jstor at this link.

1932

#5179

Serum treatment of tularemia.

Foshay devised a serum for the treatment of tularemia.

1946

#5180

Streptomycin treatment of tularemia.

1698

#5181

De ipecacuanha novo Gallorum antidysenterico. Resp. C[hristophe] F[riedrich] Kneussel.

There is evidence that amoebic dysentery was known to Hippocrates. The history of treatment begins with the use of ipecacuanha, the dried root of Cephaelis ipecacuanha, a plant from Brazil. This was first mentioned as…

1830

#5183

Hospital facts and observations.

First record (p. 149) of the use of emetine in the treatment of amoebiasis.

1875

#5184

Massenhafte Entwickelung von Amöben im Dickdarm.

Lösch discovered Entamoeba histolytica as the infective agent in amoebic dysentery. Before this time distinction between the different forms of dysentery had been made on purely clinical grounds. English translation i…

1886

#5186

Zur Aetiologie der Dysenterie in Aegypten.

Kartulis discovered amoebae in liver abscess. It was principally through the work of Kartulis that amoebae came to be considered the cause of dysentery in man.

1890 –1891

#5187

Amoebic dysentery.

These workers introduced the term “amoebic dysentery” in their important investigation of the condition.

1893

#5188

Ueber Amöben-Enteritis.

Entamoeba histolytica distinguished from Entamoeba coli. English translation in Kean (No. 2268.1).

1911

#5189

Experiments undertaken to test the efficacy of the ipecac treatment of dysentery.

Vedder demonstrated the amoebicidal action of emetine; his work led to the general adoption of emetine in the treatment of amoebic dysentery.

1912

#5190

The rapid cure of amoebic dysentery and hepatitis by hypodermic injections of soluble salts of emetine.

Following up the work of Vedder, Rogers showed that the soluble salts of emetine could be safely injected subcutaneously. The general use of emetine, introduced by Rogers, diminished the incidence of liver abscess – a…

1913

#5191

Experimental entamoebic dysentery.

Walker and Sellards made important additions to our knowledge of amoebiasis, including the determination of the incubation period and the demonstration that E. tetragena and E. minuta are identical with E. histolytica.

1921

#5192

Ueber Behandlungsversuche der chronischen Amoebenruhr mit Yatren.

Introduction of Yatren.

1923

#5193

Le stovarsol guérit rapidement la dysenterie amibienne.

Introduction of stovarsol (oxyaminophenylarsenic acid) in the treatment of amoebiasis.

1925

#5194

The cultivation of Endamoeba histolytica.

Pure cultivation of Entamoeba histolytica was first accomplished by D. W. Cutler (J. Path. Bact., 1918, 22, 22), but Boeck and Drbohlav evolved the first media upon which amoebae could be cultivated for indefinite per…

1736

#5195

De morbis venereis libri sex.

A comprehensive book on the subject, including a careful review of the existing literature. Astruc stated that syphilis first appeared in Europe in 1493. The book was translated into English in 1737. Digital facsimile…

1767

#5196

De gonorrhoea virulenta.

Balfour is said to have been the first to re-affirm the duality of gonorrhoea and syphilis.

1787

#5198

First lines of theory and practice in venereal diseases.

First complete description of lymphatic chancre – “Nisbet’s chancre”.

1788 –1789

#5199

Abhandlung über die venerische Krankheit. 3 vols.

Girtanner’s important textbook on the venereal diseases contains some history.