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Garrison-Morton-Norman History of Medicine

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5 entries match Plagues & Epidemics [C01.252] · Pharmacology & Therapeutics [D01 / E02] · Women & Gender [K01.700.500]

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1947 CE

#1940

Chloromycetin, an antibiotic with chemotherapeutic activity in experimental rickettsial and viral infections.

SMADEL, Joseph Edwin (1907 – 1963) JACKSON, Elizabeth B.

Introduction of chloramphenicol, used in treatment of typhus.

2005 CE

#11193

Macrofilaricidal activity after doxycycline treatment of Wuchereria bancrofti: A double blind randomized placebo-controlled trial.

TAYLOR, Mark J.
TAYLOR, Mark J. MAKUNDE, Williams Holmes MCGARRY, Helen F. & et al.

Order of authorship in the original paper: Taylor, Makunde, McGarry.... The authors treated infection by the parasitic worm Wuchereria bancrofti, cause of elephantiasis (lymphatic filariasis), by killing the Wolbachia…

1921 CE

#5287

Studies on the treatment of human trypanosomiasis with tryparsamide (the sodium salt of N-phenylglycineamide-p-arsonic acid).

PEARCE, Louise (1886 – 1959)
PEARCE, Louise (1886 – 1959)

Introduction of tryparsamide in the treatment of trypanosomiasis.

1985 CE

#11377

The association between idiopathic hemolytic uremic syndrome and infection by Verotoxin-producing Escherichia coli.

KARMALI, Mohamed A. PETRIC, Martin LIM, Corazon & et al.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Karmali, Petric, Lim. The authors discovered that a hemolytic uremic syndrome, associated with E. coli 0157-H7 (first described in No. 11376), and which could not be cu…

1938 CE

#1952

Treatment of pneumonia with 2-(p-aminobenzenesulphonamido) pyridine.

GAISFORD, Wilfrid Fletcher (1902 – 1988) EVANS, Gladys Mary (1897 – 1973)

Clinical proof of the value of sulphapyridine. M & B 693 (sulphapyridine) treatment of pneumonia. This followed the experimental work of L. E. H. Whitby (see No. 1951).