Facets

1898 CE

#2334

Sur l’obtention de cultures et d’émulsions homogènes du bacille de la tuberculose humaine en milieu liquide et “sur une variété mobile de ce bacille”.

Sero-agglutination for the diagnosis of tubercle bacillus.

1947 CE

#5351.4

Sur la chimiothérapie de l’onchocercose. (Note préliminaire).

First effective chemotherapy (suramin) for onchocerciasis. With C. Heurard, E. Peel, and M. Wanson.

1893 CE

#5080.1

Sur la pathogénie de la scarlatine.

Bergé stated all the essential facts concerning the aetiology of scarlet fever, and definitely attributed its cause to a streptococcus. He published a thesis on the subject in 1895.

1829 CE

#5291

Sur la pyrophlyctide endémique, ou pustule d’Aleppo.

Important description of “Aleppo boil”, furunculosis orientalis.

1927 CE

#2346

Sur la vaccination préventive des enfants nouveau-nés contre la tuberculose par le B.C.G.

1933 CE

#5151

Sur la valeur et la durée de l’immunité conférée par l’anatoxine tétanique dans la vaccination de l’homme contre le tétanos.

Tetanus toxoid first employed in the immunization of humans.

1874 CE

#7705

Sur les crânes artificiellement perforés à l'époque des dolmens.

Prunières separated postmortem trepanations and rondelles from antemortem operations, and also described tuberculous lesions in Neolithic bones.

1880 CE

#2537

Sur les maladies virulentes, et en particulier sur la maladie appelée vulgairement choléra des poules.

This paper marked the beginning of Pasteur’s work on the attenuation of the infective organism. Noting that fowls inoculated with an attenuated form of the chicken cholera bacterium acquired immunity, he develop…

1907 CE

#2337

Sur un nouveau procédé de diagnostic de la tuberculose chez l’homme par l’ophtalmo-reaction à la tuberculine.

Calmette’s conjunctival reaction test for tuberculosis.

1770 CE

#5336.2

Sur un ver trouvé sous la conjunctive, à Maribou, isle Saint-Domingue.

First description of the worm Loa loa. Mongin was a French surgeon working in the West Indies. English translation in Kean (No. 2268.1).

1931 CE

#5493

Swine influenza. III. Filtration experiments and etiology.

Isolation in pigs of influenzavirus A or influenza A virus. Full text available from PubMedCentral at this link.

1940 CE

#2431

Syphilis in earlier days.

2017 CE

#13910

Syphilis in Victorian literature and culture: Medicine, knowledge and the spectacle of invisibility.

1530 CE

#2364

Syphilis sive morbus gallicus.

The most famous of all medical poems. It epitomized contemporary knowledge of syphilis, gave to it its present name, and recognized a venereal cause. Fracastorius refers to mercury as a remedy. First complete English …

1891 CE–1895 CE

#2422

Syphilis today and among the ancients. 2 vols.

1717 CE

#10530

Syphilis: A practical dissertation on the venereal disease. In which, after a short account of its nature and original; the diagnostick and prognostick signs, with the best ways of curing the several degrees of that distemper, together with some historical observations relating to the same, are candidly and without reserve, communicated. In two parts.

The first work published in English to include the word syphilis, and also the first English work to include the word condom. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1869 CE

#10890

Syphilis: Its nature & diffusion popularly considered.

The first work on dermatology or syphilology written, printed and published in Australia. This work is illustrated with chromolithographed plates printed in Australia. This may be the earliest medical book printed in …

1780 CE

#5488

Tableau historique et raisonné des épidémies catharrales vulgairement dites la grippe; depuis 1510 jusques et y compris celle de 1780.

2017 CE

#9828

Taking turns: Stories from HIV/AIDS Care Unit 371.

"In 1994, at the height of the AIDS epidemic in the United States, MK Czerwiec took her first nursing job, at Illinois Masonic Medical Center in Chicago, as part of the caregiving staff of HIV/AIDS Care Unit 371. Taki…

1755 CE

#5124

Tentamen de inoculandi peste.

Weszprémi proposed preventive inoculation against plague.

2016 CE

#10941

The 3.8Å resolution cryo-EM structure of Zika Virus.

Order of authorship in the original paper: Sirohi, Rossmann, Kuhn. Using cryogenic-electron microscopy (cryo-EM), the authors presented the molecular structure of the Zika virus at 3.8Å resolution. Digital facsi…

1722 CE

#5413

The abuses and scandals of some late pamphlets in favour of inoculation of the small-pox.

Douglass at first opposed inoculation for smallpox, but by 1730 he had changed his views and had become an advocate of inoculation.

1938 CE

#1926

The action of substances allied to 4:4'-diaminodiphenylsulphone in streptococcal and other infections in mice.

G. A. H. Buttle, T. Dewing, G. E. Foster, W. H. Gray, S. Smith, and D. Stephenson discovered the potency of dapsone (DDS).

1957 CE

#5436.1

The adoption of inoculation for smallpox in England and France.

The appendices contain the early histories of inoculation, a list of German doctoral dissertations on inoculation 1720-52, and a bibliography.

1904 CE

#5349.1

The aetiology of a parasitic disease (in Japanese)

First description of Schistosoma japonicum. Translation in Kean (No. 2368.1), p. 518.

1930 CE

#12459

The African Republic of Liberia and the Belgian Congo based on the observations made and material collected during the Harvard African Expedition, 1926-1927. Edited by Richard P. Strong. 2 vols.

"The Harvard Medical African Expedition of 1926-1927 was an eight-man venture sent by Harvard University for the primary purpose of conducting a medical and biological survey of Liberia; the secondary purpose being to…

1987 CE

#10557

The AIDS History Project.

https://www.library.ucsf.edu/archives/aids/ "In 1987, the Archives & Special Collections initiated, in collaboration with the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Historical Society (GLBHT HS) and University of Califor…

2011 CE

#7940

The ailing city: Health, tuberculosis, and culture in Buenos Aires, 1870-1950.

1954 CE

#12968

The anaesthetist's viewpoint on the treatment of respiratory complications in poliomyelitis during the epidemic in Copenhagen, 1952.

Ibsen developed the first Intensive Care Unit (ICU) during the polio epidemic in Copenhagen in 1952, formally setting up the unit in 1953 in a converted student nurse classroom in the Municipal Hospital in Copenhagen.…

1985 CE

#11377

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

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…

1917 CE

#4648

The Australian epidemics of an acute polio-encephalomyelitis (X disease).

Campbell was Australia's first neurologist. This paper described Murray Valley encephalitis (Australian X disease). Cleland and Campbell isolated a virus from the cerebral tissue of three patients.

2003 CE

#13145

The barbary plague: The black death in Victorian San Francisco.

1931 CE

#5352

The bibliography of schistosomiasis (bilharziasis).

1931 CE

#5142.1

The black death and men of learning.

1977 CE

#5145.1

The black death in the Middle East.

1983 CE

#13021

The Black Death: Natural and human disaster in medieval Europe.

1994 CE

#8453

The black death.

A collection of documents written by those who lived and died in the mid-fourteenth century, translated and accompanied with commentaries.

1932 CE

#2347

The chemistry of tuberculosis. Second edition.

1962 CE

#7927

The cholera years: The United States in 1832, 1849, and 1866.

Edition with new Afterword published in 1987.

1756 CE

#13448

The civil and natural history of Jamaica. In three parts, containing 1. An accurate description of that Island, its situation and soil; with a brief account of its former and present state, government, revenues, produce, and trade. II. A history of the natural productions, including the various sorts of native fossils, perfect and imperfect vegetables, quadrupedes, birds, fishes, reptiles and insects; with their properties and uses in mechanics, diet, and physic. III. An account of the nature of climate in general, and their different effects upon the human body; with a detail of the diseases arising from this source, particularly within the tropics....illustrated with fifty copper-plates...in natural size....

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1904 CE

#1

The code of Hammurabi, King of Babylon about 2000 BCE. Autographed text, transliteration, translation, glossary, index of subjects, lists of proper names, signs, numerals, corrections, and erasures, with map, frontispiece, and photograph of text by Robert Francis Harper.

The Code of Hammurabi was found among the cuneiform tablets of the library of Ashurbanipal. It is now in the Louvre. It was first published in Scheil, "Textes élamites-sémitiques. Deuxième s&eacut…

1992 CE

#9264

The colonial disease: A social history of sleeping sickness in colonial Zaire, 1900-1940.

1997 CE

#11408

The complete genome sequence of Escherichia coli K-12.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Blattner, Plunkett, Bloch.... Complete genome sequence of E. coli, the first complete genome sequence of an organism. Following p. 1462 there are two large, unpaginated…

1990 CE

#13391

The condom industry in the United States.

1950 CE

#5264.2

The conquest of malaria.

1904 CE

#2437

The constituents of chaulmoogra seeds.

Hydnocarpus wightiana or Chaulmoogra is a tree in the Achariaceae family. The oil from seeds of Hydnocarpus wightiana or Chaulmoogra, a tree in the Achariaceae family, was widely used in Indian medicine and Chinese tr…

2022 CE

#14090

The contagion of liberty: The politics of smallpox in the American revolution.

"The Revolutionary War broke out during a smallpox epidemic, and in response, General George Washington ordered the inoculation of the Continental Army. But Washington did not have to convince fearful colonists to pro…

1937 CE

#2358

The control of tuberculosis in England, past and present.

1912 CE

#5255.1

The cultivation of malaria plasmodia (Plasmodium vivax and Plasmodium falciparum) in vitro.

Cultivation of the malaria parasite.

1904 CE

#2438

The cultivation of the Bacillus leprae.

Rost cultivated the leprosy bacillus, and he prepared leprolin, formerly used in treating leprosy.