Facets

1598 CE

#2262

The cures of the diseased, in remote regions. Preventing mortalitie, incident in forraine attempts, of the English nation.

This book is the earliest work in English devoted to tropical medicine. It discusses sunstroke, tabardilla (possibly typhus or yellow fever), prickly heat, dysentery, erysipelas and scurvy. Facsimile reproduction, wit…

1981 CE

#4158.2

The dermatology and syphilology of the nineteenth century.

A scholarly work written in a particularly entertaining style.

1944 CE

#5259.2

The development of Plasmodium gallinaceum from sporozoite to erythrocytic trophozoite.

First detailed account of the full cycle of development of the avian malaria parasite P. gallinaceum.

1896 CE

#5444

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.

1925 CE

#2427

The earliest printed literature on syphilis. Being ten tractates from the years 1495-98

1950 CE

#13804

The early smallpox epidemics in Europe and the plague of Athens after Thucydides.

2014 CE

#10778

The early spread and epidemic ignition of HIV-1 in human populations.

Using the viral genome isolated from the archival serum of the "Kinshasa patient", Lemey, Faria and colleagues deduced that the prototype African viral strain first crossed from monkeys to humans about 1920 in the are…

1940 CE

#2349

The effect of promin (sodium salt of P. P’-diamino-diphenyl-sulfone-N, N’-dextrose sulfonate) on experimental tuberculosis: a preliminary report.

Experimental evidence of the value of promin (sodium glucosulphone) in tuberculosis. With H. C. Hinshaw and H.E. Moses. See also Amer. Rev. Tuberc., 1942, 45, 303-33.

1945 CE

#13801

The effect of smallpox on the destiny of the Amerindian.

2014 CE

#8189

The emergence of tropical medicine in France.

2018 CE

#10946

The emergence of Zika virus and its new clinical syndromes.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Pierson, Diamond. Analyzes, and documents with 147 references, the variety of new clinical syndromes, including fetal / in utero effects, caused by the Zika virus. Also…

2015 CE

#13891

The end of a global pox: America and the eradication of smallpox in the cold war era.

1879 CE

#10524

The epidemic of 1878 in Mississippi: Report of the yellow fever relief work.

Digital facsimile from the U.S. National Library of Medicine at this link.

1980 CE

#13803

The eradication of smallpox from Bangladesh.

1979 CE

#13788

The eradication of smallpox from India.

1976 CE

#14127

The eradication of smallpox.

Henderson's paper in the October 1976 issue of Scientific American was one of the first published announcements of the completion of the eradication of smallpox. Illustrating the iconic photograph of a mother holding …

1922 CE

#11919

The etiology and epidemiology of influenza.

Digital facsimile from Harvard Library at this link.

1922 CE

#5393

The etiology and pathology of typhus. Being the main report of the Typhus Research Commission of the League of Red Cross Societies to Poland.

The carefully controlled experiments of Wolbach, Todd, and Palfrey eliminated all doubt that R. prowazeki was the causal agent in typhus. Digital facsimile from the U.S. National Library of Medicine at this link.

1924 CE

#5082.1

The etiology of scarlet fever.

Proof that streptococcus is the cause of scarlet fever.

1910 CE

#5380.1

The etiology of the typhus fever (tabardillo) of Mexico City. A further preliminary report.

Demonstration of the causal organism of typhus.

1901 CE

#9372

The etiology of yellow fever: An additional note.

"The article describes a series of experiments conducted to explore how yellow fever is propagated from individual to individual and how the contagium is spread within households. The study was conducted in an experim…

1900 CE

#5457

The etiology of yellow fever. A preliminary note.

First definite proof that the organism causing yellow fever is transmitted to man by the mosquito Aëdes aegypti. During the period spent by these workers in the investigation of the disease in Cuba Lazear and Car…

1964 CE

#2447.1

The fight against leprosy.

1883 CE

#2455

The Filaria sanguinis hominis and certain new form of parasitic disease in India, China and warm countries.

A collection of several papers written by Manson.

1940 CE

#5259.1

The form of Plasmodium, gallinaceum present in the incubation period of the infection.

Independently of Mudrow, H. E. Shortt, K. P. Menon, and P. V. Seetharama Iyer found pre-erythrocytic forms of P. gallinaceum in the tissues.

2015 CE

#11368

The genealogy of a gene: Patents, HIV/AIDS, and race.

"Myles Jackson uses the story of the CCR5 gene to investigate the interrelationships among science, technology, and society. Mapping the varied “genealogy” of CCR5—intellectual property, natural sele…

2005 CE

#11339

The genome of the African trypanosome Trypanosoma brucei.

Genome of the parasite that causes Sleeping Sickness. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.)

2002 CE

#11337

The genome sequence of the malaria mosquito Anopheles gambiae.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Holt, Subramanian, Halpern.... Sequence of the genome of Anopheles gambiae, the mosquito that carries the malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum. (Thanks to Juan Weiss…

1875 CE

#10451

The geographical distribution of heart disease and dropsy, cancer in females & phthisis in females, in England and Wales. Illustrated by six small and three large coloured maps.

Haviland used the national mortality statistics for England and Wales to develop an elaborate geographical explanation based on map analysis for the cause of heart, cancer, and tuberculosis deaths. He found that femal…

1980 CE

#5434.2

The global eradication of smallpox. Final report of the Global Commission for the Certification of Smallpox Eradication.

On 8 May 1980, the World Health Organization officially announced that “smallpox eradication has been achieved throughout the world”. The upper cover of this report reproduces an electron micrograph of a s…

2004 CE

#9974

The great influenza: The epic story of the greatest plague in history.

1996 CE

#14050

The great pox. The French disease in Renaissance Europe.

2016 CE

#9694

The great transition: Climate, disease and society in the late-medieval world.

1909 CE

#13476

The great white plague: Tuberculosis.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1891 CE

#5061

The histological changes in experimental diphtheria.

An account of the pathological changes brought about by experimental inoculation of diphtheria toxins.

1905 CE–1906 CE

#5440

The histology of the skin lesions in varicella.

Tyzzer was first to recognize inclusion bodies in varicella.

1913 CE

#5436

The historic evolution of variolation.

2015 CE

#10800

The historical ecology of malaria in Ethiopia: Deposing the spirits.

1933 CE

#2429

The history and epidemiology of syphilis.

1933 CE

#5264

The history of malaria in the Roman Campagna from ancient times. Edited and enlarged by Anna Celli-Fraentzel.

Reprinted New York, 1977.

1821 CE

#12757

The history of plague, as it has lately appeared in the islands of Malta, Gozo, Corfu, Cephalonia, &c. detailing specific contagion of that disease, with particulars of the means adeopted for its eradication.

Concerns the Maltese plague,. 1813-1814. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1914 CE

#13802

The history of small-pox in Australia 1788-1908.

A second volume, The history of small-pox in Australia, 1909-1923 by J.H.L. Compston and F. McCallum was published in Melbourne: H. J. Green, govt. printer, 1925.

1849 CE

#7689

The history of the cholera in Exeter in 1832.

Includes “Map of Exeter in 1832 Shewing the Localities Where the Deaths Caused by Pestilential Cholera Occurred in the Years 1832, 1833 & 1834.” This map used red horizontal bars to illustrate outbreaks in…

1815 CE

#13799

The history of the small pox.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

2003 CE

#9452

The history of tropical neurology: Nutritional disorders.

1842 CE

#10064

The history, diagnosis, and treatment of typhoid and of typhus fever: With an essay on the diagnosis of bilious remittent and of yellow fever.

Bartlett's book contains the first complete description of typhoid fever in English. In 1908 Osler wrote, "The chief interest of the work today lies in the remarkably accurate picture which is given of typhoid fever--…

2022 CE

#14168

The Huanan seafood wholesale market in Wuhan was the early epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Worobey and colleagues showed: 1) The earliest case of an abnormal pneumonia was first reported to the World Health Organization on Dec. 31, 2019. 2) Using basic epidemiology going back to the now iconic plot maps dra…

1813 CE

#8211

The influence of tropical climates, more especially the climate of India, on European constitutions; the principal effects and diseases thereby induced, their prevention or removal, and the means of preserving health in hot climates, rendered obvious to to Europeans in every capacity: An essay .

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link. Enlarged and retitled second edition: The influence of tropical climates on European constitutions: to which is added tropical hygiene, or the preservation of …

1927 CE

#5350.8

The insect transmission of Onchocerca volvulus (Leuckart, 1893), the cause of worm nodules in man in Africa.

The fly Simulium damnosum shown to be the vector of onchocerciasis.

1979 CE

#13796

The invisible fire: The story of mankind's victory over the ancient scourge of smallpox.