Facets

1943 CE

#5509

Congenital defects in infants following infectious diseases during pregnancy.

Figures demonstrating that rubella in the first or second month of pregnancy always results in an abnormal infant. With A. L. Tostevin, B. Moore, H. Mayo, and G. H. B. Black.

1889 CE

#5936

Conjonctivite infectieuse transmise par les animaux.

Parinaud described an infectious tuberculous conjunctivitis transmissible from animals to man. In 1924 Gifford suggested the name “Parinaud’s oculo-glandular syndrome” as a more suitable description.…

1953 CE

#5143

Conquest of plague. A study of the evolution of epidemiology.

1998 CE

#9650

Contagion and confinement: Controlling tuberculosis along the skid road.

2020 CE

#12013

Continual raving: A history of meningitis and the people who conquered it.

1927 CE

#5219

Contribución al estudio de la linfogranulomatosis inguinal subaguda o ulcera venérea adenógena de Nicolás y Favre.

Gay Prieto was the first actually to see the infective agent of lymphogranuloma venereum.

1911 CE

#5285.1

Contribuiçao para o estudo da anatomia patolojica da “molestia de Carlos Chagas”.

Demonstration of the mode of reproduction of T. cruzi. Text in Portuguese and German. See also the paper by Chagas in pp. 219-75 of the same journal.

1894 CE

#5063

Contribution à l’étude de la diphtérie (sérum thérapie).

Roux and Martin demonstrated the value of Behring’s specific antitoxin in the treatment of human diphtheria, and showed how it could be produced on a large scale.

1888 CE–1889 CE

#5059

Contribution a l’étude de la diphtérie.

Confirmation of the work of Loeffler and demonstration of the exotoxin. This work is the starting point of the development of an immunizing serum.

1860 CE

#2249

Contributions to the natural history of insolatio.

Barclay, an army surgeon in India, wrote an important paper on heat-stroke.

1968 CE

#12038

Correspondence of Pasteur & Thuillier concerning anthrax and swine fever vaccinations. Translated and edited by Robert M. Frank and Denise Wrotnowska. Preface by Louis Pasteur Vallery-Radot.

Edition and translation of about 60 letters mostly between Pasteur and his protegé Louis Thuillier in the Reynolds Historical Library at the University of Alabama. During the period involved in this corresponde…

2020 CE

#13519

Correspondence. Transmission of 2019 nCoV infection from an asymptomatic contact in Germany.

Posted online 1-30-20, updated 2-6-20, and published in print on March 5, 2020. First report of the "asymptomatic transmission" of Covid-19. The authors wrote, “The fact that asymptomatic persons are potential s…

1656 CE

#7620

Cortex Peruviae redivivus, profligator febrium, assertus ab impugnationibus Melippi Protimi ...

The first book on Peruvian bark or cinchona (chinchona) in the treatment of malaria.

1814 CE

#8219

Coup-d'oeil sur Saint-Domingue; observations sur le caractère des négres et sur la fièvre jaune; moyens de recouvrer cette colonie, et de se préserver des maladies qui y règnent.

Digital facsimile from patrimoines-martinique.org at this link.

2020 CE

#13520

Covid-19 and Kawasaki disease: Novel virus and novel case.

Published online 4-7-20; in print in June, 2020. First case report of what became known as Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C), sometimes present with Kawasaki disease. This is one of the worst compl…

2020 CE

#12190

Covid-19 changed how the world does science, together. Never before, scientists say, have so many of the world's researchers focused so urgently on a single topic. Nearly all other research has ground to a halt.

April 1, 2020. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/01/world/europe/coronavirus-science-research-cooperation.html "Using flag-draped memes and military terminology, the Trump administration and its Chinese counterparts hav…

2020 CE

#13484

COVID-19 vaccine development and a potential nanomaterial path forward.

Published 15 July 2020. Order of authorship in original publication: Shin, Shukla, Chung....Steinmetz. Probably the first publication on the type of nanotechnology involved in production of the Moderna and Pfizer mRNA…

2020 CE

#13483

Cryo-EM structure of the 2019-nCoV spike in the prefusion conformation.

Posted online on February 17, 2020. 2019-nCoV was an interim name for the Novel Coronavirus. These studies, which included the 3D structure of the RBD (receptor binding domain) within the S protein, provided informati…

1945 CE

#5399

Cultivation of Rickettsia tsutsugamushi in lungs of rodents. Preparation of a scrub-typhus vaccine.

Scrub-typhus vaccine.

1921 CE

#5392

Cultivation of rickettsia-like bodies in typhus fever.

Isolation of Rickettsia prowazeki from the blood. With S. A. Ritter and G. Baehr.

1949 CE

#4671.1

Cultivation of the Lansing strain of poliomyelitis virus in cultures of various human embryonic tissues.

Enders, Weller, and Robbins grew the poliomyelitis virus in cultures of different tissues. Their method proved of great value in virus research, and removed the final obstacles to vaccine production. In 1974 Enders, W…

1934 CE

#5222

Cultivation of the virus of lymphogranuloma inguinale and its use in therapeutic inoculation. Preliminary report.

1936 CE

#5480

Cultivation of the viruses of sandfly fever and dengue fever on the chorioallantoic membrane of the chick-embryo.

Cultivation of the virus of phlebotomus fever. With R. S. Rao and C. S. Swaminath.

1928 CE

#5434.1

Cultivation of vaccinia virus without tissue culture.

Introduction of “Maitland’s medium”.

1938 CE

#5449

Culture “in vitro” du virus de la rougeole.

Successful cultivation of measles virus.

1851 CE

#4169

Cystitis; lateral operation on the bladder, death; tuberculous kidney.

First cystotomy for inflammation and rupture of the bladder.

1892 CE

#5439.1

Das Auftreten von Varizellen unter eigentümlichen Verhältnissen.

Bokay was the first to suggest an etiological relationship between varicella and herpes zoster. See also his paper in Wien. klin. Wschr., 1909, 22, 1323-26.

1878 CE–1879 CE

#2392

Das Contagium der Syphilis. Eine experimentelle Studie.

Klebs inoculated syphilis into apes and probably saw the spirochete before Schaudinn and Hoffmann.

1909 CE

#5479

Das Pappatacifieber.

An Austrian military commission consisting of R. Doerr, K. Franz, and S. Taussig proved that the causal organism of pappataci fever was a virus and that Phlebotomus papatasii was the vector.

1507 CE

#2270

De abditis nonnulus ac mirandis morborum et sanationum causis. Edited by Girolamo Benivieni.

Antonio Benivieni's The hidden causes of diseases was the first book on pathological anatomy, presenting the first reports of autopsies made specifically to determine the cause of death. The work records twenty post-m…

c. 1474 CE

#5113

De epidemia et peste.

One of the earliest works written on public health, and one of the earliest printed medical books. It was first printed in Arnaldus de Villanova’s De arte cognoscendi venena (Padua, 1473; Mantua, 1473). Above is…

1578 CE

#5372.1

De febre purpura epidemiali et contagiosa libri duo.

Coytard distinguished between petechial typhus and typhoid.

1641 CE

#5074

De febribus libri IV.

Sennert gave the first scientific description of scarlet fever. He was the first to mention the scarlatinal desquamation, the early arthritis, and post-scarlatinal edema, but made no mention of sore throat.

1767 CE

#5196

De gonorrhoea virulenta.

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

1519 CE

#9847

De guaiaci medicina et morbo gallico liber unus.

The German scholar, poet, satirist and reformer von Hutten issued a remarkably widely published and influential account of his suffering from syphilis and his treatment with gum from Guaiacum wood. This is considered …

1744 CE

#4302

De iis, qui ex tuberculis gibberosi fiunt.

Platner affirmed the tuberculous nature of humpback, which had earlier been surmised by Hippocrates and confirmed by Galen.

1658 CE

#1825

De Indiae utriusque re naturali et medica libri quatuordecim.

This is an extensively revised and enlarged second edition of Piso’s Historia naturalis Brasiliae (1648). In this edition Piso reprinted Bontius's De medicina Indorum (1642) with two additional books on Asian fl…

1819 CE

#2673

De l’auscultation médiate, ou traité du diagnostic des maladies des poumons et du coeur. 2 vols.

This book revolutionized the study of diseases of the chest. Auscultation in the instrumental sense dates from Laennec’s invention of the stethoscope (at first merely a roll of stiff paper) with a view to amplif…

1835 CE

#5850

De l’emploi de l’excision et de la cautérisation à l’aide du nitrate d’argent fondu dans l’ophthalmie blennorrhagique.

Silver nitrate for treatment of gonococcal ophthalmia. Digital facsimile from wellcomecollection.org at this link.

1828 CE

#4315

De l’orthomorphie. 2 vols. and atlas.

Delpech, Professor of Surgery at Montpellier, published a comprehensive treatise on deformities of the bones and joints. He established the tuberculous nature of Pott’s disease. Delpech did more than any other m…

1873 CE

#2326

De l’unité de la phthisie. Thèse pour le doctorat en médecine. No. 50

Confirmation of Villemin. Grancher in 1903 instituted the “Grancher system” – the boarding out of children from tuberculous households in France. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this l…

1874 CE

#5235

De la fièvre bilieuse mélanurique des pays chauds comparée avec la fièvre jaune.

An important description of blackwater fever. Berenger-Féraud had experience with the disease in French West Africa.

1536 CE

#5370

De malo recentiorum medicorum medendi usu libellus.

Includes (cap. XXXVI) an early account of typhus, morbus pulicaris. English translation in Major, Classic descriptions of disease, 3rd ed., Springfield: Charles C Thomas, 1945, p. 163.

1642 CE

#2263

De medicina Indorum.

Bontius was probably the first to regard tropical medicine as an independent branch of medical science. He spent the last four years of his life in the Dutch East Indies, and his book incorporates the experience he ga…

1736 CE

#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…

1566 CE–1567 CE

#2372

De morbo gallico omnia quae extant. 3 vols.

A collection of important writings on syphilis to 1500. Boerhaave published a revision of this work in 1728, covering the period 1495-1566.

1563 CE

#2370

De morbo gallico.

Falloppius was one of the first prominent opponents of the use of mercury in syphilis. He distinguished syphilitic and non-syphilitic condylomata.

1717 CE

#5232

De noxiis paludum effluviis, eorumque remediis.

Lancisi suggested that since malaria disappears after drainage it was due to some sort of poison emanating from marshes and possibly transmitted by mosquitoes. He planned a drainage scheme for marshy regions. His work…

1531 CE

#5521

De peste Brittanica commentariolus vere aureus.

Schyller’s book on sweating sickness deals with the German epidemic of 1528-30.

1646 CE

#5117

De peste libri quatuor, truculentissimi morbi historiam ratione et experientiâ confirmatum exhibentes.

English translation, 1722. Digital facsimile of the Amsterdam 1665 edition revised and expanded by the author from Google Books at this link.