MITCHELL, John Kearsley (1793 – 1858)
1793 – 1858
2 entries in the GMN corpus.
1831 CE
#4493
On a new practice in acute and chronic rheumatism.
First description of the neurotic spinal arthropathies.
1849 CE
#5234
On the cryptogamous origin of malarious and epidemic fevers.
Although Hensinger in 1844 had suggested a parasite as the cause of malaria, Mitchell was the first to approach this theory in a scientific spirit. He was Professor of Medicine at Jefferson College, and the father of …