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Garrison-Morton-Norman History of Medicine
NOCARD, Edmond Isidore Etienne (1850 – 1903)

NOCARD, Edmond Isidore Etienne (1850 – 1903)

1850 – 1903

2 entries in the GMN corpus.

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1888 CE

#5512.1

Note sur la maladie des boeufs de la Guadeloupe, connue sous le nom de farcin.

NOCARD, Edmond Isidore Etienne (1850 – 1903)
NOCARD, Edmond Isidore Etienne (1850 – 1903)

The first pathogenic aerobic actinomycete to be described. It was later named Nocardia farcinica and is probably identical with N. asteroides.

1898 CE

#3182

Le microbe de la péripneumonie.

ROUX, Pierre Paul Émile (1853 – 1933)
NOCARD, Edmond Isidore Etienne (1850 – 1903)
NOCARD, Edmond Isidore Etienne (1850 – 1903)

Discovery of the causal organism of bovine pleuropneumonia, also known as lung plague. Nocard and Roux considered it a filterable virus but now known to be a mycoplasma.