Facets

#13552

A catalogue of rare syphilis books held in the Special Collections Department of the University of Glasgow.

https://www.gla.ac.uk/media/Media_389083_smxx.pdf Describes and illustrates in color over 200 rare books from the 15th century to 1820, including those in the Hunterian Collection, with links to more extensive online …

1832 CE

#10526

A geographical and statistical account of the epidemic cholera: From its commencement in India to its entrance into the United States: Comprehended in a series of maps and tables, exhibiting the names of places visited by the pestilence, the time of its commencement, the number of cases, and deaths, and duration, at each place: Compiled from a great variety of printed and manuscript documents.

Tanner, a prolific cartographer, wished to provide a geographic account of the spread of the worldwide cholera epidemic of 1817. Statistics concerning the epidemic, he complained, were "given in such a loose and uncon…

1946 CE

#2418.1

A microflocculation test for syphilis using cardiolipin antigen: preliminary report.

V. D. Research Laboratory test (Harris test). With A. A. Rosenberg and L. M. Riedel.

1950 CE

#2352

A new and practical B.C.G. skin test (the B.C.G. scarification test) for the detection of the total tuberculous allergy.

1937 CE

#2348

A new tuberculin patch test.

1922 CE

#2412

A simple quantative precipitation reaction for syphilis.

Kahn test.

1924 CE

#5082

A skin test for susceptibility to scarlet fever.

The “Dick test” for the determination of individual susceptibility to scarlet fever.

1819 CE

#10456

A statement of the occurrences during a malignant yellow fever in the city of New-York, in the summer and autumnal months of 1819; and of the check given to its progress, by the measures adopted by the Board of Health. With a list of cases and names of sick persons, and a map of their places of residence within the infected and proscribed limits: With a view of ascertaining, by comparative arguments, whether the distemper was engendered by domestic causes, or communicated by human contagion from foreign ports.

Pascalis mapped this yellow fever outbreak using a method similar to Valentine Seaman, but with a more extensive and detailed list of cases. A condensation of his 60-page pamphlet with a reissue of his map appeared in…

1832 CE

#7688

A treatise on epidemic cholera; including an historical account of its origin and progress, to the present period. Compiled from the most authentic sources.

This compendium contains one of the first world charts of a disease, tracing the spread of cholera from two main sources, India (1817) and China (1820), across Asia and the Middle East via trade routes, to France and …

1832 CE

#10463

A treatise on the epidemic cholera, as it has prevailed in India; together with the reports of the medical officers, made to the medical boards of the presidencies of Bengal, Madras, and Bombay, for the purpose of ascertaining a successful mode of treating that destructive disease; And a critical examination of all the works that have hitherto appeared on the subject.

Corbyn mapped the history of cholera in India within British regimental stations. He included the date of each reported outbreak in a table of British regimental locations to describe the temporal progression of the d…

1797 CE

#7687

An inquiry into the cause of the prevalence of the yellow fever in New-York.

Includes four early plot maps; Seaman was one of the first to create maps that attempted to show the spread of contagious disease.

2020 CE

#12156

Archiving web content on the Coronavirus Disease (Covid-19).

https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2020/03/26/archiving-web-content-on-the-coronavirus-disease-covid-19/ "The National Library of Medicine is archiving web and social media documenting the Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbr…

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…

1907 CE

#2338

Der diagnostische Wert der kutanen Tuberkulinreaktion bei der Tuberkulose des Kindesalters auf Grund von 100 Sektionen.

Introduction of Pirquet’s test – a cutaneous reaction employed in the diagnosis of tuberculosis.

1913 CE

#5066

Die Diphtherietoxin – Hautreaktion des Menschen als Vorprobe der prophylaktischen Diphtherieheilseruminjektion.

Schick developed his test for use as an indication as to whether or not prophylactic injections of antitoxin are necessary in children already exposed to diphtheria. English translation in J. Mt. Sinai Hosp., 1938, 5,…

1908 CE

#2340

Die kutane und konjunktivale Tuberkulinreaktion, ihre Bedeutung für Diagnostik und Prognose der Tuberkulose.

Wolff-Eisner’s conjunctival tuberculin reaction.

1908 CE

#12385

Die von Pirquet'sche Hautreaktion und die intravenöse Tuberkulinbehandlung.

First publication on the The Mantoux test or Mendel–Mantoux test (also known as the Mantoux screening test, tuberculin sensitivity test, Pirquet test, or PPD test for purified protein derivative) is a tool for s…

2020 CE

#12157

Documenting COVID-19, [a collaborative document.]

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1v5tso8spFq6SpW53h2OJULcdRoPEbyI6xpah31kW-H0/edit [I copied this document into this database on April 9, 2020.] "Documenting COVID-19 "https://bit.ly/doc-covid19 #doccovid19 This is …

1906 CE

#2402

Eine serodiagnostische Reaktion bei Syphilis.

The “Wassermann reaction”, a specific diagnostic blood test for syphilis, and a modification of the complement-fixation reaction of Bordet and Gengou. With A. Neisser and C. Bruck.

2014 CE

#12155

Global Health Events web archive.

Global Health Events web archive "Collected by: National Library of Medicine "Archived since: Oct, 2014 "Description: "A selective collection of over 12,000 web resources archived by the National Library of Medicine b…

1967 CE

#2419.4

Haemagglutination test utilizing pathogenic Treponema pallidum for the sero-diagnosis of syphilis.

Treponemal hemagglutination (TPHA) test.

2017 CE

#9958

HIV / AIDS Collected by: National Library of Medicine, Christine Wenc, curator.

https://archive-it.org/collections/8400 HIV/AIDS "A collection of websites selected and archived by the National Library of Medicine on biomedical, clinical, cultural, and social aspects of HIV/AIDS in the early 21st …

2016 CE

#14068

Influenza encyclopedia: The American influenza epidemic of 1918 - 1919: A digital encyclopedia. Second edition.

ABOUT "Historians, journalists, and the public at large have long been interested in the 1918 “Spanish flu” epidemic, a dramatic chapter in American life that has spawned an impressive body of books, artic…

1908 CE

#2341

Intradermo-réaction de la tuberculine.

Mantoux’s intradermal tuberculin skin test.

1886 CE–1890 CE

#7744

Klinicheskii sbornik po dermatologii i sifilologii. 4 vols.

Mansurov was the first dermatologist in Russia, and one of the first physicians to use photography systematically in medical illustration. This was a periodical, illustrated with original photographs, of which Manusro…

1908 CE

#5065

Kutanreaktion beil Impfung mit Diphtherietoxin.

The Schick test for the determination of susceptibility to diphtheria.

2009 CE

#10775

Long-term control of HIV by CCR5 Delta32/Delta32 stem-cell transplantation.

Gero Hütter and co-authors reported the first long-term remission or "cure" of HIV/AIDS in a human. The patient, Timothy Ray Brown also known as "The Berlin Patient" also suffered from myeloid leukemia and underw…

2004 CE

#10508

Mapping the Victorian social body.

"The cholera epidemics that plagued London in the nineteenth century were a turning point in the science of epidemiology and public health, and the use of maps to pinpoint the source of the disease initiated an explos…

1837 CE

#8803

Notes on the medical topography of Calcutta.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

2020 CE

#13485

Novel 2019 coronavirus genome.

https://virological.org/t/novel-2019-coronavirus-genome/319 "Novel 2019 coronavirus genome "10th January 2020 "This posting is communicated by Edward C. Holmes, University of Sydney on behalf of the consortium led by …

1855 CE

#9982

On the mode of communication of the cholera. Second edition, much enlarged.

The second edition of Snow's book on cholera, with 162pp. compared to 31pp. in the first edition, incorporated the results of five more years of research, and contained so much additional material that it was essentia…

1919 CE

#2440

On the value of a skin reaction to a suspension of leprous nodules.

Mitsuda (lepromin) reaction. English translation by the author in Int. J. Leprosy, 1953, 21, 347-58.

1871 CE–1872 CE

#10585

Photographic review of medicine and surgery. A bi-monthly illustration of interesting cases, accompanied by notes. Edited by F.F. Maury [and] L.A. Duhring. Vols. 1 & 2 (All published).

The leading 19th century American publication of artistic medical photography. Each of the two volumes includes 24 mounted photographs. The photographs ilustrate cases of unusual and extreme disease, such as gross def…

1694 CE

#10455

Raguaglio historico del contaggio occorso nella provincia di Bari negli anni 1690, 1691 e 1692.

Arrieta published two very early disease maps in this work showing locations of plague in the province of Bari, Italy, and his employment of troops to isolate those areas. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive a…

1834 CE

#7480

Rapport sur la marche et les effets du choléra-morbus dans Paris et les communes rurales du département de la Seine par la commission nommée, avec l'approbation de M. le ministre du commerce et des travaux publics, par MM. les préfets de la Seine et de police; année 1832.

This work contained one of the earliest applications of spatial analysis in epidemiology—an early thematic map by geographer and cartographer Charles Picquet, in which the 48 districts of Paris were represented …

1832 CE

#10457

Relation historique et médicale du choléra-morbus de Pologne, comprenant l'apparition de la maladie, sa march, ses progrès, ses symptômes, son mode de traitement et les moyens préservatifs. Avec une carte.

In his study of the spread of cholera in Poland in 1831 Brière de Boismont used a map to show the progression of the disease from a central point through the country along a red line through principal towns and…

1967 CE

#5509.4

Rubella-virus hemagglutination-inhibition test.

With five co-authors.

1918 CE

#5081

Serologische Beobachtungen am Scharlachexanthem.

Schultz–Charlton reaction.

1877 CE

#4344.1

Spinal disease and spinal curvature, their treatment by suspension and the use of the plaster of Paris bandage.

Sayre’s monograph on his methods of treating tuberculosis of the spine and scoliosis is the first American surgical textbook to contain actual mounted photographs, some of which are remarkable for their artistic…

1932 CE

#2414.1

Studies in the serology of syphilis. VII. A new flocculation test for the serum diagnosis of syphilis.

Eagle flocculation test.

1922 CE

#2413

Studies in the standardization of the Wassermann reaction. XXX. A new complement-fixation test for syphilis based upon the results of studies in the standardization of technic.

Kolmer test.

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…

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…

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…

1905 CE–1906 CE

#5440

The histology of the skin lesions in varicella.

Tyzzer was first to recognize inclusion bodies in varicella.

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…

1934 CE

#12387

The isolation and properties of the purified protein derivative of tuberculin

Purification of tuberculin (PPD). By the 1940s Seibert's PPD was the international standard for tuberculin tests.

1951 CE

#2352.1

The multiple-puncture tuberculin test.

The Heaf multiple-puncture tuberculin test.

1928 CE

#5434

The reaction of the skin of the normal rabbit following intradermal injection of material from smallpox lesions: the specificity of this reaction and its application as a diagnostic test.

McKinnon’s diagnostic test.

1832 CE

#10462

The substance of the official medical reports upon the epidemic, called cholera: Which prevailed among the poor at Dantzick, between the end of May and the first part of September, 1831, as transmitted to their lordships; being an analysis of the said epidemic disease in that city--founded upon actual observation and accurate inquiry: With important and well-authenticated facts relative to the same disease, as it prevailed among the poor in other parts of the North of Europe.

Hamett privately published this report after it was rejected for publication by the British government. He included hospital admission tables in his book and produced perhaps the first map based on hospital reports of…