Microorganisms

By Meghna mishra

  • The Tuberculin Skin Test

    The tuberculin skin test (TST or Mantoux) was developed. NOTE- I don't know the actual date, so I put the 1st of January.

  • Joseph Bazalgette- Cholera

    Joseph Bazalgette (b.1819), English civil engineer, died. He built interceptor sewers along the banks of the Thames and ended cholera outbreaks in London.

  • Cattle Tuberculosis

    1st cattle tuberculosis test in US was made at Villa Nova, PA.

  • Cholera in the United Stated

    The Moravia, a passenger ship arriving from Germany, brought cholera to the United States.

  • The plague

    The plague in China reached its port cities and began to circle the globe. In Hong Kong it killed some 10,000 people. Dr Alexander Yersin, a French bacteriologist sent to Hong Kong by the Institute Pasteur, found in the buboes of the plague victims "a swarm of microbes, all similar in appearance...short bacilli with rounded ends."
    NOTE- I don't know the actual date, so I put the 1st of January.

  • Bacillus botulinus

    Prof. Emile Pierre van Ermengem of Belgium identified the bacterium Bacillus botulinus.
    NOTE- I don't know the actual date, so I put the 1st of January.

  • Louis Pasteur

    Louis Pasteur (b.1822), French chemist (Pasteurization), died at 72. In 1995 Gerald Geison (d.2001) authored “The Private Science of Louis Pasteur.

  • Bubonic plague

    A French scientist at the Pasteur Institute made the crucial connection between rats and fleas as carriers of bubonic plague. NOTE- I don't know the actual date, so I put the 1st of January.

  • Plague in Bombay

    Dr. Paul-Louis Simond discovered the connections between rats, fleas and humans in the transmittance of the Plague in Bombay, India.

  • Hookworm

    Dr. Charles Wardell Stiles, a zoologist, identified "progressive pernicious anemia," seen in the southern United States, caused by A. duodenale. Doctors, public health officials, and northern businessmen worked to destroy what they called the "germ of laziness." They believed such a germ caused many of the South's problems, poverty, a sickly population, and economic underdevelopment. But the germ these people were attacking wasn't a germ at all. It was a worm, the hookworm.

  • Aspirin

    Aspirin was patented following Felix Hoffman’s discoveries about the properties of acetylsalicylic acid.

  • Plague

    The cargo steamship Australia arrived in San Francisco at the end of a voyage from Hawaii. Plague was known to have already hit Honolulu and rats aboard the ship carried the disease. Wong Chut King became the city’s first victim when he was found dead at the Globe Hotel at Jackson and DuPont (later Grant Ave.). A short term rope quarantine was created around the 6-by-2 block area of Chinatown.

  • Bubonic plague

    In Australia Arthur Paine (33), a delivery man whose daily work brought him into contact with Sidney’s Central Wharf, died of Bubonic plague. A population of black rats had been likely introduced to Australia on the first fleet of ships carrying white settlers.

  • Yersinia pestis bacterium

    It was reported that 9 deaths in San Francisco’s Chinatown were caused by Bubonic plague, the Yersinia pestis bacterium, and that 159 policemen had set up a quarantine. In 2003 Marilyn Chase authored “The Barbary Plague: The Black Death in Victorian San Francisco."

  • Yellow fever

    A commission that included Dr. Walter Reed began the fight against the deadly disease yellow fever. Walter Reed (1851-1902), U.S. Army doctor, went to Cuba and verified that yellow fever was caused by a mosquito.