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Period: 370 to 460
Hippocrates is the first person ever to describe me
Hippocrates lived from c.460-c.370 B.C. and found this out sometime around this date. He observed that I infected mainly young men, a fact that he attributed to their coming together at sports grounds. Women, who stayed home alone a lot weren't sick from me a lot. -
Guillaume de Baillou mentions me
After being originally found out I lay low for awhile, although sometimes people like by Guillaume de Baillou (1538-1616) recorded local epedemics of me. The one he recorded occured in Paris, France around this time, but at least somewhere in the sixteenth century. Most physicians believed that I was contagious, but no studies were made to confirm this suspicion so I was able to stay free and unsuspected. -
I am first described scientifically
I was first described scientifically and in detail by the British physician Robert Hamilton (1721-1793) in 1790. His paper in the Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh finally made the me well known among physicians. I felt so popualr back then! -
My popularity increases, but in a negative way
In 1913 two French physicians, Charles-Jean-Henri Nicolle (1866-1936) and Ernest Alfred Conseil, attempted to transmit me from humans to monkeys, but were unable to obtain conclusive results. that was gross business! I much prefer humans. -
More injections into other animals
Martha Wollstein injected part of my friends taken from the saliva of a one of my hosts into cats, producing inflammation of the parotid, testes, and brain tissue in the cats. I still prefer humans though. -
Two Americans find out how I move
Claude D. Johnson and Ernest William Goodpasture (1886-1960), two American researchers prove that I am a transmitted by a filterable virus. I can't believe that it took so long for them to figure that out. -
My worst enemy is created
John Enders, and American microbiologist, creates the MMR vaccine.
