Who Discovered That Intestinal Worm Infections Could Be Diagnosed by Finding Eggs in the Faeces?

Théodoridès J . Une centenaire en Parasitologic. Davaine et le diagnostic des helminthiases par Texamen microscopique des selles (1857). Presse Med 1957; 65: 2124

Davaine C . Sur le diagnostic de la présence des vers dans l'intestin par l'inspection microscopique des matières expulsées. C R Soc Biol 1857;second series; 4: 188–9

Davaine C . Traité des entozoaires. Paris: J-B Baillière et fils, 1860: 1–838

Anonymous. The week. Br Med J 1863; ii: 65

Ransom WH . Ova of entozoa in faeces. Br Med J 1863; ii: 161–2

Ransom WH . On the diagnosis of, and treatment for, round worm; and on the occurrence of a new species of Taenia in the human body. Medical Times and Gazette 1856;newseries; 12: 598–600

Wedl C . Grundzüge der pathologischen Histologic . Wien: Carl Gerold & Sohn, 1855:1–825. (English edition: Rudiments of pathological histology. Translator Busk G .: London: The Sydenham Society, 1855: 1–637)

Bilharz T . Fernere mittheilungen über Distomum haematobium. Zeitschrift für wissenschaftliche Zoologie 1853; 4: 454–6. (Partly translated in: Kean BH . eds. Tropical medicine and parasitology, classic investigations. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1978:1–677)

Swayne JG . Observations on the report of the College of Physicians relative to the organic bodies discovered in evacuations of cholera patients. Lancet 1849; ii: 530–2

Berkeley MJ . On the large cells observed in cholera evacuations by J. G. Swayne, Esq., M.D., Dr Budd, and others. London Medical Gazette 1849; 44: 1035–7

Farley J . The spontaneous generation controversy (1700–1860): The origin of parasitic worms. J Hist Biol 1972; 5: 95–125

Paget J . On the discovery of Trichina. Lancet 1866; i: 269

Gruby D Delafond H . Note sur une altération vermineuses du sang d'un chien déterminée par un grand nombre d'hématozoaires du genre filaire. C R Séances Acad Sci 1843; 16: 325–6. (Abstracted in Lancet 1843; i: 265)

Cobbold TS . On the supposed rarity, nomenclature, structure, affinities and source of the large human fluke (Distoma crassum Busk). J Linnean Soc 1875; 12: 285–96

Walker JH . Two cases of beri-beri associated with Distoma crassum, Anchylostoma duodenale and other parasites. Br Med J 1891; ii: 1205

Anonymous. A rare parasite. Br Med J 1891; ii: 1223–5

Grassi B Parona C Parona E . Intorno all'anchilostoma duodenale (Dubini). Gazzetta Medica Italiana Lombardia 1878; 38: 193–6. (Translated in: Kean BH . eds. Tropical medicine and parasitology, classic investigations. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1978: 1–677)

Normand L (presented by Jurien de la Gravière). Sur la maladie dite diarrhée de Cochinchine. C R Séances Acad Sci 1876; 83: 316–18

Zancarol A . A specimen of Bilharzia, &c., with ova in the intestines of the bladder and large intestine. Trans Pathol Soc London 1882; 33: 410–12

Manson P . Report of a case of Bilharzia from the West Indies. Br Med J 1902; ii: 1894–5

Kawanishi K (Kasai). (A report on a study of ‘Katayama disease’ in Higo-No-Kuni.) Tokyo Igakkai Zasshi 1904; 18:(3): 31–48. In Japanese. (Partly translated in: Kean BH eds. Tropical medicine and parasitology, classic investigations. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1978: 1–677)

Roux Tardieu Un case de distomatose hépatique (Opisthorchis sinensis) chez une Européene. Bull Soc Médico-Chirurgicale de l'Indochine 1912; 3: 528–32