An Interactive Annotated World Bibliography of Printed and Digital Works in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences from Circa 2000 BCE to 2022 by Fielding H. Garrison (1870-1935), Leslie T. Morton (1907-2004), and Jeremy M. Norman (1945- ) Traditionally Known as “Garrison-Morton”

15961 entries, 13944 authors and 1935 subjects. Updated: March 22, 2024

CASTELLANI, Aldo

5 entries
  • 5276

On the discovery of a species of trypanosoma in the cerebrospinal fluid of cases of sleeping sickness.

Proc. roy. Soc., 71, 501-08, 1903.

While in Uganda, Castellani discovered T. gambiense in human cerebrospinal fluid. A paper in Notes Rec. roy. Soc., 1973, 23, 93-110, discounts Castellani’s claim that although he first discovered trypanosomes in the cerebrospinal fluid of sleeping sickness patients, he failed to appreciate the etiological significance of this until it was brought home to him by Sir David Bruce.



Subjects: COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › Uganda, INFECTIOUS DISEASE › VECTOR-BORNE DISEASES › Tsetse Fly-Borne Diseases › Sleeping Sickness (African Trypanosomiasis), PARASITOLOGY › Trypanosoma
  • 5306

On the presence of spirochaetes in two cases of ulcerated parangi (yaws).

Brit med. J., 2, 1280, 1330-31, 1430, 1905.

Castellani demonstrated in scrapings of yaws tissue a spirochaete, T. pertenue, later found to be the causal organism. He thus finally established it as a distinct organism from the syphilis spirochaete. Preliminary note in J. Ceylon. Br. Brit. med. Ass., 1905, 2, pt. 1, 54.



Subjects: BACTERIOLOGY › BACTERIA (mostly pathogenic; sometimes indexed only to genus) › Spirochetes › Treponema , INFECTIOUS DISEASE › Treponematoses › Yaws
  • 2267

Manual of tropical medicine.

London: Baillière, Tindall & Cox, 1910.

Castellani made several discoveries of great importance in tropical medicine. The above work is a standard text on tropical medicine in English. Third edition, 1919.



Subjects: TROPICAL Medicine
  • 5535.1

Note on certain protozoa-like bodies in a case of protracted fever with splenomegaly.

J. trop. Med., 17, 113-14, 1914.

Castellani was first to suspect that toxoplasmosis could affect humans.



Subjects: INFECTIOUS DISEASE › Toxoplasmosis, PARASITOLOGY › Protozoa › Toxoplasma gondii
  • 3193

Note sur la “broncho-spirochétose” et les “bronchites mycosiques”, affections simulant quelquefois la tuberculose pulmonaire.

Presse méd., 25, 377-80, 1917.

“Castellani’s bronchitis” (bronchospirochetosis).



Subjects: RESPIRATION › Respiratory Diseases