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

MacCALLUM, William George

4 entries
  • 5246

On the flagellated form of the malarial parasite.

Lancet, 2, 1240-41, 1897.

MacCallum reported at a meeting of the British Association his observation of the mode of fertilization of the malarial parasite of birds; two months later he announced that he had found the same to hold good for the human parasite.



Subjects: INFECTIOUS DISEASE › VECTOR-BORNE DISEASES › Mosquito-Borne Diseases › Malaria, PARASITOLOGY › Plasmodia › P. vivax, P. falciparum, P. malariae, P. ovale, and P. knowlesi
  • 5250

Notes on the pathological changes in the organs of birds infected with haemocytozoa.

J. exp. Med., 3, 103-16, 117-36, 1898.

MacCallum and Opie discovered the sexual phase of malaria parasites.



Subjects: INFECTIOUS DISEASE › VECTOR-BORNE DISEASES › Mosquito-Borne Diseases › Malaria, PARASITOLOGY › Plasmodia, VETERINARY MEDICINE › Veterinary Parasitology
  • 3859

On the relation of tetany to the parathyroid glands and to calcium metabolism.

J. exp. Med., 11, 118-51, 1909.

Proof that the parathyroids control calcium metabolism. MacCallum and Voegtlin were able to demonstrate the removal of post-parathyroidectomy tetany by administration of calcium.



Subjects: ENDOCRINOLOGY › Parathyroids
  • 3962

On the relation of the islands of Langerhans to glycosuria.

Johns Hopk. Hosp. Bull., 20, 265-68, 1909.

MacCallum suggested a relationship between lesions of the islands of Langerhans and the glycosuria of diabetes.



Subjects: Metabolism & Metabolic Disorders › Diabetes