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

LEISHMAN, Sir William Boog

4 entries
  • 5039

Remarks on the results which have been obtained by the antityphoid inoculations.

Brit. med. J., 1, 122-29, 1900.

The active inoculation of man against typhoid was first performed by Wright in 1896. For a preliminary note see Lancet, 1896, 2, 807.



Subjects: IMMUNOLOGY › Immunization, INFECTIOUS DISEASE › Salmonellosis › Typhoid Fever
  • 5253

Note on a simple and rapid method of producing Romanowsky staining in malarial and other blood films.

Brit. med. J., 2, 757-58, 1901.

“Leishman’s stain”, a modification of that introduced by Romanovsky in 1891.



Subjects: INFECTIOUS DISEASE › VECTOR-BORNE DISEASES › Mosquito-Borne Diseases › Malaria
  • 5295

On the possibility of the occurrence of trypanosomiasis in India.

Brit. med. J., 1, 1252-54; 2, 1376-77, 1903.

An organism found by Leishman in 1900 was later described by him as possibly a trypanosome. C. Donovan found the same organism in blood in July 1903. The name Leishmania donovani (Leishman-Donovan bodies) was later attached to these organisms.



Subjects: INFECTIOUS DISEASE › VECTOR-BORNE DISEASES › Sandfly-Borne Diseases › Leishmaniasis, PARASITOLOGY › Trypanosoma
  • 5298

Note on the nature of the parasitic bodies found in tropical splenomegaly.

Brit. med. J., 1, 303, 1904.


Subjects: INFECTIOUS DISEASE › VECTOR-BORNE DISEASES › Sandfly-Borne Diseases › Leishmaniasis, PARASITOLOGY, TROPICAL Medicine