HISTORY OF THE TYPHOID FEVERS
Antonius Musa
Antonius Musa, a Roman physician who achieved fame by treating the Emperor Augustus 2,000 year ago, with cold baths when he fell ill with typhoid.
Thomas Willis
Thomas Willis who is credited with the first description of typhoid fever in 1659.
William Wood Gerhard
William Wood Gerhard who was the first to differentiate clearly between typhus fever and typhoid in 1837.
Carl Joseph Eberth
Carl Joseph Eberth who discovered the typhoid bacillus in 1880.
Georges Widal
Georges Widal who described the ‘Widal agglutination reaction’ of the blood in 1896.
