[Leish-l] Oriental Sore

[jeffrey shaw]

Attached are comments on a paper written by Bob Killick-Kendrick (Attached) on Oriental Sore

 

BobKillick-Kendrick <killickendrick at wanadoo.fr>
Attached, for your amusement,is an account of the discovery that cutaneous leishmaniasis is carried by sand flies.
 Bob
 
Farrokh Modabber <modabberf at yahoo.com>
Dear Bob,
Thank you for your interesting paper a very good review of relatively recent history.  For the earlier parts, it seems that Avicenna was not the first to describe CL.  He was better known in the West with his books (included  escription of CL) which were used as textbook in medical schools in Europe so he is thought by western historian to be the first to describe CL.  
Indeed it was Abubakr Muhammad ibn Zakariya Razi  (865-925,  born and died in Ray, near Tehran) who described earlier what is probably ACL.  Finally it was Ismail Gorgani  Jorjani, 1042-1136,  born in Gorgan, died in Marv ) who described the “Natural History”  of the disease, called it Pashé gazidegui = mosquito-bitten and later salak  meaning a short year in Persian).  
So the knowledge of the disease being vector borne actually dates back some time.  There is a fairly recent  book  on the history of medicine in Iran by Tajbakhsh published 2-3 years ago (unfortunately only in Persian) that documents what I have mentioned above.  
Credit or blame should be given to Dr Hasan Tajbakhsh, Prof. Tehran Faculty of Vet. Med.
Unfortunately I can't find his e-mail address.
All the best and warm regards,
Farrokh 
 
"Chang, Kwang-Poo" <KwangPoo.Chang at rosalindfranklin.edu>
Dear Farrokh,
 
Fuad Sukkar (1985) cited Bray, Abdul-Rahim and Tajeldin (1967) Protozoology 2, 171-186 with the following statements:
 
..1st record..CL found in the library of King Ashurpanipal of Assyria in Nineva (Mosul, Iraq)..described painless ulceration translated from a tablet of old Akkadian ..in 2nd or 3rd millennium BC. 
 
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