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

ZINSSER, Hans

4 entries
  • 2568

Infection and resistance.

New York: Macmillan, 1914.


Subjects: IMMUNOLOGY, INFECTIOUS DISEASE
  • 11919

The etiology and epidemiology of influenza.

Medicine, 1, 213-303, 1922.

Digital facsimile from Harvard Library at this link.



Subjects: EPIDEMIOLOGY › Pandemics › Influenza › 1918 Pandemic (H1N1 virus), INFECTIOUS DISEASE › Influenza
  • 5396.4

Varieties of typhus virus and the epidemiology of the American form of European typhus fever (Brill’s disease).

Amer. J. Hyg., 20, 513-32, 1934.

Zinsser advanced the theory that Brill’s disease is a recrudescence of epidemic typhus in persons who have contracted the typhus some time previously. The condition has subsequently been renamed “Brill-Zinsser disease”.



Subjects: EPIDEMIOLOGY, INFECTIOUS DISEASE › VECTOR-BORNE DISEASES › Lice-Borne Diseases › Typhus
  • 5403

Rats, lice and history: being a study in biography, which, after 12 preliminary chapters indispensable for the preparation of the lay reader, deals with the life history of typhus fever.

Boston, MA: Little, Brown, 1935.


Subjects: INFECTIOUS DISEASE › History of Infectious Disease, INFECTIOUS DISEASE › Rickettsial Infections, PUBLIC HEALTH › History of Public Health