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

JONES, Thomas Duckett

2 entries
  • 12365

The diagnosis of rheumatic fever.

J. Amer. Med. Assoc., 126, 481-484, 1944.

The Jones criteria (later revised in 1992 and 2015) for the diagnosis of acute rheumatic fever.



Subjects: INFECTIOUS DISEASE › Rheumatic Fever
  • 12359

Orally administered penicillin in patients with rheumatic fever.

J. Amer. Med. Assoc., 138, 1030-1036, 1948.

Massell and colleagues demonstrated that rheumatic fever could be prevented by penicillin treatment of streptococcal throat infections.  (Order of authorship in the original publication: Massell, Dow, Jones.)

See also: J.R. Goerner, R. F. Massell, T. D. Jones, "Use of pencillin in the treatment of carriers of beta-hemolytic streptococci among patients with rheumatic fever," New Eng. J. Med. 237 (1947) 576–580.



Subjects: CARDIOLOGY › CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE › Rheumatic Heart Disease, INFECTIOUS DISEASE › Rheumatic Fever, PHARMACOLOGY › PHARMACEUTICALS › Antibiotics › Penicillin