Amoebiasis historical perspective

Amebiasis is thought to have been discovered by Hippocrates, who described a patient with fever and dysentery. In 1828, the association between dysentery and amebic liver abscess was reported by James Annesley, an Irish physician. In 1875, E. histolytica was first isolated from a patient with dysentery by Fedor Losch, a Russian physician.

• Amebiasis is thought to have been discovered by Hippocrates, who described a patient with fever and dysentery.^[1]
• 1828 – The association between dysentery and amebic liver abscess was reported by James Annesley, an Irish physician.^[2]
• 1875 – E. histolytica was first isolated from a patient with dysentery by Fedor Losch, a Russian physician.^[2][3]
• 1903 – The organism was named Entamoeba histolytica by Fritz Schaudinn, a German zoologist.
• 1912 – Leonard Rogers, an English pathologist and tropical medicine specialist, described the efficacy of emetine (first treatment) for the treatment of amebiasis.^[4]
• 1925 – The life cycle of E. histolytica was first described by Clifford Dobell, an English protozoologist.^[5]

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