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  2. Timeline of immunology - Wikipedia

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    The following are notable events in the Timeline of immunology: 1550 BCE – The Ebers papyrus recommends placing a poultice on a tumor and then making an incision, which would induce infection and cause regression of the tumor.

  3. Immunology - Wikipedia

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    Immunology is a branch of biology and medicine [1] that covers the study of immune systems [2] in all organisms.. Immunology charts, measures, and contextualizes the physiological functioning of the immune system in states of both health and diseases; malfunctions of the immune system in immunological disorders (such as autoimmune diseases, hypersensitivities, [3] immune deficiency, [4] and ...

  4. Immune system - Wikipedia

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    Paul Ehrlich (1854–1915) was awarded a Nobel Prize in 1908 for his contributions to immunology. [178] Immunology is a science that examines the structure and function of the immune system. It originates from medicine and early studies on the causes of immunity to disease.

  5. Category:History of immunology - Wikipedia

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    Timeline of immunology This page was last edited on 11 June 2020, at 08:50 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4. ...

  6. Immunity (medicine) - Wikipedia

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    A representation of the cholera epidemic of the 19th century. For thousands of years mankind has been intrigued with the causes of disease and the concept of immunity. The prehistoric view was that disease was caused by supernatural forces, and that illness was a form of theurgic punishment for "bad deeds" or "evil thoughts" visited upon the soul by the gods or by one's enemies. [8]

  7. History of phagocytosis - Wikipedia

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    The first demonstration of phagocytosis as a property of leukocytes, the immune cells, was from the German zoologist Ernst Haeckel. [14] [15] In 1846, English physician Thomas Wharton Jones had discovered that a group of leucocytes, which he called "granule-cell" (later renamed and identified as eosinophil [16]), could change shape, the phenomenon later called amoeboid movement.

  8. Germ theory of disease - Wikipedia

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    A transitional period began in the late 1850s with the work of Louis Pasteur. This work was later extended by Robert Koch in the 1880s. By the end of that decade, the miasma theory was struggling to compete with the germ theory of disease. Viruses were initially discovered in the 1890s.

  9. List of immunologists - Wikipedia

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    Kiril Bratanov (1911-1986), pioneer in the area of immunology of reproduction; William Coley (1862-1936), pioneer of cancer immunotherapy; Albert Coons (1912-1978), developed immunofluorescent techniques for labelling antibodies; Max D. Cooper (1933-), identification of T and B cells; Yehuda Danon (1940-) Deborah Doniach (1912-2004), organ ...