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REPORT OF A CASE

STANLEY CRAWFORD, M.D.

Arch Derm Syphilol. 1933;28(3):363-368.

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The ameba was discovered in 1755 by August Johann Roesel von Rosenhof (1705-1759) of Neuremberg, Germany. Roesel, the only name he used, was a painter of miniature portraits, who became interested in insects in his early life and devoted his remaining years to their study. While invalided with partial paralysis of his right arm from apoplexy, he discovered what he called "the lesser proteus," as he considered it related to the proteus (infusoria) described by Henry Baker in his "Employment for the Microscope" (London, 1753). Roesel did not recognize the nucleus and the contractile vacuole. In his monthly publication Insect Diversions,¹ which was continued after his death, his description and original delineations of "the lesser proteus" were recorded. The name "amiba" (a Greek word meaning changeable form) was given to Roesel's "small proteus" in 1822 by Baron Bory de Saint Vincent in his "Dictionaire classique de l'histoire naturelle" and . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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