title: William Boog Leishman-A Brief Reminder of His Life and Work on the Occasion of His 150th Birthday.
abstract: William Boog Leishman was born 150 years ago. Although his description of "small round or oval bodies" in a smear from the spleen pulp of a soldier who had died of kala-azar was not the first one of Leishmania and although Leishman did not make the diagnosis of kala-azar and misinterpreted the microorganisms to be trypanosomes, his article became the springboard for a series of studies that, within a few months, established Leishmania as a previously unknown genus of protozoa and led to appreciation of the clinical spectrum of kala-azar and the relationship between cutaneous and visceral leishmaniasis.
authors.affiliation: Center for Dermatopathology, Freiburg, Germany.
authors.forename: Wolfgang
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Weyers
mesh_terms: D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D007896:Leishmaniasis / Q000266:history*; D010336:Pathology / Q000266:history*