Facets

1788 CE

#13366

Les eaux minérales et thermales de Saint-Dominique. Tome 1 (All Published).

One of the earliest medical publications printed in Haiti. Duvivier, Bibliographie générale et méthodique d'Haiti, 2, p. 206.

1914 CE

#5536

Les grains botryomycotiques. Leur signification en pathologie et en biologie générales.

Thèse de Paris, No. 267, 1914. Magrou showed botriomycosis (granuloma pyogenicum) to be due to a staphylococcus.

1877 CE

#13837

Los médicos de antaño en el reino de Chile: La ciencia, la caridad, la beneficencia, la hijiene, los hospitales, los asilos, las maravillas i las barbaridades de nuestros mayores en materia de medicos i de medicina; reseña histórica i crítica que comprende desde la fundación del Hospital del Socorro, 1556, hasta el establecimiento del Tribunal del Protomedicato en 27 de abril de 1830.

Digital facsimile from wellcomecollection.org at this link.

1968 CE

#13997

Los Médicos y las Enfermedades de Monterrey [1881]. Memorias de Gonzalitos que se publican con una introducción sobre su vida y su obra por Francisco Guerra.

Edition by Francisco Guerra and first publication of a manuscript by Eleuterio in the Wellcome Library. According to the catalogue of the Wellcome archives the contents are as follows: "Los médicos y las enferm…

2017 CE

#10666

Madhouse: Psychiatry and politics in Cuban history.

2012 CE

#8093

Making Medicare: New perspectives on the history of Medicare in Canada.

2017 CE

#10539

Making medicines in early colonial Lima, Peru: Apothecaries, science and society.

1719 CE

#13450

Mariæ Sibillæ Merian Dissertatio de generatione et metamorphosibus insectorum Surinamensium: In quâ, præter vermes et erucas Surinamenses, earumque admirandam metamorphosin, plantæ, flores & fructus, quibus vescuntur, & quibus fuerunt inventæ, exhibentur. His adjunguntur bufones, lacerti, serpentes, araneæ, aliaque admiranda istius regionis animalcula

Originally as Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium. Amsterdam, 1705. The 1719 contains 12 additional plates and corresponding text, 10 provided by the author's daughters from material left at her death, and 2 suppli…

1996 CE–2006 CE

#11012

McGill medicine: The first half century, 1829-1885. McGill medicine: The second half century, 1885-1936. 2 vols.

The second volume was co-authored by Hanaway, Creuss, and James Darragh.

1884 CE

#10114

Medical education and the regulation of the practice of medicine in the United States and Canada. prepared by the Illinois State Board of Health, and published by permission of the board.

Rauch, Secretary of the Illinois State Board of Health, was responsible for compiling and publishing this detailed report. It was the most important and comprehensive summary of American, and Canadian medical educatio…

1910 CE

#1766.502

Medical education in the United States and Canada.

This report caused massive reforms in North American medical education, including the closure or merging with stronger institutions, of 76 medical schools between 1910 and 1920. Part 1 is a history and analysis of med…

1996 CE

#9299

Medical ethnobiology of the highland Maya of Chiapas, Mexico.

1926 CE

#12574

Medical report of the Hamilton Rice Seventh expedition to the Amazon In conjunction with the Department of Tropical Medicine of Harvard University, 1924-1925

"The Hamilton Rice Seventh Expedition to Amazonia was undertaken [under the leadership of Richard Pearson Strong] partly for general geographical exploration and partly for medical investigation in a section of the Am…

2006 CE

#9911

Medical revolutionaries: The enslaved healers of eighteenth-century Saint Dominique.

1819 CE

#2162.1

Medical topography of Upper Canada.

The only book on the War of 1812 by a British or Canadian surgeon, and the first medical book on the Province of Ontario, Canada. This and the work of Mann (No. 2161.1) are the only books on medicine in the War of 181…

1937 CE

#6464

Medicina aborigen americana.

1977 CE

#9045

Medicina aborigen.

1996 CE

#8010

Medicine and morality in Haiti: The contest for healing power.

2010 CE

#7834

Medicine and politics in colonial Peru: Population growth and the Bourbon reforms.

2015 CE

#7942

Medicine and public health in Latin America: A history.

2008 CE

#10187

Medicine and technology in Canada, 1900-1950.

1933 CE

#6584

Medicine in Canada.

1968 CE

#7836

Medicine in Mexico: From Aztec herbs to betatrons.

In collaboration with Jose Alvarez Amezquita and Miguel E. Bustamante.

2015 CE

#12130

Medicine on the periphery: Public health in Yucatán, Mexico, 1870-1960.

2001 CE

#10193

Medicine that Walks: Disease, medicine, and Canadian Plains native people, 1880-1940.

"... Lux takes issue with the 'biological invasion' theory of the impact of disease on Plains Aboriginal people. She challenges the view that Aboriginal medicine was helpless to deal with the diseases brought by Europ…

1958 CE

#8603

Medicine-men of the North Pacific Coast. Bulletin (National Museum of Canada), no. 152.; Bulletin (National Museum of Canada)., Anthropological series, no. 42.

1958 CE

#10853

Medicine-men on the North Pacific Coast.

1965 CE

#6603.6

Médicos y medicina en Cuba. Historia, biografia, costumbrismo.

1809 CE

#9064

Memoria sobre a canella do Rio de Janeiro offerecida ao Principe do Brazil nosso senhor: pelo Senado da Camara da mesma cidade no anno de 1798.

The earliest monograph on medicine published in Brazil. Digital facsimile from the U.S. National Library of Medicine at this link.

1822 CE

#9071

Memoria sobre a virtude toenifuga da romeira, com observações zoologicas e zoonomicas relativas á toenea, e com huma estampa.

On the use of a root medicine to treat tapeworms, roundworms and similar parasites. The author refers to cases from Portuguese Africa, India and Brazil, and gives clinical observations based on his own case studies, s…

1956 CE

#8933

Morão, Rosa & Pimenta; notícia dos três primeiros livros em vernáculo sôbre a medicina no Brasil. Estudo crítico de Gilberto Osório de Andrade. Introduções históricas, interpretações e notas de Eustáquio Duarte. Pref. de Gilberto Freyre.

2010 CE

#9389

Mosquito empires: Ecology and war in the Greater Caribbean, 1620-1914.

"explores the links among ecology, disease, and international politics in the context of the Greater Caribbean - the landscapes lying between Surinam and the Chesapeake - in the seventeenth through early twentieth cen…

1958 CE

#8478

Mutilaciones dentarias: Prehispanicas de Mexico y America en general.

2008 CE

#8080

National health insurance in the United States and Canada: Race, territory, and the roots of difference.

Explores why two countries that were very similar in many ways, struck out on radically divergent paths to public health insurance. Canada developed a universal single-payer system of national health care, while the U…

2002 CE

#7983

Native society and disease in colonial Ecuador.

1970 CE

#8605

New horizons in health care. Proceedings First International Congress on Group Medicine. Edited by Robert Beamish.

Addresses the goal of "the provision of adequate health care for every citizen."

1763 CE

#8288

Nicolai Josephi Jacquin Selectarum stirpium Americanarum historia, in qua ad Linneanum systema determinatae descriptaeque sistuntur plantse illae, quas in insulis Martinica, Jamaica, Domingo, aliisque, et in vicinae continentis parte, observavit rariores; : adjectis iconibus in solo natali delineatis. 2 vols.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

2013 CE

#8286

Nikolaus Joseph Jacquin's American plants: Botanical expedition to the Caribbean (1754-1759) and the publication of the Selectarum stirpium Americanarum historia.

1904 CE

#5299

Note on the occurrence of Leishman–Donovan bodies in “cachexial fevers” including kala-azar.

Rogers demonstrated the Leishman–Donovan bodies in kala-azar. See also the same journal, 1904, 2, 645-50. At about the same time Bentley reported similar findings in India.

1888 CE

#5512.1

Note sur la maladie des boeufs de la Guadeloupe, connue sous le nom de farcin.

The first pathogenic aerobic actinomycete to be described. It was later named Nocardia farcinica and is probably identical with N. asteroides.

1908 CE

#7444

Notes of a botanist on the Amazon & Andes, being records of travel on the Amazon and its tributaries, the Trombetas, Rio Negro, Uaupés, Casiquiari, Pacimoni, Huallaga, and Pastas; as also to the cataracts of the Orinoco, along the eastern side of the Andes of Peru and Ecuador, and the shores of the Pacific during the years 1849-1864. Edited and condensed by Alfred Russel Wallace..., with a biographical introduction, portrait, seventy-one illustrations and seven maps. 2 vols.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1885 CE

#10192

Notes on diseases among the Indians frequenting York Factory, Hudson's Bay. Read before the Medico-Chirurgical Society of Montreal, February, 1885.

Mathews was a surgeon employed by the Hudson's Bay Company. "York Factory was a settlement and Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) factory (trading post) located on the southwestern shore of Hudson Bay in northeastern Manitoba…

1871 CE

#12475

Notes on the natural history of the Strait of Magellan and the west coast of Patagonia made during the voyage of HMS 'Nassau' in the years 1866, 67, 68, & 69.

Cunningham, a physician, was naturalist aboard the Nassau, a steamer sent to survey the Strait of Magellan and the adjacent channels. This book contains a narrative of the voyage and natural history descriptions. Cunn…

1903 CE

#13923

Notes on the treatment of yellow fever at Las Animas Hospital, the hospital of the Sanitary Department, during the epidemic of 1900 at Havana, Cuba.

In 1901 Gorgas was sent to Havana to undertake a special campaign against the yellow fever mosquito Aëdes aegypti. His methods of sanitation were so successful that in three months yellow fever was practically er…

1847 CE

#7305

Notice sur des ossements humains fossiles, trouvés dans une caverne du Brésil.

Lund, a student of Cuvier, excavated extensively in the region of Lagoa Santa, an area rich in caves and karst formations comprising the northern part of Greater Belo Horizonte in Brazil. Between 1835 and 1843 he coll…

1868 CE

#5344.6

Noticiar preliminar sobre vermes de uma especie ainda nao descripta, encontrados na urina de doentes de hematuria intertropical no Brazil.

In 1866 Wucherer saw the embryo form of the filaria worm. Later the name Wuchereria bancrofti was applied to it. English translation in Kean (No. 2268.1).

1707 CE

#8938

Noticias do que he o achaque do bicho, diffiniçam do seu crestame[n]to, subimento corrupçaõ, sinaes, & cura atè, o quinto grao, ou intensaõ delle, suas differenças, & co[m]plicaços, com que se ajunta.

This book has been "considered by some authors to be the first reference to the chagasic megaesophagus and megacolon that appeared in history. In descriptions considered to refer megaesophagus, although dysphagia, the…

1703 CE

#9542

Nova plantarum Americanarum genera.

Digital facsimile from the Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.

1909 CE

#5283

Nova tripanozomiaze humana. Estudos sobre a morfolojia e o ciclo evolutivo do Schizotrypanum cruzi n.gen., n.sp., ajente etiolojico de nova entidade morbida do homen.

Chagas discovered T. cruzi, causal organism in American trypanosomiasis (“Chagas’s disease”). Partial English translation in Kean (No. 2268.1).

1914 CE

#2020

Nuevo procedimiento para la transfusion de la sangre.

Agote was the first to transfuse citrated blood. Text in Spanish and French.