Facets

1965 CE–1971 CE

#9423

Obras completa. Compiladas por César Rodriguez Expósito. 5 vols.

1785 CE

#13086

Observations générales sur les maladies des climats chauds, leurs causes, leur traitement, et les moyens de les prévenir.

Digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this link.

1759 CE

#1770

Observations on the changes of the air and the concomitant epidemical diseases, in the Island of Barbados.

Hillary included good accounts of lead colic and infective hepatitis, and probably the first description of sprue (celiac disease).

1780 CE

#9466

Observations on the diseases which appeared in the army on St. Lucia....To which are prefixed remarks calculated to assist in ascertaining the causes, and in explaining the treatment of those diseases.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link. Revised and expanded edition, 1781; digital facsimile of the 1781 edition from Google Books at this link.

1751 CE

#7677

Observations on the inhabitants, climate, soil, rivers, productions, animals, and other matter worthy of notice. Made by Mr. John Bartram, in his travels from Pensilvania to Onondago, Oswego and the Lake Ontario, in Canada. To which is annex'd, a curious account of the cataracts at Niagara, by Mr. Peter Kalm....

Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.

1776 CE

#1601.1

Observations sur les maladies des nègres, leurs causes, leurs traitemens et les moyens de les prévenir.

Study of the health conditions and diseases of black slaves in the Americas. Digital facsimile of the 1776 edition from Google Books at this link. Second edition, expanded to two volumes. Paris: L'Auteur, 1792.

1953 CE–1956 CE

#9446

Official history of the Canadian Medical Services: 1939-1945. Vol. 1: Organization and campaigns. Vol. 2: Clinical subjects. Edited by W. R. Feasby. 2 vols.

Digital facsimiles from the Internet Archive at this link.

1916 CE

#2085

On the ‘vomiting sickness’ of Jamaica.

Discovery of the cause of the “vomiting sickness of Jamaica”: ackee poisoning.

1934 CE

#12575

Onchocerciasis: With special reference to the Central American form of the disease. Parts I, II, III, and IV

In depth study of onchcerciasis in Guatemala, where "the disease was of real importance to human beings" at the time. Each of the 4 authors contributed a separate part of the report.

1967 CE

#13602

One hundred years of medicine in Canada, 1867-1967.

1570 CE

#5372

Opera medicinalia.

Opera medicinalia was the first medical book printed in the Western Hemisphere, and its botanical images were the first illustrations of plants printed in the Western Hemisphere. Of the original edition only two copie…

1853 CE

#8242

Palm trees of the Amazon.

Wallace's first book, printed in an edition of only 250 copies. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

2013 CE

#12219

Partnership for excellence: Medicine at the University of Toronto and academic hospitals.

A history of medicine and medical discoveries made at these Canadian hospitals.

1988 CE

#8791

Passage of darkness: The Ethnobiology of the Haitian zombie.

1904 CE

#13362

Pathologie intertropicale. Doctrines et clinique.

Digital facsimile from BnF Gallaica at this link.

1892 CE

#5528.2

Pentastomas.

Posadas (No. 5528.1) and Wernicke, a professor pathology in Buenos Aires, were the first to report cases of coccidioidomycosis. German translation of Wernicke’s paper in Zbl. Bakt., 1892, 12, 859-61.

1901 CE

#2040.1

Peru: The history of coca, “the divine plant of the Incas”.

The most comprehensive work on the coca plant and the history of its use by the Incas and their descendants. Reprinted, San Francisco, And/Or Press, 1974.

1758 CE

#13545

Petri Loefling... Iter Hispanicum, eller Resa til spanska länderna uti Europa och America förrättad infrän år 1751 til år, 1756, med Beskrifningar och ron öfver de märkvärdigaste växyer, utgifven efter dess frånfälle af Carl Linnaeus.

Edited by Carl Linnaeus after the early death of Pehr Löfling, who Linnaeus considered his most gifted disciple. This is the account of Löfling's mostly botanically oriented researches through Spain, Portuga…

1908 CE

#6455.1

Physiological and medical observations among the Indians of Southwestern United States and Northern Mexico.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1988 CE

#11507

Pioneers of cardiology in Canada 1820-1970.

1991 CE

#10984

Plague: A story of smallpox in Montreal.

1945 CE

#13061

Plantas medicinale aromaticas o venenosas de Cuba. 2 vols.

1962 CE

#10920

Powassan virus: Field investigations in Northern Ontario, 1959-1961.

The authors isolated a virus from the brain of a child who died of encephalitis in Powassan, Ontario, and named it the Powassan virus. They posited a tick vector and possible rodent natural hosts. (Thanks to Juan Weis…

1803 CE

#8025

Practical rules for the management and medical treatment of negro slaves in the sugar colonies

Collins, a British doctor and planter, spent fourteen years in the Caribbean island of Saint Vincent. Written from the utilitarian perspective of a master, this handbook on slave medicine was intended to maximize the …

1983 CE

#9313

Preparation of the Haitian zombi poison.

According to popular accounts, zombies are innocent victims, raised in a comatose trance from their graves by malevolent Voodoo priests (bokors), and forced to toil indefinitely as slaves. Davis traced the material ba…

1591 CE

#8850

Primera parte de los problemas y secretos maravillosos de las Indias. (All published).

Includes plant and mineral remedies of New Spain as well as natural history details. See DEUCHLER, W. Juan de Cárdenas. Eim Beitrag zur Geschichte der spanischem Naturbetrachtung und Medizin im Mexiko währ…

2016 CE

#10662

Progressive mothers, better babies, race, public health, and the state in Brazil, 1850-1945.

1615 CE

#1820.1

Quatro libros. De la naturaleza, y virtudes de las plantas, y animales que estan receuidos en el vso de medicina en la Nueua España, y la methodo, y correccion, y preparacion, que para administrallas se requiere con lo que el doctor Francisco Hernandez escriuio en lengua latina. : Muy vtil para todo genero de gente q[ue] viue en esta[n]cias y pueblos, de no ay medicos, ni botica.Traduzido, y aumentados muchos simples, y compuestos y otros muchos secretos curatiuos, por Fr. Francisco Ximenes....

Physician to Philip II of Spain, Hernández travelled to Mexico by order of the king, and studied the natural history of the region from 1570-77. His Works, which filled six folio volumes of text and 10 volumes …

1792 CE

#13323

Quinología o Tratado del árbol de la quina ó cascarilla:con su descripción y la de otras especies de quinos nuevamente descubiertas en el Perú....

Ruiz, a Spanish pharmacist and botanist, was appointed director of the Expedición Botánica al Virreinato del Perú, during which he traveled extensively through Chile and Peru along with botanists …

1999 CE

#7838

Race, place, and medicine: The idea of the tropics in nineteenth-century Brazilian medicine.

1947 CE

#6234

Reacción diagnóstica del embarazo en la que se usa el sapo macho como animal reactivo.

Male toad test. An English account is in J. clin. Endocr., 1947, 7, 653-58.

2017 CE

#9714

Reasoning against madness: Psychiatry and the state in Rio de Janeiro, 1830-1944.

1868 CE

#1868

Recherches chimiques et physiologiques sur l’erythroxylum coca du Pérou et la cocaïne.

The author, formerly a surgeon in the Peruvian army, issued the first study of the pharmacological action of cocaine, containing the earliest suggestion of its use as a local anesthetic. Leclerc issued the commercial …

1826 CE

#13365

Recherches et expériences sur les poisons d'Amérique: Tirés des trois règnes de La nature, et envisagés sous les rapports de l'histoire naturelle, de la physiologie, de le pathologie et de la chimie, avec un essai sur l'empoisonnement par Les miasmes des marais, le mal d'estomac des nègres (cachexia Africana), et les maladies qui ressemblent aux empoisonnemens; pour servir à la toxicologie générale du continent d'Amérique et des Antilles.

1788 CE

#9896

Recherches, mémoires et observations sur les maladies épizootiques de Saint-Dominique, recueillis & publiés par le Cercle des Philadelphes du Cap-François.

The Cercle des Philadelphes, of which Charles Arthaud was president, was an academic scientific society in Saint-Domingue, in existence between 1784 and 1791. It was the most prominent academic society in the Americas…

1823 CE

#12860

Reflexiones sobre la importancia de conservar la dentadura y manejo necesario al efecto: En lo que se incluyen una explicacion de los principios teoricos de dentista, y un método practico de curacion en casos de abandono.

In addition to his dental training Parrott was a merchant, businessman, consult to Mexico (1834-1836) and confidential U.S. agent to Mexico during 1845-1848, the period of the Mexican-American War. This 72 page bookle…

1915 CE

#12573

Report of first expedition to South America 1913.

Strong was the first professor of tropical medicine at Harvard. The Harvard School of Tropical Medicine was founded in 1913, the year they undertook this expedition. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1857 CE–1859 CE

#10514

Report on the United States and Mexican boundary survey: Made under the direction of the secretary of the Interior

Vol. 1, pt. by W. H. Emory. Vol. 1, pt. 2: Geological reports by C.C. Parry and Arthur Schott, notes by W. H. Emory; Paleontology and geology of the boundary by James Hall; Description of cretaceous and tertiary fossi…

1628 CE

#1821.1

Rerum medicarum Novae Hispaniae thesaurus, seu, Plantarum animalium mineralium Mexicanorum historia.

This summary of Hemández’s very extensive manuscript account of the natural history of Mexico (see No. 1820.1) was edited by N.A. de Recchi, and published at the expense of Prince Federico Cesi (1585-1630…

2012 CE

#12131

Revolutionary medicine: Health and the body in post-Soviet Cuba.

"Until the Soviet bloc collapsed in 1989, socialist Cuba encouraged citizens to view access to health care as a human right and the state's responsibility to provide it as a moral imperative. Since the loss of Soviet …

1993 CE

#10872

Rio Tigre and beyond: The Amazon jungle medicine of Manual Cordova-Rios

1997 CE

#9910

Sacred leaves of Candomblé: African magic, medicine, and religion in Brazil.

"Candomblé, an African religious and healing tradition that spread to Brazil during the slave trade, relies heavily on the use of plants in its spiritual and medicinal practices. When its African adherents were…

1915 CE

#9259

Sanitation in Panama.

"Gorgas capitalized on the momentous work of ... Walter Reed, who had himself built much of his work on insights of a Cuban doctor, Carlos Finlay, to prove the mosquito transmission of yellow fever. He won internation…

1909 CE

#5460

Sanitation of the tropics with special reference to malaria and yellow fever.

1998 CE

#9901

Santé et société esclavagiste à la Martinique.

2014 CE

#7936

Science in the vanished arcadia: Knowledge of nature in the Jesuit missions of Paraguay and Rio de La Plata.

An overview of Jesuit scientific production in Paraguay during the 17th and 18th centuries, including natural history, medicine, cartography, astronomy, and practical science.

1984 CE–2000 CE

#6584.1

Secondary sources in the history of Canadian medicine: A bibliography. 2 vols.

Vol. 2 was co-edited with Jacques Bernier.

1994 CE

#10090

Secret doctors: Ethnomedicine of African Americans.

"Based on an ethnographic study of the traditional medicine of African Americans in the rural southern United States, this work concentrates on the original Louisiana Territory, with its Native and African American in…

1567 CE

#9053

Secretos de chirurgia, en especial de la enfermedades de morbo-galico y lamparones, y asimismo la manera como se curan los indos las llgas y heridas, y otras pasiones en las Indias, muy útil y provechoso par España, y otros muchos secretos de chirugia hasta ahora no escritos.

Arias de Benevides travelled to the New World where he observed native remedies and reported them in this book. In the book he also described his performance in Mexico City (1561) of the first neurosurgical interventi…

1618 CE

#9052

Sitio, naturaleza y propriedades de la Ciudad de Mexico: Aguas y vientos a que esta suieta, y tiempos del año. Necessidad de su conocimiento para el exercicio de la medicina, su incertidumbre y difficultad sin el de la astrologia assi para la curacion como para los prognosticos.

The first book printed in Mexico with engraved illustrations.