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4 entries match Americas (non-U.S.) [Z01.107] · Plagues & Epidemics [C01.252] · Zoology & Animal Sciences [K01.900.500.750]
1764 CE
#9509
An essay on the more common West-India diseases and the remedies which that country itself produces: To which are added some hints on the management, &c. of negroes.
Though the title suggests tropical medicine in general, this work mainly concerns the selection and medical care of slaves. Digital facsimile of the second edition (Edinburgh, 1802) expanded "with practical notes and …
1658 CE
#1825
De Indiae utriusque re naturali et medica libri quatuordecim.
This is an extensively revised and enlarged second edition of Piso’s Historia naturalis Brasiliae (1648). In this edition Piso reprinted Bontius's De medicina Indorum (1642) with two additional books on Asian fl…
1985 CE
#8820
Doctors and slaves: A medical and demographic history of slavery in the British West Indies.
1648 CE
#2263.1
Historia naturalis Brasiliae.
Piso's study of the natural history of Brazil was also a pioneer work on tropical medicine, and also the largest work from the standpoint of format published by the Elzeviers. The folio includes De medicina brasiliens…