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7 entries match Americas (non-U.S.) [Z01.107] · Public Health [N02.500] · Pharmacology & Therapeutics [D01 / E02]
1745 CE
#2094
An essay on the West-India dry-gripes… to which is added, an extraordinary case in physick.
Cadwalader, an American pupil of Cheselden, left a classical account of lead colic and lead palsy. This was later shown by Benjamin Franklin, printer of the above work, to be due to the consumption of Jamaica rum whic…
1990 CE
#7513
Aztec medicine, health, and nutrition.
2009 CE
#10443
Chocolate in Mesoamerica: A cultural history of cacao. Edited by Cameron L. McNeil.
1794 CE
#9989
Hortus Americanus, containing an account of the trees, shrubs, and other vegetable productions of South-America and the West-India islands, and particularly of the island of Jamaica; interspersed with many curious and useful observations, respecting their uses in medicine, diet, and mechanics.
Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library 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).
1971 CE
#10858
The pre-Columbian mind: A study into the aberrant nature of sexual drives, drugs affecting behaviour and the attitude towards life and death, with a survey of psychotherapy in pre-Columbian America.
1807 CE–1834 CE
#7452
Voyage aux régions équinoxiales du nouveau continent, fait en 1799, 1800, 1801, 1802, 1803 et 1804. 34 vols.
In 1799 Humboldt and Bonpland embarked on a six-year tour of research through South America and Mexico, a trip which would afterwards be called, justifiably, "the scientific discovery of America." The two amassed exha…