Africa
12 entries published in Africa.
1860 CE
#6504
La médecine du Prophète, traduit de l'arabe par M. le docteur Perron.
First appeared in Gaz. méd. d’Algerie, 1859, 4.
1885 CE
#9500
A contribution to South African materia medica, chiefly from plants in use among the natives.
The first edition was a pamphlet of 23 pp. Smith issued a much-expanded second edition with 163 pp., also at Lovedale in 1888, and a further expanded third edition with 262 pp. (Cape Town, 1895). Digital facsimile of …
1890 CE
#11449
The antiquity of man in South Africa, and evolution.
The first separately published work on human origins published in the continent of Africa. Hillier's text was read on his behalf before the Eastern Province Literary and Scientific Society in Grahamstown, Eastern Cape…
1895 CE
#5273
Preliminary report on the tsetse fly disease or nagana, in Zululand.
In 1895 Bruce found that nagana, the tsetse fly disease of Zululand, was due to a trypanosome (T. brucei). He described a hematozoon in the blood of the affected animals that had not been previously described. Digital…
1967 CE
#10679
The sleeping sickness epidemic of Uganda 1900-1920: A study in historical geography.
1970 CE
#9894
The early history of scientific medicine in Uganda.
1976 CE
#10312
A service to the sick: A history of the health services for Africans in Southern Rhodesia (1890-1953).
1985 CE
#9889
The Traditional medical practitioner in Zimbabwe: His principles of practice and pharmacopoeia.
2008 CE
#7925
Healing traditions: African medicine, cultural exchange, and competition in South Africa, 1820-1948.
2012 CE
#13342
Histoire de la médecine arabe en Tunisie durant dix siècles.
Includes a biography and bibliography of Ben Miled as well as a reprint of his thesis, L'école médicale de Kairouan aux xe et xie siècles (1933). The 2012 work was originally published in Arabic a…
2012 CE
#8239
Histoire de la médecine Arabe en Tunisie durant dix siècles. Traduit de l'Arabe par Abdelkader Klibi.
First published in 1980; second edition, 1999. The 2012 edition is further supplemented.
2013 CE
#7926