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34 entries published in South America.

1695 CE

#13151

Desvios de la naturaleza: O Tratado de el origen de los monstros. A que va anadido vn compendio de curaciones chyrurgicas en monstruosos accidentes.

On conjoined twins, including the record of autopsy of conjoined twins in Lima in 1694. Pedro de Peralta Barnuevo edited work for publication at the request of the Viceroy, Melchor Fernandez Portocarrero. Digital facs…

1844 CE–1871 CE

#9067

Historia fisica y politica de Chile, segun documentos adquiridos en esta Republica durante doce años de residencia en ella .... 28 vols. text plus 2 vols. atlas. (30 vols.).

Gay, a French botanist, was commissioned in 1830 by the government of Chile to carry out a thorough scientific survey of the country, and to produce a detailed description of its geography, geology and natural history…

1860 CE

#8971

Colección de medicamentos indigenas y sus aplicaciones, estraidos de los reinos vegetal, mineral y animal, recogidos y anotados por [...], segunda edición corregida y aumentada.

Digital facsimile of the 5th edition (1875) from the National Library of Medicine, Internet Archive at this link.

1894 CE

#13836

Historia de la medicina en Chile: Con importantes documentos sobre la medicina de nuestros predecesores.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1911 CE

#2115

A defensa contra o ophidismo.

Brazil founded the Instituto Butantan, São Paulo, one of the first institutes to produce antivenin sera on a large scale. French translation, 1911. Digital facsimile of the Portuguese edition from Biodiversity …

1911 CE

#5460.1

Fiebre amarilla y fiebre espiroquetal; endemias y epidemias en Muzo, de 1907 a 1910.

Franco, J. Martínez-Santamaria, and G. Toro-Villa described epidemics of yellow fever spread by mosquitoes other than Ae. aegypti. Later F. L. Soper, et al., Amer. J. Hyg., 1933, 18, 555-87, substantiated this.

1927 CE–1952 CE

#6598

Historia de la medicina en el Uruguay. 3 vols.

1944 CE–1948 CE

#2447

Indice bibliográfico de lepra, 1560-1943. 3 vols.

Supplements 1-5, 1952-62.

1947 CE

#6601

Historia da medicina no Brasil. (Do século XVI ao século XIX). 2 vols.

1947 CE

#13496

La contribución del Ecuador a la material médica: La quina.

1949 CE

#7134

Queratoplastia refractiva.

Barraquer was the first to sculpt corneal stromal tissue to change corneal curvature. He developed a procedure which he called "keratomileusis," (sculpting of the cornea). This involved ressecting a disc of anterior c…

1950 CE

#9030

La demogenia Peruana y sus problemas medico-sociales.

1951 CE

#6602.1

Historia de la medicina en Venezuela.

Comprehensive account to end of ninteenth century.

1951 CE

#6602

Historia de la medicina Peruna. 3 vols.

1954 CE

#9031

La solidaridad de las Américas ante la salud.

1956 CE

#6603.1

Historia de la medicina en Bolivia.

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.

1960 CE

#7938

La trepanación del cráneo en el antiguo Perú.

1961 CE

#6603.3

Historia de la medicina en Venezuela. Epoca colonial.

1963 CE

#6603.4

Historia de la medicina en el Ecuador. 2 vols.

1977 CE

#8932

História geral da medicina brasileira. Vol. 1 (All published).

1977 CE

#9045

Medicina aborigen.

1984 CE

#9822

Bibliografia Hipocrática.

Alphabetical bibliography by author's name of all scholars, physicians, and others who studied the Hippocratic Collection and published about it. Entries include a brief biography of the authors, transcription of the …

1985 CE

#12147

El amor en los tiempos de cólera.

"Set in a country on the Caribbean coast of South America, the story ranges from the late nineteenth century to the early decades of our own, tracing the lives of three people and their entwined fates. And yet, at fir…

1992 CE

#9046

La medicina en el Ecuador prehispánico.

1995 CE

#10086

Historia de la medicina chilena.

1997 CE

#8862

A ciéncia dos trópicos: A arte médica no Brasil do sécolo XVIII.

1999 CE

#8937

Natureza em boiões: Medicinas e boticá-rios no Brasil setecentista.

1999 CE

#9048

Bosquejo de la historia de la medicina colombiana.

2006 CE

#8935

Boticas & pharmacias: Uma historia ilustrada da farmacia no Brasil.

2009 CE

#13662

Art and ophthalmology: The impact of eye diseases on painters. Translated by Colin Mailer.

2011 CE

#7939

Historia de la medicina en el Paraguay.

2013 CE

#13660

Ophthalmologia: Optica et visio in nummis.

2013 CE

#13661

The history of color blindness. Translated from the original French manuscript by Colin Mailer.