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Garrison-Morton-Norman History of Medicine

VOYAGES & Travels by Physicians, Surgeons & Scientists

Exhibiting 193 entries found in the GMN corpus.

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1673 CEA Brief Account of Some Travels in Hungaria, Servia, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Thessaly, Austria, Styria, Carinthia, Carniola, and Friuli.
BROWNE, Edward (1644 – 1708)
1703 CEA description of the Western Islands of Scotland.: Containing a full account of their situation, extent, soils, product, harbours, bays, tides, anchoring places, and fisheries. The ancient and modern government, religion and customs of the inhabitants, particularly of their druids, heathen temples, monasteries, churches, chappels, antiquities, monuments, forts, caves, and other curiosities of art and nature. Of their admirable and expeditious way of curing most diseases by simples of their own product. A particular account of the second sight, or faculty of forseeing things to come, by way of vision, so common among them. A brief hint of methods to improve trade in that country, both by sea and land. With a new map of the whole, describing the harbours, anchoring places, and dangerous rocks, for the benefit of sailers. To which is added a brief description of the Isles of Orkney, and Schetland.
MARTIN, Martin ( – 1718)
MARTIN, Martin ( – 1718)
1758 CEA genuine narrative of the deplorable deaths of the English gentlemen and others who were suffocated in the Black Hole in Fort-William, at Calcutta, in the Kingdom of Bengal, in the night succeeding the 20th day of June, 1756, in a letter to a friend.
HOLWELL, John Zephaniah (1711 – 1798)
HOLWELL, John Zephaniah (1711 – 1798)
1992 CEA history of Antarctic science.
FOGG, Gordon Elliott (1919 – 2005)
1793 CEA journal during a residence in France, from the beginning of August, to the middle of December, 1792. To which is added, an account of the most remarkable events that happened at Paris from that time to the death of the late king of France.
MOORE, John (1729 – 1802)
MOORE, John (1729 – 1802)
1821 CEA journal of travels into the Arkansas territory, during the year 1819. With occasional observations on the manners of the aborigines. Illustrated by a map and other engravings.
NUTTALL, Thomas (1786 – 1859)
NUTTALL, Thomas (1786 – 1859)
1938 CEA medical survey of the republic of Guatemala, by George Cheever Shattuck. With the collaboration of Joseph C. Bequaert, Margaret M. Hilferty, Jack H. Sandground [and] Samuel Drury Clark.
SHATTUCK, George Cheever (1879 – 1972)
BEQUAERT, Joseph Charles (1886 – 1982)
BEQUAERT, Joseph Charles (1886 – 1982) SANDGROUND, Jack Henry (1899 – 1987) HILFERTY, Margaret M. CLARK, Samuel Drury
1789 CEA narrative of four journeys into the country of the Hottentots, and Caffraria. In the years one thousand seven hundred and seventy-seven, eight, and nine.
PATTERSON, William (1755 – 1810)
1786 CEA narrative of the two aerial voyages of Dr. Jeffries with Mons. Blanchard; with meteorological observations and remarks.
JEFFRIES, John (1744 – 1819)
JEFFRIES, John (1744 – 1819)
1853 CEA narrative of travels on the Amazon and Rio Negro, with an account of the native tribes and observations on the climate, geology and natural history of the Amazon Valley.
WALLACE, Alfred Russel (1823 – 1913)
WALLACE, Alfred Russel (1823 – 1913)
1709 CEA new voyage to Carolina; Containing the exact description and natural history of that country: Together with the present state thereof. And a journal of a thousand miles, travel'd Thro' several nations of Indians. Giving a particular account of Their customs, manners, &c.
LAWSON, John (1674 – 1711)
LAWSON, John (1674 – 1711)
1640 CEA paradox. Prooving, that the inhabitants of the isle called Madagascar, or St. Laurence, ... are the happiest people in the world. Whereunto is prefixed, a briefe and true description of that island: the nature of the climate, and condition of the inhabitants, and their speciall affection to the English above other nations. With most probable arguments of a hopefull and fit plantation of a colony there, in respect of the fruitfulnesse of the soyle, the benignity of the ayre, and the relieving of our English ships, both to and from the East-Indies.
HAMOND, Walter ( – 1648)
1779 CEA physical journal kept on board H. M. Ship Rainbow during three voyages to the coast of Africa and the West Indies, in the years 1772, 1773, and 1774: To which is prefixed, a particular account of the remitting fever which happened on board of His Majesty's Sloop Weasel, on that coast, in 1769.
ROBERTSON, Robert (1742 – 1829)
ROBERTSON, Robert (1742 – 1829)
1831 CEA practical medico-historical account of the western coast of Africa: Embracing a topographical description of its shores, rivers, and settlements, with their seasons and comparative healthiness: Together with the causes, symptoms, and treatment, of the fevers of western Africa, and a similar account respecting the other diseases which prevail there.
BOYLE, James
BOYLE, James
1793 CEA sketch of a tour on the Continent, in the years 1786 and 1787. 3 vols.
SMITH, Sir James Edward (1759 – 1828)
SMITH, Sir James Edward (1759 – 1828)
1779 CEA view of society and manners in France, Switzerland and Germany: with anecdotes relating to some eminent characters
MOORE, John (1729 – 1802)
MOORE, John (1729 – 1802)
1781 CEA view of society and manners in Italy, with anecdotes related to some eminent characters. 2 vols.
MOORE, John (1729 – 1802)
MOORE, John (1729 – 1802)
1783 CEA voyage from England to India, in the year MDCCLIV, and an historical narrative of the operations of the squadron and army in India, under the command of Vice-Admiral Watson and Colonel Clive, in the years 1755, 1756, 1757; including a correspondence between the Admiral and the Nabob Serajah Dowlah. Interspersed with some interesting passages relating to the manners, customs, &c. of several nations in Indostan. Also, a journey from Persia to England, by an unusual route. With an appendix, containing an account of the diseases prevalent in Admiral Watson's squadron, a description of most of the trees, shrubs, and plants of India, with their real, or supposed, medicinal virtues. Also a copy of a letter written by a late ingenious physician, on the disorders incidental to Europeans at Gombroon in the Gulf of Persia. Illustrated with a chart, maps, and other copper-plates.
IVES, Edward ( – 1786)
1735 CEA voyage to Guinea, Brasil and the West Indies; in His Majesty's ships, the Swallow and Weymouth: Describing the several islands and Settlements, viz, Madeira, the Canaries, Cape de Verd, Sierraleon, Sesthos, Cape Apollonia, Cabo Corso, and others on the Guinea coast; Barbadoes, Jamaica, &c. in the West-Indies; the colour, diet, languages, habits, manners, customs, and religions of the respective natives, and inhabitants. With remarks on the gold, ivory, and slave-trade; and on the winds, tides and currents of the several coasts.
ATKINS, John (1685 – 1757)
ATKINS, John (1685 – 1757)
1824 CEA voyage to India: Containing reflections on a voyage to Madras and Bengal, in 1821, in the ship Lonach; instructions for the preservation of health in Indian climates; and hints to surgeons and owners of private trading-ships.
WALLACE, James
WALLACE, James
1707 CE​–1725 CEA voyage to the islands Madera, Barbados, Nieves, S. Christophers and Jamaica: With the natural history of the herbs and trees, four-footed beasts, fishes, birds, insects, reptiles, &c. of the last of those islands; to which is prefix'd, an introduction, wherein is an account of the inhabitants, air, waters, diseases, trade, &c. of that place, with some relations concerning the neighbouring continent, and islands of America. Illustrated with figures of the things described, which have not been heretofore engraved. In large copper-plates as big as the life. 2 vols.
SLOANE, Sir Hans (1660 – 1753)
SLOANE, Sir Hans (1660 – 1753)
1582 CEAigentlich Beschreibung der Raiss, so er vor diser Zeit gegen Auffgang inn die Morgenländer, fürnemlich Syriam, Iudaeam, Arabiam, Mesopotamiam, Babyloniam, Assyriam, Armeniam etc....
RAUWOLF, Leonhard (1535 – 1596)
RAUWOLF, Leonhard (1535 – 1596)
1582 CEAliquot notae in Garciae aromatum historiam. Eiusdem descriptiones nonnullarum stirpium, & aliarum exoticarum rerum, que à generoso viro Franciso Drake quite Anglo, & his obseruatae sunt, qui eum in long illa nauigatione, qu proximis annis vniuersum orbem circumiuits ....
L'ÉCLUSE (L'ESCLUSE), Charles de (Carolus Clusius) (1526 – 1609)
1677 CEAn account of several travels through a great part of Germany: In four journeys I. From Norwich to Colen. II. From Colen to Vienna, with a particular description of that imperial city. III. From Vienna to Hamburg. IV. From Colen to London. Wherein the mines, baths, and other curiosities of those parts are treated of. Illustrated with sculptures.
BROWNE, Edward (1644 – 1708)
1807 CEAn account of the diseases of India, as they appeared in the English fleet, and in the naval hospital at Madras, in 1782 and 1783; with observations on ulcers, and the hospital sores of that country, &c. & c. To which is prefixed a view of the diseases of an expedition and passage of a fleet and armament to India, in 1781.
CURTIS, Charles
CURTIS, Charles
1803 CEAn account of the native Africans in the neighbourhood of Sierra Leone; to which is added, an account of the present state of medicine among them. 2 vols.
WINTERBOTTOM, Thomas Masterman (1765 – 1859)
WINTERBOTTOM, Thomas Masterman (1765 – 1859)
1674 CEAn account of two voyages to New-England. Wherein you have the setting out of a ship, with the charges; The prices of all necessaries for furnishing a planter and his family at his first coming: a description of the countrey [sic], natives, and creatures; with their merchantil [sic] and physical use; the government of the countrey as it is now possessed by the English, &c. A large chronological table of the most remarkable passages, from the first discovering of the continent of America, to the year 1673.
JOSSELYN, John (1630 – 1675)
1897 CEAudubon and his journals by Maria R. Audubon. With zoological and other notes by Elliott Coues. 2 vols.
AUDUBON, John James Laforest (1785 – 1851)
AUDUBON, John James Laforest (1785 – 1851)
COUES, Elliott Ladd (1842 – 1899)
COUES, Elliott Ladd (1842 – 1899) AUDUBON, Maria Rebecca (1843 – 1925)
1980 CE​–1990 CEBanks' Florilegium: A publication in thirty-four parts [plus 1 supplement] of seven hundred and thirty-eight copperplate engravings of plants collected on Captain James Cook's first voyage around the world in the H.M.S. Endeavour 1768-1771. The specimens were gathered and classified by The Right Hon. Sir Joseph Banks and Dr. Daniel Solander, and were accurately engraved between 1771 and 1784 after drawings taken from nature by Sydney Parkinson. 35 large folio solander boxes & 1 vol. text.
BANKS, Sir Joseph (1743 – 1820)
BANKS, Sir Joseph (1743 – 1820)
SOLANDER, Daniel Carlsson (1733 – 1782)
SOLANDER, Daniel Carlsson (1733 – 1782)
PARKINSON, Sydney (1745 – 1771)
PARKINSON, Sydney (1745 – 1771)
2016 CEBibliography of natural history travel narratives.
TROELSTRA, Anne Sjerp (1939 – )
TROELSTRA, Anne Sjerp (1939 – )
1965 CEBio-bibliographie de quelques médecins naturalistes voyageurs de la marine au début du XIXe siècle. Colloque International sur L'Histoire de la Biologie Marine. Les grandes expéditions scientifiques et la création des laboratoires maritimes. 2-6 septembre 1963. Supplément no. 19 à "Vie et Milieu", pp. 163-223.
HUARD, Pierre Alphonse (1901 – 1983)
HUARD, Pierre Alphonse (1901 – 1983) WONG, Ming (1926 – 1989)
1956 CEBotanical exploration of the trans-Mississippi West 1790-1850.
MCKELVEY, Susan Delano (1883 – 1964)
1777 CEBref rörande en resa til Island MDCCLXXII.
LIND, James (1716 – 1794)
LIND, James (1716 – 1794)
BANKS, Sir Joseph (1743 – 1820)
BANKS, Sir Joseph (1743 – 1820)
SOLANDER, Daniel Carlsson (1733 – 1782)
SOLANDER, Daniel Carlsson (1733 – 1782)
TROIL, Uno von (1746 – 1803)
TROIL, Uno von (1746 – 1803)
BERGMAN, Torbern Olaf (1735 – 1784)
BERGMAN, Torbern Olaf (1735 – 1784)
1996 CEBright paradise: Victorian scientific travellers.
RABY, Peter
1719 CECaput Bonae Spei hodiernum, das ist: vollständige Beschreibung des africanischen Vorgebürges der Guten Hofnung. Worinnen in dreyen Theilen abgehandelt wird, wie es heut zu Tage, nach seiner Situation und Eigenschaft aussiehet; ingleichen was ein Natgur-Forscher in den dreyen Reichen der Natur....
KOLBE, Peter (Kolb) (1675 – 1726)
KOLBE, Peter (Kolb) (1675 – 1726)
1776 CECharacteres generum plantarum, quas in itinere ad insulas maris Australis, collegerunt, descripserunt, delinearunt, annis 1772-1775.
FORSTER, Johann Reinhold (1729 – 1798)
FORSTER, Johann Reinhold (1729 – 1798) FORSTER, Johann Georg Adam (1754 – 1794)
2002 CEDarwin Online. The complete works of Charles Darwin, edited by John van Wyhe.
DARWIN, Charles Robert (1809 – 1882)
DARWIN, Charles Robert (1809 – 1882) VAN WYHE, John (1971 – )
2009 CEDarwin's armada: Four voyages and the battle for the theory of evolution.
MCCALMAN, Iain Duncan (1947 – )
1819 CEDe animalibus quibusdam e classe vermium Linneana in circumnavigator terra auspicante Comite N. Romanzoff duce Ottone de Kotzebue annis 1815, 1816, 1817, 1818. Fasciculus primus. De Salpa.
CHAMISSO, Adelbert von (1781 – 1838)
CHAMISSO, Adelbert von (1781 – 1838)
1844 CEDescriptiones animalium quae in itinere ad Maris Australis Terras per annos 1772, 1773 et 1774 suscepto
FORSTER, Johann Reinhold (1729 – 1798)
FORSTER, Johann Reinhold (1729 – 1798) LICHTENSTEIN, Martin Hinrich Carl (1780 – 1857)
1850 CEDiary of a physician in California; being the results of actual experience, including notes of the journey by land and water, and observations on the climate, soil, resources of the country, etc.
TYSON, James Lawrence
TYSON, James Lawrence
2014 CEDoctor Hieronymus Münzer's itinerary (1494 and 1495) and the discovery of Guinea. Edited and translated by James Firth.
MÜNZER, Hieronymus (1437 – 1508)
1753 CE​–1761 CEEn Resa til Norra America. 2 vols.
KALM, Pehr [Pietari; Peter] (1716 – 1779)
2002 CEExpeditions & discoveries: Sponsored exploration and scientific discovery in the modern age.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY LIBRARY OPEN COLLECTIONS PROGRAM
1966 CEExploration and empire: The explorer and the scientist in the winning of the American West.
GOETZMANN, William H. (1930 – 2010)
1990 CEExplorers of the Amazon.
SMITH, Anthony (1926 – 2014)
SMITH, Anthony (1926 – 2014)
1829 CE​–1837 CEFauna Boreali-Americana, or, the zoology of the northern parts of British America: Containing descriptions of the objects of natural history collected on the late northern land expeditions, under command of Captain Sir John Franklin, R.N. 4 vols.
RICHARDSON, Sir John (1787 – 1865)
RICHARDSON, Sir John (1787 – 1865)
SWAINSON, William John (1789 – 1855)
SWAINSON, William John (1789 – 1855)
KIRBY, William (1759 – 1850)
KIRBY, William (1759 – 1850)
1803 CEFlora Boreali-Americana, sistens caracteres plantarum quas in America septentrionali collegit et detexit Andreas Michaux, Instituti Gallici Scientiarum, necnon Societatis Agriculturae Caroliniensis socius. Tabulis Aeneis 51 ornata [after Pierre-Joseph Redouté]. 2 vols.
MICHAUX, André (1746 – 1802)
MICHAUX, André (1746 – 1802) REDOUTÉ, Pierre-Joseph (1759 – 1840)
1757 CEFredric Hasselquists ... Iter Palæstinum, eller Resa til Heliga Landet, förrättad ifrån år 1749 til 1752, med beskrifningar, rön, anmärkningar, öfver de märkvärdigaste naturalier, på Hennes Kongl. Maj:ts befallning.
HASSELQUIST, Fredrik (1722 – 1752)
1851 CEFrüchte aus dem Morgenlande oder Reise-Erlebnisse. Nebst naturhistorisch-medicinischen Erfahrungen, einigen hundert erprobten Arzneimitteln und einer neuen Heilart dem Medial-Systeme. Mit vierzig lithographirten Tafeln: Porträte, Pflanzenabbildungen, sonstige Natur- und Kunstprodukte, Facsimile, Landkarte und Ansicht der Citadelle von Lahor; endlich als Anhang ein medizinisches Wörterbuch in mehreren europäischen und orientalischen Sprachen.
HONIGBERGER, Johann Martin (1795 – 1869)
HONIGBERGER, Johann Martin (1795 – 1869)