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Garrison-Morton-Norman History of Medicine

Africa

Exhibiting 62 entries found in the GMN corpus.

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1983 CE"Bid the sickness cease": Disease in the history of black Africa.
RANSFORD, Oliver (1914 – )
2013 CEA handbook of African traditional healing approaches & research practices. Edited by Njoki Wane and Erica Neeganagwedgin.
WANE, Njoki NEEGANAGWEDGIN, Erica
1970 CEA history of the British medical administration of East Africa, 1900-1950.
BECK, Ann Frank (1900 – 2002)
1978 CEA new species of the genus Australopithecus (Primates: Hominidae) from the Pliocene of Eastern Africa.
JOHANSON, Donald Carl (1943 – )
JOHANSON, Donald Carl (1943 – ) WHITE, Timothy Douglas (1950 – )
COPPENS, Yves (1934 – )
COPPENS, Yves (1934 – )
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
1958 CE​–1959 CEA sarcoma involving the jaws in African children.
BURKITT, Denis Parsons (1911 – 1993)
BURKITT, Denis Parsons (1911 – 1993)
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)
1977 CEAfrican folk medicine: Practices and beliefs of the Bambara and other peoples.
IMPERATO, Pascal James (1937 – )
2000 CEAfrican traditional medicine: A dictionary of plant use and applications with supplement: Search system for diseases.
NEUWINGER, Hans Dieter
1994 CEAfrikanische Arzneipflanzen und Jagdgifte.
NEUWINGER, Hans Dieter
1987 CEAfro-Caribbean folk medicine.
LAGUERRE, Michael S. (1943 – )
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)
1788 CEAn account of the slave trade on the coast of Africa.
FALCONBRIDGE, Alexander (1760 – 1791)
1795 CEAn essay on the malignant pestilential fever introduced into the West Indian Islands from Boullam, on the coast of Guinea, as it appeared in 1793 and 1794.
CHISHOLM, Colin (1755 – 1825)
1858 CEArsenic as a remedy for the tsetse bite.
LIVINGSTONE, David (1813 – 1873)
LIVINGSTONE, David (1813 – 1873)
1840 CECatalogue of skulls of man, and the inferior animals, in the collection of Samuel George Morton.
MORTON, Samuel George (1799 – 1851)
MORTON, Samuel George (1799 – 1851)
2006 CEChimpanzee reservoirs of pandemic and nonpandemic HIV-1.
HAHN, Beatrice H. (1955 – ) KEELE, Brandon F. HEUVERSWYN, Fran van
LI, Yingying
LI, Yingying & et al.
1876 CECholera epidemics in East Africa. An account of the several diffusions of the disease in the country from 1821 till 1872, with an outline of the geography, ethnology, and trade connections of the regions through which the epidemics passed.
CHRISTIE, James
CHRISTIE, James
1964 CECytology of Burkitt’s tumour (African lymphoma).
PULVERTAFT, Robert James Valentine (1897 – 1990)
1978 CEDisease in African history.
HARTWIG, Gerald W. PATTERSON, Karl David (1941 – )
1931 CEEnzootic hepatitis or Rift Valley fever. An undescribed virus disease of sheep, cattle and man from East Africa.
DAUBNEY, Robert (1891 – )
HUDSON, John Richard
HUDSON, John Richard
1941 CEFocus on Africa.
LIGHT, Richard Upjohn (1902 – 1994)
2014 CEHandbook of African medicinal plants. Second edition.
IWU, Maurice Mmaduakolam (1950 – )
2008 CEHealing traditions: African medicine, cultural exchange, and competition in South Africa, 1820-1948.
FLINT, Karen E.
2006 CEHistoire de la médecine et des maladies en Afrique. Edited by Jean-Paul Bado.
BADO, Jean-Paul
1999 CEHistories of sexually transmitted diseases and HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa. Edited by Philip W, Setel, Milton J. Lewis, and Maryinez Lyons.
LYONS, Maryinez LEWIS, Milton James SETEL, Philip W.
1858 CEImpressions of Western Africa. With remarks on the diseases of the climate and a report on the peculiarities of trade up the rivers in the Bight of Biafra.
HUTCHINSON, Thomas Joseph (1820 – 1885)
HUTCHINSON, Thomas Joseph (1820 – 1885)
2000 CEIndigenous theories of contagious disease.
GREEN, Edward C. (1944 – )
1988 CELa médecine coloniale: Mythe et réalités.
LAPEYSSONNIE, Léon (1915 – 2001)
2006 CELes conquêtes de la médecine moderne en Afrique. Edited by Jean-Paul Bado.
BADO, Jean-Paul
1887 CELes pygmées.
QUATREFAGES DE BRÉAU, Jean Louis Armand de (1810 – 1892)
1917 CEMarching on Tanga (with General Smuts in East Africa).
YOUNG, Francis Brett (1884 – 1954)
YOUNG, Francis Brett (1884 – 1954)
1996 CEMédecine coloniale et grandes endémies en Afrique 1900-1960. Lèpre, trypanosomiase humaine et onchocercose.
BADO, Jean-Paul
1843 CEMedical history of the expedition to the Niger during the years 1841-42, comprising an account of the fever which led to its abrupt termination.
MCWILLIAM, James Ormiston (1808 – 1862)
MCWILLIAM, James Ormiston (1808 – 1862)
2003 CEMedicine across cultures: History and practice of medicine in non-Western cultures. Edited by Helaine Selin.
SELIN, Helaine (1946 – )
1964 CEMedicine and custom in Africa.
GELFAND, Michael (1912 – 1985)
GELFAND, Michael (1912 – 1985)
1822 CEMemoria sobre a virtude toenifuga da romeira, com observações zoologicas e zoonomicas relativas á toenea, e com huma estampa.
GOMES, Bernardino António (1769 – 1823)
1857 CEMissionary travels and researches in South Africa.
LIVINGSTONE, David (1813 – 1873)
LIVINGSTONE, David (1813 – 1873)
1941 CENative African medicine: With special reference to Its practice in the Mano tribe of Liberia.
HARLEY, George Way (1894 – 1966)
HARLEY, George Way (1894 – 1966)
1840 CEObservations on the disease lethargus: with cases and pathology.
CLARKE, Robert B.
CLARKE, Robert B.
2010 CEOdorant reception in the malaria mosquito Anopheles gambiae.
CAREY, Allison F. WANG, Guirong
CARLSON, John R.
CARLSON, John R. & et al.
1969 CEParasitic diseases in Africa and the Western Hemisphere. Early documentation and transmission by the slave trade.
HOEPPLI, Reinhard (1893 – 1973)
2007 CEPractising colonial medicine: The Colonial Medical Service in British East Africa.
CROZIER, Anna
1898 CEReise-Bericht über Rinderpest, Bubonenpest in Indien und Afrika, Tsetse-oder Surrakrankheit, Texasfieber, tropische Malaria, Schwarzwasserfieber.
KOCH, Robert Heinrich Hermann (1843 – 1910)
KOCH, Robert Heinrich Hermann (1843 – 1910)
1903 CE​–1919 CEReports of the Sleeping Sickness Commission of the Royal Society, 1903-1912. 17 pts.
BRUCE, Sir David (1855 – 1931)
BRUCE, Sir David (1855 – 1931)
NABARRO, David N.
NABARRO, David N.
1781 CESome account of the termites, which are found in Africa and other hot climates. In a letter from Mr. Henry Smeathman...to Sir Joseph Banks, Bart.
SMEATHMAN, Henry (1742 – 1786)
1902 CESome clinical notes on a European patient in whose blood a trypanosoma was observed.
FORDE, Robert Michael (1861 – 1948)
FORDE, Robert Michael (1861 – 1948)
2019 CEThe African roots of marijuana.
DUVALL, Chris S.
DUVALL, Chris S.
2016 CEThe David Livingstone Spectral Imaging Project, Published by Livingstone Online and the UCLA Digital Library Program.
LIVINGSTONE, David (1813 – 1873)
LIVINGSTONE, David (1813 – 1873)