1570 BRAVO, Francisco (1530 – 1594)
Opera medicinalia.
Opera medicinalia was the first medical book printed in the Western Hemisphere, and its botanical images were the first illustrations of plants printed in the Western Hemisphere. Of the original edition only two copie…
GMN 5372 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7014
1578 LÓPEZ DE HINOJOSOS, Alonso (1535 – 1597)
Summa y recopilacion de cirugia, con un arte para sangrar, muy util y provechosa.
Second edition, Mexico, 1595: Summa y recopilacion de cirugia, con un arte para sangrar, y examen de barberos ... va añadido en esta segunda impresion el origen ... de las reumas. López de Hinojos was a barber-surge…
GMN 8023 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10199
1579 FARFAN, Agustin (1531 – 1604)
Tractado breve de anathomia y chirurgia.
Includes some of the first studies of the plants and botanic remedies of the New World. Second edition, Tractado breve de medicina (1592). This is an abridgement of manuscripts left in Mexico by Francisco Hernández. S…
GMN 1819.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2088
1591 CÁRDENAS, Juan de (1563 – 1609)
Primera parte de los problemas y secretos maravillosos de las Indias. (All published).
Includes plant and mineral remedies of New Spain as well as natural history details. See DEUCHLER, W. Juan de Cárdenas. Eim Beitrag zur Geschichte der spanischem Naturbetrachtung und Medizin im Mexiko während des 16. …
GMN 8850 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11028
1607 BARRIOS, Juan de (1562 – 1645)
Verdadera medicina, cirugía y astrologia en tres libros dividida.
Concerns medicine of the Aztecs, etc. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 8844 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11022
1615 HERNÁNDEZ DE TOLEDO, Francisco (1517 – 1587); XIMÉNEZ, Francisco (1560 – 1620)
Quatro libros. De la naturaleza, y virtudes de las plantas, y animales que estan receuidos en el vso de medicina en la Nueua España, y la methodo, y correccion, y preparacion, que para administrallas se requiere con lo que el doctor Francisco Hernandez escriuio en lengua latina. : Muy vtil para todo genero de gente q[ue] viue en esta[n]cias y pueblos, de no ay medicos, ni botica.Traduzido, y aumentados muchos simples, y compuestos y otros muchos secretos curatiuos, por Fr. Francisco Ximenes....
Physician to Philip II of Spain, Hernández travelled to Mexico by order of the king, and studied the natural history of the region from 1570-77. His Works, which filled six folio volumes of text and 10 volumes of pain…
GMN 1820.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2097
1618 CISNEROS, Diego (1580 – )
Sitio, naturaleza y propriedades de la Ciudad de Mexico: Aguas y vientos a que esta suieta, y tiempos del año. Necessidad de su conocimiento para el exercicio de la medicina, su incertidumbre y difficultad sin el de la astrologia assi para la curacion como para los prognosticos.
The first book printed in Mexico with engraved illustrations.
GMN 9052 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11231
1628 HERNÁNDEZ DE TOLEDO, Francisco (1517 – 1587); RECCHI, Nardo Antonio de ( – 1595)
Rerum medicarum Novae Hispaniae thesaurus, seu, Plantarum animalium mineralium Mexicanorum historia.
This summary of Hemández’s very extensive manuscript account of the natural history of Mexico (see No. 1820.1) was edited by N.A. de Recchi, and published at the expense of Prince Federico Cesi (1585-1630), with notes…
GMN 1821.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2108
1727 SALGADO CÉRON, Marcos José (1671 – 1740)
Cursus medicus Mexicanus juxtà sanguinis circulationem, & alia recentiorum inventa ad usum studentium....Paris prima physiologica [All Published]
The first textbook of physiology published in the Western hemisphere. Digital facsimile from Medical Heritage Library, Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 7362 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9534
1794 BALMIS, Francisco Javier de (1793 – 1819)
Demostracion de las eficaces virtudes nuevamente descubiertas en las raices de dos plantas de Nueva-España, especies de ágave y de begónia, para la curacion del vicio venéreo y escrofuloso ...
Balmis conducted experimental trials on the effectiveness of two Mexican plants, agave and begonia, which were believed, according to folk medicine practices in Mexico, to cure syphilis and scrofula. The trials confir…
GMN 8004 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10180
1823 PARROTT, William Stuart (1798 – 1863)
Reflexiones sobre la importancia de conservar la dentadura y manejo necesario al efecto: En lo que se incluyen una explicacion de los principios teoricos de dentista, y un método practico de curacion en casos de abandono.
In addition to his dental training Parrott was a merchant, businessman, consult to Mexico (1834-1836) and confidential U.S. agent to Mexico during 1845-1848, the period of the Mexican-American War. This 72 page bookle…
GMN 12860 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15107
1839 MORTON, Samuel George (1799 – 1851)
Crania Americana; or, A comparative view of the skulls of various aboriginal nations of North and South America. To which is prefixed an essay on the varieties of the human species.
In his day Morton was the most eminent craniologist in the United States. He had a collection of nearly 1,000 skulls. In this work, which described both modern and fossil skulls, Morton described fractures and anthrop…
GMN 201 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3545
1856 JIMÉNEZ, Miguel Francisco (1813 – 1876)
Clinica médica. Abcesos del higado.
Jimenez gave a classic account of liver abscess in amoebiasis.
GMN 5183.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6317
1857 –1859 TORREY, John (1796 – 1873); EMORY, William Hemsley (1811 – 1887); BAIRD, Spencer Fullerton (1823 – 1887); CONRAD, Timothy Abbott (1803 – 1877); ENGELMANN, George (1809 – 1884); GIRARD, Charles Frédéric (1822 – 1895); PARRY, Charles Christopher (1823 – 1890); SCHOTT, Arthur Carl Victor (1814 – 1875); HALL, James Jr. (1811 – 1898)
Report on the United States and Mexican boundary survey: Made under the direction of the secretary of the Interior
Vol. 1, pt. by W. H. Emory. Vol. 1, pt. 2: Geological reports by C.C. Parry and Arthur Schott, notes by W. H. Emory; Paleontology and geology of the boundary by James Hall; Description of cretaceous and tertiary fossi…
GMN 10514 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12707
1861 JOURDANET, Denis (1815 – 1892)
De Mexique au point de vue de son influence sur la vie de l'homme.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
GMN 8110 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10286
1864 JOURDANET, Denis (1815 – 1892)
Le Mexique et l'Amérique tropicale: climats, hygiène et maladies.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 8109 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10285
1880 ACOSTA, José de (1539 – 1600); MARKHAM, Sir Robert Clements (1830 – 1916)
The natural & moral history of Indies, by Father Joseph de Acosta. Reprinted from the English translated edition of Edward Grimston, 1604. And edited, with notes and an introduction by Clements R. Markham. Vol. 1: The natural history. Vol. 2: The moral history. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 8976 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11155
1886 –1888 FLORES Y TRONCOSO, Francisco De Asís (1852 – 1931)
Historia de la medicina en México desde la epoca de los Indios hasta la presente. 3 vols.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 6597 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8513
1886 LÉON CALDÉRON, Nicolas (1859 – 1929)
Apuntes para la historia de la medicina en Michoacán desde los tiempos Pre-Colombianos hasta el año 1875.
GMN 8848 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11026
1887 LÉON CALDÉRON, Nicolas (1859 – 1929)
Apuntes par la historia de la medicina, cirurgía y obstetricia, en Michoacán desde los tiempos pre-Colombianos, hasta et año 1875.
GMN 8849 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11027
1895 LÉON, Nicholás (1859 – 1929)
Biblioteca botánico-mexicana: Catálogo bibliográfico, biográfico y crítico de autores y escritos referentes a vegetales de México y sus aplicaciones, desde la conquista hasta el presente.
Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.
GMN 13839 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16129
1908 HRDLIČKA, Aleš (1869 – 1943)
Physiological and medical observations among the Indians of Southwestern United States and Northern Mexico.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 6455.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8626
1910 RICKETTS, Howard Taylor (1871 – 1910); WILDER, Russell Morse (1885 – 1959)
The relation of typhus fever (tabardillo) to Rocky Mountain spotted fever.
Ricketts and Wilder differentiated Rocky Mountain spotted fever and typhus.
GMN 5380 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7064
1910 RICKETTS, Howard Taylor (1871 – 1910); WILDER, Russell Morse (1885 – 1959)
The etiology of the typhus fever (tabardillo) of Mexico City. A further preliminary report.
Demonstration of the causal organism of typhus.
GMN 5380.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7067
1928 MOOSER, Hermann (1891 – 1971)
Experiments relating to the pathology and the etiology of Mexican typhus (tabardillo).
Mooser differentiated murine from epidemic typhus. The causative organism was later named Rickettsia mooseri.
GMN 5396.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7173
1933 MARTÍNEZ MARTÍNEZ, Maximino (1888 – 1964)
Las plantas medicinales de México.
Contains information on 833 species.
GMN 12802 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15048
1935 CASTETTER, Edward Franklin (1896 – 1978); UNDERHILL, Ruth Murray (1883 – 1984)
The ethnobiology of the Papago Indians. Ethnological Studies in the American Southwest II.
"The Tohono O’odham ... are a Native American people of the Sonoran Desert, residing primarily in the U.S. state of Arizona and the Mexican state of Sonora. Tohono O’odham means "Desert People." The federally recogniz…
GMN 9303 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11485
1940 CRUZ, Martin De La; EMMART, Emily Walcott (1898 – ); BADIANO, Juan (1484 – 1552)
The Badianus manuscript. (Codex Barberini, Latin, 241) Vatican Library. An Aztec herbal of 1552. Edited and translated by Emily W. Emmart.
The earliest complete Mexican medical text and the only medical text known to be the work of native Aztecs. Written by an Aztec physician named by the Spanish Martin de la Cruz, and translated into Latin by another na…
GMN 1811.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2009
1951 FASTLICHT, Samuel; ROMERO, Javier
El arte de las mutilaciones dentarias.
GMN 8479 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10656
1953 GUERRA PÉREZ-CARRAL, Francisco (1916 – 2011)
Historiografia de la medicina colonial hispanoamericana.
GMN 6603 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8521
1954 FASTLICHT, Samuel
Bibliografia odontologica Mexicana.
GMN 3705.01 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5801
1957 SOMOLINOS D’ARDOIS, Germán (1911 – 1973)
Historia y medicina; figuras y hechos de la historiografia médica mexicana.
GMN 6603.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8523
1958 ROMERO, Javier
Mutilaciones dentarias: Prehispanicas de Mexico y America en general.
GMN 8478 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10655
1958 WASSON, Robert Gordon (1898 – 1986); HEIM, Roger (1900 – 1979)
Les champignons hallucinogenes du Mexique. Études ethnologiques, taxinomiques, biologiques, physiologiques et chimiques.
GMN 12215 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14426
1965 COOPER, Donald B.
Epidemic disease in Mexico City 1761-1813: An administrative, social, and medical study.
GMN 7933 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10107
1968 SCHENDEL, Gordon
Medicine in Mexico: From Aztec herbs to betatrons.
In collaboration with Jose Alvarez Amezquita and Miguel E. Bustamante.
GMN 7836 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10008
1968 GUERRA PÉREZ-CARRAL, Francisco (1916 – 2011); ELEUTERIO GONZÁLEZ MENDOZA, José (1813 – 1875)
Los Médicos y las Enfermedades de Monterrey [1881]. Memorias de Gonzalitos que se publican con una introducción sobre su vida y su obra por Francisco Guerra.
Edition by Francisco Guerra and first publication of a manuscript by Eleuterio in the Wellcome Library. According to the catalogue of the Wellcome archives the contents are as follows: "Los médicos y las enfermedades …
GMN 13997 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16301
1969 COURY, Charles René (1916 – 1973)
La médecine de l'Amérique précolombienne.
GMN 8840 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11018
1971 FASTLICHT, Samuel
La odontología en el México prehispánico.
GMN 7934 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10108
1975 LÓPEZ AUSTIN, Alfredo Federico (1936 – )
Textos de medicina nahuatl.
GMN 8843 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11021
1976 FASTLICHT, Samuel
Tooth mutilations and dentistry in pre-Columbian Mexico.
First edition in English. First edition, in Spanish, 1971.
GMN 3705.05 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5813
1984 CORTÉS, Fernando Martinez (1922 – )
Historia general de medicina en México: México antiguo. Edited by Fernando Cortés. Tomo I.
GMN 6603.7 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8528
1984 BELTRÁN, Gonzalo Aguirre (1908 – 1996)
Historia general de la medicina en México: Medicina novohispana siglo XVI.
GMN 9044 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11223
1987 CORTÉS, Fernando Martinez (1922 – )
La medicina científica y el siglo XIX mexicano.
GMN 9055 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11234
1989 –1990 LÓPEZ AUSTIN, Alfredo Federico (1936 – )
Cuerpo humano e ideologia. Las concepciones de los antiguos nahauas. Third edition. 2 vols.
GMN 9043 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11222
1990 ORTIZ DE MONTELLANO, Bernard R.
Aztec medicine, health, and nutrition.
GMN 7513 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9685
1996 BERLIN, Brent (1936 – ); BERLIN, Elois Ann
Medical ethnobiology of the highland Maya of Chiapas, Mexico.
GMN 9299 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11481
1997 HERNÁNDEZ-SÁENZ, Luz Maria
Learning to heal: The medical profession in colonial Mexico, 1767-1831.
GMN 11050 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13246
2000 STECKEL, Richard H. (1944 – ); HAINES, Michael R.
A population history of the United States. Edited by Michael R. Haines and Richard H. Steckel.
From Pre-Columbian times to the present.
GMN 7976 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10152
2009 CRUZ, Martin De La; BADIANO, Juan (1484 – 1552); POZZO, Cassiano dal (1588 – 1657); CLAYTON, Martin (1967 – ); GUERRINI, Luigi; ÁVILA BLOMBERG, Alejandro de
Flora: The Aztec herbal. Edited by Martin Clayton, Luigi Guerrini, and Alejandro de Ávila. (The Paper Museum of Cassiano dal Pozzo. Series B: Natural History (HMPMB 8))
"This volume catalogues Cassiano dal Pozzo’s copy of the Codex Cruz-Badianus, an Aztec herbal prepared for the son of the Viceroy of Mexico in 1552 and the earliest medical text to have survived from the New World. Th…
GMN 12824 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15070
