1698 LISTER, Martin (1639 – 1712)
A journey to Paris in the year 1698.
Includes observations of natural history collections, estates and libraries of Parisians, and commentary on science, art, food, wine, medicine, and more. Late in 1697, William Bentinck, Lord Portland, was sent on a di…
GMN 8592 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10769
1702 NORTHLEIGH, John (1657 – 1705)
Topographical descriptions: With historico-political, and medico-physical observations: Made in two several voyages through most parts of Europe.
Travels in Netherlands, France, Savoy, and Piedmont. A second volume containing records of tours in Italy, and a third containing tous in Germany, Hunary, Denmark and Sweden, were planned but were never published.
GMN 13831 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16121
1712 KAEMPFER, Engelbert (1651 – 1716)
Amoentitatum exoticarum politico-physico-medicarum fasciculi V.
Kaempfer’s illustrated accounts of Japanese acupuncture and moxibustion are among the best of the 17th century. They appeared for the first time in the above work and were translated into English in his The History of…
GMN 6374.11 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8317
1756 BROWNE, Patrick (1720 – 1790)
The civil and natural history of Jamaica. In three parts, containing 1. An accurate description of that Island, its situation and soil; with a brief account of its former and present state, government, revenues, produce, and trade. II. A history of the natural productions, including the various sorts of native fossils, perfect and imperfect vegetables, quadrupedes, birds, fishes, reptiles and insects; with their properties and uses in mechanics, diet, and physic. III. An account of the nature of climate in general, and their different effects upon the human body; with a detail of the diseases arising from this source, particularly within the tropics....illustrated with fifty copper-plates...in natural size....
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 13448 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15721
1799 PARK, Mungo (1771 – 1806); RENNELL, James (1742 – 1830)
Travels in the interior districts of Africa: Performed under the direction and patronage of the African Association, in the Years 1795, 1796, and 1797. By Mungo Park, surgeon. With an appendix, containing geographical illustrations of Africa by Major Rennell.
Park, a Scottish physician, was the first Westerner to travel to the central portion of the Niger River. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 7931 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10104
1802 ACERBI, Giuseppe (1773 – 1846)
Travels through Sweden, Finland, and Lapland, to the North Cape, in the years 1798 and 1799. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 13779 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16066
1815 PARK, Mungo (1771 – 1806)
Journal of a mission to the interior of Africa, in the year 1805. Together with other documents, official and private, relating to the same mission. To which is prefixed an account of the life of Mr. Park.
Park died in Africa in 1806, as a result of conflicts with native peoples. This volume includes the journal of Isaaco, an African, who served as Mungo Park's guide. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this …
GMN 7932 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10105
1820 CLARK, Sir James (1788 – 1870)
Medical notes on climate, diseases, hospitals, and medical schools, in France, Italy, and Switzerland; comprising an inquiry into the effects of a residence in the South of Europe, in cases of pulmonary consumption, and illustrating the present state of medicine in those countries.
Pages 153-59 contain an account of Clark's visit to the Hopital Necker in Paris, with a detailed discussion of the use of the stethoscope introduced by Laennec, one year earlier, in 1819. This was possibly the first a…
GMN 13239 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15504
1830 EHRENBERG, Christian Gottfried (1795 – 1876)
Organisation, Systematik und geographische Verhältniss der Infusionsthierchen. Zwei Vorträge, in der Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin gehalten in den Jahren 1828 und 1830.
In this work Ehrenberg first published his classification of infusioria, including the naming of bacteria for the first time. The work published two papers based on his expeditions. The first, read on January 10, 1828…
GMN 11452 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13651
1841 COMBE, George (1788 – 1858)
Notes on the United States of North America during a phrenological visit in 1838-9-40. 3 vols.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
GMN 10072 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12261
1842 DAVY, John (1790 – 1868)
Notes and observations on the Ionian Islands and Malta: With some remarks on Constantinople and Turkey, and on the system of quarantine as at present conducted. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 13843 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16133
1863 GORDON, Sir Charles Alexander (1821 – 1899)
China from a medical point of view in 1860 and 1861: To which is added a chapter on Nagasaki as a sanitarium.
Digital facsimile from wellcomecollection.org at this link.
GMN 13844 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16134
1865 POLAK, Jakob Eduard (1818 – 1891)
Persien. Das Land und seine Bewohner. Ethnographische Schilderungen. 2 vols.
In this wide-ranging ethnographic study Polak provided the most authoritative account of his introduction of western medicine into Iran as well as the state of medicine in Iran generally. "Polak (1865, II, pp. 192-348…
GMN 14037 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16345
1867 RANSONNET-VILLEZ, Eugen, Freiherr von (1838 – 1926)
Sketches of the inhabitants, animal life and vegetation in the lowlands and high mountains of Ceylon: As well as of the submarine scenery near the coast taken from a diving bell.
This work was illustrated with 26 tinted lithographs of natives and scenery in Sri Lanka after drawings from nature by the author, of which four were colored reproductions of underwater scenes made by the author using…
GMN 11705 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13906
1898 REYNAUD, Gustave-Adolphe (1855 – 1924)
Considérations sanitaires sur l'expédition de Madagascar et quelques autres expéditions coloniales, françaises et anglaises.
Digital facsimile from wellcomecollection.org at this link.
GMN 13857 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16147
1907 MORGAN, John (1735 – 1789)
The journal of Dr. John Morgan of Philadelphia from the city of Rome to the city of London 1764. Together with a fragment of a journal written at Rome, 1764, and a biographical sketch.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 14162 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16477
1915 WHIFFEN, Thomas
The north-west Amazons: Notes of some months spent among cannibal tribes.
"This 1915 volume recounts Captain Thomas Whiffen’s travels in Brazil and Colombia in the region between the rivers Issa (or Içá) and Apaporis, and the Putumayo District. The study looks at the way in which the indige…
GMN 9182 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11361
1918 COUNCILMAN, William Thomas (1854 – 1933); LAMBERT, Robert Archibald (1883 – 1960)
The medical report of the Rice Expedition to Brazil.
The expedition was led by Alexander H. Rice, Jr., an American physician, geographer, geologist and explorer noted for his expeditions to the Amazon Basin. "As a geographer and explorer Rice specialized in rivers.[1][7…
GMN 11014 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13210
1937 LIGHT, Richard Upjohn (1902 – 1994); WILSON, Robert French
Journal of a seaplane cruise around the world August 20, 1934 to January 24, 1935.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
GMN 13880 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16170
1941 LIGHT, Richard Upjohn (1902 – 1994)
Focus on Africa.
Includes the first aerial photographs of Africa taken by Mary Light. This was the second book to reproduce aerial photographs. Richard Light was an American neurosurgeon, a noted aviator, and a photographer and cinema…
GMN 13881 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16171
2002 BARTRAM, William (1739 – 1823); SANDERS, Brad
Guide to William Bartram's travels: Following the trail of America's first great naturalist.
GMN 13447 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15719
2012 CHARCOT, Jean Martin (1825 – 1893); GELFAND, Toby (1942 – )
Charcot in Morocco. Introduction, notes and translation by Toby Gelfand.
GMN 11455 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13654
2016 TROELSTRA, Anne Sjerp (1939 – )
Bibliography of natural history travel narratives.
The author is a professor of mathematical logic and the foundations of mathematics. Besides treatment of earlier literature, this bibliography includes many lesser known 20th century works.
GMN 7964 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10140
