1648 PISO, Willem [Guillaume le Pois] (1611 – 1678); MARGGRAF, Georg (Marcgrave) (1610 – 1644)
Historia naturalis Brasiliae.
Piso's study of the natural history of Brazil was also a pioneer work on tropical medicine, and also the largest work from the standpoint of format published by the Elzeviers. The folio includes De medicina brasiliens…
GMN 2263.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2828
1658 PISO, Willem [Guillaume le Pois] (1611 – 1678); BONDT, Jacob de [Jacobus Bontius] (1592 – 1631)
De Indiae utriusque re naturali et medica libri quatuordecim.
This is an extensively revised and enlarged second edition of Piso’s Historia naturalis Brasiliae (1648). In this edition Piso reprinted Bontius's De medicina Indorum (1642) with two additional books on Asian flora an…
GMN 1825 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2125
1683 MOURÃO, Simão Pinheiro [Morão] (1620 – 1686)
Trattado unico das bexigas, e sarampo, offerecido a D. João de Sousa, composto por Romaõ Mõsia Reinhipo.
One of the first works on medicine practiced in Brazil, published by Mourão under the pseudonym Romaõ Mõsia Reinhipo. Mourão distinguished clearly between smallpox and measles. There was still much confusion in the se…
GMN 8934 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11112
1694 ROSA, João Ferreira da (Ferreyra da Rosa)
Trattado unico da constituiçam pestilencial de Pernambuco, offerecido a ElRey N.S. por ser servido ordenar por seu Governador aos Medicos da America, que assistem aonde ha este contagio, que o compusessem para se conferirem pelos Coripheos da Medicina aos dictames com que he trattada esta pestilencial febre.
The first scientific description of yellow fever in Brazil by the first European physician to treat the disease in Brazil, and perhaps in all of Latin America. It includes the description of the first autopsy of a yel…
GMN 8930 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11108
1707 PIMENTA, Miguel Dias (1661 – 1715)
Noticias do que he o achaque do bicho, diffiniçam do seu crestame[n]to, subimento corrupçaõ, sinaes, & cura atè, o quinto grao, ou intensaõ delle, suas differenças, & co[m]plicaços, com que se ajunta.
This book has been "considered by some authors to be the first reference to the chagasic megaesophagus and megacolon that appeared in history. In descriptions considered to refer megaesophagus, although dysphagia, the…
GMN 8938 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11116
1751 –1752 LA CONDAMINE, Charles Marie de (1701 – 1774)
Journal du voyage fait par ordre du Roi, a l'équateur, servant d'introduction historique a la mesure des trois premiers degrés du méridien. Supplément au Journal historique du voyage a l'Équateur: et au livre de la Mesure des trois premiers degrés du méridien, servant de réponse à quelques objections. 2 vols.
La Condamine's journal of his ten year long voyage to South America, the scientific results of which included proof that the earth is a spheroid flattened at the poles. Other scientific observations including botanica…
GMN 12873 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15120
1799 AZEREDO, José Pinto de (1766 – 1810)
Ensaios sobre algumas enfermidades d'Angola....
Azeredo noted that the tropical fevers found in Brazil and Angola were very similar. He claimed to have achieved excellent results with his “new method” of treatment, which included the use of quinine, nux vomica, ars…
GMN 9070 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11249
1809 GOMES, Bernardino António (1769 – 1823)
Memoria sobre a canella do Rio de Janeiro offerecida ao Principe do Brazil nosso senhor: pelo Senado da Camara da mesma cidade no anno de 1798.
The earliest monograph on medicine published in Brazil. Digital facsimile from the U.S. National Library of Medicine at this link.
GMN 9064 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11243
1822 GOMES, Bernardino António (1769 – 1823)
Memoria sobre a virtude toenifuga da romeira, com observações zoologicas e zoonomicas relativas á toenea, e com huma estampa.
On the use of a root medicine to treat tapeworms, roundworms and similar parasites. The author refers to cases from Portuguese Africa, India and Brazil, and gives clinical observations based on his own case studies, s…
GMN 9071 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11250
1847 LUND, Peter Wilhelm (1801 – 1880)
Notice sur des ossements humains fossiles, trouvés dans une caverne du Brésil.
Lund, a student of Cuvier, excavated extensively in the region of Lagoa Santa, an area rich in caves and karst formations comprising the northern part of Greater Belo Horizonte in Brazil. Between 1835 and 1843 he coll…
GMN 7305 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9475
1853 WALLACE, Alfred Russel (1823 – 1913)
A 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.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 7445 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9617
1853 WALLACE, Alfred Russel (1823 – 1913)
Palm trees of the Amazon.
Wallace's first book, printed in an edition of only 250 copies. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 8242 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10418
1863 BATES, Henry Walter (1825 – 1892)
The naturalist on the river Amazons, a record of adventures, habits of animals, sketches of Brazilian and Indian life, and aspects of nature under the equator, during eleven years of travel. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 7442 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9614
1868 WUCHERER, Otto Eduard Heinrich (1820 – 1873)
Noticiar preliminar sobre vermes de uma especie ainda nao descripta, encontrados na urina de doentes de hematuria intertropical no Brazil.
In 1866 Wucherer saw the embryo form of the filaria worm. Later the name Wuchereria bancrofti was applied to it. English translation in Kean (No. 2268.1).
GMN 5344.6 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6781
1892 COSTA, Carlos (1844 – )
Catalogo systematico da bibliotheca da Faculdade de Medicina do Rio de Janeiro organisado pelo Carlos Costa.
Digital facsimile from U.S. National Library of Medicine at this link.
GMN 13498 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15773
1895 BREDA, Achille (1850 – 1933)
Beitrag zum klinischen und bacteriologischen Studium der brasilianischen Framboesie oder “Boubas”.
“Breda’s disease” – Brazilian yaws. English translation New Sydenham Society, 1897.
GMN 5293.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6435
1908 LUTZ, Adolfo (1855 – 1940)
Uma mycose pseudococcidica localisada na bocca e observada no Brazil. Contribuiçao ao conhocimento das hyphoblastomycoses americanas.
South American blastomycosis.
GMN 5532.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6677
1908 SPLENDORE, Alfonso (1871 – 1953)
Un nuovo protozoa parassito de’ conigli incontrato nelle lesioni anatomiche d’una malattia che ricorda in molti punti il kala azar dell’uomo.
Splendore discovered Toxoplasma in a rabbit; it was named T. cuniculi.
GMN 5534.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6689
1908 WALLACE, Alfred Russel (1823 – 1913); SPRUCE, Richard (1817 – 1893)
Notes of a botanist on the Amazon & Andes, being records of travel on the Amazon and its tributaries, the Trombetas, Rio Negro, Uaupés, Casiquiari, Pacimoni, Huallaga, and Pastas; as also to the cataracts of the Orinoco, along the eastern side of the Andes of Peru and Ecuador, and the shores of the Pacific during the years 1849-1864. Edited and condensed by Alfred Russel Wallace..., with a biographical introduction, portrait, seventy-one illustrations and seven maps. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 7444 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9616
1909 CHAGAS, Carlos Justiniano Ribiero (1879 – 1934)
Nova tripanozomiaze humana. Estudos sobre a morfolojia e o ciclo evolutivo do Schizotrypanum cruzi n.gen., n.sp., ajente etiolojico de nova entidade morbida do homen.
Chagas discovered T. cruzi, causal organism in American trypanosomiasis (“Chagas’s disease”). Partial English translation in Kean (No. 2268.1).
GMN 5283 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6345
1909 LINDENBERG, Adolfo Carlos (1872 – 1944)
L’ulcère de Bauru ou le bouton d’orientau Brésil.
Muco-cutaneous leishmaniasis of South America. English translation in Kean (No. 2268.1).
GMN 5299.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6483
1911 BRAZIL, Vital (1865 – 1950)
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 Heritag…
GMN 2115 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2623
1911 VIANNA, Gaspar Oliviera (1885 – 1914)
Contribuiçao para o estudo da anatomia patolojica da “molestia de Carlos Chagas”.
Demonstration of the mode of reproduction of T. cruzi. Text in Portuguese and German. See also the paper by Chagas in pp. 219-75 of the same journal.
GMN 5285.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6354
1912 ARRILLAGA, Francisco C.
Esclerosis secundaria de la arteria pulmonar y su cuadro clinico (Cardiacos negros).
A classical description of “Ayerza’s syndrome or disease” (cor pulmonale), to which Arrillaga named after Abel Ayerza, who first mentioned the disease in a lecture given in 1901. Corvisart mentioned the condition in 1…
GMN 2914 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4888
1914 VIANNA, Gaspar Oliviera (1885 – 1914)
Sobre o tratemento de leishmaniose tegumentar.
Vianna introduced tartar emetic in the treatment of S. American leishmaniasis. His preliminary announcement on this form of treatment was made to the Brazilian Dermatological Society and appears in Arch. brasil. Med.,…
GMN 5301 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6525
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
1926 STRONG, Richard Pearson (1872 – 1948); SHATTUCK, George Cheever (1879 – 1972); BEQUAERT, Joseph Charles (1886 – 1982); WHEELER, Ralph Emerson (1901 – 1980)
Medical report of the Hamilton Rice Seventh expedition to the Amazon In conjunction with the Department of Tropical Medicine of Harvard University, 1924-1925
"The Hamilton Rice Seventh Expedition to Amazonia was undertaken [under the leadership of Richard Pearson Strong] partly for general geographical exploration and partly for medical investigation in a section of the Am…
GMN 12574 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14813
1939 RIBEIRO, Leonídio (1893 – 1976)
Brazilian medical contributions.
GMN 6599 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8515
1944 –1948 KEFFER, Luiza
Indice bibliográfico de lepra, 1560-1943. 3 vols.
Supplements 1-5, 1952-62.
GMN 2447 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2944
1947 SANTOS FILHO, Lycurgo de Castro [Licurgo] (1910 – 1998)
Historia da medicina no Brasil. (Do século XVI ao século XIX). 2 vols.
GMN 6601 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8517
1956 ANDRADE, Gilberto Osório de (1912 – 1986); DUARTE, Eustáquio
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.
GMN 8933 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11111
1958 BORBA DE MORAES, Rubens (1899 – 1986)
Bibliographia Brasiliana: A bibliographical essay on rare books bout Brazil from 1504 to 1900 and works of Brazilian authors published abroad before the independence of Brazil in 1822. 2 vols.
Includes early books on medicine and natural history of Brazil.
GMN 8941 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11120
1958 GUERRA PÉREZ-CARRAL, Francisco (1916 – 2011)
Bibliografia medical Brasileira. Periodo Colonial 1808-1821.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 13499 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15774
1969 FRANCO, Odair
História da febre-amarela no Brasil.
Digital facsimile from bvsms.saude.gov.br at this link.
GMN 8936 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11114
1971 CÓRDOVA-RIOS, Manuel (1887 – 1978); LAMB, Frank Bruce (1913 – 1993)
Wizard of the Upper Amazon. The story of Manuel Córdova-Rios
GMN 10871 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13067
1977 SANTOS FILHO, Lycurgo de Castro [Licurgo] (1910 – 1998)
História geral da medicina brasileira. Vol. 1 (All published).
GMN 8932 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11110
1983 –1991 KOPPEL, Suzanne; LÖSCHNER, Renate; KIRCHSTEIN-GAMBER, Birgit
Brasilien-Bibliothek der Robert Bosch GmbH. 2 vols. in 3.
"Vol. I, edited by Susanne Koppel, describes 684 works dating from the discovery of Brazil to the nineteenth century, on history, politics, literature, ethnology, geography, climate, botany, zoology and medicine. The …
GMN 8945 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11124
1990 SMITH, Anthony (1926 – 2014)
Explorers of the Amazon.
The author was a noted explorer.
GMN 9234 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11416
1990 SCHULTES, Richard Evans (1915 – 2001); RAFFAUF, Robert F. (1916 – 2001)
The healing forest: Medicinal and toxic plants of the Northwest Amazonia.
GMN 13343 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15611
1993 CÓRDOVA-RIOS, Manuel (1887 – 1978); LAMB, Frank Bruce (1913 – 1993)
Rio Tigre and beyond: The Amazon jungle medicine of Manual Cordova-Rios
GMN 10872 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13068
1994 BALÉE, William (1954 – )
Footprints of the forest: Ka'Apor ethnobotany- The historical ecology of plant utilization by an Amazonian people.
GMN 9298 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11480
1994 PLOTKIN, Mark J. (1955 – )
Tales of a shaman's apprentice: An ethnobotanist searches for new medicines in the Amazon rain forest.
GMN 9937 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12125
1997 RIBEIRO, Marcia Moisés
A ciéncia dos trópicos: A arte médica no Brasil do sécolo XVIII.
GMN 8862 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11040
1997 VOEKS, Robert A. (1950 – )
Sacred leaves of Candomblé: African magic, medicine, and religion in Brazil.
"Candomblé, an African religious and healing tradition that spread to Brazil during the slave trade, relies heavily on the use of plants in its spiritual and medicinal practices. When its African adherents were forcib…
GMN 9910 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12098
1999 PEARD, Julyan G.
Race, place, and medicine: The idea of the tropics in nineteenth-century Brazilian medicine.
GMN 7838 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10010
1999 MARQUES, Vera Regina Baltrão (1954 – 2013)
Natureza em boiões: Medicinas e boticá-rios no Brasil setecentista.
GMN 8937 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11115
2006 EDLER, Flavio Coelho
Boticas & pharmacias: Uma historia ilustrada da farmacia no Brasil.
GMN 8935 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11113
2016 OTOVO, Okezi T.
Progressive mothers, better babies, race, public health, and the state in Brazil, 1850-1945.
GMN 10662 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12855
2016 DUTRA, Heverton Leandor Carneiro; ROCHA, Marcele Neves; MOREIRA, Luciano Andrade; ET AL
Wolbachia blocks currently circulating Zika virus isololates in Brazilian Aedes aegypti mosquitoes.
Order of authorship in the original paper: Dutra, Rocha, Moreira. The authors infected lab populations of mosquitos with Wolbachia pipientis, a common parasitic microbe that infects a high proportion of insects. They …
GMN 10942 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13138
