1590 ACOSTA, José de (1539 – 1600)
Historia natural y moral de las Indias.
One of the earliest detailed and realistic descriptions of the New World. Acosta hypothesized that the indigenous peoples of Latin America had migrated from Asia. He also divided the native peoples into three barbaria…
GMN 2244 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3843
1663 BADO, Sebastiano [Baldi, Baldo] (1610 – 1676)
Anastasis corticis Peruviae, seu chinae defensio
A defence of the virtues of Jesuit's bark or Peruvian bark (cinchona, chinchona), the most celebrated specific remedy for malaria. It was obtained from the bark of several species of the genus Cinchona, of the Rubiace…
GMN 1826 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7875
1695 RIVILLA BONET Y PUEYO, José de; PERALTA Y BARNUEVO, Pedro de (1663 – 1743)
Desvios de la naturaleza: O Tratado de el origen de los monstros. A que va anadido vn compendio de curaciones chyrurgicas en monstruosos accidentes.
On conjoined twins, including the record of autopsy of conjoined twins in Lima in 1694. Pedro de Peralta Barnuevo edited work for publication at the request of the Viceroy, Melchor Fernandez Portocarrero. Digital facs…
GMN 13151 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15410
1714 –1725 FEUILLÉE, Louis (1660 – 1732)
Journal des observations physiques, mathematiques et botaniques, faites par l'ordre du roi sur les côtes orientales de l'Amerique meridionale, & dans les Indes occidentales, depuis l'année 1707, jusques en 1712. 3 vols.
Includes in vols. 2 and 3: Histoire des plantes medecinales qui sont le plus en usage aux royaumes de l'Amerique meridionale, du Perou & du Chily, : composée sur les lieux par ordre du Roy, dans les années 1709. 1710.…
GMN 13449 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15722
1792 LÓPEZ, Hipólito Ruiz (1754 – 1816)
Quinología o Tratado del árbol de la quina ó cascarilla:con su descripción y la de otras especies de quinos nuevamente descubiertas en el Perú....
Ruiz, a Spanish pharmacist and botanist, was appointed director of the Expedición Botánica al Virreinato del Perú, during which he traveled extensively through Chile and Peru along with botanists José Pavón and Joseph…
GMN 13323 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15590
1798 –1802 LÓPEZ, Hipólito Ruiz (1754 – 1816); PAVÓN JIMÉNEZ, José Antonio (1754 – 1840)
Flora Peruviana, et Chilensis, sive, descriptiones et icones plantarum Peruvianarum, et Chilensium, secundum systema Linnaeanum digestae, cum characteribus plurium generum evulgatorum reformatis. 3 vols.
The authors originally intended this work resulting from their researches conducted during the Expedición Botánica al Virreinato del Perú to be published in 8 vols., and by later design in 12. However, only the first …
GMN 13326 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15593
1821 HUMBOLDT, Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von (1769 – 1859); LÓPEZ, Hipólito Ruiz (1754 – 1816); LAMBERT, Aylmer Bourke (1761 – 1842); LAUBERT, Jean Charles (1762 – 1834)
An illustration of the genus cinchona; comprising descriptions of all the officinal Peruvian barks, including several new species. Baron de Humboldt's Account of the Cinchona forests of South America, and Laubert's Memoir on the different species of quinquina: To which are added several dissertations of Don Hippolito Ruiz on various medicinal plants of South America ... And a short account of the spikenard of the ancients.
Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.
GMN 13324 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15591
1858 SALAZAR, Tomas (1830 – 1917)
Historia de la verrugas.
Verruga peruana.
GMN 5525 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6611
1867 BROCA, Pierre Paul (1824 – 1880)
Cas singulier de trépanation chez le Incas.
Broca attributed a defect in an ancient Peruvian skull to antemortem trepanation; prior to this paleopathologists and paleoanthropologists were unaware that the Incas practiced trepanation.
GMN 7704 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9876
1868 MORÉNO Y MÄIZ, Tomás
Recherches chimiques et physiologiques sur l’erythroxylum coca du Pérou et la cocaïne.
The author, formerly a surgeon in the Peruvian army, issued the first study of the pharmacological action of cocaine, containing the earliest suggestion of its use as a local anesthetic. Leclerc issued the commercial …
GMN 1868 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2451
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
1895 ODRIOZOLA, Ernesto (1862 – 1921)
La erupción en la enfermedad de Carrión (verruga peruana).
“Carrion’s disease” (Oroya fever) was named by the Peruvian physician Ernesto Odriozola, after Daniel Alcides Carrión Garcia (1859-85), a student. In order to prove or disprove the connection between Oroya fever and v…
GMN 5530 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6655
1901 MORTIMER, William Golden (1854 – 1933)
Peru: The history of coca, “the divine plant of the Incas”.
The most comprehensive work on the coca plant and the history of its use by the Incas and their descendants. Reprinted, San Francisco, And/Or Press, 1974.
GMN 2040.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2212
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 BARTON, Alberto Leonardo (1870 – 1950)
Descripción de elementos endo-globulares hallados en las enfermos de fiebre verrucosa.
The causal organism of Oroya fever and verruga peruana, endemic in Peru, was named Bartonella bacilliformis after Barton, who was one of the first to observe it.
GMN 5533 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6681
1950 PAZ-SOLDÁN, C. E.
La demogenia Peruana y sus problemas medico-sociales.
GMN 9030 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11209
1951 LASTRES Y QUINONES, Juan B. (1902 – 1960)
Historia de la medicina Peruna. 3 vols.
GMN 6602 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8519
1960 LASTRES Y QUINONES, Juan B. (1902 – 1960); CABIESES, Fernando Molina (1920 – 2009)
La trepanación del cráneo en el antiguo Perú.
GMN 7938 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10113
1961 ASHLEY-TOWLE, Margaret Elizabeth (1902 – 1985)
The ethnobotany of pre-Columbian Peru.
"....based on analysis of 2200 wild and cultivated plant specimens with clearly defined archaeological contexts... Part I is a systematic ethnobotany with pertinent citations of the botanical and archaeological litera…
GMN 10854 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13050
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
1982 COOK, Noble David (1941 – )
Demographic collapse: Indian Peru, 1520-1620.
The first in depth study of the demographic effects of the Spanish conquest. Cook estimated population size on the basis of archaeology, carrying capacity of the agricultural systems, disease mortality, depopulation r…
GMN 10572 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12765
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
1993 ORTEGA, Ynes R.; STERLING, Charles R.; GILMAN, Robert H.; ET AL
Cyclospora species - A new protozoan pathogen of humans.
Ortega and colleagues identified a novel parasite resembling C. muris in the feces of Peruvian patients and 2 U.S. patients, with symptoms resembling those of infections with Cryptosporidium. The parasite infected bot…
GMN 12435 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14667
1994 GAGLIANO, Joseph
Coca prohibition in Peru: The historical debates.
Traces the arguments of the participants in the coca debates in Peru during the last four centuries. Gagliano surveys the role of the leaf in Peru's socio-political history, focusing on coca usage as a source of contr…
GMN 11889 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14094
1994 ORTEGA, Ynes R.; STERLING, Charles R.; GILMAN, Robert H.
A new coccidian parasite (Apicomplexa: Eimeriidae) from humans.
Based on very high magnification electron transmission micrographs and contrast microscopy, Ortega and colleagues fully characterized the parasite and named it Cyclospora cayetanensis n. sp., naming it after Universid…
GMN 12436 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14668
1998 SCHULTES, Richard Evans (1915 – 2001); LÓPEZ, Hipólito Ruiz (1754 – 1816); JARAMILLO-ARANGO, María José Nemry von Thenen de
The journals of Hippolito Ruiz: Spanish botanist in Peru and Chile, 1777-1788. Translated by Richard Evans Schultes and Maria José Nemry von Thenen de Jarmillo-Arango.
GMN 13325 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15592
2001 SOWELL, David (1952 – )
The tale of healer Miguel Perdomo Neira: Medicine, ideologies, and power in the nineteenth-century Andes.
GMN 12129 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14338
2007 EREMEEVA, Marina E.; GERNS, Helen L.; LYDY, Shari L.; ET AL
Bacteremia, fever, and splenomegaly caused by a newly recognized Bartonella species.
The authors described an organism resembling, but different from, Bartonella bacilliformis (Oroya fever) on a patient returning from Peru. The patient recalled numerous insect bites on her legs and feet during her tri…
GMN 11934 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14139
2010 WARREN, Adam
Medicine and politics in colonial Peru: Population growth and the Bourbon reforms.
GMN 7834 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10006
2014 JOUVE MARTÍN, José R.
The black doctors of colonial Lima: Science, race, and writing in colonial and early Republican Peru.
"In this groundbreaking study on the intersection of race, science, and politics in colonial Latin America, José Jouve Martín explores the reasons why the city of Lima, in the decades that preceded the wars of indepen…
GMN 13530 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15807
2017 NEWSON, Linda A. (1946 – )
Making medicines in early colonial Lima, Peru: Apothecaries, science and society.
GMN 10539 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12732
2021 ARMUS, Diego; GÓMEZ, Pablo F.
The gray zones of medicine: Healers & history in Latin America. Edited by Diego Armus & Pablo F. Gómez.
GMN 14328 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16653
