1890 BÜTTIKOFER, Johann (1850 – 1928)
Reisebilder aus Liberia: Resultate geographischer, naturwissenschaftlicher und ethnographischer untersuchungen während der jahre 1879-1882 und 1886-1887. 2 vols.
The first comprehensive monograph on the Republic of Liberia, published 50 years after its colonization by freed American slaves and their descendents. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link. Transla…
GMN 8287 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10463
1930 STRONG, Richard Pearson (1872 – 1948)
The African Republic of Liberia and the Belgian Congo based on the observations made and material collected during the Harvard African Expedition, 1926-1927. Edited by Richard P. Strong. 2 vols.
"The Harvard Medical African Expedition of 1926-1927 was an eight-man venture sent by Harvard University for the primary purpose of conducting a medical and biological survey of Liberia; the secondary purpose being to…
GMN 12459 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14691
1941 HARLEY, George Way (1894 – 1966)
Native African medicine: With special reference to Its practice in the Mano tribe of Liberia.
GMN 6466 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7639
1970 BUCKLEY, Sonja Margaret (1918 – 2005); CASALS-ARIET, Jordi (1911 – 2004)
Lassa fever, a new virus disease of man from West Africa. III. Isolation and characterization of the virus.
Preliminary note in Nature (Lond.), 1970, 227, 174. Lassa Hemorrhagic Fever is endemic to the West African countries of Nigeria, Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.
GMN 5546.5 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6776
2014 SCHIEFFELIN, John S.; SCHAFFER, Jeffrey G.; GOBA, Augustine; ET AL
Clinical illness and outcomes in patients with Ebola in Sierra Leone.
Order of authorship in the original paper: Schieffelin, Shaffer, Goba. The authors used "quantitative reverse-transcriptase-polymerase-chain-reaction assays to assess the load of Ebola virus (EBOV, Zaire species) in a…
GMN 10929 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13125
2016 BREMAN, Joel G.; HEYMANN, David L.; LLOYD, Graham; ET AL
Discovery and description of Ebola Zaire virus in 1976 and relevance to the West African epidemic during 2013-2016.
A first hand account of events as they occurred in Yambuku in 1976, including the causes and reasons for the spread of Ebola within the Yambuku Mission hospital, the probable index event/patient (not identified), and …
GMN 10925 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13121
