1741 GUMILLA, Joseph (1688 – 1750)

El Orinoco ilustrado y defendido. Historia natural, civil y geográfica de este gran río y de sus caudalosas vertientes, govierno, usos, y costumbres de los indios sus habitadores, con nuevas, y utiles noticias de animales, arboles, frutos, aceytes, resinas, yervas, y raices medicinales ...

Inspired by the success of Acosta’s Natural History, Gumilla wrote lush descriptions of native life along the Orinoco River in Venezuela and Colombia. His characterization of local healing practices was informative, b…

GMN 8024 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10200

1911 FRANCO, Roberto; TORO, Gabriel; MARTINEZ, Jorge

Fiebre amarilla y fiebre espiroquetal; endemias y epidemias en Muzo, de 1907 a 1910.

Franco, J. Martínez-Santamaria, and G. Toro-Villa described epidemics of yellow fever spread by mosquitoes other than Ae. aegypti. Later F. L. Soper, et al., Amer. J. Hyg., 1933, 18, 555-87, substantiated this.

GMN 5460.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7567

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

1989 GRANJEL, Luis Sánchez (1920 – 2014); MÉNDEZ NIETO, Juan (1531 – 1616)

Discursos medicinales. Edición del Mss. 2208 de la Biblioteca de la Universidad de Salamanca. Introducción de Luis S. Granjel. Descripción bibliográfica de Teresa Santander. Transcripción de Gregorio del Ser Quijano y Luis E. Rodríguez-San Pedro.

Facsimile edtion and first publication of the first medical work written in Colombia, written between 1607 and 1611.

GMN 9049 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11228

1992 SCHULTES, Richard Evans (1915 – 2001); RAFFAUF, Robert F. (1916 – 2001)

Vine of the Soul: Medicine men, their plants and rituals in the Columbian Amazonia.

GMN 13344 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15613

1999 SERPA FLÓREZ, Fernando (1928 – 2001)

Bosquejo de la historia de la medicina colombiana.

GMN 9048 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11227

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