1787 PARRA Y CALLADO, Antonio (1739 – )

Descripcion de diferentes piezas de historia natural las mas del ramo maritimo.

This catalogue of Carrbean fish was the first scientific treatise printed in Cuba and also the first illustrated book printed in Cuba. Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.

GMN 8026 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10202

1787 PARRA, Antonio (1737 – )

Descripcion de diferentes piezas de historia natura, las mas del ramo maritimo.

The first scientific book printed in Cuba. The striking illustrations are by the author's son, and depict fish, turtles, and crustacieans observed along the Cuban shoreline. The final section contains three alarming i…

GMN 13908 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16200

1855 PIÑA Y PEÑUELA, Ramón

Topografía médica de la isla de Cuba.

Digital facsimile from the U.S. National Library of Medicine at this link.

GMN 11522 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13721

1881 –1882 FINLAY, Carlos Juan (1833 – 1915)

El mosquito hipoteticamente considerado como agente de transmisión de la fiebre amarilla.

Finlay was the first to suggest that the Aedes aegypti mosquito was the vector of yellow fever. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link. English translation by Rudolph Matas as "The mosquito hypothetically co…

GMN 5455 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7549

1900 REED, Walter (1851 – 1902); CARROLL, James (1854 – 1907); AGRAMONTE Y SIMONI, Aristides (1868 – 1931); LAZEAR, Jesse William (1866 – 1900)

The etiology of yellow fever. A preliminary note.

First definite proof that the organism causing yellow fever is transmitted to man by the mosquito Aëdes aegypti. During the period spent by these workers in the investigation of the disease in Cuba Lazear and Carroll …

GMN 5457 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7559

1901 REED, Walter (1851 – 1902)

The etiology of yellow fever: An additional note.

"The article describes a series of experiments conducted to explore how yellow fever is propagated from individual to individual and how the contagium is spread within households. The study was conducted in an experim…

GMN 9372 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11555

1903 GORGAS, William Crawford (1854 – 1920)

Notes on the treatment of yellow fever at Las Animas Hospital, the hospital of the Sanitary Department, during the epidemic of 1900 at Havana, Cuba.

In 1901 Gorgas was sent to Havana to undertake a special campaign against the yellow fever mosquito Aëdes aegypti. His methods of sanitation were so successful that in three months yellow fever was practically eradica…

GMN 13923 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16217

1909 GORGAS, William Crawford (1854 – 1920)

Sanitation of the tropics with special reference to malaria and yellow fever.

GMN 5460 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7564

1937 CASTELLANOS, Agustin Walfredo (1902 – 2000); ET AL

La angio-cardiografía radio-opaca.

Intravenous angiocardiography. This was the first publication that dealt with the normal cardiac structure and the changes seen in ventricular septal defect and pulmonary stenosis.

GMN 11568 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13767

1938 SAENZ RICART, Braulio (1886 – 1961)

Demonstratión de un treponema en el borde activo un caso de pinto de las manos y pies y en la linfa de ganglios superficiales (reporte preliminar).

B. Saenz, J. Grau Triana, and J. Alfonso Armenteros indicated that pinta is caused by a treponeme, T. carateum.

GMN 5308.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6564

1945 ROÍG Y MESA, Juan Tomás (1877 – 1971)

Plantas medicinale aromaticas o venenosas de Cuba. 2 vols.

GMN 13061 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15313

1952

CUADERNOS DE HISTORIA DE LA SALUD PÚBLICA. 1-

Recent issues may be viewed at http://bvs.sld.cu/revistas/his/indice.html.

GMN 7898 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10071

1965 ROIG DE LEUCHSENRING, Emilio (1889 – 1964)

Médicos y medicina en Cuba. Historia, biografia, costumbrismo.

GMN 6603.6 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8527

1965 –1971 FINLAY, Carlos Juan (1833 – 1915); EXPÓSITO, César Rodriguez (1904 – 1972)

Obras completa. Compiladas por César Rodriguez Expósito. 5 vols.

GMN 9423 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11606

1981 –1984 MENA SERRA, César A. (1914 – )

Historia de la odontologia en Cuba. Vol. 1: La colonia (1492-1898) Vol. 2: Intervencion norteamericana (1899-1902) (1906-1909). Periodo republicano 1902-1909, 1909-1940. Vol. 3: Peridodo republicano (1940-1958) Vol. 4: Cuba comunista y en el exilio (1959-1983).

A remarkably comprehensive history of dentistry for a small country.

GMN 12918 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15165

2012 BROTHERTON, P. Sean

Revolutionary medicine: Health and the body in post-Soviet Cuba.

"Until the Soviet bloc collapsed in 1989, socialist Cuba encouraged citizens to view access to health care as a human right and the state's responsibility to provide it as a moral imperative. Since the loss of Soviet …

GMN 12131 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14340

2017 LAMBE, Jennifer L.

Madhouse: Psychiatry and politics in Cuban history.

GMN 10666 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12859