1776 SONNERAT, Pierre (1749 – 1814)

Voyage à la Nouvelle Guinée, dans lequel on trouve la description des lieux, des observations physiques & morales, & des détails relatifs à l'histoire naturelle dans le regne animal & le regne végétal. Enrichi de cent vingt figures en taille douce.

Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.

GMN 11996 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14204

1957 GAJDUSEK, Daniel Carleton (1923 – 2008); ZIGAS, Vincent (1920 – 1983)

Degenerative disease of the central nervous system in New Guinea. The endemic occurrence of “Kuru” in the native population.

First description of Kuru, a disease occurring in natives of New Guinea. Cause of the disease was unknown. "It is now widely accepted that kuru was transmitted among members of the Fore tribe of Papua New Guinea via f…

GMN 4729.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1253

1968 MATTHEWS, John D.; GLASSE, Robert M. (1930 – 1993); LINDENBAUM, Shirley

Kuru and cannibalism.

Medical anthropologists Lindenbaum and Glass demonstrated that Kuru was transmitted in New Guinea by cannibalism--particularly by eating the brains of infected victims, which were the reservoir of prions. Order of aut…

GMN 10841 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13037

1989 DENOON, Donald John Noble (1940 – )

Public health in Papua New Guinea: Medical possibility and social constraint, 1884-1984.

GMN 12552 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14790

1990 BURTON-BRADLEY, Sir Burton G. (1914 – 1994)

A history of medicine in Papua New Guinea.

GMN 9736 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11923

2011 WATTERS, David

Stitches in time: Two centuries of surgery in Papua New Guinea.

Covers the period from 1800 to about 2005.

GMN 11809 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14011