1771 FORSTER, Johann Reinhold (1729 – 1798); BOSSU, Jean Bernard (1720 – 1792)

Travels through that part of North America formerly called Louisiana by Mr. Bossu, ... Translated from the French by John Reinhold Forster, F.A.S. Illustrated with notes relative chiefly to natural history to which is added by the translator a systematic catalogue of all the known plants of English North America, or a Flora Americae Septentrionalis together with an abstract of the most useful and necessary articles contained in Peter Loefling's travels through Spain and Cumana in South America referred to the pages of the original Swedish edition. 2 vols.

This work is a series of 21 letters that Bossu wrote to the Marquis de L’Estrade describing his life and travels in the vast Louisiana country from 1751 to 1762. His ventures ranged from Fort Chartres, in present-day …

GMN 12472 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14705

1817 HEUSTIS, Jabez Wiggins (1784 – 1841)

Physical observations, and medical tracts and researches, on the topography and diseases of Louisiana.

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

GMN 10519 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12712

1821 NUTTALL, Thomas (1786 – 1859)

A journal of travels into the Arkansas territory, during the year 1819. With occasional observations on the manners of the aborigines. Illustrated by a map and other engravings.

Nuttall travelled from Philadelphia, down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers to the Arkansas. From there he travelled across Arkansas to the interior of the modern Oklahoma; returning via the Arkansas and Mississippi riv…

GMN 7772 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9944

1850 –1851 FENNER, Erasmus Darwin (1807 – 1866)

Southern medical reports: Consisting of general and special reports, on the medical topography, meteorology, and prevalent diseases, in the following states: Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Arkansas, Tennessee, Texas. Edited by E. D. Fenner. 2 vols.

Regarding Fenner see, John Duffy, "Erasmus Darwin Fenner (1807–1866) Journalist, Educator, and Sanitarian," Academic Medicine. 35 (1960) 819-831. Digital facsimile of the 1850-51 edition from the Internet Archive at t…

GMN 10517 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12710

1861 SCHUPPERT, Moritz (1817 – 1887)

A treatise on gun-shot wounds: written for and dedicated to the surgeons of the Confederate States Army.

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

GMN 7814 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9986

1863 FORMENTO, Felix (1837 – 1907)

Notes and observations on army surgery.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

GMN 7813 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9985

1962 MATAS, Rudolph (1860 – 1957); DUFFY, John (1915 – 1996)

The Rudolph Matas history of medicine in Louisiana. Edited by John Duffy. 2 vols.

GMN 13580 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15858

1998 BANKOLE-MEDINA, Katherine

Slavery and medicine: Enslavement and medical practices in antebellum Louisiana.

GMN 8205 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10381