1735 ATKINS, John (1685 – 1757)

A voyage to Guinea, Brasil and the West Indies; in His Majesty's ships, the Swallow and Weymouth: Describing the several islands and Settlements, viz, Madeira, the Canaries, Cape de Verd, Sierraleon, Sesthos, Cape Apollonia, Cabo Corso, and others on the Guinea coast; Barbadoes, Jamaica, &c. in the West-Indies; the colour, diet, languages, habits, manners, customs, and religions of the respective natives, and inhabitants. With remarks on the gold, ivory, and slave-trade; and on the winds, tides and currents of the several coasts.

Atkins, surgeon on the voyage, included information about the slave trade and the natural history of the Gold Coast. "Atkins describes the manatee accurately, and tells much about fetish worship. He shows that there w…

GMN 8483 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10660

1801 LEVAILLANT, François (Le Vaillant) (1753 – 1824)

Histoire naturelle d'une partie d'oiseaux nouveaux et rares de l'Amérique et des Indes: Ouvrage destiné par l'Auteur à faire partie de son ornithologie d'Afrique.

Digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this link.

GMN 13451 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15725

1807 –1834 HUMBOLDT, Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von (1769 – 1859); BONPLAND, Aimé Jacques Alexandre (1773 – 1858)

Voyage aux régions équinoxiales du nouveau continent, fait en 1799, 1800, 1801, 1802, 1803 et 1804. 34 vols.

In 1799 Humboldt and Bonpland embarked on a six-year tour of research through South America and Mexico, a trip which would afterwards be called, justifiably, "the scientific discovery of America." The two amassed exha…

GMN 7452 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9624

1825 WATERTON, Charles (1782 – 1865)

Wanderings in South America, the North-West of the United States, and the Antilles, in the years 1812, 1816, 1820, and 1824.

Waterton traveled to the Guyana region of South America to obtain curare. He provided a detailed description of its paralyzing effects, its preparation by distillation, and the blowpipe and darts used to deliver it. O…

GMN 2074 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2541

1915 TYZZER, Ernest Edward (1875 – 1965); STRONG, Richard Pearson (1872 – 1948); SELLARDS, Andrew Watson (1884 – 1941); BRUES, Charles Thomas (1879 – 1955); GASTIABURU, J. C.; HARVARD SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE

Report of first expedition to South America 1913.

Strong was the first professor of tropical medicine at Harvard. The Harvard School of Tropical Medicine was founded in 1913, the year they undertook this expedition. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

GMN 12573 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14812

2009 MCNEIL, Cameron L.

Chocolate in Mesoamerica: A cultural history of cacao. Edited by Cameron L. McNeil.

GMN 10443 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12636