1640 HAMOND, Walter ( – 1648)

A paradox. Prooving, that the inhabitants of the isle called Madagascar, or St. Laurence, ... are the happiest people in the world. Whereunto is prefixed, a briefe and true description of that island: the nature of the climate, and condition of the inhabitants, and their speciall affection to the English above other nations. With most probable arguments of a hopefull and fit plantation of a colony there, in respect of the fruitfulnesse of the soyle, the benignity of the ayre, and the relieving of our English ships, both to and from the East-Indies.

“Hamond, author and explorer, published a translation of Ambroise Paré’s ‘Methode de traicter les Playes faictes par Harquebuses et aultres batons a feu,’ 1617, 4to. He was in the service of the East India Company, an…

GMN 12403 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14633

1685 DELLON, Charles Gabriel (1649 – 1710)

Traité des maladies particulières aux pays orientaux, et dans la route, et de leurs Remèdes. Par M.C.D.D.E.M.

At the age of 17, Dellon, who is sometimes referred to as Gabriel Dellon, embarked as second surgeon aboard the ship La Force. He arrived at Darman, in the Portuguese Indies, in 1673, where he was doctor to Luis de Me…

GMN 11128 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13324

1863 OWEN, Sir Richard (1804 – 1892)

Monograph on the Aye-Aye (Chiromys madagascariensis, Cuvier).

For the first 100 years after the first aye-aye was brought to Europe from Madagascar in the 1780s, debate persisted over whether it was a rodent, a primate, or most closely related to the kangaroo. Classification of …

GMN 12657 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14901

1883 DEBLENNE, Paul-Richard (1853 – )

Essai de géographie médicale de l'Ille Nosi-Bé près la cote nord-ouest de Madagascar (avec cartes). Thèse pour le doctorat en médicine.

GMN 14039 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16347

1898 REYNAUD, Gustave-Adolphe (1855 – 1924)

Considérations sanitaires sur l'expédition de Madagascar et quelques autres expéditions coloniales, françaises et anglaises.

Digital facsimile from wellcomecollection.org at this link.

GMN 13857 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16147