1769 BANCROFT, Edward (1774 – 1821)

Essay on the natural history of Guiana, in South America. Containing a description of many curious productions in the animal and vegetable systems of that country. Together with an account of the religion, manners, and customs of several tribes of its Indian inhabitants. Interspersed with a variety of literary and medical observations. In several letters....

Bancroft was an English physician who lived for many years in South America. He noted the transmission of yaws by flies (p. 385 of his book). Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

GMN 5304 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6554

1881 HILLIS, John D.

Leprosy in British Guiana. An account of West Indian Leprosy. Illustrated with twenty lithographic plates, coloured and plain, from original drawings and photographs of patients at the asylum, and several engravings from camera-lucida drawings, by E. Noble Smith, of pathological specimens, mounted and prepared, with explanatory remarks by P. S. Abraham....

The author was medical superintendent of the General Leper Asylum, British Guiana, West Indies. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

GMN 13045 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15296

1896 CONYERS, James Salters (1841 – 1896); DANIELS, Charles Wilberforce (1862 – 1927)

The lupoid form of the so-called “groin ulceration” of this colony.

Granuloma inguinale distinguished from other similar lesions in the genital region.

GMN 5205.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7797