Barbados · Garrison-Morton-Norman

Year	Title & Tags	Author(s)
1672	The American physician : or, a treatise of the roots, plants, trees, shrubs, fruit, herbs, etc., growing in the English Plantations in America ; ... whereunto is added a discourse of the Cacao-nut-Tree, and the use of its fruit ; with all the ways of making Chocolate Traditional & Indigenous Americas (non-U.S.) Pharmacology & Therapeutics Race, Ethnicity & Colonial Medicine	HUGHES, William ( – 1683)
1696	Catalogus plantarum quae in insula Jamaica: Sponte proveniunt, vel vulgò coluntur cum earundem synonymis & locis natalibus, adjectis aliis quibusdam quae in insulis Maderae, Barbados, Nieves, & Sancti Christophori nascuntur, seu Prodromi historiae naturalis Jamaicae pars prima. Americas (non-U.S.) Pharmacology & Therapeutics Natural History & Evolution	SLOANE, Sir Hans (1660 – 1753)
1707–1725	A voyage to the islands Madera, Barbados, Nieves, S. Christophers and Jamaica: With the natural history of the herbs and trees, four-footed beasts, fishes, birds, insects, reptiles, &c. of the last of those islands; to which is prefix'd, an introduction, wherein is an account of the inhabitants, air, waters, diseases, trade, &c. of that place, with some relations concerning the neighbouring continent, and islands of America. Illustrated with figures of the things described, which have not been heretofore engraved. In large copper-plates as big as the life. 2 vols. Americas (non-U.S.) Natural History & Evolution	SLOANE, Sir Hans (1660 – 1753)
1759	Observations on the changes of the air and the concomitant epidemical diseases, in the Island of Barbados. Americas (non-U.S.) Epidemiology & Demography Pharmacology & Therapeutics Natural History & Evolution	HILLARY, William (1697 – 1763)
1784	A treatise on the glandular disease of Barbadoes: Proving it to be seated in the lymphatic system. Americas (non-U.S.) Plagues & Epidemics Chemistry & Biochemistry	HENDY, James

1672 HUGHES, William ( – 1683)

The American physician : or, a treatise of the roots, plants, trees, shrubs, fruit, herbs, etc., growing in the English Plantations in America ; ... whereunto is added a discourse of the Cacao-nut-Tree, and the use of its fruit ; with all the ways of making Chocolate

The earliest work in English on the medicinal virtues of North American tropical plants. Based on first-hand observations made in the West Indies, Evidence suggests that Hughes began his career in 1651 with a privatee…

GMN 7007 https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9173

1696 SLOANE, Sir Hans (1660 – 1753)

Catalogus plantarum quae in insula Jamaica: Sponte proveniunt, vel vulgò coluntur cum earundem synonymis & locis natalibus, adjectis aliis quibusdam quae in insulis Maderae, Barbados, Nieves, & Sancti Christophori nascuntur, seu Prodromi historiae naturalis Jamaicae pars prima.

Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Archive at this link.

GMN 9915 https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12103

1707 –1725 SLOANE, Sir Hans (1660 – 1753)

A voyage to the islands Madera, Barbados, Nieves, S. Christophers and Jamaica: With the natural history of the herbs and trees, four-footed beasts, fishes, birds, insects, reptiles, &c. of the last of those islands; to which is prefix'd, an introduction, wherein is an account of the inhabitants, air, waters, diseases, trade, &c. of that place, with some relations concerning the neighbouring continent, and islands of America. Illustrated with figures of the things described, which have not been heretofore engraved. In large copper-plates as big as the life. 2 vols.

As a youth Sloane collected objects of natural history and other curiosities. This led him to the study of medicine, which he went to London, where he studied botany, materia medica, surgery and pharmacy. His collecti…

GMN 9914 https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12102

1759 HILLARY, William (1697 – 1763)

Observations on the changes of the air and the concomitant epidemical diseases, in the Island of Barbados.

Hillary included good accounts of lead colic and infective hepatitis, and probably the first description of sprue (celiac disease).

GMN 1770 https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3314

1784 HENDY, James

A treatise on the glandular disease of Barbadoes: Proving it to be seated in the lymphatic system.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

GMN 13467 https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15741