1672 CLERMONT, Charles [CLAROMONTIUS]
De aere, locis, et aquis terrae Angliae; deque morbis Anglorum vernaculis. Cum observationibus ratiocinatione & curandi method illustratis.
An outline of the medical topography of England.
GMN 1769 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3309
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
1762 CASAL JULIÁN, Gaspar (1680 – 1759)
Historia natural, y medica de el Principado de Asturias.
The first recognizable description of pellagra is included on pp. 327-60 of this book, which was written in 1735 but not published until 1762, after the writer’s death. He called the disease mal de la rosa. Reprinted,…
GMN 1771 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3318
1776 CHALMERS, Lionel (1715 – 1777)
An account of the weather and diseases of South-Carolina. 2 vols.
Originally published in the Gentleman’s Magazine, 1751-54.
GMN 1773 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3326
1778 –1793 ZIMMERMANN, Eberhard August Wilhelm von (1743 – 1815)
Geographische Geschichte des Menschen und der allgemein verbreiteten vierfüßigen Thiere: nebst einer hieher gehörigen Zoologischen Weltcharte. 3 vols.
Digital facsimile from the Bayerische StaatsBibliothek at this link.
GMN 8222 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10398
1792 CURRIE, William (1754 – 1828)
An historical account of the climates and diseases of the United States of America, and of the remedies and methods of treatment, which have been found most useful and efficacious, particularly in those diseases which depend upon climate and situation: collected pricipally from personal observation, and the communications of physicians of talents and experience, residing in the several states.
Digital facsimile from the Medical Heritage Library, Internet Archive, at this link.
GMN 1775 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3336
1792 –1795 FINKE, Leonhard Ludwig (1747 – 1837)
Versuch einer allgemeinen medizinisch-praktischen Geographie, worin der historische Theil der einheimischen Völker-und Saaten-Arzeneykunde vergetragen wird. 3 vols.
The first comprehensive medical geography. See George Rosen, "Leonhard Ludwig Finke and the first medical geography," IN: Underwood, E. A. (ed.). Science and medicine in history: Essays on the evolution of scientific …
GMN 1776 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3341
1800 ABDALLATIF AL-BAGHDADI (عبداللطيف البغدادي), [Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi] (1162 – 1231); WHITE, Joseph (1745 – 1814); POCOCKE, Edward (1648 – 1727)
Historiae Aegypti compendium, Arabice et Latine. Partim ipse vertit, partim a Pocockio versum edendum curavit, notisque illustravit J. White.
Arabic-Latin bilingual text, edited by White, incorporating a translation begun by Edward Pococke the Younger (1648-1727). Abd al-Latif gave a good description of the fauna and flora of Egypt, its inhabitants and some…
GMN 1768 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3306
1802 DESGENETTES, René-Nicolas Dufriche (1762 – 1837)
Histoire médicale de l'Armée d'Orient.
Napoleon appointed Desgenettes physician-in-chief for his expedition into Egypt. Desgenette's Histoire contained 19 separate chapters written by expedition personel. Digital facsimile of the 1802 from the Internet Arc…
GMN 8188 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10364
1803 WITTMAN, William
Travels in Turkey, Asia-Minor, Syria, and across the desert into Egypt during the years 1799, 1800, and 1801, in company with the Turkish Army, and the British Military Mission.To which are annexed, observations on the plague, and on the diseases prevalent in Turkey, and a meteorological journal.
Wittman described the plague and other epidemics that afflicted both the Ottoman and British armies. In the Appendix he provided medical suggestions for treatment, together with a history of the plague. Digital facsim…
GMN 7367 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9539
1813 JOHNSON, James (1777 – 1845)
The influence of tropical climates, more especially the climate of India, on European constitutions; the principal effects and diseases thereby induced, their prevention or removal, and the means of preserving health in hot climates, rendered obvious to to Europeans in every capacity: An essay .
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link. Enlarged and retitled second edition: The influence of tropical climates on European constitutions: to which is added tropical hygiene, or the preservation of …
GMN 8211 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10387
1828 ANNESLEY, Sir James (1780 – 1847)
Researches into the causes, nature and treatment of the more prevalent diseases of India, and of warm climates generally. Illustrated with cases, post mortem examinations, and numerous coloured engravings of morbid structures. 2 vols.
A landmark in geographical pathology, superbly illustrated. Annesley’s cases, collected over many years’ service throughout India, represented the most complete treatment of diseases on the sub-continent to date. Digi…
GMN 1776.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3342
1832 TWINING, William (1790 – 1835)
Clinical illustrations of the more important diseases of Bengal, with the result of an inquiry into their pathology and treatment.
Digital facsimile from the Medical Heritage Library, Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 8806 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10984
1837 MARTIN, James Ranald (1796 – 1874)
Notes on the medical topography of Calcutta.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 8803 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10981
1845 –1849 BERGHAUS, Heinrich Karl Wilhelm (1797 – 1884)
Dr. Heinrich Berghaus’ Physikalischer Atlas: oder, Sammlung von Karten, auf denen die hauptsächlichsten Erscheinungen der anorganischen und organischen Natur nach ihrer geographischen Verbreitung und Vertheilung bildlich dargestellt sind. 2 vols.
Berghaus created a new genre of thematic atlases. He issued this work gradually in eighteen installments from 1837 to1848. The first edition of the complete atlas consists of ninety maps in two vols., dated 1845 and 1…
GMN 7694 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9866
1845 –1862 HUMBOLDT, Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von (1769 – 1859)
Kosmos. Entwurf einer physischen Weltbeschreibung. 5 vols. and atlas.
This work includes founding material in geography, plant geography, orography, climatology and meterology, among other sciences, and citations to 9,000 sources. The atlas was issued without Humboldt's participation, a…
GMN 8223 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10399
1847 PRUNER, Franz Ignaz [PRUNER-BEY] (1808 – 1882)
Die Krankheiten des Orient’s: vom Standpunkte der vergleichenden Nosologie betrachtet.
Digital facsimile from the Medical Heritage Library, Internet Archive, at this link.
GMN 2265 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2821
1849 JOHNSTON, Alexander Keith (1804 – 1871)
Physical Atlas. A series of maps & illustrations of the geographical distribution of natural phenomena. Embracing I. Geology. II Hydrography. III Meterology. IV. Natural History.
30 double-page maps, 15 of which are after the physical atlas of Berghaus. Contributors included Edward Forbes, George Waterhouse, Abbe Boué, etc. Various concern disease.
GMN 7693 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9865
1850 –1854 DRAKE, Daniel (1785 – 1852); SMITH, Samuel Hanbury (1810 – 1894); SMITH, Francis G.
A systematic treatise, historical, etiological, and practical, on the principal diseases of the interior valley of North America as they appear in the Causcasian, African, Indian, and Esquimaux varieties of Its population. 2 vols.
This classical contribution to the social / medical history of North America includes the most important work on the natural history of malaria published up to that time. Digital facsimile of vol. 1 from the Internet …
GMN 1777 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3345
1856 MÜHRY, Adolf (1810 – 1888)
Die geographischen Verhältnisse der Krankheiten oder Grundzüge der Noso-Geographie. Vol. 1: Allgemeine Gesetze und Lehren der Noso-Geographie; Vol. 2: Thesaurus Noso-Geographicus.
Digital facsimile from Heinrich Heine Universität Düsseldorf at this link.
GMN 8215 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10391
1857 BOUDIN, Jean-Christian-Marc (1806 – 1867)
Traité de géographie et de statistique médicales et des maladies endémiques comprenant la météorologie et la géologie médicales, les lois stastisuqes de la population et de la mortalité, la distribution géographique des malades et la pathologie comparée des races humaines. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile of vol. 1 from Google Books at this link; of vol. 2 from BnF Gallica at this link.
GMN 8190 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10366
1859 MCCLELLAND, John (1805 – 1875)
Sketch of the medical topography, or climate and soils, of Bengal and the N.W. Provinces.
Digital facsimile from the internet Archive at this link.
GMN 8212 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10388
1859 LOGAN, Thomas Muldrup (1808 – 1876)
Report on the medical topography and epidemics of California.
Logan provided an updated report with the same title in 1865. Digital facsimile of the 1865 report from U.S. National Library of Medicine at this link.
GMN 11304 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13502
1860 –1864 HIRSCH, August (1817 – 1894)
Handbuch der historisch-geographischen Pathologie. 2 vols.
This is perhaps the greatest historical classic on the subject. Vol.1 appeared in 2 parts, with the first part issued in 1859 and the second part issued in 1860.
GMN 1778 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1827
1861 JOURDANET, Denis (1815 – 1892)
De Mexique au point de vue de son influence sur la vie de l'homme.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
GMN 8110 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10286
1864 JOURDANET, Denis (1815 – 1892)
Le Mexique et l'Amérique tropicale: climats, hygiène et maladies.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 8109 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10285
1874 WALKER, Francis Amasa (1840 – 1897)
Statistical atlas of the United States based on the results of the ninth census 1870, with contributions from many eminent men of science and several departments of the government.
This oversized compendium of maps, graphs, statistical tables, and essays was the first comprehensive thematic atlas produced by any nation. It was hailed both at home and abroad for its innovative use of graphic elem…
GMN 7479 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9651
1877 –1880 LOMBARD, Henri Clermond (1803 – 1895)
Traité de climatologie médicale, 4 vols. and 1 atlas.
GMN 1779 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1830
1883 –1886 HIRSCH, August (1817 – 1894); CREIGHTON, Charles (1847 – 1927)
Handbook of geographical and historical pathology. Translated from the second German edition by Charles Creighton. Vol. 1.-Acute infective diseases. Vol. 2.-Chronic infective, toxic, parasitic, septic and constitutional diseases. Vol. 3.-Diseases of organs and parts.
This is the best edition of Hirsch's Handbuch. Digital facsimiles of all 3 vols. from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 8378 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10555
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
1884 BORDIER, Arthur (1831 – 1910)
La géographie médicale.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 8207 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10383
1884 POINCARÉ, Émile Léon (1828 – 1892)
Prophylaxie et géographie médicale: Des principales maladies tributaires de l'hygiène.
Includes several colored world maps of diseases. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 12161 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14371
1903 CLEMOW, Frank Gerard (1863 – 1928)
The geography of disease.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 9029 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11208
1918 COUNCILMAN, William Thomas (1854 – 1933); LAMBERT, Robert Archibald (1883 – 1960)
The medical report of the Rice Expedition to Brazil.
The expedition was led by Alexander H. Rice, Jr., an American physician, geographer, geologist and explorer noted for his expeditions to the Amazon Basin. "As a geographer and explorer Rice specialized in rivers.[1][7…
GMN 11014 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13210
1922 –1933 SUDHOFF, Karl Friedrich Jakob (1853 – 1938); PARACELSUS, [Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim] (1493 – 1541); MATTHIESSEN, Wilhelm (1891 – 1965)
Paracelsus: Sämtliche Werke…Herausg. von K. Sudhoff und W. Mathiessen. 14 vols.
Paracelsus was first to write on miners’ diseases, the first to establish the relationship between cretinism and endemic goitre and to note the geographic differences in diseases. Sudhoff was the author of what remain…
GMN 57 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8775
1923 JONES, William Henry Samuel (1876 – 1963); HIPPOCRATES, [Ἱπποκράτης; Hippocrates of Kos] (-460 – -370)
On airs, waters, and places. IN: his [Works] with an English translation by W. H. S. Jones, 1, pp. 65-137
“The first book ever written on medical geography, climatology, and anthropology” (Garrison). The Latin translation of this text was first published in Rhazes’ Liber ad Almansorem, Milan, 1481. See No. 39.1. The stand…
GMN 1767 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3302
1934 –1938 PETERSEN, William Ferdinand (1887 – 1950); MILLIKEN, Margaret Eugenie Wilson
The patient and the weather. With the assistance of Margaret E. Milliken. 4 vols. in 7.
GMN 1781 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1832
1934 PIÉRY, Antoine Marius (1873 – 1957)
Traité de climatologie biologique et médicale. Publié sous la direction de M. Piéry. 3 vols.
GMN 2010 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1939
1935 MCKINLEY, Earl Baldwin (1894 – 1938)
A geography of disease.
Published as supplement to Amer. J. trop. Med., 1935, 15, No. 5.
GMN 1780 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1831
1938 SHATTUCK, George Cheever (1879 – 1972); BEQUAERT, Joseph Charles (1886 – 1982); SANDGROUND, Jack Henry (1899 – 1987); HILFERTY, Margaret M.; CLARK, Samuel Drury
A medical survey of the republic of Guatemala, by George Cheever Shattuck. With the collaboration of Joseph C. Bequaert, Margaret M. Hilferty, Jack H. Sandground [and] Samuel Drury Clark.
Organized and directed by the Department of Tropical Medicine, Harvard School of Public Health. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
GMN 12593 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14833
1944 SIMMONS, James Stevens (1890 – 1954); WHAYNE, Tom French (1905 – ); ANDERSON, Gaylord West (1901 – 1979); HORACK, Harold Maclachlan (1912 – 1977)
Global Epidemiology: A geography of disease and sanitation. Vol. 1: India and the Far East/The Pacific Area; Vol. 2: Africa and the Adjacent Islands; Vol. 3: The Near and Middle East. Edited by James Stevens Simmons, Tom F. Whayne, Gaylord West Anderson, Harold Maclachlan Horack... and United States. Surgeon-General's Office. Preventive Medicine Service.
GMN 9032 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11211
1945 BARKHUS, Arne
Medical geographies.
A historical survey of the classical works.
GMN 1782.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1836
1952 –1961 RODENWALDT, Ernst Robert Karl (1878 – 1965); BADER, Richard-Ernst (1912 – 1996); JUSATZ, Helmut Joachim (1907 – 1991)
World-atlas of epidemic diseases. Welt-Seuchen-Atlas: Weltatlas der Seuchenverbreitung und Seuchenbeweng. In collaboration with Richard-Ernst Bader ... [et al.]. Edited by Ernst Rodenwaldt; assistant scientific editors: Ludwig Bachmann, Helmut J. Jusatz. Organization, Heinz Dörrfuss. Cartography, Konrad Voppel, in cooperation with Fritz Hölzel and Henry Petersen. Sponsorship, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, Navy Dept., Washington, D.C. 3 vols.
In English and German.
GMN 9033 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11212
1965 ACKERKNECHT, Erwin Heinz (1906 – 1988)
History and geography of the most important diseases.
Originally published in German, 1963.
GMN 1685.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2394
1967 LANGLANDS, Bryan Wooleston (1928 – 1989)
The sleeping sickness epidemic of Uganda 1900-1920: A study in historical geography.
GMN 10679 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12872
1982 SARGENT, Frederick II (1920 – 1980)
Hippocratic heritage: A history of ideas about weather and human health.
The first historical survey of human biometeorology, tracing the evolution of the Hippocratic idea that weather is one of the dterminants of health from its ancient origins to time of writing.
GMN 8187 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10363
1993 KIPLE, Kenneth F. (1939 – 2016)
The Cambridge world history of human disease. Edited by Kenneth F. Kiple [and 12 co-editors].
An encyclopedic world history of disease, incorporating a geographic approach.
GMN 6963 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9128
1993 ARNOLD, David (1946 – )
Colonizing the body: State medicine and epidemic disease in nineteenth-century India.
An authoritative account of the way that medicine was practiced in India in adaptation to the situation faced by physicians and the state in India, focusing on three major epidemic diseases: smallpox, cholera plague.
GMN 8811 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10989
1994 CAVALLI-SFORZA, Luigi Luca (1922 – ); MENOZZI, Paolo; PIAZZA, Alberto (1941 – )
The history and geography of human genes.
The first full-scale attempt to reconstruct where human populations originated and the paths by which they spread throughout the world, using genetic data integrated with data from geography, ecology, archaeology, phy…
GMN 8538 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10715
1999 DONKIN, Robin Arthur (1928 – 2006)
Dragon's brain perfume: An historical geography of camphor.
"In the Dragon's Brain Perfume (a Chinese description of Camphor) once more the existence and importance of world systems of exchange becomes clear. In the pre-industrial world aromatic substances have always counted …
GMN 8960 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11139
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