1777 OLDENDORP, Christian Georg Andreas (1721 – 1787)
Geschichte der Mission der Evangelischen Brüder auf den Caraibischen Inseln. Herausgegeben durch Johan Jakob Bossart. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.
GMN 13452 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15726
1777 LIND, James (1716 – 1794); BANKS, Sir Joseph (1743 – 1820); SOLANDER, Daniel Carlsson (1733 – 1782); TROIL, Uno von (1746 – 1803); BERGMAN, Torbern Olaf (1735 – 1784)
Bref rörande en resa til Island MDCCLXXII.
Von Troil’s compilation is the only contemporary printed book steming from Sir Joseph Banks’s pioneering scientfic expedition to Iceland, Banks's first and only expedition as indisputable leader. Having recently retur…
GMN 13764 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16049
1778 STRØM, Hans (1726 – 1797)
Kort Underviisning om De paa Landet, I Bergens Stift, meest grasserende Sygdomme, og derimod tienende Hjelpe-Midler. Paa Det Nyttige Sælskabs Bekostning.
Strøm's work, which may be translated as "A short instruction about common sicknesses in the area around Bergen and their most common remedies" was "More a report than a doctor book, it describes the living conditions…
GMN 9866 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12054
1778 LÉPECQ DE LA CLOTURE, Louis (1736 – 1804)
Collection d'observations sur les maladies et constitutions épidémiques: Ouvrage qui expose une suite de quinze années d'observations, & dans lequel les épidémies, les les constitutions régnantes & intercurrentes, sont liées, selon le voeu d'Hippocrate, avec les causes météorologiques, locales & relatives aux différens climats, ainsi qu'avec l'histoire naturelle & médicale de la Normandie. On y joint un appendix sur l'ordre des constitutions épidémiques ... 2 vols.
This work is divided into four parts: "The first, which occupies the first volume, contains a general description of Normandy, considerations about its climate, its people, their morals and habits, and the most common…
GMN 13852 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16142
1779 ROBERTSON, Robert (1742 – 1829)
A physical journal kept on board H. M. Ship Rainbow during three voyages to the coast of Africa and the West Indies, in the years 1772, 1773, and 1774: To which is prefixed, a particular account of the remitting fever which happened on board of His Majesty's Sloop Weasel, on that coast, in 1769.
GMN 9501 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11686
1779 MOORE, John (1729 – 1802)
A view of society and manners in France, Switzerland and Germany: with anecdotes relating to some eminent characters
Digitial facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 12494 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14727
1779 DEIMAN, Johan Rudolph (1734 – 1808)
Geneeskundige proeven en waarneemingen omtrent de goede uitwerking der electriciteit in verscheiden ziektens.
Digital facsimile of the Dutch edition from Google Books at this link. Translated into German by Karl Gottlob Kühn as Von den guten Würkungen der Electricität in verschiedenen Krankheiten. Mit eingien Anmerkungen und …
GMN 13066 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15318
1780 CLARK, John (1744 – 1805)
Observations on fevers, especially those of the continued type, and on the scarlet fever attended with ulcerated sore-throat, as it appeared at Newcastle upon Tyne in the year 1778: Together with a comparative view of that epidemic with the scarlet fever as described by authors, and the angina maligna.
Digital facsimile from the Intenet Archive at this link.
GMN 2205 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1642
1780 BYLON, David
Korte aantekening wegens eene algemeene ziekte, doorgaans genaamd knokkel-koorts.
Bylon described an epidemic of dengue which appeared in the Dutch East Indies in 1779, the first definite description of the disease. O. H. P. Pepper published a photographic reproduction of the article in Ann. med. H…
GMN 5469 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7605
1780 ROLLO, John ( – 1809)
Observations on the diseases which appeared in the army on St. Lucia....To which are prefixed remarks calculated to assist in ascertaining the causes, and in explaining the treatment of those diseases.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link. Revised and expanded edition, 1781; digital facsimile of the 1781 edition from Google Books at this link.
GMN 9466 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11649
1781 SMEATHMAN, Henry (1742 – 1786)
Some account of the termites, which are found in Africa and other hot climates. In a letter from Mr. Henry Smeathman...to Sir Joseph Banks, Bart.
Pioneering study of tropical termites, their mounds, and their behavior, well illustrated with engravings. Digital facsimile from the Royal Society at this link.
GMN 10230 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12420
1781 MOORE, John (1729 – 1802)
A view of society and manners in Italy, with anecdotes related to some eminent characters. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
GMN 12495 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14728
1781 BUC'HOZ, Pierre-Joseph (1731 – 1807)
Herbier ou collection des plantes médicinales de la Chine: D'après un manuscrit peint et unique qui se trouve dans la Bibliothèque de l'Empereur de la Chine, pour servir suitte [sic] à la collection des fleurs qui se cultivent dans les Jardins de la Chine et de l'Europe.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 13004 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15254
1782 SONNERAT, Pierre (1749 – 1814)
Voyage aux Indes Orientales et à la Chine, fait par ordre du Roi depuis 1774 jusqu’en 1781. 2 vols.
Vol. 1, pp. 113-16, “No author before the time of Sonnerat gives us so distinct an account of the epidemic prevalence of cholera, so full a description of its varieties or has attributed it so positively to the physic…
GMN 5104.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6038
1783 FOTHERGILL, John (1712 – 1780)
Observations on the weather and diseases of London. In his Works, 1, 145-240
GMN 1774 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3332
1783 IVES, Edward ( – 1786)
A voyage from England to India, in the year MDCCLIV, and an historical narrative of the operations of the squadron and army in India, under the command of Vice-Admiral Watson and Colonel Clive, in the years 1755, 1756, 1757; including a correspondence between the Admiral and the Nabob Serajah Dowlah. Interspersed with some interesting passages relating to the manners, customs, &c. of several nations in Indostan. Also, a journey from Persia to England, by an unusual route. With an appendix, containing an account of the diseases prevalent in Admiral Watson's squadron, a description of most of the trees, shrubs, and plants of India, with their real, or supposed, medicinal virtues. Also a copy of a letter written by a late ingenious physician, on the disorders incidental to Europeans at Gombroon in the Gulf of Persia. Illustrated with a chart, maps, and other copper-plates.
Digital facsimile from wellcomecollection.org at this link.
GMN 13867 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16157
1784 MASDEVALL, Josep (José)
Dictamen del mismo doctor Don Joseph Masdevall dado de órden del rey sobre Si las fábricas de algodon y lana son perniciosas ó no á la salud pública de las ciudades donde están establecidas. IN: Relacion de las epidemias de calenturas putridas y malignas....
Digital facsimile of Masdevall's work on occupational medicine from helvia.uco.es at this link. Digital facsimile of the complete epidemiological work from Google Books at this link.
GMN 10484 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12677
1784 –1787 PENNANT, Thomas (1726 – 1798)
Arctic zoology. 3 vols.
Pennant had "intended to write a "Zoology of North America" but as he explained in the "Advertisement", since he felt mortified by the loss of British control over America, this was changed to Arctic Zoology.[22] The …
GMN 11618 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13818
1784 GARDANNE, Jacques-Joseph de (1726 – 1786)
Des maladies des créoles en Europe avec la maniere de les traiter et des observations sur celles des gens de mer et sur quelques autres plus fréquemment observées dans les climats chauds.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 13363 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15634
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
1785 MARSHALL, Humphrey (1722 – 1801)
Arbustrum Americanum: the American grove, or, an alphabetical catalogue of forest trees and shrubs…
Like his cousin, John Bartram (No. 1832), Marshall maintained a private botanical garden. According to W. Darlington the above work is “the first truly indigenous botanical essay published in the Western Hemisphere”. …
GMN 1836.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2189
1785 GEOFFROY, Étienne Louis (1725 – 1810); FOURCROY, Antoine François, comte (1755 – 1809)
Entomologia Parisiensis; sive, catalogus insectorum quae in agro Parisiensi reperiuntur; secondum methodum Geoffraeanam in sections, genera & species distributus; Cui addit sun nomina trivalia & sere recentae novae species.
In this work co-written with Geoffroy, Fourcroy presented a major contribution to the systemization of entomology. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 8943 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11122
1785 DAZILLE, Jean Barthélémy (1733 – 1812)
Observations générales sur les maladies des climats chauds, leurs causes, leur traitement, et les moyens de les prévenir.
Digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this link.
GMN 13086 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15338
1786 BERTIN, Antoine de (1752 – 1790)
Des moyens de conserver la santé des blancs et des négres, aux Antilles ou climats chauds et humides de l'Amerique. Contenant un exposé des causes des malades propres....
Bertin practiced medicine in the West Indies, and wrote about the physical effects of the voyage there, the causes of diseases and their cures, and the effects of the Caribbean climate and humidity on health. The impr…
GMN 11099 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13295
1787 SCHOEPFF, Johann David (1752 – 1800)
Materia medica Americana, potissimum regni vegetabilis.
Schoepff came to America in 1777 as a surgeon with the Hessian troops employed by the British Forces. He returned to Germany in 1784 and compiled the first full American materia medica, describing about 400 plants, in…
GMN 1837 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2194
1787 LATHROP, John (1740 – 1816)
A Discourse before the Humane Society, ... Delivered on the Second Tuesday of June, 1787.
The first separate work on resuscitation published in the United States. A list of “Methods of Treatment to be used with Persons apparently dead from drowning, &c.” appears on p. iv; these methods included warming the…
GMN 7214 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9381
1787 PARRA Y CALLADO, Antonio (1739 – )
Descripcion de diferentes piezas de historia natural las mas del ramo maritimo.
This catalogue of Carrbean fish was the first scientific treatise printed in Cuba and also the first illustrated book printed in Cuba. Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.
GMN 8026 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10202
1787 PARRA, Antonio (1737 – )
Descripcion de diferentes piezas de historia natura, las mas del ramo maritimo.
The first scientific book printed in Cuba. The striking illustrations are by the author's son, and depict fish, turtles, and crustacieans observed along the Cuban shoreline. The final section contains three alarming i…
GMN 13908 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16200
1788 ARTHAUD, Charles (1748 – 1791); CERCLE DES PHILADELPHES
Recherches, mémoires et observations sur les maladies épizootiques de Saint-Dominique, recueillis & publiés par le Cercle des Philadelphes du Cap-François.
The Cercle des Philadelphes, of which Charles Arthaud was president, was an academic scientific society in Saint-Domingue, in existence between 1784 and 1791. It was the most prominent academic society in the Americas…
GMN 9896 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12084
1788 MATTOS, Manoel de Sá
Bibliotheca elementar chirurgico-anatomica, ou compendio historico-critico, e chronologico sobre a cirurgia e anatomia em geral, que contém os seus principios, incrementos e ultimo estado, assim em Portugal, como nas mais partes cultas do mundo; com a especificação de seus respectivos auctores, suas obras, vidas, methodos e inventos, desde os primeiros seculos até o presente ….
The first bibliography of historical medical literature in Portuguese. The preliminary leaves evaluate the status of medical history and bibliography. Part 1 describes the history of medicine to 1600; part 2, its hist…
GMN 10106 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12295
1788 FALCONBRIDGE, Alexander (1760 – 1791)
An account of the slave trade on the coast of Africa.
Falconbridge was a surgeon in the slave trade before becoming an abolitionist. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 10813 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13009
1788 BOURGEOIS, Nicolas-Louis (1710 – 1776)
Voyages intéressans dans différentes colonies françaises, espagnoles, anglaises, &c; contenant des observations importantes relatives à ces contrées; & un mémoire sur les maladies les plus communes à Saint-Domingue, leurs remèdes, & le moyen de s'en préserver moralement & phisiquement: Avec des anecdotes singulières, qui n'avaient jamais été publiés....
The final section addresses maladies affecting the residents of Saint-Domingue. Unlike many of his contemporaries Bourgeois assiduously recorded the medical practices of the enslaved and subjugated African and Indigen…
GMN 13163 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15422
1788 ARTHAUD, Charles (1748 – 1791); CERCLE DES PHILADELPHES
Les eaux minérales et thermales de Saint-Dominique. Tome 1 (All Published).
One of the earliest medical publications printed in Haiti. Duvivier, Bibliographie générale et méthodique d'Haiti, 2, p. 206.
GMN 13366 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15637
1789 CANIVELL, Francisco (1721 – 1797)
Tratado de las heridas de armas de fuego, dispuesto para uso de los alumnos del Real Colegio de Chirugia de Cadiz.
Probably the first significant work on military medicine by a Spanish physician. Canivell’s work, prepared for the use of students at Cadiz’s Royal College of Surgery, deals with contusions, wounds and fractures cause…
GMN 13134 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15392
1789 PATTERSON, William (1755 – 1810)
A narrative of four journeys into the country of the Hottentots, and Caffraria. In the years one thousand seven hundred and seventy-seven, eight, and nine.
Trained in horticulture at Syon House, London, Paterson was sent in 1777 to the Cape of Good Hope to collect plants for the estate of the Countess of Strathmore, undertaking four journeys into the South African interi…
GMN 13763 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16048
1790 GARDETTE, James (1756 – 1831)
Remarks on the diseases of the teeth.
The first "scientific" paper on dentistry to appear in an American periodical. Trained in France, Gardette accepted a commission as a surgeon in the French navy and went to America in 1778 when France sent her ships t…
GMN 3677.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5543
1790 WHITE, John (1756 – 1832); STONE, Sarah (1760 – 1844)
Journal of a voyage to New South Wales with sixty five plates of non descript. animals, birds, lizards, serpents, curious cones of trees and other natural productions
This work described many Australian species for the first time. It includes natural history illustrations after watercolor paintings by Sarah Stone. Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link
GMN 7366 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9538
1790 ADAIR, James Makittrick (1728 – 1802)
Essays on fashionable diseases. The dangerous effects of hot and crouded rooms. The cloathing of invalids. Lady and gentlemen doctors. And on quacks and quackery. With the genuine patent prescriptions of Dr. James's fever power, Tickell's aetherial spirit, & Godbold's balsam, taken from the Rolls in Chancery, and under the seal of the proper officers; and also the ingredients and compostion of many of the most celebrated quack nostrums, as analized by several of the best chemists in Europe. By James M. Adair, Formerly M.D.... With a dedication to Philip Thicknesse ... To which is added a dramatic dialogue. Published for the benefit of the tin-miners in Cornwal
An attack on quack medicines, etc. with one of the most verbose title pages of the 18th century. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 10002 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12191
1790 CASTIGLIONI, Luigi (1757 – 1832)
Viaggio negli Stati Uniti dell' America settentrionale fatto negli anni 1785, 1786, e 1787. 2 vols.
Castiglioni was one of very few Italians to make the journey to America and to produce a detailed day-to-day account of his observations in the young country. His "Viaggio" is a systematic compendium of information dr…
GMN 11229 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13426
1790 –1814 SMITH, Sir James Edward (1759 – 1828); SOWERBY, James (1757 – 1822)
English botany; or, coloured figures of British plants, with their essential characters, synonyms, and places of growth. To which will be added, occasional remarks. 36 vols.
Issued in parts. Images by Sowerby; text by Sir James Edward Smith. Only Sowerby is credited on the title page. Includes 2,592 hand-colored plates of British plants. "Buyers of this work today must exercise extreme ca…
GMN 13642 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15923
1791 MOHRENHEIM, Joseph Jacob von (1759 – 1797)
Abhandlung über die Entbindungskunst.
This work was edited by order of Catherine II of Russia, to whom von Mohrenheim was accoucheur. Its importance lies mainly in its splendid engravings, some of which were taken from Smellie (see No. 6154.1). It include…
GMN 6161 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7744
1791 BARTRAM, William (1739 – 1823)
Travels through North & South Carolina, George, East & West Florida, the Cherokee country, the extensive territories of the Muscogulges, or Creek confederacy, and the country of the Chactaws [sic]...
Digital facsimile of London, 1794 second edition from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 7770 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9942
1791 UNITED STATES
Return of the whole number of persons with the several districts of the United States, according to "An Act Providing for the Enumeration of the Inhabitants of the United States," passed March the first, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-one.
The first Census of the United States was conducted on August 2, 1790. The results were used to allocate Congressional seats (congressional apportionment), electoral votes, and funding for government programs.The fede…
GMN 8580 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10757
1791 RUSSELL, Patrick (1727 – 1805)
A treatise of the plague: Containing an historical journal, and medical account, of the plague, at Aleppo, in the years 1760, 1761, and 1762.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 9522 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11708
1791 JACKSON, Robert (1750 – 1827)
A treatise on the fevers of Jamaica, with some observations on the intermitting fever of America, and an appendix containing some hints on the means of preserving the health of soldiers in hot climates.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 10111 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12300
1791 KAEMPFER, Engelbert (1651 – 1716); BANKS, Sir Joseph (1743 – 1820)
Icones selectæ plantarum, quas in Japonia collegit et delineavit; Engelbertus Kaempfer; ex archetypis in Museo Britannico asservatis. Edited by Sir Joseph Banks.
Sir Joseph Banks was responsible for publishing most of Kaempfer's studies of Japanese plants, which had remained unpublished for more than 70 years. This work introduced many Japanese plants to Western botanists. Dig…
GMN 12825 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15071
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 –1813 DONOVAN, Edward (1768 – 1837)
The natural history of British insects; explaining them in their several states, with the periods of their transformations, their food, oeconomy, &c. Together with the history of such minute insects as require investigation by the microscope. The whole illustrated by coloured figures, designed and executed from living specimens. 16 vols.
Includes a total of 576 plates, of which 568 were colored.
GMN 9087 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11266
1792 ROYAL MEDICAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH
Catalogus librorum in bibliotheca Societatis medicae Edinburgenae, secundum auctorum nomina dispositus.
Digital facsimile from wellcomecollection.org at this link. Later editions, 1799, 1804, 1812.
GMN 13055 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15306
1792 LÓPEZ, Hipólito Ruiz (1754 – 1816)
Quinología o Tratado del árbol de la quina ó cascarilla:con su descripción y la de otras especies de quinos nuevamente descubiertas en el Perú....
Ruiz, a Spanish pharmacist and botanist, was appointed director of the Expedición Botánica al Virreinato del Perú, during which he traveled extensively through Chile and Peru along with botanists José Pavón and Joseph…
GMN 13323 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15590