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1667Histoire générale des Antilles habités par les Français. Tom. 1.
DU TERTRE, Jean Baptiste (1610 – 1687)
1672The 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
HUGHES, William ( – 1683)
1679A discourse of the state of health in the island of Jamaica. With a provision therefore calculated from the air, the place, and the water: the customs and manners of living, &c.
TRAPHAM, Thomas ( – 1692)
1693Description des plantes de l'Amerique.
PLUMIER, Charles (1646 – 1704)
PLUMIER, Charles (1646 – 1704)
1696Catalogus 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.
SLOANE, Sir Hans (1660 – 1753)
SLOANE, Sir Hans (1660 – 1753)
1703Nova plantarum Americanarum genera.
PLUMIER, Charles (1646 – 1704)
PLUMIER, Charles (1646 – 1704)
1707​–1725A 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.
SLOANE, Sir Hans (1660 – 1753)
SLOANE, Sir Hans (1660 – 1753)
1714​–1725Journal des observations physiques, mathematiques et botaniques, faites par l'ordre du roi sur les côtes orientales de l'Amerique meridionale, & dans les Indes occidentales, depuis l'année 1707, jusques en 1712. 3 vols.
FEUILLÉE, Louis (1660 – 1732)
1731​–1747The natural history of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands: Containing the figures of birds, beasts, fishes, serpents, insects, and plants: Particularly, the forest-trees, shrubs, and other plants, not hitherto described, or very incorrectly figured by authors. Together with their descriptions in English and French. To which are added observations on the air, soil and waters: With remarks on agriculture, grain, pulse, roots &c. To the whole is prefixed a new and complete map of the countries treated of. 2 vols.
CATESBY, Mark (1683 – 1749)
1735A voyage to Guinea, Brasil and the West Indies; in His Majesty's ships, the Swallow and Weymouth: Describing the several islands and Settlements, viz, Madeira, the Canaries, Cape de Verd, Sierraleon, Sesthos, Cape Apollonia, Cabo Corso, and others on the Guinea coast; Barbadoes, Jamaica, &c. in the West-Indies; the colour, diet, languages, habits, manners, customs, and religions of the respective natives, and inhabitants. With remarks on the gold, ivory, and slave-trade; and on the winds, tides and currents of the several coasts.
ATKINS, John (1685 – 1757)
ATKINS, John (1685 – 1757)
1745An essay on the West-India dry-gripes… to which is added, an extraordinary case in physick.
CADWALADER, Thomas (1708 – 1779)
CADWALADER, Thomas (1708 – 1779)
1756The civil and natural history of Jamaica. In three parts, containing 1. An accurate description of that Island, its situation and soil; with a brief account of its former and present state, government, revenues, produce, and trade. II. A history of the natural productions, including the various sorts of native fossils, perfect and imperfect vegetables, quadrupedes, birds, fishes, reptiles and insects; with their properties and uses in mechanics, diet, and physic. III. An account of the nature of climate in general, and their different effects upon the human body; with a detail of the diseases arising from this source, particularly within the tropics....illustrated with fifty copper-plates...in natural size....
BROWNE, Patrick (1720 – 1790)
1759Observations on the changes of the air and the concomitant epidemical diseases, in the Island of Barbados.
HILLARY, William (1697 – 1763)
1763Nicolai Josephi Jacquin Selectarum stirpium Americanarum historia, in qua ad Linneanum systema determinatae descriptaeque sistuntur plantse illae, quas in insulis Martinica, Jamaica, Domingo, aliisque, et in vicinae continentis parte, observavit rariores; : adjectis iconibus in solo natali delineatis. 2 vols.
JACQUIN, Nikolaus Joseph von (1727 – 1817)
JACQUIN, Nikolaus Joseph von (1727 – 1817)
1764An essay on the more common West-India diseases and the remedies which that country itself produces: To which are added some hints on the management, &c. of negroes.
GRAINGER, James (1721 – 1766)
1770Sur un ver trouvé sous la conjunctive, à Maribou, isle Saint-Domingue.
MONGIN
1776Observations sur les maladies des nègres, leurs causes, leurs traitemens et les moyens de les prévenir.
DAZILLE, Jean Barthélémy (1733 – 1812)
1779A 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.
ROBERTSON, Robert (1742 – 1829)
ROBERTSON, Robert (1742 – 1829)
1780Observations 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.
ROLLO, John ( – 1809)
1784Des 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.
GARDANNE, Jacques-Joseph de (1726 – 1786)
1784A treatise on the glandular disease of Barbadoes: Proving it to be seated in the lymphatic system.
HENDY, James
1785Observations générales sur les maladies des climats chauds, leurs causes, leur traitement, et les moyens de les prévenir.
DAZILLE, Jean Barthélémy (1733 – 1812)
1786Des 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, Antoine de (1752 – 1790)
1788Voyages 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....
BOURGEOIS, Nicolas-Louis (1710 – 1776)
1791A 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.
JACKSON, Robert (1750 – 1827)
JACKSON, Robert (1750 – 1827)
1794Hortus Americanus, containing an account of the trees, shrubs, and other vegetable productions of South-America and the West-India islands, and particularly of the island of Jamaica; interspersed with many curious and useful observations, respecting their uses in medicine, diet, and mechanics.
BARHAM, Henry
1795An essay on the malignant pestilential fever introduced into the West Indian Islands from Boullam, on the coast of Guinea, as it appeared in 1793 and 1794.
CHISHOLM, Colin (1755 – 1825)
1801The medical assistant, or Jamaica practice of physic: Designed chiefly for the use of families and plantations.
DANCER, Thomas (1750 – 1811)
DANCER, Thomas (1750 – 1811)
1801Histoire naturelle d'une partie d'oiseaux nouveaux et rares de l'Amérique et des Indes: Ouvrage destiné par l'Auteur à faire partie de son ornithologie d'Afrique.
LEVAILLANT, François (Le Vaillant) (1753 – 1824)
1803Practical rules for the management and medical treatment of negro slaves in the sugar colonies
COLLINS, David
1809Voyages d'un Naturaliste, et ses observations. Faites sur les trois règnes de la Nature, dans plusieurs ports de mer français, en Espagne, au continent de l'Amerique septentrionale, à Saint-Yago de Cuba, et à St.-Domingue, où l'Auteur devenu le prisonnier de 40,000 Noirs révoltés, et par suite mis en liberté par une colonne de l'armée française, donne des détails circonstanciés sur l'expédition du général Leclerc. Dédiés à ... le Comte de Lacépède. 3 vols.
DESCOURTILZ, Michel Étienne (1777 – 1835)
DESCOURTILZ, Michel Étienne (1777 – 1835)
1814Coup-d'oeil sur Saint-Domingue; observations sur le caractère des négres et sur la fièvre jaune; moyens de recouvrer cette colonie, et de se préserver des maladies qui y règnent.
CHARAULT, C. R.
1820A treatise on the diseases of Negroes, as they occur in the island of Jamaica: with observations on the country remedies.
THOMSON, James
1821​–1829Flore pittoresque et médicale des Antilles, ou, Histoire naturelle des plantes usuelles des colonies françaises, anglaises, espagnoles et portugaises; par M. E. Descourtilz. Peinte par J. Th. Descourtilz. 8 vols.
DESCOURTILZ, Michel Étienne (1777 – 1835)
DESCOURTILZ, Michel Étienne (1777 – 1835) DESCOURTILZ, Jean-Théodore (1796 – 1855)
1825Wanderings in South America, the North-West of the United States, and the Antilles, in the years 1812, 1816, 1820, and 1824.
WATERTON, Charles (1782 – 1865)
WATERTON, Charles (1782 – 1865)
1826Recherches et expériences sur les poisons d'Amérique: Tirés des trois règnes de La nature, et envisagés sous les rapports de l'histoire naturelle, de la physiologie, de le pathologie et de la chimie, avec un essai sur l'empoisonnement par Les miasmes des marais, le mal d'estomac des nègres (cachexia Africana), et les maladies qui ressemblent aux empoisonnemens; pour servir à la toxicologie générale du continent d'Amérique et des Antilles.
RICORD, Jean Baptiste (1777 – 1837)
1888Note sur la maladie des boeufs de la Guadeloupe, connue sous le nom de farcin.
NOCARD, Edmond Isidore Etienne (1850 – 1903)
NOCARD, Edmond Isidore Etienne (1850 – 1903)
1916On the ‘vomiting sickness’ of Jamaica.
SCOTT, Sir Henry Harold (1874 – 1956)
1983An annotated catalogue of medical Americana in the library of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine.
PRICE, Robin
1984The Caribbean slave: A biological history.
KIPLE, Kenneth F. (1939 – 2016)
1985Doctors and slaves: A medical and demographic history of slavery in the British West Indies.
SHERIDAN, Richard B. (1918 – )
1987Afro-Caribbean folk medicine.
LAGUERRE, Michael S. (1943 – )
1988Passage of darkness: The Ethnobiology of the Haitian zombie.
DAVIS, Wade (1953 – )
DAVIS, Wade (1953 – )
1994Bibliographie medicale des Antilles Françaises: Imprimés médicaux dans les colonies françaises des Antilles sous l'Ancien Regime: Saint-Domingue, Guadeloupe, La Martinique, Sainte-Lucie, Grénade et Guyane, 1765-1805.
GUERRA PÉREZ-CARRAL, Francisco (1916 – 2011)
1996Histoire naturelle des Indes. The Drake manuscript in The Pierpont Morgan Library.... Foreward by Patrick O'Brian. Introduction by Verlyn Klinkenborg. Translations by Ruth Kraemer.
KLINKENBORG, Verlyn (1952 – ) O'BRIAN, Patrick (1912 – 2000) KRAEMER, Ruth
1998Santé et société esclavagiste à la Martinique.
LETI, Geneviève
2004Jamaican folk medicine: A source of healing.
PAYNE-JACKSON, Arvilla ALLEYNE, Mervyn Coleridge (1933 – 2016)
2009Health and medicine in the circum-Caribbean, 1800–1968. Edited by Juanita De Barros, Steven Palmer and David Wright.
WRIGHT, David PALMER, Steven DE BARROS, Juanita
2010Mosquito empires: Ecology and war in the Greater Caribbean, 1620-1914.
MCNEILL, John Robert (1954 – )
2013Nikolaus Joseph Jacquin's American plants: Botanical expedition to the Caribbean (1754-1759) and the publication of the Selectarum stirpium Americanarum historia.
MADRIÑÁN RESTROPO, Santiago
JACQUIN, Nikolaus Joseph von (1727 – 1817)
JACQUIN, Nikolaus Joseph von (1727 – 1817)