1519 FERNÁNDEZ DE ENCISO, Martín (1470 – 1528)
Summa de Geografia que trata de todas las partidas e provincias del mundo en especial de las indias e trata largamente del arte del marcar...
This was the first book on the Americas printed in Spanish. "Enciso was the first conquistadore to take up his pen with educational intent." In this general treatise on geography Enciso included a discussion of the fa…
GMN 9962 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12151
1525 OVIEDO Y VALDÉS, Gonzalo Fernández de (1478 – 1557)
Sumario de la natural historia de las Indias.
First known description of the medicinal plants of Central America. Oviedo first described chigoe (“jiggers”?) in this book. "The book is divided into 86 chapters, focused mostly on American flora and fauna. It begins…
GMN 1800 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1933
1565 MONARDES, Nicolás Bautista (1493 – 1588)
Dos libros. El uno trata de todas las cosas que traen de nuestras Indias Occidentales, que sirven al uso de medicina, y como se ha de usar dela rayz del Mechoacan, purga excelentissima. El otro libro, trata de dos medicinas maravillosas que son contra todo veneno, la piedra Bezaar, y la yerva Escuerçonera. Con la cura de los venenados. Do veran muchos secretos de naturaleza y de medicina, con grandes experiencias.
The first treatise on Central and South American medicinal plants, and for many years the most important work on the medicinal plants of the New World. Working from Seville, Spanish doctor Nicolás Monardes managed to …
GMN 1817 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2068
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
1803 MOREAU DE LA SARTHE, Jacques-Louis (1771 – 1826); BALMIS, Francisco Javier de (1793 – 1819)
Tratado histórico y práctico de la vacuna que contiene en compendio el orígen y los resultados de las observaciones y experimentos sobre la vacuna, con un exámen imparcial de sus ventajas, y de las objeciones que se le han puesto, con todo lo demás que concierne á la práctica del nuevo modo de inocular. [Translated From the French by] Francisco Xavier de Balmis.
On November 30, 1803 Spanish physician Francisco Javier de Balmis and his team embarked from Spain, on an expedition to vaccinate the people of Spanish America against smallpox. This three year voyage, which became kn…
GMN 8006 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10182
1839 MORTON, Samuel George (1799 – 1851)
Crania Americana; or, A comparative view of the skulls of various aboriginal nations of North and South America. To which is prefixed an essay on the varieties of the human species.
In his day Morton was the most eminent craniologist in the United States. He had a collection of nearly 1,000 skulls. In this work, which described both modern and fossil skulls, Morton described fractures and anthrop…
GMN 201 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3545
1843 –1859 HOOKER, Sir Joseph Dalton (1817 – 1911)
The botany of the Antarctic voyage of H. M. Discovery Ships Erebus and Terror in the years 1839-1843.
Part 1: Flora of Lord Auckland and Campbell's Islands (1843-45); Part 2: Flora of Fuegia, the Falklands, Karguellen's land, etc. (1845-47); Part 3: Flora of New Zealand. 2 vols. (1851-53); Part 4: Flora of Tasmania. 2…
GMN 7448 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9620
1846 DARWIN, Charles Robert (1809 – 1882)
Geological observations on South America. Being the third part of the geology of the voyage of the Beagle.
The third and last of Darwin's geological reports on the Beagle voyage. In it he described the pampas, the plateaus and the Andres, showing how they had been gradually pushed up in the way that Charles Lyell surmised …
GMN 8918 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11096
1853 WALLACE, Alfred Russel (1823 – 1913)
A narrative of travels on the Amazon and Rio Negro, with an account of the native tribes and observations on the climate, geology and natural history of the Amazon Valley.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 7445 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9617
1853 WALLACE, Alfred Russel (1823 – 1913)
Palm trees of the Amazon.
Wallace's first book, printed in an edition of only 250 copies. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 8242 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10418
1861 JOURDANET, Denis (1815 – 1892)
Les altitudes de l’Amérique tropicale comparées au niveau des mers au point de vue de la constitution médicale.
Jourdanet discovered the anoxemia theory of high altitude sickness. See No. 943.1. Digital facsimile of the 1861 edition from bibliotecavirtual.ranm.es at this link.
GMN 935.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/168
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
1875 JOURDANET, Denis (1815 – 1892)
Influence de la pression de l’air sur la vie de l’homme. Climats d'altitude et climats du montagne. 2 vols.
Jourdanet’s observational work in remote areas of Latin America and Asia produced important evidence for Bert’s proof that altitude sickness is due to anoxemia. In La pression barométrique (No. 944) Bert described how…
GMN 943.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/201
1880 ACOSTA, José de (1539 – 1600); MARKHAM, Sir Robert Clements (1830 – 1916)
The natural & moral history of Indies, by Father Joseph de Acosta. Reprinted from the English translated edition of Edward Grimston, 1604. And edited, with notes and an introduction by Clements R. Markham. Vol. 1: The natural history. Vol. 2: The moral history. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 8976 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11155
1922 MARTIN, Franklin Henry (1857 – 1935)
South America from a surgeon's point of view.
Martin, "Director-General, American College of Surgeons," and Managing Editor, Surgery, Gynecology and Obstetrics, visited South American with William J. Mayo, who wrote the introduction. Digital facsimile from Google…
GMN 8712 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10890
1927 MARTIN, Franklin Henry (1857 – 1935)
South America, amplified to include all of Latin America: The Vandyck Cruise.
Medical visits to Latin America on behalf of the American College of Surgeons, of which Martin was a founder. Includes chapters by William J. Mayo, among others.
GMN 8711 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10889
1937 PARDAL, Ramón (1896 – 1955)
Medicina aborigen americana.
GMN 6464 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7631
1944 MOLL, Aristides Alcibiades (1882 – 1964)
Aesculapius in Latin America.
GMN 6600 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8516
1953 GUERRA PÉREZ-CARRAL, Francisco (1916 – 2011)
Historiografia de la medicina colonial hispanoamericana.
GMN 6603 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8521
1958 ROMERO, Javier
Mutilaciones dentarias: Prehispanicas de Mexico y America en general.
GMN 8478 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10655
1965 VELLARD, Jehan Albert (1901 – 1996)
Histoire du curare. Les poisons de chasse en Amérique du Sud.
GMN 2068.8 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2403
1965 –1966 GRANJEL, Luis Sánchez (1920 – 2014)
Bibliográfia história de la medicina española. 2 vols.
A bibliography covering Spain and the former South American colonies.
GMN 6579.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8299
1969 COURY, Charles René (1916 – 1973)
La médecine de l'Amérique précolombienne.
GMN 8840 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11018
1981 MORTON, Julia Francis McHugh (1912 – 1996)
Atlas of medicinal plants of Middle America: Bahamas to Yucatan.
GMN 8841 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11019
1983 PRICE, Robin
An annotated catalogue of medical Americana in the library of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine.
Books and printed documents 1557-1821 from Latin America and the Caribbean Islands, and manuscripts from the Americas 1575-1927. 540 items, usually with detailed notes.
GMN 6786.27 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8398
1992 NÚÑEZ, Marcelo Frías
Enfermedad y sociedad en la crisis colonial del antiguo régimen: Nueva Granada en el tránsito del siglo XVIII al XIX, las epidemias de viruelas.
GMN 8005 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10181
1996 KLINKENBORG, Verlyn (1952 – ); O'BRIAN, Patrick (1912 – 2000); KRAEMER, Ruth
Histoire naturelle des Indes. The Drake manuscript in The Pierpont Morgan Library.... Foreward by Patrick O'Brian. Introduction by Verlyn Klinkenborg. Translations by Ruth Kraemer.
"In 1983, The Morgan Library & Museum received, as the bequest of Clara S. Peck, an extraordinary volume whose beautiful paintings and descriptions document the plant, animal, and human life of the Caribbean late in t…
GMN 8926 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11104
2003 ARMUS, Diego
Disease in the history of modern Latin America: From malaria to aids. Edited by Diego Armus.
GMN 7941 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10116
2005 ASÚA, Miguel de; FRENCH, Roger Kenneth (1938 – 2002)
A new world of animals: Early modern Europeans on the creatures of Iberian America.
GMN 8831 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11009
2009 MCNEIL, Cameron L.
Chocolate in Mesoamerica: A cultural history of cacao. Edited by Cameron L. McNeil.
GMN 10443 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12636
2015 CUETO, Marcos (1959 – ); PALMER, Steven
Medicine and public health in Latin America: A history.
GMN 7942 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10117
