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13 entries match Traditional & Indigenous [G02.403.700] · Plagues & Epidemics [C01.252]
1862 CE
#11625
An inquiry into the medicinal value of the excreta of reptiles, in phthisis and some other diseases.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
2015 CE
#7504
Cherokee medicine, colonial germs: An indigenous nation’s fight against smallpox, 1518–1824.
1736 CE
#5195
De morbis venereis libri sex.
A comprehensive book on the subject, including a careful review of the existing literature. Astruc stated that syphilis first appeared in Europe in 1493. The book was translated into English in 1737. Digital facsimile…
1794 CE
#8004
Demostracion de las eficaces virtudes nuevamente descubiertas en las raices de dos plantas de Nueva-España, especies de ágave y de begónia, para la curacion del vicio venéreo y escrofuloso ...
Balmis conducted experimental trials on the effectiveness of two Mexican plants, agave and begonia, which were believed, according to folk medicine practices in Mexico, to cure syphilis and scrofula. The trials confir…
1751 CE
#1832
Descriptions, virtues, and uses of sundry plants of these northern parts of America, and particularly of the newly discovered Indian cure for the venereal disease.
Bartram founded one of the first botanical gardens in America (at Kingsessing). Linnaeus referred to him as the “greatest natural botanist in the world”. A few copies of this 7-page work printed by Benjami…
2014 CE
#13213
Ethnobotany of tuberculosis in Laos.
1648 CE
#2263.1
Historia naturalis Brasiliae.
Piso's study of the natural history of Brazil was also a pioneer work on tropical medicine, and also the largest work from the standpoint of format published by the Elzeviers. The folio includes De medicina brasiliens…
2012 CE
#7891
Plague, fear, and politics in San Francisco's Chinatown.
2001 CE
#13710
Rotting face: Smallpox and the American Indian.
1567 CE
#9053
Secretos de chirurgia, en especial de la enfermedades de morbo-galico y lamparones, y asimismo la manera como se curan los indos las llgas y heridas, y otras pasiones en las Indias, muy útil y provechoso par España, y otros muchos secretos de chirugia hasta ahora no escritos.
Arias de Benevides travelled to the New World where he observed native remedies and reported them in this book. In the book he also described his performance in Mexico City (1561) of the first neurosurgical interventi…
1945 CE
#13801
The effect of smallpox on the destiny of the Amerindian.
1911 CE
#6646
The king’s evil.
A classic account of the history of touching for the “king’s evil” or scrofula— a practice of kings from ancient times until the 18th century.
1926 CE
#2345
Ueber Versuche, schwere Formen der Tuberkulose durch diätetische Behandlung zu beeinflussen.
Gerson introduced a salt-restricted diet in the treatment of tuberculosis; this was subsequently modified by Sauerbruch and Herrmannsdorfer, becoming known as the “Gerson–Sauerbruch–Hermannsdorfer di…