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38 entries match Asia & Pacific [Z01.586] · Public Health [N02.500]

1987 CE

#12139

A history of health & medicine in Queensland 1824-1960.

1835 CE

#3738

A practical essay on the history and treatment of beriberi.

A classic account, in which the author brought together all that was known about the disease in his day.

1884 CE

#9422

An epitome of the reports of the medical officers to the Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs Office from 1871 to 1882. With chapters on the history of medicine in China: Materia medica: Epidemics: Famine: Ethnology: And chronology in relation to medicine and public health.

Apart from studies of common diseases, public health issues, and epizootics, this work contains a chapter on opium smoking and a chapter on the castration of Chinese eunuchs, of which there were around a thousand work…

1909 CE

#3743

An inquiry concerning the etiology of beri-beri.

Studies from the Institute for Medical Research, F. M. S., No. 10. Careful and long-continued experiments on the aetiology of beriberi were carried out by Fraser and Stanton in Malaya.

1832 CE

#8806

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.

2006 CE

#8251

Colonial pathologies: American tropical medicine, race, and hygiene in the Philippines.

1993 CE

#8811

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.

1928 CE

#10118

Coming of age in Samoa: A psychological study of primitive youth for western civilisation.

Mead based her study primarily on adolescent girls on the island of Ta'u in the Samoan Islands. The book detailed the sexual life of teenagers in Samoan society in the early 20th century, and theorized that culture ha…

1642 CE

#2263

De medicina Indorum.

Bontius was probably the first to regard tropical medicine as an independent branch of medical science. He spent the last four years of his life in the Dutch East Indies, and his book incorporates the experience he ga…

2012 CE

#10668

Democratic governance & health: Hospitals, Politics and health policy in New Zealand.

"New Zealand is the only country in the world where elected health boards have long been a core feature of the health care system. These boards are conceptually important and aspirational for policy-makers and communi…

1656 CE

#8591

Flora sinensis, fructus floresque humillime porrigens serenissimo et potentissimo Leopoldo Ignatio, Hungariae regi florentissimo, &c. Fructus saecul promittenti Augustissimos.

The first description published in Europe of an ecosystem of the Far East, including animals as well as plants, with particular attention to Chinese fruit bearing plants, and medicinal properties of Chinese plants. Di…

2004 CE

#9709

Hygienic modernity: Meanings of health and disease in treaty-port China.

1880 CE–1884 CE

#3739

Kakke (Beriberi).

In his important account of beriberi, Baelz dealt with the Tokyo outbreak of 1881.

2001 CE

#7840

Long night's journey into day: Prisoners of war in Hong Kong and Japan, 1941-1945.

1999 CE

#12543

Maori health and government policy 1840-1940.

1973 CE

#10223

Medicine and public health in the People's Republic of China. Edited by Joseph R. Quinn.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

2009 CE

#12666

Medicine, race and liberalism in British Bengal: Symptoms of empire.

"This book focuses on the entwinement of politics and medicine and power and knowledge in India during the age of empire. Using the powerful metaphor of ‘pathology’ - the science of the origin, nature, and…

1849 CE

#11757

Notes on the influence exercised by trees in inducing rain and preserving moisture.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1837 CE

#8803

Notes on the medical topography of Calcutta.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1885 CE

#3740

On the cause and prevention of kakke.

Takaki was the first conclusively to show the dietary origin of beriberi. Measures introduced by him resulted in its eradication from the Japanese Navy, where it had previously been a serious problem.

1882 CE

#9506

Opium-smoking in America and China: A study of its prevalence, and effects, immediate and remote, on the individual and the nation.

The author claims (p. 1) that "the first white man who smoked opium in America is said to have been a sporting character named Clendenyn. The second—induced to try it by the first—smoked in 1871." Digital …

2003 CE

#10583

Origin of the life of a human being: Conception and the female according to ancient Indian medical and sexological literature.

1967 CE

#12581

Plague prevention and politics in Manchuria, 1910-1931.

"The Chinese winter of 1910-1911 was one of death and discontent: an epidemic of pneumonic plague—the greatest since the Black Death of the fourteenth century—scourged China's three Eastern Provinces (Manc…

2006 CE

#9763

Plague, SARS, and the story of medicine in Hong Kong.

1994 CE

#8802

Public health in British India: Anglo-Indian preventive medicine 1859-1914.

The first major study of public health in British India.

1989 CE

#12552

Public health in Papua New Guinea: Medical possibility and social constraint, 1884-1984.

1742 CE

#13321

Religiosa hospitalidad por los hijos del piadoso coripheo patriarcha y padre de pobres S. Iuan Ð Dios en su provincia de S. Raphael de las Islas Philipinas: Compendio substancial de su fundacion progressos y estado presente que en sucinto informatibo estilo...

Maldonado de Puga, a member of the Order of San Juan Hospitalier founded in 1572, reported on the introduction and practice of Western medicine in the Philippines, the foundation of hospitals and the relationship betw…

1828 CE

#1776.1

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 t…

1995 CE

#12544

Safeguarding the public health: A history of the New Zealand Department of Health.

1930 CE

#8322

Sexual life in ancient India: A study in the comparative history of Indian Culture.

Extensively revised by the author, with additional notes by the translator (unidentified), from Das Weib im altindischen Epos. Ein Beitrag zur indischen und zur vergleichenden Kulturgeschichte. Von Johann Jacob Meyer.…

1859 CE

#8212

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.

1979 CE

#13788

The eradication of smallpox from India.

1813 CE

#8211

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 …

2003 CE

#10028

The people's health: Public health in Australia, 1788-1950. Vol. 2: The people's health: Public health in Australia, 1950 to the present. 2 vols.

2011 CE

#9710

Toxic archipelago: A history of industrial disease in Japan.

1685 CE

#11128

Traité des maladies particulières aux pays orientaux, et dans la route, et de leurs Remèdes. Par M.C.D.D.E.M.

At the age of 17, Dellon, who is sometimes referred to as Gabriel Dellon, embarked as second surgeon aboard the ship La Force. He arrived at Darman, in the Portuguese Indies, in 1673, where he was doctor to Luis de Me…

1897 CE

#5128

Ueber die Pestepidemie in Formosa.

Ogata considered the flea (principally Xenopsylla cheopis) to be the principal, if not the sole, vector of bubonic plague infection.

2009 CE

#9267

Uneasy encounters: The politics of medicine and health in China 1900-1937. Edited by Iris Borowy.