Facets

1971 CE

#10858

The pre-Columbian mind: A study into the aberrant nature of sexual drives, drugs affecting behaviour and the attitude towards life and death, with a survey of psychotherapy in pre-Columbian America.

1910 CE

#5380

The relation of typhus fever (tabardillo) to Rocky Mountain spotted fever.

Ricketts and Wilder differentiated Rocky Mountain spotted fever and typhus.

1815 CE

#12914

The summum bonum.

The first book on dentistry published in Canada. Facsimile edition, Montreal, 1969.

2001 CE

#12129

The tale of healer Miguel Perdomo Neira: Medicine, ideologies, and power in the nineteenth-century Andes.

1975 CE

#11649

The Toronto General Hospital, 1819-1965: A chronicle.

2016 CE

#11794

The wounded brain healed: The golden age of the Montreal Neurological Institute, 1934–1984.

1840 CE–1843 CE

#7437

The zoology of the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, under the command of Captain Fitzroy, R. N., during the years 1832 to 1836. Edited by Charles Darwin. 5 pts in 3 vols.

Part 1: Fossil mammalia by Richard Owen; Part 2: Mammalia by George Waterhouse; Part 3: Birds by John Gould; Part 4: Fish by Leonard Jenyns; Part 5: Reptiles by Thomas Bell. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive…

1993 CE

#9017

Tobacco and shamanism in South America.

A comprehensive ethnography of magico-religious, medicinal, and recreational tobacco use among native South American societies, based on a survey of nearly three hundred societies.

1976 CE

#3705.05

Tooth mutilations and dentistry in pre-Columbian Mexico.

First edition in English. First edition, in Spanish, 1971.

1855 CE

#11522

Topografía médica de la isla de Cuba.

Digital facsimile from the U.S. National Library of Medicine at this link.

1579 CE

#1819.1

Tractado breve de anathomia y chirurgia.

Includes some of the first studies of the plants and botanic remedies of the New World. Second edition, Tractado breve de medicina (1592). This is an abridgement of manuscripts left in Mexico by Francisco Herná…

1539 CE

#2367

Tractado cótra el mal serpentino.

Diaz de Isla, a Barcelonese surgeon, wrote of a disease “previously unknown, unseen and undescribed”, which appeared in Barcelona in 1493 and which was obviously syphilis. This is probably the earliest ref…

1776 CE

#13364

Traité des pians.

One of the earliest medical publications printed in Haiti. Duvivier, Bibliographie générale et méthodique d'Haiti, 2, p. 197.

1803 CE

#8006

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…

1694 CE

#8930

Trattado unico da constituiçam pestilencial de Pernambuco, offerecido a ElRey N.S. por ser servido ordenar por seu Governador aos Medicos da America, que assistem aonde ha este contagio, que o compusessem para se conferirem pelos Coripheos da Medicina aos dictames com que he trattada esta pestilencial febre.

The first scientific description of yellow fever in Brazil by the first European physician to treat the disease in Brazil, and perhaps in all of Latin America. It includes the description of the first autopsy of a yel…

1683 CE

#8934

Trattado unico das bexigas, e sarampo, offerecido a D. João de Sousa, composto por Romaõ Mõsia Reinhipo.

One of the first works on medicine practiced in Brazil, published by Mourão under the pseudonym Romaõ Mõsia Reinhipo. Mourão distinguished clearly between smallpox and measles. There was st…

1992 CE

#13605

Trois siècles d'histoire médicale au Québec: Chronologie des institutions et des pratiques, 1639-1939.

1908 CE

#5532.1

Uma mycose pseudococcidica localisada na bocca e observada no Brazil. Contribuiçao ao conhocimento das hyphoblastomycoses americanas.

South American blastomycosis.

1913 CE

#5300.1

Un cas de kala-azar à Asuncion (Paraguay).

Migone first noted the existence of visceral leishmaniasis in the Americas (Paraguay).

1900 CE

#4131.1

Un nuevo esporozoario parásito del hombre. Dos casos encontrados en pólipos nasales: Tesis presentada para optar al grado de doctor en medicina.

Rhinosporidiosis first described. Digital facsimile from bibliomedicinadigital.fmed.uba.ar at this link.

1921 CE

#4241

Un nuevo procedimiento para explorar al riñón.

Perirenal insufflation of oxygen, for the roentgenological study of the kidney.

1892 CE

#5528.1

Un nuovo caso de micosis fungoides con psorospermias.

As an intern in Buenos Aires, Posadas described an Argentine soldier who had a dermatological problem since 1889. Posadas had seen the patient while a medical student in 1891, and skin biopsies revealed organisms rese…

1908 CE

#5534.1

Un nuovo protozoa parassito de’ conigli incontrato nelle lesioni anatomiche d’una malattia che ricorda in molti punti il kala azar dell’uomo.

Splendore discovered Toxoplasma in a rabbit; it was named T. cuniculi.

2007 CE

#7835

Unequal cures: Public health and political change in Bolivia, 1900-1950,

1928 CE

#9271

Use of plants by the Chippewa Indians. Smithsonian Institution-Bureau of American Ethnology Annual Report 44.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1607 CE

#8844

Verdadera medicina, cirugía y astrologia en tres libros dividida.

Concerns medicine of the Aztecs, etc. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1992 CE

#8846

Viejo y nuevo continente: La medicina en el encuentro de dos mundos. Edited by J. M. López Piñero.

1992 CE

#13344

Vine of the Soul: Medicine men, their plants and rituals in the Columbian Amazonia.

1807 CE–1834 CE

#7452

Voyage aux régions équinoxiales du nouveau continent, fait en 1799, 1800, 1801, 1802, 1803 et 1804. 34 vols.

In 1799 Humboldt and Bonpland embarked on a six-year tour of research through South America and Mexico, a trip which would afterwards be called, justifiably, "the scientific discovery of America." The two amassed exha…

1809 CE

#12827

Voyages 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.

One of the more unusually titled travel accounts including the mention that "the author became the prisoner of 40,000 black revolutionaries, and was rescued by the French army." "Following his marriage to the daughter…

1788 CE

#13163

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…

1825 CE

#2074

Wanderings in South America, the North-West of the United States, and the Antilles, in the years 1812, 1816, 1820, and 1824.

Waterton traveled to the Guyana region of South America to obtain curare. He provided a detailed description of its paralyzing effects, its preparation by distillation, and the blowpipe and darts used to deliver it. O…

1937 CE

#2430

Who gave the world syphilis? The Haitian myth.

1971 CE

#10871

Wizard of the Upper Amazon. The story of Manuel Córdova-Rios

2016 CE

#10942

Wolbachia blocks currently circulating Zika virus isololates in Brazilian Aedes aegypti mosquitoes.

Order of authorship in the original paper: Dutra, Rocha, Moreira. The authors infected lab populations of mosquitos with Wolbachia pipientis, a common parasitic microbe that infects a high proportion of insects. They …