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Garrison-Morton-Norman History of Medicine

History of Voyages & Travels by Physicians....

Exhibiting 46 entries found in the GMN corpus.

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1992 CEA history of Antarctic science.
FOGG, Gordon Elliott (1919 – 2005)
1793 CEA journal during a residence in France, from the beginning of August, to the middle of December, 1792. To which is added, an account of the most remarkable events that happened at Paris from that time to the death of the late king of France.
MOORE, John (1729 – 1802)
MOORE, John (1729 – 1802)
1789 CEA narrative of four journeys into the country of the Hottentots, and Caffraria. In the years one thousand seven hundred and seventy-seven, eight, and nine.
PATTERSON, William (1755 – 1810)
1793 CEA sketch of a tour on the Continent, in the years 1786 and 1787. 3 vols.
SMITH, Sir James Edward (1759 – 1828)
SMITH, Sir James Edward (1759 – 1828)
1783 CEA voyage from England to India, in the year MDCCLIV, and an historical narrative of the operations of the squadron and army in India, under the command of Vice-Admiral Watson and Colonel Clive, in the years 1755, 1756, 1757; including a correspondence between the Admiral and the Nabob Serajah Dowlah. Interspersed with some interesting passages relating to the manners, customs, &c. of several nations in Indostan. Also, a journey from Persia to England, by an unusual route. With an appendix, containing an account of the diseases prevalent in Admiral Watson's squadron, a description of most of the trees, shrubs, and plants of India, with their real, or supposed, medicinal virtues. Also a copy of a letter written by a late ingenious physician, on the disorders incidental to Europeans at Gombroon in the Gulf of Persia. Illustrated with a chart, maps, and other copper-plates.
IVES, Edward ( – 1786)
1824 CEA voyage to India: Containing reflections on a voyage to Madras and Bengal, in 1821, in the ship Lonach; instructions for the preservation of health in Indian climates; and hints to surgeons and owners of private trading-ships.
WALLACE, James
WALLACE, James
2016 CEBibliography of natural history travel narratives.
TROELSTRA, Anne Sjerp (1939 – )
TROELSTRA, Anne Sjerp (1939 – )
1965 CEBio-bibliographie de quelques médecins naturalistes voyageurs de la marine au début du XIXe siècle. Colloque International sur L'Histoire de la Biologie Marine. Les grandes expéditions scientifiques et la création des laboratoires maritimes. 2-6 septembre 1963. Supplément no. 19 à "Vie et Milieu", pp. 163-223.
HUARD, Pierre Alphonse (1901 – 1983)
HUARD, Pierre Alphonse (1901 – 1983) WONG, Ming (1926 – 1989)
1956 CEBotanical exploration of the trans-Mississippi West 1790-1850.
MCKELVEY, Susan Delano (1883 – 1964)
1777 CEBref rörande en resa til Island MDCCLXXII.
LIND, James (1716 – 1794)
LIND, James (1716 – 1794)
BANKS, Sir Joseph (1743 – 1820)
BANKS, Sir Joseph (1743 – 1820)
SOLANDER, Daniel Carlsson (1733 – 1782)
SOLANDER, Daniel Carlsson (1733 – 1782)
TROIL, Uno von (1746 – 1803)
TROIL, Uno von (1746 – 1803)
BERGMAN, Torbern Olaf (1735 – 1784)
BERGMAN, Torbern Olaf (1735 – 1784)
1996 CEBright paradise: Victorian scientific travellers.
RABY, Peter
1719 CECaput Bonae Spei hodiernum, das ist: vollständige Beschreibung des africanischen Vorgebürges der Guten Hofnung. Worinnen in dreyen Theilen abgehandelt wird, wie es heut zu Tage, nach seiner Situation und Eigenschaft aussiehet; ingleichen was ein Natgur-Forscher in den dreyen Reichen der Natur....
KOLBE, Peter (Kolb) (1675 – 1726)
KOLBE, Peter (Kolb) (1675 – 1726)
2009 CEDarwin's armada: Four voyages and the battle for the theory of evolution.
MCCALMAN, Iain Duncan (1947 – )
2014 CEDoctor Hieronymus Münzer's itinerary (1494 and 1495) and the discovery of Guinea. Edited and translated by James Firth.
MÜNZER, Hieronymus (1437 – 1508)
1966 CEExploration and empire: The explorer and the scientist in the winning of the American West.
GOETZMANN, William H. (1930 – 2010)
1990 CEExplorers of the Amazon.
SMITH, Anthony (1926 – 2014)
SMITH, Anthony (1926 – 2014)
1757 CEHistoire naturelle du Sénégal. Coquillages. Avec la relation abrégée d'un voyage fait en ce pays, pendant les années 1749, 50, 51, 52 & 53.
ADANSON, Michel (1727 – 1806)
ADANSON, Michel (1727 – 1806)
2019 CEJohann Reinhold Forster and the making of natural history on Cook's Second Voyage, 1772–1775
FORSTER, Johann Reinhold (1729 – 1798)
FORSTER, Johann Reinhold (1729 – 1798) MARISS, Anne
1714 CE​–1725 CEJournal 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)
1811 CEJournal of a tour in Iceland in the summer of 1809.
HOOKER, Sir William Jackson (1785 – 1865)
HOOKER, Sir William Jackson (1785 – 1865)
1841 CEJournals of two expeditions of discovery in North-West and Western Australia, during the years 1837, 38, and 39...describing many new discovered, important, and fertile districts, with observations on the moral and physical conditions of the aboriginal inhabitants, &c. &c. 2 vols.
GREY, Sir George (1812 – 1898)
GREY, Sir George (1812 – 1898)
1975 CELa natura delle Indie Nove: Da Christoforo Colombo a Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo.
GERBI, Antonello (1904 – 1976)
1983 CELes tours du monde des explorateurs. Les grands voyages maritimes, 1764-1843.
BROSSE, Jacques (1922 – 2008)
1985 CEMagnificent voyagers: The U. S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842. Edited by Herman J. Viola and Carolyn Margolis.
VIOLA, Herman J. MARGOLIS, Carolyn
1984 CEMedical travelers: Narratives from the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries.
SPILLANE, John David (1909 – 1985)
1822 CEMemoirs of the military and political life of Napoleon Bonaparte, from his origin, to his death on the rock of St. Helena. Comprising a just outline of his splendid and unexampled military career, from his first entering the regiment La Fere as lieutenant, to its tremendous termination at the battle of Waterloo; a detailed view of his extraordinary return to France from Elba, and the events of his ensuing reign of 100 days. Embracing also an authentic narrative of the conduct of Napoleon during his voyage to St. Helena, and while in exile, and of the events attending his confinement, sickness, and death, with numerous private documents, now first published in this country, and collected chiefly from the writings of Dr. B.E. O'Meara, Surgeon to Napoleon at St. Helena.
O'MEARA, Barry Edward (1786 – 1836)
O'MEARA, Barry Edward (1786 – 1836)
1840 CENarrative of a voyage to Madeira, Teneriffe, and along the shores of the Mediterranean, including a visit to Algiers, Egypt, Palestine, Tyre, Rhodes, Telmessus, Cyprus, and Greece. With observations on the present state and prospects of Egypt and Palestine, and on the climate, natural history, antiquities, etc. of the countries visited. 2 vols.
WILDE, Sir William Robert Wills (1815 – 1876)
WILDE, Sir William Robert Wills (1815 – 1876)
2013 CENaturalists at sea: Scientific travelers from Dampier to Darwin.
WILLIAMS, Glyndwr
1672 CENew-Englands rarities discovered: In birds, beasts, fishes, serpents, and plants of that country. Together with the physical and chyrurgical remedies wherewith the natives constantly use to cure their distempers, wounds, and sores; also A perfect description of an Indian squa, in all her bravery, with a poem not improperly conferr'd upon her; lastly, a chronological table of the most remarkable passage in that country amongst the English.
JOSSELYN, John (1630 – 1675)
2013 CENikolaus Joseph Jacquin's American plants: Botanical expedition to the Caribbean (1754-1759) and the publication of the Selectarum stirpium Americanarum historia.
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JACQUIN, Nikolaus Joseph von (1727 – 1817)
JACQUIN, Nikolaus Joseph von (1727 – 1817)
1979 CEOnly one man died. The medical aspects of the Lewis and Clark expedition.
CHUINARD, Eldon G. (1904 – 1993)
1758 CEPetri Loefling... Iter Hispanicum, eller Resa til spanska länderna uti Europa och America förrättad infrän år 1751 til år, 1756, med Beskrifningar och ron öfver de märkvärdigaste växyer, utgifven efter dess frånfälle af Carl Linnaeus.
LINNAEUS, Carl (Linné) (1707 – 1778)
LINNAEUS, Carl (Linné) (1707 – 1778) LÖFLING, Pehr (1729 – 1756)
2004 CEPlants and empire: Colonial bioprospecting in the Atlantic world.
SCHIEBINGER, Londa (1952 – )
SCHIEBINGER, Londa (1952 – )
1676 CERelations historiques et curieuses de voyages, en Allemagne, Angleterre, Hollande, Boheme, Suisse, &c.
PATIN, Charles (1633 – 1693)
PATIN, Charles (1633 – 1693)
1997 CEScientists and the sea 1650-1900. A study of marine science.
DEACON, Margaret Elsa
1999 CESurveying the record: North American scientific exploration to 1930, edited by Edward C. Carter II.
CARTER, Edward C. II (1928 – 2002)
1793 CEThe history of Dahomy, an inland kingdom of Africa; compiled from authentic memoirs; with an introduction and notes.
DALZEL, Archibald (Dalziel) (1740 – 1811)
DALZEL, Archibald (Dalziel) (1740 – 1811)
1821 CEThe history of plague, as it has lately appeared in the islands of Malta, Gozo, Corfu, Cephalonia, &c. detailing specific contagion of that disease, with particulars of the means adeopted for its eradication.
TULLY, James D.
TULLY, James D.
2011 CEThe last slave market: Dr. John Kirk and the struggle to end the East African slave trade.
KIRK, Sir John (1832 – 1922)
KIRK, Sir John (1832 – 1922) HAZELL, Alastair
2007 CE​–2010 CEThe Linnaeus Apostles. Global science & adventure. 8 vols. in 11. General editor: Lars Hansen.
LINNAEUS, Carl (Linné) (1707 – 1778)
LINNAEUS, Carl (Linné) (1707 – 1778)
HANSEN, Lars
HANSEN, Lars
1999 CEThe physician and the slave trade: John Kirk, the Livingstone expeditions, and the crusade against slavery in East Africa.
LIEBOWITZ, Daniel (1921 – 2014)
KIRK, Sir John (1832 – 1922)
KIRK, Sir John (1832 – 1922)
1942 CEThe United States Exploring Expedition and its publications, 1844–1874: A bibliography
HASKELL, Daniel Carl (1883 – 1968)
1972 CEThe voyage of the Challenger.
LINKLATER, Eric (1899 – 1974)
1936 CETruants: The story of some who deserted medicine yet triumphed.
MOYNIHAN, Berkeley George Andrew (1865 – 1936)
MOYNIHAN, Berkeley George Andrew (1865 – 1936)
1699 CEVoyages de François Bernier ... contenant la description des états du grand mogol. Où il est traité des richesses, des forces, de la justice, & des causes principales de la decadence des etats de l'Asie, & de plusieurs évenemens considerables. Et où l'on voit comment l'or & l'argent, après avoir circulé dans le monde, passent dans l'Hindoustan, d'où ils ne reviennent plus.
BERNIER, François (1620 – 1688)
1999 CEVoyages of discovery: Three centuries of natural history exploration.
RICE, Tony
RICE, Tony