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Garrison-Morton-Norman History of Medicine

Latin America

Exhibiting 31 entries found in the GMN corpus.

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1853 CEA 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.
WALLACE, Alfred Russel (1823 – 1913)
WALLACE, Alfred Russel (1823 – 1913)
2005 CEA new world of animals: Early modern Europeans on the creatures of Iberian America.
ASÚA, Miguel de FRENCH, Roger Kenneth (1938 – 2002)
1944 CEAesculapius in Latin America.
MOLL, Aristides Alcibiades (1882 – 1964)
1983 CEAn annotated catalogue of medical Americana in the library of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine.
PRICE, Robin
1981 CEAtlas of medicinal plants of Middle America: Bahamas to Yucatan.
MORTON, Julia Francis McHugh (1912 – 1996)
1965 CE​–1966 CEBibliográfia história de la medicina española. 2 vols.
GRANJEL, Luis Sánchez (1920 – 2014)
2009 CEChocolate in Mesoamerica: A cultural history of cacao. Edited by Cameron L. McNeil.
MCNEIL, Cameron L.
1839 CECrania 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.
MORTON, Samuel George (1799 – 1851)
MORTON, Samuel George (1799 – 1851)
2003 CEDisease in the history of modern Latin America: From malaria to aids. Edited by Diego Armus.
ARMUS, Diego
1565 CEDos 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.
MONARDES, Nicolás Bautista (1493 – 1588)
1992 CEEnfermedad y sociedad en la crisis colonial del antiguo régimen: Nueva Granada en el tránsito del siglo XVIII al XIX, las epidemias de viruelas.
NÚÑEZ, Marcelo Frías
1769 CEEssay 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, Edward (1774 – 1821)
1846 CEGeological observations on South America. Being the third part of the geology of the voyage of the Beagle.
DARWIN, Charles Robert (1809 – 1882)
DARWIN, Charles Robert (1809 – 1882)
1965 CEHistoire du curare. Les poisons de chasse en Amérique du Sud.
VELLARD, Jehan Albert (1901 – 1996)
1996 CEHistoire naturelle des Indes. The Drake manuscript in The Pierpont Morgan Library.... Foreward by Patrick O'Brian. Introduction by Verlyn Klinkenborg. Translations by Ruth Kraemer.
KLINKENBORG, Verlyn (1952 – ) O'BRIAN, Patrick (1912 – 2000) KRAEMER, Ruth
1953 CEHistoriografia de la medicina colonial hispanoamericana.
GUERRA PÉREZ-CARRAL, Francisco (1916 – 2011)
1875 CEInfluence de la pression de l’air sur la vie de l’homme. Climats d'altitude et climats du montagne. 2 vols.
JOURDANET, Denis (1815 – 1892)
JOURDANET, Denis (1815 – 1892)
1969 CELa médecine de l'Amérique précolombienne.
COURY, Charles René (1916 – 1973)
1864 CELe Mexique et l'Amérique tropicale: climats, hygiène et maladies.
JOURDANET, Denis (1815 – 1892)
JOURDANET, Denis (1815 – 1892)
1861 CELes altitudes de l’Amérique tropicale comparées au niveau des mers au point de vue de la constitution médicale.
JOURDANET, Denis (1815 – 1892)
JOURDANET, Denis (1815 – 1892)
1937 CEMedicina aborigen americana.
PARDAL, Ramón (1896 – 1955)
2015 CEMedicine and public health in Latin America: A history.
CUETO, Marcos (1959 – ) PALMER, Steven
1958 CEMutilaciones dentarias: Prehispanicas de Mexico y America en general.
ROMERO, Javier
1853 CEPalm trees of the Amazon.
WALLACE, Alfred Russel (1823 – 1913)
WALLACE, Alfred Russel (1823 – 1913)
1922 CESouth America from a surgeon's point of view.
MARTIN, Franklin Henry (1857 – 1935)
MARTIN, Franklin Henry (1857 – 1935)
1927 CESouth America, amplified to include all of Latin America: The Vandyck Cruise.
MARTIN, Franklin Henry (1857 – 1935)
MARTIN, Franklin Henry (1857 – 1935)
1525 CESumario de la natural historia de las Indias.
OVIEDO Y VALDÉS, Gonzalo Fernández de (1478 – 1557)
1519 CESumma de Geografia que trata de todas las partidas e provincias del mundo en especial de las indias e trata largamente del arte del marcar...
FERNÁNDEZ DE ENCISO, Martín (1470 – 1528)
1843 CE​–1859 CEThe botany of the Antarctic voyage of H. M. Discovery Ships Erebus and Terror in the years 1839-1843.
HOOKER, Sir Joseph Dalton (1817 – 1911)
HOOKER, Sir Joseph Dalton (1817 – 1911)
1880 CEThe 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.
ACOSTA, José de (1539 – 1600)
ACOSTA, José de (1539 – 1600) MARKHAM, Sir Robert Clements (1830 – 1916)
1803 CETratado 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.
MOREAU DE LA SARTHE, Jacques-Louis (1771 – 1826) BALMIS, Francisco Javier de (1793 – 1819)