Facets

1567

#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…

1578

#8023

Summa y recopilacion de cirugia, con un arte para sangrar, muy util y provechosa.

Second edition, Mexico, 1595: Summa y recopilacion de cirugia, con un arte para sangrar, y examen de barberos ... va añadido en esta segunda impresion el origen ... de las reumas. López de Hinojos was a barber-surge…

1579

#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 Hernández. S…

1615

#1820.1

Quatro libros. De la naturaleza, y virtudes de las plantas, y animales que estan receuidos en el vso de medicina en la Nueua España, y la methodo, y correccion, y preparacion, que para administrallas se requiere con lo que el doctor Francisco Hernandez escriuio en lengua latina. : Muy vtil para todo genero de gente q[ue] viue en esta[n]cias y pueblos, de no ay medicos, ni botica.Traduzido, y aumentados muchos simples, y compuestos y otros muchos secretos curatiuos, por Fr. Francisco Ximenes....

Physician to Philip II of Spain, Hernández travelled to Mexico by order of the king, and studied the natural history of the region from 1570-77. His Works, which filled six folio volumes of text and 10 volumes of pain…

1648

#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…

1672

#7007

The American physician : or, a treatise of the roots, plants, trees, shrubs, fruit, herbs, etc., growing in the English Plantations in America ; ... whereunto is added a discourse of the Cacao-nut-Tree, and the use of its fruit ; with all the ways of making Chocolate

The earliest work in English on the medicinal virtues of North American tropical plants. Based on first-hand observations made in the West Indies, Evidence suggests that Hughes began his career in 1651 with a privatee…

1794

#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…

1860

#8971

Colección de medicamentos indigenas y sus aplicaciones, estraidos de los reinos vegetal, mineral y animal, recogidos y anotados por [...], segunda edición corregida y aumentada.

Digital facsimile of the 5th edition (1875) from the National Library of Medicine, Internet Archive at this link.

1928

#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.

1928

#9289

Ethnobotany of the Meskwaki Indians.

1932

#9295

Ethnobotany of the Ojibwe Indians.

Digital facsimile from nwic.edu at this link.

1940

#1811.1

The Badianus manuscript. (Codex Barberini, Latin, 241) Vatican Library. An Aztec herbal of 1552. Edited and translated by Emily W. Emmart.

The earliest complete Mexican medical text and the only medical text known to be the work of native Aztecs. Written by an Aztec physician named by the Spanish Martin de la Cruz, and translated into Latin by another na…

1961

#10854

The ethnobotany of pre-Columbian Peru.

"....based on analysis of 2200 wild and cultivated plant specimens with clearly defined archaeological contexts... Part I is a systematic ethnobotany with pertinent citations of the botanical and archaeological litera…

1971

#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.

1972

#9021

A medicine-man's implements and plants in a Tiahuanacoid tomb in highland Bolivia, (Etnologiska studier, 32). Edited by Henry Wassén.

Tiwanaku (Tiahuanaco or Tiahuanacu) is a Pre-Columbian archaeological site in western Bolivia. The first reference to the site in modern history was recorded by Spanish conquistador Pedro Cieza de León, who came upon …

1973

#9274

Algonquin ethnobotany: An Interpretation of aboriginal adaptation in Southwestern Quebec. 2 vols.

1974

#9285

Ethnobotany of the Blackfoot Indians.

1988

#8791

Passage of darkness: The Ethnobiology of the Haitian zombie.

1990

#7513

Aztec medicine, health, and nutrition.

1990

#13343

The healing forest: Medicinal and toxic plants of the Northwest Amazonia.

1992

#13344

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

1993

#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.

1993

#10872

Rio Tigre and beyond: The Amazon jungle medicine of Manual Cordova-Rios

1994

#9298

Footprints of the forest: Ka'Apor ethnobotany- The historical ecology of plant utilization by an Amazonian people.

1994

#9937

Tales of a shaman's apprentice: An ethnobotanist searches for new medicines in the Amazon rain forest.

1997

#9910

Sacred leaves of Candomblé: African magic, medicine, and religion in Brazil.

"Candomblé, an African religious and healing tradition that spread to Brazil during the slave trade, relies heavily on the use of plants in its spiritual and medicinal practices. When its African adherents were forcib…

2004

#9899

Jamaican folk medicine: A source of healing.

2009

#10443

Chocolate in Mesoamerica: A cultural history of cacao. Edited by Cameron L. McNeil.

2015

#10275

A Cree healer and his medicine bundle: Revelations of indigenous wisdom: Healing plants, practices, and stories.

"With the rise of urban living and the digital age, many North American healers are recognizing that traditional medicinal knowledge must be recorded before being lost with its elders. A Cree Healer and His Medicine B…

2016

#12803

Ethnobotany of Mexico: Interactions of people and plants in Mesoamerica. Edited by Rafael Lira, Alejandro Casas, José Blancas.