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385 entries match Americas (non-U.S.) [Z01.107]

1933

#12802

Las plantas medicinales de México.

Contains information on 833 species.

1934

#12575

Onchocerciasis: With special reference to the Central American form of the disease. Parts I, II, III, and IV

In depth study of onchcerciasis in Guatemala, where "the disease was of real importance to human beings" at the time. Each of the 4 authors contributed a separate part of the report.

1935

#9303

The ethnobiology of the Papago Indians. Ethnological Studies in the American Southwest II.

"The Tohono O’odham ... are a Native American people of the Sonoran Desert, residing primarily in the U.S. state of Arizona and the Mexican state of Sonora. Tohono O’odham means "Desert People." The federally recogniz…

1935

#13603

History of the Canadian Medical Association.

1937

#2430

Who gave the world syphilis? The Haitian myth.

1937

#6464

Medicina aborigen americana.

1937

#11568

La angio-cardiografía radio-opaca.

Intravenous angiocardiography. This was the first publication that dealt with the normal cardiac structure and the changes seen in ventricular septal defect and pulmonary stenosis.

1938

#5308.1

Demonstratión de un treponema en el borde activo un caso de pinto de las manos y pies y en la linfa de ganglios superficiales (reporte preliminar).

B. Saenz, J. Grau Triana, and J. Alfonso Armenteros indicated that pinta is caused by a treponeme, T. carateum.

1938

#12593

A medical survey of the republic of Guatemala, by George Cheever Shattuck. With the collaboration of Joseph C. Bequaert, Margaret M. Hilferty, Jack H. Sandground [and] Samuel Drury Clark.

Organized and directed by the Department of Tropical Medicine, Harvard School of Public Health. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1939

#6599

Brazilian medical contributions.

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…

1940

#1664

The development of public health in Canada: a review of the history and organization of public health in the provinces of Canada, with an outline of the present organization of the National Health Section of the Department of Pensions and National Health, Canada. Edited by R. D. Defries.

CANADIAN PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOCIATION

1941

#13361

Bibliographie générale et méthodique d'Haiti. 2 vols.

Vol. 2, pp. 169-208 contains a comprehensive chronological account of medical publications printed in Haiti, or about medicine in Haiti, from the earliest imprints to 1941. Digital facsimile from ufdc.ufl.edu at this …

1944 –1948

#2447

Indice bibliográfico de lepra, 1560-1943. 3 vols.

Supplements 1-5, 1952-62.

1944

#6600

Aesculapius in Latin America.

1945

#13061

Plantas medicinale aromaticas o venenosas de Cuba. 2 vols.

1947

#6234

Reacción diagnóstica del embarazo en la que se usa el sapo macho como animal reactivo.

Male toad test. An English account is in J. clin. Endocr., 1947, 7, 653-58.

1947

#6601

Historia da medicina no Brasil. (Do século XVI ao século XIX). 2 vols.

1947

#6601.1

Bosquejo histórico de la farmacia y la medicina en Honduras.

1947

#13496

La contribución del Ecuador a la material médica: La quina.

1948

#9024

The Pan American Sanitary Bureau: Its origin, developments and achievements, 1902-1944.

1950

#9030

La demogenia Peruana y sus problemas medico-sociales.

1951

#6602

Historia de la medicina Peruna. 3 vols.

1951

#6602.1

Historia de la medicina en Venezuela.

Comprehensive account to end of ninteenth century.

1951

#8479

El arte de las mutilaciones dentarias.

1952

#7898

CUADERNOS DE HISTORIA DE LA SALUD PÚBLICA. 1-

Recent issues may be viewed at http://bvs.sld.cu/revistas/his/indice.html.

1953

#6603

Historiografia de la medicina colonial hispanoamericana.

1953 –1956

#9446

Official history of the Canadian Medical Services: 1939-1945. Vol. 1: Organization and campaigns. Vol. 2: Clinical subjects. Edited by W. R. Feasby. 2 vols.

Digital facsimiles from the Internet Archive at this link.

1954

#3705.01

Bibliografia odontologica Mexicana.

1954

#9031

La solidaridad de las Américas ante la salud.

1955

#9027

The Pan American Saintary Bureau: Half a century of health activities 1902-1954.

Digital facsimile from the Pan American Health Organization at this link.

1956

#6603.1

Historia de la medicina en Bolivia.

1956

#8933

Morão, Rosa & Pimenta; notícia dos três primeiros livros em vernáculo sôbre a medicina no Brasil. Estudo crítico de Gilberto Osório de Andrade. Introduções históricas, interpretações e notas de Eustáquio Duarte. Pref. de Gilberto Freyre.

1957

#6603.2

Historia y medicina; figuras y hechos de la historiografia médica mexicana.

1958

#8478

Mutilaciones dentarias: Prehispanicas de Mexico y America en general.

1958

#8603

Medicine-men of the North Pacific Coast. Bulletin (National Museum of Canada), no. 152.; Bulletin (National Museum of Canada)., Anthropological series, no. 42.

1958

#8941

Bibliographia Brasiliana: A bibliographical essay on rare books bout Brazil from 1504 to 1900 and works of Brazilian authors published abroad before the independence of Brazil in 1822. 2 vols.

Includes early books on medicine and natural history of Brazil.

1958

#10853

Medicine-men on the North Pacific Coast.

1958

#12215

Les champignons hallucinogenes du Mexique. Études ethnologiques, taxinomiques, biologiques, physiologiques et chimiques.

1958

#13499

Bibliografia medical Brasileira. Periodo Colonial 1808-1821.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1960

#7938

La trepanación del cráneo en el antiguo Perú.

1961

#6603.3

Historia de la medicina en Venezuela. Epoca colonial.

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…

1962

#10920

Powassan virus: Field investigations in Northern Ontario, 1959-1961.

The authors isolated a virus from the brain of a child who died of encephalitis in Powassan, Ontario, and named it the Powassan virus. They posited a tick vector and possible rodent natural hosts. (Thanks to Juan Weis…

1963

#6603.4

Historia de la medicina en el Ecuador. 2 vols.

1964

#6603.5

Las ciencias médicas en Guatemala: origen y evolución. 3rd ed.

1965

#2068.8

Histoire du curare. Les poisons de chasse en Amérique du Sud.

1965 –1966

#6579.2

Bibliográfia história de la medicina española. 2 vols.

A bibliography covering Spain and the former South American colonies.

1965

#6603.6

Médicos y medicina en Cuba. Historia, biografia, costumbrismo.

1965

#7933

Epidemic disease in Mexico City 1761-1813: An administrative, social, and medical study.