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Historical Bibliography Updated: July 14, 2026

Fiebre amarilla.

Gaceta Oficial de Cumaná, Año 4, No. 57, Mayo 23. 1854.

Beauperthuy was the first protagonist of the mosquito theory of the transmission of yellow fever. Reprinted in Beauperthuy’s La Obra, Caracas, 1963, pp. 260-70; French translation in Travaux scientifiques de Louis-Daniel Beauperthuy, Bordeaux, 1891, pp. 131-42. Digital facsimile of the 1891 edition from the Wellcome Library at this link.

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Entry Number#5454.1
Permanent Linkhttps://beta.historyofmedicine.com/id/7539
Author Bio LinkWikipedia ↗
External URLfiebre-amarilla

Geographic Context

Mentioned in annotation: Bordeaux