South America
46 entries published in South America.
1695
#13151
Desvios de la naturaleza: O Tratado de el origen de los monstros. A que va anadido vn compendio de curaciones chyrurgicas en monstruosos accidentes.
On conjoined twins, including the record of autopsy of conjoined twins in Lima in 1694. Pedro de Peralta Barnuevo edited work for publication at the request of the Viceroy, Melchor Fernandez Portocarrero. Digital facs…
1809
#9064
Memoria sobre a canella do Rio de Janeiro offerecida ao Principe do Brazil nosso senhor: pelo Senado da Camara da mesma cidade no anno de 1798.
The earliest monograph on medicine published in Brazil. Digital facsimile from the U.S. National Library of Medicine at this link.
1844 –1871
#9067
Historia fisica y politica de Chile, segun documentos adquiridos en esta Republica durante doce años de residencia en ella .... 28 vols. text plus 2 vols. atlas. (30 vols.).
Gay, a French botanist, was commissioned in 1830 by the government of Chile to carry out a thorough scientific survey of the country, and to produce a detailed description of its geography, geology and natural history…
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.
1877
#13837
Los médicos de antaño en el reino de Chile: La ciencia, la caridad, la beneficencia, la hijiene, los hospitales, los asilos, las maravillas i las barbaridades de nuestros mayores en materia de medicos i de medicina; reseña histórica i crítica que comprende desde la fundación del Hospital del Socorro, 1556, hasta el establecimiento del Tribunal del Protomedicato en 27 de abril de 1830.
Digital facsimile from wellcomecollection.org at this link.
1885
#13805
La viruela en la América del Sud y principalmente en la República Argentina: Historia, estadística, clínica, y profilaxia.
Digital facsimile from wellcomecollection.org at this link.
1892
#13498
Catalogo systematico da bibliotheca da Faculdade de Medicina do Rio de Janeiro organisado pelo Carlos Costa.
Digital facsimile from U.S. National Library of Medicine at this link.
1894
#13836
Historia de la medicina en Chile: Con importantes documentos sobre la medicina de nuestros predecesores.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1900
#4131.1
Un nuevo esporozoario parásito del hombre. Dos casos encontrados en pólipos nasales: Tesis presentada para optar al grado de doctor en medicina.
Rhinosporidiosis first described. Digital facsimile from bibliomedicinadigital.fmed.uba.ar at this link.
1903 –1910
#8543
Datos par la materia médica Argentina. 2 vols. (Vol. 2: Trabajos de Instituto de Farmacología de la Facultad de Ciencias Médicas de Buenos Aires No. 25).
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1911
#2115
A defensa contra o ophidismo.
Brazil founded the Instituto Butantan, São Paulo, one of the first institutes to produce antivenin sera on a large scale. French translation, 1911. Digital facsimile of the Portuguese edition from Biodiversity Heritag…
1911
#5460.1
Fiebre amarilla y fiebre espiroquetal; endemias y epidemias en Muzo, de 1907 a 1910.
Franco, J. Martínez-Santamaria, and G. Toro-Villa described epidemics of yellow fever spread by mosquitoes other than Ae. aegypti. Later F. L. Soper, et al., Amer. J. Hyg., 1933, 18, 555-87, substantiated this.
1912
#2914
Esclerosis secundaria de la arteria pulmonar y su cuadro clinico (Cardiacos negros).
A classical description of “Ayerza’s syndrome or disease” (cor pulmonale), to which Arrillaga named after Abel Ayerza, who first mentioned the disease in a lecture given in 1901. Corvisart mentioned the condition in 1…
1927 –1952
#6598
Historia de la medicina en el Uruguay. 3 vols.
1937
#6464
Medicina aborigen americana.
1939
#6599
Brazilian medical contributions.
1944 –1948
#2447
Indice bibliográfico de lepra, 1560-1943. 3 vols.
Supplements 1-5, 1952-62.
1947
#6601
Historia da medicina no Brasil. (Do século XVI ao século XIX). 2 vols.
1947
#13496
La contribución del Ecuador a la material médica: La quina.
1949
#7134
Queratoplastia refractiva.
Barraquer was the first to sculpt corneal stromal tissue to change corneal curvature. He developed a procedure which he called "keratomileusis," (sculpting of the cornea). This involved ressecting a disc of anterior c…
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.
1954
#9031
La solidaridad de las Américas ante la salud.
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.
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.
1960
#7938
La trepanación del cráneo en el antiguo Perú.
1961
#6603.3
Historia de la medicina en Venezuela. Epoca colonial.
1963
#6603.4
Historia de la medicina en el Ecuador. 2 vols.
1969
#8936
História da febre-amarela no Brasil.
Digital facsimile from bvsms.saude.gov.br at this link.
1977
#8932
História geral da medicina brasileira. Vol. 1 (All published).
1977
#9045
Medicina aborigen.
1984
#9822
Bibliografia Hipocrática.
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Alphabetical bibliography by author's name of all scholars, physicians, and others who studied the Hippocratic Collection and published about it. Entries include a brief biography of the authors, transcription of the …
1985
#12147
El amor en los tiempos de cólera.
"Set in a country on the Caribbean coast of South America, the story ranges from the late nineteenth century to the early decades of our own, tracing the lives of three people and their entwined fates. And yet, at fir…
1992
#9046
La medicina en el Ecuador prehispánico.
1995
#10086
Historia de la medicina chilena.
1997
#8862
A ciéncia dos trópicos: A arte médica no Brasil do sécolo XVIII.
1999
#8937
Natureza em boiões: Medicinas e boticá-rios no Brasil setecentista.
1999
#9048
Bosquejo de la historia de la medicina colombiana.
2006
#8935
Boticas & pharmacias: Uma historia ilustrada da farmacia no Brasil.
2009
#13662
Art and ophthalmology: The impact of eye diseases on painters. Translated by Colin Mailer.
2011
#7939
Historia de la medicina en el Paraguay.
2013
#13660
Ophthalmologia: Optica et visio in nummis.
2013
#13661
The history of color blindness. Translated from the original French manuscript by Colin Mailer.
2014
#7937