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1735A voyage to Guinea, Brasil and the West Indies; in His Majesty's ships, the Swallow and Weymouth: Describing the several islands and Settlements, viz, Madeira, the Canaries, Cape de Verd, Sierraleon, Sesthos, Cape Apollonia, Cabo Corso, and others on the Guinea coast; Barbadoes, Jamaica, &c. in the West-Indies; the colour, diet, languages, habits, manners, customs, and religions of the respective natives, and inhabitants. With remarks on the gold, ivory, and slave-trade; and on the winds, tides and currents of the several coasts.
ATKINS, John (1685 – 1757)
ATKINS, John (1685 – 1757)
1779A physical journal kept on board H. M. Ship Rainbow during three voyages to the coast of Africa and the West Indies, in the years 1772, 1773, and 1774: To which is prefixed, a particular account of the remitting fever which happened on board of His Majesty's Sloop Weasel, on that coast, in 1769.
ROBERTSON, Robert (1742 – 1829)
ROBERTSON, Robert (1742 – 1829)
1781Some account of the termites, which are found in Africa and other hot climates. In a letter from Mr. Henry Smeathman...to Sir Joseph Banks, Bart.
SMEATHMAN, Henry (1742 – 1786)
1788An account of the slave trade on the coast of Africa.
FALCONBRIDGE, Alexander (1760 – 1791)
1793The history of Dahomy, an inland kingdom of Africa; compiled from authentic memoirs; with an introduction and notes.
DALZEL, Archibald (Dalziel) (1740 – 1811)
DALZEL, Archibald (Dalziel) (1740 – 1811)
1795An essay on the malignant pestilential fever introduced into the West Indian Islands from Boullam, on the coast of Guinea, as it appeared in 1793 and 1794.
CHISHOLM, Colin (1755 – 1825)
1799Travels in the interior districts of Africa: Performed under the direction and patronage of the African Association, in the Years 1795, 1796, and 1797. By Mungo Park, surgeon. With an appendix, containing geographical illustrations of Africa by Major Rennell.
PARK, Mungo (1771 – 1806)
PARK, Mungo (1771 – 1806)
RENNELL, James (1742 – 1830)
RENNELL, James (1742 – 1830)
1803An account of the native Africans in the neighbourhood of Sierra Leone; to which is added, an account of the present state of medicine among them. 2 vols.
WINTERBOTTOM, Thomas Masterman (1765 – 1859)
WINTERBOTTOM, Thomas Masterman (1765 – 1859)
1822Memoria sobre a virtude toenifuga da romeira, com observações zoologicas e zoonomicas relativas á toenea, e com huma estampa.
GOMES, Bernardino António (1769 – 1823)
1822Travels along the Mediterranean, and parts adjacent; in the company with the Earl of Belmore, during the years 1816-17-18: Extending as far as the second cataract of the Nile, Jerusalem, Damascus, Balbec &c. &c. 2 vols.
RICHARDSON, Robert (1779 – 1847)
1831A practical medico-historical account of the western coast of Africa: Embracing a topographical description of its shores, rivers, and settlements, with their seasons and comparative healthiness: Together with the causes, symptoms, and treatment, of the fevers of western Africa, and a similar account respecting the other diseases which prevail there.
BOYLE, James
BOYLE, James
1840Observations on the disease lethargus: with cases and pathology.
CLARKE, Robert B.
CLARKE, Robert B.
1840Catalogue of skulls of man, and the inferior animals, in the collection of Samuel George Morton.
MORTON, Samuel George (1799 – 1851)
MORTON, Samuel George (1799 – 1851)
1843Medical history of the expedition to the Niger during the years 1841-42, comprising an account of the fever which led to its abrupt termination.
MCWILLIAM, James Ormiston (1808 – 1862)
MCWILLIAM, James Ormiston (1808 – 1862)
1857Missionary travels and researches in South Africa.
LIVINGSTONE, David (1813 – 1873)
LIVINGSTONE, David (1813 – 1873)
1858Arsenic as a remedy for the tsetse bite.
LIVINGSTONE, David (1813 – 1873)
LIVINGSTONE, David (1813 – 1873)
1858Impressions of Western Africa. With remarks on the diseases of the climate and a report on the peculiarities of trade up the rivers in the Bight of Biafra.
HUTCHINSON, Thomas Joseph (1820 – 1885)
HUTCHINSON, Thomas Joseph (1820 – 1885)
1874The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa. From eighteen hundred and sixty-five to his death. Continued by a narrative of his last Moments and sufferings, obtained from his faithful servants, Chuma and Susi, by Horace Waller, F.R.G.S.
LIVINGSTONE, David (1813 – 1873)
LIVINGSTONE, David (1813 – 1873)
WALLER, Horace (1833 – 1896)
WALLER, Horace (1833 – 1896)
1876Cholera epidemics in East Africa. An account of the several diffusions of the disease in the country from 1821 till 1872, with an outline of the geography, ethnology, and trade connections of the regions through which the epidemics passed.
CHRISTIE, James
CHRISTIE, James
1887Les pygmées.
QUATREFAGES DE BRÉAU, Jean Louis Armand de (1810 – 1892)
1898Reise-Bericht über Rinderpest, Bubonenpest in Indien und Afrika, Tsetse-oder Surrakrankheit, Texasfieber, tropische Malaria, Schwarzwasserfieber.
KOCH, Robert Heinrich Hermann (1843 – 1910)
KOCH, Robert Heinrich Hermann (1843 – 1910)
1902Some clinical notes on a European patient in whose blood a trypanosoma was observed.
FORDE, Robert Michael (1861 – 1948)
1903​–1919Reports of the Sleeping Sickness Commission of the Royal Society, 1903-1912. 17 pts.
BRUCE, Sir David (1855 – 1931)
BRUCE, Sir David (1855 – 1931)
NABARRO, David N.
NABARRO, David N.
1917Marching on Tanga (with General Smuts in East Africa).
YOUNG, Francis Brett (1884 – 1954)
YOUNG, Francis Brett (1884 – 1954)
1927The insect transmission of Onchocerca volvulus (Leuckart, 1893), the cause of worm nodules in man in Africa.
BLACKLOCK, Donald Breadalbane (1879 – 1955)
1931Enzootic hepatitis or Rift Valley fever. An undescribed virus disease of sheep, cattle and man from East Africa.
DAUBNEY, Robert (1891 – ) HUDSON, John Richard
1941Native African medicine: With special reference to Its practice in the Mano tribe of Liberia.
HARLEY, George Way (1894 – 1966)
1941Focus on Africa.
LIGHT, Richard Upjohn (1902 – 1994)
1958​–1959A sarcoma involving the jaws in African children.
BURKITT, Denis Parsons (1911 – 1993)
BURKITT, Denis Parsons (1911 – 1993)
1962The medicinal and poisonous plants of southern and eastern Africa: Being an account of their medicinal and other uses, chemical composition, pharmacological effects and toxicology in man and animal. Second edition.
WATT, John Mitchell (1892 – 1980) BREYER-BRANDWIJK, Maria Gerdina (1918 – 1945)
1964Cytology of Burkitt’s tumour (African lymphoma).
PULVERTAFT, Robert James Valentine (1897 – 1990)
1964Medicine and custom in Africa.
GELFAND, Michael (1912 – 1985)
GELFAND, Michael (1912 – 1985)
1965The Zambesi Journal and Letters of Dr. John Kirk, 1858-63. Edited by Reginald Foskett. 2 vols.
KIRK, Sir John (1832 – 1922)
KIRK, Sir John (1832 – 1922) FOSKETT, Reginald (1909 – 1973)
1969Parasitic diseases in Africa and the Western Hemisphere. Early documentation and transmission by the slave trade.
HOEPPLI, Reinhard (1893 – 1973)
1970A history of the British medical administration of East Africa, 1900-1950.
BECK, Ann Frank (1900 – 2002)
1971The role of the trypanosomiases in African ecology: A study of the Tsetse fly problem.
FORD, John (1910 – )
1977African folk medicine: Practices and beliefs of the Bambara and other peoples.
IMPERATO, Pascal James (1937 – )
1978A new species of the genus Australopithecus (Primates: Hominidae) from the Pliocene of Eastern Africa.
JOHANSON, Donald Carl (1943 – )
JOHANSON, Donald Carl (1943 – ) WHITE, Timothy Douglas (1950 – )
COPPENS, Yves (1934 – )
COPPENS, Yves (1934 – )
1978Disease in African history.
HARTWIG, Gerald W. PATTERSON, Karl David (1941 – )
1983"Bid the sickness cease": Disease in the history of black Africa.
RANSFORD, Oliver (1914 – )
1987Afro-Caribbean folk medicine.
LAGUERRE, Michael S. (1943 – )
1988La médecine coloniale: Mythe et réalités.
LAPEYSSONNIE, Léon (1915 – 2001)
1992The social basis of health and healing in Africa. Edited by Steven Feierman and John M. Janzen.
FEIERMAN, Steven (1940 – ) JANZEN, John M. (1937 – )
1994Afrikanische Arzneipflanzen und Jagdgifte.
NEUWINGER, Hans Dieter
1996Médecine coloniale et grandes endémies en Afrique 1900-1960. Lèpre, trypanosomiase humaine et onchocercose.
BADO, Jean-Paul
1999Histories of sexually transmitted diseases and HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa. Edited by Philip W, Setel, Milton J. Lewis, and Maryinez Lyons.
LYONS, Maryinez LEWIS, Milton James SETEL, Philip W.
2000African traditional medicine: A dictionary of plant use and applications with supplement: Search system for diseases.
NEUWINGER, Hans Dieter
2000Indigenous theories of contagious disease.
GREEN, Edward C. (1944 – )
2003Medicine across cultures: History and practice of medicine in non-Western cultures. Edited by Helaine Selin.
SELIN, Helaine (1946 – )
2006Histoire de la médecine et des maladies en Afrique. Edited by Jean-Paul Bado.
BADO, Jean-Paul