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Medical geography

Here are entered works on the geographical distribution of diseases, and on pathology in relation to conditions of geography and climate.

Works on the occurrence of a particular disease in a locality are entered under the name of the disease subdivided by the name of the place.

Works on the practice, history, or conditions of medicine in any particular locality are entered under Medicine--[local subdivision,] e.g. Medicine -- Germany.

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Diseases -- Geographical distribution
Geographical distribution of diseases
Geographical pathology
Geography, Medical
Geomedicine
Medical topography
Pathology, Geographic
Topography, Medical
Health geography

Filed under: Medical geography

Atlas of cancer mortality for U.S. counties, 1950-1969 (U.S. Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service, National Institutes of Health, 1975), by National Cancer Institute (U.S.). Epidemiology Branch and Thomas J. Mason (page images at HathiTrust)
On the geographical distribution of some tropical diseases and their relation to physical phenomena (Young J. Pentland, 1889), by R. W. Felkin (page images at HathiTrust)
Geographical pathology: an inquiry into the geographical distribution of infective and climatic diseases. (Y. J. Pentland, 1892), by Andrew Davidson (page images at HathiTrust)
The ecology of human disease. (MD Publications, 1958), by Jacques M. May (page images at HathiTrust)
Traité de géographie et de statistique médicales et des maladies endémiques : comprenant la météorologie et la géologie médicales : les lois statistiques de la population et de la mortalité : la distribution géographique des maladies : et la pathologie comparée des races humaines (J. B. Baillière, 1857), by J. Ch. M. Boudin and J.-B. Baillière (page images at HathiTrust)
A geography of disease; a preliminary survey of the incidence and distribution of tropical and certain other diseases (The George Washington university press, 1935), by Earl Baldwin McKinley and National Research Council (U.S.). Division of Medical Sciences (page images at HathiTrust)
Global epidemiology, a geography of disease and sanitation (Lippincott, 1944), by James Stevens Simmons and United States. Surgeon-General's Office. Preventive Medicine Division (page images at HathiTrust)
The geographical distribution of disease in Great Britain (Swan Sonnenschein, 1892), by Alfred Haviland (page images at HathiTrust)
Études sur les lois que président à la distribution géographique des maladies, ainsi qu'a leurs rapports topographiques entre elles, lois de coïncidence et d'antagonisme (Paris : Germer-Baillière : Labé, 1843., 1843), by Jean Christian Marc François Joseph Boudin (page images at HathiTrust)
The geography of disease (University Press, 1903), by Frank Gerard Clemow (page images at HathiTrust)
A history of tropical medicine; based on the Fitzpatrick lectures delivered before the Royal College of Physicians of London, 1937-38 (Williams & Wilkins, 1939), by Henry Harold Scott (page images at HathiTrust)
Natural history of the negro race (D. J. Dowling, 1837), by J.-J. Virey, J. H. Guenebault, and Samuel Thomas von Soemmerring (page images at HathiTrust)
Handbuch der historisch-geographischen Pathologie. (Enke, 1881), by August Hirsch (page images at HathiTrust)
La géographie médicale (C. Reinwald ..., 1884), by A. Bordier (page images at HathiTrust)
Prophylaxie et géographie médicale des principales maladies tributaires de l'hygiène (G. Masson, 1884), by Émile Léon Poincaré (page images at HathiTrust)
Melanesian and Micronesian journal : return expeditions to the New Hebrides, Caroline Islands, and New Guinea : July 29, 1965 to December 20, 1965 (Laboratory of Central Nervous System Studies, National Institute of Neurological Disoders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, 1993), by D. Carleton Gajdusek and Laboratory of Central Nervous System Studies (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
Health and social progress (Prentice-Hall, 1920), by Rudolph M. Binder (page images at HathiTrust)
Geographisch-medicinische Studien nach den Erlebnissen einer Reise um die Erde. (Hirschwald, 1878), by A. Wernich (page images at HathiTrust)
Natural history of the negro race (D. J. Dowling, 1837), by J.-J. Virey, Samuel Thomas von Soemmerring, and J. H. Guenebault (page images at HathiTrust)
Medizinische Topographie der Haupt- und Residenzstadt St. Petersburg. (Orell, Füssli, 1817), by Heinrich Ludwig von Attenhoffer (page images at HathiTrust)
Geografia médica del Zulia; trabajo de sontribución sl tercer Congreso venezolano de medicina. (Villasmil, 1921) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Report on the medical topography and epidemics of the state of New York : Submitted to the American Medical Association at its annual meeting at New Haven in June, 1860. (Collins, printer, 1860), by Joseph Mather Smith, James H. Armsby, Alden March, and American Medical Association (page images at HathiTrust)
Health as depending upon the conditions of the atmosphere, foods and drinks, motion and rest, sleep and wakefulness, secretions, excretions, and retentions, mental emotions, clothing, bathing, &c. (J. Churchill, 1858), by James H. Pickford (page images at HathiTrust)
Geographical pathology: an inquiry into the geographical distribution of infective and climatic diseases. (D. Appleton & co., 1892), by Andrew Davidson (page images at HathiTrust)
The science and practice of medicine (Lindsay & Blakiston, 1866), by William Aitken and Meredith Clymer (page images at HathiTrust)
Philosophie des sciences cosmologiques et critique des sciences et de la pratique médicales. (Germer-Baillière, 1866), by Antonin Lazare Antoine Philippe Bergeret (page images at HathiTrust)
The science and practice of medicine (Lindsay & Blakiston, 1868), by William Aitken, Meredith Clymer, and M.D. Rare Book Collection of Rush University Medical Center at the University of Chicago Stanton A. Friedberg (page images at HathiTrust)
Deutsches Archiv für Geschichte der Medicin und medicinische Geographie. (G. Olms, 1878), by Gerhard Rohlfs and Heinrich Rohlfs (page images at HathiTrust)
Apuntes sobre la Patología del Departamento Fluvial de Loreto. Tesis que para optar el grado de doctor en medicina ... (B. Gil., 1891), by Leonidas Avendaño and Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos. Facultad de Medicina (page images at HathiTrust)
Essai de géographie médicale de Nosi-bé près la côte nord-ouest de Madagascar (avec cartes) ... (Paris : A. Parent, Imprimeur de la Faculté de Médecine, A. Davy, successeur, 1883., 1883), by Paul-Richard Deblenne and Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection (page images at HathiTrust)
Arcachon, ville d'été, ville d'hiver : topographie et climatologie médicales (G. Masson, 1886), by Fernand Lalesque (page images at HathiTrust)
Health and social progress (Prentice-Hall, 1920), by Rudolph M. Binder (page images at HathiTrust)
The science and practice of medicine. (Lindsay & Blakiston, 1872), by William Aitken and Meredith Clymer (page images at HathiTrust)
The climate of Canada and its relations to life and health. (Dawson, 1884), by William H. Hingston (page images at HathiTrust)
Geneeskundig-topographische opmerkingen betreffende Batavia, hare reede en het eiland Onrust (M.J. Visser, 1868), by Frederik Johannes van Leent (page images at HathiTrust)
Geografía médica y nosológica del Departamento de Caldas precedida de una notica histórica sobre el descubrimiento y conquista del mismo (Imp. departamental, 1916), by Emilio Robledo (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The diseases of China : including Formosa and Korea (Bale & Danielsson, 1910), by W. Hamilton Jefferys and James L. Maxwell (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Going south for the winter. With hints for consumptives. By Robert F. Speir, M.D. (Printed for the author by E.O. Jenkins, 1873), by Robert F. Speir (page images at HathiTrust)
The diseases of China : including Formosa and Korea (s.n.], 1929), by W. Hamilton Jefferys (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

Filed under: Medical geography -- Africa

Reise-Berichte über Rinderpest : Bubonenpest in Indien und Afrika, Tsetse- oder Surrakrankheit, Texasfieber, tropische Malaria, Schwarzwasserfieber. (J. Springer, 1898), by Robert Koch (page images at HathiTrust)
On the geographical distribution of tropical diseases in Africa (William F. Clay, 1895), by R.W. Felkin (page images at HathiTrust)
Estatistica medica dos hospitaes das provincias ultramarinas. (Lisboa., in the 19th century), by Portugal. Ministério da Marinha e Ultramar (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Medical geography -- Africa, Central

Guide hygiénique et médical du voyageur dans l'Afrique centrale (Challamel aîné, 1885), by Adolphe Charles Antoine Marie Nicolas, Jules Signol, HonoreÌ Lacaze, and SocieÌteÌ de meÌdecine de Paris (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Medical geography -- Africa, East

Hygiene and disease in eastern tropical Africa. (H. M. Stationery off., 1923), by Great Britain Admiralty, Great Britain. Naval Intelligence Division, and Great Britain War Office (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Medical geography -- Africa, West

Observations on the fevers of the western coast of Africa. (New-York, 1856), by Henry A. M.D. Ford (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Medical geography -- Algeria

Geographie medicale d'Alger et ses environs. (Brachet, 1839), by Jean-Pierre Bonnafont (page images at HathiTrust)
Maladies de l'Algérie; des causes; de la symptômatologie, de la nature et du traitement des maladies endémo-épidémiques de la province d'Oran. (Baillière, 1850), by Auguste Haspel (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Medical geography -- Argentina

Climatologie me dicale de la Re publique Argentine et des principales villes d'Ame rique (A. Etchepareborda, 1895), by Samuel Gache (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Medical geography -- Barbados

Observations on the changes of the air, and the concomitant epidemical diseases in the island of Barbadoes. To which is added, A treatise on the putrid bilious fever, commonly called the yellow fever; and such other diseases as are indigenous or endemial, in the West India islands, or in the torrid zone. (Published by B. & T. Kite, no. 20, N. third-street., 1811), by William Hillary and Benjamin Rush (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Medical geography -- Bolivia

Epidemiological studies in Bolivia : final epidemiological report for the Peace Corps, RISM Bolivia project (Research Institute for the Study of Man, 1967), by Abdel R. Omran, Mahfouz H. Zaki, William J. McEwen, and Research Institute for the Study of Man (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

Filed under: Medical geography -- Brazil

Historia naturalis Brasiliae, : auspicio et beneficio illustriss. I. Mauritii Com. Nassau ... adornata : in qua non tantum plantæ et animalia, sed et indigenarum morbi, ingenia et mores describuntur et iconibus supra quingentas illustrantur. (Apud Franciscum Hackium, ;, 1648), by Willem Piso and Georg Marggraf (page images at HathiTrust)
Medical report of the Hamilton Rice seventh expedition to the Amazon, in conjunction with the Department of tropical medicine of Harvard university, 1924-1925. (Harvard university press, 1926), by Richard Pearson Strong and Harvard University. Department of Tropical Medicine (page images at HathiTrust)
The medical report of the Rice expedition to Brazil (Harvard university press, 1918), by W. T. Councilman and R. A. Lambert (page images at HathiTrust)
Medical topography of Brazil and Uruguay ... (Lindsay & Blakiston, 1845), by G. R. B. Horner (page images at HathiTrust)
Sketches of Brazil ; including new views on tropical and European fever (J. Churchill, 1852), by Robert Dundas (page images at HathiTrust)
Appunti sulla geografia medica del Brasile. (Ciminago, 1890), by Vincenzo Grossi, Huntington Free Library, and Heye Foundation Museum of the American Indian (page images at HathiTrust)
La Salubrità del Brasile. (Direction des services de propagande et d'expansion économique du Brésil à l'étranger, 1905), by France) Direction des services de propagande et d'expansion économique du Brésil à l'étranger (Paris (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Clima e doenças do Brasil; notas escriptas para o Brazilian year book de 1908. (Imprensa Nacional, 1907), by Afrânio Peixoto (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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