Lugo-Viña y Carta, Nicasio (d. 1920)

  • Lugo-Viña y Carta, Nicasio, d.1920
Date:
1909
Reference:
WMS/Amer.131
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Description

Curiosidades médicas. Antigua medicina Indo-Americana. Recopilación histórica, con grabados, ... Trabajo apendiculado con una miscelánea histórica de la antigua medicina européa y otras relíquias. Cienfuegos, Cuba Illustrated with drawings and cuttings. Holograph survey, drawn from printed sources, and written during recovery from an attempt on the author's life in 1908. Dedicated to Sir Henry Wellcome [1853-1936] and sent to him in 1909 for the Burroughs-Wellcome exhibition on the history of medicine. Pt. I, pp. 1-45: 'El empirismo indígena á través de las edades'. Pt. II, pp. 46-65: 'Embalsamientos indo-americanos'. Pt. III, pp. 66-73: 'Teurgía indo-americana'. [Pt. IV], pp. 74-160: Appendices on miscellaneous topics on medicine and the history of medicine; an extensive bibliography (1890-1909) etc. of the author (pp. 155-158); and index (pp. 159-160).

Publication/Creation

1909

Physical description

3 ll., pp. v, 160, 1 bl. l. 22 x 16 cm. Unbound.

Acquisition note

Author's gift

Biographical note

Lugo-Viña y Carta was a medical historian.

Finding aids

Described in: Robin Price, An Annotated Catalogue of Medical Americana in the Library of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1983).

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  • 96000