Informe al Ayuntamiento de Campeche de Que Es Contagioso el Mal de Lazaro: Y Manifestación de la Carrera Que Sigue

Havana: En la Oficina de Don Esteban José Bolona, 1814. About very good.. [2],10pp. Quarto. Later marbled wrappers. Title page and fore-edges tastefully restored with tissue. Minor worming, slightly affecting text in upper right of printed areas. Light foxing and tanning. An unrecorded, early 19th-century Havana imprint that comprises a report by a pair of Cuban doctors concerning cases of elephantiasis, also known as elephantitis, in the Yucatan at Campeche. The authors, Juan Antonio Frutos and Ciprian Blanco, were presidents and tribunes of the Protomedicato de la Isla de Cuba, a Spanish colonial regulatory board for the medical practice and public health. The two doctors traveled to Mexico to study the outbreak of the disease for the purpose of developing and improving its understanding and treatment in Cuba. The report contains detailed descriptions of cases and the spread of infection, emphatically concluding, "Elephantiasis es contagioso," and advising the isolation of infected individuals. A note immediately following registers the submission of the report and its approval by the Protomedicato. A three-page postscript by a third doctor in Cuba, Marcos Sanchez Rubio, compliments the work and adds some notes on the disease from his personal experience. Elephantiasis, which causes painfully swollen limbs and reproductive organs, was a serious issue in tropical areas Latin America since it is spread by mosquitos. Not in OCLC, nor in the online catalogues of the JCB, AAS, or the National Library of Medicine.