The National Library of Colombia, Bogotá, contains over 117 documents on leprosy. These date from 1826 to 1947. Many are published articles from medical journals. Articles from the Medical Journal of Bogotá (Revista Médica de Bogotá), the Bulletin of Medicine of Cauca (Boletín de Medicina del Cauva), the Annals of the Academy of Medicine of Medellín (Anales de la Academia de Medicina de Medellín), the Bulletin of Medicine of Barranquilla (Boletín de Medicina de Barranquilla), the Journal of the Faculty of Medicine (Revista de la Facultad de Medicina), the Repertoire of Medicine and Surgery (Repertorio de Medicina y Cirugía), the Journal of Hygiene (Revista de Higiene), and the Clinical Bulletin of Medellín (Revista Clínica de Medellín).

The research publications of the following are held as part of this collection: Ricardo de la Parra on treatment regimes (1858); Balcázar on the guauacán root; José Márquez on the oil of chaulmoogra; Carlos E Putnam on an anatomo-pathological study of a case of leprosy (1882); Manuel Uribe Angel on observations (1839), causes (1893), and treatments (1893); Nicolás Osorio on antileprosy serums (1886, 1900); Evaristo Garcia on San Antonio’s Disease (1886); Gabriel Castañeda on microscopic preparations (1887) and epidemiology (1893); Evaristo Garcia and Adolfo Tenorio on aetiology in Cauca and Bogotá (1889); H Gomez on observations (1893); M Acosta Rotate on isolation (1894); Andrés Arango Posada on reports on leprosaria (1894); Juan de Dios Carrasquilla on serum therapy (1896), the bacillus (1898), attenuation of the disease into the next generation (1904), and transmission (1905); Nicanor Insignares on Coiba (1898); Zenon Solano on the oil of eucalyptus (1909); Julio Aparicio on nastine (1911-12); Juan B Montoya y Flórez on leprosy in Colombia (1910) and on prevention (1913); Anibal Castro on treatment (1911); Julio Manrique on ocular affections (1911); Miguel Canales on isolation (1911); Francisco Arteaga on choline (1913); Gabriel Camero on diagnosis (1913); Angel Garcia on treatment in Cuba (1918); Gustavo Fuente on chaulmoogra (1919); Miguel Galan on the use of lead iodine (1928); C A Peña and F Barrera on “nervous considerations” (1929); Eliseo Montaña on the struggle against the disease in Colombia as a report to the League of Nations (1929); Federico Lleras Acosta on the bacillus (1933, 1936); Luis Felipe Buenaventura on the campaign against leprosy (1933, 1936); José Ignacio Chala and Francisco Barrera on trips to Carville and Hawaii (1938) and Chala on the history of leprosy (1940), serum therapy (1940), and sulphur of colloidal antimony (1942); Henri Gougerot and Arturo O’Byrne on pancreatine (1941); Emilio Acosta on bone and joint injuries (1942); Guillermo Muñoz Rivas on the flea as a vector (1942); and Fernando Serpa Florez on leprosy as an alimentary problem (1947).

The collection refers to leprosaria at the following: Agua de Dios (this includes a doctoral thesis by Benjamín Núñez (1897) and a report by Arturo Arboleda and Julio Manrique (1913)); on the leprosarium of Contratacíon at Santander; Caño de Loro in Cartegena; Antioquia, Medellin; Cauca in Popayán; and Nariño (1917-18). There is a 1911-12 report on leprosaria in Colombia and documents on leprosaria for 1917-18.

Entry made April-June 2002