Josiah C. Nott

American physician (1804-1873) · United States · On the map · Doctors · Died at 69

Josiah Clark Nott was an American surgeon, anthropologist and ethnologist. He is known for his studies into the etiology of yellow fever and malaria, including the theory that they are caused by germs, and for his espousal of scientific racism.

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Illustration from Indigenous Races of the Earth (1857), whose authors Nott and George Gliddon implied that "Negroes" were a creational rank between "Greeks" and chimpanzees

Figure 148 Types of Mankind P. 226[24]

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