Entry Nos. 8500–8599

1958 CE

#8500

A history of medicine in South Africa up to the end of the nineteenth century.

1971 CE

#8501

Doctors of the mines: A commemorative volume published in 1971 to mark the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Mine Medical Officer's Association of South Africa. With a history of the work of mine medical officers.

1987 CE

#8502

Ethnomedical systems in Africa: Patterns of traditional medicine in rural and urban Kenya.

1980 CE

#8503

Mirau and his practice: A study of the ethnomedicinal repertoire of a Tanzanian herbalist.

2000 CE

#8504

Indigenous theories of contagious disease.

1995 CE

#8505

Illness and health care in the ancient Near East: The role of the temple in Greece, Mesopotamia, and Israel. Harvard Semitic Monographs, no. 54.

2003 CE

#8506

Materia magica et medica Hethitica: Ein Beitrag zur Heilkunde im Alten Orient. By Volkert Haas in cooperation with Daliah Bawanypeck.

The first comprehensive compendium of all known remedies and treatments used by the Hittites. The source texts are ritual descriptions and formularies from the 15th to 13th centuries BCE preserved from the archives of…

2000 CE

#8507

Babylonisch-assyrische Diagnostik.

Study of the significance of medical diagnosis for Babylonian medicine. Analyzing the structure and contents of the Babylonian diagnostic handbook and the evolution of the diagnostic texts, the author shows that the d…

2012 CE

#8508

Bibliography of ancient Mesopotamian medicine.

This electronic resource is available at this link: http://lorenzoverderame.site.uniroma1.it/materiali/bibliography-of-ancient-mesopotamian-medicine.

2014 CE

#8509

Sourcebook for ancient Mesopotamian medicine.

2005 CE

#8510

Diagnoses in Assyrian and Babylonian medicine: Ancient sources, translations, and modern medical analyses.

1999 CE

#8511

Leib und Seele. Eine Kulturgeschichte des gesunden Lebens.

Translated into English by Jane Dewhurst as Wellbeing: A cultural history of healthy living (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2008).

2005 CE

#8512

Renal and rectal diseases texts. (Die Babylonisch-assyrische Medizin in Texten und Untersuchungen, Book 7).

Previous volumes of Franz Köcher’s series on Babylonian and Assyrian medical literature provided copies of cuneiform medical tablets with extensive indices listing all known parallel passages. This volume e…

2013 CE

#8513

BabMed - Babylonian medicine: Corpora

http://www.geschkult.fu-berlin.de/e/babmed/Corpora/index.html "On the following pages, there are several draft versions: Assyrian Medical Texts (AMT), Part 1, Tf. 1-50 Assyrian Medical Texts (AMT), Part 2, Tf. 51-107 …

1949 CE

#8514

A dictionary of Assyrian botany.

2014 CE

#8515

The healing goddess Gula: Towards an understanding of ancient Babylonian medicine.

2015 CE

#8516

Healing magic and evil demons: Canonical Udug-Hul incantations. (Die Babylonisch-assyrische Texten und Untersuchungen, Vol. 8.)

2017 CE

#8517

Balm of America: Patent medicine collection.

http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/object-groups/balm-of-america-patent-medicine-collection "The Smithsonian Institution began to collect objects related to health and medicine in 1881. It first obtained exampl…

1993 CE

#8518

Medical Humanities at New York University. LITMED: Literature Arts Medicine Database.

http://medhum.med.nyu.edu/ "The Literature, Arts and Medicine Database (LitMed) is a collection of literature, fine art, visual art and performing art annotations created as a dynamic, comprehensive resource for schol…

2002 CE

#8519

History of the Health Sciences Links. Medical Library Association. Maintained by Patricia E. Gallagher

https://hhsmla.blogspot.com/ This probably the most comprehensive index to digital sources concerning the history of the health sciences. Hundreds of links are arranged in the following categories: Bibliographies/Chro…

2017 CE

#8520

Osler Library Prints Collection.

http://digital.library.mcgill.ca/oslerprints/index.php "This varied collection of approximately 2,500 prints offers a fascinating look into the history of medicine through popular imagery. The medium of the print, bei…

2010 CE

#8521

History of Medicine Finding Aids Consortium.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/consortium/index.html "The History of Medicine Finding Aids Consortium is a project that explores the feasibility of crawling, indexing, and delivering web accessible content from external …

2010 CE

#8522

Digital Public Library of America (DPLA)

https://dp.la/ "The vision of a national digital library has been circulating among librarians, scholars, educators, and private industry representatives since the early 1990s. Efforts led by a range of organizations,…

1826 CE

#8523

Materia Indica; or, some account of those articles which are employed by the Hindoos and other eastern nations, in their medicine, arts, and agriculture; comprising also formulae, with practical observations, names of diseases in various eastern languages, and a copious list of oriental books immediately connected with general science. 2 vols.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1973 CE

#8524

Al-Biruni's book on pharmacy and materia medica (Kitāb al-saydan fī al-tibb). Edited and translated by Hakim Mohammed Said. 2 vols.

2000 CE

#8525

The "Tabula antidotarii" of Armengaud Blaise and its Hebrew translation. Edited by Michael R. McVaugh and Lola Ferre. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society 90, pt. 6.

1993 CE

#8526

Nomina simplicium medicinarum ex synonymariis Medii Aevi collecta (Semantische Untersuchungen zum Fachwortschatz hoch- und spätmittelalterlicher Drogenkunde). Studies in ancient medicine 6.

1939 CE

#8527

Les manuscrits arabes de l'Escurial. Vol. 2, Fascicule 2: Médecine et histoire naturelle. Compiled by Hartwig Derenbourg, edited by Henri Paul Joseph Renaud.

1877 CE–1883 CE

#8528

Traité des simples. 3 vols. Notices et extraits des manuscrits de la Bibliothèque nationale et autres bibliothèques, 1877, tome 23,1; tome 25,1; tome 26,1. Traduit par Lucien Leclerc.

Ibn al-Baytar systematically recorded the additions to pharmacy made by medieval Islamic physicians, who added between 300 and 400 types of medicines to the roughly one thousand known since antiquity. "Ibn al-Baitar&r…

1984 CE

#8529

The book of medical experiences attributed to Abraham Ibn Ezra. Edited and translated by Joshua O. Leibowitz and Schlomo Marcus.

2000 CE

#8530

Ya qūb ibn Ishaq al'Irail's "Treatise on the errors of the physicians in Damascus." Edited and translated by Oliver Kahl. Journal of Semitic Studies Supplement 10.

1966 CE

#8531

The medical formulary or Aqrābādhin of al Kindi. Edited and translated by Martin Levey.

1928 CE

#8532

The zoological section of the Nuzhatu-l-Qulūb of Hamdullāh Al-Mustaufī Al-Qazwīnī. Edited and translated by John Stephenson.

1934 CE

#8533

Tuhfat al-ahbāb: Glossaire de la matière médicale Marocaine.

1844 CE

#8534

Histoire des médecins juifs anciens et modernes. Tome premier (All Published.)

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

2011 CE

#8535

Medical synonym lists from medieval Provence: Shem Tov ben Isaac of Tortosa: Sefer ha - Shimmush. Book 29. Part 1: Edition and commentary of List 1 (Hebrew-Arabic- Romance /Latin).

The first critical edition of Book 29 of Shem Tov ben Isaac's Sefer ha-Shimmush, and a lexicological analysis of the medico-botanical terms in the first of the two synonym lists of this book. The Sefer ha-Shimmush was…

1898 CE

#8536

Pflanzengeographie auf Physiologischer Grundlage.

In this work on the geographical distribution of plants Schimper coined the terms tropical rainforest and sclerophyll. English translation by William R. Fisher, revised and edited by Percy Groom and Isaac Bayley Balfo…

2008 CE

#8537

Galen and the rhetoric of healing.

1994 CE

#8538

The history and geography of human genes.

The first full-scale attempt to reconstruct where human populations originated and the paths by which they spread throughout the world, using genetic data integrated with data from geography, ecology, archaeology, phy…

2016 CE

#8539

History within: The science, culture, and politics of bones, organisms, and molecules.

1901 CE

#8540

The medicinal plants of the Philippines. Translated and revised by Jerome B. Thomas, Jr.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1976 CE

#8541

Medical anthropology. Edited by Francis X. Grollig, S. J. and Harold B. Haley.

2002 CE

#8542

Edited ancestors, inventible traditions: Essays toward a more inclusive history of anthropology. Edited by Richard Handler.

1903 CE–1910 CE

#8543

Datos par la materia médica Argentina. 2 vols. (Vol. 2: Trabajos de Instituto de Farmacología de la Facultad de Ciencias Médicas de Buenos Aires No. 25).

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1997 CE

#8544

Iroquois medical botany.

"The first book to provide a guide to understanding the use of herbal medicines in traditional Iroquois culture. The world view of the Iroquois League or Confederacy - the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca, and…

1847 CE

#8545

Medical botany: or, Descriptions of the more important plants used in medicine, with their history, properties, and mode of administration.

The author intended to update and correct the earlier works on American materia medica by Barton, Bigelow and Rafinesque, and to make this information available at a reasonable price. Digital facsimile from the Biodiv…

2003 CE

#8546

Medical botany: Plants affecting human health. 2nd ed.

1821 CE–1829 CE

#8547

Flore pittoresque et médicale des Antilles, ou, Histoire naturelle des plantes usuelles des colonies françaises, anglaises, espagnoles et portugaises; par M. E. Descourtilz. Peinte par J. Th. Descourtilz. 8 vols.

Medical botany of the Caribbean, finely illustrated with colored plates after paintings by the author's son. Digital facsimile from the Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.

1914 CE

#8548

Some American medical botanists commemorated in our botanical nomenclature.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1986 CE

#8549

Studi sulla Scuola medica salernitana.