Entry Nos. 9000–9099
99 Garrison-Morton entries in this range.
1989 CE
#9050
Flora Huayaquilensis sive descriptiones et icones plantarum Huayaquilensium secundum systema linneanum digestae, auctore Johanne Tafalla. Tomus 1: Introductio historica et adnotationes ab Eduardo Estrella confectae et descriptiones. Tomus II: Icones.
Juan José Tafalla Navascués, a Spanish pharmacist, explored botany in Peru, Chile and Ecuador from 1780 to 1788 as part of the Expedición Botánica al Virreinato del Perú under the di…
1618 CE
#9052
Sitio, naturaleza y propriedades de la Ciudad de Mexico: Aguas y vientos a que esta suieta, y tiempos del año. Necessidad de su conocimiento para el exercicio de la medicina, su incertidumbre y difficultad sin el de la astrologia assi para la curacion como para los prognosticos.
The first book printed in Mexico with engraved illustrations.
1567 CE
#9053
Secretos de chirurgia, en especial de la enfermedades de morbo-galico y lamparones, y asimismo la manera como se curan los indos las llgas y heridas, y otras pasiones en las Indias, muy útil y provechoso par España, y otros muchos secretos de chirugia hasta ahora no escritos.
Arias de Benevides travelled to the New World where he observed native remedies and reported them in this book. In the book he also described his performance in Mexico City (1561) of the first neurosurgical interventi…
1993 CE
#9054
La experiencia americana y la terapéutica en los Secretos de Chirurgia (1567), de Pedro Arias de Benavides.
1987 CE
#9055
La medicina científica y el siglo XIX mexicano.
1996 CE
#9056
Geschichte der Alternativen Medizin: Von der Volksmedizin zu den unkonventionellen Therapien von heute.
1979 CE
#9057
Der griechische Arzt im Zeitlalter des Hellenismus: Seine Stellung in Staat und Gesellschaft.
1977 CE
#9058
Musik und Medizin: Ihre Wechselbeziehungen in Theorie und Praxis von 800 bis 1800.
1793 CE
#9059
Medcinische Fastenpredigten, oder Vorlesungen über Körper und Seelendiätetik zur Verbesserung der Gesundheit und Sitten. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1997 CE
#9060
Die pflanzlichen Heilmittel bei Hildegard von Bingen: Heilwissen aus der Klostermedizin.
2000 CE
#9061
Creativity and disease: How illness affects literature, art and music. 4th edition.
2001 CE
#9062
CORPUS MEDICORUM GRAECORUM / CORPUS MEDICORUM LATINORUM: Online Editions.
http://cmg.bbaw.de/epubl/online/editionen.html "Within the framework of the “Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities”, the CMG is eager to make the results of the proj…
1841 CE
#9063
Da prostituição na cidade de Lisboa; ou considerações historicas, hygienicas e administrativas em geral sobre as prostitutas, e em especial na referida cidade: com a exposição da legislação portugueza a seo respeito, e proposta de medidas regulamentares, necessarias para a manutenção da saude publica, e da moral.
In this comprehensive study of prostitution in Lisbon Cruz analyzed the history of prostitution in Portugal and compared it to the practice in Japan, India, Egypt, ancient Greece and Rome, as well as a number of moder…
1809 CE
#9064
Memoria sobre a canella do Rio de Janeiro offerecida ao Principe do Brazil nosso senhor: pelo Senado da Camara da mesma cidade no anno de 1798.
The earliest monograph on medicine published in Brazil. Digital facsimile from the U.S. National Library of Medicine at this link.
2013 CE
#9065
História da medicina portuguesa durante a expansão.
A history of medicine in Portugal and its colonies during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
1934 CE
#9066
Catálogo de las obras y documentos raros y curiosos de su libreria que figuran en la exposicion abierta para conmemorar el II centenario de su fundacion, 1734-1934.
Lists 198 books and manuscripts from the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries in the collection of the National Academy of Medicine in Madrid.
1844 CE–1871 CE
#9067
Historia fisica y politica de Chile, segun documentos adquiridos en esta Republica durante doce años de residencia en ella .... 28 vols. text plus 2 vols. atlas. (30 vols.).
Gay, a French botanist, was commissioned in 1830 by the government of Chile to carry out a thorough scientific survey of the country, and to produce a detailed description of its geography, geology and natural history…
1851 CE
#9068
Catalogus plantarum horti botanici medicocirurgicae Scholae Olisponensis anno MDCCCLII.
Lists 1,863 plants in the botanical garden at the Escola Medico-Cirurgica of Lisbon, arranged by genus and species according to Decandolle’s classification. The authors note in which part of Europe, India, the A…
1872 CE–1877 CE
#9069
Thesaurus literaturae botanicae omnium gentium inde a rerum botanicarum initiis ad nostra usque tempora. Quindecim millia operum recensens. Editionem novam reformatam.
First published in 1851, this documents literature from ancient times to publication date. Research involved examination of 40,000 works in libraries at Vienna, Geneva, London, Paris and various German locations. Digi…
1799 CE
#9070
Ensaios sobre algumas enfermidades d'Angola....
Azeredo noted that the tropical fevers found in Brazil and Angola were very similar. He claimed to have achieved excellent results with his “new method” of treatment, which included the use of quinine, nux…
1822 CE
#9071
Memoria sobre a virtude toenifuga da romeira, com observações zoologicas e zoonomicas relativas á toenea, e com huma estampa.
On the use of a root medicine to treat tapeworms, roundworms and similar parasites. The author refers to cases from Portuguese Africa, India and Brazil, and gives clinical observations based on his own case studies, s…
1820 CE
#9072
Ensaio dermosographico ou Succinta e systematica descripção das doenças cutaneas, conforme os principios e observações dos doutores Willan, e Bateman, com indicacão dos respectivos remedios aconselhados por estes celebres authores, e alguns outros.
The first book on dermatology published in Portuguese. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1726 CE
#9073
Aquilegio medicinal em que se dá noticia das agoas de caldas, de fontes, rios, poços, lagoas, e cisternas, do Reyno de Portugal, e dos Algarves, que ou pelas virtudes medicinaes, que tem, ou por outra alguma singularidade, são dignas de particular memoria.
The first inventory of Portuguese hot springs, fountains, rivers, wells, lakes and reservoirs reputed to have medicinal properties, including some with allegedly supernatural powers of healing. For the 337 entries, Fo…
1793 CE
#9074
Elementos de cirurgia ocular offerecidos a Sua Alteza Real o Senhor D. João Principe do Brazil.
The first Portuguese book on ophthalmology. Santa Ana was the first Portuguese physician to specialize in ophthalmology. "He acknowledges (pp. vii-viii) that the section of the Elementos on anatomy and physiology is a…
1965 CE–1991 CE
#9075
History of animals. Vol. 1, Books 1-3; Vol. 2, Books 4-6; Vol. 3, Books 7-10. Vols. 1 & 2 edited with an introduction and translated by A. L. Peck; Vol. 3 edited and translated by D. M. Balme.
Loeb Classic Library.
2002 CE
#9076
Aristotle: Historia animalium. Volume 1, Books I-X: Text. Edited by D. M. Balme. Prepared for publication by Allan Gotthelf.
Critical edition based on a collation of the 26 known extant manuscripts and a study of the early Latin translations. Begun by Balme in 1975, with his work towards the Loeb editio minor of books VII–X, this edit…
1923 CE
#9077
American homeopathy in the world war. Edited by Frederick M. Dearborn.
Reflective of the extent to which homeopathy remained in mainstream American medicine in the period immediately after World War I. Reproduces at the front of the book a letter from President Warren G. Harding congratu…
2002 CE
#9078
Aristotle: On the parts of the animals I-IV. Translated with commentary by James G. Lennox.
1526 CE
#9079
Hippocratis Coi medicorum omnium longe principis, opera: quibus maxima ex parte annorum circiter duo millia Latina caruit lingua: Graeci vero & Arabes, & prisci nostri Medici, plurimis tamen utilibus prætermissis, scripta sua illustrarunt: nunc tandem per M. Fabiu Rhauennatem, Gulielmum Copum Basiliensem, Nicolaum Leonicenu & Andream Brentium, viros doctissimos Latinate donata, ac iamprimu in lucem aedita: quo revera humano generi nihil fieri potuit salubrius.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1947 CE
#9080
The medical writings of Anonymus Londinensis.
The text edited by Diels, with an English translation, introduction and notes by Jones, together with essays on the nature of Greek thought and medicine.
2011 CE
#9081
Galen: On the anomalous dyskrasia (De inaequali intemperie). Editio maior. Edition, translation and commentary by Elsa Garcia Novo.
First critical edition and translation of this text by Galen which became a bestseller in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (translations into Syrian, Arabic, Latin 8 versions and Hebrew; 14 commentaries from 1290 t…
1798 CE
#9082
An epitome of the natural history of the insects of China: Comprising figures and descriptions of upwards of one hundred new, singular, and beautiful species: together with some that are of importance in medicine, domestic economy, &c. The figures are accurately, drawn, engraved, and coloured, from speciemsn of the insects; the descriptions are arranged accordig to the system of Linnaeus, with references to the writings of Fabricius, and other systematic authors.
The first work in a Western language on the insects of China, including pharmaceutical aspects. For this work Donovan obtained specimens and information from George Macartney a British envoy to China. Includes 50 colo…
1842 CE
#9083
Natural history of the insects of China, containing upwards of two hundred and twenty figures and descriptions by E. Donovan. A new edition, brought down to the present state of the science, with systematic characters of each species, synonyms, indexes, and other additional matter by J. O. Westwood.
Digital facsimile from the Biodiversity Heritage Archive at this link.
1800 CE
#9084
An epitome of the natural history of the insects of India, and the islands in the Indian seas: Comprising upwards of two hundred and fifty figures and descriptions of the most singular and beautiful species, selected chiefly from those recently discovered, and which have not appeared in the works of any preceding author. The figures are accurately drawn, engraved, and coloured, from specimens of the insects; the descriptions are arranged according to the system of Linnaeus; with references to the writings of Fabricius, and other systematic authors.
"For Insects of India Donovan described and figured specimens in his own cabinet, that were originally collected by the late Duchess of Portland, Marmaduke Tunstall, a Governor Holford (many years resident in India), …
1805 CE
#9085
An epitome of the natural history of the insects of New Holland, New Zealand, New Guinea, Otaheite, and other islands in the Indian, Southern, and Pacific oceans: Including the figures and descriptions of one hundred and fifty-three species of the more splendid, beautiful, and interesting insects, hitherto discovered in those countries, and which for the most part have not appeared in the works of any preceding author. The figures are correctly delineated from specimens of the insects; and with the descriptions are arranged according to the Linnæan system, with reference to the writings of Fabricius and other entomologists.
"Apart from occasional excursions in England and Wales Donovan never left London. His Insects of New Holland is based on specimens collected by Joseph Banks and William Bayly an astronomer on the second and third voya…
1794 CE–1819 CE
#9086
The natural history of British birds; or, a selection of the most rare, beautiful and interesting birds which inhabit this country: The descriptions from the Systema naturae of Linnaeus; with general observations, either original or collected from the latest and most esteemed English ornithologists; and embellished with figures, drawn, engraved, and coloured from the original specimens. 10 vols.
The first 5 volumes were issued in monthly parts, each consisting of 2 plates and accompanying text. A volume came out each year between 1794 and 1798; the fifth volume stated: "This work being now completed." However…
1792 CE–1813 CE
#9087
The natural history of British insects; explaining them in their several states, with the periods of their transformations, their food, oeconomy, &c. Together with the history of such minute insects as require investigation by the microscope. The whole illustrated by coloured figures, designed and executed from living specimens. 16 vols.
Includes a total of 576 plates, of which 568 were colored.
2002 CE
#9088
"Der Charlatan strebt nicht nach Wahrheit, er verlangt nur nach Geld". Zur Auseinandersetzung zwischen naturwissenschaftlicher Medizin und Laienmedizin im deutschen Kaiserreich am Beispiel von Hypnotismus und Heilmagnetismus.
1802 CE–1808 CE
#9089
The natural history of British fishes, including scientific and general descriptions of the most interesting species, and an extensive selection of accurately finished coloured plates. Taken entirely from original drawings, purposely made from the specimens in a recent state, and for the most part whilst living. 5 vols.
"the paint is laid on so thickly that it is frequently impossible to see the engraved lines underneath. The already rich colouring is heightened by the addition of burnished highlights, albumen overglazes and metallic…
1800 CE–1804 CE
#9090
The natural history of British shells, including figures and descriptions of all the species hitherto discovered in Great Britain, systematically arranged in the Linnean manner, with scientific and general observations on each. 5 vols.
Digital facsimile from the Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.
1538 CE
#9091
Guenter von Andernach: Institutionum anatomicarum secundum Galeni sententiam ad candidatos medicinae libri quatuor per Joannem Guinterium Andernacum medicum ab Andrea Vesalio Bruxellensi auctiores & emendatiores redditi.
Shortly after the publication of Tabulae anatomicae sex, Vesalius completed this revision of Institutiones anatomicae, a Galenic anatomical text by his teacher Johann Guinter first published in 1536. Vesalius justifie…
2017 CE
#9092
Principles of anatomy according to the opinion of Galen by Johann Guinter and Andreas Vesalius. Edited [with an English translation] by Vivian Nutton.
The first translation into English of Johann Guinter’s textbook as revised and annotated by Guinter’s student, Andreas Vesalius, in 1538. Despite Vesalius’ fame as an anatomist, his 1538 revision has…
1951 CE
#9093
A translation of Galen's Hygiene (De santiate tuenda) by Robert Montraville Green, with an introduction by Henry E. Sigerist.
First translation into a modern language.
2000 CE
#9094
The measure of multitude: Population in medieval thought.
Chapters 6-8 cover "Avoidance of offspring" or aspects of contraception.
1983 CE
#9095
Sex and society in Islam: Birth control before the nineteenth century.
1991 CE
#9096
Galen on the therapeutic method. Books I and II. Translated with an introduction and commentary by R. J. Hankinson.
First translation into a modern language of Books ! and II of De methodo medendi. Very extensive introduction, commentary and bibliography.
1968 CE
#9097
Galen on the usefulness of the parts of the body. De usu partium. Translated from the Greek with an introduction and commentary by Margaret Tallmadge May. 2 vols.
1984 CE
#9098
The complete works of Aristotle. The revised Oxford translation. Edited by Jonathan Barnes. 2 vols.
Reprinted with corrections, 1995. "The Oxford Translation of Aristotle was originally published in 12 volumes between 1912 and 1954. It is universally recognized as the standard English version of Aristotle. This revi…
1970 CE
#9099
History of human life span and mortality. Translated by K. Balás.
A particularly valuable collection of reviews ot his work published in Current Anthropology, I5 (1974) 495-507 is available from JSTOR at this link.