Facets

1821 CE

#12757

The history of plague, as it has lately appeared in the islands of Malta, Gozo, Corfu, Cephalonia, &c. detailing specific contagion of that disease, with particulars of the means adeopted for its eradication.

Concerns the Maltese plague,. 1813-1814. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1917 CE

#12959

The Indian operation of couching for cataract. Incorporating The Hunterian Lectures....

Prefaced by an extensive historical introduction; the remainder of the text being of historical significance in the 21st century. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1950 CE

#16.1

The medical works of Hippocrates. A new translation by J. Chadwick and W.N. Mann.

This collection of translations was partly reprinted with an introduction by G.E.R. Lloyd, and the addition of three new translations by I.M. Lonie as Hippocratic Writings, Harmondsworth: Penguin Classics, 1978.

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.

1952 CE

#6471.1

The old Egyptian medical papyri.

A guide to the chief medical papyri, with particular attention to therapeutics.

2018 CE

#11938

The Oxford handbook of science and medicine in the classical world. Edited by Paul T. Keyser and John Scarborough.

Showcases the work of forty-six scholars from around the world, and comprises an Introduction followed by forty-nine chapters, concluded with a general index. Each chapter is followed by a bibliography featuring multi…

1898 CE

#7011

The Petrie papyri. Hieratic papyri from Kahun and Gurob (Principally of the Middle Kingdom) edited by F. Ll. Griffith.

KAHUN GYNECOLOGICAL PAPYRUS

The Kahun Gynecological Papyrus (also Kahun Papyrus, Kahun Medical Papyrus, or UC 32057) is the oldest known medical text on papyrus, dating from circa 1800 BCE. It was found at El-Lahun, Egypt (Faiyum, Kahun, كاهم

1983 CE

#8316

The physicians of pharaonic Egypt. (Deutsches Archäologisches Instutut, Abteilung Kairo, Sonderschrift 10).

1956 CE

#6485

The public physicians of ancient Greece. (Smith College Studies in History, Vol. XLII.)

Re-examination of the question of whether the public physicians employed by the Greek city-states derived their entire income from their salaried positions and thus provided free medical care or whether they received …

1955 CE

#8391

The Ramesseum papyri. Edited by Sir Alan Gardiner. 2 vols.

A collection of ancient Egyptian medical documents from the early 18th century BCE, found in the temple of the Ramesseum. As with most ancient Egyptian medical papyri, these documents mainly concern ailments, diseases…

2019 CE

#11073

The rhetoric of medicine: Lessons on professionalism from ancient Greece.

A collaboration between a classicist (Nicholson) and a neurosurgeon (Selden). The text is divided into 7 chapters covering the general topics of "body, money, competition, restriction, autonomy, mentoring, self."

1998 CE

#12806

The roots of Ayurveda.

Readings in English translation, with commentaries, from classical medical texts.

2015 CE

#8290

The Sanskrit, Syriac and Persian sources in the Comprehensive Book of Rhazes

Razi's Kitab al-Hawi, a vast medical-pharmaceutical encyclopedia, was compiled from multiple sources. For each identified source this study provides Razi's Arabic text with an English translation. When possible, the o…

1844 CE–1847 CE

#8306

The seven books of Paulus Aegineta: Translated from the Greek, with a commentary embracing a complete view of the knowledge possessed by the Greeks, Romans, and Arabians on all subjects connected with medicine and surgery by Francis Adams. 3 vols.

Book VI is entirely devoted to operative surgery. Adams himself says that it “contains the most complete system of operative surgery which has come down to us from ancient times”. Book IV contains much inf…

1913 CE–1914 CE

#6488

The surgical instruments of the Hindus, with a comparative study of the surgical instruments of the Greek, Roman, Arab and the modern Eouropean [sic] surgeons. 2 vols.

Vol. 2 consists of plates.

2010 CE

#8430

The symptom and the subject: The emergence of the physical body in ancient Greece.

c. 850 CE

#6900

The Syriac Galen palimpsest.

This ninth century palimpsest codex contains as its undertext a text of Galen's On Simple Drugs in the Syriac translation by Sergius of Reshaina. It has not yet been formally published. For further information see the…

1833 CE

#8208

The Taleef shereef, or Indian materia medica translated from the original by George Playfair, Superintending Surgeon, Bengal Service. Published by The Medical and Physical Society of Calcutta.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

2014 CE

#7503

The tools of Asclepius: Surgical instruments in Greek and Roman times.

The first major work on the subject since Milne's Surgical Instruments in Greek and Roman Times (1907).

2002 CE

#8231

The unknown Galen. Edited by Vivian Nutton.

1908 CE–1952 CE

#18

The works of Aristotle translated into English. Edited by J.A. Smith and W.D. Ross. 12 vols.

De motu animalium. De incessu animalium. In his Works, edited by J.A. Smith and W.D. Ross, 5, 698a-714b., Oxford, 1912. De Anima. In his Works… translated into English. Edited by J. A. Smith and W. D. Ross. 3, …

2009 CE

#8293

The world of pharmacy and pharmacists in Mamlūk Cairo.

"...the first detailed analysis of an immensely popular 13th c. Arabic guide for pharmacists, from a time in which Jewish physicians and pharmacists worked alongside Muslim and Christian practioners. Minhāj al-dukkān …

1988 CE–2006 CE

#8568

Théophraste. Recherches sur les plantes. Texte établi et traduit par Suzanne Amigues. 5 vols.

1976 CE–1990 CE

#9616

Theophrastus: De causis plantarum Books 1-2, Books 3-4, Books 5-6. Edited and translated by Benedict Einarson and George K.K. Link. 3 vols.

1916 CE

#9615

Theophrastus: Enquiry into plants and minor works on odours and weather signs. With an English translation by Sir Arthur Hort. 2 vols.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1997 CE

#7102

Theriaka y Alexipharmaka de Nicandro.

Essays by Alain Touwaide, Jean Pierre Angremy, Christian Förstel and Grégoire Aslanoff concerning the 10th century Byzantine illuminated manuscript designated as "BnF Supplement grec 247." This spectacular…

1972 CE

#8442

Thesaurus Linguae Graecae: A digital library of Greek literature.

http://stephanus.tlg.uci.edu/tlg.php "The Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (TLG®) is a Special Research Program at the University of California, Irvine. Founded in 1972 the TLG® represents the first effort in the Hum…

1990 CE

#9130

Thesaurus Linguae Graecae. Canon of Greek authors and works. Third edition.

"In addition to digitizing texts, the TLG developed the Canon of Greek Authors and Works, originally a "registry" of all works included or about to be included in the corpus. Over time the Canon developed into an indi…

1976 CE

#3705.05

Tooth mutilations and dentistry in pre-Columbian Mexico.

First edition in English. First edition, in Spanish, 1971.

1815 CE

#7368

Travels in the Ionian Isles, Albania, Thessaly, Macedonia, &c. during the years 1812 and 1813.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1906 CE

#5111.1

Über Cholera- und choleraähnliche Vibrionen unter den aus Mekka zurückkehrenden Pilgern.

Isolation of El Tor vibrio, a particular strain of the bacterium Vibrio cholerae. Gotschlich first identified this strain in 1905 at a quarantine camp on the Sinai Peninsula in El Tor, Egypt . The vibrios were found i…

1931 CE

#6372.1

Ueber Arachnodaktylie (Dystrophia mesodermalis congenita, Typus Marfan).

Weve of Utrecht first clearly demonstrated the heritable nature of the Marfan syndrome (see No. 4365.1).

1935 CE

#8403

Ueber die anatomischen kenntnisse der altägyptischen ärzte. Morgenland; Darstellungen aus Geschichte und Kultur des Ostens., Hft. 26.

1915 CE–1916 CE

#6362

Ueber eigenartige Schädeldefekte im Jugendalter.

Schüller described two more cases of the condition to which his name, with those of Hand and Christian, has been attached.

1916 CE

#6371

Ueber eine bisher unerkannte Spirochäteninfektion (Spirochaetosis arthritica).

“Reiter’s syndrome”, a disease of males characterized by initial diarrhea, urethritis, conjunctivitis, and arthritis. Reiter was a German Nazi physician and war criminal who conducted medical experim…

1919 CE

#6371.2

Ueber einen Typ multipier Abartungen, vorwiegend am Sklettsystem.

Hurler syndrome (lipochondrodystrophy, gargoylism), earlier described by Hunter (No. 6371.1).

1896 CE

#4365.1

Un cas de déformation congénitale des quatre membres, plus prononcée aux extrémités, charactérisée par l’allongement des os avec un certain degré d’amincissement.

“Marfan syndrome”. Marfan described only the skeletal deformities. He called the condition dolichostenomelia. Later writers recorded bilateral ectopia lentis and cardiovascular complications in this syndrome.

1989 CE

#8392

Un traité égyptien d’ophiologie - Papyrus du Brooklyn Museum nos 47.218.48 et 85. Cairo: Institut français d'archéologie orientale.

Dating from about 450 BCE, this papyrus concerns snakes and the treatments for snake bites, and also the treatment of scorpion bites and spider bites.

1944 CE

#8470

Une maladie Égyptienne: l'hématurie parasitaire.

1903 CE

#12535

Une version syriaque des aphorismes d'Hippocrate. Texte et traduction par H. Pognon. 2 vols.

Edition of Bibliothèque nationale de France, fonds arabe 6734, a Syriac manuscript copied on 10 October 1205 by a physician, probably a Jacobite or Melchite naned Behnam, but nothing in the codex indicates the …

1965 CE

#10582

Vāgbhaṭa Aṣṭāṅgahṛdayasaṃhitā. The first five chapters of Its Tibetan version, edited and rendered Into English along with the original Sanskrit by Claus Vogel. Accompanied by a literary introduction and a running commentary on the Tibetan translating-technique.

1941 CE

#10581

Vāgbhaṭa's Aṣṭāngahṛdayasaṃhitā: Ein altindisches Lehrbuch der Heilkunde. Aus dem Sanskrit ins Deutsche Übertragen mit Einleitung, Anmerkungen, und Indices von Luise Hilgenberg und Willibald Kirfel.

"The Aṣṭāṅgahṛdayasaṃhitā (Ah, "Heart of Medicine") is written in poetic language. The Aṣṭāṅgasaṅgraha (As, "Compendium of Medicine") is a longer and less concise work, containing many parallel passages and extensive …

1528 CE

#8427

Vegetii Renati Artis veterinariae, sive mulomedicinae libri quatuor, iam primum typis in lucem aediti.

The earliest surviving work on veterinary medicine, by a writer from Late Antiquity, presumably in the Western Roman Empire. Digital facsimile from BayerischeStaatsbibliothek at this link.

c. 512 CE

#6816

Vienna Dioscorides. Codex Vindobonensis Med. Gr. 1.

The oldest surviving copy of Pedanius Dioscorides's treatise on medical botany and pharmacology, De materia medica, is an illuminated Byzantine manuscript produced about 512 CE. Dioscorides, a Greek physician, who may…

1566 CE

#13060

Vocum, quae apud Hippocratem sunt, collectio. Cum annotationibus Bartholomaei Eustachii . . . Eiusdemque Libellus de Multitudine.

First edition in Latin edited by Eustachi of the glossary to Hippocrates by the first century Greek grammarian Erotianus. Erotianus's work contains the earliest list of the writings of Hippocrates, including some now …

2012 CE

#12805

Well-Mannered medicine: Medical ethics and etiquette in classical Ayurveda.

1928 CE

#6366

Xanthomatosis and the reticulo-endothelial system.

“Rowland collected 14 cases of the Hand–Schüller–Christian syndrome, and made the important generalization that it was due to xanthomatosis” (Rolleston).

1886 CE

#5186

Zur Aetiologie der Dysenterie in Aegypten.

Kartulis discovered amoebae in liver abscess. It was principally through the work of Kartulis that amoebae came to be considered the cause of dysentery in man.

1930 CE–1932 CE

#9240

Zur Heilkinde der Uiguren. Edited by G. R. Rachmati. 2 vols.

Old Uygur medical fragments, some of which are now lost, in the Berlin Turfan collection. Rachmati was the pioneer historian of Islamic Central Asian medicine.

1933 CE

#3206

Zur Pathogenese der Bronchiektasien. I. Mitteilung: Bronchiektasien bei Situs viscerum inversus.

Bronchiectasis and sinus maldevelopment associated with transposition of viscera – “Kartageners syndrome”.