Facets

1666 CE

#9638

De medicina Danorum domestica dissertationes x.

An early study of medicine in Denmark, including local botanic drugs and folk medicine. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1509 CE

#8445

Medicinae Pliniae libri quinque finiunt foeliciter.

The Medicina Plinii was an anonymous compilation of remedies dating to the early 4th century CE ."The excerptor, saying that he speaks from experience, offers the work as a compact resource for travelers in dealing wi…

2011 CE

#8439

A Cretan healer's handbook in the Byzantine tradition: Text, translation and commentary.

1703 CE

#8870

A description of the Western Islands of Scotland.: Containing a full account of their situation, extent, soils, product, harbours, bays, tides, anchoring places, and fisheries. The ancient and modern government, religion and customs of the inhabitants, particularly of their druids, heathen temples, monasteries, churches, chappels, antiquities, monuments, forts, caves, and other curiosities of art and nature. Of their admirable and expeditious way of curing most diseases by simples of their own product. A particular account of the second sight, or faculty of forseeing things to come, by way of vision, so common among them. A brief hint of methods to improve trade in that country, both by sea and land. With a new map of the whole, describing the harbours, anchoring places, and dangerous rocks, for the benefit of sailers. To which is added a brief description of the Isles of Orkney, and Schetland.

Martin, who graduated MD from Leiden, included throughout his book detailed and non-judgmental documentation of folk medicine practices and ethnobotanic remedies then in use in the region. Digital facsimile of the 170…

1951 CE–1961 CE

#6448

A history of medicine. Vol. l - 2

1. Primitive and archaic medicine. 2. Early Greek, Hindu and Persian medicine.

1981 CE

#8335

Anglo-Saxon amulets and curing stones.

1952 CE

#6546

Anglo-Saxon magic and medicine: Illustrated specially from the semi-pagan text "Lacnunga,"

1992 CE

#7594

Becoming half hidden: Shamanism and initiation among the Inuit.

2016 CE

#12312

Dreams, healing, and medicine in Greece: From antiquity to the present. Edited by Steven M. Obewrhelman.

2000 CE

#9743

Early English charms, plant lore, and healing.

1920 CE

#6539

Early English magic and medicine.

Reprinted from Proc. Brit. Acad., 1919-20, 9, 341-74.

1533 CE

#9863

En nyttelig laegebog for fattige og rige, unge og gamle.

Pedersen, a Danish canon, humanist scholar, writer, printer and publisher, wrote and published the earliest medical book issued in Scandanavia by a Scandanavian writer. Translated as "A useful doctor book for poor and…

1790 CE

#10002

Essays on fashionable diseases. The dangerous effects of hot and crouded rooms. The cloathing of invalids. Lady and gentlemen doctors. And on quacks and quackery. With the genuine patent prescriptions of Dr. James's fever power, Tickell's aetherial spirit, & Godbold's balsam, taken from the Rolls in Chancery, and under the seal of the proper officers; and also the ingredients and compostion of many of the most celebrated quack nostrums, as analized by several of the best chemists in Europe. By James M. Adair, Formerly M.D.... With a dedication to Philip Thicknesse ... To which is added a dramatic dialogue. Published for the benefit of the tin-miners in Cornwal

An attack on quack medicines, etc. with one of the most verbose title pages of the 18th century. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

2010 CE

#11169

Folk healing and health care practices in Ireland: Stethoscopes, wands and crystals.

1994 CE

#9744

Folk tradition and folk medicine in Scotland: The writings of David Rorie. Edited by David Buchan.

1998 CE

#12779

Healers and healing in early modern Europe.

"...explores the wide range of healers and forms of healing in the southern half of the Italian peninsula that was the kingdom of Naples between 1600 and 1800. By adopting the point of view of the sick people themselv…

1995 CE

#9269

Healing threads: Traditional medicines of the Highlands and Islands.

"Much of the rich store of material comes from the great legacy of medieval Gaelic manuscripts. In more recent times, papers of medical societies have shown how traditional methods and cures are still of value to mode…

1989 CE

#7668

Health for sale: Quackery in England 1660-1850.

2000 CE

#13428

Heil und Heilung: Geschichte der Laienheilkundigen und Struktur antimodernistischer Weltanschauungen in Kaiserreich und Weimarer Republik am Beispiel von Eugen Wenz (1856-1945).

1919 CE

#8871

Irish ethno-botany and the evolution of medicine in Ireland.

A discussion of Irish materia medica and a summary of the development of medicine in Ireland from the earliest times. Indices in Gaelic and English. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1778 CE

#9866

Kort Underviisning om De paa Landet, I Bergens Stift, meest grasserende Sygdomme, og derimod tienende Hjelpe-Midler. Paa Det Nyttige Sælskabs Bekostning.

Strøm's work, which may be translated as "A short instruction about common sicknesses in the area around Bergen and their most common remedies" was "More a report than a doctor book, it describes the living con…

1932 CE

#6574

Lappische Heilkunde.

Folk medicine of the Sami people.

1864 CE–1866 CE

#6534

Leechdoms, wortcunning, and starcraft of early England. Being a collection of documents, for the most part never before printed, illustrating the history of science in this country before the Norman Conquest. Collected and edited by Oswald Cockayne. 3 vols.

This set contains many texts relating to medieval English medicine and the Anglo-Saxon language. It contains the Herbal of Apuleius in Anglo-Saxon and modern English, the Leechbook of Bald, the text of Sextus Placitus…

2004 CE

#8312

Magic and rationality in ancient Near Eastern and Graeco-Roman medicine. Edited by Manfred Horstmanshoff and Marten Stol.

The first comparison of medical systems of the Ancient Near East and the Greek and Roman world. The authors treat early medicine in Babylonia, Egypt, the Minoan and Mycenean world; later medicine in Hippocrates, Galen…

1997 CE

#9344

Magie, médecine et divination chez les Celtes.

1972 CE

#9279

Making the cure: A look at Irish folk medicine.

2006 CE

#8046

Medical charlatanism in early modern Italy.

2004 CE

#8868

Medicinal plants in folk tradition: An ethnobotany of Britain and Ireland.

The first comprehensive account of medicinal uses of wild plants by the country folk of Britain and Ireland based on manuscript folklore sources as well as published sources. These included information gathered by the…

2005 CE

#10548

Medicine and magic in Elizabethan London. Simon Forman: Astrologer, alchemist, and physician

2018 CE

#12563

Medicine, magic and art in early modern Norway.

"This book addresses magical ideas and practices in early modern Norway. It examines a large corpus of Norwegian manuscripts from 1650-1850 commonly called Black Books which contained a mixture of recipes on medicine,…

1881 CE

#11416

Nederlands Tijdschrift tegen de Kwakzalverij. Vol. 1- .

Founded in 1881, this Dutch organization is the oldest skeptical organization in the world investigating alternative medicine and quackery. It has published its periodical since 1881. The archive of the periodical may…

1534 CE

#9864

Om UrteVand.

Petersen issued a second book, "On herbal extracts" in 1534. According to Stokker, Remedies and rituals: Folk medicine in Norway and the new land (2007) p. 111, Pedersen's two works together contained "250 medical her…

1990 CE

#8877

Popular medicine in thirteenth-century England: Introduction and texts.

2007 CE

#9856

Remedies and rituals: Folk medicine in Norway and the new land.

1492 CE

#2191

Rosa anglica practica medicinae. Ed: Nicolaus Scyllacius.

The first printed medical book of an Englishman. John of Gaddesden was a prebendary of St. Paul’s Cathedral and physician to Edward II. The work, to quote Garrison, “consists mainly of Arabist quackeries a…

1990 CE

#10873

Shamanism: Soviet studies of traditional religion in Siberia and Central Asia. Edited by Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer.

Shamanism may have originated among the Turkic peoples of Siberia. English translations of studies by Russian scholars with an introduction and a thorough bibliography.

1546 CE

#9865

Skøn lystig ny Urtegaard.

Smid was one of the first writers on medicine in Scandinavia who was trained in medicine, but according to Stokker, Remedies and rituals: folk medicine in Norway and the new land (2007) p. 111 "had trouble succeeding …

1959 CE

#10753

Studies in magical amulets, chiefly Graeco-Egyptian.

A study of Graeco-Roman popular medicine and superstition based upon the examination of hundreds of engraved gemsntones that were thought to contain magical and medicinal properties. Digital facsimile from the Hathi T…

2008 CE

#10547

The casebooks project: A digital edition of Simon Forman's & Richard Napier's medical records 1596-1634. Lauren Kassell, Project Director.

http://www.magicandmedicine.hps.cam.ac.uk/ "The Casebooks Project offers a tool for searching and reading the medical records of the astrologers Simon Forman and Richard Napier. The project is ongoing: 48,500 cases ar…

2011 CE

#12547

The healing landscapes of Central and Southeastern Siberia. Edited by David G. Anderson

"This volume documents healing traditions in Eastern Siberia in an area extending from Lake Baikal to the Arctic Ocean. The region shows an interesting unity in healing traditions across a wide range of landscape type…

1963 CE

#6549

The medical background of Anglo-Saxon England: A study in history, psychology, and folklore.

2018 CE

#9792

The patent medicines industry in Georgian England: Constructing the market by the potency of print.