Facets

1520 CE–1522 CE

#8344

[Vol. 1:] Primus Avi. Canon. Avicenna, medicorum principis, Canonum liber (translatus a Gerardo Cremonensi), una cum lucidissima Gentilis Fulgi. expositione, qui merito is Speculator appellatus, additis annotationibus omnium auctoritatum and priscorum and recentiorum auctorum (edente Barthomomeo Tantuccio) .... - [Vol. 2:] Secundus Canon Avic., Cum exquisitissima Gentilis Fulg. expositione. Demum Plinii auctoritates, secundum annotata capita in de Simplicibus nuperrime addite. - [Vol.3:] Tertius Can. Avic., Cum amplissima Gentilis Fulgi. expositione. Demum commentaria nuper addita, videlicet Jacobi de Partibus super "Fen" VI and XIIII. Item Jo. Matthei de Gradi super "Fen" XXII, quia Gentilis in eis defecit. - [Vol. 4:]: Secunda pars Gentilis super tertio Avic. Cum supplementis Jacobi de Partibus, Parisiensis, ac Joannis Matthei de Gradi, Mediolanensis, ubi Gentilis vel breviter vel tacite pertransivit. - [Vol.5:] Quartus Canon Avicenna, cum preclara Gentilis Fulginatis exhibits. Thadei item Florentini expositio super secunda "Fen" ejusdem. Gentilis Florentini iterum super duos primos tractatus quinte "Fen". Quintus etiam Canon, cum ejusdem Gentilis Fulginatis lucidissima exhibits. Canticorum liber, cum commento Averroys, translatus ex arabico a magistro Armegando Blasii, Libellus de Viribus cordis translatus ab Arnaldo de Villanova). Omnia accuratissime revisa atque castigata ....

The commentary by Gentile da Foligno upon Avicenna's Canon was among the most influential medical texts of the Later Middle Ages. See Roger K. French, Canonical medicine: Gentile da Foligno and scholasticism (Leiden: …

1999 CE

#12564

Amirdovlat Amasiatsi, a Fifteenth-Century Armenian Natural Historian and Physician.

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.

2016 CE

#9812

L'Anonyme de Londres. P.: Lit.Lond. 165, Brit.Libr. Inv. 137. Un papyrus médical grec du Ier siècle après J.-C. Edited by Antonio Ricciardetto.

Edition of the Greek text with French translation and introduction. Apart from minor changes listed on page vii, the work reproduces the previous publication by the author in the collection Papyrologia Leodensia (Li&e…

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…

1666 CE

#13899

Modo practico de embalsamar cuerpos defunctos, para preservarlos incorruptos....

On embalming corpses, and on human cadavers. This work includes (pp. 98-127) instructions for the embalming process in Spain, with woodcut illustrations of the tools used and recipes for the ointments. The author also…

2006 CE

#8366

Monica H. Green & Linne R. Mooney: Gilbertus Anglicus, "The Sickness of Women," IN: Sex, Aging and Death in a Medieval Medical Compendium: MS Trinity College Cambridge R.14.52, Its Language, Scribe, and Texts. Edited by M. Teresa Tavormina. Vol. 2., pp. 455-568.

"Gilbertus's Compendium medicinae was translated into Middle English in the early 15th century.[4] The gynecological and obstetrical portions of that translation were soon excerpted and circulated widely as an indepen…

2008 CE

#10085

Russkie rukopisnye travniki XVII–XVIII vekov: Issledovanie fol′klora i etnobotaniki. (Russian Manuscript Herbals of the 17th and 18th Centuries: An Investigation of Folklore and Ethnobotany).

2008 CE

#9878

The politics of vaccination: Practice and policy in England, Wales, Ireland and Scotland, 1800-1874.

1923 CE

#8552

"Magistri Salernitani nondum cogniti": A contribution to the history of the Medical School of Salerno. By Pietro Capparoni. With a foreward by D'Arcy Power. (Wellcome Historical medical Museum. Research Studies in Medical History No. 2).

Physicans from the medical school at Salerno who were unknown to de Renzi (No. 6518). Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1927 CE

#3088

"Methodology of examining bone marrow in live patients, with haemopoietic disease."

Needle puncture of bone marrow biopsy. (In Russian.) German account in Folia haemat. (Lpz.), 1929, 38, 233-40. English translation from the German in Bick, Classics of orthopaedics, 339-44.

2007 CE

#7963

"Operation Anubis": A world first in no scar surgery. Press release April 26th 2007.

The operation, which took place on April 2, 2007 at the University Hospital of Strasbourg, in which Marescaux and team removed the gallbladder (cholecystectomy) of a patient through the vagina using a flexible endosco…

1776 CE–1778 CE

#12272

(1) Observations sur les maladies épidemiques, Année 1770, ouvrage rédigé d'après le tableau des epidémiques d'Hippocrate, et dans lequel on indique la meilleure méthode d'observer ce genre de maladies ... Publié par ordre du gouvernement, et aux fraix du roi. (2) Collection d'observations sur les maladies et constitutions épidémiques; ouvrage qui expose une suite de quinze années d'observations, & dans lequel les épidémies, les constitutions régnantes & intercurrentes, sont liées, selon le voeu d'Hippocrate, avec les causes météorologiques, locales & relatives aux différens climats, ainsi qu'avec l'histoire naturelle & médicale de la Normandie. On y a joint un appendix sur l'ordre des constitutions épidémiques ... Pub. par ordre du gouvernement .… 3 vols.

The first title, in 1 volume, was published in 1776; the second work in 2 vols., supplementing the first work, was published in 1778. In these two bioclimatological and biogeographical studies of disease in Normandy, …

1933 CE

#5815.1

(Al-morchid fi'l-kohhl) ou, Le guide d'oculistique: Ouvrage inédit de l'oculiste arabe-espagnol, Mohammad ibn Qassoum ibn Aslam al-Ghafiqi (XIIe siècle); traduction des parties ophtalmologiques d’après le manuscrit conservé à la bibliothèque de l’Escurial par Max Meyerhof.

1908 CE

#2913

[In Russian:] Changes in parenchymatous organs and in the aorta of rabbits under the influence of animal protein.

Experimental atherosclerosis produced by a cholesterol-rich diet of whole milk, egg yolks, and meat. French translation as" Influence de la nourriture animale sur l'organisme des lapins," Arch. Méd. exp. Anat. …

1857 CE

#7250

[On the Feldhofer Neanderthal.]

The first account of the Neanderthal remains (Neanderthal 1), discovered in 1856 in the the Feldhofer cave of the Neander valley. The remains, which consist of a partial skull, pelvis and assorted long bones, were sen…

1960 CE

#10569

A bibliography of British Lepidoptera, 1608-1799.

Bibliography of British works on butterflies and moths from the early seventeenth to late eighteenth centuries. Includes biographical information on the authors covered. Plates are mainly portraits of the authors.

1673 CE

#7328

A Brief Account of Some Travels in Hungaria, Servia, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Thessaly, Austria, Styria, Carinthia, Carniola, and Friuli.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

2016 CE

#7518

A census of Greek medical manuscripts: From Byzantium to the Renaissance.

An amended and updated index of Diels' catalogue (No. 6767), and a list of items missed or overlooked in Diels, or located since.

1770 CE

#1772

A chronological history of the weather and seasons and of the prevailing diseases in Dublin. With their various periods, successions, and revolutions, during the space of forty years. With a comparative view of the difference of the Irish climate and diseases, and those of England and other countries ...

Rutty kept continuous records of weather and diseases in Dublin from 1724-64. On page 75 of this work is the first clear description of relapsing fever. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1975 CE

#6533.1

A classified bibliography of the history of Dutch medicine 1900-1974.

2011 CE

#8439

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

2017 CE

#12626

A cultural history of medical vitalism in Enlightenment Montpellier.

"One of the key themes of the Enlightenment was the search for universal laws and truths that would help illuminate the workings of the universe. It is in such attitudes that we trace the origins of modern science and…

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…

1566 CE

#7223

A detection and querimonie of the daily enormities and abuses committed in physick.

Securis was a Latinized version of the English surname Hatchett.

1970 CE

#5145

A history of bubonic plague in the British Isles.

From The Great Pestilence of 1348 to the Plague of London in 1665, discussing efforts to control the disease, and its impacts on social and economic life.

1950 CE

#1670

A history of English public health, 1834-1939.

1891 CE–1894 CE

#1680

A history of epidemics in Britain. Vol. 1: From A. D. 664 to the extinction of plague. Vol. 2: From the extinction of plague to the present time.

A classical contribution to modern epidemiology, of which Creighton may be said to have been the founder. Reprinted with new introductory material, 1965. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

2000 CE

#8229

A history of madness in sixteenth-century Germany.

1991 CE–2007 CE

#7415

A history of medicine. 6 vols.

Vol. 1: Primitive and Ancient Medicine (1991/1995), Vol. 2: Greek Medicine (1996), Vol. 3: Roman Medicine (1998), Vol. 4: Byzantine and Islamic Medicine (2001), Vol. 5: Medieval Medicine (2003), Vol. 6: Renaissance Me…

1951 CE–1961 CE

#6448

A history of medicine. Vol. l - 2

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

1953 CE–1959 CE

#6450

A history of science. Vols. 1-2. (All published.)

1. Ancient science through the golden age of Greece. 2. Hellenistic science and culture in the last three centuries B.C.

1988 CE

#9970

A history of surgery: With emphasis on the Netherlands.

1864 CE–1865 CE

#335

A history of the fishes of the British Islands. 4 vols.

Couch, a general practitioner at Polperro, Cornwall, became one of the greatest authorities on British fishes. The work, a monument of industry and patience, includes 252 hand-colored plates, also by Couch. Digital fa…

1988 CE

#10452

A history of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund 1902-1986.

"The author takes a broad perspective and provides a comparative framework by discussing the changing relationship between the ICRF and the medical profession, government, and other charities, notably the Cancer Resea…

2017 CE

#11088

A history of the mind and mental health in classical Greek medical thought.

1960 CE

#6639

A history of the nursing profession.

Covers England and Wales only.

1964 CE–2005 CE

#6550.1

A history of the Royal College of Physicians of London. 4 vols. Vols. 1 & 2 by Sir George Norman Clark, vol. 3 by A. M. Cooke, vol. 4 by Asa Briggs.

1916 CE

#6537.1

A history of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and of the Irish schools of medicine, including a medical bibliography and a medical biography. 2nd ed.

First edition, 1886. Digital facsimile of the 1886 edition from the Internet Archive at this link.

1963 CE

#6550

A history of the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries of London. Abstracted and arranged from the MS notes of Cecil Wall by H. Charles Cameron, revised annotated and edited by E. Ashworth Underwood. Vol.1: 1617-1815.

1997 CE

#7285

A hominid from the Lower Pleistocene of Atapuerca, Spain: possible ancestor to Neandertals and modern humans.

Homo antecessor, an extinct human species (or subspecies) dating from 1.2 million to 800,000 years ago, discovered in the Sierra de Atapuerca region of Northern Spain. With A. Rosas, I Martinez and M. Mosquera.

1793 CE

#13872

A journal during a residence in France, from the beginning of August, to the middle of December, 1792. To which is added, an account of the most remarkable events that happened at Paris from that time to the death of the late king of France.

1722 CE

#10199

A journal of the plague year: Being observatrions or memorials, of the most remarkable occurrences, as well publick as private, which happened in London during the last great visitation in 1665. Written by a citizen who continued all the while in London. Never made publick before.

Though he may be most widely remembered as a novelist--especially for Robinson Crusoe, Defoe was an English trader, writer of non-fiction as well as fiction, journalist, pamphleteer and spy. This book is an account of…

1934 CE

#8876

A leechbook or collection of medical receipts of the fifteenth century: The text of ms. no. 136 of the Medical Society of London, together with a transcript into modern spelling, transcribed and edited with an introduction, notes and appendix by Warren R. Dawson.

1928 CE

#11005

A medical review of Soviet Russia.

Gantt went to Russia in the 1920s with the American Relief Administration, and became a student of Pavlov. Moving to Johns Hopkins in 1929, he founded the Pavlovian Laboratory, and devoted his career to understanding …

1996 CE

#10844

A new variant of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in the UK.

During the 1990s England was plagued with cases of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) seen in cows, popularly known as "Mad Cow Disease." Then physicians in England started noticing an uptick in cases of what look…

1963 CE

#7413

A pharmaceutical view of Abulcasis al-Zahrawi in moorish Spain.

1984 CE

#6551.3

A portrait of Irish medicine. An illustrated history of medicine in Ireland.

Published for the bicentenary of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland.

1816 CE

#11143

A practical account of the Mediterranean fever, as it appeared in the ships and hospitals of His Majesty's fleet on that station: With cases and dissections. To which are added facts and observations, illustrative of the causes, symptoms and treatment comprehending the history of the fever in the fleet, during the years 1810, 1811, 1813, and of the Gibraltar and Carthagena fevers.

"Burnett in 1816 described an epidemic of a short term fever occurring among the Naval Forces engaged in the Siege of Malta in 1799, and this fever was almost certainly phlebotomus" (Coulter, The Royal Naval Medical S…

1905 CE

#10780

A preliminary note on the susceptibility of goats to Malta fever.

Zammit discovered that contaminated goat milk was the vector for transmission to humans of the Malta fever bacterium, Brucellosis melitensis. At the time goat milk was a primary source of milk in Malta and other parts…