Facets

1868 CE

#8817

Pharmacopoeia of India, prepared under the authority of Her Majesty's Secretary of State for India in Council

Waring was "Surgeon in Her Majesty's Indian Army." Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1843 CE

#8807

Practical observations on the principal diseases affecting the health of the European and native soldiers in the north-western provinces of India with a supplement on dysentery.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1994 CE

#8802

Public health in British India: Anglo-Indian preventive medicine 1859-1914.

The first major study of public health in British India.

1851 CE

#13313

Quan ti xin lun [New Treatise Concerning the Whole Body.]

The earliest treatise on Western medicine published in Chinese for the use of Chinese medical staff. The work primarily concerns anatomy and physiology, with most illustrations derived from Cheselden's Anatomy of the …

1813 CE

#14178

Recherches historiques sur la médecine des chinois.

The first Western history of Chinese medicine. Lepage, a pupil of Pierre Sue, was a friend and colleague of pioneer sinologist Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat. In his medical thesis Lepage presented an overview of wha…

2009 CE

#11825

Recipes for immortality: Healing, religion, and community in South India.

"Despite the global spread of Western medical practice, traditional doctors still thrive in the modern world. In Recipes for Immortality, Richard Weiss illuminates their continued success by examining the ways in whic…

1860 CE

#8818

Remarks on the uses of some bazaar medicines, and on a few of the common indigenous plants of India, according to European practice.

At the time of publication of this work, which contained texts in both Sanskrit and English, Waring was "Physician to His Highness The Maha Rajah of Travancore." Digital facsimile of the 1860 edition from the Biodiver…

1859 CE

#2248

Remarks upon a tabular return (No. 1), or synopsis of sixteen cases of heat-apoplexy.

Longmore was an army surgeon in India; he gave an excellent account of heat-stroke.

1867 CE

#8210

Review of the history of medicine. 2 vols.

Vol. 1, Part 1: "Primitive period among the Asiatic nations," i.e. Hindus. Vol. 2, Part 1: "Ancient state of medicine among the Hindus (continued)". Part 1: "Review of the Buddhist systems of medicine." Part 3: "Revie…

2015 CE

#9706

Science and civilisation in China: Vol. 6, biology and biological technology, Part 4, traditional botany: An ethnobotanical approach.

2000 CE

#12728

Science, technology and medicine in Colonial India, 1760-1947. The new Cambridge history of India, Vol. 3, pt. 5.

1682 CE

#6492

Specimen medicinae Sinicae.

One of the earliest studies of Chinese medicine published in the West. (See also Nos. 6472.10 et seq.). Cleyer edited these translations of Chinese medical texts, reproducing a series of 30 plates dealing with Chinese…

1907 CE

#6487

Studies in the medicine of ancient India. Part 1. Osteology or the bones of the human body.

All published.

1987 CE

#7358

Studies on Indian medical history, edited by G. Jan Meulenbeld and Dominik Wujastyk.

1980 CE

#12962

Suśruta Samhita: A scientific synopsis

1904 CE

#2437

The constituents of chaulmoogra seeds.

Hydnocarpus wightiana or Chaulmoogra is a tree in the Achariaceae family. The oil from seeds of Hydnocarpus wightiana or Chaulmoogra, a tree in the Achariaceae family, was widely used in Indian medicine and Chinese tr…

1850 CE

#8808

The historical relations of ancient Hindu with Greek medicine in connection with the study of modern medical science in India: Being a general introductory lecture delivered June 1850, at the Calcutta Medical College.

Webb was surgeon in the Bengal Army, and later Professor of Anatomy at the Calcutta Medical College. 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.

1981 CE

#6958

The Manchu anatomy and its historical origin. With annotations and translations by John B. de C. M. Saunders and Francis R. Lee.

The Anatomie Manchoue, a series of graphic illustrations taken from Western anatomical works, with notes in the Manchu-Tungus language. This was compiled under the supervision of Father Parrenin, a French Jesuit worki…

1998 CE

#12806

The roots of Ayurveda.

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

2011 CE

#8247

The social history of health and medicine in colonial India. Edited by Biswamoy Pati and Mark Harrison.

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.

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.

1941 CE

#5301.2

The transmission of Leishmania tropica by the bite of Phlebotomus papatasii.

Proof of the transmission of L. tropica by P. papatasii.

1929 CE

#8812

The work of medical women in India.

1942 CE

#5302

Transmission of Indian kala-azar to man by the bites of Phlebotomus argentipes, Ann. and Brun.

Successful transmission of kala-azar to man by the bite of Phlebotomus argentipes reported, showing it to be the vector of Leishmania. With H. E. Shortt and L. A. P. Anderson.

2014 CE

#12839

Unseen enemy: The English, disease, and medicine in colonial Bengal, 1617–1847.

2012 CE

#12805

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