Facets

1760 CE

#9902

An essay on the medicinal nature of hemlock.

"Störck is remembered for his clinical research of various herbs, and their associated toxicity and medicinal properties. His studies are considered to be the pioneering work of experimental pharmacology and his …

2008 CE

#9683

Antimicrobial drugs: Chronicle of a twentieth century medical triumph.

Concerns the history of all anti-infectives, including antibacterial, antiviral, antifungal, antiprotozoal and anthelminthic agents.

2014 CE

#10422

Aphrodisiacs, fertility and medicine in early modern England.

This work "... in its extensive study of gynecological treatises from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, provides an important intervention into assumptions about the subversive quality of aphrodisiacs and abor…

1985 CE

#8203

Aphrodisiacs: The science and the myth.

1990 CE

#7513

Aztec medicine, health, and nutrition.

1974 CE

#12444

Before Silent Spring: Pesticides and public health in pre-DDT America.

2000 CE

#8102

Brush with death: A social history of lead poisoning.

2012 CE

#8799

Chocolate as medicine: A quest over the centuries.

2009 CE

#10443

Chocolate in Mesoamerica: A cultural history of cacao. Edited by Cameron L. McNeil.

2009 CE

#8317

Chocolate: History, culture and heritage. Edited by Louis Evan Grivetti and Howard-Yana Shapiro.

1467 CE

#2190

De sermonum proprietate sive Opus de universo.

Also known as De rerum naturis. This dictionary or encyclopedia is the earliest known printed book to include a section dealing with medicine, and this brief section, Book 18, Chap. V concerning medicine and diseases,…

1756 CE

#11607

Deux mémoires sur le mouvement du sang, et sur les effets de la saignée, fondés sur des experiences faites sur des animaux.

In these memoirs Haller described the results of 235 vivisections. Haller has been called "the founder of modern haemodynamics." "The myogenic theory of the heartbeat can be traced to Haller, who concluded on the basi…

1999 CE

#8960

Dragon's brain perfume: An historical geography of camphor.

"In the Dragon's Brain Perfume (a Chinese description of Camphor) once more the existence and importance of world systems of exchange becomes clear. In the pre-industrial world aromatic substances have always counted …

2002 CE

#8903

Drugs in America: A historical reader. [Compiled by] David F. Musto.

1999 CE

#9468

Drugs on trial: Experimental pharmacology and therapeutic innovation in the eighteenth century.

"This book demonstrates that the basic methodology of the field, including chemical analysis, in vitro testing, animal experimentation and human research, was already developed in the course of the seventeenth and eig…

2008 CE

#9600

Hippocratic recipes: Oral and written transmission of pharmacological knowledge in fifth-and fourth-century Greece.

"... the first extended study of the pharmacological recipes included in the Hippocratic Corpus. The recipes, found mostly in the gynaecological and nosological treatises, are here examined both from a philological an…

1936 CE–1949 CE

#6430

Histoire générale de la médecine, de la pharmacie, de l’art dentaire et de l’art véterinaire. 3 vols.

This splendidly produced work, beautifully illustrated, was written by experts in each branch of the subject, with Laignel-Lavastine as general editor.

2007 CE

#8985

How everyday products make people sick: Toxins at home and in the workplace.

An eloquent historical approach, written for a semi-popular audience, to everyday problems in occupational medicine and toxicology.

1528 CE

#36

In principio singulorum librorum omnia indicantur, quae in eo libro continentur. [Title in Greek and Latin].

Paul of Aegiina was the most famous physician and surgeon in the Byzantine Empire during the seventh century, and probably thereafter. According to Eugene F. Rice, "Paulus Aegineta", Catalogus translationum et comment…

2003 CE

#9601

Le piante medicinali dal Corpus Hippocraticum.

1490 CE

#47

Liber Teisir, sive rectificatio medicationis et regiminis. Antidotarium. Translated from Arabic into Hebrew by Jacobus Hebraeus; into Latin by Paravicius. Add: Averroes: Colliget.

This is a Latin translation from a Hebrew version dating from 1280. Avenzoar, the greatest Muslim physician of the Western Caliphate, described the itch-mite, Sarcoptes scabiei, serous pericarditis, mediastinal absces…

2009 CE

#8645

Medical research for hire: The political economy of pharmaceutical clinical trials.

1992 CE

#11134

Mission and method: The early-nineteenth-century French public health movement.

1851 CE–1876 CE

#31

Oeuvres d’Oribase, texte grec, en grande partie inédit…traduit pour la première fois en français; par les Drs. Bussemaker et Daremberg. 6 vols.

Oribasius was a compiler of existing knowledge rather than an original writer. His output was immense; he compiled the Synagoge, an encyclopedic digest of medicine, hygiene, therapeutics, and surgery from Hippocrates …

2000 CE

#7784

Permissible dose: A history of radiation protection in the twentieth century.

2012 CE

#8389

Picturing the book of nature: Image, text, and argument in sixteenth-century human anatomy and medical botany.

1990 CE

#7025

Plant, animal & anatomical illustration in art & science: A bibliographical guide from the 16th century to the present day.

The first comprehensive listing of primary instructional or "how to draw" books, and non-scientific iconographical "pattern" books, published for artists and designers in the widest range of subjects concerning plants…

2003 CE

#10215

Protecting America's health: The FDA, business, and one hundred years of regulation.

2016 CE

#10669

Public opinion, public policy, and smoking: The transformation of American attitudes and cigarette use.

1989 CE

#12414

Pure food: Securing the Federal Food and Drugs Act of 1906.

2012 CE

#8702

Social poison: The culture and politics of opiate control in Britain and France, 1821–1926.

1844 CE–1850 CE

#11

Suśrutas. Áyruvédas. Id est medicinae systema a venerabili d'hanvantare demonstratum a Suśruta discipulo compositum. Nunc primum ex Sanksríta in Latinum sermonem vertit, introductionem, annotationes et rerum indicem adjecit Dr. Franciscus Hessler. 3 vols.

First translation of the Suśruta Samhitā into Latin, and the first publication of this text in the West. Suśruta is said to have lived in the 6th or 5th centuries, BCE. The principal medical contribution of the ancien…

1973 CE

#8902

The American disease: Origins of narcotic control.

Third expanded edition (1999). "Supporting the theory that Americans' attitudes toward drugs have followed a cyclic pattern of tolerance and restraint, author David F. Musto examines the relations between public outcr…

1996 CE

#8660

The cigarette papers. Edited by Stanton A. Glantz, John Slade, Lisa A. Bero, Peter Hanauer, and Deborah E. Barnes.

Analysis and selective reproduction of 4000 pages of internal tobacco industry documents proving that a tobacco company was fully aware that it was promoting and marketing a highly addictive carcinogenic substance. El…

1971 CE

#10858

The pre-Columbian mind: A study into the aberrant nature of sexual drives, drugs affecting behaviour and the attitude towards life and death, with a survey of psychotherapy in pre-Columbian America.

1973 CE

#2068.16

Therapeutics from the primitives to the 20th century, with an appendix: history of dietetics.

Includes a valuable bibliography. First published in German, Stuttgart, 1970.