Facets

1861 CE

#9171

Flora hongkonensis: A description of the flowering plants and ferns of the island of Hongkong.

The first comprehensive work on any part of the flora of China and Hong Kong. It included the first published description of Hong Kong Croton, or Croton hancei.

1989 CE

#9050

Flora Huayaquilensis sive descriptiones et icones plantarum Huayaquilensium secundum systema linneanum digestae, auctore Johanne Tafalla. Tomus 1: Introductio historica et adnotationes ab Eduardo Estrella confectae et descriptiones. Tomus II: Icones.

Juan José Tafalla Navascués, a Spanish pharmacist, explored botany in Peru, Chile and Ecuador from 1780 to 1788 as part of the Expedición Botánica al Virreinato del Perú under the di…

1820 CE–1824 CE

#10762

Flora Indica; or descriptions of Indian plants by the late William Roxburgh. Edited by William Carey, to which are added descriptions of plants recently discovered by Nathaniel Wallich. 2 vols.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1855 CE

#13733

Flora indica: Being a systematic account of the plants of British India, together with observations on the structure and affinities of their natural orders and genera. Vol. 1. Ranunculaceae to Fumariaceae, with an Introductory Essay. All published.

Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link. The Introductory Essay was also published separately by W. Pamphlin in 1855 with the following title: Introductory essay to the Flora Indica: includin…

1829 CE–1830 CE

#14124

Flora medica: Containing coloured delineations of the various medicinal plants, admitted into the London, Edinburgh, and Dublin pharmacopoeias; with their natural history, botanical descriptions, medical and chemical properties, &c. &c.; together with a concise introduction to botany; a copious glossary of botanical terms and a list of poisonous plants, &c. &c. Edited by a member of the Royal college of physicians, and fellow of the Linnaean society; with the assistance of several eminent botanists; in two volumes.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1847 CE–1852 CE

#11808

Flora medico-farmaceutica. 6 vols.

Digital facsimile of the complete set from the Internet Archive at this link.

1798 CE–1802 CE

#13326

Flora Peruviana, et Chilensis, sive, descriptiones et icones plantarum Peruvianarum, et Chilensium, secundum systema Linnaeanum digestae, cum characteribus plurium generum evulgatorum reformatis. 3 vols.

The authors originally intended this work resulting from their researches conducted during the Expedición Botánica al Virreinato del Perú to be published in 8 vols., and by later design in 12. How…

1656 CE

#8591

Flora sinensis, fructus floresque humillime porrigens serenissimo et potentissimo Leopoldo Ignatio, Hungariae regi florentissimo, &c. Fructus saecul promittenti Augustissimos.

The first description published in Europe of an ecosystem of the Far East, including animals as well as plants, with particular attention to Chinese fruit bearing plants, and medicinal properties of Chinese plants. Di…

2017 CE

#8833

Flora unveiled: The discovery and denial of sex in plants.

"Sex in animals has been known for at least ten thousand years, and this knowledge was put to good use during animal domestication in the Neolithic period. In stark contrast, sex in plants wasn't discovered until the …

1743 CE

#12478

Flora Virginica exhibens plantas quas v. c. Johannes Clayton in Virginia observavit atque collegit. Easdem method sexuali-disposuit, ad genera propria retulit, nominbus specificis insignivit, & minus cognitas descriptsit.

The first flora of Virginia. As stated on the title page, Gronovius, a Dutch botanist, based this work on specimens collected by the Virginia plant collector and botanist John Clayton. While Clayton supplied the speci…

2009 CE

#12824

Flora: The Aztec herbal. Edited by Martin Clayton, Luigi Guerrini, and Alejandro de Ávila. (The Paper Museum of Cassiano dal Pozzo. Series B: Natural History (HMPMB 8))

"This volume catalogues Cassiano dal Pozzo’s copy of the Codex Cruz-Badianus, an Aztec herbal prepared for the son of the Viceroy of Mexico in 1552 and the earliest medical text to have survived from the New Wor…

1690 CE

#11472

Florae Lugduno-Batavae flores sive enumeratio stirpium horti Lugduno-Batavi methodo, naturae vestigiis isistente, dispositarum, & anno 1689 in lectionibus tam publicis quam privatis expositarum a Paulo Hermann. Nunc vero in gratiam botanophilorum primum in lucem editarum opera Lothari Zumbach.

In this treatise on the flowering plants in the Hortus Botanicus Leiden Hermann coined the term Angiospermae as the name of one of his primary divisions of the plant kingdom. This division included flowering plants po…

1814 CE–1819 CE

#11036

Flore médicale. 7 vols.

The greatest work of medical botany published during the Napoleonic period; considered a masterpiece of color print production with 425 plates printed in color and finished by hand. The medicinal aspect appears to hav…

1821 CE–1829 CE

#8547

Flore pittoresque et médicale des Antilles, ou, Histoire naturelle des plantes usuelles des colonies françaises, anglaises, espagnoles et portugaises; par M. E. Descourtilz. Peinte par J. Th. Descourtilz. 8 vols.

Medical botany of the Caribbean, finely illustrated with colored plates after paintings by the author's son. Digital facsimile from the Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.

1809 CE–1840 CE

#12798

Flore portugaise ou description de toutes les plantes qui croissent naturellement en Portugal. 2 vols.

The most spectacular illustrated book on the flora of Portugal. The delicate illustrations, mostly stipple-engraved and colored by hand, based on the travels of Hoffmannsegg through Portugal between 1797 and 1801, wer…

1938 CE

#11775

Flower and fruit prints of the 18th and Early 19th centuries: Their history, makers and uses, with a catalogue raisonné of the works in which they are found.

1977 CE

#13698

Fluvoxamine, a specific 5-hydroxytryptamine uptake inhibitor.

Fluvoxamine, an antidepressant of the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) class, used primarily for the treatment of major depressive disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). It is also used to trea…

1855 CE

#13734

Food and its adulterations: Comprising the reports of the analytical sanitary commission of "The Lancet" for the years 1851 to 1854 inclusive, revised and extended being records of the results of some thousands of original microscopical and chemical analyses of the solids and fluids consumed by all classes of the public; and containing the names and addresses of the various merchants, manufacturers, and tradesmen of whom the analysed articles were purchased.

Digital facsimile from wellcomecollection.org at this link. Significantly expanded as Food: its adulterations and methods for their detection, London: Longmans, Green, 1876. Digital facsimile of the 1876 edition from …

1994 CE

#9298

Footprints of the forest: Ka'Apor ethnobotany- The historical ecology of plant utilization by an Amazonian people.

1893 CE

#1750

Forensic medicine and toxicology.

1821 CE

#1846

Formulaire pour la préparation et l’emploi de plusieurs nouveaux médicamens, tels que la noix vomique, la morphine, etc.

Magendie was the pioneer of experimental physiology in France. His Formulaire introduced into medical practice several of the newly discovered alkaloids, notably morphine, veratrine, brucine, piperine, emetine, as wel…

1991 CE

#7514

Four Dutch pharmacists in Japan 1869-1885.

1927 CE

#2052

Four thousand years of pharmacy; an outline history of pharmacy.

First history of pharmacy by an American. Reprinted as The curious lore of drugs and medicines, New York, Garden City Publ. Co., 1936.

1851 CE

#9515

Früchte aus dem Morgenlande oder Reise-Erlebnisse. Nebst naturhistorisch-medicinischen Erfahrungen, einigen hundert erprobten Arzneimitteln und einer neuen Heilart dem Medial-Systeme. Mit vierzig lithographirten Tafeln: Porträte, Pflanzenabbildungen, sonstige Natur- und Kunstprodukte, Facsimile, Landkarte und Ansicht der Citadelle von Lahor; endlich als Anhang ein medizinisches Wörterbuch in mehreren europäischen und orientalischen Sprachen.

Digital facsimile from the Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link. Translated into English (1852) as Thirty-five years in the East. Adventures, discoveries, experiments, and historical sketches, relating to the Pu…

1941 CE

#2060

Fundamental errors in the early history of cinchona.

1951 CE

#1945.4

Fungicidin, an antibiotic produced by a soil actinomycete.

Isolation of nystatin (fungicidin).

1906 CE

#242.3

Further experiments on inheritance in sweet peas and stocks; preliminary account.

W. Bateson, E. R. Saunders and R. C. Punnett noted the phenomena of linkage of genes.

1941 CE

#1934.1

Further observations on penicillin.

First report of the chemotherapeutic action of penicillin on humans (10 cases).

1908 CE

#5282

Further results of the experimental treatment of trypanosomiasis in rats.

Trial of antimony in the treatment of trypanosomiasis.

1696 CE

#14002

G[othofredi]. G[uillelmi]. L[eibnitii]. Relatio ad inclytam Societatem Leopoldinam Naturae Curiosorum, de novo antidysenterico Americano magnis successibus comprobato.

This study of the ipecacuanha root and its effects as a emetic, nauseant, expectorant and dispahoretic, Leibniz issued on what he called "the new American antidysentery drug" after reading about the root in Piso and M…

1986 CE

#8235

Galen on bloodletting: A study of the origins, development and validity of his opinions, with a translation of the three works

Bloodletting is thought to have been practiced by Greek physicians of the 5th century BCE. This study includes translation of Galeni de venae sectione adversus Erasistratum liber (162-163 CE), Galeni de venae sectione…

1997 CE

#9609

Galen on pharmacology: Philosophy, history and medicine. Proceedings of the Vth International Galen Colloquium, Lille, 16-18 March 1995. Edited by Armelle Debru.

1519 CE

#1959

Galeni methodus medendi, vel de morbis curandis.

The first separately published Latin translation from the Greek by Thomas Linacre. Galen's Method of medicine was a systematic and comprehensive account of the principles of treating injury and disease and one of Gale…

1858 CE

#1996.1

Galvanotherapie der Nerven- und Muskelkrankheiten.

Remak was a pioneer of galvanotherapy. Having treated some 700 patients with galvanic current, he believed that it was superior to faradic current for electrotherapy.

1913 CE

#8974

Garci da Orta: Colloquies on the simples & drugs of India. New edition (Lisbon, 1895) edited and annotated by the Conde de Ficalho. Translated with an introduction and index by Sir Clements Markham.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1997 CE

#11968

Gardens of empire: Botanical institutions of the Victorian British Empire.

Provides "a detailed analysis of the foundation, extent, management and achievements of the 120 botanic gardens, herbaria and botanic stations - from Hong Kong to British Honduras, Malacca to the Gold Coast, Fiji to M…

1485 CE

#1796

Gart der Gesundheit. Ed. Johann von Cube.

The first herbal written and printed in a modern language, sometimes called the "German Herbarius” and Gart der Gesundheit. Like the Herbarius latinus issued the previous year, the text of this work was compiled…

1779 CE

#13066

Geneeskundige proeven en waarneemingen omtrent de goede uitwerking der electriciteit in verscheiden ziektens.

Digital facsimile of the Dutch edition from Google Books at this link. Translated into German by Karl Gottlob Kühn as Von den guten Würkungen der Electricität in verschiedenen Krankheiten. Mit eingien A…

1862 CE–1883 CE

#9173

Genera plantarum: Ad exemplaria imprimis in Herberiis Kewensibus servata definita; auctoribus G. Bentham et J.D. Hooker. 3 vols. in 9 parts.

First publication of the Bentham & Hooker taxonomic system for seed plants published before there were internationally accepted rules for botanical nomenclature. Digital facsimile from the Biodiversity Heritage Archiv…

1789 CE

#11976

Genera plantarum: Secundum ordines naturales disposita, juxta methodum in horto regio parisiensi exaratam, anno M.DCC.LXXIV

Jussieu was the first to publish a natural classification of flowering plants, basing his system on a extensive unpublished work by his deceased uncle, the botanist Bernard de Jussieu. "In his study of flowering plant…

1737 CE

#1829

Genera plantarum.

Linnaeus’s botanical classification, the starting-point of modern systematic botany. The book is dedicated to Boerhaave. English translation by Erasmus Darwin, Lichfield, 1787.

1990 CE

#12468

Génération pilule.

Translated into English as The "abortion pill": RU-486 - a woman's choice by Étienne-Émile Baulieu with Mort Rosenblum. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1991.

1963 CE

#1947.5

Gentamicin, a new antibiotic complex from Micromonospora.

With nine co-authors.

1854 CE–1857 CE

#8965

Geschichte der Botanik. 4 vols.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1932 CE–1939 CE

#2056.1

Geschichte der Homöopathie. 4 vols.

A comprehensive history, particularly for homeopathy in Germany. Includes extensive bibliographies.

1894 CE

#11967

Geschichte der Pflanzeneinführungen in die europäischen botanischen Gärten.

Digital facsimile from publikationsserver.tu-braunschweig.de at this link.

1972 CE

#12443

Geschichte der Pharmazeutischen Chemie.

1904 CE

#2041

Geschichte der Pharmazie

Reprinted Hildesheim, 1964.

1898 CE

#2038

Geschichte der Pharmazie.

1998 CE–2005 CE

#13718

Geschichte der Pharmazie. Band 1: Von den Anfängen bis zum Ausgang des Mittelalters. Von Rudolf Schmitz. Unter Mitarbeit von F.-J. Kuhlen. Band II: Von der Frühen Neuzeit bis zur Gegenwart. Von Christoph Friedrich und Wolf-Dieter Müller-Jahncke.