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1,672 entries match Pharmacology & Therapeutics [D01 / E02]
1873 CE
#2017.2
Immediate transfusion in England: seven cases, and the author’s method of operating.
Portable transfusion apparatus.
1561 CE
#1814
In hoc volumine continentur Valerii Cordi ... Annotationes in Pedacii Dioscoridis Anazarbei De medica materia libros V : longè aliae quàm ante hac sunt evulgatae. Ejusdem Val. Cordi Historiae stirpium Lib. IIII. posthumi, nunc primùm in lucem editi, adjectis etiam stirpium iconibus, & brevissimus annotatiunculis. Sylva, qua rerum fossilium in Germania plurimarum, metallorum, lapidum & stirpium aliquot rariorum notitiam brevissimè persequitur, nunquam hactenus visa. De artificiosis extractionibus liber. Compositiones medicinales aliquot, non vulgares. His accedunt Stocc-Hornii et Nessi in Bernatium Helvetiorum ditione montium, & nascentium in eis stirpium, descriptio Benedicti Aretii ... Item Conradi Gesneri De hortus Germaniae, liber recens, unà cum descriptione tulipae turcarum, chamaecerasi montani, chamaemespili, chamaenerii, & conozoidis ... Omnia summa studio atque industria ... Conr. Gesneri ... collecta, & praefationibus illustrata.
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This work not only updated the species listed by Dioscorides, but also listed about 500 new species of plants. Published posthumously, the work was carefully edited by Conrad Gesner. Cordus was the inventor of phytogr…
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…
1952 CE
#7764
Incidence of leukemia in survivors of the atom bomb in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan.
Leukemia was the first cancer to be linked with radiation exposure in atomic bomb survivors.
1967 CE
#8490
Index of Arabic manuscripts on medicine and pharmacy at the National Library of Cairo.
1710 CE
#11628
Index plantarum, quae in Horto Academico Lugduno Batavo reperiuntur.
Upon his appointment as professor of medicine and botany at Leiden University in 1709, Boerhaave became head of the botanical garden, a laboratory for materia medica. He published his first catalogue of plants in the …
1885 CE
#10575
Indigenous flowers of the Hawaiian Islands: Forty-four plates painted in water-colours and described by Mrs. Francis Sinclair, Jr.
The first color-illustrated book on Hawaiian flora. "The following collection of flowers was made upon the islands of Kauai and Niihau, the most northern of the Hawaiian archipelago. It is not by any means a large col…
1929 CE
#5712
Induction of anesthesia in man by intravenous injection of sodium isoamyl-ethyl barbiturate.
Sodium amytal (Amobarbitol). With J. T. C. McCallum, H. A. Shonle, E. E. Swanson, J. B. Scott, and G. H. A. Clowes.
1925 CE
#2134
Industrial poisons in the United States.
1996 CE
#8661
Industry Documents Library. University of California, San Francisco.
https://www.library.ucsf.edu/industry-documents/ "The Industry Documents Library (IDL) provides public access to internal corporate documents to facilitate research about cross-industry practices that harm public heal…
1958 CE
#12971
Influence of light on the hyperbilirubinaemia of infants.
In 1956 Sister Jean Ward of the Premature Unit of the Rochford General Hospital in Essex, England noted the benefit of phototherapy when she took infants outside because she assumed that fresh air had healing benefits…
1944 CE
#2659.3
Influence of synthetic oestrogens upon advanced malignant disease.
Administration of synthetic estrogens in advanced mammary cancer caused regression of tumors. With J. M. Watkinson, E. Paterson, and P. C. Koller.
1908 CE
#8246
Insanity in India: Its symptoms and diagnosis; with reference to the relation of crime and insanity.
Includes considerable discussion of the psychoactive effects of cannabis. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1572 CE
#13547
Instruction sur l'herbe petum ditte en France l'herbe de la Royne ou Medicée: Et sur la racine MECHIOCAN principalement (avec quelques autres simples rares et exquis) exemplaire à manier philosophiquement tous autres vegetaux.
The earliest treatise in French on tobacco, including its usage in medicine, and probably the earliest separate treatise on tobacco in any language. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link. See Bowen,…
1906 CE
#2005
Interprétation de quelques résultats de la radiothérapie et essai de fixation d’une technique rationelle.
Bergonié-Tribondeau law, “the sensitivity of cells to radiation varies directly with the reproductive capacity of the cells and inversely with their degree of differentiation” (Dorland).
1963 CE
#3108.7
Intrauterine transfusion of foetus in haemolytic disease.
1925 CE
#1911
Intravenous use of dyes.
Churchman demonstrated the selective bactericidal action of gentian violet against staphylococci. See also J. exp. Med., 1912, 16, 221-47; J. Urol., 1924, 11, 1-18.
1690 CE
#13406
Introductio generalis in rem herbariam.
Rivinus (Bachmann) introduced the concept of classification of plants based upon the structure of the flower. He also introduced the ORDER as a distinct rank of biological classification having its own distinctive nam…
1901 CE
#2003.1
Introduction électrolytique des ions dans l’organisme vivant.
Introduction of ionic medication.
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.
1997 CE
#8544
Iroquois medical botany.
"The first book to provide a guide to understanding the use of herbal medicines in traditional Iroquois culture. The world view of the Iroquois League or Confederacy - the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca, and…
1831 CE
#9490
Iseki kō. (I Chi Kao). 8 vols.
A comprehensive annotated bibliography in Japanese of Chinese medical literature, including materia medica. The bibliography includes works for which the author had references, but could not locate copies. According t…
1951 CE
#1945.2
Isolation of antibiotics from a species of Cephalosporium. Cephalosporins P1, P2, P3, P4, and P5.
1964 CE
#14091
Isolation, structure, and partial synthesis of an active constituent of hashish.
Mechoulam and Gaoni showed that the active ingredient of "one of the most widely used illicit narcotic drugs," the flowering tops of Cannabis sativa, is "pure tetrhydrocannabinol" (THC). This they called the "psychoto…
2018 CE
#10705
It all depends on the dose: Poisons and medicines in European history. Edited by Ole Peter Grell, Andrew Cunningham, and Jon Arrizabalaga.
"This is the first volume to take a broad historical sweep of the close relation between medicines and poisons in the Western tradition, and their interconnectedness. They are like two ends of a spectrum, for the same…
1629 CE
#12000
Iter plantarum investigationis ergo susceptum a decem Sociis in Agrum Cantianum, anno Dom. 1629, Julii 13. Ericetum Hamstedianum sive Plantarum ibi crescentium observatio habita, anno eodem I. Augusti. Descripta studio, & opera Thomæ Iohnsoni.
Johnson, an apothecary published this record of what he collected during a herb-collecting excursion conducted on July 13, 1629, with an appendix recounting the results of a second excursion on August 1. This was the …
1983 CE
#12632
Ivermectin: A potent new antiparasitic agent.
Abstract "Ivermectin is the 22,23-dihydro derivative of avermectin B1, a macrocyclic lactone produced by an actinomycete, Streptomyces avermitilis. It is active at extremely low dosage against a wide variety of nemato…
2004 CE
#9899
Jamaican folk medicine: A source of healing.
2001 CE
#9451
Jamu: The ancient Indonesian art of herbal healing.
1961 CE
#10949
Japanese botany during the period of wood-block printing.
I. An essay on the development of natural history, especially botany, in Japan; on the influence of early Chinese & Western contacts; on Japanese books & wood-block illustration. II. An exhibition of Japanese books & …
1542 CE
#9415
Joannis Mesuae Damasceni De re medica libri tres Jacobo Sylvio medico interprete.
Dubois, better known as Sylvius, produced a new translation of the complete works of Mesue, which became the standard text, and was reprinted 21 times. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1976 CE
#11205
John Ray, 1627-1705: A bibliography, 1660-1970: A descriptive bibliography of the works of John Ray ... with introductions, annotations, various indexes, and a supplement of new entries, additions and corrections by the author, Sir Geoffrey Keynes.
This is the "best" edition. The original edition issued in London by Faber & Faber in 1951 was a far superior example of book production, printed on thick greenish paper.
2010 CE
#13652
Joseph Hooker Correspondence Project. Digitising the personal and scientific correspondence of the 19th century botanist and explorer Joseph Hooker.
https://www.kew.org/science/our-science/projects/joseph-hooker-correspondence-project "Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817 – 1911) was a trailblazing botanist and explorer and Kew’s second Director. Detailing p…
1714 CE–1725 CE
#13449
Journal des observations physiques, mathematiques et botaniques, faites par l'ordre du roi sur les côtes orientales de l'Amerique meridionale, & dans les Indes occidentales, depuis l'année 1707, jusques en 1712. 3 vols.
Includes in vols. 2 and 3: Histoire des plantes medecinales qui sont le plus en usage aux royaumes de l'Amerique meridionale, du Perou & du Chily, : composée sur les lieux par ordre du Roy, dans les anné…
1751 CE–1752 CE
#12873
Journal du voyage fait par ordre du Roi, a l'équateur, servant d'introduction historique a la mesure des trois premiers degrés du méridien. Supplément au Journal historique du voyage a l'Équateur: et au livre de la Mesure des trois premiers degrés du méridien, servant de réponse à quelques objections. 2 vols.
La Condamine's journal of his ten year long voyage to South America, the scientific results of which included proof that the earth is a spheroid flattened at the poles. Other scientific observations including botanica…
1811 CE
#13762
Journal of a tour in Iceland in the summer of 1809.
"In 1809 he went to Iceland to make a botanical survey for [Sir Joseph] Banks; his collections were lost in a fire at sea on the way home but with the aid of Banks’s notes from his own journey there in 1772 Hook…
1790 CE
#7366
Journal of a voyage to New South Wales with sixty five plates of non descript. animals, birds, lizards, serpents, curious cones of trees and other natural productions
This work described many Australian species for the first time. It includes natural history illustrations after watercolor paintings by Sarah Stone. Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link
1834 CE
#10394
Jurisprudence de la médecine, de la chirurgie, et de la pharmacie en France, comprenant la médecine légale, la police médicale, la responsabilitié des médecins, chirurgiens, pharmaciens, etc, l'exposé et la discussion des lois, ordonnances, réglemens et instructions concernant l'art de guérir, appuyé des jugemens des cours et des tribunaux.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1893 CE
#7019
Kanyaku maou seibun kenkyuu seiseki (zoku).
Nagai synthesized methamphetamine from ephedrine.
1995 CE
#7211
Kinetic jottings: Rare and curious books in the library of the old Royal Central Institute of Gymnastics. An illustrated and annotated catalogue.
Outstanding descriptions and superb illustrations of a very unusual collection of books, including those on fencing, gymnastics, orthopedics, physical medicine, acrobatics, and dance.
2009 CE
#8582
Kitab al-Abniya to Haqayiq al-adwiya ["The principles of the real character of medicinal plants"]. (Rawdat al-wa Us Manfaat al-nafs)[ By] Abu Mansur Muwaffaq bin Ali al-Hirawi. 5th AH Century. Facsimile Copy of the original manuscript AF 340. Austrian National Library, Vienna. Transcribed by Alī bin Ahmad Asadī Tūsī. Copied 447 Hijri. Persian Introduction: Iraj Afshar and Ali Ashraf Sadeghi. English Introduction: Bert G. Fragner / Nosratollah Rastegar, Karl Holubar, Eva Irblich and Mahmoud Omidsalar.
1895 CE
#2893
Klinisches über Diuretin.
In 1895 Askanazy proposed diuretin as a remedy for anginal pain.
2011 CE
#7805
Knowing nature: Art and science in Philadelphia, 1740-1840. Edited by Amy R. W. Meyers with the assistance of Lisa L. Ford.
Large format, finely produced with excellent color plates.
1897 CE
#9015
Krateuas. Von M. Wellmann.
Crateuas was the personal physician of Mithridates VI. Of Pontos. He wrote a three-part herbal book describing the medicinal properties of plants. This work, which was illustrated, is the earliest known herbal book to…
1966 CE
#2068.9
Kräuterbücher in Bild und Geschichte.
1533 CE
#12763
Kreutterbuch von allem Erdtgewächs. Anfenglich von Doctor Johan Cuba zusamen bracht/ Jietz widerum(m) new Corrigirt/ und auß den bestberümptsten Artzten/ auch täglicher erfarnuß/ gemehrt. Mit warer Abconterfeiung aller Kreuter. Distillirbuch Hieronymi Braunschwig/ von aller kreuter außgebren(n)ten Wassern/ hiemit füglich ingeleibt.
An illustrated and enhanced version of the Gart der Gesundheit (1485) and the Kleinen Destillierbuchs of Hieronymus Brunschwig (1500). Contents include animals, including imaginery animals, a bit of human anatomy, min…
1591 CE
#13351
L'horto dei semplici di Padova, oue si vede primieramente la forma di tutta la pianta con le sue misure: & indi i suoi partimenti distinti per numeri in ciascuna arella, intagliato in rame.
First catalogue of the Orto botanico di Padova, the oldest academic botanical garden that remains in its original location., Digital facsimile from fc.cab.unipd.it at this link.
1640 CE
#13346
L'ouverture du Jardin Royal de Paris, pour la demonstration des plantes medecinales.
La Brosse founded the Jardin des Plantes (originally Jardin du Roi), the first botanical garden in Paris. It was the second garden of this type in France, after the Jardin des plantes de Montpellier founded in 1593. D…
1887 CE
#2908
L’artério-sclérose subaiguë dans ses rapports avec les spasmes vasculaires et son traitement par la trinitrine (nitroglycérine).
“Huchard’s disease” – continued hypertension causing arteriosclerosis. Huchard did much to develop the knowledge concerning arteriosclerosis and summarized his work in a classic monograph publi…
1953 CE–1959 CE
#9245