Facets

1746 CE

#8869

Medicina Britannica; or, a treatise on such physical plants as are generally to be found in the fields or gardens of Great-Britain: Containing a particular account of their nature, virtues, and uses. Together with the observations of the most learned physicians, as well ancient as modern, communicated to the late ingenious Mr. Ray, and the learned Dr. Sim. Pauli. Adapted more especially to the occasions of those, whose condition or situation of life deprives them, in a great measure, of the helps of the learned. To which are added, three indexes: The first containing the England and Latin names of the plants treated of: The second of the diseases, and their remedies: The third to the notes.

Short focused his book on the medical uses of plants readily available in England. Many of the plants recommended in the traditional herbal literature were difficult to find in England. Digital facsimile from the Biod…

1999 CE

#9292

Medicinal flora of the Alaska natives. A compilation of knowledge from literary sources of Aleut, Alutiiq, Athabascan, Eyak, Haida, Inupiat, Tlingit, Tsimshian, and Yupik traditional healing methods using plants.

Digital facsimile from uaa.alaska.edu at this link.

1993 CE

#13535

Medicinal plants and enigmatic health practices of Northern Ethiopia.

2004 CE

#8868

Medicinal plants in folk tradition: An ethnobotany of Britain and Ireland.

The first comprehensive account of medicinal uses of wild plants by the country folk of Britain and Ireland based on manuscript folklore sources as well as published sources. These included information gathered by the…

2012 CE

#14220

Medicinal plants of Central Asia: Uzbekistan and Kyrgystan.

"... the first English-language book detailing medicinal plant diversity in the region. More than two hundred of the most important medicinal plants of Central Asia are listed and it includes many whose medicinal uses…

1989 CE

#9342

Medicinal plants of the desert and canyon West.

1880 CE

#1870

Medicinal plants, being descriptions with original figures of the principal plants employed in medicine. 4 vols.

2003 CE

#11047

Medicinal substances in Jerusalem from early times to the present day. (BAR International Series 1112).

1957 CE

#9272

Medicinal uses of plants by Indian tribes of Nevada. Contributions toward a flora of Nevada. No. 45. Revised edition, with summary of pharmacological research by W. Andrew Archer, Nov. 26, 1957.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link. (First published in 1941.)

1932 CE

#6460

Medicine among the American Indians.

Reprinted, New York, Hafner, 1962.

2017 CE

#8570

Medicine and humanism in late medieval Italy: The Carrara herbal in Padua.

1978 CE

#6610.14

Medicine and pharmacy in American political prints (1765-1870).

2017 CE

#8279

Medicine and pharmacy in Byzantine hospitals: A study of the extant formularies.

1986 CE

#9419

Medicine in China: A history of pharmaceutics.

1998 CE

#8571

Medicine of the Prophet. Translated by Penelope Johnstone.

" . . . a combination of religious and medical information, providing advice and guidance on the two aims of medicine - the preservation and restoration of health - in careful conformity with the teachings of Islam as…

1962 CE

#7417

Medicines for the Union Army: the United States Army Laboratories during the Civil War.

1776 CE

#13549

Medicinisch-praktischer Unterricht für die Feld- und Landwundärzte der österreichischen Staaten. 2 vols. [& Supplement:] Die in dem medicinisch-praktischen Unterrichte für die Feld-und Landwundärzte vorkommende Arzneymittel.

This work on "Practical medical lessons for field and land surgeons of the Austrian states," includes a 91-page appendix containing 319 recommended pharmaceuticals for the treatments described in the text. The formula…

1830 CE–1845 CE

#6754

Medicinisches Schriftsteller-Lexicon der jetzt lebenden Aerzte, Wundärzte, Geburtschelfer, Apotheker, und Naturforscher aller gebildeten Völker. 33 vols.

In 25 vols. and and 8-vol. supplement, Callisen’s great medical bibliography of writings by physicians, surgeons, obstetricians, pharmacists, and naturalists then living gives a complete view of the literature o…

2002 CE

#8879

Medieval herbal remedies. The old English herbarium and Anglo-Saxon medicine.

Edition and translation of the Old English Herbarium, British Library Cotton MS Vitellius C iii, the only illustrated Anglo-Saxon medical text, dating from about 1000 CE, containing information on 185 medicinal plants…

2000 CE

#7193

Medieval herbals: The illustrative traditions.

A study of illuminated medieval herbals from 512-1450 CE.

1887 CE

#13259

Meine Wasser-Kur, durch mehr als 30 Jahre erprobt und geschrieben zur Heilung der Krankheiten und Erhaltung der Gesundheit.

Kneipp was a Bavarian priest and not a physician. He learned about hydrotherapy and other methods of treatment later called naturopathic during the time he suffered from tuberculosis. Digital facsimile of the 1889 10t…

1844 CE

#1859

Mémoire sur l’alcool amylique.

Discovery of amyl nitrite.

1817 CE

#1843

Mémoire sur l’émétine, et sur les trois espèces d’ipecacuanha.

Isolation of emetine. It was not until a century later that Vedder demonstrated its value in the treatment of amoebiasis. Also during 1817 Magendie and Pelletier published "Recherches chimiques et physiologiques sur l…

1829 CE

#1849.1

Mémoire sur l’emploi de l’iode dans les maladies scrofuleuses.

Lugol’s solution. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1822 CE

#1848

Mémoire sur l’iodure de potassium, l’acide hydriodique et sur un composé nouveau de carbone, d’iode et d’hydrogène.

Iodoform discovered. See also Sérrulas' Notes sur l'Hydriodate de potasse et l'Acide hydriodique. – Hydriodure de carbone; moyen d'obtenir, à l'instant, ce composé triple (1822), of which a …

1845 CE

#1860

Mémoire sur la digitale pourprée.

Isolation of an active principle in digitalis, amorphous digitalin, more potent than the plant itself.

1819 CE

#1844

Mémoire sur un nouvel alcali végétal (la strychnine) trouvé dans la fève de Saint-Ignace, la noix vomique, etc.

Isolation of strychnine.

1812 CE–1817 CE

#2160

Mémoires de chirurgie militaire, et campagnes. (Vol. 5 entitled Relation médicale de campagnes et voyages.) 5 vols.

Larrey was the greatest military surgeon in history. Of him Napoleon said: “C’est l’homme le plus vertueux que j’ai connu”. He was present at all Napoleon’s great battles and one of…

1809 CE

#9064

Memoria sobre a canella do Rio de Janeiro offerecida ao Principe do Brazil nosso senhor: pelo Senado da Camara da mesma cidade no anno de 1798.

The earliest monograph on medicine published in Brazil. Digital facsimile from the U.S. National Library of Medicine at this link.

1822 CE

#9071

Memoria sobre a virtude toenifuga da romeira, com observações zoologicas e zoonomicas relativas á toenea, e com huma estampa.

On the use of a root medicine to treat tapeworms, roundworms and similar parasites. The author refers to cases from Portuguese Africa, India and Brazil, and gives clinical observations based on his own case studies, s…

1999 CE

#9277

Memory, wisdom and healing: The history of domestic plant medicine.

1902 CE

#241

Mendel’s principles of heredity: A defence.

The first book on Mendelism in English, and the first English textbook of genetics. It contains a reprint of the first English translation of Mendel’s “Versuch über Pflanzen-Hybriden” from the J…

1889 CE

#9525

Merck's index of fine chemicals and drugs for the materia medica and the arts: Comprising a summary of whatever chemical products are to-day adjudged as being useful in either medicine or technology, with average values and synonyms affixed; a guide for the physician, apothecary, chemist, and dealer.

First edition of the Merck Manual. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1928 CE

#8796

Mescal: The "divine" plant and its psychological effects. With an introduction by Macdonald Critchley.

The first study of the psychological effects of mescaline.

1628 CE

#2011

Methodus facile parandi iucunda tuta et nova medicamenta & eius applicatio aduersus chimicos.

Page 170 includes the first definite description of a blood transfusion, notably published in the same year as Harvey's discovery of the circulation of the blood in De motu cordis. Digital facsimile from Google Books …

1867 CE

#2080

Micro-chemistry of poisons.

The first American book entirely devoted to toxicology and an important contribution to the identification of poisons.

1944 CE

#12598

Micro-methods of estimating penicillin blood serum and other bodily fluids.

Fleming was the first to measure blood levels of penicillin after intramuscular, intradermal, inravenous and continuous drip administration in order to determine the correct dosage. He described his micro-measurement …

1991 CE

#8650

Milestones in leukemia research and therapy.

Freireich was part of the team that first introduced combined-drug cancer chemotherapy in 1965.

1892 CE

#10438

Mineral springs and health resorts of California: With a complete chemical analysis of every important mineral water in the world... A Prize Essay; Annual Prize of the Medical Society of the State of California, Awarded April 20, 1889.

The first half of the book concerns mineral springs and health resorts in California and how to use them; the second half mostly concerns mineral springs and other health resorts in North America and Europe. Digital f…

2017 CE

#9690

Miracle cure: The creation of antibiotics and the birth of modern medicine.

1963 CE

#2068.3

Miracle drugs: A history of antibiotics.

First published in German, 1959.

1980 CE

#8503

Mirau and his practice: A study of the ethnomedicinal repertoire of a Tanzanian herbalist.

1992 CE

#11134

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

1956 CE

#1947.3

Mitomycin, a new antibiotic from streptomyces.

Isolation of mitomycin C, effective in Hodgkin’s disease and lymphoma. With six co-authors.

1929 CE

#11936

Mittelalterliche Pflanzenkunde.

Reprint, with a forward by Johannes Steudel. Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlag, 2001.

1976 CE

#8962

Mittelalterliche Pharmazie und Medizin. Dargestellt an Geschichte und Inhalt des ANTIDOTARIUM NICOLAI

1984 CE

#7008

Modern drug use: An enquiry on historical principles.

1959 CE

#9727

Moderne problem der humangenetik.

In this paper Vogel coined the term pharmacogenetics, as the study of the role of genetics in drug response.

1965 CE

#7790

Mortality from cancer and other causes after radiotherapy for ankylosing spondylitis.

1988 CE

#8268

Moses Maimonides medical writings: Poisons, Hemorrhoids, and cohabitation, translated and annotated by Fred Rosner.