Facets

1926 CE

#1914

Actions and uses of the salicylates and cinchophen in medicine.

Republished in book form, Baltimore, 1927.

1935 CE

#1950

Activité du p-aminophénylsulfamide sur les infections streptococciques expérimentales de la souris et du lapin.

The Tréfouëls and colleagues assumed that the sulfonamide group was responsible for the results obtained with Domagk’s Prontosil. Their work led them to introduce sulfanilamide.

1539 CE

#9016

Actuarius de medicamentorum compositione. Ruellio interprete.

The 5th and 6th books of Actuarius's De methodo medendi, concerning materia medica. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1932 CE

#1979

Actuation of the inert diaphragm by a gravity method.

Eve’s method of artificial respiration.

2010 CE

#8701

Addiction: A reference encyclopedia. Edited by Howard Padwa and Jacob Cunningham.

An encyclopedia with the addition of the texts of numerous primary source documents.

1986 CE

#11106

Administration of 3'-Azido-3'-Deoxythmymidine, an inhibitor of HTLV-III/LAV replication, to patients with AIDS or AIDS-related complex.

Order of authorship in the original publication: Yarchoan, Weinhold, Lyerly. The first antiviral AIDS drug, later named "Retrovir"/ Zidovudine/AZT. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.)

1943 CE

#2027.1

Advantages of a disodium-citrate-glucose mixture as a blood preservative.

This work made possible the storage of whole blood for up to three weeks.

1794 CE

#19

Aesclapiadis Bithyni fragmenta. Digessit et curavit Christianus Gottlieb Gumpert. Praefatus est Christian. Gothfridus Gruner.

After the fall of Corinth (146 BCE), Greek physicians migrated to Rome. There, before the advent of Asclepiades, Greek physicians were despised and distrusted. Asclepiades may be said to have established Greek medicin…

2000 CE

#8030

African traditional medicine: A dictionary of plant use and applications with supplement: Search system for diseases.

1994 CE

#8029

Afrikanische Arzneipflanzen und Jagdgifte.

Translated into English by Aileen Porter as African ethnobotany: Poisons and drugs. Chemistry - Pharmacology - Toxicology (Chapman & Hall, 1996).

1982 CE

#14018

Agrobacterium rhizogenes inserts T-DNA into the genomes of the host plant root cells.

Chilton was the first (1977) to demonstrate the presence of a fragment of Agrobacterium Ti plasmid DNA in the nuclear DNA of crown gall tissue. Her research on Agrobacterium also showed that the genes responsible for …

1582 CE

#7327

Aigentlich Beschreibung der Raiss, so er vor diser Zeit gegen Auffgang inn die Morgenländer, fürnemlich Syriam, Iudaeam, Arabiam, Mesopotamiam, Babyloniam, Assyriam, Armeniam etc....

Rauwolf provided the first modern descriptions of the flora of the area east of the Levantine coast. He was also the first to describe the riparian flora of the Euphrates, and the first European to publish an account …

1973 CE

#8524

Al-Biruni's book on pharmacy and materia medica (Kitāb al-saydan fī al-tibb). Edited and translated by Hakim Mohammed Said. 2 vols.

1867 CE

#1792

Alberti Magni ex ordine praedicatorum de vegetabilibus libri VII: Historiae naturalis pars XVIII. Editionem criticam ab Ernesto Meyero coeptam: Absolvit Carolus Jessen.

One of the best works on natural history produced during the Middle Ages, and, like most of Albertus's works, influential throughout the medieval period, though it does not appear to have been published in print until…

1968 CE–1977 CE

#11331

Alchemy and the occult; a catalogue of books and manuscripts from the collection of Paul and Mary Mellon given to Yale University Library. Compiled by Ian MacPhail, with essays by R. P. Multhauf and Aniela Jaffé and additional notes by William McGuire. 4 vols.

2013 CE

#12102

Alcohol and opium in the Old West: Use, abuse and influence.

1939 CE

#10226

Alcoholics Anonymous: The story of how many thousands of men and women have recovered from alcoholism.

"Describes how to recover from alcoholism, primarily written by William G. "Bill W." Wilson, one of the founders of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA). It is the originator of the seminal "twelve-step method" widely used to tr…

2005 CE

#8045

Alcoholism in America, from Reconstruction to Prohibition.

1973 CE

#9274

Algonquin ethnobotany: An Interpretation of aboriginal adaptation in Southwestern Quebec. 2 vols.

1582 CE

#7565

Aliquot notae in Garciae aromatum historiam. Eiusdem descriptiones nonnullarum stirpium, & aliarum exoticarum rerum, que à generoso viro Franciso Drake quite Anglo, & his obseruatae sunt, qui eum in long illa nauigatione, qu proximis annis vniuersum orbem circumiuits ....

Botany of the circumnavigation of Sir Francis Drake. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1849 CE–1851 CE

#12168

Alkoholismus Chronicus eller Chronik Alkoholssjukdom. Ett bidrag till dyskrasiernas kännedom; enligt egen och andras erfarenheit. . . . Första afdelningen.

The first monograph on alcoholism considered as a disease. Huss was the first to define alcoholism and to give a scientific analysis of its physical, psychological, moral and social effects. Translated into German, 1852.

1922 CE

#11722

All about coffee.

Covers the historical, technical, scientific, commercial, social and artistic dimensions of coffee. Second edition, 1935. Digital facsimile of the 1922 edition from Google Books at this link.

1935 CE

#13845

All about tea. 2 vols.

Covers the historical, technical, scientific, commercial, social and artistic dimensions of tea. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

2007 CE

#8557

Alphita: Edición crítica y comentario de Alejandro García González. Edizione Nazionale La Scuola Medica Salernitana, 02.

Alphita, farina ordei idem, an anonymous collection of glosses, documents the linguistic renewal of the medical and botanical technical lexicon, derived from Greco-Latin as well as Arabic sources, at the School of Sal…

2004 CE

#8044

Altering American Consciousness: The history of alcohol and drug use in the United States, 1800-2000.

2001 CE

#10115

America's botanico-medical movements: Vox populi.

1961 CE

#11420

America's pre-pharmacopeial literature.

2004 CE

#9799

American household botany: A history of useful plants 1620-1900.

1970 CE

#6467.1

American Indian medicine.

Volume 95 of The Civililization of the American Indian Series.

1931 CE

#7788

American martyrs to science through the Roentgen rays.

1817 CE–1820 CE

#1842

American medical botany, being a collection of the native medicinal plants of the United States, containing their botanical history and chemical analysis, and properties and uses in medicine, diet and the arts. 3 vols.

Bigelow was professor of materia medica and botany at Harvard. This work included native American remedies. It was the first book printed in the United States to include color plates printed in color. See R.J. Wolfe, …

1887 CE

#8716

American medicinal plants; an illustrated and descriptive guide to the American plants used as homoeopathic remedies: Their history, preparation, chemistry and physiological effects. Illustrated by the author.

Plates printed by chromolithography. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1712 CE

#6374.11

Amoentitatum exoticarum politico-physico-medicarum fasciculi V.

Kaempfer’s illustrated accounts of Japanese acupuncture and moxibustion are among the best of the 17th century. They appeared for the first time in the above work and were translated into English in his The Hist…

1955 CE–1956 CE

#1947.2

Amphotericins A and B, antifungal antibiotics produced by a streptomycete.

With six co-authors.

1796 CE

#310

An account of Indian serpents collected on the coast of Coromandel: containing descriptions and drawings of each species, together with experiments and remarks on their several poisons.

First attempt at a description of Indian serpents and serpent venoms. Includes the original description of Russell’s viper, Daboia russellii. Digital facsimile from the Linda Hall LIbrary at this link.

1667 CE

#2014

An account of the experiment of transfusion, practised upon a man in London.

First transfusion of blood performed on a human in England, Nov. 23, 1667.

1985 CE

#9233

An account of the foxglove and its medical uses 1785-1985.

This work consists of a reproduction of Withering's classic text published in 1785, extensively annotated by Aronson, followed by Aronson's history of "the use of the digitalis glycosides and related compounds over th…

1785 CE

#1836

An account of the foxglove, and some of its medical uses.

Before publication of Withering's book digitalis was a widely used folk remedy, occasionally mentioned in the literature. Withering established the correct dosages, and the action of digitalis in edema and on the hear…

1763 CE

#6970

An account of the success of the bark of the willow in the cure of agues.

Stone, a vicar from Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, discovered that the bark of the willow tree (active ingredient: salicylic acid) was effective in reducing a fever. This was the first report in the scientific literatu…

1906 CE

#1895

An active alkaloid from ergot.

Isolation of ergotoxine. With F. H. Carr.

2011 CE

#8709

An anatomy of addiction: Sigmund Freud, William Halsted and the miracle drug, cocaine.

1989 CE

#8471

An ancient Egyptian herbal.

1949 CE

#1945

An antiphage agent isolated from Aspergillus sp.

Isolation of fumagillin, an antibiotic with amoebicidal activity. See also Science, 1951, 113, 202-3.

1798 CE

#11796

An entire new treatise on leeches, wherein the nature, properties, and use of that most singular and valuable reptile, is most clearly set forth.

Digital facsimiel from WellcomeLibrary.org at this link.

1940 CE

#1933.3

An enzyme from bacteria able to destroy penicillin.

Penicillinase.

1798 CE

#9082

An epitome of the natural history of the insects of China: Comprising figures and descriptions of upwards of one hundred new, singular, and beautiful species: together with some that are of importance in medicine, domestic economy, &c. The figures are accurately, drawn, engraved, and coloured, from speciemsn of the insects; the descriptions are arranged accordig to the system of Linnaeus, with references to the writings of Fabricius, and other systematic authors.

The first work in a Western language on the insects of China, including pharmaceutical aspects. For this work Donovan obtained specimens and information from George Macartney a British envoy to China. Includes 50 colo…

1884 CE

#9422

An epitome of the reports of the medical officers to the Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs Office from 1871 to 1882. With chapters on the history of medicine in China: Materia medica: Epidemics: Famine: Ethnology: And chronology in relation to medicine and public health.

Apart from studies of common diseases, public health issues, and epizootics, this work contains a chapter on opium smoking and a chapter on the castration of Chinese eunuchs, of which there were around a thousand work…

1767 CE

#2096

An essay concerning the cause of the endemial colic of Devonshire.

Baker demonstrated that the cider of Devonshire contained lead, while that made in other parts of England did not. He further showed that it was common practice in Devon to line cider presses with lead, and proved tha…

1837 CE

#8209

An essay on the antiquity of Hindoo medicine, including an introductory lecture to the course of materia medica and therapeutics, delivered at King's College.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1922 CE

#2047

An essay on the history of electrotherapy and diagnosis.