Facets

1876 CE

#1932

The optical deportment of the atmosphere in relation to the phenomena of putrefaction and infection.

Tyndall observed the selective bacteria-inhibiting effect of Penicillium and the resistance of Ps. pyocyanea to it. See No. 2495.

2017 CE

#11964

The origins of botanic gardens and their relation to plant science, with special reference to horticultural botany and cultivated plant taxonomy.

Unusually well illustrated in color, with detailed bibliography, surveying the history from its origins in prehistory, the Neolithic revolution, to the present. Digital facsimile rbg.vic.gov.au at this link.

2018 CE

#9792

The patent medicines industry in Georgian England: Constructing the market by the potency of print.

1841 CE

#13521

The pathology of drunkeness, or the effects of alcoholic drinks with drawings of the drunkard's stomach.

Including four chromolithographed plates by J. H. Hall, Albany, N.Y., this is the earliest illustrated book published in the U.S. on the pathological effects of alcoholism. Digital facsimile from the U.S. National Lib…

2001 CE

#9408

The people's doctors: Samuel Thomson and the American Botanical Movement 1790-1860.

"Samuel Thomson, born in New Hampshire in 1769 to an illiterate farming family, had no formal education, but he learned the elements of botanical medicine from a "root doctor," who he met in his youth. Thomson sought …

1876 CE

#10412

The people's medical advisor.

A graduate of the Eclectic Medical College in Cincinnati, Vaughn was a member of the New York State Senate (31st D.) in 1878 and 1879, and was elected as a Republican to the 46th United States Congress, holding office…

1938 CE

#13291

The peyote cult.

The history of the study of the cult, the various botanical questions surrounding peyote, its physiological action and the various ethnological, psychological and historical questions involved in its diffusion.

1933 CE

#1923

The pharmacological action of an alkaloid obtained from Rauwolfia serpentina Benth. A preliminary note.

R. N. Chopra, J. C. Gupta, and B. Mukherjee demonstrated the sedative and hypotensive effect of an alkaloid isolated from Rauwolfia serpentina (reserpine).

1939 CE

#1928

The pharmacological actions and therapeutic uses of some compounds related to adrenaline.

1949 CE

#5727

The pharmacological actions of polymethylene bistrimethyl-ammonium salts.

Introduction of hexamethonium bromide.

1985 CE

#1931.8

The pharmacological basis of therapeutics. 7th ed.

Includes useful historical information.

1954 CE

#4962.4

The pharmacological properties of 2-methyl-2-m-propyl-1, 3-propanediol dicarbamate (Miltown), a new interneuronal blocking agent.

Introduction of meprobamate, later used for the treatment of anxiety. Miltown was the first widely prescribed psychotropic drug.

1808 CE

#10067

The pharmacopoeia of the Massachusetts Medical Society,

The first state pharmacopeia issued in the United States. Jackson and Warren were the "Committee for the Pharmacopoeia." Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1894 CE

#1886

The physiological action of the nitrites of the paraffin series, considered in connection with their chemical constitution.

1910 CE

#1899

The physiological action of β-iminoazolylethylamine.

Study of the effect of histamine.

1936 CE–1939 CE

#1172

The physiology and pharmacology of the pituitary body. 2 vols.

Includes an extensive bibliography.

1991 CE

#9311

The picture of health: Images of medicine and pharmacy from the William H. Helfand collection. Commentaries by William H. Helfand. Essays by Patricia Eckert Boyer, Judith Wechsler, and Maurice Rickards.

1913 CE

#1903.1

The plant alkaloids.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1881 CE

#13050

The plants an drugs of sind; being a systematic account, with descriptions, of the indigenous flora, and notices of the value and uses of their products in commerce, medicine and the arts.

1878 CE

#9497

The poisonous snakes of India: For the use of the officials and others residing in the Indian Empire.

Digital facsimile from the Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.

2013 CE

#13740

The power to cure: A brief history of therapeutic tattooing. In Philippe Della Casa & Constanze Witt (eds.) Tattoos and body modifications in antiquity.

Digital facsimile from academia.edu at this link.

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.

1932 CE

#2654

The production of cancer by pure hydrocarbons.

Discovery of the carcinogenic properties of dibenzanthracene compounds. With I. Hieger, E. L. Kennaway, and W. V. Mayneord.

1943 CE

#2441

The promin treatment of leprosy. A progress report.

Promin (sodium glucosulphone) introduced in the treatment of leprosy. With R. C. Pogge, F. A. Johansen, J. F. Dinan, B. M. Prejean, and C. G. Eccles.

1960 CE

#1931.3

The psychosedative properties of methaminodiazepoxide.

Librium. With four co-authors.

2001 CE

#10895

The pursuit of oblivion: A global history of narcotics.

1937 CE

#1925.1

The quantitative effect of antagonistic drugs

Gaddum was the first to formulate the theory of competitive drug antagonism. See also No. 1917.

2002 CE

#12415

The quest for drug control: Politics and federal policy in a period of increasing substance abuse, 1963-1981.

1843 CE

#9168

The regions of vegetation; being an analysis of the distribution of vegetable forms over the surface of the globe in connexion with climate and physical agents.

Digital facsimile of the copy presented by Hinds to Charles Darwin, with Darwin's annotations, from the Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link. This work also appeared as a section of Edward Belcher's Narrative of…

1940 CE

#1955.1

The relation of p-amniobenzoic acid to the mechanism of the action of sulphanilamide.

Isolation of p-aminobenzoic acid, a structural analog of sulfanilamide.

1849 CE–1851 CE

#13651

The rhododendrons of Sikkim-Himalaya: Being an account, botanical and geographical, of the rhododendrons recently discovered in the mountains of eastern Himalaya, from drawings and descriptions made on the spot, during a government botanical mission to that country

Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.

1978 CE

#10168

The road to Eleusis: Unveiling the secret of the mysteries.

Argues that the psycho-active ingredient in the secret kykeion potion used in the Eleusinian mysteries was most likely the ergotism causing fungus Claviceps purpurea. Furthermore the book introduced the term "entheoge…

2009 CE

#11856

The road to Yucca Mountain: The development of radioactive waste policy in the United States,

"In The Road to Yucca Mountain, Walker covers the U.S. government's controversial attempts to address the engineering and social issues associated with high-level radioactive waste repository (HLRWR) management and sp…

1942 CE

#2924

The rôle of hypersensitivity in periarteritis nodosa; as indicated by seven cases developing during serum sickness and sulfonamide therapy.

Rich considered hypersensitivity to be an important factor in the aetiology of periarteritis nodosa.

2006 CE

#11227

The Roy G. Neville historical chemical library: An annotated catalogue of printed books on alchemy, chemistry, chemical technology, and related subjects. 2 vols.

2015 CE

#8290

The Sanskrit, Syriac and Persian sources in the Comprehensive Book of Rhazes

Razi's Kitab al-Hawi, a vast medical-pharmaceutical encyclopedia, was compiled from multiple sources. For each identified source this study provides Razi's Arabic text with an English translation. When possible, the o…

1851 CE

#9166

The scale of medicines with which merchant vessels are to be furnished ... with observations on the means of preserving the health and increasing the comforts of merchant seamen.

Digital facsimile of the second edition (1861) from Google Books at this link.

1948 CE

#2091

The sensitizing effect of tetraethylthiuramdisulphide (Antabuse) to ethyl alcohol.

Introduction of “antabuse” in the treatment of alcoholism. With E. Jacobsen and V. Larsen. See also Lancet, 1948, 2, 1004.

1844 CE–1847 CE

#8306

The seven books of Paulus Aegineta: Translated from the Greek, with a commentary embracing a complete view of the knowledge possessed by the Greeks, Romans, and Arabians on all subjects connected with medicine and surgery by Francis Adams. 3 vols.

Book VI is entirely devoted to operative surgery. Adams himself says that it “contains the most complete system of operative surgery which has come down to us from ancient times”. Book IV contains much inf…

1981 CE

#11959

The shaping of Cambridge botany: A short history of whole-plant botany in Cambridge from the time of Ray into the present century. Published on the sequicentenary of Henslow's New Botanic Garden, 1831-1981.

1837 CE

#11467

The spirit of the woods, illustrated by coloured engravings

Little is known of the anonymous author of this early illustrated work on trees except that she was also "Mrs. William Hey" and had previously published The moral of flowers. The beautiful hand-colored plates presumab…

1995 CE

#9767

The spirit of voluntarism: A legacy of commitment and contribution: The United States pharmacopeia 1820-1995.

1974 CE

#11424

The spread and influence of British pharmacopeial and related literature. An historical and bibliographic study by David L. Cowen. Mit einer Einführung Britische Pharmakopöe-Literatur des 17. bis 19. Jahrhunderts von Erika Hickel.

1970 CE

#2068.12

The story of ergot.

Exhaustive and well-documented, but no index.

1935 CE

#6230

The substance responsible for the traditional clinical effect of ergot.

Isolation and introduction of ergometrine.

1617 CE

#2144

The surgions mate, or, A treatise discouering faithfully and plainely the due contents of the surgions chest: the uses of the instruments, the vertues and operations of the medicines, the cures of the most frequent diseases at sea: namely, wounds, apostumes, vlcers, fistulaes, fractures, dislocations, with the true maner of amputation, the cure of the scuruie, the fluxes of the belly, of the collica and illiaca passio, tenasmus, and exitus ani, the callenture; with a briefe explanation of sal, sulphur, and mercury; with certaine characters, and tearmes of arte.

Woodall was the surgeon-general to the East India Company. This was the first textbook for naval surgeons. Woodall, surgeon to Saint Bartholomew's Hospital, was an early advocate of limes and lemons as a preventive me…

1932 CE

#7003

The Swimmer manuscript. Cherokee sacred formulas and medicinal prescriptions, by James Mooney, revised, completed and edited by Frans M. Olbrechts. Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 99.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

c. 850 CE

#6900

The Syriac Galen palimpsest.

This ninth century palimpsest codex contains as its undertext a text of Galen's On Simple Drugs in the Syriac translation by Sergius of Reshaina. It has not yet been formally published. For further information see the…

1833 CE

#8208

The Taleef shereef, or Indian materia medica translated from the original by George Playfair, Superintending Surgeon, Bengal Service. Published by The Medical and Physical Society of Calcutta.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1872 CE

#2105

The thanatophidia of India. Being a Description of the venomous snakes of the Indian Peninsula, with an account of the influence of their poison on life and a series of experiments

Considered the first systematic work on venomous snakes. Describes all the venomous snakes of India. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.