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Materia medica / Herbals / Herbal Medicines

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1843 CEA flora of the state of New-York, comprising full descriptions of all the indigenous and naturalized plants hitherto discovered in the state; with remarks on their economical and medicinal properties. 2 vols.
TORREY, John (1796 – 1873)
TORREY, John (1796 – 1873)
1927 CEAr-Raoudat at-tibbiyya (Le jardin médical) par Ubaîd-Allah Ben Gibraîl Ben Bakhtichoû, Chrétien décédé en 1058: Texte arabe, publié pour la première fois d’après trois manuscrits conservées dans la Bibliothèque des Manuscrits.
IBN BAKHTYASHU, Abu Sa'id Ubaid Allah ( Bukhtishu, Bukhtyashu, and Bakhtshooa) (940 – 1058) SBATH, Paul (Būlus Sbāt) (1887 – 1945)
1509 CEMedicinae Pliniae libri quinque finiunt foeliciter.
PLINIUS SECUNDUS, Gaius [Pliny the Elder] (23 – 79) PSEUDO-PLINY ( – 350)
1999 CENatureza em boiões: Medicinas e boticá-rios no Brasil setecentista.
MARQUES, Vera Regina Baltrão (1954 – 2013)
2008 CERusskie rukopisnye travniki XVII–XVIII vekov: Issledovanie fol′klora i etnobotaniki. (Russian Manuscript Herbals of the 17th and 18th Centuries: An Investigation of Folklore and Ethnobotany).
IPPOLITOVA, Aleksandra Borisovna
1885 CEA contribution to South African materia medica, chiefly from plants in use among the natives.
SMITH, Andrew (1828 – 1898)
2014 CEA database for three Dioscoridean illustrated herbals.
DIOSCORIDES, Pedanius [Πεδάνιος Διοσκουρίδης] (40 – 90)
DIOSCORIDES, Pedanius [Πεδάνιος Διοσκουρίδης] (40 – 90) WHIPKEY, Anna KALBAUGH, Kirby FRANZ, Audra JANICK, Jules (1931 – )
1969 CEA guide to medicinal plants of Appalachia. (U.S.D.A. Forest Service Research Paper NE-138).;
KROCHMAL, Arnold (1919 – ) WALTERS, Russell S. DOUGHTY, Richard M.
1931 CEA modern herbal. The medicinal, culinary, cosmetic and economic properties, cultivation and folk-lore of herbs, grasses, fungi, shrubs & trees with their modern scientific uses. With an introduction by the editor, Mrs. C. F. Leyel. 2 vols.
GRIEVE, Sophia Emma Magdalene [Maud Grieve] (1858 – 1941)
GRIEVE, Sophia Emma Magdalene [Maud Grieve] (1858 – 1941)
1822 CEA narrative of the life and medical discoveries of Samuel Thomson: Containing an account of his system of practice, and the manner of curing disease with vegetable medicine, upon a plan entirely new; to which is added an introduction to his New Guide to Health, or Botanic Family Physician containing the principles upon which the system is founded, with remarks on fevers, steaming, poison &c.
THOMSON, Samuel (1769 – 1843)
THOMSON, Samuel (1769 – 1843)
1551 CE​–1568 CEA new herball. 3 vols.
TURNER, William (1508 – 1568)
TURNER, William (1508 – 1568)
1789 CEA treatise of the materia medica. 2 vols.
CULLEN, William (1710 – 1790)
CULLEN, William (1710 – 1790)
1555 CEAcerca de la materia medicinal, y de los venenos mortiferos, traduzido de lengua griege, en la vulgar castellana, & illustrado con claras y substantiales annotationes, y con las figuras de innumeras plantas exquisitas y raras, por el Doctor Andres de Laguna....
LAGUNA DE SEGOVIA, Andrés [LACUNA] (1499 – 1559)
DIOSCORIDES, Pedanius [Πεδάνιος Διοσκουρίδης] (40 – 90)
DIOSCORIDES, Pedanius [Πεδάνιος Διοσκουρίδης] (40 – 90)
1539 CEActuarius de medicamentorum compositione. Ruellio interprete.
ACTUARIUS, Joannes Zacharias [Aktouarios] (1275 – 1330)
RUEL, Jean (Ruelle; Ioannes Ruellius) (1474 – 1537)
RUEL, Jean (Ruelle; Ioannes Ruellius) (1474 – 1537)
1973 CEAl-Biruni's book on pharmacy and materia medica (Kitāb al-saydan fī al-tibb). Edited and translated by Hakim Mohammed Said. 2 vols.
AL-BĪRUNĪ, Abū Rayḥān Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad (973 – 1048) SAID, Hakim Mohammed (1920 – 1998)
2001 CEAmerica's botanico-medical movements: Vox populi.
FLANNERY, Michael A.
FLANNERY, Michael A. BERMAN, Alex (1914 – 2000)
2004 CEAmerican household botany: A history of useful plants 1620-1900.
SUMNER, Judith
1817 CE​–1820 CEAmerican 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, Jacob (1786 – 1879)
BIGELOW, Jacob (1786 – 1879)
1887 CEAmerican 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.
MILLSPAUGH, Charles Frederick (1854 – 1923)
MILLSPAUGH, Charles Frederick (1854 – 1923)
1989 CEAn ancient Egyptian herbal.
MANNICHE, Lisa
1837 CEAn essay on the antiquity of Hindoo medicine, including an introductory lecture to the course of materia medica and therapeutics, delivered at King's College.
ROYLE, John Forbes (1798 – 1858)
ROYLE, John Forbes (1798 – 1858)
1764 CEAn essay on the more common West-India diseases and the remedies which that country itself produces: To which are added some hints on the management, &c. of negroes.
GRAINGER, James (1721 – 1766)
2009 CEAn Oak Spring herbaria: Herbs and herbals from the fourteenth to the nineteenth centuries. A selection of the rare books, manuscripts and works of art in the collection of Rachel Lambert Mellon by Lucia Tongiorgi Tomasi & Tony Willis. Edited with a description of the American herbals by Mark Argetsinger.
TOMASI, Lucia Tongiorgi (1939 – ) WILLIS, Tony
2009 CEAn Old French herbal (Ms Princeton U.L. Garrett 131). Edited by Tony Hunt.
HUNT, Anthony "Tony" B. (1944 – )
2012 CEAnglicus ortus. A verse herbal of the twelfth century. Edited and translated by Winston Black.
HENRY OF HUNTINGDON (1088 – 1157)
1979 CEAnglo-Saxon plant remedies and the Anglo-Saxons.
VOIGTS, Linda Ehrsam
c. 1486 CE​–1488 CEArbolayre... Le grant herbier en francois.
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c. 1477 CEArtzneibuch.
ORTOLF VON BAIERLAND, (Ortolf von Würzburg) ( – 1290)
1981 CEAtlas of medicinal plants of Middle America: Bahamas to Yucatan.
MORTON, Julia Francis McHugh (1912 – 1996)
1740 CEBibliotheca botanica sive catalogus auctorum et librorum omnium qui de re botanica, de medicamentis ex vegetabilibus paratis, de re rustica, & de horticultura tractant. Accessit bibliotheca botanica Jo. Ant. Bumaldi seu potius O. Montalbani.
SÉGUIER, Jean-François (1703 – 1784)
1878 CE​–1879 CEBibliotheca therapeutica, or bibliography of therapeutics, chiefly in reference to articles of the materia medica, with numerous critical, historical, and therapeutical annotations, and an appendix containing the bibliography of British mineral waters. 2 vols.
WARING, Edward John (1819 – 1891)
WARING, Edward John (1819 – 1891)
1814 CEBotanic medicine: A new and complete American medical family herbal: Wherein is displayed the true properties and medical virtues of the plants, indigenous to the United States of America, together with Lewis' secret remedy newly discovered, which has been found infallible in the cure of that dreadful disease hydrophobia, produced by the bite of a mad dog.
HENRY, Samuel
HENRY, Samuel
1497 CEBreviarium medicinae. Tr: Gerardus Cremonensis. Add: Serapion the Younger: In medicinis simplicibus. Tr: Simon a Cordo Januensis and Abraham Judaeus Tortuosiensis. Galenus: De virtute centaureae; Johannes Platearius: Practica brevis; Matthaeus Platearius: De simplici medicina "Circa instans".
GALEN, [Κλαύδιος Γαληνός; Galen of Pergamon] (129 – 216)
GALEN, [Κλαύδιος Γαληνός; Galen of Pergamon] (129 – 216) ALEXANDER OF TRALLES [ἈΛΈΞΑΝΔΡΟΣ Ὁ ΤΡΑΛΛΙΑΝΌΣ; ALEXANDER TRALLIANUS] (525 – 605) PLATEARIUS, Matthaeus (1130 – 1180) SERAPION, Johannes (Yahya ibn Sarafyun) The Elder (850 – ) SERAPION THE YOUNGER (1150 – 1250) SIMON GENUENSIS, (Simon a Cordo; Simon Januensis; Simon of Genoa) (1250 – ) ABRAHAM TORTUOSIENSIS, [Abraham Judeus of Tortosa, Abraham ben Schem Tob] PLATEARIUS, Johannes (1050 – 1120)
1958 CE​–1961 CECatalogue of botanical books in the collection of Rachel McMasters Hunt. 2 vols. in 3.
FULTON, John Farquhar (1899 – 1960) QUINBY, Jane (1901 – 1965) STEVENSON, Allan Henry (1903 – 1970) HUNT, Rachel McMasters Miller (1884 – 1963)
1925 CECatalogue of early herbals.
KLEBS, Arnold Carl (1870 – 1943)
KLEBS, Arnold Carl (1870 – 1943)
1896 CECatalogue of the medicinal plants in the Museum of the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain.
HOLMES, Edward Morrell (1843 – 1930)
HOLMES, Edward Morrell (1843 – 1930)
1851 CECatalogus plantarum horti botanici medicocirurgicae Scholae Olisponensis anno MDCCCLII.
GOMES, Bernardino António the younger (1806 – 1877)
GOMES, Bernardino António the younger (1806 – 1877)
2004 CEChinese medical herbology and pharmacology.
CHEN, John K.
CHEN, John K.
CHEN, Tina T.
CHEN, Tina T.
2012 CEChocolate as medicine: A quest over the centuries.
WILSON, Philip K.
WILSON, Philip K.
HURST, W. Jeffrey
HURST, W. Jeffrey
1860 CEColección de medicamentos indigenas y sus aplicaciones, estraidos de los reinos vegetal, mineral y animal, recogidos y anotados por [...], segunda edición corregida y aumentada.
POMPA, Gerónimo
1798 CECollections for an essay towards a materia medica of the United States. Read before the Philadelphia Medical Society, on the twenty-first of February, 1798.
BARTON, Benjamin Smith (1766 – 1815)
BARTON, Benjamin Smith (1766 – 1815)
1563 CEColóquios dos simples, e drogas he cousas mediçinais da Índia e assi dalgũas frutas achadas nella onde se tratam algũas cousas tocantes a medicina, pratica, e outras cousas boas pera saber.
ORTA, Garcia de [Garcia d'Orta] (1501 – 1568)
ORTA, Garcia de [Garcia d'Orta] (1501 – 1568)
1488 CECompendium aromatariorum.
ASCULO, Saladinus de (Saladin d'Ascoli) (1425 – )
1871 CEContributions towards the materia medica & natural history of China for the use of medical missionaries & native medical students.
SMITH, Frederick Porter (1833 – 1888)
1554 CECruÿdeboeck.
DODOENS, Rempert [DODONAEUS] (1517 – 1585)
1790 CECulpeper's English physician; and complete herbal. To which are now first added upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult properties, physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind. To which are annexed rules for compounding medicine according to the true system of nature, forming a complete family dispensatory and natural system of physic. Beautified and enriched with engravings of upwards of four hundred and fifty different plants, and a set of anatomical figures....
CULPEPER, Nicholas (1616 – 1654)
CULPEPER, Nicholas (1616 – 1654)
SIBLY, Ebenezer (1751 – 1799)
SIBLY, Ebenezer (1751 – 1799)
1992 CEDas ‚Lorscher Arzneibuch‘. Ein medizinisches Kompendium des 8. Jahrhunderts (Codex Bambergensis medicinalis 1). Text, Übersetzung und Fachglossar. (Philosophische Dissertation Würzburg 1989) (Sudhoffs Archiv, Beiheft 28).
STOLL, Ulrich
1939 CEDas Arzneidrogenbuch Circa Instans in einer Fassung des XIII. Jahrhunderts aus der Universitätsbibliothek Erlangen. Text und Kommentar als Beitrag zur Pflanzen- und Drogenkunde des Mittelalters by Hans Wölfel.
PLATEARIUS, Matthaeus (1130 – 1180) WÖLFEL, Hans
1989 CEDas Lorscher Arzneibuch. Band 1: Faksimile der Handschrift Msc. Med. 1 der Staatsbibliothek Bamberg. Band 2: Übersetzung [...] von Ulrich Stoll und Gundolf Keil unter Mitwirkung von Albert Ohlmeyer. 2 vols.
STOLL, Ulrich KEIL, Gundolf (1932 – )
1903 CE​–1910 CEDatos par la materia médica Argentina. 2 vols. (Vol. 2: Trabajos de Instituto de Farmacología de la Facultad de Ciencias Médicas de Buenos Aires No. 25).
DOMÍNGUEZ, Juan Aníbal (1876 – 1946)