Entry Nos. 2000–2099

1927

#2052

Four thousand years of pharmacy; an outline history of pharmacy.

First history of pharmacy by an American. Reprinted as The curious lore of drugs and medicines, New York, Garden City Publ. Co., 1936.

1929

#2054

The mystery and art of the apothecary.

1931

#2055

Histoire de la pharmacie à travers les âges. 2 vols.

1932

#2056

Physical therapy.

“Clio medica” series.

1935

#2057

Grundriss der Geschichte der deutschen Pharmazie.

1937

#2058

A history of pharmacy.

1938

#2059

Herbals: their origin and evolution. A chapter in the history of botany, 1470-1670. 2nd edition.

Includes an invaluable bibliography. Reprinted, with new introduction and additional references, 1987.

1941

#2060

Fundamental errors in the early history of cinchona.

1945

#2061

Cinchona in Java: The story of quinine.

1946

#2062

Die Injektion.

Deals exhaustively with the history of intravenous and intramuscular injection.

1947

#2063

A critical study of the origins and early development of hypodermic medication.

1949

#2064

Histoire illustrée de la pharmacie.

1949

#2065

A critical review of the basic facts in the history of cinchona.

1951

#2067

The development of pharmacopoeias.

Digital facsimile from PubMedCentral at this link.

1952

#2068

Plants of the Bible.

The most comprehensive treatise available on plants and plant products mentioned in the Bible.

1499

#2069

Dioscorides, De materia medica [Greek]. Add: Pseudo- Dioscorides, De venenis, De venenatis animalibus [Greek]; Add: Nicander, Theriaca; Add: Alexipharmaca; Scholia [Greek].

Nicander was a Greek poet and physician. His Theriaca, in 958 hexameters, dealt with the symptoms and treatment of poisoning by the bites of poisonous animals; the Alexipharmaca considered intoxications through animal…

1472

#2070

Conciliator differentiarum philosophorum et medicorum. Add: De venenis.

Includes the first printed book on toxicology; one of the more elegantly printed of medical incunabula, printed in folio format. For an English translation, see Ann. med. Hist., 1924, 6, 26-53. ISTC No. ip00431000. Di…

1779 –1787

#2071

Some remarks on the effects of lignum quassiae amarae.

Includes (p. 151) “original account of alcoholism, which is incidentally the first paper on the drug habit” (Garrison).

1814 –1815

#2072

Traité des poisons tirés des règnes minéral, végétal et animal; ou, toxicologie générale. 2 vols, each in 2 parts.

Orfila, pioneer toxicologist, was the leading medico-legal expert of his time. He was born in Minorca, studied at Valencia, Barcelona, and Paris, and was one of the founders of the Académie de Médecine. Digital facsim…

1820

#2073

Pharmacologia; or the history of medicinal substances, with a view to establish the art of prescribing. 3rd ed.

First description of cancer caused by arsenic (p. 133).

1825

#2074

Wanderings in South America, the North-West of the United States, and the Antilles, in the years 1812, 1816, 1820, and 1824.

Waterton traveled to the Guyana region of South America to obtain curare. He provided a detailed description of its paralyzing effects, its preparation by distillation, and the blowpipe and darts used to deliver it. O…

1829

#2075

An essay on the operation of poisonous agents upon the living body.

The first book in English on the action of poisons on the living body.

1829

#2076

A treatise on poisons.

Christison, a famous toxicologist, was a Professor of Medical Jurisprudence at Edinburgh. During the trial of Burke and Hare he performed an autopsy on the body of one of the victims and gave evidence as to the cause …

1836

#2077

Account of a method of separating small quantities of arsenic from substances with which it may be mixed.

Marsh method for the detection of arsenic.

1856

#2078

Physiologische Untersuchungen über die Wirkung einiger Gifte.

First investigation of the effects of poisons on muscular contraction.

1856

#2079

Analyse physiologique des propriétés des systèmes musculaires et nerveux au moyen de curare.

Bernard paralysed motor nerve-endings with curare and demonstrated the independent excitability of muscle. He showed that curare acted by stopping the transmission of impulses from motor nerves to voluntary muscles.

1867

#2080

Micro-chemistry of poisons.

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

1881

#2081

Die Nebenwirkungen der Arzneimittel.

This was the first book of its kind. It deals with the borderline between the pharmacological and the toxicological action of drugs with the untoward or side-effects of all kinds of medicaments. For details regarding …

1899

#2082

A note on the influence of maternal inebriety on the offspring.

Fetal alcohol syndrome – first serious study.

1902 –1906

#2083

Lehrbuch der Intoxikationen. 2te. Aufl. 2 vols.

1906 –1907

#2084

On the poisons of Amanita phalloides.

Abel and Ford showed that there were two poisons in the fungus Amanita phalloides, and that immunity against them could be attained. A further study on the subject by the same authors is in Arch. exp. Path. Pharmak., …

1916

#2085

On the ‘vomiting sickness’ of Jamaica.

Discovery of the cause of the “vomiting sickness of Jamaica”: ackee poisoning.

1924

#2086

Phantastica.

The classic of psychoactive drug classification. Lewin established the following categories: Euphorics, Phantastics, Inebriants, Hypnotics, and Excitants. English translation, 1931.

1933

#2089

Die wichtigsten Vergiftungen. Fortschritte in deren Erkennung und Behandlung.

1947

#2090

Curare, its history, nature, and clinical use.

1948

#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.

1616

#2092

De novo et populari apud Pictones dolore colico bilioso diatriba.

Citois described Poitou colic, “colica Pictonum”, in great detail, and it was this description which was responsible for the condition being recognized as a definite syndrome. Partial English translation in No. 2241.

1739

#2093

De morbo colico Damnoniensi.

Huxham left a vivid account of the “Devonshire colic”. He was at fault, however, in ascribing it to the tartar extracted from apples in the process of making cider.

1745

#2094

An essay on the West-India dry-gripes… to which is added, an extraordinary case in physick.

Cadwalader, an American pupil of Cheselden, left a classical account of lead colic and lead palsy. This was later shown by Benjamin Franklin, printer of the above work, to be due to the consumption of Jamaica rum whic…

1757

#2095

De colica pictonum.

Tronchin, sometime physician to Voltaire, showed that the so-called “Poitou colic” was caused by drinking water which had passed through lead gutters. Tronchin introduced inoculation into Holland, France, and Switzerl…

1767

#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…

1803

#2097

Sur la colique, vulgairement appelée colique des peintres, des plombiers, du plomb, etc.

1839

#2098

Traité des maladies de plomb ou saturnines. 2 vols.

Classical description of the diseases found among lead workers. Reporting on 1200 cases of lead poisoning, Tanquerel’s studies were so complete that later studies added little to knowledge of the symptoms and signs of…

1840

#2099

On a remarkable effect upon the human gums produced by the absorption of lead.

Burton was the first to note the blue line on the gums in lead poisoning – “Burton’s blue line" – an important diagnostic sign. He was physician to St. Thomas’s Hospital, London.