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12 entries match Ancient [K01.400.470] · Africa & Middle East [Z01.058.500] · Historiography & General Works [K01.900]
1500
#53
Aphorismi secundum doctrinam Galeni. Add: Johannes Damascenus [Mesue?]: Aphorismi. Hippocrates: Secreta; Prognosticatio secundum lunam; Capsula eburnea; De humana natura; De aere et aqua et regionibus; De pharmaciis; De insomniis. Avenzohar: De curatione lapidis.
![GALEN, [Κλαύδιος Γαληνός; Galen of Pergamon] (129 – 216)](/media/portraits/21)
An edition of the Latin translation of Maimonides’ Aphorismi (first published, Venice, 1489), together with a compilation of the works of Mesue, Avenzoar, Galen, etc. Page for page reprint, Venice, 1508. See No. 6495.…
1824
#2531
Origines contagii.
History of contagious disease in the ancient world through readings from the texts. A supplementary “Additamenta” was published in 1826. Digital facsimile of the 1824 edition from the Internet Archive at this link.
1835
#439
Antiquitates anatomicae rariores, quibus origo, incrementa et status anatomes, apud antiquissimae memoriae gentes, historica fide illustrantur.
Anatomical terms used in antiquity, representing to a certain, extent a survey of the literature of ancient medicine available to Hyrtl. Digital facsimile from The Medical Heritage Library, Internet Archive, at this l…
1875
#2
Papyros Ebers: Das hermetische Buch über die Arzeneimittel der alten Ägypter in hieratischer Schrift, herausgegeben mit Inhaltsangabe und Einleitung versehen von Georg Ebers, mit Hieroglyphisch-Lateinischem Glossar von Ludwig [Christian] Stern, mit Unterstützung des Königlich Sächsischen Cultusministerium. 2 vols.
The Ebers Papyrus dates from about 1552 BCE. It measures 20.23 m. in length and 30 cm. in height, and is, along with the Edwin Smith Papyrus, one of the two most important surviving medical papyri. It was written in h…
1909
#4
Der grosse medizinische Papyrus des Berliner Museums (Pap. Berl. 3038) in Facsimile und Umschrift mit Uebersetzung, Kommentar und Glossar. Herausg. von Walter Wreszinski.
BRUGSCH PAPYRUS
The Greater German Papyrus (Brugsch Papyrus) dates from about 1300 BCE. The above facsimile reproduction and translation forms vol. 1 of the Medizin der alten Aegypter series. Digital facsimile from the U.S. National …
1927 –1948
#6419
Introduction to the history of science. 3 vols. in 5.
An extensively annotated bibliographical survey to the end of the 14th century.
1935
#8403
Ueber die anatomischen kenntnisse der altägyptischen ärzte. Morgenland; Darstellungen aus Geschichte und Kultur des Ostens., Hft. 26.
1954
#9879
"L'Eunuque dans l'Égypte pharaonique.
Full annotated text available at https://people.well.com/user/aquarius/pharaonique.htm.
1977
#1092.54
Food: The gift of Osiris. 2 vols.
Extensively illustrated history of nutrition in ancient Egypt.
1991 –2007
#7415
A history of medicine. 6 vols.
Vol. 1: Primitive and Ancient Medicine (1991/1995), Vol. 2: Greek Medicine (1996), Vol. 3: Roman Medicine (1998), Vol. 4: Byzantine and Islamic Medicine (2001), Vol. 5: Medieval Medicine (2003), Vol. 6: Renaissance Me…
1996
#9757
Baths and bathing in classical antiquity.
Reviews and analyzes the structure, function, and design of baths, seeking to integrate their architecture with the wider social and cultural custom of bathing, and examining in particular the changes this custom unde…
2004
#8321
Eros on the Nile. Translated from the Polish by Geoffrey L. Packer.
Originally published by Eros nad Nilem (Prószyyńki i S-ka S.A, 1998).