Facets

1478

#20

De medicina. Ed: Bartholomaeus Fontius.

De Medicina is the oldest Western medical document after the Hippocratic writings. Written about 30 CE, it remains the greatest medical treatise from ancient Rome, and the first Western history of medicine. Celsus’s s…

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.

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.…

1528

#36

In principio singulorum librorum omnia indicantur, quae in eo libro continentur. [Title in Greek and Latin].

Paul of Aegiina was the most famous physician and surgeon in the Byzantine Empire during the seventh century, and probably thereafter. According to Eugene F. Rice, "Paulus Aegineta", Catalogus translationum et comment…

1547

#54

Medici antiqui omnes, qui latinis literis diversorum morborum genera et remedia persecuti sunt.

MEDICI ANTIQUI OMNES

Contains selections from the writings of Celsus, Plinius Secundus, Soranus, Apuleius, Barbarus, Musa, Priscianus, Trotula, Macer, Caelius Aurelianus, Marcellus Empiricus, Scribonius Largus, Serenus Samonicus, Strabus …

1566

#13060

Vocum, quae apud Hippocratem sunt, collectio. Cum annotationibus Bartholomaei Eustachii . . . Eiusdemque Libellus de Multitudine.

First edition in Latin edited by Eustachi of the glossary to Hippocrates by the first century Greek grammarian Erotianus. Erotianus's work contains the earliest list of the writings of Hippocrates, including some now …

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…

1839 –1861

#13

Oeuvres complètes d’Hippocrate. Traduction nouvelle avec le texte grec en regard, collationné sur les manuscrits et toutes les éditions: Accompagnée d'une introduction de commentaires médicaux, de variantes et de notes philologiques; suivie d'une table générale des matières par É[mile] Littré. 10 vols.

The above bilingual edition was the result of 22 years of continuous labor, remains the most significant edition overall. For a detailed bibliography of modern editions and translations see Paul Potter, Short handbook…

1844 –1850

#11

Suśrutas. Áyruvédas. Id est medicinae systema a venerabili d'hanvantare demonstratum a Suśruta discipulo compositum. Nunc primum ex Sanksríta in Latinum sermonem vertit, introductionem, annotationes et rerum indicem adjecit Dr. Franciscus Hessler. 3 vols.

First translation of the Suśruta Samhitā into Latin, and the first publication of this text in the West. Suśruta is said to have lived in the 6th or 5th centuries, BCE. The principal medical contribution of the ancien…

1845

#2421

Geschichte der Lustseuche. Erster Theil. Die Lustseuche im Alterthume.

French translation, 1847; English translation as The plague of lust, being a history of venereal disease in classical antiquity, and including: Detailed investigations into the cult of Venus, and phallic worship, brot…

1849

#14

The genuine works of Hippocrates. Translated from the Greek with a preliminary discourse and annotations by Francis Adams. 2 vols.

Francis Adams, surgeon of Banchory, Scotland, prepared this partial translation to acquaint his contemporaries with “the opinions of an author, whom I verily believe to be the highest exemplar of professional excellen…

1851 –1876

#31

Oeuvres d’Oribase, texte grec, en grande partie inédit…traduit pour la première fois en français; par les Drs. Bussemaker et Daremberg. 6 vols.

Oribasius was a compiler of existing knowledge rather than an original writer. His output was immense; he compiled the Synagoge, an encyclopedic digest of medicine, hygiene, therapeutics, and surgery from Hippocrates …

1856

#22

Тα ∑ωζομενα. The extant works of Aretaeus, the Cappadocian. Edited and translated by Francis Adams.

Aretaeus left many fine descriptions of disease; in fact Garrison ranks him second only to Hippocrates in this respect. In the printed editions of this bibliography, before the present online version, the Adams editio…

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…

1877

#6485.91

[Charaka Samhita. Edited by Jibananda Vidyasagara.]

Sanskrit text. Authorities vary as to the date of Charaka. He is said to have lived at times varying between 800 BCE and 78 CE. The Samhita, or Sanhita, is one of the most ancient and complete systems of Hindu medicin…

1881

#1647

Die öffentliche Hygiene im alten Rom.

1894 –1902

#15

Hippocrates Opera. Recensuit H. Kuehlewein. 2 vols.

This Greek edition, originally planned to include the whole collection in seven volumes, was abandoned in 1907 with the founding of the Corpus Medicorum Graecorum series. Both editions employ manuscripts and methods u…

1897

#12198

Entwickelungslehre, Geburtshülfe und Gynäkologie in der hippokratischen Schriften.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1903

#12535

Une version syriaque des aphorismes d'Hippocrate. Texte et traduction par H. Pognon. 2 vols.

Edition of Bibliothèque nationale de France, fonds arabe 6734, a Syriac manuscript copied on 10 October 1205 by a physician, probably a Jacobite or Melchite naned Behnam, but nothing in the codex indicates the author/…

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 …

1923 –2012

#16

Hippocrates [Works] with an English translation by W.H.S. Jones, E.T. Withington, and Paul Potter. 12 vols.

Greek–English edition in the Loeb Classical Library.

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.

1949

#10

The Charaka Samhita. 6 vols.

Edited and published with translations in Hindi, Gujerati and English. The Charaka Samhita is the oldest known Hindu text on Ayurveda (life sciences). It was followed by the Sushruta Samhita. Except for some topics an…

1950

#16.1

The medical works of Hippocrates. A new translation by J. Chadwick and W.N. Mann.

This collection of translations was partly reprinted with an introduction by G.E.R. Lloyd, and the addition of three new translations by I.M. Lonie as Hippocratic Writings, Harmondsworth: Penguin Classics, 1978.

1954

#9879

"L'Eunuque dans l'Égypte pharaonique.

Full annotated text available at https://people.well.com/user/aquarius/pharaonique.htm.

1956

#6485

The public physicians of ancient Greece. (Smith College Studies in History, Vol. XLII.)

Re-examination of the question of whether the public physicians employed by the Greek city-states derived their entire income from their salaried positions and thus provided free medical care or whether they received …

1967

#10644

Hippocrate, Du régime. Texte établi et traduit par Robert Joly.

Edition of the Greek text with facing French translation and commentary of On regimen of the Hippocratic Collection. The treatise dates to the late 5th or early 4th century BCE.

1970

#10689

Hippocrate, Oeuvres complètes, Tome XI: De la génération. De la nature de l'enfant. Des maladies IV. Du foetus de huit mois. Texte établi et traduit par Robert Joly.

Greek text with facing French translation and commentary of a group of treatises from the Hippocratic Collection about generation or considered to be about it: On generation, and On the nature of the child, both dated…

1972

#10684

Hippocrate, Oeuvres complètes, Tome VI, 2e partie: Du régime des maladies aiguës, Appendice, De l'aliment, De l'usage des liquides. Texte établi et traduit par Robert Joly.

Greek text with facing French translation and commentary of a group of treatises of different periods devoted to nutrition: On regimen in acute diseases (in two versions, with the second traditionally identified as th…

1975

#12171

Iohannis Alexandrini commentaria in sextum librum Hippocratis epidemiarum. Edited and critically annotated by C. D. Pritchet.

1977

#1092.54

Food: The gift of Osiris. 2 vols.

Extensively illustrated history of nutrition in ancient Egypt.

1977

#12174

Palladius Kommentar zu Hippokrates ‘De fracturis’ und seine Parallelversion under dem Namen des Stephanus von Alexandria. Edited by Dieter Irmer. [Hamburger Philologische Studien 45].

1978

#10691

Hippocrate, Oeuvres complètes, Tome XIII: Des lieux dans l'homme, Du système des glandes, Des fistules, Des hémorroïdes, De la vision, Des chairs, De la dentition. Texte établi et traduit par Robert Joly.

Edition of the Greek text with facing French translation and commentary of a group of treatises from the Hippocratic Collection concerning anatomy, physiology, and pathology with the following possible periods of orig…

1982

#9752

Cinq cents ans de bibliographie hippocratique, 1473-1982.

Includes 3332 numbered entries of works concerning Hippocrates and the Hippocratic corpus with index of author's names with their Latin form (particularly helpful for Renaissance Latinized names) and index of modern a…

1983

#10687

Hippocrate, Oeuvres complètes, Tome X, 2e partie: Maladies II. Texte établi et traduit by Jacques Jouanna.

Greek text with facing French translation and commentary of On diseases II from the Hippocratic Collection, possibly from the second half of the fifth century BCE.

1983

#12173

Stephanus the Philosopher. A commentary on the Prognosticon of Hippocrates. Edited and translated by John M. Duffy. [CMG XI 1,2]

1983

#12308

Les maladies à l'aube de la civilisation occidentale. Recherches sur la réalité pathologique dans le monde grec préhistorique, archaïque et classique.

1984

#9753

Concordance des oeuvres hippocratiques. Éditée par Gilles Maloney et Winnie Frohn, avec la collaboration du Dr. Paul Potter. 5 vols.

Iintroductory material in French; text in Greek.

1984

#9822

Bibliografia Hipocrática.

Alphabetical bibliography by author's name of all scholars, physicians, and others who studied the Hippocratic Collection and published about it. Entries include a brief biography of the authors, transcription of the …

1985

#8297

Hippocrates Latinus: Repertorium of Hippocratic writings in the Latin Middle Ages. Revised edition with additions and corrections.

A systematic attempt to gather the names and locations of manuscripts on the individual treatises that circulated in the Latin West before 1500 under the name or aegis of Hippocrates of Cos.

1988

#8837

The body and society: Men, women, and sexual renunciation in early Christianity.

"A groundbreaking study of the marriage and sexual practices of early Christians in the ancient Mediterranean and Near East. Brown focuses on the practice of permanent sexual renunciation-continence, celibacy, and lif…

1988

#10643

Hippocrate, Oeuvres complètes, Tome V, 1ère partie: Des vents. De l'art. Texte établi et traduit par Jacques Jouanna.

Edition of the Greek text with facing French translation and commentary of On winds and On the art of medicine from the Hippocratic Corpus. Both treatises date to the final decades of the 5th cent. BCE. On winds claim…

1989

#8423

Index Hippocraticus Cui elaborando interfuerunt sodales Thesauri Linguae Graecae Hamburgensis. Edited by Joseph-Hans Kühn and Ulrich Fleischer.

There have been several supplements, etc. "This index contains the entire vocabulary (with the exception of the article and a few particles) of the complete writings constituting the Corpus Hippocraticum. Quotations a…

1990

#7513

Aztec medicine, health, and nutrition.

1990

#10636

Hippocrate, Oeuvres complètes, Tome II, 1ère partie: De l'ancienne médecine. Texte établi et traduit par Jacques Jouanna.

One of the most emblematic treatises of the Hippocratic Collection. The author, a physician presumably associated with Hippocrates but otherwise unidentified, illustrates the value of scientific medicine sometime betw…

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…

1997

#8226

Corpus Hippocraticum: Verzeichnis der hippokratischen und pseudohippokratischen Schriften.

Revised edition (2013) is available online at this link: http://cmg.bbaw.de/online-publikationen/hippokrates_2013_02.pdf

1997

#12172

John of Alexandria. Commentary on Hippocrates’ Epidemics VI Fragments. Edition and translation by John M. Duffy. T. A. Bell, et al, editors and translators, John of Alexandria. Commentary on Hippocrates’ on the Nature of the Child. [CMG XI 1,4].