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81 entries match Ancient [K01.400.470] · Pharmacology & Therapeutics [D01 / E02]
1985
#8567
Dioscorides on pharmacy and medicine.
1985
#8958
Les noms de plantes dans la Rome antique.
1986
#8235
Galen on bloodletting: A study of the origins, development and validity of his opinions, with a translation of the three works
![GALEN, [Κλαύδιος Γαληνός; Galen of Pergamon] (129 – 216)](/media/portraits/21)
Bloodletting is thought to have been practiced by Greek physicians of the 5th century BCE. This study includes translation of Galeni de venae sectione adversus Erasistratum liber (162-163 CE), Galeni de venae sectione…
1986
#9419
Medicine in China: A history of pharmaceutics.
1988 –2006
#8568
Théophraste. Recherches sur les plantes. Texte établi et traduit par Suzanne Amigues. 5 vols.
1989
#8392
Un traité égyptien d’ophiologie - Papyrus du Brooklyn Museum nos 47.218.48 et 85. Cairo: Institut français d'archéologie orientale.
Dating from about 450 BCE, this papyrus concerns snakes and the treatments for snake bites, and also the treatment of scorpion bites and spider bites.
1989
#8471
An ancient Egyptian herbal.
1989
#9140
De plantis: Five translated. Edited and introduced by H. J. Drossaart Lulofs and E. L. J. Poortman.
On Plants (De Plantis), sometimes attributed to Aristotle, is generally believed to have been written by Nicolaus of Damascus in the first century BCE. It is divided into two parts: "The first part discusses the natur…
1989
#10757
Historia general de las drogas.
The following works were issued separately and added as appendices to later editions: El libro de los venenos (1990), Para una fenomenología de las drogas (1992) and Aprendiendo de las drogas (1995). English translati…
1990
#7513
Aztec medicine, health, and nutrition.
1991
#8343
A Hellenistic treatise on poisonous animals (the "Theriaca" of Nicander of Colophon): A contribution to the history of toxicology.
"... the authors review all the ancient treatises, ranged in chronological order, that cite Nicander at greater or lesser length, from Celsus up to Paul of Aegina - not less than thirteen authors. . . . Next follows a…
1996
#6983
Prospecting for drugs in ancient and medieval European texts. A scientific approach, edited by Bart K. Holland.
1997
#7102
Theriaka y Alexipharmaka de Nicandro.
Essays by Alain Touwaide, Jean Pierre Angremy, Christian Förstel and Grégoire Aslanoff concerning the 10th century Byzantine illuminated manuscript designated as "BnF Supplement grec 247." This spectacularly illustrat…
1997
#9609
Galen on pharmacology: Philosophy, history and medicine. Proceedings of the Vth International Galen Colloquium, Lille, 16-18 March 1995. Edited by Armelle Debru.
1998
#8880
Libri medicinae Sexti Placiti Papyriensis ex animalibus pecoribus et bestiis vel avibus Concordantiae. Edited by Maria Paola Segolini.
Placitus wrote fanciful descriptions of medicines derived from animals, and other sources. For example, he recommended such remedies as consuming cooked puppy to relieve colic, and breaking a fever by cutting a splint…
1999
#9602
A Pompeian herbal: Ancient and modern medicinal plants. Plant portraits by Victoria I and Lillian Nicholson Meyer. Photographs by Stanley A. Jashemki and others.
1999
#9810
Medicina antiqua. Codex Vindobonensis 93. Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek. Introduction by Peter Murray Jones, commentary by Franz Unterkircher. Manuscripts in Miniature, No. 4.
Color reproduction, reduced in size by one-third, of "a compendium of popular Late Antique texts brought together in the 6th century. It contains writings on herbs and materia medica by authors heavily reliant on the …
2000
#8565
Dioscorides: De Materia Medica, being an herbal with many other medicinal materials, written in Greek in the first century of the common era. A new indexed version in Modern English by Tess Anne Osbaldeston and Robert P. A Wood.
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Rather than a new translation from the Greek, this is a updated and usefully indexed version, in modern English, of Goodyer's paraphrase from the 17th century. See No. 8564.
2000
#10000
Die Heilkunde in alten Aegypten (Sudhoffs Archiv Beiheft 42).
Covers both magic and empirical treatment, with a particular focus on the treatment of diseases studied on the basis of texts, including the preparation of medicines.
2003
#8506
Materia magica et medica Hethitica: Ein Beitrag zur Heilkunde im Alten Orient. By Volkert Haas in cooperation with Daliah Bawanypeck.
The first comprehensive compendium of all known remedies and treatments used by the Hittites. The source texts are ritual descriptions and formularies from the 15th to 13th centuries BCE preserved from the archives of…
2003
#9601
Le piante medicinali dal Corpus Hippocraticum.
2005
#8566
Pedanius Dioscorides of Anazarbus, De materia medica. Translated by Lily Y. Beck. (Altertumswissenschaftliche Texte und Studien, vol. 38).
A new English translation, directly from the Greek text edited by Wellmann, and thoroughly indexed.
2007
#8342
Leisure, pleasure and healing: Spa culture and medicine in Ancient Eastern Mediterranean.
2008
#9600
Hippocratic recipes: Oral and written transmission of pharmacological knowledge in fifth-and fourth-century Greece.
"... the first extended study of the pharmacological recipes included in the Hippocratic Corpus. The recipes, found mostly in the gynaecological and nosological treatises, are here examined both from a philological an…
2009
#8293
The world of pharmacy and pharmacists in Mamlūk Cairo.
"...the first detailed analysis of an immensely popular 13th c. Arabic guide for pharmacists, from a time in which Jewish physicians and pharmacists worked alongside Muslim and Christian practioners. Minhāj al-dukkān …
2012
#7409
The alphabet of Galen. Pharmacy from Antiquity to the Middle Ages. A critical edition of the Latin text with English translation and commentary by Nicholas Everett
ALPHABET OF GALEN
An edition and translation of Bibliotheca Apostolica Vaticana, Pal. lat. 187, a late seventh or early eighth century codex, which represents the earliest surviving manuscript of the text. Not written by Galen of Perga…
2012
#11048
Medical prescriptions in the Cambridge Genizah Collections: Practical medicine and pharmacology in medieval Egypt. Cambridge Genizah Studies Series, Volume 4.
2014
#8296
History of toxicology and environmental health. Toxicology in antiquity. 2 vols. Edited by Philip Wexler.
2015
#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…
2016
#9599
Ancient botany.
2019
#11056
A spotlight on the history of ancient Egyptian medicine.
A general survey with chapters that focus on the ancient Egyptian understanding and treatments of cardiovascular disease, as well as a description of herbal medicines used by ancient Egypt medical practitioners and ph…