Facets

1472

#6315

De infantium aegritudinibus et remediis.

The first printed book dealing exclusively with pediatrics. This was also the first medical treatise, and probably also the first scientific treatise, to make its original appearance in printed form rather than having…

1525

#6820

Hippocratis Coi medicorum omnium longe principis, octoginta volumnia quibus maxima ex parte, annorum circiter duo millia Latina caruit lingua. . . .translated by Marco Fabio Calvo

The first collected edition of the Hippocratic collection in the Latin translation of Marco Fabio Calvo of Ravenna, dedicated to Pope Clement VII. "This volume, which preceded the first, Aldine, edition of the Greek t…

1539

#10165

Epistola docens venam axillarem dextri cubiti in dolore laterali secandam: & melancholium succum ex venae portae ramis ad sedem pertinentibus, purgari.

In this early study, written in the form of a letter to his friend and mentor Imperial Physician, Nicolaus Florenas, who had encouraged him to study medicine, Vesalius reported his study of the venous system of the hu…

1545

#378

De dissectione partium corporis humani.

De dissectione partium corporis humani libri tres by French physician, writer, and translator, Charles Estienne, of the Estienne printing dynasty, is one of the most interesting woodcut books of the French Renaissance…

1555 –1556

#9773

Le benefice commun de tout le monde, ou commodité de vie d’vn chascun, pour la conseruation de santé: Remedes segretz tirées des plantes contre toutes maladies. 3 vols.

A vernacular guide for living a healthy life compiled from the writings of Fuchs. Includes herbal and dietary remedies, recipes for oils, pills and other preparations to treat maladies such as fever, plague and wounds.

1563

#4916

De praestigiis daemonum.

Weyer was the first European physician to take an empirical, scientific approach to the study of mental illness. At the height of the witchcraft delusion he argued that witches were mentally ill women who deserved hum…

1570

#35

Hieronymi Mercurialis Variarum lectionum libri quatuor. In quibus complurium, maximeq́ue medicinae scriptorum infinita paenè loca vel corrupta restituuntur, vel obscura declarantur. Alexandri Tralliani De lumbricis epistola, ejusdem Mercurialis opera, & diligentia Graecè, & Latinè nunc primùm edita ...

Includes the first printed edition of the Greek text and Latin translation by Mercuriale of Alexander's De vermis epistola. Alexander's original description of worms and vermifuges make him the first parasitologist. D…

1583

#5817

̓Oφθαλμоδоύλεια das ist, Augendienst.

In this treatise on ophthalmic surgery Bartisch, who limited his practice to ophthalmology and hernia repair, left the first extensively illustrated account of any surgical specialty. Bartisch was a skilful operator a…

1587

#11101

Medicina universa, ex lectiones eius caeterisque opusculis, tum impressis, tum scriptis collecta, & in tres tomos nunc primum decenti ordine digesta, studio & opera Martini Weindrichii.

Montanus became a professor of practical medicine at Ferrara and at the University of Padua in 1539. His greatest innovation was to introduce clinical medicine into the curriculum as a way to integrate medical theory …

1644

#11858

Theatro d’Arcani del medico Lodovico Locatelli da Bergamo; nel quale si tratta dell’arte chimica, et suoi arcani, con gli afforismi d’Ippocrate commentati da Paracelso, et l’espositione d’alcune cifre, et caratteri oscuri de filosofi.

‘It is apparent that by the 1640’s Paracelsian medicine had gained momentum in Italy and that iatrochemical theories were being adopted by a number of Italian physicians. […] In 1644 there appeared the first Italian t…

1841

#12685

Études sur André Vésale: Précédées d'une notice historique sur sa vie et ses écrits.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1906

#6554

La médecine et les médecins en France à l’époque de la Renaissance.

Wickersheimer, librarian of University of Strasbourg, contributed several scholarly works on the history of medicine.

1911 –1916

#365

Leonardo da Vinci: Quaderni d’anatomia I-VI. Fogli della Royal Library di Windsor, pubblicati da Ove C.L. Vangensten, A. Fonahn, H. Hopstock. 6 vols.

Leonardo, “the greatest artist and scientist of the Italian Renaissance, was the founder of iconographic and physiologic anatomy” (Garrison). He made over 750 sketches of all the principal organs of the body, drawings…

1923 –1958

#6422

A history of magic and experimental science. 8 vols.

Vols. 1-2 deal with the first 13 centuries of the Christian era; vols. 3-4 with the 14th and 15th centuries, vols. 5-6 with the 16th century, and vols. 7-8 with the 17th century.

1930

#5010

Les malades de l’esprit et leurs médecins du XVIe siècle. Les étapes des connaissances psychiatriques de la Renaissance à Pinel.

1934

#6564

The renaissance of medicine in Italy … The Hideyo Noguchi Lectures.

1943

#8096

A bio-bibliography of Andreas Vesalius.

The standard annotated bibliography of Vesalius's works, known for its unusual system of numbering entries. Posthumously edited for publication by John F. Fulton and Arturo Castiglioni. Digital facsimile of the 1943 e…

1952

#366

Leonardo da Vinci on the human body. The anatomical, physiological, and embryological drawings of Leonardo da Vinci. With translations, emendations, and biographical introduction by Charles D. O'Malley and J. B. de C. M. Saunders.

Includes 215 plates.

1961

#8421

A chronological census of Renaissance editions and translations of Galen.

Digital facsimile from Jstor at this link.

1964

#12693

Andreas Vesalius of Brussels, 1514-1564.

1965 –1995

#14361

Theoprast von Hohenheim Gennant Paracelsus sämtliche Werke. Edited by Kurt Goldammer.

Annotation from the Zurich Paracelsus Edition online: "After the failure of the Matthiessen edition of Paracelsus' theological writings in 1935, Sudhoff succeeded in engaging the newly appointed Leipzig professor of t…

1969

#6610.8

Das Bild des Kranken. Die Darstellung äusserer Veränderungen Durch innere Leiden und ihrer Heilmassnahmen von der Renaissance bis in unsere Zeit.

1979

#9769

Health, medicine and mortality in the sixteenth century. Edited by Charles Webster.

Chapter 11 is an analysis of the life and work of librarian and key early pioneer in medical informatics, Sanford V. Larkey by Margaret Pelling. Another chapter, by Paul Slack, “Mirrors of health and treasures of poor…

1980

#366.1

Corpus of the anatomical studies in the collection…at Windsor Castle. Edited by K.D. Keele and C. Pedretti. 3 vols.

Splendid edition reproducing all of the drawings in color, and with the original chronology and integrity of the drawings restored. Text provides transliteration of Leonardo’s notes in the original Italian plus Englis…

1985

#11949

Doctors and medicine in early Renaissance Florence.

1987

#6565.02

Avicenna in Renaissance Italy. The Canon and medical teaching in Italian Universities after 1500.

1990

#8049

Medieval & Early Renaissance medicine: An introduction to knowledge and practice.

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…

1991

#10265

Botany in medieval and renaissance universities.

Reprints Reeds, "Publishing scholarly books in the sixteenth century," Scholarly Publishing (April, 1983), 259-274.

1992

#7043

Contraception and abortion from the ancient world to the Renaissance.

Riddle argued that the ancient world possessed effective and safe contraceptives and abortifacients; however this knowledge about fertility control, widely held in the ancient world, was gradually lost over the course…

1994

#7547

La fabbrica del corpo: Libri e dissezione nel Rinascimento.

Translated into English by John Tedeschi and Anne C. Tedeschi as Books of the body: Anatomical ritual and Renaissance learning, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999.

1995

#8129

Medical ethics in the Renaissance.

The first comprehensive examination of medical ethics in the Renaissance.

1997

#8051

The clock and the mirror: Girolamo Cardano and Renaissance medicine.

1999

#7032

Taking positions. On the erotic in Renaissance culture.

Of particular relevance to the history of medical literature is Chapter 8: "Mythology, Sexuality, and Science in Charles Estienne's Manual of Anatomy" (pp. 161-188). This refers to Estienne's De dissectione partium co…

1999

#7153

Herbs and herbalism in the Middle Ages and Renaissance

1999

#7546

Paper bodies: A catalogue of anatomical fugitive sheets 1538-1687. (Medical History, Supplement No. 19)

Describes bibliographically and illustrates the approximately 60 different surviving fugitive sheets together with essays on "The visual culture of Renaissance anatomy," "Anatomical fugitive sheets: Printing, prints a…

1999

#9748

Hygiene in the early modern medical tradition.

2000

#8229

A history of madness in sixteenth-century Germany.

2004

#11503

Jean Fernel's On the hidden causes of things: Forms, souls and occult diseases in Renaissance medicine.

2006

#7629

Human anatomy: A visual history from the Renaissance to the digital age.

A popular history, with excellent illustrations; probably the first history of anatomy to include a chapter (by Ackerman, project director for the National Library of Medicine's Digital Human Project) on "Anatomy in t…

2006

#8323

The Renaissance hospital: Healing the body and healing the soul.

2007

#7775

Renaissance vision from spectacles to telescopes.

Through an examination of original economic documents, as well as scientific documents, Ilardi discovered that Florence rather than Venice was the 15th-century center for making eye glasses and that lenses for farsigh…

2007

#8050

History, medicine, and the traditions of Renaissance learning.

2008

#14360

The Zurich Paracelsus Project. General editor: Urs Leo Gantenbein. Digital Edition.

A digital edition from the Center for Medieval Studies Zurich: https://www.paracelsus.uzh.ch/index.html "Alterius not sit, qui suus esse potest." "Who can be himself, shall not belong to someone else." "This was the m…

2013

#7997

Pliny and the artistic culture of the Italian Renaissance.

2016

#7518

A census of Greek medical manuscripts: From Byzantium to the Renaissance.

An amended and updated index of Diels' catalogue (No. 6767), and a list of items missed or overlooked in Diels, or located since.

2016

#7861

Wombs with a view: Illustrations of the gravid uterus from the Renaissance through the Nineteenth century.

2016

#9401

Success and suppression: Arabic sciences and philosophy in the Renaissance.

A bibliographically oriented historical analysis of the numerous Renaissance translations of Arabic medical, scientific and philosophical works into Latin from the Arabic, which the author argues reached a peak in the…

2017

#8570

Medicine and humanism in late medieval Italy: The Carrara herbal in Padua.

2017

#10752

The art and science of healing from antiquity to the Renaissance. Exhibition catalogue Kelsey Museum of Archaeology - University of Michigan Library 10 February - 30 April 2017.

Finely illustrated and annotated catalogue including objects and rare books and manuscripts collected by Le Roy Crummer, Lewis Stephen Pilcher, and Campbell Bonner. Until publication of this catalogue material in the …