Facets

1864 –1866

#6534

Leechdoms, wortcunning, and starcraft of early England. Being a collection of documents, for the most part never before printed, illustrating the history of science in this country before the Norman Conquest. Collected and edited by Oswald Cockayne. 3 vols.

This set contains many texts relating to medieval English medicine and the Anglo-Saxon language. It contains the Herbal of Apuleius in Anglo-Saxon and modern English, the Leechbook of Bald, the text of Sextus Placitus…

1866

#7378

Notes bibliographiques pour servir à l'histoire du magnétisme animal: Analyse de tous les livres, brochures, articles de journaux publiés sur le magnétisme animal, en France et à l'étranger, à partir de 1766 jusqu'en 1866.

Later issue: Paris: chez l'auteur, Joubert, 1869.

1870

#10567

The religious system of the Amazulu. Izinyanga zokubula; or, divination, as existing among the Amazulu, in their own words, with a translation into English, and notes.

Callaway, a surgeon turned missionary and bishop of the Diocese of Natal, may have been the first to publish actual transcriptions of Zulu divination, including indigenous medical beliefs and practices, in their origi…

1871

#172

Primitive culture: Researches into the development of mythology, philosophy, religion, art, and custom. 2 vols.

The standard work on primitive religion for many years. Tylor approached his subject from the point of view of psychology, exploring the nature of belief in spirits, omens, magic, etc. His work has important ties with…

1879

#11626

Traité des corps étrangers en chirurgie. Voies naturelles pharynx et oesophage - estomac - intestin - rectum - voies respiratoire - organes génito-urinaires de l'homme et de la femme conduit auditif - fosses nasales - conduits glandulaires. Avec figures dans le texte, desinées par H. Dauphin.

A comprehensive treatise on an astounding variety of foreign bodies that surgeons had recorded removing from various and sometimes amazing parts of the body. Digital facsimile of the 1879 edition from Google Books at …

1881

#11416

Nederlands Tijdschrift tegen de Kwakzalverij. Vol. 1- .

Founded in 1881, this Dutch organization is the oldest skeptical organization in the world investigating alternative medicine and quackery. It has published its periodical since 1881. The archive of the periodical may…

1883

#6452

Folk-medicine; a chapter in the history of culture.

Folk-Lore Society Publication No. 12. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1885 –1886

#11636

A system of medicine. Edited by William Pepper. 5 vols.

"The most comprehensive 19th century American work on medicine. Pepper assembled virtually all of the leading American physicians of the day, including D. Hayes Agnew, Roberts Bartholow, John Shaw Billings, William By…

1889

#8330

Marcelli De medicamentis liber. Edited Georgius Helmreich.

Marcellus's compendium of pharmacological preparations drawing on the work of multiple medical and scientific writers as well as folk remedies and magic. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1889

#9276

The folk-lore of plants.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1892

#6452.1

The medicine-men of the Apache.

Bourke, a U.S. Army officer with experience on the American Indian frontier, was a pioneer student of native American medicine and anthropology. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1893

#6453

Die Medicin der Naturvölker. Ethnologische Beiträge zur Urgeschichte der Medicin.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1896

#10793

Anomalies and curiosities of medicine: Being an encyclopedic collection of rare and extraordinary cases, and of the most striking instances of abnormality in all branches of medicine and surgery, derived form an exhaustive research of medical literature from its origin to the present day, abstracted, classified, annotated, and indexed.

Digital facsimile of the 1900 edition from the Internet Archive at this link.

1898

#2039

Die Heilpflanzen der verschiedenen Volker und Zeiten.

1899

#9273

Animal and plant lore collected from the oral tradition of English speaking folk. Edited and annotated by Fanny D. Bergen.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1903

#6624

Der Aberglauben in der Medicin.

English translation, 1905.

1903

#6640

Das Kurpfuschertum. Eine medizin-geschichtliche Studie.

History of quackery in medicine.

1905

#6641

Die Kurierfreiheit und das Recht auf den eigenen Körper. Ein geschichtlicher Beitrag zum Kampf gegen das Kurpfuschertum.

1907 –1910

#11290

Modern medicine, its theory and practice. In original contributions by American and foreign authors. Edited by William Osler, assisted by Thomas McCrae. 7 vols.

Osler contributed six chapters to this massive system of medicine: "The Evolution of Internal Medicine", "Diseases of the Arteries," "Aneurism," "Raynaud's Disease," "Diffuse Scleroderma," "Angioneurotic Oedema." Osle…

1908

#2044

Die volkmedizinische Organotherapie und ihr Verhältnis zum Kultopfer.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1908 –1909

#6455

Vergleichende Volksmedizin. Eine Darstellung volksmedizinischer Sitten und Gebräuche, Anschauungen und Heilfaktoren, des Aberglaubens und der Zaubermedizin. 2 vols.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1909

#8797

Zulu medicine and medicine-men.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1909

#12411

Secret remedies, what they cost and what they contain. Based on analyses made for the British Medical Association.

This exposé of useless or dangerous drugs was followed in 1912 by More secret remedies. What they cost & what they contain. Based on analyses made for the British Medical Association. Digital facsimile of the 1909 wor…

1911

#6646

The king’s evil.

A classic account of the history of touching for the “king’s evil” or scrofula— a practice of kings from ancient times until the 18th century.

1911 –1936

#12412

Nostrums and quackery: Articles on the nostrum evil and quackery reprinted from the Journal of the American Medical Association. 3 vols.

Cramp was director of the AMA's Propaganda for Reform Department. "In 1911, Cramp published the first of three volumes called Nostrums and Quackery,[3] which would become "a veritable encyclopedia on the nostrum evil …

1914

#6625

Astrology in medicine.

1919

#8871

Irish ethno-botany and the evolution of medicine in Ireland.

A discussion of Irish materia medica and a summary of the development of medicine in Ireland from the earliest times. Indices in Gaelic and English. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1920

#6539

Early English magic and medicine.

Reprinted from Proc. Brit. Acad., 1919-20, 9, 341-74.

1922

#9249

Die Zauberkraft des Auges und das Berufen. Ein Kapitel der Geschichte der Aberglaubens.

1923

#3797

Greffes testiculaires

Voronoff first reported his controversial experimental rejuvenation by means of testicular transplants in 1919.

1923

#6456

The medicine man: A sociological study of the character and evolution of shamanism.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

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.

1924

#13374

Medicine, magic and religion. [Edited] with a preface by G. Elliot Smith.

Fitzpatrick Lectures 1915-16. Originally published in Lancet , 94, 59–65, 117–23.

1925

#6458

The healing gods of ancient civilizations.

1925

#13849

The medical follies: An analysis of the foibles of some healing cults: Including osteopathy, homeopathy, chiropractic, and the electronic reactions of Abrams, with Essays on the antivivisectionists, health legislation, physical culture, birth control, and rejuvenation.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1926

#2345

Ueber Versuche, schwere Formen der Tuberkulose durch diätetische Behandlung zu beeinflussen.

Gerson introduced a salt-restricted diet in the treatment of tuberculosis; this was subsequently modified by Sauerbruch and Herrmannsdorfer, becoming known as the “Gerson–Sauerbruch–Hermannsdorfer diet”. The scientifi…

1927

#6459

The infancy of medicine. An enquiry into the influence of folk-lore upon the evolution of scientific medicine.

1927

#6626

Die magischen Heil- und Schutzmittel aus der unbelebten Natur.

1927

#6627

Amulette und Talismane und andere geheime Dingen.

1927

#13850

The new medical follies: An encyclopedia of cultism and quackery in these United States, with essays on the cult of beauty, the craze for reduction, rejuvenation, eclecticism, bread and dietary fads, physical therapy, and a forecast as to the physician of the future.

1928

#6643

The quacks of old London.

1928

#10639

Folklore of the teeth.

1930

#6627.1

Amulets and superstitions: the original texts with translations and descriptions.

Reprinted, 1961.

1931

#7062

A modern herbal. The medicinal, culinary, cosmetic and economic properties, cultivation and folk-lore of herbs, grasses, fungi, shrubs & trees with their modern scientific uses. With an introduction by the editor, Mrs. C. F. Leyel. 2 vols.

Online version at Botanical.com at this link.

1932

#6460

Medicine among the American Indians.

Reprinted, New York, Hafner, 1962.

1932

#6574

Lappische Heilkunde.

Folk medicine of the Sami people.

1934

#6628

Medicine and mysticism.

1935

#6461

The medicine-man of the American Indian and his cultural background.

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1935

#6462

Healing ritual: studies of the technique and tradition of the southern Slavs.

1935

#8616

Folk medicine of the Pennsylvania Germans: The non-occult cases.