Facets

1941

#5301.2

The transmission of Leishmania tropica by the bite of Phlebotomus papatasii.

Proof of the transmission of L. tropica by P. papatasii.

1942

#5302

Transmission of Indian kala-azar to man by the bites of Phlebotomus argentipes, Ann. and Brun.

Successful transmission of kala-azar to man by the bite of Phlebotomus argentipes reported, showing it to be the vector of Leishmania. With H. E. Shortt and L. A. P. Anderson.

1965

#6491.2

A story of medicine and pharmacy in India. Pharmacy 2000 years ago and after.

A short history of the four systems of medicine practiced in India.

1976

#8497

Asian medical systems: A comparative study, edited by Charles Leslie.

1980

#12961

Caraka Samhita: A scientific synopsis.

1980

#12962

Suśruta Samhita: A scientific synopsis

1981

#6958

The Manchu anatomy and its historical origin. With annotations and translations by John B. de C. M. Saunders and Francis R. Lee.

The Anatomie Manchoue, a series of graphic illustrations taken from Western anatomical works, with notes in the Manchu-Tungus language. This was compiled under the supervision of Father Parrenin, a French Jesuit worki…

1985

#6495.4

Medicine in China: A history of ideas.

The first comprehensive and analytical history of therapeutic concepts and practices in China, encompassing all aspects of Chinese medicine over 3500 years. Approximately one third of the work consists of primary text…

1985

#8498

Encyclopaedia of Indian medicine. Volume one: Historical perspective.

1986

#9419

Medicine in China: A history of pharmaceutics.

1987

#7358

Studies on Indian medical history, edited by G. Jan Meulenbeld and Dominik Wujastyk.

1993

#8811

Colonizing the body: State medicine and epidemic disease in nineteenth-century India.

An authoritative account of the way that medicine was practiced in India in adaptation to the situation faced by physicians and the state in India, focusing on three major epidemic diseases: smallpox, cholera plague.

1994

#8802

Public health in British India: Anglo-Indian preventive medicine 1859-1914.

The first major study of public health in British India.

1998

#12806

The roots of Ayurveda.

Readings in English translation, with commentaries, from classical medical texts.

1999 –2002

#7216

A history of Indian medical literature. 5 vols.

Comprises the entire corpus of Sanskrit medical texts, from the earliest times to the present, thus covering about two millennia.

1999

#10093

Essential subtleties on the silver sea: The Yin-Hai Jing-Wei: A Chinese classic on ophthalmology.

Provides detailed descriptions of the etiology, symptomatology, and therapy of every eye disease known to fifteenth-century Chinese practitioners. The translators' introduction also provides the first in-depth analysi…

2000

#12728

Science, technology and medicine in Colonial India, 1760-1947. The new Cambridge history of India, Vol. 3, pt. 5.

2003

#9746

Medicine across cultures: History and practice of medicine in non-Western cultures. Edited by Helaine Selin.

A very wide-ranging selection of essays

2008

#12724

Lead encephalopathy due to traditional medicines.

Abstract: "Traditional medicine use is common in developing countries and increasingly popular in the western world. Despite the popularity of traditional medicines, scientific research on safety and efficacy is limit…

2009

#11825

Recipes for immortality: Healing, religion, and community in South India.

"Despite the global spread of Western medical practice, traditional doctors still thrive in the modern world. In Recipes for Immortality, Richard Weiss illuminates their continued success by examining the ways in whic…

2009

#12666

Medicine, race and liberalism in British Bengal: Symptoms of empire.

"This book focuses on the entwinement of politics and medicine and power and knowledge in India during the age of empire. Using the powerful metaphor of ‘pathology’ - the science of the origin, nature, and course of d…

2010

#12723

Medicine in the {Veda}: Religious healing in the {Veda} with translations and annotations of medical hymns from the {Rgveda and the Atharvaveda} and renderings from the corresponding ritual texts.

2011

#8247

The social history of health and medicine in colonial India. Edited by Biswamoy Pati and Mark Harrison.

2012

#12805

Well-Mannered medicine: Medical ethics and etiquette in classical Ayurveda.

2014

#12722

Healing traditions of the Northwestern Himalayas.

"This book discusses the perception of disease, healing concepts and the evolution of traditional systems of healing in the Himalayas of Himachal Pradesh, India. The chapters cover a diverse range issues: people and k…

2014

#12839

Unseen enemy: The English, disease, and medicine in colonial Bengal, 1617–1847.

2015

#9706

Science and civilisation in China: Vol. 6, biology and biological technology, Part 4, traditional botany: An ethnobotanical approach.

2016

#12727

Doctoring traditions: Ayurveda, small technologies, and braided sciences.

"Like many of the traditional medicines of South Asia, Ayurvedic practice transformed dramatically in the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. With Doctoring Tradition, Projit Bihari Mukharji offers a close…