Facets

1656

#8591

Flora sinensis, fructus floresque humillime porrigens serenissimo et potentissimo Leopoldo Ignatio, Hungariae regi florentissimo, &c. Fructus saecul promittenti Augustissimos.

The first description published in Europe of an ecosystem of the Far East, including animals as well as plants, with particular attention to Chinese fruit bearing plants, and medicinal properties of Chinese plants. Di…

1671

#6491.9

Les secrets de la médecine des chinois, consistant en la parfaite connoissance du pouls. Envoyez de la Chine par un françois, homme de grand mérite.

The first Western book on Chinese medicine, with a few brief comments on Japanese methods. This anonymous collection of translations of early Chinese texts on pulse medicine has been variously attributed to different …

1682

#6492

Specimen medicinae Sinicae.

One of the earliest studies of Chinese medicine published in the West. (See also Nos. 6472.10 et seq.). Cleyer edited these translations of Chinese medical texts, reproducing a series of 30 plates dealing with Chinese…

1686

#6492.1

Clavis medica ad Chinarum doctrinam de pulsibus. Autore R.P. Michaele Boymo, e Soc. Jesu, & in China missionario. Huius operis ultra viginti annos iam sepulti fragmenta, hinc inde dispersa, collegit & in gratiam medicae facultatis in lucem Europaeam produxit Cl. Dn. Andreas Cleyerus, M.D. & Societatis Batavo-Orientalis Proto-Medicus. A quo nunc demum mittitur totius operis exemplar, e China recens allatum, & a mendis purgatum, Procuratore R.P. Philippo Copletio, Belga, e Soc. Jesu, Chinensis missionis Romam misso.

Translations of Chinese treatises on pulse medicine with illustrations of hands and wrists to illustrate pulse-taking. The texts published here are different from those published by Cleyer in No. 6492. Previously publ…

1767

#12397

An account of the manner of inoculating for the small pox in the East Indies: With some observations on the practice and mode of treating that disease in those parts.

Holwell's account of smallpox variolation in India prior to Jenner has been disputed by historians. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1813

#14178

Recherches historiques sur la médecine des chinois.

The first Western history of Chinese medicine. Lepage, a pupil of Pierre Sue, was a friend and colleague of pioneer sinologist Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat. In his medical thesis Lepage presented an overview of what was t…

1826

#8523

Materia Indica; or, some account of those articles which are employed by the Hindoos and other eastern nations, in their medicine, arts, and agriculture; comprising also formulae, with practical observations, names of diseases in various eastern languages, and a copious list of oriental books immediately connected with general science. 2 vols.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1832

#8806

Clinical illustrations of the more important diseases of Bengal, with the result of an inquiry into their pathology and treatment.

Digital facsimile from the Medical Heritage Library, Internet Archive at this link.

1832

#10463

A treatise on the epidemic cholera, as it has prevailed in India; together with the reports of the medical officers, made to the medical boards of the presidencies of Bengal, Madras, and Bombay, for the purpose of ascertaining a successful mode of treating that destructive disease; And a critical examination of all the works that have hitherto appeared on the subject.

Corbyn mapped the history of cholera in India within British regimental stations. He included the date of each reported outbreak in a table of British regimental locations to describe the temporal progression of the d…

1833

#8208

The Taleef shereef, or Indian materia medica translated from the original by George Playfair, Superintending Surgeon, Bengal Service. Published by The Medical and Physical Society of Calcutta.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1837

#8209

An essay on the antiquity of Hindoo medicine, including an introductory lecture to the course of materia medica and therapeutics, delivered at King's College.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1837

#8803

Notes on the medical topography of Calcutta.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1840

#8465

A practical essay on some of the principal surgical diseases of India.

Includes a discussion of the Hindu method of rhinoplasty and other plastic operations. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1843

#8807

Practical observations on the principal diseases affecting the health of the European and native soldiers in the north-western provinces of India with a supplement on dysentery.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1844

#8810

Pathologia Indica, or, The anatomy of Indian diseases, medical and surgical: Based upon morbid specimens from all parts of India in the museum of the Calcutta Medical College; illustrated by detailed cases, with the prescriptions and treatment employed, and comments, physiological, practical and historical.

Significantly expanded second edition, in two parts (Calcutta: Thacker & Co., 1848). Digital facsimile of the 1848 edition from the Internet Archive at this link.

1845

#7169

Commentary on the Hindu system of medicine.

Wise was a physician and surgeon in the Bengal Medical Service. Digital facsimile from The Medical Heritage Library, Internet Archive, at this link.

1846

#5650.3

Mesmerism in India, and its practical application in surgery and medicine.

Esdaile performed a variety of surgical operations on Hindus, upon many of whom he appears successfully to have induced hypnotic anesthesia. However, his similar attempts with Europeans were not so successful.

1849

#13868

An atlas of anatomical plates of the human body, with descriptive letter-press in English and Hindustani.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1850

#8808

The historical relations of ancient Hindu with Greek medicine in connection with the study of modern medical science in India: Being a general introductory lecture delivered June 1850, at the Calcutta Medical College.

Webb was surgeon in the Bengal Army, and later Professor of Anatomy at the Calcutta Medical College. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1851

#13313

Quan ti xin lun [New Treatise Concerning the Whole Body.]

The earliest treatise on Western medicine published in Chinese for the use of Chinese medical staff. The work primarily concerns anatomy and physiology, with most illustrations derived from Cheselden's Anatomy of the …

1855

#8809

Elephantiasis orientalis, and especially elephantiasis genitalis in Bengal.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1856

#10112

Clinical researches on disease in India. 2 vols.

One of the most comprehensive studies of disease in India during the mid-19th century; includes 556 case reports. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link

1859

#2248

Remarks upon a tabular return (No. 1), or synopsis of sixteen cases of heat-apoplexy.

Longmore was an army surgeon in India; he gave an excellent account of heat-stroke.

1860

#2249

Contributions to the natural history of insolatio.

Barclay, an army surgeon in India, wrote an important paper on heat-stroke.

1860

#8818

Remarks on the uses of some bazaar medicines, and on a few of the common indigenous plants of India, according to European practice.

At the time of publication of this work, which contained texts in both Sanskrit and English, Waring was "Physician to His Highness The Maha Rajah of Travancore." Digital facsimile of the 1860 edition from the Biodiver…

1863

#6492.2

La médecine chez les Chinois par Le capitaine P. Dabry. Ouvrage corrigé et précédé d’une préface par J. Léon Soubeiran.

The best account of Chinese medicine published in Europe during the 19th century, including translations from original Chinese medical texts. Dabry was French consul at Hang-Keou. Soubeiran, a pharmacist, edited his w…

1866

#5792

De veterum Indorum chirurgia. Dissertatio inauguralis.

Trendelenburg’s graduation thesis on the ancient Hindu systems of medicine. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1867

#8210

Review of the history of medicine. 2 vols.

Vol. 1, Part 1: "Primitive period among the Asiatic nations," i.e. Hindus. Vol. 2, Part 1: "Ancient state of medicine among the Hindus (continued)". Part 1: "Review of the Buddhist systems of medicine." Part 3: "Revie…

1868

#8817

Pharmacopoeia of India, prepared under the authority of Her Majesty's Secretary of State for India in Council

Waring was "Surgeon in Her Majesty's Indian Army." Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1870

#11623

A manual of medical jurisprudence for India, including the outline of a history of crime against the person in India.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1874

#10127

La matière médicale chez les chinois.

Digital facsimile from BnFGallica at this link.

1877

#13781

Materia medica of the Hindus compiled from Sanskrit medical works. With a glossary of Indian plants.

1878 –1883

#7515

Les produits de la nature japonaise et chinoise: comprenant la dénomination, l'histoire et les applications aux arts, à l'industrie, à l'économie, à la médecine, etc. des substances qui dérivent des trois règnes de la nature et qui sont employées par les Japonais et les Chinois / Partie inorganique et minéralogique, contenant la description des minéraux et des substances qui dérivent du règne minéral.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1884

#9422

An epitome of the reports of the medical officers to the Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs Office from 1871 to 1882. With chapters on the history of medicine in China: Materia medica: Epidemics: Famine: Ethnology: And chronology in relation to medicine and public health.

Apart from studies of common diseases, public health issues, and epizootics, this work contains a chapter on opium smoking and a chapter on the castration of Chinese eunuchs, of which there were around a thousand work…

1890 –1893

#9246

Pharmacographia indica: A history of the principal drugs of vegetable origin, met with in British India. 3 vols.

On the title page Dymock is identified as "Brigade Surgeon, Bombay Army, Principal Medical Storekeeper to Government." Warden is identified as "Surgeon-Major, Bengal Army, Professor of Chemistry in the Calcutta Medica…

1900

#5946

Extractions of cataract in the capsule.

Smith, an officer in the Indian Medical Service, had remarkable success with his method of extraction of cataract within the capsule. He modified his operation in 1926 (Arch. Ophthal. N.Y., 55, 213-24). See also Smith…

1904

#2437

The constituents of chaulmoogra seeds.

Hydnocarpus wightiana or Chaulmoogra is a tree in the Achariaceae family. The oil from seeds of Hydnocarpus wightiana or Chaulmoogra, a tree in the Achariaceae family, was widely used in Indian medicine and Chinese tr…

1906

#13502

Moeurs médicales de l'Inde et leurs rapports avec la médecine européenne.

Digital facsimile from wellcomecollection.org at this link.

1907

#6487

Studies in the medicine of ancient India. Part 1. Osteology or the bones of the human body.

All published.

1908

#8246

Insanity in India: Its symptoms and diagnosis; with reference to the relation of crime and insanity.

Includes considerable discussion of the psychoactive effects of cannabis. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1913 –1914

#6488

The surgical instruments of the Hindus, with a comparative study of the surgical instruments of the Greek, Roman, Arab and the modern Eouropean [sic] surgeons. 2 vols.

Vol. 2 consists of plates.

1913

#12743

Beiträge zur kenntnis der chinesischen sowie der tibetisch-mongolischen pharmakologie.

Contributions to the history of pharmacology in China, Tibet and Mongolia. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1914

#8241

A history of the Indian Medical Service 1600-1913. 2 vols.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1917

#12959

The Indian operation of couching for cataract. Incorporating The Hunterian Lectures....

Prefaced by an extensive historical introduction; the remainder of the text being of historical significance in the 21st century. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1919

#2440

On the value of a skin reaction to a suspension of leprous nodules.

Mitsuda (lepromin) reaction. English translation by the author in Int. J. Leprosy, 1953, 21, 347-58.

1923 –1929

#6488.1

History of Indian medicine. Containing notices, biographical, of the Ayurvedic physicians and their works on medicine, from the earliest ages to the present time. 3 vols.

Reprinted New Delhi, 1974.

1924

#5301.1

On a Herpetomonas found in the gut of the sandfly, Phlebotomus argentipes, fed on kala-azar patients.

Demonstration that L. donovani is capable of reproduction in Phlebotomus. With R. O. Smith.

1929

#8812

The work of medical women in India.

1929

#9247

On Chinese medicine: Drugs of Chinese pharmacies in Malaya.

1932

#6493

History of Chinese medicine.

The writers spent 15 years in the compilation of this work, the first important contribution to the history of Chinese medicine for Western readers. Beginning with demonology, plant lore and folk medicine, the writers…