Facets

1995

#13457

Libro de los medicamentos simples. [Kitab al-adwiya al-mufrada]. Edición, traducción, notas y glosarios de Luisa Fernanda Aguirre de Cárcer. 2 vols.

1998

#8571

Medicine of the Prophet. Translated by Penelope Johnstone.

" . . . a combination of religious and medical information, providing advice and guidance on the two aims of medicine - the preservation and restoration of health - in careful conformity with the teachings of Islam as…

1998

#12527

Economic botany and ethnobotany in Al-Andalus (Iberian Peninsula: Tenth-Fifteenth Centuries), an unknown heritage of mankind.

2000

#8030

African traditional medicine: A dictionary of plant use and applications with supplement: Search system for diseases.

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

#8289

Sabur Ibn Sahl: The Small Dispensatory: Translated from the Arabic together with a study and glossaries by Oliver Kahl.

Edition and translation of the oldest manuscript on Arabic pharmacy.

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

#11047

Medicinal substances in Jerusalem from early times to the present day. (BAR International Series 1112).

2006

#12523

The medicinal use of opium in ninth-century Baghdad. (Sir Henry Wellcome Asian Series, vol. 5).

2007

#8278

The dispensatory of Ibn at-Tilmīd: Arabic text, English translation, study and glossaries by Oliver Kahl.

Critical Arabic edition, annotated English translation, introductory study, and two-way glossaries of the dispensatory composed around the middle of the 12th century CE by the Nestorian physician Ibn at-Tilmīḏ. The di…

2008

#7412

Ibn Baklarish's book of simples: Medical remedies between three faiths in twelfth-century Spain. Edited by Charles Burnett.

The Kitāb al-Musta'īnī by Ibn Biklarish, written in the Moorish Spain province of al-Andalus at the end of the 11th century, includes the first tables of simple medicines written in the region, "concentrating on facin…

2009

#8277

Sābūr ibn Sahl's dispensatory in the recension of the 'Adudī hospital.

Arabic edition and English translation of Sābūr ibn Sahl's famous dispensatory as preserved in a recension made by the physicians of the ʿAḍudī hospital in Baghdad around the middle of the 11th century CE.

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 …

2010

#13456

Die Mineralien in Der Arabischen Pharmakognosie: Eine Konkordanz Zur Mineralischen Materia Medica Der Klassischen Arabischen Heilmittelkunde Nebst ... Kommission (Vok) der A).

2011

#10461

Greco-Arab and Islamic herbal medicine: Traditional system, ethics, safety, efficacy, and regulatory issues.

2012

#11048

Medical prescriptions in the Cambridge Genizah Collections: Practical medicine and pharmacology in medieval Egypt. Cambridge Genizah Studies Series, Volume 4.

2012

#12804

Oswaldus Crollius und Daniel Sennert im frühneuzeitlichen Istanbul: Studien zur Rezeption des Paracelsismus im Werk des osmanischen Arztes Salih b. Nasrullāh Ibn Sallūm al-Halabī

Study of the "Al-Ṭibb al-jadīd al-kīmiyāʼī alladhī ikhtaraʻahu Barākalsūs (The new chemical medicine invented by Paracelsus), an Arabic compendium of alchemical works from early modern Europe by Salih ibn Nasrallah al…

2013

#7843

The history of blood transfusion in Sub-Saharan Africa.

2014

#7411

The herbal of al-Ghāfiqī. A facsimile edition of MS 7508 in the Osler Library of the History of Medicine, McGill University, with critical essays. Edited by F. Jamil Ragep and Faith Wallis with Pamela Miller and Adam Gacek.

2014

#9912

Handbook of African medicinal plants. Second edition.

"With over 50,000 distinct species in sub-Saharan Africa alone, the African continent is endowed with an enormous wealth of plant resources. While more than 25 percent of known species have been used for several centu…

2016

#11049

Arabian drugs in early medieval Mediterranean medicine.

2016

#11375

Protective monotherapy against lethal Ebola virus infection by a potently neutralizing antibody.

The cited paper was immediately followed in the same issue of Science by: John Misasi, Morgan A. Gilman, Masaru Kanekiyo et al, "Structural and molecular basis for Ebola virus neutralization by protective human antibo…

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…

2019

#12844

The African roots of marijuana.

"After arriving from South Asia approximately a thousand years ago, cannabis quickly spread throughout the African continent. European accounts of cannabis in Africa—often fictionalized and reliant upon racial stereot…