Facets

1938

#7281

The Pleistocene anthropoid apes of South Africa.

Paranthropus robustus, discovered by Broom in Kromdraal, South Africa, in 1938. The species is generally dated from about 2 million to 1.2 million years before present.

1939

#8527

Les manuscrits arabes de l'Escurial. Vol. 2, Fascicule 2: Médecine et histoire naturelle. Compiled by Hartwig Derenbourg, edited by Henri Paul Joseph Renaud.

1940

#4661

Virus filtrant pathogène pour l’homme et les animaux de laboratoire, et à affinité meningée et pulmonaire.

“Durand’s disease” – D virus infection. Durand isolated the virus from his own blood. See also the paper by G. M. Findlay, Trans. roy. Soc. trop. Med., 1942, 35, 303-18.

1940

#10951

A neurotropic virus isolated from the blood of a native in Uganda.

Order of authorship in the original paper: Smithburn, Hughes, Burke. In 1937 the authors isolated a virus from the blood of an adult female with fever from the Omogo West Nile district of Uganda, and named it West Nil…

1941

#6466

Native African medicine: With special reference to Its practice in the Mano tribe of Liberia.

1941

#13881

Focus on Africa.

Includes the first aerial photographs of Africa taken by Mary Light. This was the second book to reproduce aerial photographs. Richard Light was an American neurosurgeon, a noted aviator, and a photographer and cinema…

1944

#8470

Une maladie Égyptienne: l'hématurie parasitaire.

1946

#214.1

Pretoria: The South African fossil ape-men. The Australopithecinae. Part I. The occurrence and general structure of the South African ape-men.

With this comprehensive report Broom presented his case to the scientific establishment that Australopithecus probably represented the stock from which mankind had evolved.

1946

#6510

Outline of Arabic contributions to medicine and the allied sciences.

1947

#5

Le papyrus médical Chester Beatty, par le Dr. Frans Jonckheere.

A hieratic papyrus of the 13th-12th century BCE. It is a fragment of a monograph on diseases of the anus. The papyrus was reproduced with transcription by A. H. Gardiner in 1935. See No. 8318.

1951

#6515

A medical history of Persia and the Eastern Caliphate from the earliest times until the year A.D. 1932.

A continous history of the art and practice of medicine in Persia and bordering countries from the earliest times. Reprinted, with additions and corrections from the author’s copy: edited by G. van Heusden. Amsterdam,…

1951 –1961

#6448

A history of medicine. Vol. l - 2

1. Primitive and archaic medicine. 2. Early Greek, Hindu and Persian medicine.

1951

#7164

Der Arzneikunde der Kopten.

1952

#6471.1

The old Egyptian medical papyri.

A guide to the chief medical papyri, with particular attention to therapeutics.

1952

#7864

Zika virus (I). Isolations and serological specificity.

First description of Zika virus, an arbovirus native to Africa. The authors named the virus after the Zika forest in Uganda, where they were searching for Yellow Fever. Instead they isolated a new virus in samples tak…

1952

#10939

Zika virus. (II). Pathogenicity and physical properties.

Dick's second paper on the Zika virus, immediately following his first paper in the same volume of the same journal (see no. 7864). First statement that the Aedes aegypti mosquito is the vector of transmission of the …

1952

#10940

Neutralizing antibodies against certain recently isolated viruses in the sera of human beings residing in East Africa.

First report of human illness caused by Zika virus, detected in Uganda and Tanzania. 38 patients had neutralizing antibodies to Zika virus in their blood serum, proving that they had been infected by the virus. (Thank…

1953

#9243

The book of plants [Kitâb al-nabât] of Abū Hanīfa ad-Dīnawari: Part of the alphabetical section (j-i). Edited and translated by Bernhard Lewin.

1953

#10310

Tropical victory: An account of the influence of medicine on the history of Southern Rhodesia, 1890-1923.

1954 –1973

#6471.2

Grundriss der Medizin der alten Ägypter. 9 vols in 11.

Vol. 1. H. Grapow, Anatomie und Physiologie (1954) Vol. 2. H. Grapow, Von den medizinischen Texten (1955) Vol. 3. H. Grapow, Kraner, Krankheiten und Arzt (1956) Vol. 4.1. H. von Dienes, H. Grapow, W. Westendorf, Ubers…

1954

#8469

Prescriptions médicales sur ostraca hiératiques.

1954

#9879

"L'Eunuque dans l'Égypte pharaonique.

Full annotated text available at https://people.well.com/user/aquarius/pharaonique.htm.

1956

#8651

Medicine and magic of the Mashona.

1958 –1959

#2660.12

A sarcoma involving the jaws in African children.

Burkitt’s lymphoma (African lymphoma), first described in detail by Sir Albert Cook, a medical missionary, but not published by him.

1958

#8500

A history of medicine in South Africa up to the end of the nineteenth century.

1958

#10257

Les médecins de l'Égypte pharaonique, essai de prosopographie.

1958

#13218

Das Buch der Gifte des Gābir Ibn Hayyān Arabischer Text in Faksimile (Hs. Taymūr [sic] Tibb 393, Kairo), übersetzt und Erläuter von Alfred Siggel. (Akademie der Wissenschaften under der Literature [Mainz], Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission, Band XIII).

Edition and translation of Jabir's The Book on Poisons and on the Repelling of their Harmful Effects (Kitāb al-Sumūm wa-dafʿ maḍārrihā, Kr. no. 2145).

1959

#7288

A new fossil from Olduvai.

In 1959 Mary Leakey discovered the "Zinj" skull (OH 5) at Olduvai Gorge. This became the type specimen for Paranthropus boisei, arguably the most famous early human fossil from Olduvai in Northern Tanzania. The specie…

1959

#10753

Studies in magical amulets, chiefly Graeco-Egyptian.

A study of Graeco-Roman popular medicine and superstition based upon the examination of hundreds of engraved gemsntones that were thought to contain magical and medicinal properties. Digital facsimile from the Hathi T…

1960

#7162

Le premier manuscrit chirurgical turc, rédigé par Charaf-ed-Din (1465), et illustré de 140 miniatures.

An edition of BnF Ms. suppl. turc 693.

1961

#214.2

Age of Bed I, Olduvai Gorge, Tanganyika.

Introduction of the potassium-argon dating method to paleoanthropology, showing that lava at the base of the site of Olduvai Gorge was about 1.8 million years old, and proving that fossils, Australopithecus (Zinjanthr…

1961

#10311

Northern Rhodesia in the days of the charter: A medical and social study, 1878-1924.

1962

#8793

The medicinal and poisonous plants of southern and eastern Africa: Being an account of their medicinal and other uses, chemical composition, pharmacological effects and toxicology in man and animal. Second edition.

1457pp. The first edition of 1932 had only 314pp.

1962

#9254

Tibb-ul-Nabbi or medicine of the Prophet.

Digital facsimile from itsites.harvard.edu at this link.

1963

#7413

A pharmaceutical view of Abulcasis al-Zahrawi in moorish Spain.

1963

#8320

Magic and medical science in ancient Egypt.

1964

#2660.19

Cytology of Burkitt’s tumour (African lymphoma).

1964

#7270

A new species of the genus Homo from Olduvai Gorge.

First report on Homo habilis.

1964

#8652

Medicine and custom in Africa.

1964

#10309

Lakeside pioneers: Socio-medical study of Nysaland, 1875-1920.

1964

#11945

Die Assimilation der arabischen Medizin durch das lateinische Mittelalter. (Sudhoffs Archive, Beiheft 3.)

1964

#13717

Bibliography of medicine and pharmacy in medieval Islam. Mit einer Einfuhrung, Arabismus in der Geschichte der Pharmazie, von Rudolf Schmitz.

1965

#10680

Epidemic disease in Ghana 1901-1960.

1965

#12420

The Zambesi Journal and Letters of Dr. John Kirk, 1858-63. Edited by Reginald Foskett. 2 vols.

1965

#12569

Hedayat al-Motaallemin fi Tebb. Edited by Jalal Matini.

First printed edition of the earliest medical work written in the Persian language. Matini based his edition on the 11th century codex Bodleian Library Ms. 37, checking that against the other two known copies of the t…

1966

#8419

Medicinalia Arabica. Studien über arabische medizinische Handschriften in türkischen und syrischen Bibliotheken. (Abhandlungen der Akademie der Wissenschaftern in Göttingen. phil. hist. Klasse, Dritte Folge, No. 66).

1966

#8531

The medical formulary or Aqrābādhin of al Kindi. Edited and translated by Martin Levey.

1967

#3047.20

A human cardiac transplant: An interim report of a successful operation performed at Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town.

First human heart transplant. The operation was on Dec. 3, 1967, and the patient died on Dec. 21.

1967

#6786.13

A catalogue of Arabic manuscripts on medicine and science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library.

1967

#7414

The medical formulary of Al-Samarqandi and the relation of early Arabic simples to those found in the indigenous medicine of the Near East and India.