Facets

1967

#8490

Index of Arabic manuscripts on medicine and pharmacy at the National Library of Cairo.

1967

#10679

The sleeping sickness epidemic of Uganda 1900-1920: A study in historical geography.

1968

#7282

Sur la decouverte dans le Pleistocene inferieur de la valle de l'Omo (Ethiopie) d'une mandibule d'Australopithecien.

In 1967 Arambourg and Coppens discovered Omo 18, the first specimen of Paranthropus aethiopicus, also known as Paraustralopithecus aethiopicus; however it's classification as a new species was initially dismissed. In …

1969

#10675

Parasitic diseases in Africa and the Western Hemisphere. Early documentation and transmission by the slave trade.

1969

#13715

Index of manuscripts on medicine, pharmacy, and allied sciences in the Zahiriyah Library

1970

#5546.4

Lassa fever, a new virus disease of man from West Africa. I. Clinical description and pathological findings.

An arenovirus infection first noted in Lassa, N. E. Nigeria, in 1969. With J. M. Baldwin, D. J. Gocke, and J. M. Troup.

1970

#5546.5

Lassa fever, a new virus disease of man from West Africa. III. Isolation and characterization of the virus.

Preliminary note in Nature (Lond.), 1970, 227, 174. Lassa Hemorrhagic Fever is endemic to the West African countries of Nigeria, Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.

1970

#6510.01

Die Medizin im Islam. [Handbuch der Orientalistik, Ergänzungsband 6/1].

1970

#7161

Safavid medical practice; or, the practice of medicine, surgery and gynaecology in Persia between 1500 A. D. and 1750 A. D.

1970

#8496

A history of the British medical administration of East Africa, 1900-1950.

Concerns modernization and development of scientific health services in Kenya, Uganda, and Tanganyika (now Tanzania) during the first half of the twentieth century.

1970

#9894

The early history of scientific medicine in Uganda.

1971

#6510.1

Bibliography of medieval Arabic and Jewish medicine and allied sciences.

1971

#6510.2

Geschichte des arabischen Schriftums. Band 3. Medizin-Pharmazie, Zoologie-Tierheilkunde bis ca. 430 H.

1971

#6604.5

South Africa: Its medical history 1652-1898.

1971

#7389

Geschichte des arabischen Schriftums. Band 4, Alchimie, Chemie, Botanik, Agrikultur bis ca. 430H.

1971

#8348

Die toxikologischen Schriften der Araber bis Ende des XII. Jahrhunderts: Ein bibliographischer Versuch, grossenteils aus handschriftlichen Quellen.

First published in Archiv für pathologische Anatomie und Physiologie und für klinische Medizin 52 (1871 and 57 (1873).

1971

#8501

Doctors of the mines: A commemorative volume published in 1971 to mark the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Mine Medical Officer's Association of South Africa. With a history of the work of mine medical officers.

1971

#10673

Magical medicine: A Nigerian case study.

1971

#10677

A history of the Nigerian Health Services.

1971

#10678

The role of the trypanosomiases in African ecology: A study of the Tsetse fly problem.

1973

#7095

Early Arabic pharmacology. An introduction based on ancient and medieval sources.

1973

#9255

Medizinisches in Tausendundeiner Nacht: Ein literaturgeschichtlicher Beitrag zur islamischen Heilkunde.

1973

#9353

Albucasis on surgery and instruments. A definitive edition of the Arabic text, with English translation and commentary by M. S. Spink and G. L. Lewis.

1975

#6510.3

History of Arab medicine.

1975 –1991

#8489

An annotated bibliography of Islamic science by Seyyed Hossein Nasr. 3 vols. Vols. 1 and 3 with the collaboration of William C. Chittick; Vol. 2 with the collaboration of William C. Chittick and Peter Zirnis.

A comprehensive historical bibliography in English on Islamic science, including medicine, documenting classic works and scholarship up to 1990, In English and Arabic. Vol. 1: General works and Biographical and biblio…

1975

#9250

Medizin und Magie. Heilkunde und Geheimlehre des islamischen Zeitalters. [Medizingeschichtliche Miniaturen 1].

1976

#214.3

Plio-Pleistocene hominid discoveries in Hadar, Ethiopia.

Report on the Afar fossils (formally classified and named Australopithiecus afaranesis in 1998) representing a minimum of 35 and a maximum of 65 individuals, all about 3,000,000 years old. The most famous of these, AL…

1976

#8193

Islamic science: An Illustrated study.

Includes chapters on natural history, medicine and pharmacology, agriculture and irrigation, man and the natural environment.

1976

#8311

A medical history of Kenya.

1976

#10312

A service to the sick: A history of the health services for Africans in Southern Rhodesia (1890-1953).

1976

#12422

Die arabische Medizin im lateinischen Mittelalter (Sitzungsberichte der Heidelberger Akad. der Wiss., Math. naturw. Klasse, Jrhrg. 1976, 2. Abh.)

1977

#1092.54

Food: The gift of Osiris. 2 vols.

Extensively illustrated history of nutrition in ancient Egypt.

1977

#5145.1

The black death in the Middle East.

1977

#7866

Isolation of Marburg-like virus from a case of haemorrhagic fever in Zaire.

Ebola virus, named after the Ebola River where an outbreak occurred in 1976. Specifically the outbreak was centered in Yambuku, a small village in Mongala Province in northern Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerl…

1977

#7921

Body and mind in Zulu medicine: An ethnography of health and disease in Nyuswa-Zulu thought and practice.

1977

#10923

Isolation and partial characterization of a new virus causing acute haemorrhagic fever in Zaire.

The first of three papers published in Lancet back to back describing the discovery of Ebola Virus Disease. In this paper the authors described isolation of the virus, imaged it with an electron microscope, and named …

1977

#13369

African folk medicine: Practices and beliefs of the Bambara and other peoples.

1978

#7277

A new species of the genus Australopithecus (Primates: Hominidae) from the Pliocene of Eastern Africa.

Johanson and colleagues formally named the species Afarensis of the genus Australopithecus in 1978.

1978

#8495

Disease in African history.

1978

#9248

Islamic medicine. [Islamic surveys 11].

1980

#8503

Mirau and his practice: A study of the ethnomedicinal repertoire of a Tanzanian herbalist.

1980

#12917

The history of old Turkish dentistry.

1981

#12776

Botanical exploration of Southern Africa: A illustrated history of early botanical literature on the Cape flora. Biographical accounts of the leading plant collectors and their activities in southern Africa from the days of the East India Company until modern times.

1982

#6510.4

Islamic miniature painting in medical manuscripts.

1983

#8316

The physicians of pharaonic Egypt. (Deutsches Archäologisches Instutut, Abteilung Kairo, Sonderschrift 10).

1983

#8745

"Bid the sickness cease": Disease in the history of black Africa.

1983

#9095

Sex and society in Islam: Birth control before the nineteenth century.

1983

#9244

The Arabic materia medica of Dioscorides.

1983

#10630

Hittite birth rituals. 2nd revised edition.

"Owing to a paucity of relevant sources, we know rather little about Hittite medical practice, but it is clear that native therapies relied as much on magic as upon what moderns would recognize as medicine. Practition…

1983 –1984

#13716

Health sciences in early Islam. Collected papers by Sami K. Hamarneh. Edited by Munawar A. Anees. 2 vols.