Facets

1984

#8460

Medieval Islamic Medicine: Ibn Ridwan's Treatise "On the Prevention of Bodily Ills in Egypt". Translated and introduced by Michael W. Dols, with Arabic text by Adil S. Gamal.

1985

#7273

History of physical anthropology in Southern Africa.

1985

#7284

Early Homo erectus skeleton from west Lake Turkana, Kenya.

The Turkana Boy, (KNM-WT 15000) now called Nariokotome Boy, a Homo erectus fossil which was in 2016 the most complete early human skeleton found. It is a nearly complete skeleton of a hominin youth believed to be 1.5 …

1985

#9889

The Traditional medical practitioner in Zimbabwe: His principles of practice and pharmacopoeia.

1985

#10089

African pioneers of modern medicine: Nigerian doctors of the nineteenth century.

1985

#10789

Serological evidence for virus related to Simian T-Lymphotropic retrovirus III in residents of West Africa.

First report of the discovery of what became known as HIV-2 by the U.S. research group led by Kanki. This group published before the French group, but the French group had reported their data one day prior to the U.S.…

1986

#6786.30

A descriptive and analytical catalogue of Persian manuscripts in the Library of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine.

1986

#7283

The origin of the human race.

First publication in English by Alekseyev of Homo rudolfensis, primarily known from KNM-ER 1470, discovered in Koobi Fora in the Lake Turkana basin, Kenya. Alekseyev (Alexeev) first proposed the species in 1978, initi…

1986

#9331

Evidence for human infection with an HTLV III/LAV-like virus in Central Africa, 1959.

Order of authorship in the original paper: Nahmias, Weiss, Yao...Kanki, Essex. The authors presented evidence for the first or earliest infection with HIV in a human. This paper reported on a patient from Kinshasa, Za…

1986

#10788

Isolation of a new human retrovirus from West African patients with AIDS.

HIV-2 was discovered essentially simultaneously by French and U.S. teams. This was the first publication by the French team. Order of authorship of the original publication was Clavel, Guettard, Brun-Vezinet. See thei…

1986

#13359

Das Aqrābādīn al-Qalānisī. Quellenkritische und begriffsanalytische Untersuchungen zur Arabisch-Pharmazeutischen Literatur.

1987

#8315

The Ebers papyrus: A new English translation, commentaries and glossary by Paul Ghalioungui.

1987

#8502

Ethnomedical systems in Africa: Patterns of traditional medicine in rural and urban Kenya.

1987

#9900

Afro-Caribbean folk medicine.

1988

#10674

Hausa medicine: Illness and well-being in a West African culture.

1988

#11542

La médecine coloniale: Mythe et réalités.

1988

#11778

Southern African botanical literature, 1600-1988.

1988

#12520

Das Ergebnis des Nachdenkens über die Behandlung der Augenkrankheiten von Fath ad-Dīn al-Qaisī. Übersetzung des arabischen Textes, Kommentar von Hans-Dieter Bischoff.

1988

#13357

Dioscurides triumphans: Ein anonymer arabischer Kommentar (Ende 12. Jh. n. Chr.) zur Materia medica. Arabischer Text nebst kommentierter deutscher Übersetzung. 2 vols.

1988

#13810

La médecine égyptienne au temps des Pharaons.

1989

#7920

Rituals and medicines: Indigenous healing in South Africa.

1989

#8471

An ancient Egyptian herbal.

1991 –2007

#7415

A history of medicine. 6 vols.

Vol. 1: Primitive and Ancient Medicine (1991/1995), Vol. 2: Greek Medicine (1996), Vol. 3: Roman Medicine (1998), Vol. 4: Byzantine and Islamic Medicine (2001), Vol. 5: Medieval Medicine (2003), Vol. 6: Renaissance Me…

1991

#8627

Science and empire: East Coast Fever in Rhodesia and the Transvaal.

East Coast fever (theileriosis) is an animal disease in Africa caused by the protozoan parasite Theileria parva.

1991

#9456

An introduction to the medical history of Ethiopia.

1991

#12521

Die Dioskurides-Erklärung des Ibn-al-Baitār: Ein Beitrag zur arabischen Pfanzensynonymik des Mittelalters. Edited and translated by Albert Dietrich. (Abhandlungen der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Göttingen, phil.-hist. Kl., fol. 3, no. 191).

1992

#8243

Qustā ibn Lūqā's medical regime for the pilgrims to Mecca. The Risāla fī tabīr safar al-hajj. Edited with translation and commentary by Gerrit Bos.

The only known early health guide for the pilgrim to Mecca, by the Syrian Melkite Christian physician, scientist and translator.

1992

#8414

The social basis of health and healing in Africa. Edited by Steven Feierman and John M. Janzen.

The essays in this book concern disease, health and healing practices on the African continent. The contributors all emphasize the social conditions linked to ill health and the development of local healing traditions…

1992

#8461

Majnūn: The madman in Medieval Islamic society.

1992

#9264

The colonial disease: A social history of sleeping sickness in colonial Zaire, 1900-1940.

1992 –1993

#11943

Farmacopea araba medievale. Codice Ayasofia 3703. Edited by Alain Touwaide. 4 vols.

Iconographic reconstruction and original size facsimile in color of 127 sheets, including 97 preserved in Istanbul and 30 sheets dispersed in different institutional collections in Europe and the U.S., of this illumin…

1993

#10578

Bibliographie raisonnée des témoignages oculaires imprimes de l'Expédition d'Égypte (1798-1801).

A bibliography of publications, including those on medical subjects, issued from the Imprimerie national in Cairo established by Napoleon during the campaign, and also publications issued from Paris documenting inform…

1993

#12522

Die Erganzung Ibn Gulgul's zur Materia Medica des Dioskurides: Arabischer Text nebst kommentierter deutscher Ubersetzung herausgegeben von Albert Dietrich.

1993

#13303

Islamic medical ethics in the twentieth century.

Treats the most prominent issues in medical ethics in the twentieth century, such as abortion, artificial insemination, organ transplantation, euthanasia, as discussed by Muslim religious scholars, physicians and juri…

1993

#13535

Medicinal plants and enigmatic health practices of Northern Ethiopia.

1994

#7276

Australopithecus ramidus, a new species of early hominid from Aramis, Ethiopia.

Between 1992 and 1994 White and his team discovered the first Ardipithecus ramidus fossils in the Middle Awash area of Ethiopia. They named their discovery Ardipithecus ramidus (‘ramid’ means ‘root’ in the Afar langua…

1994

#8029

Afrikanische Arzneipflanzen und Jagdgifte.

Translated into English by Aileen Porter as African ethnobotany: Poisons and drugs. Chemistry - Pharmacology - Toxicology (Chapman & Hall, 1996).

1994

#8267

Medicine and hygiene in the works of Flavius Josephus.

1994

#8281

L'ophtalmologie dans l'Egypte gréco-romaine d'après les papyrus littéraires grecs.

1995

#7278

New four-million-year-old hominid species from Kanapoi and Allia Bay, Kenya.

In 1965, a research team led by Bryan Patterson from Harvard University discovered a single arm bone (KNM-KP 271) of an early human at Kanapoi in northern Kenya, but without additional fossils Patterson could not conf…

1995

#8244

Ibn al-Jazzār on forgetfulness and its treatment. Critical edition of the Arabic text and the Hebrew translations with commentary and translation into English by Gerrit Bos.

1995

#8505

Illness and health care in the ancient Near East: The role of the temple in Greece, Mesopotamia, and Israel. Harvard Semitic Monographs, no. 54.

1995

#12517

The Prophet's medicine: A creation of the Muslim traditionalist scholars (Studia Orientalia 74)

1995

#12843

Attitudes toward dissection in medieval Islam.

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.

1996

#7922

Médecine coloniale et grandes endémies en Afrique 1900-1960. Lèpre, trypanosomiase humaine et onchocercose.

1996

#8319

Ancient Egyptian medicine.

This is the best comparatively brief, but sufficiently detailed, survey in English.

1996

#9757

Baths and bathing in classical antiquity.

Reviews and analyzes the structure, function, and design of baths, seeking to integrate their architecture with the wider social and cultural custom of bathing, and examining in particular the changes this custom unde…

1997

#8237

Ibn Al-Jazzār on sexual diseases and their treatment: A critical edition of Zād al-musāfir wa-qūt al-hādir. Translated and edited by Gerrit Bos.

1997

#8273

Health and disease in the Holy Land: Studies in the history and sociology of medicine from ancient times to the present, edited by Manfred Waserman and Samuel S. Kotteck.