Facets

1536

#46

Omnia opera Ysaac in hoc volumini contenta: cum quibusdam alijs opusculis: Liber de definitionibus. Liber de elementis. Liber dietaru[m] vniversalium: cum co[m]me[n]to Petri Hispani. Liber dietarum particularium ... Liber de vrinis cum commento eiusdem. Liber de febribus. Pantechni decem libri theorices: et decem practices: cum tractatu de gradibus medicinarum Constantini. Viaticum Ysaac quod constantinus sibi attribuit. Liber de oculis Constantini. Liber des stomacho Constantini. Liber virtutum de simplici medicina Constantini. Compendium megatechni Galeni a Constantino compositum ; Cum tabula [et] repertorio omnium operum et questionum in co[m]mentis contentarum. Edited by Andreas Turinus.

Constantine was a Muslim from North Africa who converted to Christianity. His writings were first published with those of Isaac Judaeus in the above edition which includes many separate texts. Many of the writings of …

1774

#6451.90

An oration…containing an enquiry into the natural history of medicine among the Indians in North-America; and a comparative view of their diseases and remedies, with those of civilized nations.

Rush was the first American physician to publish a detailed study of native American medicine. Digital facsimile from the Medical Heritage Library, Internet Archive, at this link.

1775

#7505

The history of the American Indians; particularly those nations adjoining to the Missisippi [sic] East and West Florida, Georgia, South and North Carolina, and Virginia: containing an account of their origin, language, manners, religious and civil customs, laws, form of government, punishments, conduct in war and domestic life, their habits, diet, agriculture, manufactures, diseases and method of cure... With observations on former historians, the conduct of our colony governors, superintendents, missionaries, & c. Also an appendix, containing a description of the Floridas, and the Missisippi [sic] lands, with their productions--the benefits of colonizing Georgiana, and civilizing the Indians--and the way to make all the colonies more valuable to the mother country....

The author characterized himself on the title page as "a Trader with the Indians and a Resident in their Country for Forty Years." Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1777

#10750

Von den Krankheiten der Juden: seinen Brüdern in Deutschland gewidmet.

The earliest book devoted entirely to the health and illness of Jews, written by a Jewish physician. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1822

#6988

New guide to health; or botanic family physician, containing a complete system of practice, upon a plan entirely new; with a description of the vegetables made use of, and directions for preparing and adminstering them to cure disease. To which is prefixed a narrative of the life and medical discoveries of the author.

The "Bible" of Thomsonism or "Thomsonian medicine", which employed botanical remedies, often based on native American medicines. Digital facsimile from the Medical Heritage Library, Internet Archive, at this link.

1822

#10751

A narrative of the life and medical discoveries of Samuel Thomson: Containing an account of his system of practice, and the manner of curing disease with vegetable medicine, upon a plan entirely new; to which is added an introduction to his New Guide to Health, or Botanic Family Physician containing the principles upon which the system is founded, with remarks on fevers, steaming, poison &c.

Thomson issued this introductory work shortly before publication of his New Guide. Three issues appeared in 1822: one with 180 pages, another with 182 pages including testimonials, and a 204 page issue with the introd…

1823

#8798

Manners and customs of several Indian tribes located west of the Mississippi; including some account of the soil, climate, and vegetable productions, and the Indian materia medica: to which is prefixed the history of the author's life during a residence of several years among them.

Hunter claimed that as a child he had been captured by the Cherokee before they came to Texas. He adopted the name of an English benefactor, John Dunn, and later added the name "Hunter" given by the Indians because of…

1830

#13720

Thoughts on the original unity of the human race.

The first important American presentation of the case for polygenesis in support of slavery. Caldwell presented the first important American critique of the monogenist theories of human ancestry promoted by Samuel Sta…

1840

#8828

Catalogue of skulls of man, and the inferior animals, in the collection of Samuel George Morton.

Numbers 901-929 in Morton's catalogue are "Thirty Skulls of genuine unmixed NEGROES born in Africa. This interesting series series was collected by Don José Rodriguez Cisnerso, M. D. of Havana, in the island of Cuba, …

1854

#8383

The claims of the Negro, ethnologically considered: An address before the literary societies of Western Reserve College, at commencement, July 12, 1854.

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1886

#7708

Notes on the anomalies, injuries and diseases of the bones of the native races of North America.

The first American contribution to paleopathology. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1891

#9888

Scatologic rites of all nations. A dissertation upon the employment of excrementitious remedial agents in religion, therapeutics, divination, witchcraft, love-philters, etc., in all parts of the globe. Based upon original notes and person observation, and upon compilation from over one thousand authorities. Not for general perusal.

Digital facsimile of the 1891 edition from the Internet Archive at this link. Translated in to German as: Der Unrat in Sitte, Brauch, Glauben und Gewohnheitrecht der Völker, von John Gregory Bourke. Verdeutscht und ne…

1892

#6452.1

The medicine-men of the Apache.

Bourke, a U.S. Army officer with experience on the American Indian frontier, was a pioneer student of native American medicine and anthropology. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1900

#9475

The ethno-botany of the Coahuilla Indians.

"The ʔívil̃uqaletem (or Ivilyuqaletem) are Native Americans of the inland areas of southern California.[2] Their original territory included an area of about 2,400 square miles (6,200 km2). The traditional Cahuilla te…

1908

#6455.1

Physiological and medical observations among the Indians of Southwestern United States and Northern Mexico.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1923

#6456

The medicine man: A sociological study of the character and evolution of shamanism.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1929

#13079

Pathfinders: A history of the progress of colored graduate nurses. With biographies of many prominent nurses.

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1932

#6460

Medicine among the American Indians.

Reprinted, New York, Hafner, 1962.

1932

#7003

The Swimmer manuscript. Cherokee sacred formulas and medicinal prescriptions, by James Mooney, revised, completed and edited by Frans M. Olbrechts. Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 99.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1934

#12990

Meharry Medical College: A history.

The first history of an African-American medical school written by an African-American. Meharry Medical College, founded in 1876 as the Medical Department of Central Tennessee College, was the first medical college fo…

1935

#6461

The medicine-man of the American Indian and his cultural background.

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1938

#13291

The peyote cult.

The history of the study of the cult, the various botanical questions surrounding peyote, its physiological action and the various ethnological, psychological and historical questions involved in its diffusion.

1939

#6465.1

Navajo medicine man. Sandpaintings and legends of Miguelito from the John Frederick Huckel Collection

Navajo sandpaintings are traditionally made only for the healing ceremony in which they are used, and then destroyed. This book contains superb reproductions on sand-colored paper of watercolor versions of the sandpai…

1944

#8385

An American dilemma: The Negro problem and modern democracy. By Gunnar Myrdal with the assistance of Richard Sterner and Arnold Rose.

Includes considerable anthropological, biological, and health data. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1951

#6846

The structure of proteins: Two hydrogen-bonded configurations of the polypeptide chain.

Pauling, his crystallographer R. B. Corey, and African-American physicist and chemist H.R. Branson announced the α-helix, a principal structural feature of proteins. Digital facsimile from the National Academy of Scie…

1951

#8479

El arte de las mutilaciones dentarias.

1958

#8478

Mutilaciones dentarias: Prehispanicas de Mexico y America en general.

1958

#10853

Medicine-men on the North Pacific Coast.

1961

#10855

Mohave ethnopsychiatry and suicide: The psychiatric knowledge and the psychic disturbances of an Indian tribe.

1961

#12015

No time for prejudice: A story of the integration of negroes in nursing in the United States.

Primarily a history of the National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses [NACGN], which existed for the express purpose of "promoting unity within the nursing profession and furthering the cause of democracy." Integ…

1971

#7934

La odontología en el México prehispánico.

1971

#11665

Blacks, medical schools and society.

A study of the trends in black enrollments in the nation’s medical schools, and various public and higher education factors that limited the supply of black physicians in America through the 1960s.

1973

#10735

Hallucinogens and Shamanism edited by Michael Harner.

Includes Harner's "The Role of Hallucinogenic Plants in European Witchcraft".

1976

#3705.05

Tooth mutilations and dentistry in pre-Columbian Mexico.

First edition in English. First edition, in Spanish, 1971.

1980

#10736

The way of the shaman: A guide to power and healing.

1983

#8082

Educating black doctors: A history of Meharry Medical College.

1983

#10217

Disease change and the role of medicine: The Navajo experience.

1986

#8088

The path we tread: Blacks in nursing, 1854-1984.

1989

#8087

Black women in white: Racial conflict and cooperation in the nursing profession, 1890-1950.

1994

#10084

The health of Native Americans: Towards a biocultural epidemiology.

1994

#10090

Secret doctors: Ethnomedicine of African Americans.

"Based on an ethnographic study of the traditional medicine of African Americans in the rural southern United States, this work concentrates on the original Louisiana Territory, with its Native and African American in…

1996

#7002

Encyclopedia of native American healing.

1997

#9910

Sacred leaves of Candomblé: African magic, medicine, and religion in Brazil.

"Candomblé, an African religious and healing tradition that spread to Brazil during the slave trade, relies heavily on the use of plants in its spiritual and medicinal practices. When its African adherents were forcib…

1998

#12553

African American midwifery in the South: Dialogues of birth, race, and memory.

1999

#9224

African-American dental surgeons and the U.S. Army Dental Corps: A struggle for acceptance, 1901-1919.

Digital text from the U.S. Army Medical Department Office of Medical History at this link. (This study does not seem to have been formally published; WorldCat is uncertain of its publication date.)

1999

#10315

Against the odds: Blacks in the profession of medicine in the United States.

1999

#13080

Early black American leaders in nursing: Architects for integration and quality. (National League for Nursing Series).

2000 –2002

#8081

An American health dilemma: A medical history of African Americans and the problem of race. Vol. 1: Beginnings to 1900. Vol. 2: Race, medicine and health care in the United States 1900-2000.

2000

#13883

NDA II. The story of America's second National Dental Association.

2002

#8011

African American alternative medicine: Using alternative medicine to prevent and control chronic diseases.