Facets

1699

#7965

The dispensary: A poem. In six cantos.

An aggressive criticism of quack medicines, apothecaries who produced them, and physicians who prescribed them.

1789 –1791

#8921

The botanic garden: A poem in two parts. Part I. Containing the economy of vegetation. Part II. The loves of the plants. With philosophical notes. 2 vols.

The first edition of part 2, preceded part 1, being published in 1789. This poem was the chief source of Erasmus Darwin's literary fame during his lifetime. Like his other works, this poem contains a great deal of fre…

1822

#8904

Confessions of an opium eater.

First published anonymously in September and October 1821 in the London Magazine, 4, No. xxi, 293-312, and No. xxii, 353-79, the Confessions was released in book form in 1822, and, after various reprints, again in 185…

1910

#2045

Chronicles of pharmacy. 2 vols.

From antiquity to time of writing, with chapters on pharmacy in mythology, in Shakespeare, in the Bible, and in popularmedicine.

1910

#6511

Zur Quellenkunde der persischen Medizin.

Comprehensive analysis, with thorough bibliographical citations, of classic writings and scholarship in this field, to 1910. Besides medicine and pathology, Includes pharmacy, veterinary medicine, and "medical works i…

1918

#9986

Ueber die Pharmaka in der Ilias und Odyssee.

Medicines and poisons in the Iliad and Odyssey.

1933

#6621

Bouquet poëtique des médecins, chirurgiens, dentistes et apothicaires.

1959

#12603

The baths of Pozzuoli. A study of the medieval illuminations of Peter of Eboli's poem

1962

#6984

Nomina et virtutes balneorum; seu de balneis Puteolorum et Baiarum. Codex angelico 1474. Facsimile edition, introduction by Angela Daneu Lattanzi.

Written about in the early 13th century by the poet, chronicler and physician Peter of Eboli, the didactic poem, De balneis Putelolanis (The baths of Pozzuoli) was the first widely distributed medieval guidebook to me…

1978

#6610.14

Medicine and pharmacy in American political prints (1765-1870).

1991

#8343

A Hellenistic treatise on poisonous animals (the "Theriaca" of Nicander of Colophon): A contribution to the history of toxicology.

"... the authors review all the ancient treatises, ranged in chronological order, that cite Nicander at greater or lesser length, from Celsus up to Paul of Aegina - not less than thirteen authors. . . . Next follows a…

1991

#9311

The picture of health: Images of medicine and pharmacy from the William H. Helfand collection. Commentaries by William H. Helfand. Essays by Patricia Eckert Boyer, Judith Wechsler, and Maurice Rickards.

1999

#9810

Medicina antiqua. Codex Vindobonensis 93. Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek. Introduction by Peter Murray Jones, commentary by Franz Unterkircher. Manuscripts in Miniature, No. 4.

Color reproduction, reduced in size by one-third, of "a compendium of popular Late Antique texts brought together in the 6th century. It contains writings on herbs and materia medica by authors heavily reliant on the …

2006

#10910

Emily Dickinson's herbarium: A facsimile edition. Foreward by Leslie A. Morris. Essays, botanical catalogue and index by Richard B. Sewall, Judith Farr, and Ray Angelo.

A facsimile edition of MS Am 1118.11 in Houghton Library, Harvard University. Digital facsimile of the actual herbarium from Harvard at this link.

2012

#9778

Poison, detection and the Victorian imagination.

2014

#11745

Reading vampire gothic through blood: Bloodlines.