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1919 CE

#9287

Uses of plants by the Indians of the Missouri River region. Thirty-third annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, 1911-1912.

Medicinal and edible plants used by the Dakota, Omaha/Ponca, Winnebago and Pawnee peoples. Gilmore reports on 180 plants, and offers 16 pages of tables of names in various languages. Digital facsimile from the Biodive…

1670 CE

#9286

Catalogus plantarum Angliae, et insularum adjacentium: tum indigenas, tum in agris passim cultas complectens.

Includes some ethnobotanical notes regarding medical remedies. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1974 CE

#9285

Ethnobotany of the Blackfoot Indians.

1942 CE

#9284

A study of Delaware Indian medicine practice and folk beliefs.

In this publication Delaware refers to the name of the Native American people known as Lenape, or Leni Lenape, or Delaware people, rather than the U.S. state. In terms of geographical scope, the book covers traditiona…

1932 CE

#9283

The ethnobotany of the Acoma and Laguna Indians. M.A. thesis.

1944 CE

#9282

Ethnobotany of the Navajo. Monographs of the School of American Research, No. 8.

Digital facsimile from uair.library.arizona.edu at this link.

1941 CE

#9281

Navajo Indian medical ethnobotany. University of New Mexico Bulletin, Anthropological Series, Vol. 3, No. 5.

Digital facsimile from herbaltherapeutics.net at this link.

2001 CE

#9280

Healing plants: Medicine of the Florida Seminole Indians.

1972 CE

#9279

Making the cure: A look at Irish folk medicine.

1940 CE

#9278

Plants used as curatives by certain Southeastern tribes.

Digital facsimile from herablstudies.net at this link.

1999 CE

#9277

Memory, wisdom and healing: The history of domestic plant medicine.

1889 CE

#9276

The folk-lore of plants.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1973 CE

#9274

Algonquin ethnobotany: An Interpretation of aboriginal adaptation in Southwestern Quebec. 2 vols.

1899 CE

#9273

Animal and plant lore collected from the oral tradition of English speaking folk. Edited and annotated by Fanny D. Bergen.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1957 CE

#9272

Medicinal uses of plants by Indian tribes of Nevada. Contributions toward a flora of Nevada. No. 45. Revised edition, with summary of pharmacological research by W. Andrew Archer, Nov. 26, 1957.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link. (First published in 1941.)

1928 CE

#9271

Use of plants by the Chippewa Indians. Smithsonian Institution-Bureau of American Ethnology Annual Report 44.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1975 CE

#9270

Cherokee plants their uses - a 400 year history.

1995 CE

#9269

Healing threads: Traditional medicines of the Highlands and Islands.

"Much of the rich store of material comes from the great legacy of medieval Gaelic manuscripts. In more recent times, papers of medical societies have shown how traditional methods and cures are still of value to mode…

2004 CE

#9268

Encyclopedia of folk medicine: Old world and new world traditions.

2009 CE

#9267

Uneasy encounters: The politics of medicine and health in China 1900-1937. Edited by Iris Borowy.

1951 CE

#9266

The cost of sickness and the price of health. WHO Monograph Series 7.

Digital facsimile from WHO.int at this link.

2006 CE

#9265

The birth of development: How the World Bank, Food and Agriculture Organization, and World Health Organization changed the world, 1945–1965.

1992 CE

#9264

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

2004 CE

#9263

To cast out disease: A history of the International Health Division of the Rockefeller Foundation (1913-1951).

1991 CE

#9262

Bilharzia: A history of imperial tropical medicine.

1977 CE

#9261

The spontaneous generation controversy from Descartes to Oparin.

1902 CE

#9260

Mosquito brigades and how to organise them.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1915 CE

#9259

Sanitation in Panama.

"Gorgas capitalized on the momentous work of ... Walter Reed, who had himself built much of his work on insights of a Cuban doctor, Carlos Finlay, to prove the mosquito transmission of yellow fever. He won internation…

2009 CE

#9258

Food in medieval England: Diet and nutrition. Edited by C. M. Woolgar, D. Serjeantson and T. Waldron.

2016 CE

#9257

The culture of food in England 1200-1500.

1843 CE–1856 CE

#9256

The Zoist: A journal of cerebral physiology & mesmerism, and their applications to human welfare. Edited by John Elliotson. 13 vols.

The most comprehensive source about British mesmerism of the period, and an invaluable reference for contemporary ideas and developments not only in mesmerism (hypnosis) but also in phrenology, neurology and psychiatr…

1973 CE

#9255

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

1962 CE

#9254

Tibb-ul-Nabbi or medicine of the Prophet.

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

2003 CE

#9253

Reworking the bench: Research notebooks in the history of science. Edited by Frederic L. Holmes, Jürgen Renn and Hans-Jörg Rheinberger.

Besides the historographical consideration of the value of laboratory notebooks for studying the history of experimentation and discovery, this volume includes studies of notebooks by Galvani, Schwann, Pavlov, Carl Co…

1992 CE

#9252

The Nazi doctors and the Nuremberg Code: Human rights in human experimentation.

1969 CE

#9251

Priesterärzte und Heilkunst im alten Persien. Medizinisches bei Zarathustra und im Königsbuch des Firdausi.

1975 CE

#9250

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

1922 CE

#9249

Die Zauberkraft des Auges und das Berufen. Ein Kapitel der Geschichte der Aberglaubens.

1978 CE

#9248

Islamic medicine. [Islamic surveys 11].

1929 CE

#9247

On Chinese medicine: Drugs of Chinese pharmacies in Malaya.

1890 CE–1893 CE

#9246

Pharmacographia indica: A history of the principal drugs of vegetable origin, met with in British India. 3 vols.

On the title page Dymock is identified as "Brigade Surgeon, Bombay Army, Principal Medical Storekeeper to Government." Warden is identified as "Surgeon-Major, Bengal Army, Professor of Chemistry in the Calcutta Medica…

1953 CE–1959 CE

#9245

La "Materia médica" de Dioscórides: Transmisión medieval y renacentista by César E. Dubler. Vol. I: La transmisión medieval y renacentista y la supervivencia en la medicina popular moderna de la "Materia médica" de Dioscórides, estudiada particularmente en España y África del Norte. Vol. 2: La versión árabe de la 'Materia Médica' de Dioscórides (texto, variantes e indices): estudio de la transcripción de los nombres griegos al árabe y comparación de las versiones griega, árabe y castellana. Vol. 3: La "Materia médica" de Dioscórides traducida y comentada por D. Andrés de Laguna (Texto crítico). Vol. 4: D. Andrés de Laguna y su época. Vol. 5: Glosario médico castellano del siglo XVI. Prólogo de Gregorio Marañón. Vol. 6: Indices generales y léxico especial de Andrés de Laguna.

1983 CE

#9244

The Arabic materia medica of Dioscorides.

1953 CE

#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.

1937 CE

#9242

Useful plants and drugs of Iran and Iraq. By David Hooper with notes by Henry Field.

Digital facsimile from the Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.

1936 CE

#9241

Türkische Turfan-Texte 7 [APAW 12] edited by G. R. Rachmati.

Medieval medical texts from Turfan (Turpan), Central Asia.

1930 CE–1932 CE

#9240

Zur Heilkinde der Uiguren. Edited by G. R. Rachmati. 2 vols.

Old Uygur medical fragments, some of which are now lost, in the Berlin Turfan collection. Rachmati was the pioneer historian of Islamic Central Asian medicine.

2008 CE

#9239

Osmanli tibbi bilimler literaturu tarihi [History of the literature of medical sciences during the Ottoman period]. Edited by E. Ihsanoglu. [Îlim tarihi kaynaklari ve arastirmalari serisi 14, Osmanli bilim tarihi literatürü serisi 7]. 4 vols.

Comprehensive and detailed catalogue of Turkish medical writings produced during the Ottoman period from the 14th to early 20th centuries. "The main body of the book lists the medical works in chronological order unde…

2016 CE

#9238

A history of global health: Interventions into the lives of other peoples.

1884 CE

#9237

Die grosse Sterben in Deutschland in den Jahren 1348 bis 1351 und die folgenden Pestepidemien bis zum Schluss des 14. Jahrhunderts.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.