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2007 CE

#8985

How everyday products make people sick: Toxins at home and in the workplace.

An eloquent historical approach, written for a semi-popular audience, to everyday problems in occupational medicine and toxicology.

1558 CE

#8984

Les remonstrances sur le default du labour et culture des plantes, et de la cognoissance d'icelles, contenant la maniere d'affranchir et appriuoiser les arbres sauuages.

The first work on agriculture written in French. As an apothecary, Belon was especially interested in the pharmaceutical value of plants. Having learned about them on his travels, he introduced numerous foreign plants…

1553 CE

#8983

De arboribus coniferis, resiniferis, aliis quoque nonnullis sempiterna fronde virentibus, cum earundem iconibus ad viuum expressis. Item de melle cedrino, cedria, agarico, resinis, & iis quae ex coniferis proficiscuntur.

One of the first treatises on conifers and other evergreen plants. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1553 CE

#8982

Les observations de plusieurs singularitez et choses memorables, trouuées en Grece, Asie, Iudée, Egypte, Arabie, & autres pays estranges, redigées en trois livres.

Belon was first trained as an apothecary, and worked in that capacity for the bishop of Clermont, Guillaume Duprat. Around 1542 he studied medicine In Paris, and obtained a licentiate in medicine, though he never took…

1857 CE

#8981

Soyer's culinary campaign. Being historical reminiscences of the late war. With the plain art of cookery for military and civil institutions, the army, navy, public, etc., etc.

During the Crimean War, Soyer, probably the most famous English celebrity chef of his time, joined the troups at his own expense to advise the army on cooking and diet. "Later he was paid his expenses and wages equiva…

1877 CE

#8980

Early recollections and life of Dr. James Still.

Still's autobiography is probably the first biography or autobiography of an African American physician. "James Still, medical doctor and herbalist, was born on April 9, 1812 in Burlington County, New Jersey. Still wa…

1482 CE

#8979

Physiologus de naturis duodecim animalium.

The earliest printed edition (circa 1482) of the Physiologus, a Christological natural historical work that originated in Late Antiquity, and remained popular through the Middle Ages. This edition, which was very wide…

1936 CE

#8978

Physiologus. Ed. F. Sbordóne.

Physiologus, a didactic Christian text, is thought to have been written or compiled in Greek by an unknown author in Alexandria, 200-275 CE. It describes a "hodgepodge" of animals, real and imaginery, with the fig tre…

2016 CE

#8977

The British Pharmacopoeia, 1864 to 2014: Medicines, international standards and the state.

"The British Pharmacopoeia has provided official standards for the quality of substances, medicinal products and articles used in medicine since its first publication in 1864. It is used in over 100 countries and rema…

1880 CE

#8976

The natural & moral history of Indies, by Father Joseph de Acosta. Reprinted from the English translated edition of Edward Grimston, 1604. And edited, with notes and an introduction by Clements R. Markham. Vol. 1: The natural history. Vol. 2: The moral history. 2 vols.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1864 CE

#8975

The muscles and their story, from the earliest times: Including the whole text of Mercurialis, and the opinions of other writers, ancient and modern, on mental and bodily development

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1913 CE

#8974

Garci da Orta: Colloquies on the simples & drugs of India. New edition (Lisbon, 1895) edited and annotated by the Conde de Ficalho. Translated with an introduction and index by Sir Clements Markham.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

2009 CE

#8973

Vulgariser la medecine: Du style medical en France et en Italie (XVIe et XVIIe siecles). Edited by Andrea Carlino and Michel Jeanneret.

1872 CE

#8972

Air and rain. The beginnings of a chemical climatology.

In this work on the industrial causes of pollution Smith coined the term acid rain. "The corrosive effect of polluted, acidic city air on limestone and marble was noted in the 17th century by John Evelyn, who remarked…

1860 CE

#8971

Colección de medicamentos indigenas y sus aplicaciones, estraidos de los reinos vegetal, mineral y animal, recogidos y anotados por [...], segunda edición corregida y aumentada.

Digital facsimile of the 5th edition (1875) from the National Library of Medicine, Internet Archive at this link.

1894 CE

#8970

Kystophotographischer Atlas.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

2013 CE

#8969

Animals in the ancient world from A to Z.

"Animals were integral to ancient commerce, war, love, literature and art. Inside the city they were found as pets, pests, and parasites. They could be sacred, sacrificed, liminal, workers, or intruders from the wild.…

1841 CE

#8968

Physici et medici Graeci minores. Congressit, ad fidem codd. mss. praesertim eorum, quos beatus Diezius contulerat, veterumque editionum partim emendavit partim nunc prima vice edidit, commentariis criticis indicibusque tam rerum quam verborum instruxit. Edited by Julius Ludwig Ideler. 2 vols.

Includes texts of the following authors: Abitianus, Actuarius, Johannes, Alexander, of Aphrodisias, Andromachus (Senior), Apollonius, Dyscolus, 2nd cent, Archelaus (philosophus), Cassius (Iatrosophistes), Hermes, Tris…

1531 CE

#8967

Garioponti Vetusti admodum medici ad totius corporis aegritudines remediorum praxeōn libri V. Eiusdem de febribus, atque earum symptomatis libri ii. Recens typis commissi, & multis in locis suae integritati restituti.

Digital facsimile from Bayerische StaatsBibliothek at this link.

1878 CE–1879 CE

#8966

Alexander von Tralles. Original-Text und Übersetzung nebst einer einleitenden Abhandlung. Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Medicin. 2 vols.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1854 CE–1857 CE

#8965

Geschichte der Botanik. 4 vols.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

2012 CE

#8964

Birds in the ancient world.

1866 CE

#8963

Botanik der spaeteren Griechen vom dritten bis dreizehnten Jahrhuntert.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1976 CE

#8962

Mittelalterliche Pharmazie und Medizin. Dargestellt an Geschichte und Inhalt des ANTIDOTARIUM NICOLAI

1902 CE

#8961

Lithotherapie: Historische Studien über die medizinische Verwendung der Edelsteine.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1999 CE

#8960

Dragon's brain perfume: An historical geography of camphor.

"In the Dragon's Brain Perfume (a Chinese description of Camphor) once more the existence and importance of world systems of exchange becomes clear. In the pre-industrial world aromatic substances have always counted …

1991 CE

#8959

Le vocabulaire latin de l'anatomie.

1985 CE

#8958

Les noms de plantes dans la Rome antique.

1956 CE

#8957

Lexique des termes de botanique en latin.

1642 CE

#8956

La presence des absens; ou facile moyen de rendre présent au médecin l'estat d'un malade absent. Dressé par les docteurs en médecine consultans charitablement à Paris pour les pauvres malades.

Renaudot, physician, philanthropist and journalist, published this self-diagnostic handbook so that charity patients could communicate with their physicians by correspondence. Digital facsimile from biusante.paris.des…

2012 CE

#8955

Simon Online. Edited by Barbara Zipser.

http://www.simonofgenoa.org/index.php?title=Aims_of_the_project&oldid=12132 "Simon Online is a collaborative edition of Simon of Genoa's clavis sanationis, a medical dictionary from the late thirteenth century. More o…

2013 CE

#8954

Simon of Genoa's Medical Lexicon. Edited by Barbara Zipser.

"Simon of Genoa's Medical Lexicon”, an edited volume based on the conference held on March 17th, 2012, is part of the Simon Online project – a dynamically growing Wiki edition of Simon of Genoa's Clavis sa…

1635 CE

#8953

Canadensium plantarum, aliarúmque nondum editarum historia.

First description of the Canadian Flora. Cornut was a French botanist and physician who never visited North America, but instead received the majority of his plant specimens from the Robins family, who supervised the …

1533 CE

#8952

Ex Aeliani historia per Petrum Gyllium latini facti, itemque ex Porphyrio, Heliodoro, Oppiano: Tum eodem Gyllio luculentis accessionibus aucti libri XVI. De ui & natura animalium. Eiusdem Gyllij liber unus, de gallicis & latinis nominibus piscium.

Editio princeps of Aelianus's late antique work on natural history. Along with Aelianus's text Gyllius included his own “Liber summarius de Gallicis et Latinis nominibus piscium Massiliensium” [Book on the…

1832 CE

#8951

Aeliani de natura animalium libri septemdecim. Verba ad fidem librorum manuscriptorum constituit et annotationibus illustravit Fridericus Jacobs.

The first modern critical edition of the text, which collated medieval manuscripts against the previous printed editions. Digital facsimile of the 1832 edition from the Internet Archive at this link

1998 CE

#8950

Medizin im römischen Österreich.

1988 CE

#8949

Instrumental medico-quirurgico en la hispania romana.

1820 CE

#8948

Observations sur la fièvre jaune, faites à Cadix, en 1819 par MM. Pariset et Mazet, docteurs en médecine de la Faculté de Paris, et rédigées par M. Pariset.

Pariset and Mazet distinguished themselves combating an outbreak of yellow fever in Spain. Pariset's colleague was apparently not involved with publication of the book, and died in a yellow fever outbreak in Barcelona…

1910 CE

#8947

Catálogo da Bibliotheca da Escola Medico-Cirurgica do Porto.

(Thanks to Richard Ramer for this reference.)

1942 CE

#8946

Catálogo das obras da colecção portuguesa anteriores a fundação das Regias Escolas de Cirurgia (1825). 2 vols.

(Thanks to Richard Ramer for this reference.)

1983 CE–1991 CE

#8945

Brasilien-Bibliothek der Robert Bosch GmbH. 2 vols. in 3.

"Vol. I, edited by Susanne Koppel, describes 684 works dating from the discovery of Brazil to the nineteenth century, on history, politics, literature, ethnology, geography, climate, botany, zoology and medicine. The …

2004 CE

#8944

Histoire des entomologistes français, 1750-1950. Édition entièrement revue et augmentée.

"The new edition of "Histoire des Entomologistes Français" is completely revised and expanded. The author has supplemented this work with five new biographies, a chapter on Agricultural Entomology, a list of th…

1785 CE

#8943

Entomologia Parisiensis; sive, catalogus insectorum quae in agro Parisiensi reperiuntur; secondum methodum Geoffraeanam in sections, genera & species distributus; Cui addit sun nomina trivalia & sere recentae novae species.

In this work co-written with Geoffroy, Fourcroy presented a major contribution to the systemization of entomology. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1851 CE

#8942

Die metallurgischen Krankheiten des Oberharzes.

Brockmann's book on the pulmonary disease of miners, including black lung disease, was first book on occupational health published in Germany. Brockmann published a preliminary paper on the subject in 1845. Digital fa…

1958 CE

#8941

Bibliographia Brasiliana: A bibliographical essay on rare books bout Brazil from 1504 to 1900 and works of Brazilian authors published abroad before the independence of Brazil in 1822. 2 vols.

Includes early books on medicine and natural history of Brazil.

1583 CE

#8940

De plantis libri XVI.

Cesalpino developed the first scientific classification system for flowering plants. "Unlike the "herbals" of that period, it contains no illustrations. The first section, including thirty pages of the work, is the pa…

1894 CE

#8939

Lanfrank's "Science of Cirurgie." Edited from the Bodeian Ashmole MS. 1396 (ab. 1380 A.D.) and the British Museum Additional MS. 12, 056 (ab. 1420 A.D.) by Robert v. Fleischhacker.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1707 CE

#8938

Noticias do que he o achaque do bicho, diffiniçam do seu crestame[n]to, subimento corrupçaõ, sinaes, & cura atè, o quinto grao, ou intensaõ delle, suas differenças, & co[m]plicaços, com que se ajunta.

This book has been "considered by some authors to be the first reference to the chagasic megaesophagus and megacolon that appeared in history. In descriptions considered to refer megaesophagus, although dysphagia, the…

1999 CE

#8937

Natureza em boiões: Medicinas e boticá-rios no Brasil setecentista.

1969 CE

#8936

História da febre-amarela no Brasil.

Digital facsimile from bvsms.saude.gov.br at this link.