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1963 CE

#8835

The journal of James Yonge, Plymouth surgeon (1647-1721). Edited by F. N. L. Poynter.

A complete account of Yonge's life from the age of ten until the age of 61. "It is considered to be the most important diary of the 17th century after those of Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn.[1] In it Yonge mentioned fa…

1965 CE

#8834

Computers in biomedical research. Edited by Ralph W. Stacy and Bruce Waxman. 2 vols.

Section A, Chapter 2: "New mathematical methods in the life sciences" by George B. Dantzig. Section D, Chapter 12: "The application of computers to electroencephalography" by Mary A. B. Brazier. Section E, Chapter 13:…

2017 CE

#8833

Flora unveiled: The discovery and denial of sex in plants.

"Sex in animals has been known for at least ten thousand years, and this knowledge was put to good use during animal domestication in the Neolithic period. In stark contrast, sex in plants wasn't discovered until the …

1844 CE

#8832

Crania Aegyptiaca: or, observations on Egyptian ethnography, derived from anatomy, history and the monuments. From the Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. IX.

Morton argued that blacks and whites had been racially distinct since the Egyptian First Dynasty and drew the following conclusions, long since debunked: "Conclusions. "1. The valley of the Nile, both in Egypt and in …

2005 CE

#8831

A new world of animals: Early modern Europeans on the creatures of Iberian America.

2002 CE

#8830

Wellington's doctors: The British Army Medical Services in the Napoleonic wars.

1857 CE

#8829

Catalogue of human crania, in the collection of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia: Based upon the third edition of Dr. Morton's "Catalogue of Skulls," &c.

"Since the death of the late lamented President of the Academy of Natural Sciences,- Dr. Samuel George Morton,- his magnifcent Collection of Human Crania, recently increased by the receipt of 67 skulls from various so…

1840 CE

#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…

1854 CE

#8827

Types of mankind: or, ethnological researches based upon the ancient monuments, paintings, sculptures and crania of races, and upon their natural, geographical, philological, and biblical history; illustrated by selections from the indedited papers of Samuel George Morton, and by additional contributions by L. Agassiz, W. Usher, and H. S. Patterson

Nott, a prominent physician and anthropologist in Mobile, Alabama, employed polygenist arguments to justify slavery. This required resoilving the problem of racial hybridity. Polygenists claimed that different races w…

2016 CE

#8826

A history of anthropological theory. 5th edition.

1857 CE

#8825

Indigenous races of the earth; or new chapters of ethnological enquiry: Including monographs on special departments of philology, iconography, cranioscopy, palaeontology, pathology, archaeology, comparative geography and natural history: Contributed by Alfred Maury, Francis Pulszky, and J. Aiken Meigs. With contributions from Jos. Leiden and L. Agassiz. Presenting fresh investigations by J. C. Nott and Geo. R. Glidden.

Expensively produced, and sold in both standard and large paper subscriber editions, Nott and Gliddon's work was one of the most egregiously racist publications in the history of physical anthropology. Nott, a promine…

1902 CE

#8824

Die Augenheilkunde des Ibn Sina aus dem Arabischen Übersetzt und Erläutert.

Translation of Book III, Fan III of Avicenna's Canon pertaining to the eye and its diseases. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

2013 CE

#8823

Avicenna's medicine: A new translation of the 11th-century Canon with practical applications for integrative health care.

A new translation of volume one of Avicenna's Qānūn (Canon), directly from the original Arabic.

2010 CE

#8822

Medicine in an age of commerce and empire: Britain and its tropical colonies 1660-1830.

1918 CE

#8821

American Negro slavery: A survey of the supply, employment and control of Negro labor as determined by the plantation régime.

Incudes information on health and medicine. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1985 CE

#8820

Doctors and slaves: A medical and demographic history of slavery in the British West Indies.

1974 CE

#8819

A history of the Army Medical Department. 2 vols.

1860 CE

#8818

Remarks on the uses of some bazaar medicines, and on a few of the common indigenous plants of India, according to European practice.

At the time of publication of this work, which contained texts in both Sanskrit and English, Waring was "Physician to His Highness The Maha Rajah of Travancore." Digital facsimile of the 1860 edition from the Biodiver…

1868 CE

#8817

Pharmacopoeia of India, prepared under the authority of Her Majesty's Secretary of State for India in Council

Waring was "Surgeon in Her Majesty's Indian Army." Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1817 CE

#8816

Results of an investigation, respecting epidemic and pestilential diseases; including researches in the Levant, concerning the plague. 2 vols.

"From 1815 to 1817 Maclean travelled in Spain, Turkey, and the Levant, and he studied the plague at the Greek Pest Hospital at Constantinople, in the service of the Levant Company. His experiences in the Levant and in…

2007 CE

#8815

British military and naval medicine, 1600-1830. Edited by Geoffrey L. Hudson.

1807 CE

#8814

An account of the diseases of India, as they appeared in the English fleet, and in the naval hospital at Madras, in 1782 and 1783; with observations on ulcers, and the hospital sores of that country, &c. & c. To which is prefixed a view of the diseases of an expedition and passage of a fleet and armament to India, in 1781.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1773 CE

#8813

Observations on the diseases in long voyages to hot countries, and particularly on those which prevail in the East Indies.

Digital facsimile of the third edition, "revised and enlarged" (1793) from the Internet Archive at this link.

1929 CE

#8812

The work of medical women in India.

1993 CE

#8811

Colonizing the body: State medicine and epidemic disease in nineteenth-century India.

An authoritative account of the way that medicine was practiced in India in adaptation to the situation faced by physicians and the state in India, focusing on three major epidemic diseases: smallpox, cholera plague.

1844 CE

#8810

Pathologia Indica, or, The anatomy of Indian diseases, medical and surgical: Based upon morbid specimens from all parts of India in the museum of the Calcutta Medical College; illustrated by detailed cases, with the prescriptions and treatment employed, and comments, physiological, practical and historical.

Significantly expanded second edition, in two parts (Calcutta: Thacker & Co., 1848). Digital facsimile of the 1848 edition from the Internet Archive at this link.

1855 CE

#8809

Elephantiasis orientalis, and especially elephantiasis genitalis in Bengal.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1850 CE

#8808

The historical relations of ancient Hindu with Greek medicine in connection with the study of modern medical science in India: Being a general introductory lecture delivered June 1850, at the Calcutta Medical College.

Webb was surgeon in the Bengal Army, and later Professor of Anatomy at the Calcutta Medical College. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1843 CE

#8807

Practical observations on the principal diseases affecting the health of the European and native soldiers in the north-western provinces of India with a supplement on dysentery.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1832 CE

#8806

Clinical illustrations of the more important diseases of Bengal, with the result of an inquiry into their pathology and treatment.

Digital facsimile from the Medical Heritage Library, Internet Archive at this link.

1972 CE

#8805

The trade in lunacy: A study of private madhouses in England in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

1992 CE

#8804

Miasmas and disease: Public health and the environment in the pre-industrial age. Translated by Elizabeth Potter.

1837 CE

#8803

Notes on the medical topography of Calcutta.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1994 CE

#8802

Public health in British India: Anglo-Indian preventive medicine 1859-1914.

The first major study of public health in British India.

2006 CE

#8801

Biotech: The countercultural foundations of an industry.

2015 CE

#8800

History, sex and syphilis: Famous syphilitics and their private lives.

2012 CE

#8799

Chocolate as medicine: A quest over the centuries.

1823 CE

#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…

1909 CE

#8797

Zulu medicine and medicine-men.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1928 CE

#8796

Mescal: The "divine" plant and its psychological effects. With an introduction by Macdonald Critchley.

The first study of the psychological effects of mescaline.

1919 CE

#8795

Über die Anhalonium-Alkaloide I. Anhalin und Mezcalin

Synthesis of mescaline.

1980 CE

#8794

The botany and chemistry of hallucinogens. By Richard Schultes and Albert Hofmann. With a forward by Heinrich Klüver. Revised and enlarged second edition.

1962 CE

#8793

The medicinal and poisonous plants of southern and eastern Africa: Being an account of their medicinal and other uses, chemical composition, pharmacological effects and toxicology in man and animal. Second edition.

1457pp. The first edition of 1932 had only 314pp.

1998 CE

#8792

The encyclopedia of psychoactive substances.

1988 CE

#8791

Passage of darkness: The Ethnobiology of the Haitian zombie.

2015 CE

#8790

Indigenous medicine among the Bedouin in the Middle East.

1984 CE

#8789

Modern Chinese medicine: Vol. 1: Chinese surgery: A comprehensive review of surgery in the People's Republic of China Vol. 2: Chinese medicine: A comprehensive review of medicine in the People's Republic of China. Vol. 3: Chinese health care: A comprehensive review of health services in the People's Republic of China. Edited by He-Guang Wu and Rui-Tu Ran.

1988 CE

#8788

Ritual healing in suburban America. By Meredith B. McGuire with the assistance of Debra Kantor.

2005 CE

#8787

Religion and healing in America. Edited by Linda L. Barnes and Susan S. Sered.

2004 CE

#8786

Nature cures: The history of alternative medicine in America.