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2006 CE

#8585

Daily life in the Mongol empire.

Chapter 6: Health and Medicine.

2014 CE

#8584

Food and environment in early and medieval China.

2015 CE

#8583

A Turkic medical treatise from Islamic Central Asia: A critical edition of a seventeenth-century Chagatay work by Subḥān Qulï Khan. Edited, translated and annotated by Lásló Károly.

"...the first serious study on seventeenth-century Central Asian medicine that provides a major resource for the linguistic and cultural history of Central Asia.... The author offers a critical edition of a seventeent…

2009 CE

#8582

Kitab al-Abniya to Haqayiq al-adwiya ["The principles of the real character of medicinal plants"]. (Rawdat al-wa Us Manfaat al-nafs)[ By] Abu Mansur Muwaffaq bin Ali al-Hirawi. 5th AH Century. Facsimile Copy of the original manuscript AF 340. Austrian National Library, Vienna. Transcribed by Alī bin Ahmad Asadī Tūsī. Copied 447 Hijri. Persian Introduction: Iraj Afshar and Ali Ashraf Sadeghi. English Introduction: Bert G. Fragner / Nosratollah Rastegar, Karl Holubar, Eva Irblich and Mahmoud Omidsalar.

1893 CE

#8581

Die pharmakologischen Grundsätze (Liber fundamentorum pharmacologiae) des Abu Mansur Muwaffak bin Ali Harawi zum estern Male nach dem Urtex übersetzt und mit Erklärungen versehen von Abdul-Chalig Achundow aus Baku. (aus Bd. 3 (1893) der Historischen Studien aus dem pharmakologischen Institute der Kaiserlichen Universität Dorpat). 2 vols.

First translation into a modern language.

1791 CE

#8580

Return of the whole number of persons with the several districts of the United States, according to "An Act Providing for the Enumeration of the Inhabitants of the United States," passed March the first, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-one.

The first Census of the United States was conducted on August 2, 1790. The results were used to allocate Congressional seats (congressional apportionment), electoral votes, and funding for government programs.The fede…

1801 CE–1802 CE

#8579

Abstract of the answers and returns made pursuant to an act, passed in the forty-first year of His Majesty King George III. Intituled, “An act for taking an account of the population of Great Britain, and the increase or diminution thereof.” 2 vols. in 3.

The first census of England, Scotland and Wales. The study of population was one of the major concerns of political economy at this time and the first census came at a crucial point in the debate. When Malthus publish…

1994 CE–1997 CE

#8578

Anglo-Norman Medicine I: Roger Frugard's Chirurgia and the Practica Brevis of [Johannes] Platearius. II: Shorter treatises. Edited by Tony Hunt. 2 vols.

Vol. 1: First published edition of two 13th century Anglo-Norman medical treatises translated from Latin. Matthaeus Platearius and his brother Johannes were the sons of a female physician from the Salerno school who w…

2002 CE

#8577

The Trotula: A medieval compendium of women's medicine, edited and translated by Monica H. Green.

A new translation of a new edition of the texts based on collation of 9 MSS from the second half of the 13th or early 14th century. "The Trotula was the most influential compendium on women's medicine in medieval Euro…

1975 CE–1988 CE

#8576

On the properties of things: John Trevisa's translation of Bartholomaeus Anglicus De proprietatibus rerum: A critical text, edited by M. C. Seymour and Gabriel M. Liegey. 3 vols.

See also M. C. Seymour et alii, Bartholomaeus Anglicus and his encyclopedia (Aldershot, England: Variorum, 1992).

1718 CE

#8575

Catalogus zahlreicher, nützlicher, und sonderbahrer von Natur- und Kunst gebildeter Seltenheiten, in Regno Animali, Vegetabili, und Minerali, welche ehemals mit grosser Mühe, langer Zeit und schweren Kosten gesammelt, und zusammen gebracht hat.

1693 CE

#8574

Museum Spenerianum, sive Catalogus Rerum tam artificiosarum, quam naturalium, tam antiquarum, quam recentium, tam exoticarum, quam domesticarum, quas Johannes Jacobus Spener in Academia Hallensi dum viveret, singulari industria & indefesso labore paravit atque collegit. Das Spenerische Cabinet, Oder Kurtze Beschreibung Aller So wol künstlich- als natürlicher, alter, als neuer, fremder, als einheimischer curiösen Sachen. Compiled by Johann Martin Michaelis.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

2017 CE

#8573

GALENO: Catalogo delle Traduzioni Latine.

http://www.galenolatino.com/index.php?id=2&clean=1 This electronic bibliography covers Latin translations of Galen (129-216) and the pseudo-Galen from Greek, Arabic and Hebrew, produced from the sixth to the seventeen…

2008 CE

#8572

Alberti Magni e-corpus.

http://www.arts.uwaterloo.ca/~albertus/ "Albertus Magnus (ca. 1200 – 1280) is one of the most important medieval philosophers and theologians, and one of the very few to have been recognized as an auctoritas in …

1998 CE

#8571

Medicine of the Prophet. Translated by Penelope Johnstone.

" . . . a combination of religious and medical information, providing advice and guidance on the two aims of medicine - the preservation and restoration of health - in careful conformity with the teachings of Islam as…

2017 CE

#8570

Medicine and humanism in late medieval Italy: The Carrara herbal in Padua.

1902 CE

#8569

Des Pedanios Dioskurides aus Anazarbos Arzneimittellehre in fünf Büchern. Übersetzt und mit Erklärungen Versehen.

Analysis of Dioscordes from the pharmacological standpoint, including determination of his units of measurements, critical in dosage. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1988 CE–2006 CE

#8568

Théophraste. Recherches sur les plantes. Texte établi et traduit par Suzanne Amigues. 5 vols.

1985 CE

#8567

Dioscorides on pharmacy and medicine.

2005 CE

#8566

Pedanius Dioscorides of Anazarbus, De materia medica. Translated by Lily Y. Beck. (Altertumswissenschaftliche Texte und Studien, vol. 38).

A new English translation, directly from the Greek text edited by Wellmann, and thoroughly indexed.

2000 CE

#8565

Dioscorides: De Materia Medica, being an herbal with many other medicinal materials, written in Greek in the first century of the common era. A new indexed version in Modern English by Tess Anne Osbaldeston and Robert P. A Wood.

Rather than a new translation from the Greek, this is a updated and usefully indexed version, in modern English, of Goodyer's paraphrase from the 17th century. See No. 8564.

1934 CE

#8564

The Greek herbal of Dioscorides, illustrated by a Byzantine, A.D. 512; Englished by John Goodyer, A.D. 1655; edited and first printed, A.D. 1933, by Robert T. Gunther ... with three hundred and ninety-six illustrations.

Goodyer's translation is considered more of a paraphrase than a translation.

1999 CE

#8563

Albertus Magnus, On animals: A medieval summa zoologica. Translated and annotated by Kenneth F. Kitchell, Jr. and Irven Michael Resnick. 2 vols.

1916 CE–1920 CE

#8562

De animalibus libri xxvi. Nach der Cölner Urschrift, herausgegeben von Hermann Stadler. 2 vols. (Beiträge zur Geschichte der Philosophie des Mittelalters 15-16).

2008 CE

#8561

Health and healing from the medieval garden. Edited by Peter Dendle and Alain Touwaide.

1998 CE

#8560

Medicine in the English Middle Ages.

1979 CE

#8559

Anglo-Saxon plant remedies and the Anglo-Saxons.

1998 CE

#8558

Medicine and religion c. 1300: The case of Arnau de Vilanova

2007 CE

#8557

Alphita: Edición crítica y comentario de Alejandro García González. Edizione Nazionale La Scuola Medica Salernitana, 02.

Alphita, farina ordei idem, an anonymous collection of glosses, documents the linguistic renewal of the medical and botanical technical lexicon, derived from Greco-Latin as well as Arabic sources, at the School of Sal…

2007 CE

#8556

La Scuola Medica Salernitana. Gli autori e i testi. Convegno internazionale, Università degli studi di Salerno, 3-5 novembre 2004. A cura di Danielle Jacquart e Agostino Paravicini Bagliani. Edizione Nazionale La Scuola Medica Salernitana, 01.

Includes on pp. 185-188, and 211-13, Monica H. Green, "Reconstructing the oeuvre of Trota of Salerno." Also, on pp. 15-60, Monica H. Green, “Rethinking the manuscript basis of Salvatore De Renzi’s Collecti…

2009 CE

#8555

Ps. Bartholomaeus Mini de Senis: Tractatus de herbis (Ms London, British Library, Egerton 747). A cura di Iolanda Ventura. Edizione Nazionale La Scuola Medica Salernitana, 05.

Bartholomaeus Mini de Senis, probably active in the 14th century, was the copyist of British Library Ms Egerton 747, Tractatus de herbis. The identity of the author of the original work, probably written a century ear…

1943 CE

#8554

Women healers in medieval life and literature.

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1913 CE

#8553

Handbook of the Historical Medical Museum. Organised by Henry S. Wellcome.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1923 CE

#8552

"Magistri Salernitani nondum cogniti": A contribution to the history of the Medical School of Salerno. By Pietro Capparoni. With a foreward by D'Arcy Power. (Wellcome Historical medical Museum. Research Studies in Medical History No. 2).

Physicans from the medical school at Salerno who were unknown to de Renzi (No. 6518). Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1936 CE

#8551

Il "Tractatus de pulsibus," di Alfano Io arcivescovo di Salerno, sec. xi: Trascrizione del codice 1024 della biblioteca dell'Arsenale di Parigi (da carta 16 v. a carta 18 r). Annotazioni e commento con tavoli di riproduzione del testo [di] Pietro Capparoni.

Alfanus I or Alfano I, a physician before he became archbishop, was one of the earliest doctors of the Schola Medica Salernitana. He was Archbishop of Salerno from 1058 to his death. He was famed as a translator, writ…

2016 CE

#8550

Household medicine in seventeenth-century England.

1986 CE

#8549

Studi sulla Scuola medica salernitana.

1914 CE

#8548

Some American medical botanists commemorated in our botanical nomenclature.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1821 CE–1829 CE

#8547

Flore pittoresque et médicale des Antilles, ou, Histoire naturelle des plantes usuelles des colonies françaises, anglaises, espagnoles et portugaises; par M. E. Descourtilz. Peinte par J. Th. Descourtilz. 8 vols.

Medical botany of the Caribbean, finely illustrated with colored plates after paintings by the author's son. Digital facsimile from the Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.

2003 CE

#8546

Medical botany: Plants affecting human health. 2nd ed.

1847 CE

#8545

Medical botany: or, Descriptions of the more important plants used in medicine, with their history, properties, and mode of administration.

The author intended to update and correct the earlier works on American materia medica by Barton, Bigelow and Rafinesque, and to make this information available at a reasonable price. Digital facsimile from the Biodiv…

1997 CE

#8544

Iroquois medical botany.

"The first book to provide a guide to understanding the use of herbal medicines in traditional Iroquois culture. The world view of the Iroquois League or Confederacy - the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca, and…

1903 CE–1910 CE

#8543

Datos par la materia médica Argentina. 2 vols. (Vol. 2: Trabajos de Instituto de Farmacología de la Facultad de Ciencias Médicas de Buenos Aires No. 25).

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

2002 CE

#8542

Edited ancestors, inventible traditions: Essays toward a more inclusive history of anthropology. Edited by Richard Handler.

1976 CE

#8541

Medical anthropology. Edited by Francis X. Grollig, S. J. and Harold B. Haley.

1901 CE

#8540

The medicinal plants of the Philippines. Translated and revised by Jerome B. Thomas, Jr.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

2016 CE

#8539

History within: The science, culture, and politics of bones, organisms, and molecules.

1994 CE

#8538

The history and geography of human genes.

The first full-scale attempt to reconstruct where human populations originated and the paths by which they spread throughout the world, using genetic data integrated with data from geography, ecology, archaeology, phy…

2008 CE

#8537

Galen and the rhetoric of healing.

1898 CE

#8536

Pflanzengeographie auf Physiologischer Grundlage.

In this work on the geographical distribution of plants Schimper coined the terms tropical rainforest and sclerophyll. English translation by William R. Fisher, revised and edited by Percy Groom and Isaac Bayley Balfo…