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2011 CE

#8535

Medical synonym lists from medieval Provence: Shem Tov ben Isaac of Tortosa: Sefer ha - Shimmush. Book 29. Part 1: Edition and commentary of List 1 (Hebrew-Arabic- Romance /Latin).

The first critical edition of Book 29 of Shem Tov ben Isaac's Sefer ha-Shimmush, and a lexicological analysis of the medico-botanical terms in the first of the two synonym lists of this book. The Sefer ha-Shimmush was…

1844 CE

#8534

Histoire des médecins juifs anciens et modernes. Tome premier (All Published.)

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1934 CE

#8533

Tuhfat al-ahbāb: Glossaire de la matière médicale Marocaine.

1928 CE

#8532

The zoological section of the Nuzhatu-l-Qulūb of Hamdullāh Al-Mustaufī Al-Qazwīnī. Edited and translated by John Stephenson.

1966 CE

#8531

The medical formulary or Aqrābādhin of al Kindi. Edited and translated by Martin Levey.

2000 CE

#8530

Ya qūb ibn Ishaq al'Irail's "Treatise on the errors of the physicians in Damascus." Edited and translated by Oliver Kahl. Journal of Semitic Studies Supplement 10.

1984 CE

#8529

The book of medical experiences attributed to Abraham Ibn Ezra. Edited and translated by Joshua O. Leibowitz and Schlomo Marcus.

1877 CE–1883 CE

#8528

Traité des simples. 3 vols. Notices et extraits des manuscrits de la Bibliothèque nationale et autres bibliothèques, 1877, tome 23,1; tome 25,1; tome 26,1. Traduit par Lucien Leclerc.

Ibn al-Baytar systematically recorded the additions to pharmacy made by medieval Islamic physicians, who added between 300 and 400 types of medicines to the roughly one thousand known since antiquity. "Ibn al-Baitar&r…

1939 CE

#8527

Les manuscrits arabes de l'Escurial. Vol. 2, Fascicule 2: Médecine et histoire naturelle. Compiled by Hartwig Derenbourg, edited by Henri Paul Joseph Renaud.

1993 CE

#8526

Nomina simplicium medicinarum ex synonymariis Medii Aevi collecta (Semantische Untersuchungen zum Fachwortschatz hoch- und spätmittelalterlicher Drogenkunde). Studies in ancient medicine 6.

2000 CE

#8525

The "Tabula antidotarii" of Armengaud Blaise and its Hebrew translation. Edited by Michael R. McVaugh and Lola Ferre. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society 90, pt. 6.

1973 CE

#8524

Al-Biruni's book on pharmacy and materia medica (Kitāb al-saydan fī al-tibb). Edited and translated by Hakim Mohammed Said. 2 vols.

1826 CE

#8523

Materia Indica; or, some account of those articles which are employed by the Hindoos and other eastern nations, in their medicine, arts, and agriculture; comprising also formulae, with practical observations, names of diseases in various eastern languages, and a copious list of oriental books immediately connected with general science. 2 vols.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

2010 CE

#8522

Digital Public Library of America (DPLA)

https://dp.la/ "The vision of a national digital library has been circulating among librarians, scholars, educators, and private industry representatives since the early 1990s. Efforts led by a range of organizations,…

2010 CE

#8521

History of Medicine Finding Aids Consortium.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/consortium/index.html "The History of Medicine Finding Aids Consortium is a project that explores the feasibility of crawling, indexing, and delivering web accessible content from external …

2017 CE

#8520

Osler Library Prints Collection.

http://digital.library.mcgill.ca/oslerprints/index.php "This varied collection of approximately 2,500 prints offers a fascinating look into the history of medicine through popular imagery. The medium of the print, bei…

2002 CE

#8519

History of the Health Sciences Links. Medical Library Association. Maintained by Patricia E. Gallagher

https://hhsmla.blogspot.com/ This probably the most comprehensive index to digital sources concerning the history of the health sciences. Hundreds of links are arranged in the following categories: Bibliographies/Chro…

1993 CE

#8518

Medical Humanities at New York University. LITMED: Literature Arts Medicine Database.

http://medhum.med.nyu.edu/ "The Literature, Arts and Medicine Database (LitMed) is a collection of literature, fine art, visual art and performing art annotations created as a dynamic, comprehensive resource for schol…

2017 CE

#8517

Balm of America: Patent medicine collection.

http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/object-groups/balm-of-america-patent-medicine-collection "The Smithsonian Institution began to collect objects related to health and medicine in 1881. It first obtained exampl…

2015 CE

#8516

Healing magic and evil demons: Canonical Udug-Hul incantations. (Die Babylonisch-assyrische Texten und Untersuchungen, Vol. 8.)

2014 CE

#8515

The healing goddess Gula: Towards an understanding of ancient Babylonian medicine.

1949 CE

#8514

A dictionary of Assyrian botany.

2013 CE

#8513

BabMed - Babylonian medicine: Corpora

http://www.geschkult.fu-berlin.de/e/babmed/Corpora/index.html "On the following pages, there are several draft versions: Assyrian Medical Texts (AMT), Part 1, Tf. 1-50 Assyrian Medical Texts (AMT), Part 2, Tf. 51-107 …

2005 CE

#8512

Renal and rectal diseases texts. (Die Babylonisch-assyrische Medizin in Texten und Untersuchungen, Book 7).

Previous volumes of Franz Köcher’s series on Babylonian and Assyrian medical literature provided copies of cuneiform medical tablets with extensive indices listing all known parallel passages. This volume e…

1999 CE

#8511

Leib und Seele. Eine Kulturgeschichte des gesunden Lebens.

Translated into English by Jane Dewhurst as Wellbeing: A cultural history of healthy living (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2008).

2005 CE

#8510

Diagnoses in Assyrian and Babylonian medicine: Ancient sources, translations, and modern medical analyses.

2014 CE

#8509

Sourcebook for ancient Mesopotamian medicine.

2012 CE

#8508

Bibliography of ancient Mesopotamian medicine.

This electronic resource is available at this link: http://lorenzoverderame.site.uniroma1.it/materiali/bibliography-of-ancient-mesopotamian-medicine.

2000 CE

#8507

Babylonisch-assyrische Diagnostik.

Study of the significance of medical diagnosis for Babylonian medicine. Analyzing the structure and contents of the Babylonian diagnostic handbook and the evolution of the diagnostic texts, the author shows that the d…

2003 CE

#8506

Materia magica et medica Hethitica: Ein Beitrag zur Heilkunde im Alten Orient. By Volkert Haas in cooperation with Daliah Bawanypeck.

The first comprehensive compendium of all known remedies and treatments used by the Hittites. The source texts are ritual descriptions and formularies from the 15th to 13th centuries BCE preserved from the archives of…

1995 CE

#8505

Illness and health care in the ancient Near East: The role of the temple in Greece, Mesopotamia, and Israel. Harvard Semitic Monographs, no. 54.

2000 CE

#8504

Indigenous theories of contagious disease.

1980 CE

#8503

Mirau and his practice: A study of the ethnomedicinal repertoire of a Tanzanian herbalist.

1987 CE

#8502

Ethnomedical systems in Africa: Patterns of traditional medicine in rural and urban Kenya.

1971 CE

#8501

Doctors of the mines: A commemorative volume published in 1971 to mark the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Mine Medical Officer's Association of South Africa. With a history of the work of mine medical officers.

1958 CE

#8500

A history of medicine in South Africa up to the end of the nineteenth century.

1985 CE

#8498

Encyclopaedia of Indian medicine. Volume one: Historical perspective.

1976 CE

#8497

Asian medical systems: A comparative study, edited by Charles Leslie.

1970 CE

#8496

A history of the British medical administration of East Africa, 1900-1950.

Concerns modernization and development of scientific health services in Kenya, Uganda, and Tanganyika (now Tanzania) during the first half of the twentieth century.

1978 CE

#8495

Disease in African history.

1988 CE

#8494

I Modi: The sixteen pleasures, an erotic album of the Italian Renaissance. Giulio Romano, Marcantonio Raimondi, Pietro Aretino and Count Jean-Fréderick-Maximilien de Waldeck. Edited, translated from the Italian and with a commentary by Lynne Lawner.

An edition and reconstruction of the only 16th century book of erotic engravings and poetry, surviving in a unique copy the original edition. For a summary of the history of this work of art, associated with several a…

2006 CE

#8493

The science of describing: Natural history in Renaissance Europe.

2012 CE

#8492

Plague, quarantines and geopolitics in the Ottoman empire.

An examination of Ottoman plague treatises and writers from the Black Death until 1923.

1852 CE

#1610.1

Procès-verbaux de la Conférence Sanitaire Internationale ouverte a Paris le 27 juillet 1851. 2 vols.

Reports of the first international public health conference, in which the representatives of 12 European states conferred from July 27, 1851 to January 19, 1852. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1967 CE

#8490

Index of Arabic manuscripts on medicine and pharmacy at the National Library of Cairo.

1975 CE–1991 CE

#8489

An annotated bibliography of Islamic science by Seyyed Hossein Nasr. 3 vols. Vols. 1 and 3 with the collaboration of William C. Chittick; Vol. 2 with the collaboration of William C. Chittick and Peter Zirnis.

A comprehensive historical bibliography in English on Islamic science, including medicine, documenting classic works and scholarship up to 1990, In English and Arabic. Vol. 1: General works and Biographical and biblio…

2005 CE

#8488

Medieval science, technology, and medicine: An encyclopedia. Edited by Thomas Glick, Steven J. Livesey, and Faith Wallis.

2013 CE

#8487

Mathematical demography: Selected papers. Edited by David Smith and Nathan Keyfitz. Second, revised edition, edited by Kenneth W. Wachter and Hervé Le Bras.

1998 CE

#8486

Greek medicine from the heroic to the Hellenistic age: A sourcebook.

2003 CE

#8485

Pharmaceutical achievers: The human face of Pharmaceutical research.