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1970 CE

#8380

George A Sacher, Life table modification and life prolongation. IN: Handbook of the biology of aging, edited by Caleb E. Finch and Leonard Hayflick, pp. 582–638.

"The building of a connection between the Gompertz equation and the biology of ageing owes much to the work of biophysicist George Sacher [10] of the Argonne National Laboratory, whose introduction to ageing stemmed f…

1990 CE

#8379

Proceedings of the first conference on visualization in biomedical computing. May 22-25, 1990. Norbert F. Ezquerra, Chair.

1883 CE–1886 CE

#8378

Handbook of geographical and historical pathology. Translated from the second German edition by Charles Creighton. Vol. 1.-Acute infective diseases. Vol. 2.-Chronic infective, toxic, parasitic, septic and constitutional diseases. Vol. 3.-Diseases of organs and parts.

This is the best edition of Hirsch's Handbuch. Digital facsimiles of all 3 vols. from the Internet Archive at this link.

1892 CE

#8377

"A copy of the earliest known Weekly Bill of Mortality. British Museum. Egerton MSS. 2603, f.4." IN: An inquiry into the trustworthiness of the old bills of mortality.

On p. 452 of his paper Ogle reproduces in type "A copy of the earliest known Weekly Bill of Mortality. British Museum. Egerton MSS. 2603, f.4." Ogle states that Creighton attributed this manuscript bill of mortality t…

1860 CE

#8376

On the law of mortality and the construction of annuity tables.

Gompertz-Makeham law. Makeham proposed the age-independent Makeham term that, together with the exponentially age-dependent Gompertz term, compose the Gompertz-Makeham law of mortality--one of the most effective theor…

1825 CE

#8375

On the nature of the function expressive of the law of human mortality, and on a new mode of determining the value of life contingencies.

Gompertz function. "Gompertz showed that over much of the adult human lifespan, age-specific mortality rates increased in an exponential manner. Gompertz's work played an important role in shaping the emerging statist…

1985 CE

#8374

Learning to heal: The development of American medical education.

2006 CE

#8373

Divide and conquer: A comparative history of medical specialization.

1801 CE

#8372

Observations on the increase and decrease of different disease, and particularly of the plague.

Heberden observed that the number of deaths from dysentery sharply decreased over the 18th century, but that deaths attributed to apoplexy increased. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1789 CE

#8371

An arithmetical and medical analysis of the diseases and mortality of the human species.

Black analyzed the London bills of mortality from 1701-1776. His work was the only study to provide a numerical account of insanity, a disease on people's minds because of George III's illness.

1763 CE

#8370

An essay towards solving a problem in the doctrine of chances

Bayes's paper enunciated Bayes's Theorem for calculating "inverse probabilities”—the basis for methods of extracting patterns from data in decision analysis, data mining, statistical learning machines, Bay…

1480 CE

#8369

Practica, seu Lilium medicinae.

Includes descriptions of plague, tuberculosis, scabies, epilepsy, anthrax, and leprosy. ISTC No. ib00447000.

1986 CE

#8368

Contraception: A history of its treatment by the Catholic theologians and canonists. Enlarged edition.

2010 CE

#8367

Arab painting: Text and image in illustrated Arabic manuscripts. Edited by Anna Contadini.

2006 CE

#8366

Monica H. Green & Linne R. Mooney: Gilbertus Anglicus, "The Sickness of Women," IN: Sex, Aging and Death in a Medieval Medical Compendium: MS Trinity College Cambridge R.14.52, Its Language, Scribe, and Texts. Edited by M. Teresa Tavormina. Vol. 2., pp. 455-568.

"Gilbertus's Compendium medicinae was translated into Middle English in the early 15th century.[4] The gynecological and obstetrical portions of that translation were soon excerpted and circulated widely as an indepen…

2010 CE

#8365

Healing and society in medieval England. A Middle English translation of the pharmaceutical writings of Gilbertus Anglicus. Edited by Faye Marie Getz.

1971 CE

#8364

The cyrurgie of Guy de Chauliac. I Text (E.E.T.S., 265) Edited by Margaret S. Ogden.

Middle English text of Guy de Chauliac's surgery.

1903 CE

#8363

Trois traités d'anatomie arabes par Muhammad ibn Zakariyya al-Razi, 'Ali ibn al-'Abbas, et 'Ali ibn Sina. Text inédit de deux traités. Traduction de P. de Koning.

Parallel Arabic and French texts. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1926 CE

#8362

Anatomies de Mondino dei Luzzi et de Guido de Vigevano. Par Ernest Wickersheimer.

Facsimile of the 1478 edition of Mondino's Anothomia along with the text and 18 plates from Guido de Vigevano's (fl. 14th century) Anathomia. Vigevano's manuscript, completed in 1345, is MS. 569 in the Musée Co…

1964 CE

#8361

Isidore of Seville: The medical writings. An English translation with an introduction and commentary by William D. Sharpe.

Translation of the medical and anatomical portions of the Etymologiae. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

2000 CE

#8360

The four horsemen of the Apocalypse: Religion, war, famine and death in Reformation Europe.

1993 CE

#8359

Medicine and the Reformation. Edited by Ole Peter Grell and Andrew Cunningham.

2012 CE

#8358

Handbook of religion and health. 2nd edition.

2001 CE

#8357

Anglo-Saxon remedies, charms, and prayers from British Library MS Harley 585: The ‘Lacnunga’. Edited and translated with introduction, appendices and commentary and bibliography by Edward Pettit. 2 vols.

Digital facsimile of British Library MS Harley 585 from the British Library at this link.

1738 CE

#8356

Introductio in historiam litterarium anatomes nova aeque ac antiqua, bseu, Conspectus plerorumque, si non omnium, tam veterum quam recentiorum scriptorum, qui a primis artis medicae originibus usque ad praesentia nostra tempora anatomiam operibus suis illustrarunt: Una cum indice nominum rerumque locupletissimo.

1993 CE

#8355

The High German Bartholomaeus: Text, with critical commentary of a mediaeval medical book based on the London manuscripts Brit. Mus. Add. 16, 892, Brit. Mus. Arundel 164, Brit. Mus. Add. 17, 527, Brit. Mus. Add. 34, 304, by Walter L. Wardale.

1972 CE

#8354

Maurus of Salerno, twelfth-century "optimus physicus" with his commentary on the prognostics of Hippocrates, now first transcribed from manuscript and translated into English by Morris Harold Saffron. (Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, N.S. Vol. 62, pt. 1).

1979 CE

#8353

The prose Salernitan questions, edited from a Bodleian manuscript (Auct. F.3.10). An anonymous collection dealing with science and medicine written by an Englishman c. 1200, with an Appendix of ten related collections. (Auctores Britannici Medii Aevi, 5).

1963 CE

#8352

The Salernitan questions: An introduction to the history of Medieval and Renaissance problem literature.

2004 CE

#8351

Questions and answers for physicians: A medieval Arabic study manual by 'Abd al- 'Azīz al-Sulamī. Translated, edited and with an introduction by Gary Leiser and Noury Al-Khaledy.

"....a translation and edition of the medieval Arabic medical work entitled Imtiḥān al-alibbā' li-kāffat al-aṭibbā' ("The Experts' Examination for All Physicians"). It is a study guide for students of medicine prepare…

1998 CE

#8350

A history of Jewish gynaecological texts in the Middle Ages.

1963 CE

#8349

A catalogue of incipits of mediaeval scientific writings in Latin. Revised and augmented edition.

1971 CE

#8348

Die toxikologischen Schriften der Araber bis Ende des XII. Jahrhunderts: Ein bibliographischer Versuch, grossenteils aus handschriftlichen Quellen.

First published in Archiv für pathologische Anatomie und Physiologie und für klinische Medizin 52 (1871 and 57 (1873).

1904 CE–1905 CE

#8347

Die europäischen Übersetzungen aus dem Arabischen bis Mitte des 17. Jahrhunderts. 2 vols.

Digital facsimile from medadoc.bibliothek.uni-halle.de at this link.

1956 CE

#8346

I codici di medicina del periodo presalernitano (secoli IX, X e XI).

1504 CE

#8345

Hec sunt opera Arnaldi de Villa noua que in hoc volumine continentur.

Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1520 CE–1522 CE

#8344

[Vol. 1:] Primus Avi. Canon. Avicenna, medicorum principis, Canonum liber (translatus a Gerardo Cremonensi), una cum lucidissima Gentilis Fulgi. expositione, qui merito is Speculator appellatus, additis annotationibus omnium auctoritatum and priscorum and recentiorum auctorum (edente Barthomomeo Tantuccio) .... - [Vol. 2:] Secundus Canon Avic., Cum exquisitissima Gentilis Fulg. expositione. Demum Plinii auctoritates, secundum annotata capita in de Simplicibus nuperrime addite. - [Vol.3:] Tertius Can. Avic., Cum amplissima Gentilis Fulgi. expositione. Demum commentaria nuper addita, videlicet Jacobi de Partibus super "Fen" VI and XIIII. Item Jo. Matthei de Gradi super "Fen" XXII, quia Gentilis in eis defecit. - [Vol. 4:]: Secunda pars Gentilis super tertio Avic. Cum supplementis Jacobi de Partibus, Parisiensis, ac Joannis Matthei de Gradi, Mediolanensis, ubi Gentilis vel breviter vel tacite pertransivit. - [Vol.5:] Quartus Canon Avicenna, cum preclara Gentilis Fulginatis exhibits. Thadei item Florentini expositio super secunda "Fen" ejusdem. Gentilis Florentini iterum super duos primos tractatus quinte "Fen". Quintus etiam Canon, cum ejusdem Gentilis Fulginatis lucidissima exhibits. Canticorum liber, cum commento Averroys, translatus ex arabico a magistro Armegando Blasii, Libellus de Viribus cordis translatus ab Arnaldo de Villanova). Omnia accuratissime revisa atque castigata ....

The commentary by Gentile da Foligno upon Avicenna's Canon was among the most influential medical texts of the Later Middle Ages. See Roger K. French, Canonical medicine: Gentile da Foligno and scholasticism (Leiden: …

1991 CE

#8343

A Hellenistic treatise on poisonous animals (the "Theriaca" of Nicander of Colophon): A contribution to the history of toxicology.

"... the authors review all the ancient treatises, ranged in chronological order, that cite Nicander at greater or lesser length, from Celsus up to Paul of Aegina - not less than thirteen authors. . . . Next follows a…

2007 CE

#8342

Leisure, pleasure and healing: Spa culture and medicine in Ancient Eastern Mediterranean.

1483 CE

#8341

De urinis by Gilles de Corbeil, with commentary by Gentilis de Fulgineo. Edited by Venantius Mutius.

Gilles de Corbeil's medical poem De urinis was based on writings by Theophilus Protospatharius by way of the Articella. Poems such as this were intended as mnemonic aids for students, and they tended to be widely used…

2011 CE

#8340

Huang Di Nei Jing Su Wen: An annotated translation of Huang Di's inner classic- Basic questions. 2 vols.

2016 CE

#8339

Nan Jing: The classic of difficult issues. Second edition, revised and updated.

2016 CE

#8338

Huang Di Ne Jing Ling Shu. The ancient classic on needle therapy. The complete Chinese text with annotated English translation.

1999 CE

#8337

Shāng Hán Lùn: On cold damage. Translation and commentaries by Craig Mitchell, Chung-Ching Chang, and Feng Ye.

1998 CE

#8336

The divine farmer's materia medica: A translation of the Shen Nong Ben Cao Jing by Yang Shou-zhong.

1981 CE

#8335

Anglo-Saxon amulets and curing stones.

1993 CE

#8334

Anglo-Saxon medicine.

1982 CE

#8333

Das Bad in der byzantinischen Zeit.

2010 CE

#8332

Health and disease in Byzantine Crete (7th-12 centuries AD).

1983 CE

#8331

Die Schriften ΠΕΡΙ ΣΦΥΓΜΩΝ des Philaretos. Edited by John A. Pithis.

First edition of the original Greek text, a medieval Latin translation based on Auxerre 240, a German translation, and a detailed commentary by Pithis of the De pulsibus by the obscure Byzantine physician Philaretos, …