Latest Entries

1974 CE

#8280

Ancient ophthalmological agents: A pharmaco-historical study of the collyria and seals used during Roman antiquity, as well as of the most frequent components of the collyria.

2017 CE

#8279

Medicine and pharmacy in Byzantine hospitals: A study of the extant formularies.

2007 CE

#8278

The dispensatory of Ibn at-Tilmīd: Arabic text, English translation, study and glossaries by Oliver Kahl.

Critical Arabic edition, annotated English translation, introductory study, and two-way glossaries of the dispensatory composed around the middle of the 12th century CE by the Nestorian physician Ibn at-Tilmīḏ. The di…

2009 CE

#8277

Sābūr ibn Sahl's dispensatory in the recension of the 'Adudī hospital.

Arabic edition and English translation of Sābūr ibn Sahl's famous dispensatory as preserved in a recension made by the physicians of the ʿAḍudī hospital in Baghdad around the middle of the 11th century CE.

2001 CE

#8276

Medicine and the German Jews: A history.

2010 CE

#8275

A history of healthcare in Istanbul: Health organizations, epidemics, infections and disease control, preventive health institutions, hospitals, medical education.

2015 CE

#8274

Plague and empire in the early modern Mediterranean world: The Ottoman experience, 1347-1600.

1997 CE

#8273

Health and disease in the Holy Land: Studies in the history and sociology of medicine from ancient times to the present, edited by Manfred Waserman and Samuel S. Kotteck.

2000 CE

#8272

Jewish bioethics, edited by J. David Bleich and Fred Rosner.

1995 CE

#8271

Medicine in the Bible and the Talmud: Selections from classical Jewish sources.

1987 CE

#8270

Maimonides' commentary on the aphorisms of Hippocrates. Translated with a commentary by Fred Rosner

1989 CE

#8269

The medical aphorisms of Moses Maimonides translated and annotated by Fred Rosner, with a bibliography by Jacob I. Dienstag.

1988 CE

#8268

Moses Maimonides medical writings: Poisons, Hemorrhoids, and cohabitation, translated and annotated by Fred Rosner.

1994 CE

#8267

Medicine and hygiene in the works of Flavius Josephus.

2013 CE

#8266

Moses Maimonides and his practice of medicine.

1998 CE

#8265

Medical encyclopedia of Moses Maimonides by Fred Rosner.

1997 CE

#8264

The medical legacy of Moses Maimonides by Fred Rosner.

1995 CE

#8263

Moses Maimonides' glossary of drug names translated and annotated from Max Meyerhof's French edition by Fred Rosner; with a bibliography by Jacob I. Dienstag and Arabic terms by Joseph Dana.

Translation of Sharḥ asmāʼ al-ʻuqqār; translated from the French according to the Unique Arabic Ms. 3711 of the Aya Sofia Library, Istanbul. For the Meyerhof edition see No. 11241.

2012 CE

#8262

Mamluks and animals: Veterinary medicine in medieval Islam.

The first comprehensive study of veterinary medicine, its practitioners and patients, in the medieval Islamic world.

1994 CE

#8261

Medical and para-medical manuscripts in the Cambridge Genizah collections by Haskell D. Issacs with the assistance of Colin F. Baker.

2015 CE

#8260

Al-Rāzī, On the treatment of small children (De curis puerorum). The Latin and Hebrew Translations, edited and translated by Gerrit Bos and Michael McVaugh.

One of the few texts on pediatrics that circulated during the Middle Ages, this short Latin tretise is the translation of a lost Arabic original attributed--perhaps mistakenly--to Rhazes.

2014 CE

#8259

Maimonides On rules regarding the practical part of the medical art. A parallel English-Arabic edition and translation. Translated by Gerrit Bos, edited by Y. Tzvi Langermann

2012 CE

#8258

Maimonides On hemorrhoids. A new parallel Arabic-English edition and translation, edited and translated by Gerrit Bos and Michael R. McVaugh.

2012 CE

#8257

Galen: On problematical movements. Edited with introduction and commentary by Vivian Nutton, with an edition of the Arabic version by Gerrit Bos.

2009 CE

#8256

Maimonides On poisons and the protection against lethal drugs. A parallel Arabic-English edition, edited, translated, and annotated by Gerrit Bos, along with critical editions of Hebrew and Latin; medieval translations by Gerrit Bos and Michael R. McVaugh.

1975 CE

#8255

Opera medica omnia edenda curaverunt L. García-Ballester, J. A. Paniagua et M. R. McVaugh.

This is the first scholarly, critical edition of the collected works of Arnau de Vilanova. When I wrote this entry in December 2016 the ongoing editing publishing project was up to 17 vols. in 20, offered at the Unive…

2005 CE

#8254

Hebrew Medical Astrology: David Ben Yom Tov, Kelal Qaṭan: Original Hebrew text, medieval Latin translation, modern English translation by Gerrit Bos, Charles Burnett, and Tzvi Langermann.

2015 CE

#8253

A historical perspective on evidence-based immunology.

Thoroughly documented and well-illustrated history, with a timeline and bibliography for each chapter.

2014 CE

#8252

Intolerant bodies: A short history of autoimmunity.

2006 CE

#8251

Colonial pathologies: American tropical medicine, race, and hygiene in the Philippines.

2013 CE

#8250

Medicine and the saints: Science, Islam, and the colonial encounter in Morocco, 1877-1956.

2004 CE

#8249

Medicine and victory: British military medicine in World War II.

2010 CE

#8248

The medical war: British military medicine in the First World War.

2011 CE

#8247

The social history of health and medicine in colonial India. Edited by Biswamoy Pati and Mark Harrison.

1908 CE

#8246

Insanity in India: Its symptoms and diagnosis; with reference to the relation of crime and insanity.

Includes considerable discussion of the psychoactive effects of cannabis. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

2002 CE–2007 CE

#8245

Maimonides on asthma: a parallel Arabic-English text, edited, translated and annotated by Gerrit Bos. Maimonides on asthma, Vol. 2: Critical editions of medieval Hebrew and Latin translations by Gerrit Bos and Michael R. McVaugh.

1995 CE

#8244

Ibn al-Jazzār on forgetfulness and its treatment. Critical edition of the Arabic text and the Hebrew translations with commentary and translation into English by Gerrit Bos.

1992 CE

#8243

Qustā ibn Lūqā's medical regime for the pilgrims to Mecca. The Risāla fī tabīr safar al-hajj. Edited with translation and commentary by Gerrit Bos.

The only known early health guide for the pilgrim to Mecca, by the Syrian Melkite Christian physician, scientist and translator.

1853 CE

#8242

Palm trees of the Amazon.

Wallace's first book, printed in an edition of only 250 copies. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1914 CE

#8241

A history of the Indian Medical Service 1600-1913. 2 vols.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1879 CE

#8240

The practice of medicine among the Burmese, translated from original manuscripts, with an historical sketch of the progress of medicine, from the earliest times.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

2012 CE

#8239

Histoire de la médecine Arabe en Tunisie durant dix siècles. Traduit de l'Arabe par Abdelkader Klibi.

First published in 1980; second edition, 1999. The 2012 edition is further supplemented.

1908 CE

#8238

Histoire de la médecine Arabe en Tunisie.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1997 CE

#8237

Ibn Al-Jazzār on sexual diseases and their treatment: A critical edition of Zād al-musāfir wa-qūt al-hādir. Translated and edited by Gerrit Bos.

1976 CE

#8236

Galen on the affected parts. Translated by Rudolph E. Siegel.

1986 CE

#8235

Galen on bloodletting: A study of the origins, development and validity of his opinions, with a translation of the three works

Bloodletting is thought to have been practiced by Greek physicians of the 5th century BCE. This study includes translation of Galeni de venae sectione adversus Erasistratum liber (162-163 CE), Galeni de venae sectione…

2008 CE

#8234

Biographical index of the Middle Ages. 2 vols.

Contains 130,000 very brief biographical notes compiled from nearly 200 references (which are cited) on roughly 95,000 people from Europe and the Middle East during the 1000 years of the Middle Ages. The text is searc…

2016 CE

#8233

Hunayn ibn Ishāq on his Galen translations: A parallel English-Arabic text edited and translated by John C. Lamoreaux, with an appendix by Grigory Kessel.

2010 CE

#8232

Hunayn ibn Ishaq's "Questions on medicine for students": Transcription and translation of the oldest extant Syriac version (Vat. Syr. 192). Studi e testi, 459

For a critical review of this edition see Grigory Kessel, "Review Essay of Wilson, E.J. and Dinkha, S., Hunayn Ibn Ishaq’s 'Questions on Medicine for Students'. Transcription and Translation of the Oldest Extant…

2002 CE

#8231

The unknown Galen. Edited by Vivian Nutton.