Africa

1798 –1801

#10577

Opuscules du C[itoy]en Desgenettes, Médecin en chef de l'Armée d'Orient.

A collection of nine separately printed pamphlets issued by Napoleon's press in Cairo during his Egyptian campaign. See J.-F. Hutin, "La littérature médicale de la campagne d'Égypte", Histoire des sciences medicales, …

1800 –1801

#5837

Mémoire sur l’ophtalmie régnante en Egypte.

The great military surgeon Larrey served during the Napoleonic campaign in Egypt, where he was the first to observe the contagiousness of trachoma shortly after the successful invasion in 1798. The disease spread to E…

1860

#6504

La médecine du Prophète, traduit de l'arabe par M. le docteur Perron.

First appeared in Gaz. méd. d’Algerie, 1859, 4.

1870

#10567

The religious system of the Amazulu. Izinyanga zokubula; or, divination, as existing among the Amazulu, in their own words, with a translation into English, and notes.

Callaway, a surgeon turned missionary and bishop of the Diocese of Natal, may have been the first to publish actual transcriptions of Zulu divination, including indigenous medical beliefs and practices, in their origi…

1885

#9500

A contribution to South African materia medica, chiefly from plants in use among the natives.

The first edition was a pamphlet of 23 pp. Smith issued a much-expanded second edition with 163 pp., also at Lovedale in 1888, and a further expanded third edition with 262 pp. (Cape Town, 1895). Digital facsimile of …

1890

#11449

The antiquity of man in South Africa, and evolution.

The first separately published work on human origins published in the continent of Africa. Hillier's text was read on his behalf before the Eastern Province Literary and Scientific Society in Grahamstown, Eastern Cape…

1895

#5273

Preliminary report on the tsetse fly disease or nagana, in Zululand.

In 1895 Bruce found that nagana, the tsetse fly disease of Zululand, was due to a trypanosome (T. brucei). He described a hematozoon in the blood of the affected animals that had not been previously described. Digital…

1905 –1911

#5365

The anatomy and life history of Agchylostoma duodenale Dub. A. monograph. 2 pts.

Vols. 3 and 4 of Records of the School of Medicine, Cairo. In 1898 Looss discovered that hookworm larvae can penetrate the skin. His monograph epitomized all knowledge of the condition to 1911.

1906

#13137

La pharmacie en Egypte.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1927

#12674

Ar-Raoudat at-tibbiyya (Le jardin médical) par Ubaîd-Allah Ben Gibraîl Ben Bakhtichoû, Chrétien décédé en 1058: Texte arabe, publié pour la première fois d’après trois manuscrits conservées dans la Bibliothèque des Manuscrits.

1928

#5814.1

The book of the ten treatises on the eye ascribed to Hunain Ibn Is-hâq. The earliest existing systematic text-book of ophthalmology. The Arabic text from the only two known manuscripts, with an English translation and glossary by Max Meyerhof.

The earliest extant systematic textbook of ophthalmology. The Arabs were the first to make a specialty of ophthalmology.

1931

#5352

The bibliography of schistosomiasis (bilharziasis).

1932 –1937

#7163

The abridged version of "The book of simple drugs" of Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Ghāfiqī by Gregorius abu l-Faraj (Bar Hebraeus). Edited from the only two known manuscripts with an English translation, commentary and indices by M. Meyerhof and G. P. Sobhy Bey. 2 pts.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

1937

#12675

The medico-philosophical controversy between Ibn Butlan of Baghdad and Ibn Ridwan of Cairo: A contribution to the history of Greek learning among the Arabs. (The Egyptian University, the Faculty of Arts: Publication 13.)

1940

#11241

Sarh Asma Al-Uqqar (L'Explication des noms de drogues) Un glossaire de matière medicale composé par Maïmonide. Texte publié pour la première fois d'après le manuscrit unique

1943

#11669

Aviation medicine.

1953

#10310

Tropical victory: An account of the influence of medicine on the history of Southern Rhodesia, 1890-1923.

1956

#8651

Medicine and magic of the Mashona.

1958

#8500

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

1967

#8490

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

1967

#10679

The sleeping sickness epidemic of Uganda 1900-1920: A study in historical geography.

1970

#5546.8

Bibliography of ticks and tickborne diseases from Homer (about 800 B.C.) to 31 December, 1969. Vol. 1.

Digital facsimile from Washington State University Digital Collections at this link.

1970

#9894

The early history of scientific medicine in Uganda.

1971

#6604.5

South Africa: Its medical history 1652-1898.

1971

#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.

1971

#10677

A history of the Nigerian Health Services.

1975

#13713

Catalogue of Arabic manuscripts on medicine and pharmacy at the British Library.

1976

#10312

A service to the sick: A history of the health services for Africans in Southern Rhodesia (1890-1953).

1981

#12776

Botanical exploration of Southern Africa: A illustrated history of early botanical literature on the Cape flora. Biographical accounts of the leading plant collectors and their activities in southern Africa from the days of the East India Company until modern times.

1983

#8316

The physicians of pharaonic Egypt. (Deutsches Archäologisches Instutut, Abteilung Kairo, Sonderschrift 10).

1985

#9889

The Traditional medical practitioner in Zimbabwe: His principles of practice and pharmacopoeia.

1985

#10089

African pioneers of modern medicine: Nigerian doctors of the nineteenth century.

1987

#8315

The Ebers papyrus: A new English translation, commentaries and glossary by Paul Ghalioungui.

1988

#11778

Southern African botanical literature, 1600-1988.

1989

#7920

Rituals and medicines: Indigenous healing in South Africa.

1989

#8392

Un traité égyptien d’ophiologie - Papyrus du Brooklyn Museum nos 47.218.48 et 85. Cairo: Institut français d'archéologie orientale.

Dating from about 450 BCE, this papyrus concerns snakes and the treatments for snake bites, and also the treatment of scorpion bites and spider bites.

1993

#13535

Medicinal plants and enigmatic health practices of Northern Ethiopia.

2000

#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.

2001

#10091

Black death, white medicine: Bubonic plague and the politics of public health in colonial Senegal, 1914-1945.

2008

#7925

Healing traditions: African medicine, cultural exchange, and competition in South Africa, 1820-1948.

2012

#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.

2012

#13342

Histoire de la médecine arabe en Tunisie durant dix siècles.

Includes a biography and bibliography of Ben Miled as well as a reprint of his thesis, L'école médicale de Kairouan aux xe et xie siècles (1933). The 2012 work was originally published in Arabic as Ṭibb al-ʻArabī al-T…

2013

#7926

A handbook of African traditional healing approaches & research practices. Edited by Njoki Wane and Erica Neeganagwedgin.

2015

#10088

History of medical practice in Nigeria.