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Ethnobotany

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1533En nyttelig laegebog for fattige og rige, unge og gamle.
PEDERSEN, Christiern (1480 – 1554)
1534Om UrteVand.
PEDERSEN, Christiern (1480 – 1554)
1567Secretos de chirurgia, en especial de la enfermedades de morbo-galico y lamparones, y asimismo la manera como se curan los indos las llgas y heridas, y otras pasiones en las Indias, muy útil y provechoso par España, y otros muchos secretos de chirugia hasta ahora no escritos.
ARIAS DE BENEVIDES, Pedro (1505 – )
1578Summa y recopilacion de cirugia, con un arte para sangrar, muy util y provechosa.
LÓPEZ DE HINOJOSOS, Alonso (1535 – 1597)
1579Tractado breve de anathomia y chirurgia.
FARFAN, Agustin (1531 – 1604)
1615Quatro libros. De la naturaleza, y virtudes de las plantas, y animales que estan receuidos en el vso de medicina en la Nueua España, y la methodo, y correccion, y preparacion, que para administrallas se requiere con lo que el doctor Francisco Hernandez escriuio en lengua latina. : Muy vtil para todo genero de gente q[ue] viue en esta[n]cias y pueblos, de no ay medicos, ni botica.Traduzido, y aumentados muchos simples, y compuestos y otros muchos secretos curatiuos, por Fr. Francisco Ximenes....
HERNÁNDEZ DE TOLEDO, Francisco (1517 – 1587) XIMÉNEZ, Francisco (1560 – 1620)
1648Historia naturalis Brasiliae.
PISO, Willem [Guillaume le Pois] (1611 – 1678) MARGGRAF, Georg (Marcgrave) (1610 – 1644)
1670Catalogus plantarum Angliae, et insularum adjacentium: tum indigenas, tum in agris passim cultas complectens.
RAY, John (1628 – 1705)
RAY, John (1628 – 1705)
1672New-Englands rarities discovered: in birds, beasts, fishes, serpents, and plants of that country. Together with the physical and chyrurgical remedies wherewith the natives constantly use to cure their distempers, wounds, and sores…
JOSSELYN, John (1630 – 1675)
1672The American physician : or, a treatise of the roots, plants, trees, shrubs, fruit, herbs, etc., growing in the English Plantations in America ; ... whereunto is added a discourse of the Cacao-nut-Tree, and the use of its fruit ; with all the ways of making Chocolate
HUGHES, William ( – 1683)
1703A description of the Western Islands of Scotland.: Containing a full account of their situation, extent, soils, product, harbours, bays, tides, anchoring places, and fisheries. The ancient and modern government, religion and customs of the inhabitants, particularly of their druids, heathen temples, monasteries, churches, chappels, antiquities, monuments, forts, caves, and other curiosities of art and nature. Of their admirable and expeditious way of curing most diseases by simples of their own product. A particular account of the second sight, or faculty of forseeing things to come, by way of vision, so common among them. A brief hint of methods to improve trade in that country, both by sea and land. With a new map of the whole, describing the harbours, anchoring places, and dangerous rocks, for the benefit of sailers. To which is added a brief description of the Isles of Orkney, and Schetland.
MARTIN, Martin ( – 1718)
1741​–1750Het Amboinsche Kruidboek . . . Herbarium Amboinense . . . nunc primum in lucem edidit & in Latinum semonem vertit Joannes Burmannus. 6 vols.
RUMPHIUS, Georg Eberhard (1627 – 1702)
RUMPHIUS, Georg Eberhard (1627 – 1702)
BURMAN, Johannes (1707 – 1780)
BURMAN, Johannes (1707 – 1780)
1746Medicina Britannica; or, a treatise on such physical plants as are generally to be found in the fields or gardens of Great-Britain: Containing a particular account of their nature, virtues, and uses. Together with the observations of the most learned physicians, as well ancient as modern, communicated to the late ingenious Mr. Ray, and the learned Dr. Sim. Pauli. Adapted more especially to the occasions of those, whose condition or situation of life deprives them, in a great measure, of the helps of the learned. To which are added, three indexes: The first containing the England and Latin names of the plants treated of: The second of the diseases, and their remedies: The third to the notes.
SHORT, Thomas (1690 – 1772)
1751Descriptions, virtues, and uses of sundry plants of these northern parts of America, and particularly of the newly discovered Indian cure for the venereal disease.
BARTRAM, John (1699 – 1777)
BARTRAM, John (1699 – 1777)
1763An account of the success of the bark of the willow in the cure of agues.
STONE, Edward (1702 – 1768)
1774An oration…containing an enquiry into the natural history of medicine among the Indians in North-America; and a comparative view of their diseases and remedies, with those of civilized nations.
RUSH, Benjamin (1745 – 1813)
RUSH, Benjamin (1745 – 1813)
1787Materia medica Americana, potissimum regni vegetabilis.
SCHOEPFF, Johann David (1752 – 1800)
SCHOEPFF, Johann David (1752 – 1800)
1801The American herbal, or materia medica.
STEARNS, Samuel (1741 – 1810)
1813Materia medica of Hindoostan, and artisan’s and agriculturist’s nomenclature.
AINSLIE, Whitelaw (1767 – 1837)
1817​–1820American medical botany, being a collection of the native medicinal plants of the United States, containing their botanical history and chemical analysis, and properties and uses in medicine, diet and the arts. 3 vols.
BIGELOW, Jacob (1786 – 1879)
BIGELOW, Jacob (1786 – 1879)
1822New guide to health; or botanic family physician, containing a complete system of practice, upon a plan entirely new; with a description of the vegetables made use of, and directions for preparing and adminstering them to cure disease. To which is prefixed a narrative of the life and medical discoveries of the author.
THOMSON, Samuel (1769 – 1843)
THOMSON, Samuel (1769 – 1843)
1822A narrative of the life and medical discoveries of Samuel Thomson: Containing an account of his system of practice, and the manner of curing disease with vegetable medicine, upon a plan entirely new; to which is added an introduction to his New Guide to Health, or Botanic Family Physician containing the principles upon which the system is founded, with remarks on fevers, steaming, poison &c.
THOMSON, Samuel (1769 – 1843)
THOMSON, Samuel (1769 – 1843)
1828​–1830Medical flora; or, manual of the medical botany of the United States of North America. Containing a selection of above 100 figures and descriptions of medical plants, with their names, qualities, properties, history &c; and notes or remarks on nearly 500 equivalent substitutes. 2 vols.
RAFINESQUE, Constantine Samuel (1783 – 1840)
RAFINESQUE, Constantine Samuel (1783 – 1840)
1847Medical botany: or, Descriptions of the more important plants used in medicine, with their history, properties, and mode of administration.
GRIFFITH, Robert Eglesfeld (1798 – 1850)
1860Colección de medicamentos indigenas y sus aplicaciones, estraidos de los reinos vegetal, mineral y animal, recogidos y anotados por [...], segunda edición corregida y aumentada.
POMPA, Gerónimo
1885A contribution to South African materia medica, chiefly from plants in use among the natives.
SMITH, Andrew (1828 – 1898)
1900The ethno-botany of the Coahuilla Indians.
BARROWS, David Prescott (1873 – 1954)
BARROWS, David Prescott (1873 – 1954)
1909Zulu medicine and medicine-men.
BRYANT, Alfred T.
BRYANT, Alfred T.
1911The ethno-botany of the Gosiute Indians of Utah.
CHAMBERLIN, Ralph Vary (1879 – 1967)
CHAMBERLIN, Ralph Vary (1879 – 1967)
1913Garci da Orta: Colloquies on the simples & drugs of India. New edition (Lisbon, 1895) edited and annotated by the Conde de Ficalho. Translated with an introduction and index by Sir Clements Markham.
ORTA, Garcia de [Garcia d'Orta] (1501 – 1568)
ORTA, Garcia de [Garcia d'Orta] (1501 – 1568) BREYNER, Francesco Manuel de Melo, Conde de Ficalho (1837 – 1903) MARKHAM, Sir Robert Clements (1830 – 1916)
1915Ethnobotany of the Zuñi Indians. Thirtieth annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology.
STEVENSON, Matilda Coxe (1849 – 1915)
STEVENSON, Matilda Coxe (1849 – 1915)
1916Ethnobotany of the Tewa Indians. Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 55.
ROBBINS, Wilfred William (1884 – 1952)
HARRINGTON, John Peabody (1884 – 1961)
HARRINGTON, John Peabody (1884 – 1961) FREIRE-MARRECO, Barbara (1879 – 1967)
1919Irish ethno-botany and the evolution of medicine in Ireland.
MOLONEY, Michael Francis (1891 – 1961)
1919Uses of plants by the Indians of the Missouri River region. Thirty-third annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, 1911-1912.
GILMORE, Melvin Randolph (1868 – 1940)
1923Ethnobotany of the Menomini Indians.
SMITH, Huron Herbert (1883 – 1933)
SMITH, Huron Herbert (1883 – 1933)
1928Use of plants by the Chippewa Indians. Smithsonian Institution-Bureau of American Ethnology Annual Report 44.
DENSMORE, Frances Theresa (1867 – 1957)
DENSMORE, Frances Theresa (1867 – 1957)
1928Ethnobotany of the Meskwaki Indians.
SMITH, Huron Herbert (1883 – 1933)
SMITH, Huron Herbert (1883 – 1933)
1928The divine origin of the craft of the herbalist.
BUDGE, Sir Ernest Alfred Thompson Wallis (1857 – 1934)
1932Medicine among the American Indians.
STONE, Eric Percy (1892 – )
1932The Swimmer manuscript. Cherokee sacred formulas and medicinal prescriptions, by James Mooney, revised, completed and edited by Frans M. Olbrechts. Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 99.
MOONEY, James (1861 – 1921)
MOONEY, James (1861 – 1921) OLBRECHTS, Frans Maria (1899 – 1958)
1932The ethnobotany of the Acoma and Laguna Indians. M.A. thesis.
SWANK, George R.
1932Ethnobotany of the Ojibwe Indians.
SMITH, Huron Herbert (1883 – 1933)
SMITH, Huron Herbert (1883 – 1933)
1933Ethnobotany of the Forest Potawatomi Indians.
SMITH, Huron Herbert (1883 – 1933)
SMITH, Huron Herbert (1883 – 1933)
1939Ethnobotany of the Hopi. Bulletin No. 15.
WHITING, Alfred Frank (1912 – 1978)
1940The Badianus manuscript. (Codex Barberini, Latin, 241) Vatican Library. An Aztec herbal of 1552. Edited and translated by Emily W. Emmart.
CRUZ, Martin De La EMMART, Emily Walcott (1898 – ) BADIANO, Juan (1484 – 1552)
1940Plants used as curatives by certain Southeastern tribes.
TAYLOR, Lyda Averill
1941Navajo Indian medical ethnobotany. University of New Mexico Bulletin, Anthropological Series, Vol. 3, No. 5.
WYMAN, Leland Clifton (1897 – 1988)
HARRIS, Stuart K.
HARRIS, Stuart K.
1942A study of Delaware Indian medicine practice and folk beliefs.
TANTAQUIDGEON, Gladys Lola (1899 – 2005)
1944Ethnobotany of the Navajo. Monographs of the School of American Research, No. 8.
ELMORE, Francis Hapgood
1947Healing herbs of the upper Rio Grande.
CURTIN, Leonora Scott Muse (1879 – 1972)
CURTIN, Leonora Scott Muse (1879 – 1972) MOORE, Michael Roland Shaw (1941 – 2009)