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1767An account of the manner of inoculating for the small pox in the East Indies: With some observations on the practice and mode of treating that disease in those parts.
HOLWELL, John Zephaniah (1711 – 1798)
HOLWELL, John Zephaniah (1711 – 1798)
1826Materia 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.
AINSLIE, Whitelaw (1767 – 1837)
1832Clinical illustrations of the more important diseases of Bengal, with the result of an inquiry into their pathology and treatment.
TWINING, William (1790 – 1835)
1833The Taleef shereef, or Indian materia medica translated from the original by George Playfair, Superintending Surgeon, Bengal Service. Published by The Medical and Physical Society of Calcutta.
PLAYFAIR, George
KHAN, Hakim Muhammad Sharif (1722 – 1807)
KHAN, Hakim Muhammad Sharif (1722 – 1807)
1837An essay on the antiquity of Hindoo medicine, including an introductory lecture to the course of materia medica and therapeutics, delivered at King's College.
ROYLE, John Forbes (1798 – 1858)
ROYLE, John Forbes (1798 – 1858)
1837Notes on the medical topography of Calcutta.
MARTIN, James Ranald (1796 – 1874)
MARTIN, James Ranald (1796 – 1874)
1840A practical essay on some of the principal surgical diseases of India.
BRETT, Frederick Harrington
1843Practical observations on the principal diseases affecting the health of the European and native soldiers in the north-western provinces of India with a supplement on dysentery.
MACGREGOR, William Lewis (1801 – 1853)
1844Pathologia Indica, or, The anatomy of Indian diseases, medical and surgical: Based upon morbid specimens from all parts of India in the museum of the Calcutta Medical College; illustrated by detailed cases, with the prescriptions and treatment employed, and comments, physiological, practical and historical.
WEBB, Allan (1803 – 1863)
1845Commentary on the Hindu system of medicine.
WISE, Thomas Alexander (1801 – 1889)
1846Mesmerism in India, and its practical application in surgery and medicine.
ESDAILE, James (1808 – 1859)
ESDAILE, James (1808 – 1859)
1849An atlas of anatomical plates of the human body, with descriptive letter-press in English and Hindustani.
MOUAT, Frederic John (1816 – 1897)
MOUAT, Frederic John (1816 – 1897)
1850The historical relations of ancient Hindu with Greek medicine in connection with the study of modern medical science in India: Being a general introductory lecture delivered June 1850, at the Calcutta Medical College.
WEBB, Allan (1803 – 1863)
1855Elephantiasis orientalis, and especially elephantiasis genitalis in Bengal.
WEBB, Allan (1803 – 1863)
1856Clinical researches on disease in India. 2 vols.
MOREHEAD, Charles (1807 – 1882)
MOREHEAD, Charles (1807 – 1882)
1860Remarks on the uses of some bazaar medicines, and on a few of the common indigenous plants of India, according to European practice.
WARING, Edward John (1819 – 1891)
1866De veterum Indorum chirurgia. Dissertatio inauguralis.
TRENDELENBURG, Friedrich (1844 – 1924)
TRENDELENBURG, Friedrich (1844 – 1924)
1868Pharmacopoeia of India, prepared under the authority of Her Majesty's Secretary of State for India in Council
WARING, Edward John (1819 – 1891)
1870A manual of medical jurisprudence for India, including the outline of a history of crime against the person in India.
CHEEVERS, Norman (1818 – 1886)
1877Materia medica of the Hindus compiled from Sanskrit medical works. With a glossary of Indian plants.
DUTT, Uday Chand (1834 – 1884)
DUTT, Uday Chand (1834 – 1884)
1890​–1893Pharmacographia indica: A history of the principal drugs of vegetable origin, met with in British India. 3 vols.
HOOPER, David (1858 – 1947) DYMOCK, William (1834 – 1892) WARDEN, Charles James Hislop (1851 – 1900)
1900Extractions of cataract in the capsule.
SMITH, Henry (1862 – 1948)
1904The constituents of chaulmoogra seeds.
POWER, Frederick Belding (1853 – 1927)
POWER, Frederick Belding (1853 – 1927) GORNALL, Frank Howorth
1906Moeurs médicales de l'Inde et leurs rapports avec la médecine européenne.
MARIADASSOU, Paramananda
1907Studies in the medicine of ancient India. Part 1. Osteology or the bones of the human body.
HOERNLÉ, Augustus Friedrich Rudolf (1841 – 1918)
1908Insanity in India: Its symptoms and diagnosis; with reference to the relation of crime and insanity.
EWENS, George Francis William
1913​–1914The surgical instruments of the Hindus, with a comparative study of the surgical instruments of the Greek, Roman, Arab and the modern Eouropean [sic] surgeons. 2 vols.
MUKHOPADHYAYA, Girindranath (1872 – 1935)
1914A history of the Indian Medical Service 1600-1913. 2 vols.
CRAWFORD, Dirom Grey (1857 – 1942)
CRAWFORD, Dirom Grey (1857 – 1942)
1917The Indian operation of couching for cataract. Incorporating The Hunterian Lectures....
ELLIOT, Robert Henry (1864 – 1936)
1923​–1929History of Indian medicine. Containing notices, biographical, of the Ayurvedic physicians and their works on medicine, from the earliest ages to the present time. 3 vols.
MUKHOPADHYAYA, Girindranath (1872 – 1935)
1924On a Herpetomonas found in the gut of the sandfly, Phlebotomus argentipes, fed on kala-azar patients.
KNOWLES, Robert (1883 – 1936)
KNOWLES, Robert (1883 – 1936) NAPIER, Lionel Everard (1888 – 1957) & et al.
1929The work of medical women in India.
BALFOUR, Margaret Ida (1866 – 1945)
BALFOUR, Margaret Ida (1866 – 1945) YOUNG, Ruth (1884 – 1993)
1941The transmission of Leishmania tropica by the bite of Phlebotomus papatasii.
ADLER, Saul (1895 – 1956)
ADLER, Saul (1895 – 1956) BER, Mordechai ( – 1952)
1942Transmission of Indian kala-azar to man by the bites of Phlebotomus argentipes, Ann. and Brun.
SWAMINATH, C. S.
1965A story of medicine and pharmacy in India. Pharmacy 2000 years ago and after.
SANYAL, Promode Kumar (1913 – 1994)
1976Asian medical systems: A comparative study, edited by Charles Leslie.
LESLIE, Charles Miller (1923 – 2009)
1980Caraka Samhita: A scientific synopsis.
RÂY, Priyadaranjan (1888 – 1982) GUPTA, Hirendra Nath
1980Suśruta Samhita: A scientific synopsis
RÂY, Priyadaranjan (1888 – 1982) GUPTA, Hirendra Nath ROY, Mira
1985Encyclopaedia of Indian medicine. Volume one: Historical perspective.
RAMACHANDRA RAO, Saligrama Krishna (1925 – 2006)
1987Studies on Indian medical history, edited by G. Jan Meulenbeld and Dominik Wujastyk.
WUJASTYK, Dominik
MEULENBELD, Gerrit Jan (1928 – 2017)
MEULENBELD, Gerrit Jan (1928 – 2017)
1993Colonizing the body: State medicine and epidemic disease in nineteenth-century India.
ARNOLD, David (1946 – )
1994Public health in British India: Anglo-Indian preventive medicine 1859-1914.
HARRISON, Mark
1998The roots of Ayurveda.
WUJASTYK, Dominik
1999​–2002A history of Indian medical literature. 5 vols.
MEULENBELD, Gerrit Jan (1928 – 2017)
MEULENBELD, Gerrit Jan (1928 – 2017)
2000Science, technology and medicine in Colonial India, 1760-1947. The new Cambridge history of India, Vol. 3, pt. 5.
ARNOLD, David (1946 – )
2003Medicine across cultures: History and practice of medicine in non-Western cultures. Edited by Helaine Selin.
SELIN, Helaine (1946 – )
2008Lead encephalopathy due to traditional medicines.
KARRI, Sunya K. SAPER, Robert B. KALES, Stefanos N.
2009Recipes for immortality: Healing, religion, and community in South India.
WEISS, Richard S.
2009Medicine, race and liberalism in British Bengal: Symptoms of empire.
PANDE, Ishita (1976 – )
2010Medicine in the {Veda}: Religious healing in the {Veda} with translations and annotations of medical hymns from the {Rgveda and the Atharvaveda} and renderings from the corresponding ritual texts.
ZYSK, Kenneth G.