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History of Materia Medica

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1531Pharmaca simplicia, Othone Brunfelsio interprete. Idem De ratione victus Guilelmo Copo Basilensi interprete.
1770Lectures on the materia medica: Containing the natural history of drugs, their virtues and doses: Also directions for the study of the materia medica; and an appendix on the method of prescribing. Published from the manuscript of the late Dr. Charles Alston...by John Hope. 2 vols.
1902Des Pedanios Dioskurides aus Anazarbos Arzneimittellehre in fünf Büchern. Übersetzt und mit Erklärungen Versehen.
1902Lithotherapie: Historische Studien über die medizinische Verwendung der Edelsteine.
1921Origin and history of all the pharmacopeial vegetable drugs, chemicals and preparations with bibliography... Prepared under the auspices of and published by the American Drug Manufacturers' Association, Washington, D.C. Vol. 1 Vegetable drugs
1922The old English herbals.
1925Catalogue of early herbals.
1927The herbal in antiquity and its transmission to later ages.
1928The divine origin of the craft of the herbalist.
1934The Greek herbal of Dioscorides, illustrated by a Byzantine, A.D. 512; Englished by John Goodyer, A.D. 1655; edited and first printed, A.D. 1933, by Robert T. Gunther ... with three hundred and ninety-six illustrations.
1938Herbals: their origin and evolution. A chapter in the history of botany, 1470-1670. 2nd edition.
1953​–1959La "Materia médica" de Dioscórides: Transmisión medieval y renacentista by César E. Dubler. Vol. I: La transmisión medieval y renacentista y la supervivencia en la medicina popular moderna de la "Materia médica" de Dioscórides, estudiada particularmente en España y África del Norte. Vol. 2: La versión árabe de la 'Materia Médica' de Dioscórides (texto, variantes e indices): estudio de la transcripción de los nombres griegos al árabe y comparación de las versiones griega, árabe y castellana. Vol. 3: La "Materia médica" de Dioscórides traducida y comentada por D. Andrés de Laguna (Texto crítico). Vol. 4: D. Andrés de Laguna y su época. Vol. 5: Glosario médico castellano del siglo XVI. Prólogo de Gregorio Marañón. Vol. 6: Indices generales y léxico especial de Andrés de Laguna.
1958​–1961Catalogue of botanical books in the collection of Rachel McMasters Hunt. 2 vols. in 3.
1958Herbals of five centuries. A contribution to medical history and bibliography.
1966Kräuterbücher in Bild und Geschichte.
1976Mittelalterliche Pharmazie und Medizin. Dargestellt an Geschichte und Inhalt des ANTIDOTARIUM NICOLAI
1979The illustrated herbal.
1979Anglo-Saxon plant remedies and the Anglo-Saxons.
1981Pflanzen, Wurzeln, Säfte, Samen. Antike Heilkunst in Miniaturen des Wiener Dioskurides.
1982​–1986Die Entwicklung der Rezept- und Arzneibuchliteratur. Vol. 1: Altertum und Mittelalter. 1982. Vol. 2: Die Autoren, ihre Werke und die Fortschritte im 16. Jahrhundert. 1984 Vol. 3: Die Arzneibücher und schweizerischen Pharmakopöen vom 17.-20. Jahrhundert. 1986.
1983The Arabic materia medica of Dioscorides.
1989Herbal medicine past and present. Vol. 1: Trying to give ease: Tommie Bass and the story of herbal medicine. Vol. 2: A reference guide to medicinal plants: Herbal medicine past and present.
1992The Cleveland herbal, botanical, and horticultural collections: A descriptive bibliography of pre-1830 works from the libraries of the Holden Arboretum, the Cleveland Medical Library Association, and the Garden Center of Cleveland.
1992Quid pro quo: Studies in the history of drugs.
1994Tobacco in history: The cultures of dependence.
1997Die pflanzlichen Heilmittel bei Hildegard von Bingen: Heilwissen aus der Klostermedizin.
1997Galen on pharmacology: Philosophy, history and medicine. Proceedings of the Vth International Galen Colloquium, Lille, 16-18 March 1995. Edited by Armelle Debru.
1998Europäische Heilkräuterkunde: Ein Erfahrungsschatz aus Jahrtausenden.
1998Economic botany and ethnobotany in Al-Andalus (Iberian Peninsula: Tenth-Fifteenth Centuries), an unknown heritage of mankind.
1999Herbs and herbalism in the Middle Ages and Renaissance
1999Pristina medicamenta: Ancient and medieval medical botany
1999Natureza em boiões: Medicinas e boticá-rios no Brasil setecentista.
2000Medieval herbals: The illustrative traditions.
2000Early English charms, plant lore, and healing.
2001The people's doctors: Samuel Thomson and the American Botanical Movement 1790-1860.
2001Tobacco: A cultural history of how an exotic plant seduced civilization.
2001America's botanico-medical movements: Vox populi.
2003Medicinal substances in Jerusalem from early times to the present day. (BAR International Series 1112).
2004American household botany: A history of useful plants 1620-1900.
2005Tobacco in history and culture: An encyclopedia. Edited by Jordan Goodman. 2 vols.
2008Russkie rukopisnye travniki XVII–XVIII vekov: Issledovanie fol′klora i etnobotaniki. (Russian Manuscript Herbals of the 17th and 18th Centuries: An Investigation of Folklore and Ethnobotany).
2009Medical authority and Englishwomen’s herbal texts, 1550–1650.
2009An Oak Spring herbaria: Herbs and herbals from the fourteenth to the nineteenth centuries. A selection of the rare books, manuscripts and works of art in the collection of Rachel Lambert Mellon by Lucia Tongiorgi Tomasi & Tony Willis. Edited with a description of the American herbals by Mark Argetsinger.
2011Greco-Arab and Islamic herbal medicine: Traditional system, ethics, safety, efficacy, and regulatory issues.
2012Picturing the book of nature: Image, text, and argument in sixteenth-century human anatomy and medical botany.
2012Chocolate as medicine: A quest over the centuries.
2014A database for three Dioscoridean illustrated herbals.
2017Medicine and humanism in late medieval Italy: The Carrara herbal in Padua.
2017Secret cures of slaves: People, plants, and medicine in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world.