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History of Ancient Medicine & Biology

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1778History of the origin of medicine, delivered at the anniversary meeting of the Medical Society of London, January 19, 1778, and printed at their request. To which are since added, various historical illustrations.
1897​–1904Les plantes dans l'antiquité et au moyen âge. Histoire, usages et symbolisme. 2 vols.
1901The history of ancient gynaecology.
1927The herbal in antiquity and its transmission to later ages.
1953​–1959A history of science. Vols. 1-2. (All published.)
1967Ancient medicine: Selected Papers of Ludwig Edelstein. Edited by Owsei Temkin and C. Lilian Temkin. Translations from the German by C. Lilian Temkin.
1971Antike Medizin. Wege der Forschung ccxxi.
1975The healing hand: Man and wound in the ancient world.
1983Les maladies à l'aube de la civilisation occidentale. Recherches sur la réalité pathologique dans le monde grec préhistorique, archaïque et classique.
1985Medical ethics in antiquity: Philosophical perspectives on abortion and euthanasia.
1996Prospecting for drugs in ancient and medieval European texts. A scientific approach, edited by Bart K. Holland.
1996Baths and bathing in classical antiquity.
1997Health 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.
1997Magie, médecine et divination chez les Celtes.
1998Les maladies dans l'art antique.
1998Text and tradition: Studies in ancient medicine and its transmission: Presented to Jutta Kollesch. Edited by Klaus-Dietrich Fischer, Diethard Nickel, and Paul Potter.
1999The diffusion of Greco-Roman medicine into the Middle East and the Caucasus. Edited by J.A.C. Greppin, E. Savage-Smith, and J. L. Gueriguian.
2001Medical ethics in the ancient world.
2001Aristotle on life and death
2002Healing kidney diseases in antiquity: Plants from Dioscorides' De materia medica, with Illustrations from Greek and Arabic manuscripts (A.D. 512-15th Century).
2002Abortion in the ancient world.
2004Ancient medicine.
2005Antike Medizin: Ein Lexikon.
2008Embodiments of will: Anatomical and physiological theories of voluntary animal motion from Greek antiquity to the Latin Middle Ages, 400 B.C - A.D.1300.
2009Encyclopedia of ancient natural scientists: The Greek tradition and its many heirs. Edited by Paul Keyser and Georgia Irby-Massie.
2014History of toxicology and environmental health. Toxicology in antiquity. 2 vols. Edited by Philip Wexler.
2016Ancient botany.
2018Mental illness in ancient medicine: From Celsus to Paul of Aegina. Edited by Chiara Thumiger and Peter Singer.
2018The Oxford handbook of science and medicine in the classical world. Edited by Paul T. Keyser and John Scarborough.
2018Mesopotamian medicine and magic. Studies in honor of Markham J. Geller. Edited by Strahil V. Panayotov and Ludek Vacin.