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Botanic Sources of Single Component Drugs

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1528De compositionibus medicamentorum liber unus
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1572Instruction sur l'herbe petum ditte en France l'herbe de la Royne ou Medicée: Et sur la racine MECHIOCAN principalement (avec quelques autres simples rares et exquis) exemplaire à manier philosophiquement tous autres vegetaux.
GOHORY, Jacques (1520 – 1576)
1578Tractado de las drogas, y medicinas de las Indias Orientales, con sus plantas debuxadas al bivo.
ACOSTA, Cristóbal [Cristóvão da Costa; Christophorus Acosta Africanus] (1540 – 1599)
1582Aigentlich Beschreibung der Raiss, so er vor diser Zeit gegen Auffgang inn die Morgenländer, fürnemlich Syriam, Iudaeam, Arabiam, Mesopotamiam, Babyloniam, Assyriam, Armeniam etc....
RAUWOLF, Leonhard (1535 – 1596)
1622Tabacologia: Hoc est, tabaci, seu nicotianae descriptio medico-cheirurgico-pharmaceutica: Vel eius praeparatio & usus in omnibus corporis humani incommodis.
NEANDER, Johann (1596 – 1630)
NEANDER, Johann (1596 – 1630)
1631Curioso tratado de la naturaleza y calidad del chocolate, divido en quatro puntos. En el primero se trata, que sea chocolate; y que calidad tenga el cacao, y los demas ingredientes. En el segundo, se trata la calidad que result de rodos ellos. En el tercero se trata el modo de hazerlo, y de quanta maneras se toma en las Indias, y qual dellas es mas saludable. El ultimo punto trata de la quantidad, y como se ha de toma, y en que tiempo, y que personas.
COLMENERO DE LEDESMA, Antonio
1656Cortex Peruviae redivivus, profligator febrium, assertus ab impugnationibus Melippi Protimi ...
BADO, Sebastiano [Baldi, Baldo] (1610 – 1676)
1658De Indiae utriusque re naturali et medica libri quatuordecim.
PISO, Willem [Guillaume le Pois] (1611 – 1678) BONDT, Jacob de [Jacobus Bontius] (1592 – 1631)
1663Anastasis corticis Peruviae, seu chinae defensio
BADO, Sebastiano [Baldi, Baldo] (1610 – 1676)
1669Il tabacco opera ... Nella quale si tratta dell'origine, historia, coltura, preparatione, qualità natura, virtà & uso in fumo, in polvere, in foglia, in lambitivo, et in medicina della pianta volgarmente detta tabacco, si discorre degl'vtili ch'arreca moderatamente preso, de i danni ch'apporta smoderatamente usato, e qual sia il vero e legitimo modo di prenderlo: trattato naturale, medico, morale & curioso.
STELLA, Benedetto
1671De l'usage du caphe, du the, et du chocolate.
DUFOUR, Philippe Sylvestre (1622 – 1687)
DUFOUR, Philippe Sylvestre (1622 – 1687)
1679Currus triumphalis, è terebinthô. Or an account of the many admirable vertues of oleum terebinthinae. More particularly, of the good effects produced by its application to recent wounds, especially with respect to the hemorrhagies of the veins, and arteries, and the no less pernicious weepings of the nerves, and lymphaducts. Where also, the common methods, and medicaments, used to restrain hemorrhagies, are examined, and divers of them censured. And lastly, A new way of amputation, and a speedier convenient method of curing stumps, than that commonly practised, is with divers other useful matters recommended to the military surgeon.…
YONGE, James (1646 – 1721)
1687Le bon usage du the, du caffe, et du chocolat pour la preservation & pour la guerison des maladies.
BLÉGNY, Nicolas de (1652 – 1722)
1688Remèdes contre les cours de ventre.
HELVÉTIUS, Jean-Adrien (1661 – 1727)
1696G[othofredi]. G[uillelmi]. L[eibnitii]. Relatio ad inclytam Societatem Leopoldinam Naturae Curiosorum, de novo antidysenterico Americano magnis successibus comprobato.
LEIBNIZ, Gottfried Wilhelm (1646 – 1716)
LEIBNIZ, Gottfried Wilhelm (1646 – 1716)
1698De ipecacuanha novo Gallorum antidysenterico. Resp. C[hristophe] F[riedrich] Kneussel.
VALENTINI, Michael Bernhard (1657 – 1729)
VALENTINI, Michael Bernhard (1657 – 1729)
1700The mysteries of opium revealed.
JONES, John [English] (1645 – 1709)
1712Therapeutice specialis ad febres quasdam pemiciosas, inopinato, ac repente lethales, una vera china china, peculiare methodo ministrata, sanabiles
TORTI, Francesco (1658 – 1741)
TORTI, Francesco (1658 – 1741)
1721The virtue and use of coffee, with regard to the plague, and other infectious distempers: containing the most remarkable observations of the greatest men in Europe concerning it ... To which is prefix'd an exact figure of the tree, flower, and fruit taken from the life.
BRADLEY, Richard (1688 – 1732)
1730A dissertation upon tea, explaining its nature and properties by many new experiments; and demonstrating from philosophical principles, the various effects it has on different constitutions. To which is added the natural history of tea; and a detection of the several frauds used in preparing it. Also a discourse on the virtues of sage and water, and an enquiry into the reasons why the same food is not equally agreeable to all constitutions....
SHORT, Thomas (1690 – 1772)
1752Sendschreiben von den Wirkungen des Kafeetranks.
KNOLL, Johann Christian Friedrich (1726 – 1757)
1761Cautions against the immoderate use of snuff. Founded on the known qualities of the tobacco Plant; and the effects it must produce when this way taken Into the body: And by instances of persons who have perished miserably of diseases, occasioned, or rendered incurable by its use,
HILL, (Sir) John (1714 – 1775)
HILL, (Sir) John (1714 – 1775)
1763An account of the success of the bark of the willow in the cure of agues.
STONE, Edward (1702 – 1768)
1772The natural history of the tea-tree, with observations on the medical qualities of tea, and effects of tea-drinking.
LETTSOM, John Coakley (1744 – 1815)
LETTSOM, John Coakley (1744 – 1815)
1780Experiments establishing a criterion between mucaginous and purulent matter. An an account of the retrograde motions of the absorbent vessels of animal bodies in some diseases.
DARWIN, Erasmus (1731 – 1802)
DARWIN, Erasmus (1731 – 1802)
1785An account of the foxglove, and some of its medical uses.
WITHERING, William (1741 – 1799)
WITHERING, William (1741 – 1799)
1790De l'usage du quinquina dans les fièvres rémittentes. Mémoire qui a remporté en 1785, au jugement de la Societé Royale de Médecine de Paris.
BAUMES, Jean Baptiste Timothée (1756 – 1828)
1792Quinología o Tratado del árbol de la quina ó cascarilla:con su descripción y la de otras especies de quinos nuevamente descubiertas en el Perú....
LÓPEZ, Hipólito Ruiz (1754 – 1816)
1793An inquiry into the nature and properties of opium: Wherein its component principles, mode of operation, and use or abuse in particular diseases, are experimentally investigated, and the opinions of former authors on these points impartially examined.
CRUMPE, Samuel (1766 – 1796)
1795De morbis vasorum absorbentium corporis humani.
SOEMMERRING, Samuel Thomas von (1755 – 1830)
1799Ensaios sobre algumas enfermidades d'Angola....
AZEREDO, José Pinto de (1766 – 1810)
1799An essay on the medical properties of the digitalis purpurea or foxglove.
FERRIAR, John (1761 – 1815)
FERRIAR, John (1761 – 1815)
1802Sur l’opium.
DEROSNE, Charles Louis (1780 – 1846)
1805Darstellung der reinen Mohnsäure (Opiumsäure); nebst einer chemischen Untersuchung des Opiums, mit vorzüglicher Hinsicht auf einen darin neu entdeckten Stoff.
SERTÜRNER, Friedrich Wilhelm Adam (1783 – 1841)
1806Dissertation sur le café; son historique, ses propriétés, et le procédé pour en obtenir la boisson la plus agréable, la plus salutaire et la plus économique; Par Ant.-Alexis Cadet-de-Vaux...Suivie de son analyse; par Charles-Louis Cadet.
CADET DE VAUX, Antoine-Alexis (1743 – 1828) CADET, Charles-Louis (1769 – 1821)
1809Examen de l'action de quelques végétaux sur la moelle épinière. Lu a l'Institut, le vingt-quatre avril 1809.
MAGENDIE, François (1783 – 1855)
1810Ensaio sobre o cinchonino, e sobre sua influencia em a virtude da quina, e de outras cascas.
GOMES, Bernardino António (1769 – 1823)
1812Traité usuel du chocolat, contenant la description et la culture du cacaotier ou cacaoïer, arbre qui produit le fruit avec lequel on fabrique le chocolat, celles de la canelle, de la vanille, du salep de Perse, de l'ambre gris, du sucre, et autres substances que l'on fait entrer dans la fabrication du chocolat, les différentes façons de préparer ce commestible pour en faire un aliment recherché et propre à flatter le goût de tous les consommateurs les plus distingués, ce qui lui a fait donner, avec just tire, le sur-non de METS Des DIEUX. On y fait voir assi son utilité précieuse dans médecine.
BUC'HOZ, Pierre-Joseph (1731 – 1807)
1817Mémoire sur l’émétine, et sur les trois espèces d’ipecacuanha.
MAGENDIE, François (1783 – 1855)
PELLETIER, Pierre Joseph (1788 – 1842)
PELLETIER, Pierre Joseph (1788 – 1842)
1820Recherches chimique sur les quinquinas.
PELLETIER, Pierre Joseph (1788 – 1842)
PELLETIER, Pierre Joseph (1788 – 1842)
CAVENTOU, Joseph Bienaimé (1795 – 1877)
CAVENTOU, Joseph Bienaimé (1795 – 1877)
1820​–1821Neueste phytochemische Entdeckungen zur Begründung einer wissenschaftlichen Phytochemie. 2 vols.
RUNGE, Friedlieb Ferdinand (1795 – 1867)
RUNGE, Friedlieb Ferdinand (1795 – 1867)
1821An illustration of the genus cinchona; comprising descriptions of all the officinal Peruvian barks, including several new species. Baron de Humboldt's Account of the Cinchona forests of South America, and Laubert's Memoir on the different species of quinquina: To which are added several dissertations of Don Hippolito Ruiz on various medicinal plants of South America ... And a short account of the spikenard of the ancients.
HUMBOLDT, Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von (1769 – 1859) LÓPEZ, Hipólito Ruiz (1754 – 1816)
LAMBERT, Aylmer Bourke (1761 – 1842)
LAMBERT, Aylmer Bourke (1761 – 1842) LAUBERT, Jean Charles (1762 – 1834)
1822Confessions of an opium eater.
DE QUINCEY, Thomas Penson (1785 – 1859)
DE QUINCEY, Thomas Penson (1785 – 1859)
1822The miscellaneous tracts of the late William Withering. To which is prefixed a memoir of his life, character and writings. 2 vols.
WITHERING, William (1741 – 1799)
WITHERING, William (1741 – 1799)
1832Nouvelles observations sur les principaux produits de l’opium.
ROBIQUET, Pierre Jean (1780 – 1840)
ROBIQUET, Pierre Jean (1780 – 1840)
1833Ueber die Darstellung des Atropins in weissen Krystallen.
MEIN, Heinrich Friedrich Georg (1799 – 1864)
1839Recherches sur la salicine et les produits qui en dérivent.
PIRIA, Raffaele (1815 – 1865)
PIRIA, Raffaele (1815 – 1865)
1844The theory and treatment of fevers. Revised and corrected by Ferdinando Stith.
SAPPINGTON, John S. (1776 – 1856)
SAPPINGTON, John S. (1776 – 1856)
1845Mémoire sur la digitale pourprée.
HOMOLLE, Augustin Eugène (1808 – 1875)
1848Vorläufige Notiz über eine neue organische Base im Opium.
MERCK, Georg Franz (1825 – 1873)