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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)
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)
1737The natural history of North Carolina. With an account of the trade, manners and customs of the Christian and Indian inhabitants. Illustrated with copper-plates, whereon are curiously engraved the map of the country, several strange beasts, birds, fishes, snakes, insects, trees, and plants, &c.
BRICKELL, John (1710 – 1745)
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)
1775The history of the American Indians; particularly those nations adjoining to the Missisippi [sic] East and West Florida, Georgia, South and North Carolina, and Virginia: containing an account of their origin, language, manners, religious and civil customs, laws, form of government, punishments, conduct in war and domestic life, their habits, diet, agriculture, manufactures, diseases and method of cure... With observations on former historians, the conduct of our colony governors, superintendents, missionaries, & c. Also an appendix, containing a description of the Floridas, and the Missisippi [sic] lands, with their productions--the benefits of colonizing Georgiana, and civilizing the Indians--and the way to make all the colonies more valuable to the mother country....
ADAIR, James (1709 – 1793)
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)
1805​–1806Remarks on the management of the scalped-head.
ROBERTSON, James (1742 – 1814)
ROBERTSON, James (1742 – 1814)
1814Botanic medicine: A new and complete American medical family herbal: Wherein is displayed the true properties and medical virtues of the plants, indigenous to the United States of America, together with Lewis' secret remedy newly discovered, which has been found infallible in the cure of that dreadful disease hydrophobia, produced by the bite of a mad dog.
HENRY, Samuel
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)
1823Manners and customs of several Indian tribes located west of the Mississippi; including some account of the soil, climate, and vegetable productions, and the Indian materia medica: to which is prefixed the history of the author's life during a residence of several years among them.
HUNTER, John Dunn (1788 – 1827)
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)
1836The Indian vegetable family instructer: Containing the names and descriptions of all the most useful herbs and plants that grow in this country, with their medicinal qualities annexed; also, a treatise on many of the lingering diseases to which mankind are subject, ... with a large list of recipes, which have been carefully selected from Indian prescriptions ... Designed for the use of families in the United States.
BOWKER, Pierpont F.
1861The breath of life; or mal-respiration, and its effects upon the enjoyments and life of man.
CATLIN, George (1796 – 1872)
CATLIN, George (1796 – 1872)
1862Notes on arrow wounds.
BILL, Joseph Howland (1835 – 1885)
1885Notes on diseases among the Indians frequenting York Factory, Hudson's Bay. Read before the Medico-Chirurgical Society of Montreal, February, 1885.
MATHEWS, Percy W.
1886Notes on the anomalies, injuries and diseases of the bones of the native races of North America.
WHITNEY, William Fiske (1850 – 1921)
1886The "medicine-man"; or, Indian and Eskimo notions of medicine. Reprinted from the "Canada Medical and Surgical Journal" for March and April, 1886.
BELL, Robert (1847 – 1917)
1891Scatologic rites of all nations. A dissertation upon the employment of excrementitious remedial agents in religion, therapeutics, divination, witchcraft, love-philters, etc., in all parts of the globe. Based upon original notes and person observation, and upon compilation from over one thousand authorities. Not for general perusal.
BOURKE, John Gregory (1846 – 1896)
1892The medicine-men of the Apache.
BOURKE, John Gregory (1846 – 1896)
1900The ethno-botany of the Coahuilla Indians.
BARROWS, David Prescott (1873 – 1954)
BARROWS, David Prescott (1873 – 1954)
1908Physiological and medical observations among the Indians of Southwestern United States and Northern Mexico.
HRDLIČKA, Aleš (1869 – 1943)
1911The ethno-botany of the Gosiute Indians of Utah.
CHAMBERLIN, Ralph Vary (1879 – 1967)
CHAMBERLIN, Ralph Vary (1879 – 1967)
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)
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)
1923The medicine man: A sociological study of the character and evolution of shamanism.
MADDOX, John Lee (1878 – 1946)
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)
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)
1935The medicine-man of the American Indian and his cultural background.
CORLETT, William Thomas (1854 – 1948)
1935The ethnobiology of the Papago Indians. Ethnological Studies in the American Southwest II.
CASTETTER, Edward Franklin (1896 – 1978)
UNDERHILL, Ruth Murray (1883 – 1984)
UNDERHILL, Ruth Murray (1883 – 1984)
1936The ethnobiology of the Chiricahua and Mescalero Apache: A. the use of plants for food, beverages and narcotics. Ethnobiological studies in the American Southwest, Vol. 3. Biological series (Vol. 4, No. 5); Bulletin, University of New Mexico, whole, (No. 297).
CASTETTER, Edward Franklin (1896 – 1978) OPLER, Morris Edward (1907 – 1996)
1938The peyote cult.
LA BARRE, Raoul Weston (1911 – 1996)
1939Navajo medicine man. Sandpaintings and legends of Miguelito from the John Frederick Huckel Collection
MIGUELITO (1865 – 1936)
REICHARD, Gladys Amanda (1893 – 1955)
REICHARD, Gladys Amanda (1893 – 1955) HUCKEL, John Frederick (1863 – 1936)
1939Ethnobotany of the Hopi. Bulletin No. 15.
WHITING, Alfred Frank (1912 – 1978)
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