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1597The garden of health conteyning the sundry rare and hidden vertues and properties of all kindes of simples and plants, together with the maner how they are to be vsed and applyed in medicine for the health of mans body, against diuers diseases and infirmities most common amongst men. Gathered by the long experience and industrie of William Langham, practitioner in phisicke.
LANGHAM, William
1615Quatro libros. De la naturaleza, y virtudes de las plantas, y animales que estan receuidos en el vso de medicina en la Nueua España, y la methodo, y correccion, y preparacion, que para administrallas se requiere con lo que el doctor Francisco Hernandez escriuio en lengua latina. : Muy vtil para todo genero de gente q[ue] viue en esta[n]cias y pueblos, de no ay medicos, ni botica.Traduzido, y aumentados muchos simples, y compuestos y otros muchos secretos curatiuos, por Fr. Francisco Ximenes....
HERNÁNDEZ DE TOLEDO, Francisco (1517 – 1587) XIMÉNEZ, Francisco (1560 – 1620)
1628Rerum medicarum Novae Hispaniae thesaurus, seu, Plantarum animalium mineralium Mexicanorum historia.
HERNÁNDEZ DE TOLEDO, Francisco (1517 – 1587) RECCHI, Nardo Antonio de ( – 1595)
1629Paradisi in sole paradisus terrestris. Or a garden of all sorts of pleasant flowers which our English ayre will permitt to be noursed vp: with a kitchen garden of all manner of herbes, rootes, & fruites, for meate or sause vsed with vs, and an orchard of all sorte of fruitbearing trees and shrubbes fit for our land together with the right orderinge planting & preseruing of them and their vses & vertues.
PARKINSON, John (1567 – 1650)
PARKINSON, John (1567 – 1650)
1633The herball or generall historie of plantes. Gathered by John Gerarde of London master in chirurgerie. Very much enlarged and amended by Thomas Johnson citizen and apothecarye of London.
GERARD, John (Gerarde) (1545 – 1612)
GERARD, John (Gerarde) (1545 – 1612) JOHNSON, Thomas ( – 1644)
1640Theatrum botanicum: The theater of plants: Or, An herball of large extent: containing therein a more ample and exact history and declaration of the physicall herbs and plants ... distributed into sundry classes or tribes, for the more easie knowledge of the many herbes of one nature and property ... / collected by the many yeares travaile, industry and experience in this subject.
PARKINSON, John (1567 – 1650)
PARKINSON, John (1567 – 1650)
1652The English physitian: Or, an astrologo-physical discourse of the vulgar herbs of this nation. Being a compleat method of physick, whereby a man may preserve his body in health; or cure himself, being sick, for three pence charge, with such things only as grow in England, as they being most fit for English bodies. Herein is also shewed, 1. The way of making plaisters, oyntments, oyls, pultisses, syrups, julips, or waters, of all sorts of physical herbs, that you may have them readie for your use at all times of the yeer. 2. What planet governeth every herb or tree (used in physick) that groweth in England. 3. The time of gathering all herbs, both vulgarly, and astrologically. 4. The way of drying and keeping the herbs all the yeer. 5. The way of keeping their juyces ready for use at all times. 6. The way of making and keeping all kind of useful compounds made of herbs. 7. The way of mixing medicines, according to cause and mixture of the disease, and part of the body afflicted.
CULPEPER, Nicholas (1616 – 1654)
CULPEPER, Nicholas (1616 – 1654)
1656Flora sinensis, fructus floresque humillime porrigens serenissimo et potentissimo Leopoldo Ignatio, Hungariae regi florentissimo, &c. Fructus saecul promittenti Augustissimos.
BOYM, Michal Piotr (1612 – 1659)
1676The family physician, and the house apothecary: Containing I. Medicines against all such diseases people usually advise with apothecaries to be cured of, II. Instructions, whereby to prepare at your own houses all kinds of necessary medicines that are prepared by apothecaries, or prescribed by physicians, III. The exact prices of all drugs, herbs, seeds, simple and compound medicines, as they are sold at the druggists, or may be sold by the apothecaries, IV. That it's plainly made to appear, that in preparing medicines thus at your own houses, that it's not onely a far safer way, but you shall also save nineteen shillings in twenty, comparing it with the extravagant rates of many apothecaries.
HARVEY, Gideon (1640 – 1700)
HARVEY, Gideon (1640 – 1700)
1677Laboratorium chymicum, gehouden op het voortreffelycke Eylandt Ceylon, soo in't Animalische, Vegetabilische, als Mineralische Ryck.
GRIM, Herman Niklas (1641 – 1711)
1678​–1703Hortus Indicus Malabaricus: Continens regni Malabarici apud Indos cereberrimi onmis generis plantas rariores, Latinas, Malabaricis, Arabicis, Brachmanum charactareibus hominibusque expressas ....12 vols.
COMMELIN, Jan [COMMELIJN] (1629 – 1692) VAN RHEEDE TOT DRAKENSTEIN, Hendrik Adriaan (1636 – 1691) ALMELOVEEN, Theodorus Janssonius van (1657 – 1712) CASEARIUS, Johannes (1642 – 1677) VAN DYCK, Jan
MUNNICKS, Johannes (Munnickius) (1652 – 1711)
MUNNICKS, Johannes (Munnickius) (1652 – 1711) POOT, Abraham van (1617 – ) SOMEREN, Joannes van SEYEN, Arnold (Syen) (1640 – 1678) BOOM, Henrik & Dirk
1694Histoire générale des drogues….
POMET, Pierre (1658 – 1699)
POMET, Pierre (1658 – 1699)
1694Trattado unico da constituiçam pestilencial de Pernambuco, offerecido a ElRey N.S. por ser servido ordenar por seu Governador aos Medicos da America, que assistem aonde ha este contagio, que o compusessem para se conferirem pelos Coripheos da Medicina aos dictames com que he trattada esta pestilencial febre.
ROSA, João Ferreira da (Ferreyra da Rosa)
1708The English physician.
CULPEPER, Nicholas (1616 – 1654)
CULPEPER, Nicholas (1616 – 1654)
1710Index plantarum, quae in Horto Academico Lugduno Batavo reperiuntur.
BOERHAAVE, Herman (1668 – 1738)
BOERHAAVE, Herman (1668 – 1738)
1720Pharmacopoeia Londinensis; or the London dispensatory…
CULPEPER, Nicholas (1616 – 1654)
CULPEPER, Nicholas (1616 – 1654)
1734Every man his own doctor: or, The poor planter's physician. Prescribing plain and easy means for persons to cure themselves of all, or most of the distempers, incident to this climate, and with very little charge, the medicines being chiefly of the growth and production of this country.
TENNENT, John (1700 – 1760)
1740Bibliotheca botanica sive catalogus auctorum et librorum omnium qui de re botanica, de medicamentis ex vegetabilibus paratis, de re rustica, & de horticultura tractant. Accessit bibliotheca botanica Jo. Ant. Bumaldi seu potius O. Montalbani.
SÉGUIER, Jean-François (1703 – 1784)
1741​–1750Het Amboinsche Kruidboek . . . Herbarium Amboinense . . . nunc primum in lucem edidit & in Latinum semonem vertit Joannes Burmannus. 6 vols.
RUMPHIUS, Georg Eberhard (1627 – 1702)
RUMPHIUS, Georg Eberhard (1627 – 1702)
BURMAN, Johannes (1707 – 1780)
BURMAN, Johannes (1707 – 1780)
1746Medicina Britannica; or, a treatise on such physical plants as are generally to be found in the fields or gardens of Great-Britain: Containing a particular account of their nature, virtues, and uses. Together with the observations of the most learned physicians, as well ancient as modern, communicated to the late ingenious Mr. Ray, and the learned Dr. Sim. Pauli. Adapted more especially to the occasions of those, whose condition or situation of life deprives them, in a great measure, of the helps of the learned. To which are added, three indexes: The first containing the England and Latin names of the plants treated of: The second of the diseases, and their remedies: The third to the notes.
SHORT, Thomas (1690 – 1772)
1749Materia medica, liber I: De plantis.
LINNAEUS, Carl (Linné) (1707 – 1778)
LINNAEUS, Carl (Linné) (1707 – 1778)
1764An essay on the more common West-India diseases and the remedies which that country itself produces: To which are added some hints on the management, &c. of negroes.
GRAINGER, James (1721 – 1766)
1770Histoire des maladies de S. Domingue. 3 vols. Title of vol. 3: Traité ou abregé des plantes usuelles de S. Dominique.
POUPPÉ DESPORTES, Jean-Baptiste-René (1704 – 1748)
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.
ALSTON, Charles (1683 – 1760)
HOPE, John (1725 – 1786)
HOPE, John (1725 – 1786)
1781Herbier ou collection des plantes médicinales de la Chine: D'après un manuscrit peint et unique qui se trouve dans la Bibliothèque de l'Empereur de la Chine, pour servir suitte [sic] à la collection des fleurs qui se cultivent dans les Jardins de la Chine et de l'Europe.
BUC'HOZ, Pierre-Joseph (1731 – 1807)
1787Materia medica Americana, potissimum regni vegetabilis.
SCHOEPFF, Johann David (1752 – 1800)
SCHOEPFF, Johann David (1752 – 1800)
1789A treatise of the materia medica. 2 vols.
CULLEN, William (1710 – 1790)
CULLEN, William (1710 – 1790)
1790​–1794Medical botany, containing systematic and general descriptions, with plates, of all the medicinal plants, indigenous and exotic, comprehended in the catalogues of the materia medica, as published by the Royal Colleges of Physicians of London and Edinburgh: Accompanied with a circumstantial detail of their medicinal effects, and of the diseases in which they have been most successfully employed. 3 vols. & Supplement.
WOODVILLE, William (1752 – 1805)
WOODVILLE, William (1752 – 1805)
1790Culpeper's English physician; and complete herbal. To which are now first added upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult properties, physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind. To which are annexed rules for compounding medicine according to the true system of nature, forming a complete family dispensatory and natural system of physic. Beautified and enriched with engravings of upwards of four hundred and fifty different plants, and a set of anatomical figures....
CULPEPER, Nicholas (1616 – 1654)
CULPEPER, Nicholas (1616 – 1654)
SIBLY, Ebenezer (1751 – 1799)
SIBLY, Ebenezer (1751 – 1799)
1794Hortus Americanus, containing an account of the trees, shrubs, and other vegetable productions of South-America and the West-India islands, and particularly of the island of Jamaica; interspersed with many curious and useful observations, respecting their uses in medicine, diet, and mechanics.
BARHAM, Henry
1798Collections for an essay towards a materia medica of the United States. Read before the Philadelphia Medical Society, on the twenty-first of February, 1798.
BARTON, Benjamin Smith (1766 – 1815)
BARTON, Benjamin Smith (1766 – 1815)
1801The American herbal, or materia medica.
STEARNS, Samuel (1741 – 1810)
1801The medical assistant, or Jamaica practice of physic: Designed chiefly for the use of families and plantations.
DANCER, Thomas (1750 – 1811)
DANCER, Thomas (1750 – 1811)
1809Memoria sobre a canella do Rio de Janeiro offerecida ao Principe do Brazil nosso senhor: pelo Senado da Camara da mesma cidade no anno de 1798.
GOMES, Bernardino António (1769 – 1823)
1811The maternal physician; a treatise on the nurture and management of infants, from the birth until two years old. Being the result of sixteen years' experience in the nursery. Illustrated by extracts from the most approved medical authors
TYLER, Mary Hunt Palmer (1775 – 1866)
1813Materia medica of Hindoostan, and artisan’s and agriculturist’s nomenclature.
AINSLIE, Whitelaw (1767 – 1837)
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​–1819Vegetable materia medica of the United States. 2 vols.
BARTON, William Paul Crillon (1786 – 1856)
BARTON, William Paul Crillon (1786 – 1856)
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)
1821​–1829Flore pittoresque et médicale des Antilles, ou, Histoire naturelle des plantes usuelles des colonies françaises, anglaises, espagnoles et portugaises; par M. E. Descourtilz. Peinte par J. Th. Descourtilz. 8 vols.
DESCOURTILZ, Michel Étienne (1777 – 1835)
DESCOURTILZ, Michel Étienne (1777 – 1835) DESCOURTILZ, Jean-Théodore (1796 – 1855)
1821Phytographie médicale, ornée de figures coloriées de grandeur naturelle, ou l’on expose l’histoire des poisons tirés du règne végétal, et les moyens de remédier a leurs effets délétères, avec des observations sur les propriétés et les usages des plantes héroïques. 2 vols.
ROQUES, Joseph R. (1772 – 1850)
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)
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)
1829​–1830Flora medica: Containing coloured delineations of the various medicinal plants, admitted into the London, Edinburgh, and Dublin pharmacopoeias; with their natural history, botanical descriptions, medical and chemical properties, &c. &c.; together with a concise introduction to botany; a copious glossary of botanical terms and a list of poisonous plants, &c. &c. Edited by a member of the Royal college of physicians, and fellow of the Linnaean society; with the assistance of several eminent botanists; in two volumes.
SPRATT, George
1830​–1833Liber fundamentorum pharmacologiae. Auctore Abu Mansur Mowafik ben Ali al Herui. Epitome codicis manuscripti persici Bibl. caes. reg. Vienn. inediti. Primus Latio donavit Romeo Seligmann. 2 vols.
ABU MANSUR MUVAFFAK HARAWI (PERSIAN: ابو منصور موفق هروی‎) (970 – ) SELIGMANN, Franz Romeo (1808 – 1892)
1830The Botanic physician: Being a compendium of the practice of physic, upon botanical principles, containing all the principal branches necessary to the study of medicine, as anatomy; physiology; surgery; causes, symptoms and cure of diseases; midwifery; materia medica; pharmacy, botany, &c. Together with a great variety of useful recipes.
SMITH, Elisha
1831Iseki kō. (I Chi Kao). 8 vols.
TAKI, Mototane (1789 – 1827)
1831Medical botany: Or, illustrations of the medicinal plants of the London, Edinburgh, and Dublin pharmacopoeias; comprising a popular and scientific account of those poisonous vegetables that are indigenous to Great Britain. 4 vols.
CHURCHILL, James Morss (1796 – 1863) STEPHENSON, John (1790 – 1864)
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)