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1834Hortus medicus, or figures and descriptions of the more important plants used in medicine, or possessed of poisonous qualities; with their medical properties, chemical analysis, &c. &c
GRAVES, George (1754 – 1839) MORRIES, John Davie
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.
1837An essay on the antiquity of Hindoo medicine, including an introductory lecture to the course of materia medica and therapeutics, delivered at King's College.
ROYLE, John Forbes (1798 – 1858)
ROYLE, John Forbes (1798 – 1858)
1839​–1840The elements of materia medica, comprehending the natural history, preparation, properties, composition, effects and uses of medicines. 2 vols.
PEREIRA, Jonathan (1804 – 1853)
PEREIRA, Jonathan (1804 – 1853)
1843A flora of the state of New-York, comprising full descriptions of all the indigenous and naturalized plants hitherto discovered in the state; with remarks on their economical and medicinal properties. 2 vols.
TORREY, John (1796 – 1873)
TORREY, John (1796 – 1873)
1844​–1850Suśrutas. Áyruvédas. Id est medicinae systema a venerabili d'hanvantare demonstratum a Suśruta discipulo compositum. Nunc primum ex Sanksríta in Latinum sermonem vertit, introductionem, annotationes et rerum indicem adjecit Dr. Franciscus Hessler. 3 vols.
SUŚRUTA, (Sushruta) HESSLER, Franz (1799 – 1890)
1847​–1852Flora medico-farmaceutica. 6 vols.
CASSONE, Felice (1815 – 1854)
1851Catalogus plantarum horti botanici medicocirurgicae Scholae Olisponensis anno MDCCCLII.
GOMES, Bernardino António the younger (1806 – 1877)
GOMES, Bernardino António the younger (1806 – 1877)
1851Früchte aus dem Morgenlande oder Reise-Erlebnisse. Nebst naturhistorisch-medicinischen Erfahrungen, einigen hundert erprobten Arzneimitteln und einer neuen Heilart dem Medial-Systeme. Mit vierzig lithographirten Tafeln: Porträte, Pflanzenabbildungen, sonstige Natur- und Kunstprodukte, Facsimile, Landkarte und Ansicht der Citadelle von Lahor; endlich als Anhang ein medizinisches Wörterbuch in mehreren europäischen und orientalischen Sprachen.
HONIGBERGER, Johann Martin (1795 – 1869)
HONIGBERGER, Johann Martin (1795 – 1869)
1852​–1853The flora homoeopathica: Or, illustrations and descriptions of the medicinal plants used as homoeopathic remedies. 2 vols.
HAMILTON, Edward (1815 – 1903)
1860Remarks on the uses of some bazaar medicines, and on a few of the common indigenous plants of India, according to European practice.
WARING, Edward John (1819 – 1891)
1860Colección de medicamentos indigenas y sus aplicaciones, estraidos de los reinos vegetal, mineral y animal, recogidos y anotados por [...], segunda edición corregida y aumentada.
POMPA, Gerónimo
1862Notes on Chinese materia medica. Reprinted, with some corrections, from the Pharmaceutical Journal and Transactions.
HANBURY, Daniel (1825 – 1875)
HANBURY, Daniel (1825 – 1875)
1863Resources of the southern fields and forests, medical, economical, and agricultural: Being also a medical botany of the Confederate States; with practical information on the useful properties of the trees, plants and shrubs.
PORCHER, Francis Peyre (1825 – 1895)
1864​–1866Leechdoms, wortcunning, and starcraft of early England. Being a collection of documents, for the most part never before printed, illustrating the history of science in this country before the Norman Conquest. Collected and edited by Oswald Cockayne. 3 vols.
COCKAYNE, Thomas Oswald (1807 – 1873)
1867Donnolo, Fragment des ältesten medicinischen Werkes in hebräischer Sprache.... von M. Steinschneider.
STEINSCHNEIDER, Moritz (1816 – 1907)
STEINSCHNEIDER, Moritz (1816 – 1907)
DONNOLO, Shabbethai (913 – 982)
DONNOLO, Shabbethai (913 – 982)
1868Dental materia medica. Compiled by James W. White.
WHITE, James William (1826 – 1891)
1871Contributions towards the materia medica & natural history of China for the use of medical missionaries & native medical students.
SMITH, Frederick Porter (1833 – 1888)
1874Pharmacographia. A history of the principal drugs of vegetable origin met with in Great Britain and British India.
FLÜCKIGER, Friedrich August (1828 – 1894)
HANBURY, Daniel (1825 – 1875)
HANBURY, Daniel (1825 – 1875)
1874La matière médicale chez les chinois.
DABRY DE THIERSANT, Philibert (1826 – 1898) SOUBEIRAN, Jean-Léon (1827 – 1892)
1875Plinii Secundi quae fertur una cum Gargilli Martialis medicina: Nunc primum edita a Valentino Rose.
ROSE, Valentin (1829 – 1916)
ROSE, Valentin (1829 – 1916) MARTIALIS, Quintus Gargilius (250 – )
1877​–1883Traité des simples. 3 vols. Notices et extraits des manuscrits de la Bibliothèque nationale et autres bibliothèques, 1877, tome 23,1; tome 25,1; tome 26,1. Traduit par Lucien Leclerc.
LECLERC, Lucien (1816 – 1893)
LECLERC, Lucien (1816 – 1893) IBN AL-BAYTĀR AL-MĀLAQĪ, Ḍiyāʾ Al-Dīn Abū Muḥammad ʿAbdllāh Ibn Aḥmad (Ibn al-Baytar) (1197 – 1248)
1877Materia medica of the Hindus compiled from Sanskrit medical works. With a glossary of Indian plants.
DUTT, Uday Chand (1834 – 1884)
DUTT, Uday Chand (1834 – 1884)
1878​–1879Bibliotheca therapeutica, or bibliography of therapeutics, chiefly in reference to articles of the materia medica, with numerous critical, historical, and therapeutical annotations, and an appendix containing the bibliography of British mineral waters. 2 vols.
WARING, Edward John (1819 – 1891)
1881The plants an drugs of sind; being a systematic account, with descriptions, of the indigenous flora, and notices of the value and uses of their products in commerce, medicine and the arts.
MURRAY, James A.
MURRAY, James A.
1885A contribution to South African materia medica, chiefly from plants in use among the natives.
SMITH, Andrew (1828 – 1898)
1887American medicinal plants; an illustrated and descriptive guide to the American plants used as homoeopathic remedies: Their history, preparation, chemistry and physiological effects. Illustrated by the author.
MILLSPAUGH, Charles Frederick (1854 – 1923)
MILLSPAUGH, Charles Frederick (1854 – 1923)
1889Merck's index of fine chemicals and drugs for the materia medica and the arts: Comprising a summary of whatever chemical products are to-day adjudged as being useful in either medicine or technology, with average values and synonyms affixed; a guide for the physician, apothecary, chemist, and dealer.
MERCK & CO.
1890​–1893Pharmacographia indica: A history of the principal drugs of vegetable origin, met with in British India. 3 vols.
HOOPER, David (1858 – 1947) DYMOCK, William (1834 – 1892) WARDEN, Charles James Hislop (1851 – 1900)
1895Essentials of vegetable pharmacognosy: A treatise on structural botany, designed especially for pharmaceutical and medical students, pharmacists and physicians. Part 1. The gross structure of plants by Henry H. Rusby. Part 2. The minute structure of plants by Smith Ely Jelliffe.
JELLIFFE, Smith Ely (1866 – 1945)
JELLIFFE, Smith Ely (1866 – 1945) RUSBY, Henry Hurd (1855 – 1940)
1896Catalogue of the medicinal plants in the Museum of the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain.
HOLMES, Edward Morrell (1843 – 1930)
HOLMES, Edward Morrell (1843 – 1930)
1897Krateuas. Von M. Wellmann.
WELLMANN, Max (1863 – 1933) KRATEUAS, [Kratevas, Crateuas, Cratevas; Κρατεύας ὁ Ῥιζότομος] ( – 95)
1898Die Heilpflanzen der verschiedenen Volker und Zeiten.
DRAGENDORFF, Georg Johann Noel (1836 – 1898)
DRAGENDORFF, Georg Johann Noel (1836 – 1898)
1899Medical works of the fourteenth century; together with a list of plants recorded in contemporary writings, with their identification.
HENSLOW, George (1835 – 1925)
HENSLOW, George (1835 – 1925)
1901The medicinal plants of the Philippines. Translated and revised by Jerome B. Thomas, Jr.
PARDO DE TAVERA, Trinidad Hermenegildo José Maria Francisco (1857 – 1925)
PARDO DE TAVERA, Trinidad Hermenegildo José Maria Francisco (1857 – 1925) THOMAS, Jerome B. Jr.
1902Des Pedanios Dioskurides aus Anazarbos Arzneimittellehre in fünf Büchern. Übersetzt und mit Erklärungen Versehen.
BERENDES, Julius (1837 – 1914)
1902Lithotherapie: Historische Studien über die medizinische Verwendung der Edelsteine.
FÜHNER, Hermann (1871 – 1944)
1903​–1910Datos par la materia médica Argentina. 2 vols. (Vol. 2: Trabajos de Instituto de Farmacología de la Facultad de Ciencias Médicas de Buenos Aires No. 25).
DOMÍNGUEZ, Juan Aníbal (1876 – 1946)
1906​–1914De materia medica. Edidit Max Wellmann. 3 vols.
DIOSCORIDES, Pedanius [Πεδάνιος Διοσκουρίδης] (40 – 90)
DIOSCORIDES, Pedanius [Πεδάνιος Διοσκουρίδης] (40 – 90) WELLMANN, Max (1863 – 1933) KRATEUAS, [Kratevas, Crateuas, Cratevas; Κρατεύας ὁ Ῥιζότομος] ( – 95)
1911The ethno-botany of the Gosiute Indians of Utah.
CHAMBERLIN, Ralph Vary (1879 – 1967)
CHAMBERLIN, Ralph Vary (1879 – 1967)
1913Garci da Orta: Colloquies on the simples & drugs of India. New edition (Lisbon, 1895) edited and annotated by the Conde de Ficalho. Translated with an introduction and index by Sir Clements Markham.
ORTA, Garcia de [Garcia d'Orta] (1501 – 1568)
ORTA, Garcia de [Garcia d'Orta] (1501 – 1568) BREYNER, Francesco Manuel de Melo, Conde de Ficalho (1837 – 1903) MARKHAM, Sir Robert Clements (1830 – 1916)
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)
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
LLOYD, John Uri (1849 – 1936)
LLOYD, John Uri (1849 – 1936)
1922The old English herbals.
ROHDE, Eleanour Sophy Sinclair (1881 – 1950)
1924The Assyrian herbal: A monograph on the Assyrian vegetable drugs, the subject matter of which was communicated in a paper to the Royal Society, March 20, 1924.
THOMPSON, Reginald Campbell (1876 – 1941)
1925Catalogue of early herbals.
KLEBS, Arnold Carl (1870 – 1943)
KLEBS, Arnold Carl (1870 – 1943)
1927The herbal in antiquity and its transmission to later ages.
SINGER, Charles Joseph (1876 – 1960)
SINGER, Charles Joseph (1876 – 1960)
1927Ar-Raoudat at-tibbiyya (Le jardin médical) par Ubaîd-Allah Ben Gibraîl Ben Bakhtichoû, Chrétien décédé en 1058: Texte arabe, publié pour la première fois d’après trois manuscrits conservées dans la Bibliothèque des Manuscrits.
IBN BAKHTYASHU, Abu Sa'id Ubaid Allah ( Bukhtishu, Bukhtyashu, and Bakhtshooa) (940 – 1058) SBATH, Paul (Būlus Sbāt) (1887 – 1945)
1928De retardatione accidentium senectutis cum aliis opusculis de rebus medicinalibus. Nunc primum ediderunt A. G. Little [and] E. Withington.
WITHINGTON, Edward Theodore (1860 – 1947)
BACON, Roger (1219 – 1292)
BACON, Roger (1219 – 1292) LITTLE, A. G. (1863 – 1945)
1928The divine origin of the craft of the herbalist.
BUDGE, Sir Ernest Alfred Thompson Wallis (1857 – 1934)