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1997

#12172

John of Alexandria. Commentary on Hippocrates’ Epidemics VI Fragments. Edition and translation by John M. Duffy. T. A. Bell, et al, editors and translators, John of Alexandria. Commentary on Hippocrates’ on the Nature of the Child. [CMG XI 1,4].

JOHN OF ALEXANDRIA, (Iohannis Alexandrinus) (600 – 642) DUFFY, John M. BELL, T. A.

1998

#8183

Les maladies dans l'art antique.

GRMEK, Mirko Dražen (1924 – 2000) GOUREVICH, Danielle (1941 – )

1998

#8283

La chirurgie dans l'Égypte gréco-romaine d'après les papyrus littéraire grecs.

MARGANNE, Marie-Hélène

1998

#8302

Text and tradition: Studies in ancient medicine and its transmission: Presented to Jutta Kollesch. Edited by Klaus-Dietrich Fischer, Diethard Nickel, and Paul Potter.

FISCHER, Klaus-Dietrich (1948 – ) NICKEL, Diethard (1939 – ) POTTER, Paul M. J. (1944 – )

1998

#8434

Hippocrates' woman: Reading the female body in ancient Greece.

KING, Helen (1957 – )
KING, Helen (1957 – )

1998

#8486

Greek medicine from the heroic to the Hellenistic age: A sourcebook.

LONGRIGG, James

1998

#8880

Libri medicinae Sexti Placiti Papyriensis ex animalibus pecoribus et bestiis vel avibus Concordantiae. Edited by Maria Paola Segolini.

SEXTUS PLACITUS, of Papyra ( – 380) SEGOLINI, Maria Paola

Placitus wrote fanciful descriptions of medicines derived from animals, and other sources. For example, he recommended such remedies as consuming cooked puppy to relieve colic, and breaking a fever by cutting a splint…

1998

#8950

Medizin im römischen Österreich.

BREITWEISER, R.

1998

#9125

Galen on antecedent causes. Introduction, text, translation and commentary by R. J. Hankinson.

GALEN, [Κλαύδιος Γαληνός; Galen of Pergamon] (129 – 216)
GALEN, [Κλαύδιος Γαληνός; Galen of Pergamon] (129 – 216) HANKINSON, R. J.

1998

#10685

Oeuvres complètes, Tome VIII: Plaies, Nature des os, Coeur, Anatomie. Texte établi et traduit par Marie-Paul Duminil.

HIPPOCRATES, [Ἱπποκράτης; Hippocrates of Kos] (-460 – -370)
HIPPOCRATES, [Ἱπποκράτης; Hippocrates of Kos] (-460 – -370) DUMINIL, Marie-Paule (1933 – )

Greek text with facing French translation and study of four short treatises of the Hippocratic Collection on anatomy and traumatology of different periods and origins: On sores (probably 5th cent. BCE), On the nature …

1998

#12806

The roots of Ayurveda.

WUJASTYK, Dominik

Readings in English translation, with commentaries, from classical medical texts.

1999

#7083

Handbuch der altägyptischen Medizin. 2 vols.

WESTENDORF, Wolfhart (1924 – )
WESTENDORF, Wolfhart (1924 – )

1999 –2002

#7216

A history of Indian medical literature. 5 vols.

MEULENBELD, Gerrit Jan (1928 – 2017)
MEULENBELD, Gerrit Jan (1928 – 2017)

Comprises the entire corpus of Sanskrit medical texts, from the earliest times to the present, thus covering about two millennia.

1999

#8284

Ancient histories of medicine: Essays in medical doxography and historiography in classical antiquity, edited by Philip J. van der Eijk.

VAN DER EIJK, Philip J.

"...focuses on the ways in which Greek and Latin authors viewed and wrote about the history of medicine in the ancient world. Special attention is given to medical doxography, i.e. the description of the characteristi…

1999

#9127

Galen. On my own opinions. Galeni De propriis placitis. Edition, introduction and translation by Vivian Nutton. CMG 5.3.2.

GALEN, [Κλαύδιος Γαληνός; Galen of Pergamon] (129 – 216)
GALEN, [Κλαύδιος Γαληνός; Galen of Pergamon] (129 – 216)
NUTTON, Vivian (1943 – )
NUTTON, Vivian (1943 – )

De propriis placitis is Galen's final work in which he reflected on some of the fundamental medical problems that occupied him throughout his long career. "This treatise is not quite the comprehensive survey of a life…

1999

#9602

A Pompeian herbal: Ancient and modern medicinal plants. Plant portraits by Victoria I and Lillian Nicholson Meyer. Photographs by Stanley A. Jashemki and others.

JASHEMSKI, Wilhelmina Mary Feemster (1910 – 2007)

1999

#9810

Medicina antiqua. Codex Vindobonensis 93. Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek. Introduction by Peter Murray Jones, commentary by Franz Unterkircher. Manuscripts in Miniature, No. 4.

JONES, Peter Murray UNTERKIRCHER, Franz

Color reproduction, reduced in size by one-third, of "a compendium of popular Late Antique texts brought together in the 6th century. It contains writings on herbs and materia medica by authors heavily reliant on the …

1999

#12516

The 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.

SAVAGE-SMITH, Emilie (1941 – ) GREPPIN, John A. C. (1937 – 2016) GUERIGUIAN, John L.

2000 –2001

#6973

Diocles of Carystus: A collection of the fragments with translation and commentary. Volume one: Text and translation. Volume two: Commentary

DIOCLES OF CARYSTUS, (Διοκλῆς ὁ Καρύστιος) (-375 – -295) VAN DER EIJK, Philip J.

Diocles of Carystus, also known as "the younger Hippocrates", was one of the most prominent medical authorities in late antiquity. He wrote extensively on a wide range of areas such as anatomy, physiology, pathology, …

2000

#7976

A population history of the United States. Edited by Michael R. Haines and Richard H. Steckel.

STECKEL, Richard H. (1944 – ) HAINES, Michael R.

From Pre-Columbian times to the present.

2000

#8294

Medicine and the making of Roman women: Gender, nature, and authority from Celsus to Galen.

FLEMMING, Rebecca

2000

#8314

Cuneiform Monographs 14: Birth in Babylonia and the Bible: Its Mediterranean setting. by M. Stol with a chapter by F.A.M. Wiggermann.

STOL, Marten (1940 – ) WIGGERMANN, Franciscus Antonius Maria (1948 – )

2000

#8507

Babylonisch-assyrische Diagnostik.

HEESEL, Nils P.

Study of the significance of medical diagnosis for Babylonian medicine. Analyzing the structure and contents of the Babylonian diagnostic handbook and the evolution of the diagnostic texts, the author shows that the d…

2000

#8565

Dioscorides: De Materia Medica, being an herbal with many other medicinal materials, written in Greek in the first century of the common era. A new indexed version in Modern English by Tess Anne Osbaldeston and Robert P. A Wood.

DIOSCORIDES, Pedanius [Πεδάνιος Διοσκουρίδης] (40 – 90)
DIOSCORIDES, Pedanius [Πεδάνιος Διοσκουρίδης] (40 – 90) OSBALDESTON, Tess Anne WOOD, Robert P. A.

Rather than a new translation from the Greek, this is a updated and usefully indexed version, in modern English, of Goodyer's paraphrase from the 17th century. See No. 8564.

2000

#10000

Die Heilkunde in alten Aegypten (Sudhoffs Archiv Beiheft 42).

KOLTA, Kamal Sabri (1930 – ) SCHWARZMANN-SCHAFHAUSER, Doris

Covers both magic and empirical treatment, with a particular focus on the treatment of diseases studied on the basis of texts, including the preparation of medicines.

2000

#10013

Hippocrate, Oeuvres complètes, Tome IV, 3e partie: Epidémies V et VII. Texte établi, traduit et annoté par Jacques Jouanna. (Collection des universités de France). Commentaire médical par Mirko Grmek.

HIPPOCRATES, [Ἱπποκράτης; Hippocrates of Kos] (-460 – -370)
HIPPOCRATES, [Ἱπποκράτης; Hippocrates of Kos] (-460 – -370) GRMEK, Mirko Dražen (1924 – 2000) JOUANNA, Jacques (1935 – )

Epidemics V and VII are dated sometime around mid 4th century BCE, and compiled by a member of Hippocrates' circle.

2000

#11092

Asclepius, the god of medicine.

HART, Gerald David (1927 – )

2000

#12142

Birth in Babylonia and the Bible: Its Mediterranean setting. By Marten Stol, with a chapter by F. A. M. Wiggermann.

STOL, Marten (1940 – ) WIGGERMANN, Franciscus Antonius Maria (1948 – )

2001

#8124

Medical ethics in the ancient world.

CARRICK, Paul (1946 – )

2001

#9062

CORPUS MEDICORUM GRAECORUM / CORPUS MEDICORUM LATINORUM: Online Editions.

http://cmg.bbaw.de/epubl/online/editionen.html "Within the framework of the “Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities”, the CMG is eager to make the results of the project freely a…

2001

#10695

Death on the Nile. Disease and the Demography of Roman Egypt.

SCHEIDEL, Walter (1966 – )
SCHEIDEL, Walter (1966 – )

2001

#12145

Aristotle on life and death

ARISTOTLE (ἈΡΙΣΤΟΤΈΛΗΣ) (-384 – -322)
ARISTOTLE (ἈΡΙΣΤΟΤΈΛΗΣ) (-384 – -322) KING, R. A. H.

2002

#8230

Clavis commentariorum der antiken medizinischen Texte.

IHM, Sibylle

A key to literature on commentaries on Greek and Latin medical writers up to the 12th century— primarily Late Antique authors, who were active before 600 CE. It takes account of commentaries on Galen in particular and…

2002

#8231

The unknown Galen. Edited by Vivian Nutton.

GALEN, [Κλαύδιος Γαληνός; Galen of Pergamon] (129 – 216)
GALEN, [Κλαύδιος Γαληνός; Galen of Pergamon] (129 – 216)
NUTTON, Vivian (1943 – )
NUTTON, Vivian (1943 – )

2002

#9076

Aristotle: Historia animalium. Volume 1, Books I-X: Text. Edited by D. M. Balme. Prepared for publication by Allan Gotthelf.

ARISTOTLE (ἈΡΙΣΤΟΤΈΛΗΣ) (-384 – -322)
ARISTOTLE (ἈΡΙΣΤΟΤΈΛΗΣ) (-384 – -322) BALME, David Mowbray (1912 – 1989) GOTTHELF, Allan Stanley (1942 – 2013)

Critical edition based on a collation of the 26 known extant manuscripts and a study of the early Latin translations. Begun by Balme in 1975, with his work towards the Loeb editio minor of books VII–X, this edition in…

2002

#9078

Aristotle: On the parts of the animals I-IV. Translated with commentary by James G. Lennox.

ARISTOTLE (ἈΡΙΣΤΟΤΈΛΗΣ) (-384 – -322)
ARISTOTLE (ἈΡΙΣΤΟΤΈΛΗΣ) (-384 – -322) LENNOX, James G. (1948 – )

2002

#9715

Healing kidney diseases in antiquity: Plants from Dioscorides' De materia medica, with Illustrations from Greek and Arabic manuscripts (A.D. 512-15th Century).

TOUWAIDE, Alain (1953 – )
TOUWAIDE, Alain (1953 – )

2002

#11032

Abortion in the ancient world.

KAPPARIS, Konstantinos A.

2002

#13636

Œuvres / Nicandre. Texte établi et traduit par Jean-Marie Jacques. Vol. 2: Les théraiques. Fragments iologiques antérieurs à Nicandre.

NICANDER OF COLOPHON (ΝΊΚΑΝΔΡΟΣ Ὁ ΚΟΛΟΦΏΝΙΟΣ; NIKANDER) (-125 – ) JACQUES, Jean-Marie (1924 – 2008)

2003

#8307

Galen on the brain: Anatomical knowledge and physiological speculation in the second century AD.

ROCCA, Julius (1956 – )

2003

#8405

Psyche and soma: Physicians and metaphysicians on the mind-body problem from Antiquity to Enlightenment. Edited by John P. Wright and Paul Potter.

POTTER, Paul M. J. (1944 – ) WRIGHT, John P.

2003

#8506

Materia magica et medica Hethitica: Ein Beitrag zur Heilkunde im Alten Orient. By Volkert Haas in cooperation with Daliah Bawanypeck.

HAAS, Volkert (1936 – ) BAWANYPECK, Daliah

The first comprehensive compendium of all known remedies and treatments used by the Hittites. The source texts are ritual descriptions and formularies from the 15th to 13th centuries BCE preserved from the archives of…

2003

#9601

Le piante medicinali dal Corpus Hippocraticum.

TOUWAIDE, Alain (1953 – )
TOUWAIDE, Alain (1953 – ) ALIOTTA, Giovanni PIOMELLI, Daniele POLLIO, Antonino

2003

#10018

Hippocrate, Oeuvres complètes, Tome II, 3ème partie: La maladie sacrée. Texte établi, traduit et annoté par Jacques Jouanna. (Collection des universités de France).

HIPPOCRATES, [Ἱπποκράτης; Hippocrates of Kos] (-460 – -370)
HIPPOCRATES, [Ἱπποκράτης; Hippocrates of Kos] (-460 – -370) JOUANNA, Jacques (1935 – )

Until Hippocrates epilepsy was believed to be religious in origin; Hippocrates provided the first medical description of the disease.

2003

#10583

Origin of the life of a human being: Conception and the female according to ancient Indian medical and sexological literature.

DAS, Rahul Peter (1954 – )

2003

#10758

On the properties of foodstuffs (De alimentorum facultatibus). Introduction, translation and commentary by Owen Powell.

GALEN, [Κλαύδιος Γαληνός; Galen of Pergamon] (129 – 216)
GALEN, [Κλαύδιος Γαληνός; Galen of Pergamon] (129 – 216) POWELL, Owen

2003

#10859

Outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome - Worldwide, 2003.

CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION (CDC)

First description of the scope of the outbreak dated March 21, 2003, preliminary case definition, and interim infection control guidance for the United States. Available from the CDC at this link. One week later the C…

2003

#10860

Coronavirus as a possible cause of severe acute respiratory syndrome.

PEIRIS, Joseph Sriyal Malik (1949 – ) POON, Lit Man Leo LAI, S. T. & et al.

Dated April 19, 2003, this paper identified and reproduced microscopic images of the novel viral agent. It was the first official journal publication on SARS. Order of authorship in the published paper was Peiris, Lai…

2003

#10861

A novel coronavirus associated with severe acute respiratory syndrome.

KSIAZEK, Thomas F. ERDMAN, Dean GOLDSMITH, Cynthia S. & et al.

Ksiazek and over 40 co-authors around the world published the lead article in the May 15, 2003 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine that was nearly entirely devoted to SARS. Order of authorship in the publishe…

2003

#10862

Characterization of a novel coronavirus associated with severe acute respiratory syndrome.

ROTA, Paul A. OBERSTE, M. Steven MONROE, Stephan S.
DERISI, Joseph L.
DERISI, Joseph L. & et al.

Dated May 30, 2003. Rota and team at the CDC determined the sequence of the complete genome of SARS-CoV, and characterized the viral genome. Order of authorship in the published paper was Rota, Oberste, Monroe....DeRi…