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602 entries match Ancient [K01.400.470]
2003
#10863
The genome sequence of the SARS-associated coronavirus.
Dated May 30, 2003 and published immediately after No. 10862 in the same issue of Science, this reported the work of Marco Marra and his team in Canada. Order of authorship in the published paper was Marra, Jones, Ast…
2003
#12009
Angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 is a functional receptor for the SARS coronavirus.
The authors showed that the angiontensin-converting enzyme 2, abbreviated ACE2, is the obligative cell receptor for the SARS coronavirus (SARS-CoV). (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this reference and its interpretation.)
2004
#6961
Ancient medicine.
Nutton used archaeological and written evidence to survey the development of medical ideas from early Greece to Late Antiquity.
2004
#7988
The Hippocratic oath and the ethics of medicine.
2004
#8312
Magic and rationality in ancient Near Eastern and Graeco-Roman medicine. Edited by Manfred Horstmanshoff and Marten Stol.
The first comparison of medical systems of the Ancient Near East and the Greek and Roman world. The authors treat early medicine in Babylonia, Egypt, the Minoan and Mycenean world; later medicine in Hippocrates, Galen…
2004
#8321
Eros on the Nile. Translated from the Polish by Geoffrey L. Packer.
Originally published by Eros nad Nilem (Prószyyńki i S-ka S.A, 1998).
2004
#13635
Le livre médical dans le monde gréco-romain.
2005
#8295
From monastery to hospital: Christian monasticism and the transformation of health care in Late Antiquity.
2005
#8301
Hippocrates On ancient medicine, translated with an introduction and commentary by Mark J. Schiefsky.
![HIPPOCRATES, [Ἱπποκράτης; Hippocrates of Kos] (-460 – -370)](/media/portraits/50)
2005
#8510
Diagnoses in Assyrian and Babylonian medicine: Ancient sources, translations, and modern medical analyses.
2005
#8512
Renal and rectal diseases texts. (Die Babylonisch-assyrische Medizin in Texten und Untersuchungen, Book 7).
Previous volumes of Franz Köcher’s series on Babylonian and Assyrian medical literature provided copies of cuneiform medical tablets with extensive indices listing all known parallel passages. This volume edits all of…
2005
#8566
Pedanius Dioscorides of Anazarbus, De materia medica. Translated by Lily Y. Beck. (Altertumswissenschaftliche Texte und Studien, vol. 38).
![DIOSCORIDES, Pedanius [Πεδάνιος Διοσκουρίδης] (40 – 90)](/media/portraits/2028)
A new English translation, directly from the Greek text edited by Wellmann, and thoroughly indexed.
2005
#9983
Antike Medizin: Ein Lexikon.
2005
#10864
Bats are natural reservoirs of SARS-like coronaviruses.
Dated October 28, 2005, roughly two years after the outbreak of SARS, the natural reservoirs of this class of coronaviruses was discovered. (Thanks to Juan Weiss for this entry and its interpretation.)
2006
#8285
Médecins et malades de l'Egypte romaine: Étude socio-légale de la profession médicale et de ses praticiens du Ier au IVe siècle ap. J.-C.
2006
#9614
Galen: On diseases and symptoms. Edited and translated by Ian Johnston.
2006
#9763
Plague, SARS, and the story of medicine in Hong Kong.
2006
#10631
Disease in Babylonia. Edited by Irving L. Finkel and Markham J. Geller.
"This collection of articles is the first collection of studies on the specific subject of disease in Babylonia, based upon actual medical texts, with contributions by senior scholars who have spent years working on p…
2007
#8342
Leisure, pleasure and healing: Spa culture and medicine in Ancient Eastern Mediterranean.
2007
#9687
Plague and the end of antiquity: The pandemic of 541-750. Edited by Lester K. Little.
2007
#9737
Das Handbuch Muššuɔu "Einreibung". Eine Serie sumerische und akkadischer Beschwörungen aus dem 1. Jt. vor Chr.
Reproduction, transcription, translation into German, and edition of the Muššuɔu unction handbook— a collection of Sumerian and Akkadian incantations of the 1st century BCE.
2007
#11082
Shock and awe: The performance dimension of Galen's anatomy demonstrations. (Version 5; January 2007.)
Digital edition available from princeton.edu at this link: http://www.princeton.edu/~pswpc/pdfs/gleason/010702.pdf
2007
#12307
Zwischen Magie und Wissenschaft: Ärzte und Heilkunst in den Papyri aus Ägypten.
2008
#8308
Embodiments of will: Anatomical and physiological theories of voluntary animal motion from Greek antiquity to the Latin Middle Ages, 400 B.C - A.D.1300.
2008
#8537
Galen and the rhetoric of healing.
2008
#9600
Hippocratic recipes: Oral and written transmission of pharmacological knowledge in fifth-and fourth-century Greece.
"... the first extended study of the pharmacological recipes included in the Hippocratic Corpus. The recipes, found mostly in the gynaecological and nosological treatises, are here examined both from a philological an…
2008
#10635
Hippocrate, tome XII, 1ère partie, Nature de la femme. Texte établi, traduit et annoté par Florence Boubon. (Collection des universités de France)
A gynecological treatise from the Hippocratic Collection. This one is supposed to come from the School of Cnidus or to use Cnidian material and is generally dated to mid 4th century BCE.
2009
#8293
The world of pharmacy and pharmacists in Mamlūk Cairo.
"...the first detailed analysis of an immensely popular 13th c. Arabic guide for pharmacists, from a time in which Jewish physicians and pharmacists worked alongside Muslim and Christian practioners. Minhāj al-dukkān …
2009
#9758
Bathing in the Roman world.
2009
#10001
Health and medicine in ancient Egypt. Magic and science (British Archaeological Reports [BAR] International Series 1967).
Detailed study of documentation (papyri, ostraca and mummies) followed by a list of pathologies by types and some considerations on medicines and their materia medica.
2009
#10075
Galen and the world of knowledge. Edited by Christopher Gill, Tim Whitmarsh and John Wilkins.
Among the numerous essays in this volume are those by Vivian Nutton on Galen's Library and on Galen's bibiography of his own writings by Jason König.
2009
#11939
Encyclopedia of ancient natural scientists: The Greek tradition and its many heirs. Edited by Paul Keyser and Georgia Irby-Massie.
2010
#7082
Ancient Babylonian medicine: Theory and practice.
The first overview of Babylonian medicine utilizing cuneiform sources, including archives of court letters, medical recipes, and commentaries written by ancient scholars. Attempts to reconcile the ways in which medici…
2010
#8430
The symptom and the subject: The emergence of the physical body in ancient Greece.
2010
#9619
Biblioteca digitale di testi latin tardoantichi.
http://digiliblt.lett.unipmn.it/index.php "The Digital library of late-antique Latin texts – digilibLT – publishes prose texts written in Latin in the late antiquity (from the 2nd to the 7th century AD). The library i…
2011
#9081
Galen: On the anomalous dyskrasia (De inaequali intemperie). Editio maior. Edition, translation and commentary by Elsa Garcia Novo.
First critical edition and translation of this text by Galen which became a bestseller in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (translations into Syrian, Arabic, Latin 8 versions and Hebrew; 14 commentaries from 1290 t…
2011
#9314
Galen, De diebus decretoriis, from Greek into Arabic. A critical edition, with translation and commentary of Hunayn ibn Ishāq, Kitāb ayyām al-buhrān, by Glen M. Cooper.
![GALEN, [Κλαύδιος Γαληνός; Galen of Pergamon] (129 – 216)](/media/portraits/21)
First printed edition of Hunayn ibn Ishaq's Arabic translation of Galen's Critical Days (De diebus decretoriis), a founding text of astrological medicine, together with the first translation of the text into a modern …
2011
#9611
Galen: Method of medicine. Books 1-4, Books 5-9, Books 10-14. Edited and translated by Ian Johnston and G. H. R. Horsley. 3 vols.
2011 –2014
#9978
La storia della medicina nel Mezzogiorno d'Italia. Vol. I: I Antichita', Medioevo, Rinascimento. Vol. 2: Il '500 e l'età moderna. 2 vols
Collected articles on aspects of medicine in Mezzorgiorno or Southern Italy. Vol. 1 includes papers on Magna Graecia, the Melfi Constitution by Frederick II regulating the practice of medicine and pharmacy, the Jewish…
2011
#12056
La Campagne d’Egypte: Une affaire de santé.
2012
#7409
The alphabet of Galen. Pharmacy from Antiquity to the Middle Ages. A critical edition of the Latin text with English translation and commentary by Nicholas Everett
ALPHABET OF GALEN
An edition and translation of Bibliotheca Apostolica Vaticana, Pal. lat. 187, a late seventh or early eighth century codex, which represents the earliest surviving manuscript of the text. Not written by Galen of Perga…
2012
#8257
Galen: On problematical movements. Edited with introduction and commentary by Vivian Nutton, with an edition of the Arabic version by Gerrit Bos.
2012
#8402
La chirurgie en Égypte ancienne. À propos des instruments médico-chirurgicaux métalliques égyptiens conserves au musée du Louvre.
2012
#8508
Bibliography of ancient Mesopotamian medicine.
This electronic resource is available at this link: http://lorenzoverderame.site.uniroma1.it/materiali/bibliography-of-ancient-mesopotamian-medicine.
2012
#10584
Illustrated Suśruta Samhitā. Translated by K. R. Srikantha Murthy. 3 vols.
2012
#10876
Severe respiratory illness associated with a novel coronavirus - Saudi Arabia and Qatar, 2012.
Reports on the first two patients affected by a "new" coronavirus. The first patient, hospitalized in June 2012, died, and the other was in both pulmonary and renal failure. In this paper the CDC referenced a website …
2012
#10877
Brief Report: Isolation of a novel coronavirus from a man with pneumonia in Saudi Arabia.
This paper, dated November 8, 2012, characterized the virus up to and including its genome sequence, including radiology and imaging findings, lab findings, diagnosis and management. The authors tentatively named the …
2012
#11048
Medical prescriptions in the Cambridge Genizah Collections: Practical medicine and pharmacology in medieval Egypt. Cambridge Genizah Studies Series, Volume 4.
2012
#12054
La littérature médicale de la compagne d'Égypte.
Digital facsimile from biusante.parisdescartes.fr at this link.
2012
#12676