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678 entries match Medieval [K01.400.500]

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1933

#6513

La médecine en Perse des origines à nos jours. Ses fondements theoriques d’après l’Encyclopédie médicale de Gorgani.

NAFICY, Abbas (1905 – )

1933 –1937

#35.1

Médecine et thérapeutique byzantines: Oeuvres médicales d’Alexander de Tralles, le dernier auteur classique des grands médecins grecs de l’antiquité. Ed. F. Brunet. 4 vols.

ALEXANDER OF TRALLES [ἈΛΈΞΑΝΔΡΟΣ Ὁ ΤΡΑΛΛΙΑΝΌΣ; ALEXANDER TRALLIANUS] (525 – 605) BRUNET, Félix Louis Emile (1872 – 1958)

1933

#13340

L'école médicale de Kairouan aux x et xi siècles.

BEN MILED, Ahmed (1902 – 1994)

1934

#6514

Medicine in Persia.

ELGOOD, Cyril Lloyd (1892 – 1970)

1934

#8533

Tuhfat al-ahbāb: Glossaire de la matière médicale Marocaine.

RENAUD, Henri-Paul-Joseph (1881 – 1945) COLIN, Georges Séraphin (1893 – 1977)

1934

#8876

A leechbook or collection of medical receipts of the fifteenth century: The text of ms. no. 136 of the Medical Society of London, together with a transcript into modern spelling, transcribed and edited with an introduction, notes and appendix by Warren R. Dawson.

DAWSON, Warren Royal (1888 – 1968)

1935

#753

Ibn an Nafis und seine Theorie des Lungenkreislaufs.

IBN-AL-NAFIS (ALA-AL-DIN ABU AL-HASSAN ALI IBN ABI-HAZM AL-QARSHI AL-DIMASHQI; علاء الدين أبو الحسن عليّ بن أبي حزم القرشي الدمشقي ) (1210 – 1288) MEYERHOF, Max (1874 – 1945)

Ibn-al-Nafis, a Syrian physician, described the lesser circulation in his commentary on the anatomy of the Canon of Avicenna, 1268. This was discovered in three Arabic MSS by Mohyi el Din el Tatawi, who included a Ger…

1935

#6523

The story of medicine in the Middle Ages

RIESMAN, David (1867 – 1940)

1936

#5815

Memorandum book of a tenth-century oculist for the use of modern ophthalmologists. A translation of the Tadhkirat.

WOOD, Casey Albert (1856 – 1942)
WOOD, Casey Albert (1856 – 1942) IBN 'ISÃ AL-KAHHAL, Ali (Jesu Occulist) (980 – )

The Tadhkirat al-Kahhalin was one of the oldest and best of the medieval Arabic works on ophthalmology. It carefully described 130 diseases of the eye and became the standard work on the subject in the Middle East. Ge…

1936 –1979

#6736

Dictionnaire biographique des médecins en France au moyen age.By E. Wickersheimer. 2 vols. (1936). Supplement by Danielle Jacquart (1979).

WICKERSHEIMER, Charles Adolphe Ernest (1880 – 1965) JACQUART, Danielle (1947 – )

1936

#8456

Johannes de Mirfeld of St. Bartholomew's Smithfield: His life and works, by Percival Horton-Smith Hartley and Harold Richard Aldridge.

JOHANNES DE MIRFELD ( – 1407) HARTLEY, Percival Horton-Smith (1867 – 1952) ALDRIDGE, Harold Richard

Concerns the first writings of a medical nature known to be associated with an English hospital. Includes the original Latin text and English translation of Mirfeld's works including his Breviary, a scrapbook of extra…

1936

#8551

Il "Tractatus de pulsibus," di Alfano Io arcivescovo di Salerno, sec. xi: Trascrizione del codice 1024 della biblioteca dell'Arsenale di Parigi (da carta 16 v. a carta 18 r). Annotazioni e commento con tavoli di riproduzione del testo [di] Pietro Capparoni.

CAPPARONI, Pietro (1868 – 1947)
ALFANUS I, (Alfano I) ( – 1085)
ALFANUS I, (Alfano I) ( – 1085)

Alfanus I or Alfano I, a physician before he became archbishop, was one of the earliest doctors of the Schola Medica Salernitana. He was Archbishop of Salerno from 1058 to his death. He was famed as a translator, writ…

1936

#8978

Physiologus. Ed. F. Sbordóne.

SBORDÓNE, Francecsco (1911 – 1983)

Physiologus, a didactic Christian text, is thought to have been written or compiled in Greek by an unknown author in Alexandria, 200-275 CE. It describes a "hodgepodge" of animals, real and imaginery, with the fig tre…

1936

#9241

Türkische Turfan-Texte 7 [APAW 12] edited by G. R. Rachmati.

RACHMATI, Gabdul Rasid

Medieval medical texts from Turfan (Turpan), Central Asia.

1936

#11896

Gynäkologische Fragmente aus dem frühen Mittelalter: nach einer Petersburger Handschrift aus dem VIII.-IX. Jahrhundert zum ersten Mal gedruckt.

EGERT, Ferdinand Paul

1937

#6524

Early medieval medicine with special reference to France and Chartres. The Hideyo Noguchi Lectures.

MACKINNEY, Loren Cary (1891 – 1963)

1937

#9242

Useful plants and drugs of Iran and Iraq. By David Hooper with notes by Henry Field.

HOOPER, David (1858 – 1947)
FIELD, Henry (1902 – 1986)
FIELD, Henry (1902 – 1986)

Digital facsimile from the Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.

1937

#9441

The cataract operations of 'Ammar Ibn Alī Al-Mausilī by Max Meyerhof.

MEYERHOF, Max (1874 – 1945) IBN ALĪ AL MAUSILĪ, 'Ammār (996 – 1020)

Mausilī invented a hollow metallic syringe, which he applied through the sclerotic, and successfully extracted cataracts through suction.

1937

#12675

The medico-philosophical controversy between Ibn Butlan of Baghdad and Ibn Ridwan of Cairo: A contribution to the history of Greek learning among the Arabs. (The Egyptian University, the Faculty of Arts: Publication 13.)

MEYERHOF, Max (1874 – 1945) IBN BUTLĀN, Abuʾl-Ḥasan Al-Mukhtār Ibn ʿAbdūn Ibn SaʿDūn. ابو الحسن المختار ابن عبدون ابن بطلان (Elluchasem Elimithar) ( – 1068) IBN RIDWAN AL-MISRI, Abu'l Hassan Ali (988 – 1061) SCHACHT, Joseph Franz (1902 – 1969)

1939

#8449

Das Arzneidrogenbuch Circa Instans in einer Fassung des XIII. Jahrhunderts aus der Universitätsbibliothek Erlangen. Text und Kommentar als Beitrag zur Pflanzen- und Drogenkunde des Mittelalters by Hans Wölfel.

PLATEARIUS, Matthaeus (1130 – 1180) WÖLFEL, Hans

1939

#8527

Les manuscrits arabes de l'Escurial. Vol. 2, Fascicule 2: Médecine et histoire naturelle. Compiled by Hartwig Derenbourg, edited by Henri Paul Joseph Renaud.

DERENBOURG, Hartwig (1844 – 1908)
DERENBOURG, Hartwig (1844 – 1908) RENAUD, Henri-Paul-Joseph (1881 – 1945)

1939

#13305

Jewish magic and superstition: A study in folk religion.

TRACTENBERG, Joshua (1904 – 1959)

1940

#11241

Sarh Asma Al-Uqqar (L'Explication des noms de drogues) Un glossaire de matière medicale composé par Maïmonide. Texte publié pour la première fois d'après le manuscrit unique

MEYERHOF, Max (1874 – 1945) MAIMONIDES, (Moses ben Maimon; מֹשֶׁה בֶּן־מַימוֹן‎; Mōšeh bēn-Maymōn; موسى بن ميمون‎‎ Mūsā bin Maymūn) (1135 – 1204)

1940

#11638

Medical works of the Knights Hospitallers of Saint John of Jerusalem.

HUME, Edgar Erskine (1889 – 1952)
HUME, Edgar Erskine (1889 – 1952)

1943

#8554

Women healers in medieval life and literature.

HUGHES, Muriel Joy (1903 – )

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

1943

#9352

The art of falconry, being the De arte venandi cum avibus of Frederick II of Hohenstaufen.

WOOD, Casey Albert (1856 – 1942)
WOOD, Casey Albert (1856 – 1942)
FREDERICK II, Holy Roman Emperor (1194 – 1250)
FREDERICK II, Holy Roman Emperor (1194 – 1250) FYFE, F. Marjorie

English translation of the six-book version of Frederick's work, edited, with numerous appendices, illustrations, and an annotated bibliography of ancient, medieval and modern falconry, by Casey A. Wood and F. Marjori…

1945

#12618

The herbal of Rufinus. Edited from the unique manuscript by Lynn Thorndike, assisted by Francis S. Benjamin, Jr.

THORNDIKE, Lynn (1882 – 1965)
THORNDIKE, Lynn (1882 – 1965) RUFINUS (1250 – )

First printed edition of an herbal written circa 1287 by Rufinus, a medieval monk / physician unknown before this edition. Rufinus was titular abbot in absentia of the monastery of Tyre, and plenipotentiary to the arc…

1946

#6510

Outline of Arabic contributions to medicine and the allied sciences.

KHAIRALLAH, Amin Asad

1951

#6515

A medical history of Persia and the Eastern Caliphate from the earliest times until the year A.D. 1932.

ELGOOD, Cyril Lloyd (1892 – 1970)

A continous history of the art and practice of medicine in Persia and bordering countries from the earliest times. Reprinted, with additions and corrections from the author’s copy: edited by G. van Heusden. Amsterdam,…

1951

#12203

Caelius Aurelianus Gynaecia, Fragments of a Latin version of Soranus' Gynaecia from a thirteenth century manuscript. Edited by Miriam Drabkin and Israel Drabkin.

CAELIUS AURELIANUS (500 – ) SORANUS OF EPHESUS (ΣΩΡΑΝΌΣ) (100 – 150) DRABKIN, Israel Edward (1905 – 1965) DRABKIN, Miriam

Edition and translation of a surviving fragment of Caelius Aurelianus's text that did not survive in its entirely. The fragment, preserved in the New York Academy of Medicine, fuses the text of Muscio with that of Cae…

1952

#6546

Anglo-Saxon magic and medicine: Illustrated specially from the semi-pagan text "Lacnunga,"

SINGER, Charles Joseph (1876 – 1960)
SINGER, Charles Joseph (1876 – 1960) GRATTAN, John Henry Grafton (1878 – 1951)

1952

#13155

Avicenna's psychology: An English translation of Kitāb Al-najāt, Book II, Chapter VI, with historico-philosophical notes and textual improvements on the Cairo edition

AVICENNA, [Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Al-Hasan ibn Ali ibn Sīnā] (980 – 1037)
AVICENNA, [Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Al-Hasan ibn Ali ibn Sīnā] (980 – 1037) RAHMAN MALIK, Fazlur (1919 – 1988)

1952

#13306

Magicians, theologians and doctors: Studies in folk-medicine and folk-lore as reflected in the rabbinical Responsa (12th-19th centuries).

ZIMMELS, Hirsch Jakob (1900 – 1974)

1953

#9243

The book of plants [Kitâb al-nabât] of Abū Hanīfa ad-Dīnawari: Part of the alphabetical section (j-i). Edited and translated by Bernhard Lewin.

LEWIN, Bernhard IBN DAWŪD DĪNAWARĪ, Ābu Ḥanīfah Āḥmad (815 – 896)

1955 –1960

#5551.1

The surgery of Theodoric ca. 1267. Translated from the Latin by Eldridge Campbell and James Colton. 2 vols.

BORGOGNONI, Theodoric (Theodoric of Lucca) (1205 – 1298) CAMPBELL, Eldridge (1901 – 1956) COLTON, James B.

Theodoric, a Dominican friar, was a pupil of Hugh of Lucca (circa 1160-1257), whose teachings are reflected in his writings. Allbutt considered Theodoric to be one of the most original surgeons of all time. Borgognoni…

1956

#8346

I codici di medicina del periodo presalernitano (secoli IX, X e XI).

BECCARIA, Augusto

1956

#12518

Avicenne, Poème de la médecine, Urgūza fi' t-tibb, Cantica Avicennae.

AVICENNA, [Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Al-Hasan ibn Ali ibn Sīnā] (980 – 1037)
AVICENNA, [Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Al-Hasan ibn Ali ibn Sīnā] (980 – 1037) JAHIER, Henri (1899 – 1977) NOUREDDINE, Abdelkader

1957

#11944

Introduction to the book of Asaph the Physician: The oldest existing text of a medical book written in Hebrew.

MUNTNER, Suessman Alexander (1897 – 1973) ASAPH THE PHYSICIAN (-400 – 300)

See also, Muntner, "The antiquity of Asaph the Physician and his editorshoip of the earliest Hebrew book of medicine," Bull. Hist. Med., 25 (1951) 101-131.

1958

#13218

Das Buch der Gifte des Gābir Ibn Hayyān Arabischer Text in Faksimile (Hs. Taymūr [sic] Tibb 393, Kairo), übersetzt und Erläuter von Alfred Siggel. (Akademie der Wissenschaften under der Literature [Mainz], Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission, Band XIII).

IBN HAYYAN, Jabir ( – 816) SIGGEL, Alfred (1884 – 1959)

Edition and translation of Jabir's The Book on Poisons and on the Repelling of their Harmful Effects (Kitāb al-Sumūm wa-dafʿ maḍārrihā, Kr. no. 2145).

1959

#12603

The baths of Pozzuoli. A study of the medieval illuminations of Peter of Eboli's poem

KAUFFMANN, Claus Michael (1931 – ) PETER OF EBOLI, (Petrus de Ebulo) ( – 1220)

1959

#13156

Avicenna's De anima (Arabic text) being the psychological part of Kitāb al-Shifā'. Edited by R. Rahman.

AVICENNA, [Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Al-Hasan ibn Ali ibn Sīnā] (980 – 1037)
AVICENNA, [Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Al-Hasan ibn Ali ibn Sīnā] (980 – 1037) RAHMAN MALIK, Fazlur (1919 – 1988)

1960

#7162

Le premier manuscrit chirurgical turc, rédigé par Charaf-ed-Din (1465), et illustré de 140 miniatures.

HUARD, Pierre Alphonse (1901 – 1983)
HUARD, Pierre Alphonse (1901 – 1983) GRMEK, Mirko Dražen (1924 – 2000)

An edition of BnF Ms. suppl. turc 693.

1960

#9442

Lo "Speculum hominis": Poema anonimo di etimologia medica del secolo XIII. Edited by Marco T. Malato and Concezio Alicandri-Ciufelli.

MALATO, Marco T. ALICANDRI-CIUFELLI, Concezio

1962

#6984

Nomina et virtutes balneorum; seu de balneis Puteolorum et Baiarum. Codex angelico 1474. Facsimile edition, introduction by Angela Daneu Lattanzi.

PETER OF EBOLI, (Petrus de Ebulo) ( – 1220) LATTANZI, Angela Daneu (1901 – 1985)

Written about in the early 13th century by the poet, chronicler and physician Peter of Eboli, the didactic poem, De balneis Putelolanis (The baths of Pozzuoli) was the first widely distributed medieval guidebook to me…

1962

#9254

Tibb-ul-Nabbi or medicine of the Prophet.

ELGOOD, Cyril Lloyd (1892 – 1970)

Digital facsimile from itsites.harvard.edu at this link.

1962

#9695

Byzantine medicine: Tradition and empiricism.

TEMKIN, Oswei (1902 – 2002)

1962

#12777

Fonti per la storia della medicina e della chirurgia per il Regno di Napoli nel periodo Angioino (a. 1273-1410). Edited by R. Calvanico.

CALVANICO, R.

1963

#6495.8

The medical writings of Moses Maimonides. Treatise on asthma.

MAIMONIDES, (Moses ben Maimon; מֹשֶׁה בֶּן־מַימוֹן‎; Mōšeh bēn-Maymōn; موسى بن ميمون‎‎ Mūsā bin Maymūn) (1135 – 1204) MUNTNER, Suessman Alexander (1897 – 1973)

1963

#6311.4

Frau und Frauenheilkunde in der Kultur des Mittelalters.

DIEPGEN, Paul (1878 – 1966)
DIEPGEN, Paul (1878 – 1966)

A continuation of No. 6303.

1963

#6549

The medical background of Anglo-Saxon England: A study in history, psychology, and folklore.

BONSER, Wilfrid (1887 – 1971)