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1,672 entries match Pharmacology & Therapeutics [D01 / E02]

1992

#13344

Vine of the Soul: Medicine men, their plants and rituals in the Columbian Amazonia.

1993

#8526

Nomina simplicium medicinarum ex synonymariis Medii Aevi collecta (Semantische Untersuchungen zum Fachwortschatz hoch- und spätmittelalterlicher Drogenkunde). Studies in ancient medicine 6.

1993

#9017

Tobacco and shamanism in South America.

A comprehensive ethnography of magico-religious, medicinal, and recreational tobacco use among native South American societies, based on a survey of nearly three hundred societies.

1993

#10313

Pub & pilules: Histoires et communication du médicament.

1993

#10872

Rio Tigre and beyond: The Amazon jungle medicine of Manual Cordova-Rios

1993

#12522

Die Erganzung Ibn Gulgul's zur Materia Medica des Dioskurides: Arabischer Text nebst kommentierter deutscher Ubersetzung herausgegeben von Albert Dietrich.

1993

#13535

Medicinal plants and enigmatic health practices of Northern Ethiopia.

1994

#8029

Afrikanische Arzneipflanzen und Jagdgifte.

Translated into English by Aileen Porter as African ethnobotany: Poisons and drugs. Chemistry - Pharmacology - Toxicology (Chapman & Hall, 1996).

1994

#8462

Hortus Eystettensis: The bishop's garden and Besler's magnificent book.

1994

#9187

Plant allometry: The scaling of form and process.

The first book to apply allometry— one definition of which is the study of the growth rate of an organism's parts in relation to the whole — to studies of the evolution, morphology, physiology, and reproduction of pla…

1994

#9298

Footprints of the forest: Ka'Apor ethnobotany- The historical ecology of plant utilization by an Amazonian people.

1994

#9684

Tobacco in history: The cultures of dependence.

1994

#9937

Tales of a shaman's apprentice: An ethnobotanist searches for new medicines in the Amazon rain forest.

1994

#11889

Coca prohibition in Peru: The historical debates.

Traces the arguments of the participants in the coca debates in Peru during the last four centuries. Gagliano surveys the role of the leaf in Peru's socio-political history, focusing on coca usage as a source of contr…

1994

#11969

Dictionary of British and Irish botanists and horticulturalists including plant collectors, flower painters and garden designers.

Completely revised and updated second edition.

1994

#11973

The art of botanical illustration.

First edition by Blunt, 1950.

1995

#7018

Ethnobotany: Evolution of a discipline. Edited by Richard Schultes and Siri Sylvia von Reis.

1995

#7211

Kinetic jottings: Rare and curious books in the library of the old Royal Central Institute of Gymnastics. An illustrated and annotated catalogue.

Outstanding descriptions and superb illustrations of a very unusual collection of books, including those on fencing, gymnastics, orthopedics, physical medicine, acrobatics, and dance.

1995

#7787

Effects of atomic radiation: A half-century of studies from Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

1995

#7795

Human radiation experiments: The Department of Energy roadmap to the story and the records.

1995

#8263

Moses Maimonides' glossary of drug names translated and annotated from Max Meyerhof's French edition by Fred Rosner; with a bibliography by Jacob I. Dienstag and Arabic terms by Joseph Dana.

Translation of Sharḥ asmāʼ al-ʻuqqār; translated from the French according to the Unique Arabic Ms. 3711 of the Aya Sofia Library, Istanbul. For the Meyerhof edition see No. 11241.

1995

#9269

Healing threads: Traditional medicines of the Highlands and Islands.

"Much of the rich store of material comes from the great legacy of medieval Gaelic manuscripts. In more recent times, papers of medical societies have shown how traditional methods and cures are still of value to mode…

1995

#9630

Deadly medicine: Indians and alcohol in early America.

1995

#9767

The spirit of voluntarism: A legacy of commitment and contribution: The United States pharmacopeia 1820-1995.

1995

#11419

The history of pharmacy: A selected annotated bibliography.

1995

#12549

Samoan herbal medicine. O Lā'au ma Vai Fofō o Samoa.

1995

#13457

Libro de los medicamentos simples. [Kitab al-adwiya al-mufrada]. Edición, traducción, notas y glosarios de Luisa Fernanda Aguirre de Cárcer. 2 vols.

1996

#6983

Prospecting for drugs in ancient and medieval European texts. A scientific approach, edited by Bart K. Holland.

1996

#7002

Encyclopedia of native American healing.

1996

#7794

Final report of the Advisory Committee on human radiation experiments.

Report of "an intensive inquiry into the history of government-sponsored human radiation experiments and intentional environmental releases of radiation that occurred between 1944 and 1974. We have studied the ethical…

1996

#8660

The cigarette papers. Edited by Stanton A. Glantz, John Slade, Lisa A. Bero, Peter Hanauer, and Deborah E. Barnes.

Analysis and selective reproduction of 4000 pages of internal tobacco industry documents proving that a tobacco company was fully aware that it was promoting and marketing a highly addictive carcinogenic substance. El…

1996

#8661

Industry Documents Library. University of California, San Francisco.

https://www.library.ucsf.edu/industry-documents/ "The Industry Documents Library (IDL) provides public access to internal corporate documents to facilitate research about cross-industry practices that harm public heal…

1996

#8717

The botanical garden of Padua 1545-1995. Translated by Gus Barker.

1996

#8872

Sildenafil: an orally active type 5 cyclic GMP-specific phosphodiesterase inhibitor for the treatment of penile erectile dysfunction.

Osterloh and team working at Pfizer's Sandwich, Kent research facility in England, demonstrated that sildenafil citrate (Viagra) initally studied for use in hypertension and angina pectoris, is effective in the treatm…

1996

#8926

Histoire naturelle des Indes. The Drake manuscript in The Pierpont Morgan Library.... Foreward by Patrick O'Brian. Introduction by Verlyn Klinkenborg. Translations by Ruth Kraemer.

"In 1983, The Morgan Library & Museum received, as the bequest of Clara S. Peck, an extraordinary volume whose beautiful paintings and descriptions document the plant, animal, and human life of the Caribbean late in t…

1996

#9290

Healing with plants in the American and Mexican West.

1996

#9787

Hep-cats, narcs, and pipe dreams: A history of America's romance with illegal drugs.

1997

#7102

Theriaka y Alexipharmaka de Nicandro.

Essays by Alain Touwaide, Jean Pierre Angremy, Christian Förstel and Grégoire Aslanoff concerning the 10th century Byzantine illuminated manuscript designated as "BnF Supplement grec 247." This spectacularly illustrat…

1997

#7461

An Oak Spring flora: Flower illustration from the fifteenth century to the present time. A selection of rare books, manuscripts and works of art in the collection of Rachel Lambert Mellon.

1997

#8544

Iroquois medical botany.

"The first book to provide a guide to understanding the use of herbal medicines in traditional Iroquois culture. The world view of the Iroquois League or Confederacy - the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca, and…

1997

#9060

Die pflanzlichen Heilmittel bei Hildegard von Bingen: Heilwissen aus der Klostermedizin.

1997

#9609

Galen on pharmacology: Philosophy, history and medicine. Proceedings of the Vth International Galen Colloquium, Lille, 16-18 March 1995. Edited by Armelle Debru.

1997

#9910

Sacred leaves of Candomblé: African magic, medicine, and religion in Brazil.

"Candomblé, an African religious and healing tradition that spread to Brazil during the slave trade, relies heavily on the use of plants in its spiritual and medicinal practices. When its African adherents were forcib…

1997

#11968

Gardens of empire: Botanical institutions of the Victorian British Empire.

Provides "a detailed analysis of the foundation, extent, management and achievements of the 120 botanic gardens, herbaria and botanic stations - from Hong Kong to British Honduras, Malacca to the Gold Coast, Fiji to M…

1998

#7869

Native American ethnobotany.

Considered the definitive book on the subject documenting over 4,000 plants and roughly 44,000 uses, including medicinal usage.

1998

#8336

The divine farmer's materia medica: A translation of the Shen Nong Ben Cao Jing by Yang Shou-zhong.

1998

#8571

Medicine of the Prophet. Translated by Penelope Johnstone.

" . . . a combination of religious and medical information, providing advice and guidance on the two aims of medicine - the preservation and restoration of health - in careful conformity with the teachings of Islam as…

1998

#8792

The encyclopedia of psychoactive substances.

1998

#8880

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

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

#8889

The Old English illustrated pharmacopoeia. British Library Cotton Vitellius C III. Edited by M. A. D'Aronco and M. L. Cameron. Early English Manuscripts in Facsimile, 27.

Macer glosses, Pseudo-Apuleius, Herbarium, Macrobius, etc. 12th century. "A composite manuscript which comprises four parts, Parts 1 and 2 contain items in English, Part 3 contains Macrobius, "Saturnalia" and Part 4 i…