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

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1998

#10933

A history of the Society of Apothecaries.

HUNTING, Penelope

1998

#11743

A brief history of cocaine.

KARCH, Steven B.

Second edition, 2006.

1998

#11892

The encyclopedia of psychoactive plants: Ethnopharmacology and its applications.

RÄTSCH, Christian (1957 – )

Describes the botany, history, distribution, cultivation, preparation, and dosage of more than 400 psychoactive plants and fungi. The encyclopedia also offers information on ritual and medicinal use. Also includes 168…

1998

#11941

Europäische Heilkräuterkunde: Ein Erfahrungsschatz aus Jahrtausenden.

FREYER, H. P. Michael

1998

#12527

Economic botany and ethnobotany in Al-Andalus (Iberian Peninsula: Tenth-Fifteenth Centuries), an unknown heritage of mankind.

HERNÁNDEZ BERMEJO, J. Esteban GARCÍA SANCHEZ, Expiración

1998

#13325

The journals of Hippolito Ruiz: Spanish botanist in Peru and Chile, 1777-1788. Translated by Richard Evans Schultes and Maria José Nemry von Thenen de Jarmillo-Arango.

SCHULTES, Richard Evans (1915 – 2001)
SCHULTES, Richard Evans (1915 – 2001) LÓPEZ, Hipólito Ruiz (1754 – 1816) JARAMILLO-ARANGO, María José Nemry von Thenen de

1998 –2005

#13718

Geschichte der Pharmazie. Band 1: Von den Anfängen bis zum Ausgang des Mittelalters. Von Rudolf Schmitz. Unter Mitarbeit von F.-J. Kuhlen. Band II: Von der Frühen Neuzeit bis zur Gegenwart. Von Christoph Friedrich und Wolf-Dieter Müller-Jahncke.

SCHMITZ, Johann Rudolf (1918 – 1992) FRIEDRICH, Christoph (1954 – ) MÜLLER-JAHNCKE, Wolf-Dieter (1944 – )

1999

#7153

Herbs and herbalism in the Middle Ages and Renaissance

STANNARD, Jerry Willmert (1926 – 1988) STANNARD, Katherine E. KAY, Richard

1999

#8767

Cocaine: From medical marvel to modern menace in the United States, 1884-1920.

SPILLANE, Joseph P.

1999

#8874

Pristina medicamenta: Ancient and medieval medical botany

STANNARD, Jerry Willmert (1926 – 1988) STANNARD, Katherine E. KAY, Richard

1999

#8937

Natureza em boiões: Medicinas e boticá-rios no Brasil setecentista.

MARQUES, Vera Regina Baltrão (1954 – 2013)

1999

#8960

Dragon's brain perfume: An historical geography of camphor.

DONKIN, Robin Arthur (1928 – 2006)

"In the Dragon's Brain Perfume (a Chinese description of Camphor) once more the existence and importance of world systems of exchange becomes clear. In the pre-industrial world aromatic substances have always counted …

1999

#9034

Cocaine: Global histories.

GOOTENBERG, Paul Eliot (1954 – )

1999

#9277

Memory, wisdom and healing: The history of domestic plant medicine.

HATFIELD, Gabrielle (1945 – )

1999

#9292

Medicinal flora of the Alaska natives. A compilation of knowledge from literary sources of Aleut, Alutiiq, Athabascan, Eyak, Haida, Inupiat, Tlingit, Tsimshian, and Yupik traditional healing methods using plants.

GARIBALDI, Ann

Digital facsimile from uaa.alaska.edu at this link.

1999

#9468

Drugs on trial: Experimental pharmacology and therapeutic innovation in the eighteenth century.

MAEHLE, Andreas-Holger (1957 – )

"This book demonstrates that the basic methodology of the field, including chemical analysis, in vitro testing, animal experimentation and human research, was already developed in the course of the seventeenth and eig…

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

#10229

The Nazi war on cancer.

PROCTOR, Robert N. (1954 – )
PROCTOR, Robert N. (1954 – )

1999

#11071

Tobacco mosaic virus: Pioneering research for a century. A theme issue edited by B. D. Harrison and T. M. A. Wilson.

HARRISON, Bryan Desmond (1931 – ) WILSON, T. M. A.

2000

#7193

Medieval herbals: The illustrative traditions.

COLLINS, Minta

A study of illuminated medieval herbals from 512-1450 CE.

2000

#7784

Permissible dose: A history of radiation protection in the twentieth century.

WALKER, J. Samuel (1946 – )

2000

#8030

African traditional medicine: A dictionary of plant use and applications with supplement: Search system for diseases.

NEUWINGER, Hans Dieter

2000

#8102

Brush with death: A social history of lead poisoning.

WARREN, Christian S.

2000

#8525

The "Tabula antidotarii" of Armengaud Blaise and its Hebrew translation. Edited by Michael R. McVaugh and Lola Ferre. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society 90, pt. 6.

MCVAUGH, Michael Rogers (1938 – ) BLAISE, Armengaud (Armendgaldus Blasii monspellensis) (1264 – 1312) FERRE, Lola

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

#9322

Biodiversity and native America. Edited by Paul E. Minnis and Wayne J. Elisens.

MINNIS, Paul E. (1951 – ) ELISENS, Wayne J. (1948 – )

2000

#9743

Early English charms, plant lore, and healing.

POLLINGTON, Stephen

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

#11937

Plants in archeology: Identification manual of vegetative plant materials used in Europe and Southern Mediterranean to c. 1500.

GALE, Rowena CUTLER, David Frederick (1939 – )

"This is a practical guide to the identification of vegetative plant materials used from the early prehistoric to c.1500 AD in Europe and the southern Mediterranean. Geographic distribution and archaic names are inclu…

2001

#8875

Three receptaria from Medieval England: The languages of medicine in the fourteenth century. Edited by Tony Hunt with the collaboration of Michael Benskin.

HUNT, Anthony "Tony" B. (1944 – ) BENSKIN, Michael

An edition of just over 1500 medical receipts transmitted in three fourteenth-century compendia. The particular interest of these multilingual compilations lies in their date – earlier than most published receipts – a…

2001

#9280

Healing plants: Medicine of the Florida Seminole Indians.

SNOW, Alice Micco (1922 – 2008) STANS, Susan Enns

2001

#9408

The people's doctors: Samuel Thomson and the American Botanical Movement 1790-1860.

HALLER, John S. Jr. (1940 – )
THOMSON, Samuel (1769 – 1843)
THOMSON, Samuel (1769 – 1843)

"Samuel Thomson, born in New Hampshire in 1769 to an illiterate farming family, had no formal education, but he learned the elements of botanical medicine from a "root doctor," who he met in his youth. Thomson sought …

2001

#9451

Jamu: The ancient Indonesian art of herbal healing.

BEERS, Susan-Jane

2001

#9686

Tobacco: A cultural history of how an exotic plant seduced civilization.

GATELY, Iain (1965 – )

2001

#10115

America's botanico-medical movements: Vox populi.

FLANNERY, Michael A. BERMAN, Alex (1914 – 2000)

2001

#10892

A doctor in the garden: Nomen medici in botanicis. Australian flora and the world of medicine.

PEARN, John Hemsley (1940 – )

2001

#10895

The pursuit of oblivion: A global history of narcotics.

DAVENPORT-HINES, Richard (1953 – )

2001

#11423

Pharmacopoeias and related literature in Britain and America, 1618–1847.

COWEN, David L. (1909 – 2006)

"Collected in this volume are the author’s historical and bibliographical studies of what may be described as the British and American literature of pharmacotherapeutics. The practitioner of medicine in the period cov…

2001

#13403

Botanophilia in eighteenth-century France: The spirit of the Enlightenment.

WILLIAMS, Roger Lawrence (1923 – 2017)

2001

#13628

The world of caffeine: The science and culture of the world's most popular drug.

WEINBERG, Bennett Alan BEALER, Bonnie K.

2002

#8304

The creation of psychopharmacology

HEALEY, David

2002

#8879

Medieval herbal remedies. The old English herbarium and Anglo-Saxon medicine.

VAN ARSDALL, Anne

Edition and translation of the Old English Herbarium, British Library Cotton MS Vitellius C iii, the only illustrated Anglo-Saxon medical text, dating from about 1000 CE, containing information on 185 medicinal plants…

2002

#8903

Drugs in America: A historical reader. [Compiled by] David F. Musto.

MUSTO, David Franklin (1936 – 2010)

2002

#9685

Learning to smoke: Tobacco use in the West.

HUGHES, Jason

2002

#9788

The history of massage: An illustrated survey from around the world.

CALVERT, Robert Noah ( – 2006)

2002

#11720

Coffee: A bibliography. A guide to the literature on coffee. 2 vols.

HÜNERSDORFF, Richard von HASENKAMP, Holger G.

"...listing over 15,000 imprints relating to every aspect of coffee from the past to the present. The principal writings on coffee have been identified and described in light of available source material. Represented …

2002

#12415

The quest for drug control: Politics and federal policy in a period of increasing substance abuse, 1963-1981.

MUSTO, David Franklin (1936 – 2010) KORSMEYER, Pamela (1945 – )

2002

#12416

One hundred years of heroin. Edited by David F. Musto with the assistance of Pamela Korsmeyer and Thomas W. Maulucci, Jr.

MUSTO, David Franklin (1936 – 2010) KORSMEYER, Pamela (1945 – ) MAULUCCI, Thomas W. Jr.

2003

#7873

Teratology in the twentieth century: Congenital malformations in humans and how their environmental causes were established.

KALTER, Harold (1924 – 2019)

Book form publication with extensive bibliography and index, reprinted from Neurotoxicology and Teratology, 25 (2003) 132-282.