Asia
166 entries published in Asia.
1879
#11954
Catalogue of the plants under cultivation in the botanical gardens, Singapore, Straits Settlements.
The first published catalogue of plants in the Singapore Botanic Gardens. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1881
#10374
Catalogue of the Pathological Museum, Medical College, Calcutta.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1881
#13005
Early European researches into the flora of China.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1881
#13050
The plants an drugs of sind; being a systematic account, with descriptions, of the indigenous flora, and notices of the value and uses of their products in commerce, medicine and the arts.
1885
#6604
Notes on the history of medical progress in Japan.
From Trans. Asiatic Soc. Japan, 1885, 12, 245-469. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1886
#13052
The reptiles of Sind: A systematic account, with descriptions of all the species inhabiting the province, and a table of their geographical distribution in Persia, Bloochistan, Afghanistan, Punjab, Northwest Provinces, and the Peninsula of India generally, with woodcuts, lithographs, and colored illustrations.
A re-issue with additions to date, of "Reptilian fauna" in the author's Vertebrate zoology of Sind. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1887 –1890
#13053
The avifauna of British India and its dependencies. A systematic account, with descriptions of all the known species of birds inhabiting British India, observations on their habits, nidification, &c., tables of their geographical distribution in Persia, Beloochistan, Afghanistan, Sind, Punjab, N.W. Provinces, and the peninsula of India generally, with woodcuts, lithographs, and coloured illustrations. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.
1889
#11869
Opium: Historical note, or, the poppy in China. Published by order of The Inspector General of Customs.
Though relatively brief (50pp.) this may be the first historical study of opium in English. Text in English and Chinese. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Turst at this link. Reprinted without the Chinese text, Shangha…
1890 –1893
#9246
Pharmacographia indica: A history of the principal drugs of vegetable origin, met with in British India. 3 vols.
On the title page Dymock is identified as "Brigade Surgeon, Bombay Army, Principal Medical Storekeeper to Government." Warden is identified as "Surgeon-Major, Bengal Army, Professor of Chemistry in the Calcutta Medica…
1893 –1897
#6834
The Bower manuscript; Facsimile leaves, Nagari transcript, Romanised transliteration and English translation with notes.
Dated to the Gupta era, between the 4th and the 6th century CE, the Bower Manuscript, preserved at the Bodleian Library, Oxford, was written on birch bark in Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit using the Late Brahmi script or Gu…
1894
#210
Pithecanthropus erectus. Eine menschenähnliche Uebergangsform aus Java.
Privately issued first report on Homo erectus. In 1891 Dubois discovered remains of what he described as "a species in between humans and apes" at Trinil, Java. He called his finds Pithecanthropus erectus ("ape-human …
1900
#9421
The surgical history of the naval war between Japan & China during 1894-95. Translated from the original Japanese report under the supervision of Baron Y. Saneyoshi by S. Suzuki.
Surgical history of the naval aspects of the First Sino-Japanese War. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1901 –1907
#6485.9
The Ayurvedic system of medicine, or an exposition, in English, of Hindu medicine as occuring in Charaka, Susruta, Bagbhata, and othe rauthoritative works, ancient and modern, in Sanskrit. 3 vols.
Ayurveda is the most ancient system of Hindu medicine; only fragments of the original remain. The early Hindus believed it to be of divine origin and ascribed it to Brahma. It dates from circa 1400-1200 BCE. Digital f…
1901
#10138
Elephants and their diseases: A treatise on elephants.
Digital facsimile of the 1910 edition from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.
1902 –1909
#10875
A history of Hindu chemistry from the earliest times to the middle of the sixteenth century, A.D. With Sanskrit texts, variants, translation and illustrations. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile of the 1903 revised 2nd ed. plus the 1st ed. of vol. 2 from the Internet Archive at this link.
1903
#13138
Le livre de l’art du traitement de Najm ad-Dyn Mahmoud: Texte, traduction, glossaires, précédés d’un essai sur la pharmacopée arabe par Pierre Paul Emile Guigues.
Arabic text, with a French translation, of parts 4-5 of “Al-Kitab al-hawi fi ‘ilm al-tadawi” by Najm al-Din Mahmud. Najm al-Din Mahmud ibn Ilyas al-Shirazi was a Persian physician from Shiraz. His major composition wa…
1906
#13502
Moeurs médicales de l'Inde et leurs rapports avec la médecine européenne.
Digital facsimile from wellcomecollection.org at this link.
1907 –1916
#12
An English translation of the Sushruta Samhita, based on original Sankskrit text: Edited and published by Kaviraj Kunja Lal Bhishagratna. With a full and comprehensive introduction, translation of different readings, notes, comparative views, index, glossary and plates. 3 vols.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1908
#8246
Insanity in India: Its symptoms and diagnosis; with reference to the relation of crime and insanity.
Includes considerable discussion of the psychoactive effects of cannabis. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1909
#3743
An inquiry concerning the etiology of beri-beri.
Studies from the Institute for Medical Research, F. M. S., No. 10. Careful and long-continued experiments on the aetiology of beriberi were carried out by Fraser and Stanton in Malaya.
1909
#13795
Smallpox and vaccination in British India.
Includes the history of the introduction of vaccination in India from 1799 onward. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1911
#6604.1
Geschichte der Medizin in Japan.
History of Japanese medicine from the earliest times to 1911. Expanded English translation, translated from the German by John Ruhrah, with a chapter on the recent history of medicine in Japan, by Kageyas W. Amano. Ne…
1912
#12582
Report of the International Plague Conference held at Mukden [Shenyang], April, 1911.
Report on the epidemic of pneumonic plague that raged in Manchuria and north China during the winter months of 1910-11, causing the death of nearly 50,000 people. This was the first outbreak of epidemic pneumonic plag…
1913
#349
A textbook of medical entomology.
Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.
1913 –1914
#6488
The surgical instruments of the Hindus, with a comparative study of the surgical instruments of the Greek, Roman, Arab and the modern Eouropean [sic] surgeons. 2 vols.
Vol. 2 consists of plates.
1913 –1922
#12960
Pratyaksa-śārira: pratyaksha-shariram: A textbook of human anatomy in Sanskrit with English & Sanskrit introductions, containing a short history of Ayurvedic literature. 3 vols.
1914
#5350.3
Report of the Bombay Bacteriological laboratory for the year 1913.
Experimental demonstration, on pp. 14-16, of the complete life cycle of Dracunculus medinensis, the parasite causing Dracunculiasis, popularly known as Guinea-worm disease.
1914
#8241
A history of the Indian Medical Service 1600-1913. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1915
#13858
Bibliografía médico-farmacéutica de Filipinas. Con biografías de los profesionales extranjeros de nota que han estado en el país, y con especialidad las de los filipinos.
1917
#5966
Tests for colour-blindness.
Ishihara’s color tests. 15th ed., 1960.
1923
#2426
Beiträge zur Geschichte der Syphilis: insbesondere über ihren Ursprung und ihre Pathologie in Ostasien.
Gives, in an appendix, a list of writers on syphilis from 1495 to 1829. Digital facsimile from wellcomecollection.org at this link.
1923 –1929
#6488.1
History of Indian medicine. Containing notices, biographical, of the Ayurvedic physicians and their works on medicine, from the earliest ages to the present time. 3 vols.
Reprinted New Delhi, 1974.
1923
#12109
A treatise on influenza, with special reference to the pandemic of 1918.
Sen, company doctor on the Hurmutty Tea Estate in Assam, estimated that the pandemic killed about 15,000,000 people in India.
1924
#1306
The theory of decrementless conduction in narcotised region of nerve.
Kato made valuable investigations on nerve conduction. A second volume, Further studies, appeared in 1926.
1927
#7255
The lower molar hominid tooth from the Chou Kou Tien deposit.
In this report on a single hominid tooth found by Swedish archeologist Birger Bohlin at the Zhoukoudian site in 1927 Black named a new genus and species of hominid, Sinanthropus pekinensis. He characterized the specim…
1928
#9516
Das Arteriensystem der Japaner von Dr. Buntaro Adachi unter Mitwirkung von Dr. Kotondo Hasebe ... mit 539 Abbildungen im Text und auf vier farbigen Tafeln sowie mit etwa 700 Tabellen.
1929
#9247
On Chinese medicine: Drugs of Chinese pharmacies in Malaya.
1931
#6489
Report of the committee of enquiry into the indigenous system of medicine.
1932
#6493
History of Chinese medicine.
The writers spent 15 years in the compilation of this work, the first important contribution to the history of Chinese medicine for Western readers. Beginning with demonology, plant lore and folk medicine, the writers…
1934 –1935
#6490
Médecine traditionelle de l’Inde. Conférences faites à l’École de Médecine de Pondichéry … 3 vols.
1937
#6604.4
Occidental therapeutics in the Netherlands East Indies during three centuries of Netherlands settlement. 1600-1900.
An English summary of two earlier Dutch works by D. Schoute, 1929-1936.
1937
#13501
Médecine traditionnelle de l'Inde: La magie noire.
1946
#6510
Outline of Arabic contributions to medicine and the allied sciences.
1946 –1947
#6569.1
Istoriia meditsiny v Armenii s drevneishikh vremen do nashikh dnei. 5 vols.
Supplement, Illustratskii k istorii meditsiny v Armenii, Erevan, 1958. A version of this work was edited and translated as Histoire de la médicine en Arménie des origines au debut du XIX siècle (!962).
1949
#10
The Charaka Samhita. 6 vols.
Edited and published with translations in Hindi, Gujerati and English. The Charaka Samhita is the oldest known Hindu text on Ayurveda (life sciences). It was followed by the Sushruta Samhita. Except for some topics an…
1949
#6485.92
The Charaka Samhita. Edited and published with translations in Hindi, Gujerati and English 6 vols.
1953
#6604.39
A short history of medicine in the Philippines during the Spanish regime.1565-1898.
1953
#10682
Dentistry in ancient India.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1957
#4405.01
Atlas of arthroscopy.
The first atlas of arthroscopy, a major step in gaining wide acceptance of this operating technique. The color illustrations were prepared by an artist as available arthroscopes did not permit color photography. Watan…
1957
#11944
Introduction to the book of Asaph the Physician: The oldest existing text of a medical book written in Hebrew.
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.