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166 entries published in Asia.

1959

#10676

Parasites and parasitic infections in early medicine and science.

1962

#6491.1

Ancient Indian Medicine.

Revised edition, Bombay, 1969.

1962

#11836

Development of psychological thought in India.

1963

#6485.94

An English translation of the Suśruta Samhita…2nd ed.

1965

#6491.2

A story of medicine and pharmacy in India. Pharmacy 2000 years ago and after.

A short history of the four systems of medicine practiced in India.

1965

#12569

Hedayat al-Motaallemin fi Tebb. Edited by Jalal Matini.

First printed edition of the earliest medical work written in the Persian language. Matini based his edition on the 11th century codex Bodleian Library Ms. 37, checking that against the other two known copies of the t…

1968

#7789

Carcinogenesis in atomic bomb survivors. Technical report 24-68. Atomic Bomb Casuality Commission.

Published 23 years after the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, allowing for carcinogenesis after the latency period. Digital facsimile available from the Radiation Effects Research Foundation at this link.

1968

#12913

A history of dentistry in the Philippines.

1969

#7046

Dawn of Western science in Japan. Rangaku Kotohajime by Genpaku Sugita translated by Ryōzō Matsumoto, supervised by Tomio Ogata.

1969

#13715

Index of manuscripts on medicine, pharmacy, and allied sciences in the Zahiriyah Library

1972

#13714

Temples of the muses and a history of pharmacy museums.

Prepared for the opening in June 1971 of the Naito Museum of Pharmaceutical Science and Industry in Japan, and emphasizing that museum and museums in the Middle East.

1973

#8524

Al-Biruni's book on pharmacy and materia medica (Kitāb al-saydan fī al-tibb). Edited and translated by Hakim Mohammed Said. 2 vols.

1973

#8687

Jewish physicians: A biographical index.

Over 9000 entries.

1975

#6510.3

History of Arab medicine.

1975 –1991

#8489

An annotated bibliography of Islamic science by Seyyed Hossein Nasr. 3 vols. Vols. 1 and 3 with the collaboration of William C. Chittick; Vol. 2 with the collaboration of William C. Chittick and Peter Zirnis.

A comprehensive historical bibliography in English on Islamic science, including medicine, documenting classic works and scholarship up to 1990, In English and Arabic. Vol. 1: General works and Biographical and biblio…

1979

#13788

The eradication of smallpox from India.

1980

#3705.2

Manners and customs of dentistry in Ukiyoe

Reproduces all the classic Japanese prints that concern the teeth or dentistry. By Nakahara, Yoshihisa Shindo, and Kuninori Homma.

1980

#12961

Caraka Samhita: A scientific synopsis.

1980

#12962

Suśruta Samhita: A scientific synopsis

1980

#13803

The eradication of smallpox from Bangladesh.

1981

#6958

The Manchu anatomy and its historical origin. With annotations and translations by John B. de C. M. Saunders and Francis R. Lee.

The Anatomie Manchoue, a series of graphic illustrations taken from Western anatomical works, with notes in the Manchu-Tungus language. This was compiled under the supervision of Father Parrenin, a French Jesuit worki…

1981

#13495

Catalog of the Sidney M Edelstein collection of the history of chemistry, dyeing & technology. Compiled by Moshe Ron.

1984

#8529

The book of medical experiences attributed to Abraham Ibn Ezra. Edited and translated by Joshua O. Leibowitz and Schlomo Marcus.

1985

#8498

Encyclopaedia of Indian medicine. Volume one: Historical perspective.

1986

#13359

Das Aqrābādīn al-Qalānisī. Quellenkritische und begriffsanalytische Untersuchungen zur Arabisch-Pharmazeutischen Literatur.

1986

#14070

Bibliography of publications in legal medicine & forensic sciences relating to Sri Lanka 1811 - 1984.

1987

#7358

Studies on Indian medical history, edited by G. Jan Meulenbeld and Dominik Wujastyk.

1987

#8270

Maimonides' commentary on the aphorisms of Hippocrates. Translated with a commentary by Fred Rosner

1987

#9734

A history of medicine in Sri Lanka--from the earliest times to 1948.

1987

#12107

Death and disease in Southeast Asia: Explorations in social, medical, and demographic history. Edited by Norman G. Owen.

1988

#8268

Moses Maimonides medical writings: Poisons, Hemorrhoids, and cohabitation, translated and annotated by Fred Rosner.

1988

#14054

Tibetan medical thangka of the four medical tantras. Translator and compiler of the original edition: Byams-pa 'Phrin-Las, Wang lei. English translator and annotator Cai Jingfeng.

1989

#8269

The medical aphorisms of Moses Maimonides translated and annotated by Fred Rosner, with a bibliography by Jacob I. Dienstag.

1990

#12585

"Heal the sick" was their motto: The Protestant medical missionaries in China.

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.

1996

#12640

Collected works of Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin. Vol. I: Insulin. Vol. 2: Cholestrol, penicillin and other antibiotics. Vol. 3: General crystallography and essays. Edited by G. G. Dodson, J. P. Glusker, S. Ramaseshan and K. Venkatesan.

1997

#9364

The illustrated Yellow Emperor's canon of medicine. Compiled and illustrated by Zhou Chuncai and Han Yazhou.

Text in Chinese and English. A very accessible illustrated popularization— almost in the style of a comic book— of the Yellow Emperor's classic.

1997

#11069

Science is not a quiet life: Unravelling the atomic mechanism of haemoglobin.

Reprints landmark papers with commentary by Perutz.

2000

#12133

Chemical biology. Selected papers of H. Gobind Khorana (with introductions).

Khorana edited this selection of his key papers and wrote the introductions to each paper.

2000

#12669

[Comprehensive bibliography of Syriac medicine] in A comprehensive bibliography on Syriac Christianity.

As of 2020 the most comprehensive bibliography on Syriac Medicine that I located online was part of the Comprehensive bibliography on Syriac Christianity in the website of The Center for the Study of Christianity Esta…

2001

#9451

Jamu: The ancient Indonesian art of herbal healing.

2001

#12890

Linus Pauling: Selected scientific papers. Vol. 1: Physical sciences. Vol. 2: Biomolecular sciences. Edited by Barclay Kamb, Linda Pauling Kamb, Peter Jeffress Pauling, Alexander Kamb, Linus Pauling, Jr.

2003

#10583

Origin of the life of a human being: Conception and the female according to ancient Indian medical and sexological literature.

2006

#9763

Plague, SARS, and the story of medicine in Hong Kong.

2006

#13890

Expunging variola: The control and eradication of smallpox in India 1947-1977.

2008

#9239

Osmanli tibbi bilimler literaturu tarihi [History of the literature of medical sciences during the Ottoman period]. Edited by E. Ihsanoglu. [Îlim tarihi kaynaklari ve arastirmalari serisi 14, Osmanli bilim tarihi literatürü serisi 7]. 4 vols.

Comprehensive and detailed catalogue of Turkish medical writings produced during the Ottoman period from the 14th to early 20th centuries. "The main body of the book lists the medical works in chronological order unde…

2010

#8275

A history of healthcare in Istanbul: Health organizations, epidemics, infections and disease control, preventive health institutions, hospitals, medical education.

2010

#12723

Medicine in the {Veda}: Religious healing in the {Veda} with translations and annotations of medical hymns from the {Rgveda and the Atharvaveda} and renderings from the corresponding ritual texts.

2010

#13789

The smallpox eradication saga: An insider's view.

2012

#8707

Wallace online, directed by John van Wyhe.

http://wallace-online.org/ "Wallace Online is the first complete edition of the writings of naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace, including the first compilation of his specimens. The project is directed by John van Wyhe,…