Belgium
65 entries published in Belgium. 14 publication places.
c. 1477 –c. 1483
#1959.3
Regimen sanitatis Salernitanum (With commentary by [Pseudo-Arnoldus de Villa Nova]). Add: Arnoldus de Villa Nova: Regimen sanitatis ad regem Aragonum.
Probably originating about 1160, the Regimen sanitatis from the medical school at Salerno (where medicine was first treated as a separate science) had greater popular influence than virtually any other medieval medica…
1486 –1487
#6316.1
Opusculum aegritudinum puerorum.
A work on disorders of pregnant women as well as on pediatrics. It describes 52 childhood diseases, providing the name, the causes, symptoms, prognosis and treatment of each, drawing on Greek authors, Arabs (especiall…
1554
#1812
Cruÿdeboeck.
Dodoens was the first Belgian botanist of international repute. Drawing on the illustrations of Fuchs, but preparing his own text, Dodoens improved on the alphabetical Fuchs organization scheme by grouping plants acco…
1555
#13125
Acerca de la materia medicinal, y de los venenos mortiferos, traduzido de lengua griege, en la vulgar castellana, & illustrado con claras y substantiales annotationes, y con las figuras de innumeras plantas exquisitas y raras, por el Doctor Andres de Laguna....
![DIOSCORIDES, Pedanius [Πεδάνιος Διοσκουρίδης] (40 – 90)](/media/portraits/2028)
Laguna' translation of Dioscorides into Spanish included commentaries and additions that double the original text. It included very beautiful botanical woodcuts of plants and animals, and is considered one of the best…
1561
#8987
De habitu et constitutione corporis, quam Greci χρασιν, triviales complexionem vocant, libri duo.
One of the earliest self-help medical guides, written by a pupil of Vesalius. Translated into English by Thomas Newton as The touchstone of complexions generallye appliable, expedient and profitable for all such, as b…
1564
#3710
De magnis Hippocratis lienibus, Pliniique stomacace, ac sceletyrbe, seu vulgo dicto scorbuto, libellus.
Jean de Joinville was probably the first, about 1250, to describe scurvy; Vasco da Gama noted its occurrence at sea, and Jacques Cartier mentioned it. Ronsse gave an early medical account describing how sailors cured …
1568
#9664
Deux livres des venins, ausquels il est amplement discouru des bestes venimeuses, thériaques, poisons & contre-poisons, par Jacques Grévin,... Ensemble les oeuvres de Nicandre,... traduictes en vers françois.
Grévin's work "marks the beginning of a new era in biotoxinological studies. With Grévin we see a crude attempt being made to compile systematically and evaluate the total knowledge of toxic organisms which had accrue…
1579
#2374
Deluis venereae curatione perfectissima liber.
French translation, Paris, 1879.
1582
#7565
Aliquot notae in Garciae aromatum historiam. Eiusdem descriptiones nonnullarum stirpium, & aliarum exoticarum rerum, que à generoso viro Franciso Drake quite Anglo, & his obseruatae sunt, qui eum in long illa nauigatione, qu proximis annis vniuersum orbem circumiuits ....
Botany of the circumnavigation of Sir Francis Drake. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1601
#13812
Rariorum plantarum historia.
Describing approximately 100 new species, the Rariorum plantarum historia gathers accounts from Clusius’s earlier botanical tours of Spain (Rariorum aliquot stirpium per Hispanias observatarum historia, 1576) and Aust…
1613
#13260
Opticorum libri sex philosophis juxta ac mathematicis utiles.
This work, beautifully printed by the Plantin-Moretus Press, includes an engraved title page and illustrations heading each chapter by Peter Paul Rubens. It contains one of the first studies of binocular vision. Digit…
1641
#12811
Pharmacopoeia Bruxellensis: Jussu amplissimi senatus edita.
The first Brussels pharmacopeia, modeled after the first Paris pharmacopeia. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1666
#10343
Ventilabrum medico-theologicum: Quo omnes casus, tum medicos, cum aegros, aliosque concernentes euentilantur, et quod SS.PP. conformius, scholasticis probabilius, & in conscientia tutius est, secernitur ...
An early work on Catholic medical morality. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1675
#12998
Theatrum fungorum oft het tooneel der Campernoelien. Waer inne vertoont wort de gedaente, ken-teeckens, natuere, crachten, voetsel, deught ende ondeught; mitsgaders het voorsichtigh schoonmaken ende bereyden van alderhande Fungien....
The first separate general work on fungi, describing edible and poisonous varieties. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1693
#388
Anatomia corporis humani, in qua omnia tam veterum, quam recentiorum anatomicarum inventa methodo nova & intellectu facillima describuntur, ac tabulis aenis repaesentantur.
This work was widely used for some years after publication, superseding Bartholin in popularity. Second edition, with supplement, 2 vols., Louvain, 1706-12.
1710
#1356
Lettres d’un médecin des hôpitaux du Roy… contient un nouveau système du cerveau, etc.
Theory of contralateral innervation.
1778
#6704
Dictionnaire historique de la médecine ancienne et moderne, ou mémoires disposés en ordre alphabétique pour servir à l’histoire de cette science, et à celle des médecins, anatomistes, botanistes, chirurgiens et chymistes de toutes nations. 4 vols.
The earliest exhaustive collection of medical biographies, and biographies of scientists working in related subjects. The first edition of this work appeared in 1755; the above edition is the most useful. Digital facs…
1779
#4285
Nouvelle méthode d'extraire la pierre de la vessie urinaire par-dessus le pubis, qu'on nomme vulgairement le haut-appareil dans l'un & l'autre sexe, sans le secours d'aucun fluide retenu ni forcé dans la vessie: suivie de l'analyse des expériences de l'Academie Royale de Chirurgie de Paris, sur l'extraction de la pierre de la vessie urinaire de l'homme, par-dessous le pubis.
Frère Côme devised several new instruments for use in suprapubic lithotomy. This operation, placed in retirement when Cheselden adopted the lateral approach, was once more brought to the fore by Frère Côme. Digital fa…
1832 –1854
#12745
Encyclographie des sciences médicales. Réimpression générale des ouvrages periodiques sur ces sciences, publies en France.
From 1845 to 1854 this enigmatically titled work was pubished under the title, Nouvelle encyclographie des sciences médicales. Rather than an encyclopedia, it was a series of reprints of books and periodicals to which…
1833 –1834
#203.8
Recherches sur les ossemens fossiles découvertes dans les cavernes de la province de Liège. 2 vols. and atlas.
A physician from Delft, Schmerling found extensive human remains and artifacts associated with the remains of extinct animals in the caverns around Liège. These human remains were distinctively different anatomically …
1837
#6530
Essai sur l’histoire de la médecine belge avant le XIXe siècle.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1840
#7137
Précis de l'histoire de l'anatomie, comprenant l'examen comparatif des ouvrages des principaux anatomistes anciens et modernes.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1841
#6531
Coup d’oeil sur les institutions médicales belges, depuis les derniéres années du dix-huitième siècle jusqu’a nos jours, suivie de la bibliographie de cette époque.
1841
#12685
Études sur André Vésale: Précédées d'une notice historique sur sa vie et ses écrits.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1844
#8534
Histoire des médecins juifs anciens et modernes. Tome premier (All Published.)
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1849
#3368.2
Mémoire sur l’emploi de la fourchette tonique ou du diapason, pour distinguer une dureté d’ouïe nerveuse de celle que est causée par une obstruction.
Schwabach’s hearing test (see No. 3389) was earlier employed by Schmalz.
1854
#5555
La chirurgie de maître Jean Yperman, le père de la chirurgie flamande (1295-1351). Mise au jour et annotée par J. M. F. Carolus.
Jan Yperman, became the first authority on surgery in the Low Countries during the 14th century. He was also the first medical writer in the Dutch language. He probably born in or near Ypres in Belgium, and may have s…
1858
#10218
Histoire du Collegium Medicum Antverpiense.
Text in French. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1859
#6631.9
Des hommes célèbres dans les sciences et les arts, et des médailles qui consacrent leur souvenir. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1870
#171
Anthropométrie, ou mesure des différentes facultés de l’homme.
In his classification of various populations, Quetelet adopted the plan of determining the standard or typical “mean man” as a basis, using stature, weight, or complexion, etc., as a measure in each particular race or…
1877 –1882
#9640
Bibliographie analytique des principaux phénomènes subjectifs de la vision, depuis les temps anciens jusqu'a la fin du XVIIIe siècle, suivie d'une bibliographie simple pour la partie écoulée du siècle actuel.
Première section: Persistance des impressions sur la rétine. Deuxième section: couleurs accidentelles ordinaires du succession. Troisième section: images qui succèdent à la contemplation d'objets brillants. Quatrième …
1889
#10291
Histoire naturelle des cétacés des mers d'Europe. Extrait des tomes XXXVIII, XL, XLV, XLIII des Mémoires couronnés et autres Mémoires publiés par l'Académie royale des sciences, des lettres et des beaux-arts de Belgique - 1889.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
1907
#4431.1
L’intervention opératoire dans les fractures.
Lambotte developed an external fracture fixation device using pins on either side of the fracture, connected by a solid rod.
1913
#6659
ISIS. 1-
Official publication of the History of Science Society. The latest issue may be viewed at www.ljournals.uchicago.edu/toc/isis/current.
1929
#7726
Artery flaps.
1938
#6776
Incunabula scientifica et medica. Short title list.
3,000 editions of 1,000 incunabula. Reprinted from Osiris, vol.IV. Reprinted, Hildesheim, 1963.
1944
#8470
Une maladie Égyptienne: l'hématurie parasitaire.
1947
#5
Le papyrus médical Chester Beatty, par le Dr. Frans Jonckheere.
A hieratic papyrus of the 13th-12th century BCE. It is a fragment of a monograph on diseases of the anus. The papyrus was reproduced with transcription by A. H. Gardiner in 1935. See No. 8318.
1954
#8469
Prescriptions médicales sur ostraca hiératiques.
1955
#9593
Noord- en Zuidnederlandse Stedelijke Pharmacopeeën.
1958
#10257
Les médecins de l'Égypte pharaonique, essai de prosopographie.
1974
#5019.15
A centennial bibliography of Huntington’s chorea, 1872-1972.
Over 2,000 references to original works. Chronological arrangement. Author, geographic and other indexes. With F. Baro and N. C. Myrianthopoulos.
1981
#6533.2
Histoire de la médecine belge.
1996 –1997
#10850
The ophthalmoscope - Der Augenspiegel. Textbook and atlas. 2 vols. Translated by Donald L. Blanchard.
1997
#12849
Histoire de l'orthodontie.
2001
#12953
The knowing of woman's kind in childing: A Middle English version of material derived from the "Trotula" and other sources. (Medieval women: Texts and contexts, 4). Edited by Alexandra Barratt.
The core of this text is an Englished version of a 13th-century Anglo-Norman translation of the Trotula. The redactor also incorporated the "Non omnes quidem" version of Muscio, amplifying the meager obstetrical mater…
2002
#13659
History of strabismology.
2004
#13635
Le livre médical dans le monde gréco-romain.
2004
#13657
The history of ophthalmology in Japan.
2007
#7296
Le cercle d'Abbeville: Paléontologie et préhistoire dans la France romantique. Edition établie par Marie-Françoise Aufrère.
In May 1940 the Boucher de Perthes Museum in Abbeville was destroyed by bombing. However, in the years before the war Leon Aufrère made copies of archives and correspondence, which became the source material for this …