c. 512 DIOSCORIDES, Pedanius [Πεδάνιος Διοσκουρίδης] (40 – 90); NICANDER OF COLOPHON (ΝΊΚΑΝΔΡΟΣ Ὁ ΚΟΛΟΦΏΝΙΟΣ; NIKANDER) (-125 – ); KRATEUAS, [Kratevas, Crateuas, Cratevas; Κρατεύας ὁ Ῥιζότομος] ( – 95)

Vienna Dioscorides. Codex Vindobonensis Med. Gr. 1.

The oldest surviving copy of Pedanius Dioscorides's treatise on medical botany and pharmacology, De materia medica, is an illuminated Byzantine manuscript produced about 512 CE. Dioscorides, a Greek physician, who may…

GMN 6816 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8979

c. 850 GALEN, [Κλαύδιος Γαληνός; Galen of Pergamon] (129 – 216); SERGIUS OF RESHAINA ( – 536)

The Syriac Galen palimpsest.

This ninth century palimpsest codex contains as its undertext a text of Galen's On Simple Drugs in the Syriac translation by Sergius of Reshaina. It has not yet been formally published. For further information see the…

GMN 6900 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9064

1469 PLINIUS SECUNDUS, Gaius [Pliny the Elder] (23 – 79)

Historia naturalis, libri XXXVII.

The most ancient Western encyclopedia extant, Pliny’s Historia contained essentially all that was known in his time concerning geography, mineralogy, anthropology, botany, zoology and meteorology. Books XX-XXXII deal …

GMN 89 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/51

1469 CICERO, Marcus Tullius (-106 – -43)

De officiis. Add: Paradoxa Stoicorum; Laelius, sive de amicitia; Cato maior, sive de senectute.

Of the 71 editions of Cicero's classical work on aging and death printed in the 15th century, Cato major de senectute, the Incunabula Short Title Catalogue cites 71, indicating the extreme popularity of Cicero's works…

GMN 9635 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11822

1473 LUCRETIUS CARUS, Titus (-99 – -55)

De rerum natura.

The work is a reasoned system of philosophy written in verse. Book V attempts an explanation of the origin of the universe and life, and the gradual advance of man from the savage state. All these topics are treated f…

GMN 88 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8783

1476 GALEN, [Κλαύδιος Γαληνός; Galen of Pergamon] (129 – 216); HIPPOCRATES, [Ἱπποκράτης; Hippocrates of Kos] (-460 – -370); HUNAYN IBN ISHAQ [أبو زيد حنين بن إسحاق العبادي‎; ’ABŪ ZAYD ḤUNAYN IBN ’ISḤĀQ AL-‘IBĀDĪ], (Latin: Iohannitius) (809 – 873); THEOPHILUS PROTOSPATHARIUS, (Θεόφιλος Πρωτοσπαθάριος) (650 – ); PHILARETOS, (Philaretus) (820 – 1075)

Articella seu opus artis medicinae. Con: Johannitius: Isagoge ad tegni Galeni. Philaretus: De pulsibus; Theophilus Protospatharius: De urinis. Hippocrates: Aphorismi (comm: Galenus; tr: Constantinus Africanus); Prognostica (comm: Galenus); De regimine acutorum morborum (comm: Galenus; tr: Gerardus Cremonensis). Galenus: Liber Tegni, sive Ars medica (comm: Hali; tr: Gerardus Cremonensis).

A collection of Greek, Roman and Byzantine texts on medicine, written in Latin, that was mainly used as medical school textbook or reference manual between the 13th and 16th centuries. The Articella grew around a synt…

GMN 52 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8771

1478 CELSUS, Aulus Aurelius Cornelius (-25 – 50); FONTE, Bartolomeo della (Bartholomaeus Fontius) (1446 – 1513)

De medicina. Ed: Bartholomaeus Fontius.

De Medicina is the oldest Western medical document after the Hippocratic writings. Written about 30 CE, it remains the greatest medical treatise from ancient Rome, and the first Western history of medicine. Celsus’s s…

GMN 20 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4660

1478 DIOSCORIDES, Pedanius [Πεδάνιος Διοσκουρίδης] (40 – 90); ABANO, Pietro d' [Petrus de Abano] (1257 – 1316)

De materia medica. Ed: Petrus de Abano. Comm: Petrus de Abano.

The first printed edition of Dioscorides, translator unidentified. A Greek physician from Anazarbus in Cilicia (now Turkey), Dioscorides traveled to the Greek mainland, to Crete, Egypt and Petra. He is believed to hav…

GMN 6934 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9099

1481 GALEN, [Κλαύδιος Γαληνός; Galen of Pergamon] (129 – 216); RHAZES [MUHAMMAD IBN ZAKARIYĀ AL-RĀZĪ (PERSIAN: محمد زکریای رازی‎ ] (854 – 925); HIPPOCRATES, [Ἱπποκράτης; Hippocrates of Kos] (-460 – -370); MESUE, Yuhanna ibn Masawaih (يوحنا بن ماسويه) (777 – 857)

Liber ad Almansorem sive Tractatus medicinae I-X. Add: Liber divisionum; De aegritudinibus juncturarum; De aegritudinibus puerorum; De secretis sive aphorismi; De sectionibus et ventosis; Synonyma. Galenus: De medicinis experimentatis. Mesue (the elder): Aphorismi. Hippocrates: secreta; Capsula eburnea; De humana natura; De aere et aqua et regionibus; De pharmaciis. Tabula de herbis medicis.

Rhazes was the first to devote an entire treatise to diseases of children. Although he lived so many years before the advent of printing, he was still regarded as an authority in the 15th century and his works were am…

GMN 6313 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8065

c. 1481 –c. 1482 APULEIUS PLATONICUS, (Pseudo-Apuleius) (350 – )

Herbarium Apulei.

The first printed herbal with illustrations was an illustrated edition of the Herbarium Apulei by Apuleius Platonicus or Pseudo-Apuleius, originally compiled circa 400 CE or earlier, and issued in Rome by the printer …

GMN 6811 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8974

1487 FRONTINUS, Sextus Julius (40 – 103); VEROLI, Giovanni Sulpizio da (Johannes Sulpitius Verulanus or Verolensis) (1450 – 1500); LETO, Giulio Pomponio (Julius Pomponius Laetus) (1428 – 1498)

Frontinus: De aquaeductibus. Edited by Pomponius Laetus and Johannes Sulpitius Verulanus.

De aquaeductibus, or De aquis urbis Romae was written about 100 CE by the Roman senator Frontinus. Its title is sometimes translated as The Aquaducts of Rome, and most recently by Rodgers as On the Water-Management of…

GMN 1589 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1672

1490 GALEN, [Κλαύδιος Γαληνός; Galen of Pergamon] (129 – 216); ABANO, Pietro d' [Petrus de Abano] (1257 – 1316); CONSTANTINE THE AFRICAN (CONSTANTINUS AFRICANUS) (1015 – 1087); BONARDI, Diomede (1450 – ); NICOLAUS DE REGIO, (Nicolaus Rheginiensis, Reginus) (1250 – ); TOLETANUS, Marcus (1150 – 1216); PISTORIENSIS, Accursius (1250 – ); GERARD OF CREMONA, (Gerardus Cremonensis) (1114 – 1187); WILLEM VAN MOERBEKE, (Gulielmus de Moerbecum; William of Moerbeke) (1215 – 1286); BURGUNDIO OF PISA (1110 – 1193)

Galeni Opera. Edited by Diomedes Bonardus. Translated from the Greek by Nicolaus de Regio, Marcus Toletanus, Petrus de Abano, Accursius Pistoriensis, Guilelmus de Moerbeka, Burgundio of Pisa, Gerardus Cremonensis and Constantinus Africanus. With poem to the author of Johannes Pyrrhus Pincius. 2 vols.

The first printed edition of Galen's writings pulled together texts from numerous translators. ISTC No. ig00037000. Digital facsimile from the Bayerische StaatsBibliothek at this link.

GMN 8438 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10615

1500 GALEN, [Κλαύδιος Γαληνός; Galen of Pergamon] (129 – 216); MAIMONIDES, (Moses ben Maimon; מֹשֶׁה בֶּן־מַימוֹן‎; Mōšeh bēn-Maymōn; موسى بن ميمون‎‎ Mūsā bin Maymūn) (1135 – 1204); AVENZOAR [IBN ZUHR (ARABIC: ابن زهر‎ ] (1092 – 1162); MESUE, Yuhanna ibn Masawaih (يوحنا بن ماسويه) (777 – 857)

Aphorismi secundum doctrinam Galeni. Add: Johannes Damascenus [Mesue?]: Aphorismi. Hippocrates: Secreta; Prognosticatio secundum lunam; Capsula eburnea; De humana natura; De aere et aqua et regionibus; De pharmaciis; De insomniis. Avenzohar: De curatione lapidis.

An edition of the Latin translation of Maimonides’ Aphorismi (first published, Venice, 1489), together with a compilation of the works of Mesue, Avenzoar, Galen, etc. Page for page reprint, Venice, 1508. See No. 6495.…

GMN 53 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8772

1500 GALEN, [Κλαύδιος Γαληνός; Galen of Pergamon] (129 – 216)

Methodus medendi [and Ad Glauconem.]

Klebs 433.1. These were the first genuine texts of Galen published in print in the original Greek.

GMN 11081 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13277

1509 PLINIUS SECUNDUS, Gaius [Pliny the Elder] (23 – 79); PSEUDO-PLINY ( – 350)

Medicinae Pliniae libri quinque finiunt foeliciter.

The Medicina Plinii was an anonymous compilation of remedies dating to the early 4th century CE ."The excerptor, saying that he speaks from experience, offers the work as a compact resource for travelers in dealing wi…

GMN 8445 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10622

1513 GALEN, [Κλαύδιος Γαληνός; Galen of Pergamon] (129 – 216); COPP, Wilhelm (1460 – 1532)

Galen: De affectorum locorum notitia libri vi.

First separate dated Latin translation of De locis affectis, made by Wilhelm Copp of Basel. In this work devoted to pathology, Galen made many valuable deductions on inflammation and on tumors. He was familiar with ch…

GMN 2269 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2834

1514 GALEN, [Κλαύδιος Γαληνός; Galen of Pergamon] (129 – 216); LEONICENO, Niccolò [Nicolaus Leonicenus] (1428 – 1524)

Galen: De differentiis morborum libri ii…

First Renaissance Latin translation by Niccolò Leoniceno of Vicenza of Galen's work on physical diagnosis.

GMN 2664 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3480

1517 GALEN, [Κλαύδιος Γαληνός; Galen of Pergamon] (129 – 216); LINACRE, Thomas (Lynaker) (1460 – 1524)

Galeni de sanitate tuenda libri sex.

First separate dated Latin translation of Galen's De sanitate tuenda (On the preservation of health), which contained his views on maintaining health and hygiene and preventing disease. Translated from the Greek by Th…

GMN 6944 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9109

1519 GALEN, [Κλαύδιος Γαληνός; Galen of Pergamon] (129 – 216); LINACRE, Thomas (Lynaker) (1460 – 1524)

Galeni methodus medendi, vel de morbis curandis.

The first separately published Latin translation from the Greek by Thomas Linacre. Galen's Method of medicine was a systematic and comprehensive account of the principles of treating injury and disease and one of Gale…

GMN 1959 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9108

1522 GALEN, [Κλαύδιος Γαληνός; Galen of Pergamon] (129 – 216); LINACRE, Thomas (Lynaker) (1460 – 1524)

De morborum symptomatis.

This volume of Galen’s selected works includes Thomas Linacre’s Latin translation of De symptomatum differentiis.

GMN 2665 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3486

1525 GALEN, [Κλαύδιος Γαληνός; Galen of Pergamon] (129 – 216); TORRESANO, Andrea (Torresani, Andrea Asolano) (1451 – 1528); OPIZO, Johannes Baptista (Giovanni Baptista Oppizoni) (1485 – 1532)

Librorum pars prima [-quinta] … 5 vols.

Greek editio princeps of Galen's complete works in Greek, edited by the Paduan professor G. B. Oppizzoni [Opizo] with the help of John Clement , Edward Wotton, William Rose (ca. 1490-1525), and Thomas Lupset, all Engi…

GMN 27 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4692

1525 GALEN, [Κλαύδιος Γαληνός; Galen of Pergamon] (129 – 216)

Peri ton idion biblion [Latin: De Libris propriis liber, On his own writings] and Peri tes taxeos ton idion biblion [Latin: De ordine librorum suorum liber, On the arrangement of his own writings]. IN: Galeni librorum pars prima-quinta, Part IV.

The extent of Claudius Galen's written work was so great that Galen himself felt the need to provide a bibliography organizing and explaining his own writings. He also felt the need to distinguish between works that h…

GMN 6815 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8978

1528 SCRIBONIUS LARGUS (1 – 50)

De compositionibus medicamentorum liber unus

Written in 47 CE, this is an important compilation of drugs and prescriptions. Among the 271 remedies are the first use of electrotherapy (for headaches) using the shock of the torpedo fish. and it records the drinkin…

GMN 1785 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8816

1528 VEGETIUS RENATUS, Publius Flavius (365 – )

Vegetii Renati Artis veterinariae, sive mulomedicinae libri quatuor, iam primum typis in lucem aediti.

The earliest surviving work on veterinary medicine, by a writer from Late Antiquity, presumably in the Western Roman Empire. Digital facsimile from BayerischeStaatsbibliothek at this link.

GMN 8427 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10604

1528 GALEN, [Κλαύδιος Γαληνός; Galen of Pergamon] (129 – 216); BENIVIENI, Antonio (1443 – 1502); GUINTER VON ANDERNACH, Johannes [Johannes Guinterius; Johannes Winter; Jean Guenther] (1505 – 1574); APULEIUS PLATONICUS, (Pseudo-Apuleius) (350 – ); POLYBUS ( – -375)

Claudii Galeni ... Liber de plenitudine. Polybus De salubri victus ratione privatorum. Guinterio Ioanne Andernaco interprete. Apuleius Platonicus De herbarum virtutibus. Antonii Benivenii Libellus de abditis nonnullis ac mirandis morboru & sanitationum causis.

First separate edition of Galen's Liber de plenitudine and Polybus's De salubri victus ratione privatorum, edited by Johan Guinter von Andernach. Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.

GMN 13148 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15407

1529 CAELIUS AURELIANUS (500 – ); SORANUS OF EPHESUS (ΣΩΡΑΝΌΣ) (100 – 150); ORIBASIUS (ὈΡΕΙΒΆΣΙΟΣ), [Oreibasius] (320 – 403); SICARD, Johannes [Sichardt;Sichardus] (1499 – 1552)

Caelii Aureliani Siccensis Tardarum passionum libri V. D. Oribasii Sardi Iuliani Caesaris archiatri Euporiston lib: III. Medicinae comperi: lib: 1. Curationum lib: 1. Trochiscoru confect: lib: 1.

From a clinical point of view, the two works of Caelius Aurelianus, which were translated into Latin from Greek originals by Soranus of Ephesus that were later lost, represent the high-point of Graeco-Roman medical ac…

GMN 1959.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6052

1529 GALEN, [Κλαύδιος Γαληνός; Galen of Pergamon] (129 – 216); BERENGARIO DA CARPI, Giacomo (1460 – 1530); LEONICENO, Niccolò [Nicolaus Leonicenus] (1428 – 1524); CHALKOKONDYLES, Demetrios (Δημήτριος Χαλκοκονδύλης) ) (1423 – 1511)

Galeni Pergameni libri anatomici, quorum indicem versa patina indicabit. Edited by Giacomo Berengario da Carpi.

First printed edition in Latin of Galen's De anatomicis administrationis, as translated from the Greek by Demetrios Chalkokondyles under the title De anatomicis aggressionibus. Other works in this collection edited by…

GMN 9349 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11531

1530 GALEN, [Κλαύδιος Γαληνός; Galen of Pergamon] (129 – 216); GUINTER VON ANDERNACH, Johannes [Johannes Guinterius; Johannes Winter; Jean Guenther] (1505 – 1574); ALCIATO, Andrea (1492 – 1550)

De compositione medicamentorum... lib VII per Ioannem Guinterium Andernacum imprimum latinitate donati. Eiusdem De ponderibus & mensuris liber, D. Andrea Alciato interprete.

First separate edition in Latin of Galen's De compositione medicamentorum, On the Composition of medicines, translated by Johann Winter of Andernach, to which was added Galen's treatise on weights and measures transla…

GMN 11083 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13279

1531 GALEN, [Κλαύδιος Γαληνός; Galen of Pergamon] (129 – 216); GUINTER VON ANDERNACH, Johannes [Johannes Guinterius; Johannes Winter; Jean Guenther] (1505 – 1574)

De anatomicis administrationibus libri novem.

First separate printed edition in Latin, translated by Johann Guinter von Andernach, of Galen's dissection manual, in which Galen both described his dissection techniques and described anatomical details that were pre…

GMN 359 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/310

1533 CAELIUS AURELIANUS (500 – ); GUINTER VON ANDERNACH, Johannes [Johannes Guinterius; Johannes Winter; Jean Guenther] (1505 – 1574); SORANUS OF EPHESUS (ΣΩΡΑΝΌΣ) (100 – 150)

Caelii Aureliani methodici Sicensis liber celerum vel acutarum passionum, qua licuit diligentia recognitus, atque nunc primum in lucem aeditus.

Caelius's / Soranus's Treatise on acute diseases, edited by Johannes Guinter von Andernach. From a clinical point of view, the two works of Caelius Aurelianus, which were translated into Latin from Greek originals by …

GMN 9366 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11549

1536 GALEN, [Κλαύδιος Γαληνός; Galen of Pergamon] (129 – 216); MARCELLUS EMPIRICUS, (Marcellus Burdigalensis) (375 – 425); CORNARIUS, Janus (1500 – 1558)

De medicamentis empiricis physicis ac rationalibus liber.... Edited by Janus Cornarius. Item Claudii Galeni libri novem nunc primum Latini facti.... Jani Cornarii.

The Gallo-Roman physician Marcellus was born in Bordeaux. He may have served as magister officiorum under Theodosius I, or may have been royal physician. Sarton (Introduction to the history of science I, 391) consider…

GMN 10961 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13157

1536 GALEN, [Κλαύδιος Γαληνός; Galen of Pergamon] (129 – 216); LAUACHIO, Nicolao

De palpitationes, tremore, rigore, convulsione. Intreprete Nicolao Lauachio, medico Florentino.

First separately published printed edition of Galen's writings on neuropathology. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

GMN 11748 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13948

1544 GUIDI, Guido [VIDIUS] (1508 – 1569)

Chirurgia e graeco in latinum conversa.

This elegantly printed and illustrated small folio included 210 text woodcuts, most probably after drawings by the school of Francesco Salviati (Francesco de'Rossi). It was issued from the press operated by Pierre Gau…

GMN 4406.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6142

1547

Medici antiqui omnes, qui latinis literis diversorum morborum genera et remedia persecuti sunt.

MEDICI ANTIQUI OMNES

Contains selections from the writings of Celsus, Plinius Secundus, Soranus, Apuleius, Barbarus, Musa, Priscianus, Trotula, Macer, Caelius Aurelianus, Marcellus Empiricus, Scribonius Largus, Serenus Samonicus, Strabus …

GMN 54 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8773

1552 RUFUS OF EPHESUS, (Ῥοῦφος ὁ Ἐφέσιος) (60 – 100); ARETAEUS OF CAPPADOCIA, (Ἀρεταῖος Καππάδοκος) (80 – 140); GOUPYL, Jacques (Goupil) (1525 – 1564); GRASSI, Giunio Paolo (Iunius Paulus Crassus) ( – 1575)

Libri septem, nunc primum e tenebris eruti a Junio Paulo Crasso Patavino accuratissime in Latinum sermonem versi. Ruffi Ephesii medici clarissimi, De corporis humani partium appelationibus libri tres.

Aretaeus, a Greek physician who lived during the reign of Nero or Vespasian, wrote a general treatise on diseases which displays great accuracy in the detail of symptoms, and is of great value in the diagnosis of dise…

GMN 6976 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9142

1554 RUFUS OF EPHESUS, (Ῥοῦφος ὁ Ἐφέσιος) (60 – 100); GOUPYL, Jacques (Goupil) (1525 – 1564)

De vesicae renumque morbis. De purgantibus medicamentis. De partibus corporis humani...

First printed edition in Greek, edited by Jacques Goupyl. Rufus was a Greek physician who lived during the rule of Trajan. He wrote wrote treatises on dietetics, pathology, anatomy, and patient care. His De partibus c…

GMN 23 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/41

1554 GALEN, [Κλαύδιος Γαληνός; Galen of Pergamon] (129 – 216); STEPHANUS OF ATHENS (550 – 630); GADALDINI, Agostino (1515 – 1592)

Stephani Atheniensis philosophi explanationes in Galeni priorem librum therapeuticum ad Glauconem, Augustino Gadaldino Mutiensi interprete.

Agostino Gadaldini’s Latin translation of Galen’s Ad Glauconem and of Stephanus’ commentary upon it, enhanced with his own scholia. The work was at the heart of the medical curriculum at Alexandria, and the sixth/seve…

GMN 12787 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15033

1564 ESTIENNE, Henri [Stephanus] (1531 – 1598)

Dictionarium medicum.

This valuable Greek-Latin dictionary for the ancient medical writers defined and fixed a large number of anatomical terms, and exercised considerable influence on modern anatomical terminology. It was an important aid…

GMN 6791 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8436

1567 ESTIENNE, Henri (Henricus Stephanus) (1528 – 1598)

Medicae artis principes post Hippocratum et Galenum. Graeci Latinitate donati. Aretaeus, Ruffus Ephesius, Oribasius, Paul Aegineta, Aetius, Alex. Trallianus, Actuarius, Nic. Myrepsus. Latini, Corn. Celsus, Scrib. Largus, Marcell. Empiricus. Aliique praterea, quorum unius nomen ignoratur. Index non solum copiosus, sed etiam ordine artificioso omnia digest habens. Hippocra. aliquot loci cum Corn. Celsi interpretatione. Henr. Stephani de hac sua editione tetrastichon. Quaerere quos aegri per compita multa solebant, Hospita nunc per me est omnibus una domus. Prima salutiserae medicorum gratia dextrae: Sistenti medicos nonne secunda mihi? 2 vols.

MEDICAE ARTIS PRINCIPES

This collection of Roman, Late Antique, and Byzantine medical works, written after Hippocrates and Galen, was edited and published by Henri Estienne. The unusually worded title page states that it contains Latin trans…

GMN 55 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8774

1569 MERCURIALE, Girolamo (1530 – 1606)

Artis gymnasticae apud antiquos celeberrimae, nostris temporibus ignoratae.

A history, based on extensive study of the classical literature, of the attitudes and practices of the Greeks and Romans concerning diet, hygiene, bathing, and exercise. This is one of the earliest books to discuss th…

GMN 1986.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3781

1598 CASTELLI, Bartolomeo ( – 1607)

Lexicon medicum Graeco-Latinum…ex Hippocrate et Galeno desumptum.

The earlier lexicon of Gorraeus formed the basis of this work, which was reprinted in several editions, the last in 1792.

GMN 6794 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8444

1756 CELSUS, Aulus Aurelius Cornelius (-25 – 50); GRIEVE, James ( – 1773)

A. Cornelius Celsus. Of Medicine. In eight books. Translated with notes critical and explanatory by James Grieve.

First English translation of Celsus De medicina. That it was translated into English for the first time in the mid-eighteenth century is a reflection of the use of Latin as the international language of medicine and s…

GMN 8927 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11105

1794 ASCLEPIADES OF BITHYNIA (ἈΣΚΛΗΠΙΆΔΗΣ) (-124 – -40); GUMPERT, Christian Gottlieb (1772 – 1832)

Aesclapiadis Bithyni fragmenta. Digessit et curavit Christianus Gottlieb Gumpert. Praefatus est Christian. Gothfridus Gruner.

After the fall of Corinth (146 BCE), Greek physicians migrated to Rome. There, before the advent of Asclepiades, Greek physicians were despised and distrusted. Asclepiades may be said to have established Greek medicin…

GMN 19 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4656

1821 –1833 GALEN, [Κλαύδιος Γαληνός; Galen of Pergamon] (129 – 216); KÜHN, Karl Gottlob (1754 – 1840)

Opera omnia. 20 vols., [in 22].

This Greek–Latin edition, edited by C. G. Kühn, is reprinted from much earlier editions, and leaves much to be desired with respect to scholarship. However, it remained the standard edition for about 100 years.

GMN 28 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4708

1824 GALEN, [Κλαύδιος Γαληνός; Galen of Pergamon] (129 – 216); KÜHN, Karl Gottlob (1754 – 1840)

De tumoribus praeter naturam. In his Opera omnia, ed. cur. C.G. Kühn. 7, 705-32.

Galen’s classification of tumors persisted for more than 1,000 years. He considered neoplasms to be due to an excess of black bile, which solidified in certain sites. He advocated purges to dissolve the black bile, an…

GMN 2606 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3053

1824 MARX, Karl Friedrich Heinrich (1796 – 1877)

Origines contagii.

History of contagious disease in the ancient world through readings from the texts. A supplementary “Additamenta” was published in 1826. Digital facsimile of the 1824 edition from the Internet Archive at this link.

GMN 2531 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3512

1824 GALEN, [Κλαύδιος Γαληνός; Galen of Pergamon] (129 – 216); KÜHN, Karl Gottlob (1754 – 1840)

De tremore, palpitatione, convulsione, et rigore. IN: Opera omnia ed. cur. C.G. Kühn, cur 7, 584-642.

Complete English translation by D. Sider and M. McVaugh in Trans. stud. Coll. Phys. Phila., 1979, 1, 183-210.

GMN 4511 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8893

1835 HYRTL, Josef (1810 – 1894)

Antiquitates anatomicae rariores, quibus origo, incrementa et status anatomes, apud antiquissimae memoriae gentes, historica fide illustrantur.

Anatomical terms used in antiquity, representing to a certain, extent a survey of the literature of ancient medicine available to Hyrtl. Digital facsimile from The Medical Heritage Library, Internet Archive, at this l…

GMN 439 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1095

1841 ASCLEPIADES OF BITHYNIA (ἈΣΚΛΗΠΙΆΔΗΣ) (-124 – -40); WELZ, Robert Anton Ritter von (1814 – 1878)

Des Asclepiades von Bithynien Gesundheitsvorschriften, nach den vorhandenen Handschriften zum ersten Male vollständig bearbeitet und erläutert. Von Robert Ritter von Welz.

The Greek physician Asclepiades acquired a great reputation in Rome. His remedies included change of diet, friction, bathing, and exercise. The above edition includes Greek, Latin, and German texts. Digital facsimile …

GMN 1984 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8811

1842 ANTYLLUS (ΑΝΤΥΛΛΟΣ) (150 – ); WOLZ, Friedrich Carl Franz

Antylli veteris chirurgi quae apud Oribasium libro xliv, xlv et L leguntur fragmenta. Dissertatio inauguralis chirurgico-historica....By Friedrich C. F. Wolz.

Antyllus, a Greek surgeon who lived in Rome during the second century CE. is particularly remembered for his work on the surgery of aneurysm. He was first to recognize two forms of aneurysm–one caused by dilatation an…

GMN 30 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4790