1851 SIMPSON, Sir James Young (1811 – 1870)
Notices of ancient Roman medicine-stamps, &c., found in Great Britain.
Digital facsimile of the first part from PubMedCentral at this link, and of the second part at this link. Concluded with Simpson's "General observations on the Roman medicine-stamps found in Great Britain," Mon. J. Me…
GMN 11622 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13822
1854 –1856 GALEN, [Κλαύδιος Γαληνός; Galen of Pergamon] (129 – 216); DAREMBERG, Charles Victor (1817 – 1872)
Oeuvres anatomiques, physiologiques et médicales de Galien. Traduites sur les textes imprimés et manuscrits accompagnées de sommaires, de notes, de planches et d'une table des matières. Précédées d'une introduction ou étude biographique, littéraire et scientifique sur Galien par Charles Daremberg. 2 Volumes.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
GMN 14196 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16512
1856 ARETAEUS OF CAPPADOCIA, (Ἀρεταῖος Καππάδοκος) (80 – 140); ADAMS, Francis (1796 – 1861)
Тα ∑ωζομενα. The extant works of Aretaeus, the Cappadocian. Edited and translated by Francis Adams.
Aretaeus left many fine descriptions of disease; in fact Garrison ranks him second only to Hippocrates in this respect. In the printed editions of this bibliography, before the present online version, the Adams editio…
GMN 22 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8934
1875 ROSE, Valentin (1829 – 1916); MARTIALIS, Quintus Gargilius (250 – )
Plinii Secundi quae fertur una cum Gargilli Martialis medicina: Nunc primum edita a Valentino Rose.
Fragments of Martialis's work (probably called De hortis), which treated of the cultivation of trees and vegetables, and also of their medicinal properties, survived, chiefly in the body of and as an appendix to the M…
GMN 8443 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10620
1879 ROSE, Valentin (1829 – 1916); CASSIUS FELIX, [Cassius Felix of Cirta] ( – 475)
Cassius Felicis De medicina ex Graecis logicae sectae auctoribus liber translatus sub Artabure et Calepio consulibus (anno 447) nunc primu editus a Valentino Rose.
Editio princeps. Cassius Felix was a Roman African medical writer, probably native of Constantina (now Algeria). His De medicina is a simple handbook for practical use, drawing on Greek medical sources. Digital facsim…
GMN 9012 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11191
1881 UFFELMANN, Julius August Christian (1837 – 1894)
Die öffentliche Hygiene im alten Rom.
GMN 1647 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2142
1882 SORANUS OF EPHESUS (ΣΩΡΑΝΌΣ) (100 – 150); ROSE, Valentin (1829 – 1916)
Sorani gynaeciorum vetus translatio Latina. Nunc primum edita cum additis Graeci textus reliquiis a Dietzio repertis atque ad ipsum codicem Parisiensem nunc recognitis a Valentino Rose.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 12200 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14410
1885 CORLIEU, Auguste (1825 – 1907)
Les médecins grecs depuis la mort de Galien jusqu'a la chute de l'empire d'orient (210-1453).
Digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this link.
GMN 8416 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10593
1885 DUPOUY, Edmond (1838 – )
Médecine et moeurs de l'ancienne Rome d'après les poètes latins.
Translated into English as Medicine and morals of ancient Rome according to the Latin poets (Cincinnati: Cincinnati Lancet-clinic, 1901). Digital facsimile of the 1885 edition from Google Books at this link. Facsimile…
GMN 13835 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16125
1886 BELOCH, Karl Julius (1854 – 1929)
Die Bevölkerung der griechisch-römischen Welt.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 9111 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11290
1889 MARCELLUS EMPIRICUS, (Marcellus Burdigalensis) (375 – 425); HELMREICH, Georg (1849 – 1921)
Marcelli De medicamentis liber. Edited Georgius Helmreich.
Marcellus's compendium of pharmacological preparations drawing on the work of multiple medical and scientific writers as well as folk remedies and magic. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 8330 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10506
1902 BERENDES, Julius (1837 – 1914)
Des Pedanios Dioskurides aus Anazarbos Arzneimittellehre in fünf Büchern. Übersetzt und mit Erklärungen Versehen.
Analysis of Dioscordes from the pharmacological standpoint, including determination of his units of measurements, critical in dosage. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 8569 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10746
1904 GALEN, [Κλαύδιος Γαληνός; Galen of Pergamon] (129 – 216); HELMREICH, Georg (1849 – 1921)
Galeni De temperamentis libri III recensuit Georgius Helmreich.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
GMN 148 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8801
1905 –1908 DIELS, Hermann Alexander (1848 – 1922)
Die Handschriften der antiken Aerzte. I. Teil: Hippokrates und Galenos. II. Teil: Die übrigen grieschischen Ärzte aßer Hippokates und Galenos. Bericht über den Stand des interakademischen Corpus medicorum antiquorum und Erster Nachtrag zu den in den Abhandlungen 1905 und 1906 veröffentlichten Katalogen. . . .
A catalogue of surviving manuscripts of texts and translations of classical Greek physicians. Republished in book form, 1905-08. Available online from the Corpus Medicorum Graecorum at this link. Supplemented by: Gree…
GMN 6767 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8243
1906 GALEN, [Κλαύδιος Γαληνός; Galen of Pergamon] (129 – 216); SIMON, Max
Sieben Bücher Anatomie des Galen: ... zum ersten Male veröffentlicht nach den Handschriften einer arabischen Übersetzung des 9. Jahrh. n. Chr. / ins Deutsche Übertragen und Kommentiert von Max Simon. 2 vols.
First printed edition of the final six and one-half books (the second half of book 9, and books 10-15) of Galen's De anatomicis administrationibus, which were lost in the Greek original. In 1714 the Bodleian Library a…
GMN 360 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/313
1906 –1914 DIOSCORIDES, Pedanius [Πεδάνιος Διοσκουρίδης] (40 – 90); WELLMANN, Max (1863 – 1933); KRATEUAS, [Kratevas, Crateuas, Cratevas; Κρατεύας ὁ Ῥιζότομος] ( – 95)
De materia medica. Edidit Max Wellmann. 3 vols.
Dioscorides’ work is the authoritative source on the materia medica of antiquity. He described over 600 plants and plant principles. The above edition by Wellman is the definitive Greek text. It also contains the Frag…
GMN 1786 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1853
1907 –1909 GALEN, [Κλαύδιος Γαληνός; Galen of Pergamon] (129 – 216); HELMREICH, Georg (1849 – 1921)
De usu partium libri XVII ad codicum fidem recensuit Georgius Helmreich. 2 vols.
First separate edition, edited from the prior printed editions and the surviving early manuscripts, of Galen's treatise on the function, use and purpose of the individual parts of the body. In this treatise Galen expl…
GMN 570 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/336
1907 MILNE, John Stewart ( – 1913)
Surgical instruments in Greek and Roman times.
Reprinted, N.Y., 1970.
GMN 5806 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6910
1914 GALEN, [Κλαύδιος Γαληνός; Galen of Pergamon] (129 – 216)
[Opera omnia]. Corpus Medicorum Graecorum V ...
As of 1990 about twenty volumes containing perhaps a fifth of the Corpus were published. Although the principles of the edition varied somewhat over the 75 year course of the project, all volumes represent a decisive …
GMN 29 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/42
1914 GALEN, [Κλαύδιος Γαληνός; Galen of Pergamon] (129 – 216)
De sanitate tuenda ed. K. Koch. Corpus Medicorum Graecorum V, 4, 2, 1-198
English translation by R. M. Green, Springfield, Ill., 1951.
GMN 1985 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8824
1915
Corpus Medicorum Latinorum. Editum consilio et auctoritate Instituti Puschmanniani Lipsiensis.
CORPUS MEDICORUM LATINORUM
As of 1990 eight volumes were published (*). The completed series would include: I. Celsus*; II. Scribonius Largus, Quintus Serenus* etc.: III. Plinius Secundus Iunior*; IV. Antonius Musa, Pseudo-Apuleius, Sextus Plac…
GMN 86.6 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8781
1916 GALEN, [Κλαύδιος Γαληνός; Galen of Pergamon] (129 – 216); BROCK, Arthur John (1878 – 1947)
On the natural faculties. With an English translation by Arthur John Brock.
Greek-English edition in the Loeb Classical Library. This was one of the first, if not the actual first, modern English translations of Galen. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 569 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/340
1916 SERENUS SAMMONICUS, Quintus (Quintus Serenus) ( – 212); VOLLMER, Friedrich Karl (1867 – 1923)
Quinti Sereni Liber medicinalis. Edited by Friedrich Vollmer.
GMN 9009 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11188
1921 ALLBUTT, Sir Thomas Clifford (1836 – 1925)
Greek medicine in Rome.
FitzPatrick Lectures, 1909-10. Allbutt was Regius Professor of Physic at Cambridge and a great literary stylist. Underwood described him as the most learned and distinguished physician of the last hundred years.
GMN 6479 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7942
1925 GALEN, [Κλαύδιος Γαληνός; Galen of Pergamon] (129 – 216); HUNAYN IBN ISHAQ [أبو زيد حنين بن إسحاق العبادي; ’ABŪ ZAYD ḤUNAYN IBN ’ISḤĀQ AL-‘IBĀDĪ], (Latin: Iohannitius) (809 – 873); BERGSTRÄSSER, Gotthelf (1886 – 1933)
Hunain ibn Ishaq über die syrischen und arabischen Galen-Übersetzungen zum ersten mal Herausgegeben und Überzetzt von G. Bergsträsser.
Various writings of Galen survived through Arabic and Syriac translations rather than the original Greek. In the ninth century the Assyrian Christian physician and translator into Arabic and Syriac Hunain ibn Ishaq (A…
GMN 6831 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8995
1926 –1933 ORIBASIUS (ὈΡΕΙΒΆΣΙΟΣ), [Oreibasius] (320 – 403); RAEDER, Johannes (1869 – 1959)
Collectionum medicarum reliquae, libri 1-VIII, libri IX-XVI, libri XXIV-XXV, XLIII-XLVIII, libri XLIX-L, libri incerti ecologae medicamentorum. Synopsis ad Eustathium, Libri ad Eunapium. Edited by Johannes Raeder. 5 vols.
Contains selections from the writings of physicians, the originals of some of whose works no longer exist, and who would have been forgotten, but for the compilations of Oribasius. Writers included are Agathinus, Anty…
GMN 32 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8756
1927 –1948 SARTON, George Alfred Léon (1884 – 1956)
Introduction to the history of science. 3 vols. in 5.
An extensively annotated bibliographical survey to the end of the 14th century.
GMN 6419 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8412
1934 DIOSCORIDES, Pedanius [Πεδάνιος Διοσκουρίδης] (40 – 90); GOODYER, John (1592 – 1664); GUNTHER, Robert William Theodore (1869 – 1940)
The Greek herbal of Dioscorides, illustrated by a Byzantine, A.D. 512; Englished by John Goodyer, A.D. 1655; edited and first printed, A.D. 1933, by Robert T. Gunther ... with three hundred and ninety-six illustrations.
Goodyer's translation is considered more of a paraphrase than a translation.
GMN 8564 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10741
1935 –1938 CELSUS, Aulus Aurelius Cornelius (-25 – 50); SPENCER, Walter George (1858 – 1940)
De medicina. With an English translation by W.G. Spencer. 3 vols.
Loeb Classical Library. Text in Latin and English. This edition is based on the scholarly text of F. Marx published as Corpus Medicorum Latinorum I, Leipzig, 1915.
GMN 21 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4662
1937 GALEN, [Κλαύδιος Γαληνός; Galen of Pergamon] (129 – 216); DE BOER, Wilko
Galen: De propriorum animi cuiuslibet affectuum dignotione et curatione. De animi cuius libet peccatorum dignotione et curatione ed. W. De Boer. Corpus Medicorum Graecorum V, 4, 1, 1, pp. 1-68.
English translation by P.W. Harkins, Galen on the passions and errors of the soul. Columbus, Ohio, 1963.
GMN 4963.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6358
1944 GALEN, [Κλαύδιος Γαληνός; Galen of Pergamon] (129 – 216); WALZER, Richard R.
Galen on medical experience. First edition of the Arabic version with English translation and notes, by R. Walzer.
GMN 2189 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1379
1950 CAELIUS AURELIANUS (500 – ); DRABKIN, Israel Edward (1905 – 1965)
On acute diseases. On chronic diseases. Edited and translated by I.E. Drabkin.
The standard Latin texts and English translations. Regretably the medieval manuscripts on which the 16th century editions of Caelius Aurelianus were based did not survive. Nor have any other medieval codices of these …
GMN 12199 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14409
1950 SERENUS SAMMONICUS, Quintus (Quintus Serenus) ( – 212)
Liber medicinalis. Texte établi, traduit et commenté par R. Pépin.
Latin text with French translation.
GMN 12616 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14856
1951 GALEN, [Κλαύδιος Γαληνός; Galen of Pergamon] (129 – 216); SIGERIST, Henry Ernest (1891 – 1957); GREEN, Robert Montraville (1880 – 1955)
A translation of Galen's Hygiene (De santiate tuenda) by Robert Montraville Green, with an introduction by Henry E. Sigerist.
First translation into a modern language.
GMN 9093 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11272
1955 ASCLEPIADES OF BITHYNIA (ἈΣΚΛΗΠΙΆΔΗΣ) (-124 – -40); GUMPERT, Christian Gottlieb (1772 – 1832); GREEN, Robert Montraville (1880 – 1955); COCCHI, Antonio (1695 – 1757)
Asclepiades, his life and writings: A translation of Cocchi's life of Asclepiades and Gumpert's fragments of Asclepiades, by Robert Montraville Green.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
GMN 8329 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10505
1961 GALEN, [Κλαύδιος Γαληνός; Galen of Pergamon] (129 – 216); DURLING, Richard Jasper (1932 – 1999)
A chronological census of Renaissance editions and translations of Galen.
Digital facsimile from Jstor at this link.
GMN 8421 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10598
1964 GALEN, [Κλαύδιος Γαληνός; Galen of Pergamon] (129 – 216); KIEFFER, John Spangler (1904 – 1975)
Galen's Institutio logica. English translation, introduction and commentary by John Spangler Kieffer.
GMN 9437 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11620
1968 GALEN, [Κλαύδιος Γαληνός; Galen of Pergamon] (129 – 216); MAY, Margaret Tallmadge (1896 – 1990)
Galen on the usefulness of the parts of the body. De usu partium. Translated from the Greek with an introduction and commentary by Margaret Tallmadge May. 2 vols.
GMN 9097 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11276
1968 GALEN, [Κλαύδιος Γαληνός; Galen of Pergamon] (129 – 216); SIEGEL, Rudolf E. (1900 – 1975)
Galen's system of physiology and medicine. An analysis of his doctrines and observations on blood flow, respiration, humors and internal diseases.
GMN 9129 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11308
1969 SCARBOROUGH, John
Roman medicine.
GMN 9112 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11291
1970 GALEN, [Κλαύδιος Γαληνός; Galen of Pergamon] (129 – 216); SIEGEL, Rudolf E. (1900 – 1975)
Galen on sense perception: His doctrines, observations and experiments on vision, hearing, smell, touch and pain, and their historical sources.
GMN 9128 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11307
1972
Thesaurus Linguae Graecae: A digital library of Greek literature.
http://stephanus.tlg.uci.edu/tlg.php "The Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (TLG®) is a Special Research Program at the University of California, Irvine. Founded in 1972 the TLG® represents the first effort in the Humanities …
GMN 8442 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10619
1973 TEMKIN, Oswei (1902 – 2002)
Galenism: Rise and decline of a medical philosophy.
GMN 8126 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10302
1974 NIELSEN, Harald
Ancient ophthalmological agents: A pharmaco-historical study of the collyria and seals used during Roman antiquity, as well as of the most frequent components of the collyria.
GMN 8280 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10456
1974 HARIG, Georg (1935 – 1989)
Bestimmung der Instensität im medizinischen System Galens: Ein Beiträg zur theoretische Pharmakologie, Nosologie und Therapie in der Galenischen Medizin.
GMN 9008 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11187
1976 GALEN, [Κλαύδιος Γαληνός; Galen of Pergamon] (129 – 216); SIEGEL, Rudolf E. (1900 – 1975)
Galen on the affected parts. Translated by Rudolph E. Siegel.
GMN 8236 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10412
1977 GALEN, [Κλαύδιος Γαληνός; Galen of Pergamon] (129 – 216); EDLOW, Robert Blair (1946 – 1989)
Galen on language and ambiguity. An English transltion of Galen's De captionibus (On fallacies), with introduction, text and commentary by R. B. Edlow.
GMN 9124 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11303
1979 GALEN, [Κλαύδιος Γαληνός; Galen of Pergamon] (129 – 216); NUTTON, Vivian (1943 – )
Galen: On prognosis: Text, translation, commentary by Vivian Nutton. CMG V.8.1.
GMN 9126 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11305
1981 –1984 GALEN, [Κλαύδιος Γαληνός; Galen of Pergamon] (129 – 216); DE LACY, Phillip Howard (1913 – 2016)
Galen: On the doctrines of Hippocrates and Plato. Edition, translation and commentary by Phillip DeLacy. 3 vols.
GMN 9123 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11302
1983 KÜNZEL, Ernst (1939 – )
Medizinische Instrumente aus Sepulkralfunden der römischen Kaiserzeit.
GMN 6485.63 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7968
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