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
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
1893 ANONYMUS LONDINENSIS (75 – ); DIELS, Hermann Alexander (1848 – 1922)
Anonymi Londinensis ex Aristotelis iatricis Menoniis et aliis medicis eclogae editit Hermannus Diels.
Written about 100 CE, On Medicine (Ιατρικα) is partially preserved in a papyrus in the British Library (PBrLibr inv. 137 = P.Lit.Lond. 165). It is the most important surviving ancient Greek medical papyrus, a key sour…
GMN 25 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4675
1893 HEROPHILOS (ἩΡΌΦΙΛΟΣ; HEROPHILUS) (-290 – ); FINLAYSON, James (1840 – 1906); ERASISTRATOS, (Erasistratus; Ἐρασίστρατος) (-304 – -250)
Herophilus and Erasistratus: A bibliographical demonstration in the library in the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, 16th March 1893. Reprinted from the Glasgow Medical Journal for May, 1893.
GMN 8400 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10577
1894 –1902 HIPPOCRATES, [Ἱπποκράτης; Hippocrates of Kos] (-460 – -370); KÜHLEWEIN, Hugo (1847 – )
Hippocrates Opera. Recensuit H. Kuehlewein. 2 vols.
This Greek edition, originally planned to include the whole collection in seven volumes, was abandoned in 1907 with the founding of the Corpus Medicorum Graecorum series. Both editions employ manuscripts and methods u…
GMN 15 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/36
1896 ALCMAEON OF CROTON, (Ἀλκμαίων ὁ Κροτωνιάτης) (-510 – -450); WACHTLER, Johannes
De Alcmaeone Crotoniata scripsit Ioannes Wachtler.
Greek texts of the fragments and testimonia with commentary in Latin. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 8435 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10612
1897 WELLMANN, Max (1863 – 1933); KRATEUAS, [Kratevas, Crateuas, Cratevas; Κρατεύας ὁ Ῥιζότομος] ( – 95)
Krateuas. Von M. Wellmann.
Crateuas was the personal physician of Mithridates VI. Of Pontos. He wrote a three-part herbal book describing the medicinal properties of plants. This work, which was illustrated, is the earliest known herbal book to…
GMN 9015 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11194
1897 FASBENDER, Heinrich (1843 – 1914)
Entwickelungslehre, Geburtshülfe und Gynäkologie in der hippokratischen Schriften.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 12198 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14408
1901 DIOCLES OF CARYSTUS, (Διοκλῆς ὁ Καρύστιος) (-375 – -295); PHILISTION OF LOCRI, (Φιλιστίων) (-350 – ); WELLMANN, Max (1863 – 1933); ACRON, (Ἄκρων) (-450 – )
Die Fragmente der sikelischen Ärzte Akron, Philistion und des Diokles von Karystos. Herausgegeben von M. Wellmann.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 16.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/38
1901 MAGNUS, Hugo Friedrich (1842 – 1907)
Die Augenheilkunde der Alten.
A history of ancient ophthalmology in which the writer has attempted to reconstruct the anatomical concepts of the ancient Greeks. Translated into English by Richey L. Waugh as Ophthalmology of the ancients, Oostende:…
GMN 5997 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7122
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
1905 POHL, Rudolf
De graecorum medicis publicis.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link. See Vivian Nutton, "Archiatri and the medical profession in antiquity," Papers of the British School at Rome, 45 (1977), 191-226.
GMN 9514 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11699
1907 EMPEDOCLES (ἘΜΠΕΔΟΚΛΗ͂Σ) (-490 – -430); LEONARD, William Ellery (1876 – 1944)
The fragments of Empedocles. Translated into English verse by William Ellergy Leonard.
Empedocles was a Greek philosopher, statesman, physician and reformer. His poem on Nature originally ran to 5,000 lines, of which only 400 are now left. He believed in four ultimate elements—fire, air, water and earth…
GMN 87 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/50
1907 MILNE, John Stewart ( – 1913)
Surgical instruments in Greek and Roman times.
Reprinted, N.Y., 1970.
GMN 5806 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6910
1908
Corpus Medicorum Graecorum. Ediderunt Academiae Berolinensis Hauniensis Lipsiensis
CORPUS MEDICORUM GRAECORUM
This series sets as its goal the scholarly edition of all extant ancient Greek medical texts, including those lost in the original language but preserved in medieval translations. These are numbered as follows: I. Hip…
GMN 86.5 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8780
1909 SUDHOFF, Karl Friedrich Jakob (1853 – 1938)
Aerztliches aus griechischen Papyrus-Urkunden.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 6478 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7941
1909 JONES, William Henry Samuel (1876 – 1963); WITHINGTON, Edward Theodore (1860 – 1947)
Malaria and Greek history. To which is added the history of Greek therapeutics and the malaria theory by E.T. Withington.
The view is put forward by the writer that malarial infection was the cause of the decadence of the Greeks. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 5263 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8555
1914 HUNAYN IBN ISHAQ [أبو زيد حنين بن إسحاق العبادي; ’ABŪ ZAYD ḤUNAYN IBN ’ISḤĀQ AL-‘IBĀDĪ], (Latin: Iohannitius) (809 – 873); BERGSTRÄSSER, Gotthelf (1886 – 1933)
Pseudogaleni in Hippocratis de septimanis commentarium ab Hunaino q. f. Arabice versum, ex codice monacensi primum edidit et Germanice vertit.
GMN 12670 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14914
1916 THEOPHRASTUS OF ERESOS (ΘΕΌΦΡΑΣΤΟΣ) (371 – 287); HORT, Sir Arthur (1864 – 1935)
Theophrastus: Enquiry into plants and minor works on odours and weather signs. With an English translation by Sir Arthur Hort. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 9615 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11802
1922 COGLIEGINA, Benevenuto
Die homerische Medizin. Eine medizin-kulturhistorische Skizze.
Medicine in Homer.
GMN 9985 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12174
1923 –2012 JONES, William Henry Samuel (1876 – 1963); HIPPOCRATES, [Ἱπποκράτης; Hippocrates of Kos] (-460 – -370); WITHINGTON, Edward Theodore (1860 – 1947); POTTER, Paul M. J. (1944 – )
Hippocrates [Works] with an English translation by W.H.S. Jones, E.T. Withington, and Paul Potter. 12 vols.
Greek–English edition in the Loeb Classical Library.
GMN 16 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/37
1923 JONES, William Henry Samuel (1876 – 1963); HIPPOCRATES, [Ἱπποκράτης; Hippocrates of Kos] (-460 – -370)
On airs, waters, and places. IN: his [Works] with an English translation by W. H. S. Jones, 1, pp. 65-137
“The first book ever written on medical geography, climatology, and anthropology” (Garrison). The Latin translation of this text was first published in Rhazes’ Liber ad Almansorem, Milan, 1481. See No. 39.1. The stand…
GMN 1767 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3302
1923 JONES, William Henry Samuel (1876 – 1963); HIPPOCRATES, [Ἱπποκράτης; Hippocrates of Kos] (-460 – -370)
Epidemics 1, case 4. In: [Works] with an English translation by W.H. Jones.
The earliest known description of puerperal fever.
GMN 6267 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7975
1923 JONES, William Henry Samuel (1876 – 1963); HIPPOCRATES, [Ἱπποκράτης; Hippocrates of Kos] (-460 – -370)
Epidemics I and III. In: [Works] with an English translation by W.H.S. Jones.
Hippocrates introduced the inductive method of studying epidemics.
GMN 1672 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8603
1924 JONES, William Henry Samuel (1876 – 1963)
The doctor’s oath, an essay in the history of medicine.
The Hippocratic Oath forms the basis of medical ethics. It was probably an ancient temple oath of the Asclepiadae, and not a genuine Hippocratic document. In the above work the various manuscripts of the Oath are enum…
GMN 1758 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3171
1927 HIPPOCRATES, [Ἱπποκράτης; Hippocrates of Kos] (-460 – -370); WITHINGTON, Edward Theodore (1860 – 1947)
Fractures, joints, instruments of reduction. In [Works] with an English translation by E.T. Withington, 3, 83-449.
GMN 4406 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6162
1927 JONES, William Henry Samuel (1876 – 1963); HIPPOCRATES, [Ἱπποκράτης; Hippocrates of Kos] (-460 – -370); WITHINGTON, Edward Theodore (1860 – 1947)
Aphorisms, Section VII, number 34. In his Works. Ed. W. H. S. JONES and E. T. WITHINGTON
The first description of the association of proteinuria and chronic renal disease.
GMN 4203.9 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6208
1927 SORANUS OF EPHESUS (ΣΩΡΑΝΌΣ) (100 – 150); ILBERG, Johannes (1860 – 1930)
Sorani Gynaeciorum libri 4. De signis fracturarum. De fasciis. Vita Hippocratis secundum Soranum. Ed. Johannes Ilberg. Corpus medicorum Graecorum, 4.
Standard Greek edition of the works of Soranus. Digital facsimile from the Corpus Medicorum Graecorum at this link.
GMN 6009 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7182
1927 SUDHOFF, Karl Friedrich Jakob (1853 – 1938)
Kos und Knidos.
GMN 6482 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7945
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
1929 KÖRNER, Otto (1858 – 1935)
Die Ärƶtlichen Kenntnisse in Ilias und Odyssee.
Medical knowledge in the Iliad and Odyssey. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 9987 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12176
1930 HERACLIDES (ἩΡΑΚΛΕΊΔΗΣ) (-225 – -150); DEICHGRÄBER, Karl Marienus (1903 – 1984)
Die griechische Empirikerschule: Sammlung der Fragmente und Darstellung der Lehre von Karl Deichgräber.
The writings of Heraclides are frequently quoted by Galen, who regarded Heraclides as a reliable authority. Unfortunately, only a few fragments of Heraclides's works survived; his work is mainly known through quotatio…
GMN 18.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4653
1941 HEIDEL, William Arthur (1868 – 1941)
Hippocratic medicine. Its spirit and method.
GMN 6483 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7947
1945 EDELSTEIN, Emma J.; EDELSTEIN, Ludwig (1902 – 1965)
Asclepius: A collection and interpretation of the testimonies. 2 vols.
GMN 6476 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7939
1947 JONES, William Henry Samuel (1876 – 1963); ANONYMUS LONDINENSIS (75 – )
The medical writings of Anonymus Londinensis.
The text edited by Diels, with an English translation, introduction and notes by Jones, together with essays on the nature of Greek thought and medicine.
GMN 9080 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11259
1950 HIPPOCRATES, [Ἱπποκράτης; Hippocrates of Kos] (-460 – -370); CHADWICK, John (1920 – 1988); MANN, William Neville (1911 – 2001)
The medical works of Hippocrates. A new translation by J. Chadwick and W.N. Mann.
This collection of translations was partly reprinted with an introduction by G.E.R. Lloyd, and the addition of three new translations by I.M. Lonie as Hippocratic Writings, Harmondsworth: Penguin Classics, 1978.
GMN 16.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/926
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 ALIVIZATOS, G. P.
The early smallpox epidemics in Europe and the plague of Athens after Thucydides.
GMN 13804 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16091
1953 BOURGEY, Louis (1901 – 1979)
Observation et expérience chez les médecins de la Collection Hippocratique.
GMN 6484 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7949
1955 THOMSON, Margaret H.
Textes Grecs inédits relatifs aux plantes.
Previously unpublished ancient Greek textes on botany, with French translations.
GMN 8873 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11051
1956 COHN-HAFT, Louis (1920 – 2012)
The public physicians of ancient Greece. (Smith College Studies in History, Vol. XLII.)
Re-examination of the question of whether the public physicians employed by the Greek city-states derived their entire income from their salaried positions and thus provided free medical care or whether they received …
GMN 6485 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7952
1956 TEMKIN, Oswei (1902 – 2002); EDELSTEIN, Ludwig (1902 – 1965); SORANUS OF EPHESUS (ΣΩΡΑΝΌΣ) (100 – 150); GUTTMACHER, Allan Frank (1898 – 1974); EASTMAN, Nicholson Joseph (1895 – 1973)
Soranus' Gynecology. Translated by Owsei Temkin with the assistance of Nicolson J. Eastman, Ludwig Edelstein, and Alan F. Guttmacher.
GMN 9367 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11550
1958 PRAXAGORAS OF COS (ΠΡΑΞΑΓΌΡΑΣ Ὁ ΚΩ͂ΙΟΣ) (-340 – ); STECKERL, Fritz
The fragments of Praxagoras of Cos and his school. Collected, edited, and translated by Fritz Steckerl.
GMN 16.3 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4485
1959 BONNER, Campbell (1876 – 1974)
Studies in magical amulets, chiefly Graeco-Egyptian.
A study of Graeco-Roman popular medicine and superstition based upon the examination of hundreds of engraved gemsntones that were thought to contain magical and medicinal properties. Digital facsimile from the Hathi T…
GMN 10753 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12949
1963 SCHUMACHER, Joseph (1902 – 1966)
Antike Medizin. Die naturphilosophischen Grundlagen der Medizin in der griechischen Antike. 2nd ed.
GMN 6485.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7954
1967 KUDLIEN, Fridolf (1928 – 2008)
Der Beginn des medizinischen Denkens bei den Griechen von Homer bis Hippokrates.
GMN 6485.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7955
1967 HIPPOCRATES, [Ἱπποκράτης; Hippocrates of Kos] (-460 – -370); JOLY, Robert (1922 – 2011)
Hippocrate, Du régime. Texte établi et traduit par Robert Joly.
Edition of the Greek text with facing French translation and commentary of On regimen of the Hippocratic Collection. The treatise dates to the late 5th or early 4th century BCE.
GMN 10644 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12837
1968 MICHLER, Markwart (1923 – 2001)
Die Alexandrinischen Chururgen. Eine Sammlung und Auswertung ihrer Fragmente.
GMN 8406 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10583
1970 LAÍN ENTRALGO, Pedro (1908 – 2001)
La medicina Hipocrática.
GMN 6485.4 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7959
1970 HIPPOCRATES, [Ἱπποκράτης; Hippocrates of Kos] (-460 – -370); JOLY, Robert (1922 – 2011)
Hippocrate, Oeuvres complètes, Tome XI: De la génération. De la nature de l'enfant. Des maladies IV. Du foetus de huit mois. Texte établi et traduit par Robert Joly.
Greek text with facing French translation and commentary of a group of treatises from the Hippocratic Collection about generation or considered to be about it: On generation, and On the nature of the child, both dated…
GMN 10689 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12882
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