1845 HECKER, Justus Friedrich Karl (1795 – 1850)
Kinderfahrten, eine historisch-pathologische Skizze.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 6517 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8086
1848 RHAZES [MUHAMMAD IBN ZAKARIYĀ AL-RĀZĪ (PERSIAN: محمد زکریای رازی ] (854 – 925); GREENHILL, William Alexander (1814 – 1894)
A treatise on the smallpox and measles. Translated from the Arabic by William Alexander Greenhill.
Rhazes differentiated measles from smallpox. Reprinted in Med. Classics, 1939, 4, 22-84. For original publication see No. 5404. The first English translation appeared in No. 5417. Digital facsimile from the Internet A…
GMN 5441 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7473
1852 –1859 DAREMBERG, Charles Victor (1817 – 1872); RENZI, Salvatore de (1801 – 1871); HENSCHEL, August Wilhelm Eduard Theodor (1790 – 1856)
Collectio Salernitana: Ossia documenti inediti, e trattati di medicina appartenenti alla scuola medica Salernitana, raccolti ed illustrati da G.E.T Henschel, C. Daremberg, E.S. deRenzi; premessa la storia della scuola e publicati a cura di Salvatore de Renzi. 5 vols.
The School of Medicine at Salerno dispelled the stagnation of medicine which had persisted throughout the early Middle Ages. Its masters were the first medieval physicians to cultivate medicine as an independent scien…
GMN 49 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/47
1852 –1860 ABŪ BAKR IBN BADR AL-DĪN AL-MUNDIR AL-BAYTĀR (1309 – 1340); PERRON, Nicolas (1798 – 1876)
Le Nâċérî. La perfection des deux arts ou traité complet d'hippologie et d'hippiatrie arabes. Traduit de l'arabe d'Abū Bakr Ibn Bedr par M. [Nicolas] Perron. 3 vols.
The author was Chief Veterinarian of the Sultan Mamluk of Egypt Nāṣir al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Qalāwūn. (reigned three times between 1293 and 1341). His work focuses on the treatment of horses and falcons. It is divided in…
GMN 10700 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12893
1854 ROGER OF SALERNO, (Rogerius Salernitanus, Frugard, Frugardi, Roggerio Frugardo, Rüdiger Frutgard, Roger of Parma) (1140 – 1195); DAREMBERG, Charles Victor (1817 – 1872)
Glossulae quatuor magistrorum super chirurgiam Rogerii et Rolandi nunc primum ad fidem codicis Mazarinei edidit
In Roger of Salerno's Practica chirurgiae, which appeared about 1180, end-to-end suture is described, as is the value of mercurial inunction in chronic skin diseases; in his recommendation of seaweed for the treatment…
GMN 5551 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6850
1854 YPERMAN, Jehan (Jan; Johan) (1260 – 1330)
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…
GMN 5555 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6882
1857 RENZI, Salvatore de (1801 – 1871)
Storia documentata della scuola medica di Salerno. 2nd. ed.
An account of the School was provided by P.O. Kristeller in Bull. Hist. Med., 1945, 17, 138-94. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 6518 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8088
1860 DJELAL ED-DIN, Abou Soleiman Daoud (1350 – ); PERRON, Nicolas (1798 – 1876)
La médecine du Prophète, traduit de l'arabe par M. le docteur Perron.
First appeared in Gaz. méd. d’Algerie, 1859, 4.
GMN 6504 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8633
1864 –1866 COCKAYNE, Thomas Oswald (1807 – 1873)
Leechdoms, wortcunning, and starcraft of early England. Being a collection of documents, for the most part never before printed, illustrating the history of science in this country before the Norman Conquest. Collected and edited by Oswald Cockayne. 3 vols.
This set contains many texts relating to medieval English medicine and the Anglo-Saxon language. It contains the Herbal of Apuleius in Anglo-Saxon and modern English, the Leechbook of Bald, the text of Sextus Placitus…
GMN 6534 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8141
1865 HIRSCH, August (1817 – 1894); HECKER, Justus Friedrich Karl (1795 – 1850)
Die grossen Volkskrankheiten des Mittelalters. Historischpathologische Untersuchungen. Von J. F. K. Hecker. Gesammelt und in erweiteter Bearbeitung hrsg. von A. Hirsch.
A collection of essays on the Black Death, the dancing mania, and the English sweat, published 1832-34 and later in a collective English edition, The epidemics of the Middle Ages, 2 pts., London, 1833-35; reprinted 18…
GMN 1678 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2353
1866 LANGKAVEL, Bernhard August (1825 – 1902)
Botanik der spaeteren Griechen vom dritten bis dreizehnten Jahrhuntert.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 8963 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11142
1867 ALBERTUS MAGNUS, [Albert von Bollstädt] (1195 – 1280); MEYER, Ernst Heinrich Friedrich (1791 – 1858); JESSEN, Karl Friedrich Wilhelm (1821 – 1889)
Alberti Magni ex ordine praedicatorum de vegetabilibus libri VII: Historiae naturalis pars XVIII. Editionem criticam ab Ernesto Meyero coeptam: Absolvit Carolus Jessen.
One of the best works on natural history produced during the Middle Ages, and, like most of Albertus's works, influential throughout the medieval period, though it does not appear to have been published in print until…
GMN 1792 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1880
1867 STEINSCHNEIDER, Moritz (1816 – 1907); DONNOLO, Shabbethai (913 – 982)
Donnolo, Fragment des ältesten medicinischen Werkes in hebräischer Sprache.... von M. Steinschneider.
Written about 970 CE, this is the earliest surviving medical treatise written in Hebrew to which an approximate date can be assigned. Donnolo, who was at one time Byzantine court physician, is one of the earliest Jewi…
GMN 9019 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11198
1868 HAESER, Heinrich (1811 – 1884); MIDDELDORPF, Albrecht Theodor (1824 – 1868); PFOLSPEUNDT, Heinrich von [Pfolsprundt] (1440 – )
Pfolspeundt: Buch der Bündth-Ertznei. Hrsg. von H. Haeser und A. Middeldorpf.
Although not printed until 1868, this treatise was written about 1460, and is the first work of the early German surgeons. Pfolspeundt was a Bavarian army surgeon; his book includes the first allusion to the extractio…
GMN 5558 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7429
1868 STEINSCHNEIDER, Moritz (1816 – 1907); CONSTANTINE THE AFRICAN (CONSTANTINUS AFRICANUS) (1015 – 1087); DONNOLO, Shabbethai (913 – 982)
Donnolo. Pharmakologische Fragmente aus dem zehnten Jahrhundert, nebst Beiträgen zur Literatur der Salternitaner hauptsächlich nach handschriftlichen hebräischen Quellen. (Sonderabdruck in 50 Expl. aus d, "Archiv f. patholog. Anatomie u.s.w. "herausg. von Rud. Virchow, Bd. 38-42). Als Beilagen: Constantinus Africanus und seine arabischen Quellen (aus demselben Archiv, Bd. 37)., Donnolo, Fragment des ältesten medicinischen Werkes in hebräischer Sprache, zum ersten Mal herausgegeben von M. Steinschneider.
GMN 9020 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11199
1868 WÜSTENFELD, Heinrich Ferdinand (1808 – 1899); AL-QAZWINI, Abu Yahya Zakariya ibn Muhammad (Zakarya Qazini) (1203 – 1283); ETHÉ, Carl Hermann (1844 – 1917)
Zakarīyā b. Muḥammad al-Qazwīnī's Kosmographie. Nach der Wüstenfeldschen Textausgabe, mit Benutzung und Beifügung der reichhaltigen Anmerkungen und Verbesserungen des Herrn Prof. Dr. Fleischer in Leipzig, aus dem Arabischen zum ersten Male vollständig übersetzt von Dr. Hermann Ethé. Die Wunder der Schöpfung. 1. Halbband
Digital facsimile from Bayerische StaatsBibliothek at this link.
GMN 10180 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12369
1876 LECLERC, Lucien (1816 – 1893)
Histoire de la médecine arabe. Exposé complet des traductions du grec. Les sciences en Orient, leur transmission à l’Occident par les traductions latines. 2 vols.
An exhaustive history, for its time, of Arabian medical translations from East to West and vice versa. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive, at this link.
GMN 6505 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8060
1877 WÜSTENFELD, Heinrich Ferdinand (1808 – 1899)
Die Uebersetzungen arabischer Werke in das Lateinische seit dem XI. Jahrhundert.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 6761.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8218
1877 ANTHIMUS, (Ἄνθιμος) (500 – 550); ROSE, Valentin (1829 – 1916)
De observatione ciborum epistula ad Theudericum Regem Francorum. Iterum edidit Valentinus Rose.
De observatione ciborum ("On the Observance of Foods") by Anthimus, a Byzantine physician at the court of the Ostrogoth king Theodoric, concerns foods and their preparations as well as the use of foods for selected ai…
GMN 7118 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9285
1877 CORLIEU, Auguste (1825 – 1907)
L'ancienne faculté de médecine de Paris.
Digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this link.
GMN 8417 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10594
1877 –1883 LECLERC, Lucien (1816 – 1893); IBN AL-BAYTĀR AL-MĀLAQĪ, Ḍiyāʾ Al-Dīn Abū Muḥammad ʿAbdllāh Ibn Aḥmad (Ibn al-Baytar) (1197 – 1248)
Traité des simples. 3 vols. Notices et extraits des manuscrits de la Bibliothèque nationale et autres bibliothèques, 1877, tome 23,1; tome 25,1; tome 26,1. Traduit par Lucien Leclerc.
Ibn al-Baytar systematically recorded the additions to pharmacy made by medieval Islamic physicians, who added between 300 and 400 types of medicines to the roughly one thousand known since antiquity. "Ibn al-Baitar’s…
GMN 8528 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10705
1883 FORT, George Franklin (1809 – 1872)
Medical economy during the Middle Ages; a contribution to the history of European morals, from the time of the Roman Empire to the close of the 14th century.
GMN 1648 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2146
1884 LECHNER, Karl
Die grosse Sterben in Deutschland in den Jahren 1348 bis 1351 und die folgenden Pestepidemien bis zum Schluss des 14. Jahrhunderts.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 9237 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11419
1884 IBN ABĪ USAYBI'AH, (Ibn Abi Usaibia) (1203 – 1270); MÜLLER, August (1848 – 1892)
Ibn Abi Useibia. Herausgegeben von August Müller.
Self-published. Arabic text with relatively brief commentary. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 13341 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15609
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
1888 LA HAYE, Olivier de
Poëme sur la grande peste de 1348. Publié d'après le manuscrit de la Bibliothèque du Palais Saint-Pierre par Georges Geigue.
The book indicates that 175 copies were printed "sur papier de Hollande." The editor describes himself as the archivist of the city of Lyon. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 13059 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15311
1889 MONDEVILLE, Henri de (1260 – 1316); PAGEL, Julius Leopold (1851 – 1912)
Die Anatomie des Heinrich von Mondeville. Nach einer Handschrift der Königlichen Bibliothek zu Berlin von Jahre 1304 zum ersten Male herausgegeben von J. Pagel.
Mondeville was the first teacher known to have lectured with the aid of illustrations, using 13 charts of human anatomy. He lectured at Montpellier. Digital facsimile from the Medical Heritage Library, Internet Archiv…
GMN 362 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/382
1890 KOTELMANN, Ludwig Wilhelm Johannes (1839 – 1908)
Gesundheitspflege im Mittelalter.
GMN 1650 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2151
1890 GUY DE CHAULIAC, (Guido de Cauliaco) (1298 – 1368); NICAISE, Édouard (1838 – 1896)
La grande chirurgie de Guy de Chauliac...composée en l'an 1363, revue et collationnée sur les manuscrits et imprimes Latins et Français, ornée de gravures avec des notes, une introduction sur le moyen age, sur la vie et les oeuvres de Guy de Chauliac, un glossaire et une table alphabétique by E. Nicaise.
The standard edition in French includes a very extensive bibliography of both manuscript and printed versions. English translation of sections on wounds and fractures, Chicago, 1923.
GMN 6999 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9165
1892 MONDEVILLE, Henri de (1260 – 1316); PAGEL, Julius Leopold (1851 – 1912)
Die Chirurgie des Heinrich de Mondeville. Hrsg. von Julius Leopold Pagel.
Henri de Mondeville was the teacher of Guy de Chauliac; he belonged to the School of Montpellier. His work was first printed as above; French translations by E. Nicaise, 1893, and A. Bos, 1897; the latter was reprinte…
GMN 5554 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6876
1893 STEINSCHNEIDER, Moritz (1816 – 1907)
Die hebräischen Uebersetzungen des Mittelalters. 2 vols.
Reprinted, 1956.
GMN 6765 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8239
1893 ABU MANSUR MUVAFFAK HARAWI (PERSIAN: ابو منصور موفق هروی) (970 – ); ACHUNDOW, Abdul-Chalig
Die pharmakologischen Grundsätze (Liber fundamentorum pharmacologiae) des Abu Mansur Muwaffak bin Ali Harawi zum estern Male nach dem Urtex übersetzt und mit Erklärungen versehen von Abdul-Chalig Achundow aus Baku. (aus Bd. 3 (1893) der Historischen Studien aus dem pharmakologischen Institute der Kaiserlichen Universität Dorpat). 2 vols.
First translation into a modern language.
GMN 8581 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10758
1894 LANFRANC OF MILAN, Guido [Lanfranchi, Lanfranco, Lanfrancus Mediolanensis] (1250 – 1306); FLEISCHHACKER, Robert von (1855 – 1937)
Lanfrank's "Science of Cirurgie." Edited from the Bodeian Ashmole MS. 1396 (ab. 1380 A.D.) and the British Museum Additional MS. 12, 056 (ab. 1420 A.D.) by Robert v. Fleischhacker.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 8939 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11117
1897 –1904 JORET, Charles (1839 – 1914)
Les plantes dans l'antiquité et au moyen âge. Histoire, usages et symbolisme. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.
GMN 11935 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14140
1898 TÖPLY, Robert Ritter von (1856 – 1947)
Studien zur Geschichte der Anatomie im Mittelalter.
GMN 447 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1113
1898 SALICETO, Guglielmo da [WILLIAM OF SALICETO] (1210 – 1277); PIFTEAU, Paul
Chirugie de Guillaume de Salicet achevée en 1275. Traduction et commentaire par Paul Pifteau.
Original edition limited to 200 copies. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 12617 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14857
1899 HENSLOW, George (1835 – 1925)
Medical works of the fourteenth century; together with a list of plants recorded in contemporary writings, with their identification.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 6519 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8090
1899 FERRARI DA GRADI, Giovanni Matteo [Ferrarius, Johannes Matthaeus, de Gradibus, de Grado] (1392 – 1472); FERRARI, Henri-Maxime (1873 – 1901)
Une chaire de médecine au XVe siècle. Un professeur à l'Université de Pavie de 1432 à 1472 avec un fac-simile d'autographe et cinq gravures
Biography, case records, and annotated list of Ferrari da Gradi's library. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 13420 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15692
1901 ALLBUTT, Sir Thomas Clifford (1836 – 1925)
Science and mediaeval thought.
GMN 6644 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7765
1901 GIACOSA, Piero (1853 – 1928); GABOTTO, Ferdinando Maria (1866 – 1918)
Magistri salernitani nondum editi. Catalogo ragionato della Esposizione di storia della medicina aperta in Torino nel 1898. By Piero Giacosa, with the assistance of Ferdinando Gabotto. 2 vols.
Reproduction of some of the texts produced at the School of Salerno. In all, it is believed that the total output from the School numbered 100 texts, including the famous poem Regimen Sanitatis Salernitanum, or Flos M…
GMN 50 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8770
1902 HIRSCHBERG, Julius (1843 – 1925); AVICENNA, [Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Al-Hasan ibn Ali ibn Sīnā] (980 – 1037); LIPPERT, Julius (1839 – 1909)
Die Augenheilkunde des Ibn Sina aus dem Arabischen Übersetzt und Erläutert.
Translation of Book III, Fan III of Avicenna's Canon pertaining to the eye and its diseases. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 8824 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11002
1903 VIEILLARD, Camille; GILLES DE CORBEIL, (Egidius de Corbolio; Egidius Corboliensis; Aegidius) (1140 – 1215)
L’urologie et les médecins urologues dans la médecine ancienne. Gilles de Corbeil: Sa vie- ses oeuvres- son poème des urines.
Reproduces rare documents and illustrations, with texts by Gilles de Corbeil and de Cuba. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 4296.5 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5414
1903 RHAZES [MUHAMMAD IBN ZAKARIYĀ AL-RĀZĪ (PERSIAN: محمد زکریای رازی ] (854 – 925); IBN AL'ABBAS AL MAJUSI, Ali (Haly Abbas) (930 – 994); AVICENNA, [Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Al-Hasan ibn Ali ibn Sīnā] (980 – 1037); KONING, Pieter de
Trois traités d'anatomie arabes par Muhammad ibn Zakariyya al-Razi, 'Ali ibn al-'Abbas, et 'Ali ibn Sina. Text inédit de deux traités. Traduction de P. de Koning.
Parallel Arabic and French texts. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 8363 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10539
1903 HIPPOCRATES, [Ἱπποκράτης; Hippocrates of Kos] (-460 – -370); POGNON, Henri (1853 – 1921)
Une version syriaque des aphorismes d'Hippocrate. Texte et traduction par H. Pognon. 2 vols.
Edition of Bibliothèque nationale de France, fonds arabe 6734, a Syriac manuscript copied on 10 October 1205 by a physician, probably a Jacobite or Melchite naned Behnam, but nothing in the codex indicates the author/…
GMN 12535 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14772
1903 GUIGUES, Pierre Paul Émile (1868 – 1930); IBN ILYAS AL-SHIRAZI, Najm al-Din Mahmud ( – 1330)
Le livre de l’art du traitement de Najm ad-Dyn Mahmoud: Texte, traduction, glossaires, précédés d’un essai sur la pharmacopée arabe par Pierre Paul Emile Guigues.
Arabic text, with a French translation, of parts 4-5 of “Al-Kitab al-hawi fi ‘ilm al-tadawi” by Najm al-Din Mahmud. Najm al-Din Mahmud ibn Ilyas al-Shirazi was a Persian physician from Shiraz. His major composition wa…
GMN 13138 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15396
1904 PAYNE, Joseph Frank (1840 – 1910)
English medicine in the Anglo-Saxon times.
FitzPatrick Lectures, 1903.
GMN 6535 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8142
1904 –1905 STEINSCHNEIDER, Moritz (1816 – 1907)
Die europäischen Übersetzungen aus dem Arabischen bis Mitte des 17. Jahrhunderts. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile from medadoc.bibliothek.uni-halle.de at this link.
GMN 8347 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10523
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 HIRSCHBERG, Julius (1843 – 1925); LIPPERT, Julius (1839 – 1909); MITTWOCH, Eugen (1876 – 1942)
Die arabischen Lehrbücher der Augenheilkunde. Ein Capitel zur arabischen Litteraturegeschichte. Unter Mitwirkung von J. Lippert und E. Mittwoch. Bearbeitet von J. Hirschberg.
Digital facsimile of the 1905 edition from the Internet Archive at this link. Translated into English as The Arabian Ophthalmologists, compiled from original texts by J. Hirschberg, J. Lippert and E. Mittwoch and tran…
GMN 12519 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14754
1906 WICKERSHEIMER, Charles Adolphe Ernest (1880 – 1965)
La médecine et les médecins en France à l’époque de la Renaissance.
Wickersheimer, librarian of University of Strasbourg, contributed several scholarly works on the history of medicine.
GMN 6554 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8230
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