1906 MAIMONIDES, (Moses ben Maimon; מֹשֶׁה בֶּן־מַימוֹן‎; Mōšeh bēn-Maymōn; موسى بن ميمون‎‎ Mūsā bin Maymūn) (1135 – 1204); KRONER, Hermann (1870 – 1930)

Shenei Ma'amarei ha-Mishgal. Ehad 'al 'Inyanei ha-Mishgal we-ehad 'al Ribbuy ha-Misgal. Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Medizin des XII. Jahrhunderts an der Hand zweier medizinischer Abhandlungen des Maimonides auf Grund von 6 unedierten Handschriften dargestellt und kritisch beleuchtet

GMN 13360 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15631

1907 SUDHOFF, Karl Friedrich Jakob (1853 – 1938)

Tradition und Naturbeobachtung in den Illustrationen medicinischer Handschriften und Frühdrucke vornehmlich des 15. Jahrhunderts.

GMN 451 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1153

1908 SUDHOFF, Karl Friedrich Jakob (1853 – 1938)

Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Anatomie im Mittelalter, speziell der anatomischen Graphik nach Handschriften des 9. bis 15. Jahrhunderts.

Studien zur Geschichte der Medizin, Leipzig, Heft 4. Reprinted Hildesheim, 1964.

GMN 452 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1155

1908 WEINDLER, Fritz

Geschichte der gynäkologische-anatomischen Abbildungen.

From the ancient world through the 18th century. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

GMN 6293 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8026

1909 CLAY, Rotha Mary

The mediaeval hospitals of England.

Reprinted London 1966.

GMN 6519.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8091

1911 WALSH, James Joseph (1865 – 1942)

Old time makers of medicine. The story of the students and teachers of the sciences related to medicine during the Middle Ages.

GMN 6520 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8093

1911 GILLIES, Hugh Cameron

Regimen sanitatis. The rule of health. A Gaelic medical manuscript of the early sixteenth century or perhaps older from the vade mecum of the famous Macbeaths physicians to the Lords of the Isles and the Kings of Scotland for several centuries.

Text reproduced in facsimile (15 leaves), transliteration and English translation. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

GMN 11114 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13310

1913 BUDGE, Sir Ernest Alfred Thompson Wallis (1857 – 1934)

Syrian anatomy, pathology and therapeutics or "The Book of Medicines". The Syriac text with an English translation, etc

Text and translation from a copy made for Budge of a 12th century codex---one of the most extensive early medical manuscripts in Syriac. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

GMN 38 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/44

1913 HUNAYN IBN ISHAQ [أبو زيد حنين بن إسحاق العبادي‎; ’ABŪ ZAYD ḤUNAYN IBN ’ISḤĀQ AL-‘IBĀDĪ], (Latin: Iohannitius) (809 – 873); BERGSTRÄSSER, Gotthelf (1886 – 1933)

Ḥunain ibn Isḥāḳ und seine Schule: Sprach- und literargeschichtliche Untersuchungen zu den arabischen Hippokrates- und Galen-Übersetzungen.

GMN 12624 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14864

1914 DELCOURT, Joseph (1873 – 1946)

Medicina de quadrupedibus: An early English version with introduction, translation, notes, and glossary.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

GMN 9438 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11621

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

1914 DUBREUIL-CHAMBARDEL, Louis

Les médecins dans l'ouest de la France au Xième et XIIème siècles.

Digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this link.

GMN 13746 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16030

1915 –1917 ASAPH THE PHYSICIAN (-400 – 300); VENETIANER, Ludwig (Venetianer Lajos) (1867 – 1922)

Asaf Judaeus, der aelteste medizinische Schriftsteller in hebaeischer Sprache

The Sefer Asaf, the earliest known Hebrew work on medicine, is "extant in 16 manuscripts, some complete; it constitutes a source of information on ancient customs and Jewish medical ethics as well as of ancient Jewish…

GMN 12818 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15064

1920 HARINGTON, Sir John (1560 – 1612); PACKARD, Francis Randolph (1870 – 1950); GARRISON, Fielding Hudson (1870 – 1935)

The school of Salernum. Regimen sanitatis Salernitanum, the English version by Sir John Harrington. History of the School of Salernum by Francis R. Packard and a note on the prehistory of the Regimen Sanitatis by Fielding H. Garrison.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

GMN 51 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/48

1920 WALSH, James Joseph (1865 – 1942)

Medieval medicine.

GMN 6521 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8095

1921 BROWNE, Edward Granville (1862 – 1926)

Arabian medicine. Being the Fitzpatrick lectures delivered at the Royal College of Physicians in November 1919 and November 1920.

Browne, an eminent authority on oriental languages, became professor of Arabic in the University of Cambridge. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

GMN 6507 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8064

1922 BRUNNER, Conrad (1859 – 1927)

Über Medizin und Krankenpflege im Mittelalter in Schweizerischen Landen.

GMN 6581 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8301

1922 DIEPGEN, Paul (1878 – 1966)

Die Theologie und der ärztliche Stand.

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

GMN 13884 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16174

1923 –1958 THORNDIKE, Lynn (1882 – 1965)

A history of magic and experimental science. 8 vols.

Vols. 1-2 deal with the first 13 centuries of the Christian era; vols. 3-4 with the 14th and 15th centuries, vols. 5-6 with the 16th century, and vols. 7-8 with the 17th century.

GMN 6422 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8415

1923 CAPPARONI, Pietro (1868 – 1947)

"Magistri Salernitani nondum cogniti": A contribution to the history of the Medical School of Salerno. By Pietro Capparoni. With a foreward by D'Arcy Power. (Wellcome Historical medical Museum. Research Studies in Medical History No. 2).

Physicans from the medical school at Salerno who were unknown to de Renzi (No. 6518). Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

GMN 8552 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10729

1924 FICHTNER, Horst (1893 – )

Die Medizin im Avesta.

The Avesta (Persian: اوستا) is the primary collection of religious texts of Zoroastrianism, composed in the otherwise unrecorded Avestan language.

GMN 6512 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8079

1926 CAMPBELL, Donald

Arabian medicine and its influence on the Middle Ages. 2 vols.

A survey of the Arabian medical writings of the Eastern and Western Caliphates. The first volume includes a survey early Arabic medical manuscripts then known, and a survey of the Arab medical writers of the Eastern a…

GMN 6509 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8069

1926 MONDINO DE LUZZI, [MUNDINUS] (1270 – 1326); WICKERSHEIMER, Charles Adolphe Ernest (1880 – 1965); GUIDO DA VIGEVANO, (Guido da Pavia) (1280 – 1349)

Anatomies de Mondino dei Luzzi et de Guido de Vigevano. Par Ernest Wickersheimer.

Facsimile of the 1478 edition of Mondino's Anothomia along with the text and 18 plates from Guido de Vigevano's (fl. 14th century) Anathomia. Vigevano's manuscript, completed in 1345, is MS. 569 in the Musée Condé at …

GMN 8362 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10538

1927 CORNER, George Washington (1889 – 1981)

Anatomical texts of the earlier Middle Ages: A study in the transmission of culture, with a revised Latin text of Anatomia Cophonis and translations of four texts.

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.

GMN 456 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1168

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

1927 IBN BAKHTYASHU, Abu Sa'id Ubaid Allah ( Bukhtishu, Bukhtyashu, and Bakhtshooa) (940 – 1058); SBATH, Paul (Būlus Sbāt) (1887 – 1945)

Ar-Raoudat at-tibbiyya (Le jardin médical) par Ubaîd-Allah Ben Gibraîl Ben Bakhtichoû, Chrétien décédé en 1058: Texte arabe, publié pour la première fois d’après trois manuscrits conservées dans la Bibliothèque des Manuscrits.

GMN 12674 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14918

1928 MEYERHOF, Max (1874 – 1945); HUNAYN IBN ISHAQ [أبو زيد حنين بن إسحاق العبادي‎; ’ABŪ ZAYD ḤUNAYN IBN ’ISḤĀQ AL-‘IBĀDĪ], (Latin: Iohannitius) (809 – 873)

The book of the ten treatises on the eye ascribed to Hunain Ibn Is-hâq. The earliest existing systematic text-book of ophthalmology. The Arabic text from the only two known manuscripts, with an English translation and glossary by Max Meyerhof.

The earliest extant systematic textbook of ophthalmology. The Arabs were the first to make a specialty of ophthalmology.

GMN 5814.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7003

1928 SIDDĪQĪ, Muhammad Zubair; IBN SAHL RABBAN AL-TABARI, Abu al-Hasan Ali (علی ابن سهل ربان طبری ‎‎) (838 – 870)

Firdausu'l-Hikmat or Paradise of wisdom. Edited by M. Z. Siddiqi.

Firdous al-Hikmah is one of the oldest encyclopedias of Islamic medicine, based on Syriac translations of Greek sources (Hippocrates, Galen Dioscorides, and others). It is divided into 7 sections and 30 parts, with 36…

GMN 8326 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10502

1928 AL QAZWĪNĪ, Hamdullāh al-Mustaufī (1280 – 1334)

The zoological section of the Nuzhatu-l-Qulūb of Hamdullāh Al-Mustaufī Al-Qazwīnī. Edited and translated by John Stephenson.

GMN 8532 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10709

1928 WITHINGTON, Edward Theodore (1860 – 1947); BACON, Roger (1219 – 1292); LITTLE, A. G. (1863 – 1945)

De retardatione accidentium senectutis cum aliis opusculis de rebus medicinalibus. Nunc primum ediderunt A. G. Little [and] E. Withington.

New edition edited from the 1590 printed edition in comparison with existing medieval manuscripts.

GMN 10950 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13146

1929 WOOD, Casey Albert (1856 – 1942); GRASSI, Benevenuto [Benevenutus Grassus] (1100 – )

Benevenutus Grassus of Jerusalem De oculis eorumque egritudinibus et curis: Translated with notes and illustrations from the first printed edition, Ferrara, 1474 A.D

GMN 9629 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11816

1929 FISCHER, Hermann (1884 – 1936)

Mittelalterliche Pflanzenkunde.

Reprint, with a forward by Johannes Steudel. Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlag, 2001.

GMN 11936 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14141

1930 AVICENNA, [Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Al-Hasan ibn Ali ibn Sīnā] (980 – 1037); GRÜNER, Oskar Cameron (1877 – 1972)

A treatise on the Canon of Medicine incorporating a translation of the First Book

This translation of Book I of the Canon accompanied by a large number of valuable notes and comments on the text, which bring out the close connection between Arabic and Chinese medicine, and the influence which Avice…

GMN 45 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8766

1930 –1932 RACHMATI, Gabdul Rasid

Zur Heilkinde der Uiguren. Edited by G. R. Rachmati. 2 vols.

Old Uygur medical fragments, some of which are now lost, in the Berlin Turfan collection. Rachmati was the pioneer historian of Islamic Central Asian medicine.

GMN 9240 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11422

1931 LARSEN, Henning (1889 – )

An old Icelandic medical miscellany. MS. Royal Irish Academy 23 D 43, with supplement from MS. Trinity College (Dublin) L.2.27. Edited by Henning Larsen.

GMN 6522 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8097

1932 –1937 MEYERHOF, Max (1874 – 1945); AL-GHAFIQI, Muhammad ibn Aslam ( – 1165); BAR HEBRAEUS, Gregory (1226 – 1286)

The abridged version of "The book of simple drugs" of Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Ghāfiqī by Gregorius abu l-Faraj (Bar Hebraeus). Edited from the only two known manuscripts with an English translation, commentary and indices by M. Meyerhof and G. P. Sobhy Bey. 2 pts.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

GMN 7163 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9330

1932 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)

Neue Materialen zu Hunain Ibn Ishâk’s Galen-Bibliographie. Abhandlungen für die Kunde des Morgenlandes 19.2.

GMN 12671 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14915

1933 MEYERHOF, Max (1874 – 1945); AL-GHAFIQI, Muhammad ibn Aslam ( – 1165)

(Al-morchid fi'l-kohhl) ou, Le guide d'oculistique: Ouvrage inédit de l'oculiste arabe-espagnol, Mohammad ibn Qassoum ibn Aslam al-Ghafiqi (XIIe siècle); traduction des parties ophtalmologiques d’après le manuscrit conservé à la bibliothèque de l’Escurial par Max Meyerhof.

GMN 5815.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7012

1934 RENAUD, Henri-Paul-Joseph (1881 – 1945); COLIN, Georges Séraphin (1893 – 1977)

Tuhfat al-ahbāb: Glossaire de la matière médicale Marocaine.

GMN 8533 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10710

1934 DAWSON, Warren Royal (1888 – 1968)

A leechbook or collection of medical receipts of the fifteenth century: The text of ms. no. 136 of the Medical Society of London, together with a transcript into modern spelling, transcribed and edited with an introduction, notes and appendix by Warren R. Dawson.

GMN 8876 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11054

1935 IBN-AL-NAFIS (ALA-AL-DIN ABU AL-HASSAN ALI IBN ABI-HAZM AL-QARSHI AL-DIMASHQI; علاء الدين أبو الحسن عليّ بن أبي حزم القرشي الدمشقي ) (1210 – 1288); MEYERHOF, Max (1874 – 1945)

Ibn an Nafis und seine Theorie des Lungenkreislaufs.

Ibn-al-Nafis, a Syrian physician, described the lesser circulation in his commentary on the anatomy of the Canon of Avicenna, 1268. This was discovered in three Arabic MSS by Mohyi el Din el Tatawi, who included a Ger…

GMN 753 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1873

1935 RIESMAN, David (1867 – 1940)

The story of medicine in the Middle Ages

GMN 6523 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8099

1936 WOOD, Casey Albert (1856 – 1942); IBN 'ISÃ AL-KAHHAL, Ali (Jesu Occulist) (980 – )

Memorandum book of a tenth-century oculist for the use of modern ophthalmologists. A translation of the Tadhkirat.

The Tadhkirat al-Kahhalin was one of the oldest and best of the medieval Arabic works on ophthalmology. It carefully described 130 diseases of the eye and became the standard work on the subject in the Middle East. Ge…

GMN 5815 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7009

1936 –1979 WICKERSHEIMER, Charles Adolphe Ernest (1880 – 1965); JACQUART, Danielle (1947 – )

Dictionnaire biographique des médecins en France au moyen age.By E. Wickersheimer. 2 vols. (1936). Supplement by Danielle Jacquart (1979).

GMN 6736 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7861

1936 JOHANNES DE MIRFELD ( – 1407); HARTLEY, Percival Horton-Smith (1867 – 1952); ALDRIDGE, Harold Richard

Johannes de Mirfeld of St. Bartholomew's Smithfield: His life and works, by Percival Horton-Smith Hartley and Harold Richard Aldridge.

Concerns the first writings of a medical nature known to be associated with an English hospital. Includes the original Latin text and English translation of Mirfeld's works including his Breviary, a scrapbook of extra…

GMN 8456 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10633

1936 CAPPARONI, Pietro (1868 – 1947); ALFANUS I, (Alfano I) ( – 1085)

Il "Tractatus de pulsibus," di Alfano Io arcivescovo di Salerno, sec. xi: Trascrizione del codice 1024 della biblioteca dell'Arsenale di Parigi (da carta 16 v. a carta 18 r). Annotazioni e commento con tavoli di riproduzione del testo [di] Pietro Capparoni.

Alfanus I or Alfano I, a physician before he became archbishop, was one of the earliest doctors of the Schola Medica Salernitana. He was Archbishop of Salerno from 1058 to his death. He was famed as a translator, writ…

GMN 8551 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10728

1936 RACHMATI, Gabdul Rasid

Türkische Turfan-Texte 7 [APAW 12] edited by G. R. Rachmati.

Medieval medical texts from Turfan (Turpan), Central Asia.

GMN 9241 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11423

1936 EGERT, Ferdinand Paul

Gynäkologische Fragmente aus dem frühen Mittelalter: nach einer Petersburger Handschrift aus dem VIII.-IX. Jahrhundert zum ersten Mal gedruckt.

GMN 11896 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14101

1937 MACKINNEY, Loren Cary (1891 – 1963)

Early medieval medicine with special reference to France and Chartres. The Hideyo Noguchi Lectures.

GMN 6524 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8100

1937 MEYERHOF, Max (1874 – 1945); IBN ALĪ AL MAUSILĪ, 'Ammār (996 – 1020)

The cataract operations of 'Ammar Ibn Alī Al-Mausilī by Max Meyerhof.

Mausilī invented a hollow metallic syringe, which he applied through the sclerotic, and successfully extracted cataracts through suction.

GMN 9441 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11624