1533 PEDERSEN, Christiern (1480 – 1554)
En nyttelig laegebog for fattige og rige, unge og gamle.
Pedersen, a Danish canon, humanist scholar, writer, printer and publisher, wrote and published the earliest medical book issued in Scandanavia by a Scandanavian writer. Translated as "A useful doctor book for poor and…
GMN 9863 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12051
1534 PEDERSEN, Christiern (1480 – 1554)
Om UrteVand.
Petersen issued a second book, "On herbal extracts" in 1534. According to Stokker, Remedies and rituals: Folk medicine in Norway and the new land (2007) p. 111, Pedersen's two works together contained "250 medical her…
GMN 9864 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12052
1546 SMID, Henrik (Smyth, Smith) (1495 – 1563)
Skøn lystig ny Urtegaard.
Smid was one of the first writers on medicine in Scandinavia who was trained in medicine, but according to Stokker, Remedies and rituals: folk medicine in Norway and the new land (2007) p. 111 "had trouble succeeding …
GMN 9865 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12053
1666 BARTHOLIN, Thomas (1616 – 1680)
De medicina Danorum domestica dissertationes x.
An early study of medicine in Denmark, including local botanic drugs and folk medicine. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 9638 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11825
1703 MARTIN, Martin ( – 1718)
A description of the Western Islands of Scotland.: Containing a full account of their situation, extent, soils, product, harbours, bays, tides, anchoring places, and fisheries. The ancient and modern government, religion and customs of the inhabitants, particularly of their druids, heathen temples, monasteries, churches, chappels, antiquities, monuments, forts, caves, and other curiosities of art and nature. Of their admirable and expeditious way of curing most diseases by simples of their own product. A particular account of the second sight, or faculty of forseeing things to come, by way of vision, so common among them. A brief hint of methods to improve trade in that country, both by sea and land. With a new map of the whole, describing the harbours, anchoring places, and dangerous rocks, for the benefit of sailers. To which is added a brief description of the Isles of Orkney, and Schetland.
Martin, who graduated MD from Leiden, included throughout his book detailed and non-judgmental documentation of folk medicine practices and ethnobotanic remedies then in use in the region. Digital facsimile of the 170…
GMN 8870 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11048
1774 RUSH, Benjamin (1745 – 1813)
An oration…containing an enquiry into the natural history of medicine among the Indians in North-America; and a comparative view of their diseases and remedies, with those of civilized nations.
Rush was the first American physician to publish a detailed study of native American medicine. Digital facsimile from the Medical Heritage Library, Internet Archive, at this link.
GMN 6451.90 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7588
1778 STRØM, Hans (1726 – 1797)
Kort Underviisning om De paa Landet, I Bergens Stift, meest grasserende Sygdomme, og derimod tienende Hjelpe-Midler. Paa Det Nyttige Sælskabs Bekostning.
Strøm's work, which may be translated as "A short instruction about common sicknesses in the area around Bergen and their most common remedies" was "More a report than a doctor book, it describes the living conditions…
GMN 9866 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12054
1794 BALMIS, Francisco Javier de (1793 – 1819)
Demostracion de las eficaces virtudes nuevamente descubiertas en las raices de dos plantas de Nueva-España, especies de ágave y de begónia, para la curacion del vicio venéreo y escrofuloso ...
Balmis conducted experimental trials on the effectiveness of two Mexican plants, agave and begonia, which were believed, according to folk medicine practices in Mexico, to cure syphilis and scrofula. The trials confir…
GMN 8004 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10180
1829 WAITZ, Friedrich Carl August (1798 – 1882)
Praktische waarnemingen over eenige Javaansche geneesmiddelen, welke niet alleen vele uitheemsche medicamenten, die thans nog van Europa naar Java moeten worden overgezonden, kunnen vervangen, maar dezelve ook tegen eenige ziekten op het eiland Java heerschende, in werkzaamheid overtreffen.
An early account of Jamu (old spelling Djamu), the traditional medicine of Indonesia, especially Java. "It is a predominantly herbal medicine made from natural materials, such as parts of plants such as roots, bark, f…
GMN 9450 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11633
1838 ANONYMOUS
Botica general de los remedios esperimentados. Que á beneficio del público se reimprime por su original en Cadiz, en Sonoma, de la alta California: Por M. G. V.
The first medical book printed in California, a small 23-page pamphlet of folk or popular medicine. It was printed by Agustín V. Zamorano, the first printer in Alta California under Mexican rule before the region beca…
GMN 10402 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12595
1870 CALLAWAY, Henry (1817 – 1890)
The religious system of the Amazulu. Izinyanga zokubula; or, divination, as existing among the Amazulu, in their own words, with a translation into English, and notes.
Callaway, a surgeon turned missionary and bishop of the Diocese of Natal, may have been the first to publish actual transcriptions of Zulu divination, including indigenous medical beliefs and practices, in their origi…
GMN 10567 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12760
1883 BLACK, William George (1857 – 1932)
Folk-medicine; a chapter in the history of culture.
Folk-Lore Society Publication No. 12. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 6452 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7592
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
1889 THISELTON-DYER, Thomas Firminger (1848 – 1923)
The folk-lore of plants.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 9276 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11458
1892 BOURKE, John Gregory (1846 – 1896)
The medicine-men of the Apache.
Bourke, a U.S. Army officer with experience on the American Indian frontier, was a pioneer student of native American medicine and anthropology. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 6452.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7595
1893 BARTELS, Maximillian Carl August (1843 – 1904)
Die Medicin der Naturvölker. Ethnologische Beiträge zur Urgeschichte der Medicin.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 6453 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7599
1898 DRAGENDORFF, Georg Johann Noel (1836 – 1898)
Die Heilpflanzen der verschiedenen Volker und Zeiten.
GMN 2039 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2202
1899 BERGEN, Fanny Dickerson (1846 – 1924)
Animal and plant lore collected from the oral tradition of English speaking folk. Edited and annotated by Fanny D. Bergen.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 9273 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11455
1908 HOEFLER, Max (Höfler) (1848 – 1914)
Die volkmedizinische Organotherapie und ihr Verhältnis zum Kultopfer.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 2044 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2225
1908 –1909 HOVORKA, Oscar von (1866 – 1930); KRONFELD, Adolf (1861 – 1909)
Vergleichende Volksmedizin. Eine Darstellung volksmedizinischer Sitten und Gebräuche, Anschauungen und Heilfaktoren, des Aberglaubens und der Zaubermedizin. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 6455 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8627
1909 BRYANT, Alfred T.
Zulu medicine and medicine-men.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 8797 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10975
1919 MOLONEY, Michael Francis (1891 – 1961)
Irish ethno-botany and the evolution of medicine in Ireland.
A discussion of Irish materia medica and a summary of the development of medicine in Ireland from the earliest times. Indices in Gaelic and English. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 8871 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11049
1920 SINGER, Charles Joseph (1876 – 1960)
Early English magic and medicine.
Reprinted from Proc. Brit. Acad., 1919-20, 9, 341-74.
GMN 6539 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8174
1923 MADDOX, John Lee (1878 – 1946)
The medicine man: A sociological study of the character and evolution of shamanism.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 6456 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7612
1925 JAYNE, Walter Addison (1853 – 1929)
The healing gods of ancient civilizations.
GMN 6458 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7614
1927 MCKENZIE, Dan (1870 – 1935)
The infancy of medicine. An enquiry into the influence of folk-lore upon the evolution of scientific medicine.
GMN 6459 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7618
1928 KANNER, Leo (1894 – 1981)
Folklore of the teeth.
GMN 10639 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12832
1931 GRIEVE, Sophia Emma Magdalene [Maud Grieve] (1858 – 1941)
A modern herbal. The medicinal, culinary, cosmetic and economic properties, cultivation and folk-lore of herbs, grasses, fungi, shrubs & trees with their modern scientific uses. With an introduction by the editor, Mrs. C. F. Leyel. 2 vols.
Online version at Botanical.com at this link.
GMN 7062 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9229
1932 STONE, Eric Percy (1892 – )
Medicine among the American Indians.
Reprinted, New York, Hafner, 1962.
GMN 6460 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7621
1932 QVIGSTAD, Just Knud (1853 – 1957); WIKLUND, Karl Bernhard (1868 – 1934)
Lappische Heilkunde.
Folk medicine of the Sami people.
GMN 6574 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8279
1935 CORLETT, William Thomas (1854 – 1948)
The medicine-man of the American Indian and his cultural background.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
GMN 6461 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7623
1935 KEMP, Phylis
Healing ritual: studies of the technique and tradition of the southern Slavs.
GMN 6462 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7626
1935 BRENDLE, Thomas Royce; UNGER, Claude W. (1882 – 1945)
Folk medicine of the Pennsylvania Germans: The non-occult cases.
GMN 8616 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10793
1936 CHAUVET, Stephen (1885 – 1950)
La médecine chez les peuples primitifs.
GMN 6463 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7629
1937 PARDAL, Ramón (1896 – 1955)
Medicina aborigen americana.
GMN 6464 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7631
1937 WECK, Wolfgang (1881 – )
Heilkunde und Volkstum auf Bali.
GMN 6465 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8606
1937 FIELD, Margaret Joyce
Religion and medicine of the Ga people.
GMN 10672 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12865
1939 MIGUELITO (1865 – 1936); REICHARD, Gladys Amanda (1893 – 1955); HUCKEL, John Frederick (1863 – 1936)
Navajo medicine man. Sandpaintings and legends of Miguelito from the John Frederick Huckel Collection
Navajo sandpaintings are traditionally made only for the healing ceremony in which they are used, and then destroyed. This book contains superb reproductions on sand-colored paper of watercolor versions of the sandpai…
GMN 6465.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7636
1939 TRACTENBERG, Joshua (1904 – 1959)
Jewish magic and superstition: A study in folk religion.
GMN 13305 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15571
1941 HARLEY, George Way (1894 – 1966)
Native African medicine: With special reference to Its practice in the Mano tribe of Liberia.
GMN 6466 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7639
1941 PAZZINI, Adalberto (1898 – 1975)
La medicina primitiva.
GMN 6467 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7640
1942 TANTAQUIDGEON, Gladys Lola (1899 – 2005)
A study of Delaware Indian medicine practice and folk beliefs.
In this publication Delaware refers to the name of the Native American people known as Lenape, or Leni Lenape, or Delaware people, rather than the U.S. state. In terms of geographical scope, the book covers traditiona…
GMN 9284 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11466
1946 ELLIS, E. S.
Ancient anodynes: Primitive anaesthesia and allied conditions.
GMN 8634 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10811
1946 PICKARD, Madge Evelyn; BULEY, Roscoe Carlyle (1893 – 1968)
The midwest pioneer: His ills, cures, & doctors.
The first general history of frontier or pioneer medicine in America, covering mainly the first half of the 19th century, and including many folk medicine treatments. First published privately in Crawfordsville, India…
GMN 8741 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10919
1951 –1961 SIGERIST, Henry Ernest (1891 – 1957)
A history of medicine. Vol. l - 2
1. Primitive and archaic medicine. 2. Early Greek, Hindu and Persian medicine.
GMN 6448 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8443
1952 SINGER, Charles Joseph (1876 – 1960); GRATTAN, John Henry Grafton (1878 – 1951)
Anglo-Saxon magic and medicine: Illustrated specially from the semi-pagan text "Lacnunga,"
GMN 6546 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8185
1952 BACHMAN, E. Lewis
Religious dances in the Christian church and in popular medicine. Translated from the Swedish by E. Classen.
GMN 10851 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13047
1956 GELFAND, Michael (1912 – 1985)
Medicine and magic of the Mashona.
GMN 8651 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10828
1958 BARBEAU, Charles Marius (1883 – 1969)
Medicine-men on the North Pacific Coast.
GMN 10853 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13049
1961 DEVEREUX, George (1908 – 1985)
Mohave ethnopsychiatry and suicide: The psychiatric knowledge and the psychic disturbances of an Indian tribe.
GMN 10855 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13051
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