1478 CELSUS, Aulus Aurelius Cornelius (-25 – 50); FONTE, Bartolomeo della (Bartholomaeus Fontius) (1446 – 1513)

De medicina. Ed: Bartholomaeus Fontius.

De Medicina is the oldest Western medical document after the Hippocratic writings. Written about 30 CE, it remains the greatest medical treatise from ancient Rome, and the first Western history of medicine. Celsus’s s…

GMN 20 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4660

1506 CHAMPIER, Symphorien (1472 – 1539)

De medicine claris scriptoribus in quinque partitus tractatus. In his: Libelli duo

French physician and writer Symphorien Champier's biographical study of famous medical writers, De medicine claris scriptoribus in quinque partibus tractatus, issued as part of his Libelli duo, has been called the fir…

GMN 6376 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8345

1725 –1726 FREIND, John (1675 – 1728)

The history of physick; from the time of Galen to the beginning of the sixteenth century. 2 vols.

Freind was the first English historian of medicine, and his book is a classic study of the period with which it treats. Freind dabbled in politics and planned the above work while committed to the Tower of London on a…

GMN 6378 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8349

1729 LE CLERC, Daniel (1652 – 1728)

Histoire de la médecine.

The first large history of medicine; Le Clerc is sometimes called the “Father of the History of Medicine”. The first edition appeared in 1696, but later editions are more useful. English translation, 1699. Reprint of …

GMN 6379 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8352

1747 RONCALLI PAROLINO, Francesco (1692 – 1763)

Europae medicina a sapientibus illustrata.

"This work is an attempt to give, first, the story of medicine in each country by means of excerpts from the important writers; and secondly, the state of medicine in each country at the time of writing, gathered by c…

GMN 13830 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16120

1769 MIDDLETON, Peter ( – 1781)

A medical discourse, or an historical inquiry into the ancient and present state of medicine: The substance of which was delivered at opening the medical school, in the city of New York. Printed by Desire.

The first American publication on medical history. Digital facsimile from U.S. National Library of Medicine at this link.

GMN 6380 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8358

1792 –1803 SPRENGEL, Kurt Polykarp Joachim (1766 – 1833)

Versuch einer pragmatischen Geschichte der Arzneikunde. 5 vols.

A monumental work, full of information which was of great assistance to later historians. Includes a useful chronology. Third edition, 1821-28; fourth edition of vol. 1, 1846.

GMN 6382 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8360

1804 CABANIS, Pierre Jean Georges (1757 – 1808)

Coup d'oeil sur les révolutions et sur la réforme de la médecine.

Digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this link.

GMN 13621 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15901

1822 –1829 HECKER, Justus Friedrich Karl (1795 – 1850)

Geschichte der Heilkunde. 2 vols.

GMN 6383 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8361

1845 HAESER, Heinrich (1811 – 1884)

Lehrbuch der Geschichte der Medicin und der Volkskrankheiten.

As an historian, Haeser was eclipsed only by his fellow-countryman Sudhoff. A third edition, in three volumes, appeared in 1875-82 and was reprinted, Hildesheim, G.Olms, 1971.

GMN 6384 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8363

1850 –1866 PUCCINOTTI, Francesco (1794 – 1872)

Storia della medicina. 3 vols. in 4.

Vol. 2 was in 2 parts. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

GMN 6385 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8365

1859 WUNDERLICH, Carl Reinhold August (1815 – 1877)

Geschichte der Medicin.

GMN 6386 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8366

1870 DAREMBERG, Charles Victor (1817 – 1872)

Histoire des sciences médicales. 2 vols.

Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

GMN 6387 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8368

1872 LITTRÉ, Émile Maximilien Paul (1801 – 1881)

Médecine et médecins.

GMN 6388 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8369

1872 DUNGLISON, Robley (1798 – 1869); DUNGLISON, Richard James (1834 – 1901)

History of medicine from the earliest ages to the commencement of the nineteenth century

In 1824 Dunglison was recuited to join the Medical Faculty of the new University of Virginia. There he became Thomas Jefferson's personal physician for two years until Jefferson's death. Dunglison was hired to teach m…

GMN 11326 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13524

1873 BOUCHUT, Eugène (1818 – 1891)

Histoire de la médecine et des doctrines médicales. 2 vols.

GMN 6393 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8377

1874 MONTEIL, Amans-Alexis (1769 – 1850); LE PILEUR, Auguste (1810 – )

La médecine en France, hommes et doctrines depuis l'antiquité jusqu'à nos jours; avec introduction, notes et supplément par A[uguste] Le Pileur. Ouvrage publié sur la dernière édition de l'Histoire des français des divers états, couronnée deux fois par l'Académie française.

One of the pioneer histories of medicine in France. "He [Monteil] boasted of having been the first to write really 'national' history, and he wished further to show this in a memoir entitled L'Influence de l'histoire …

GMN 9592 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11779

1876 BAAS, Johann Hermann (1838 – 1909)

Grundriss der Geschichte der Medicin und des heilenden Standes.

Until superseded by Garrison, Baas’s book was the most important one-volume text on the history of medicine. For an expert evaluation of it, see Garrison’s History, 4th ed., p. 884. An English translation, by H.E. Han…

GMN 6389 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8370

1883 HOLMES, Oliver Wendell Sr. (1809 – 1894)

Medical essays: 1842-1882.

“The most important American book dealing with the history of medicine up to its day” (Garrison). Among the essays Holmes chose to include were his works on homeopathy, puerperal fever, and his address at the dedicati…

GMN 6390 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8372

1890 PETERSON, Jakob Julius (1840 – 1912)

Hauptmomente in der älteren Geschichte der medicinischen Klinik.

Reprinted Hildesheim, G. Olms, 1966.

GMN 6392 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8375

1894 WITHINGTON, Edward Theodore (1860 – 1947)

Medical history from the earliest times.

A classic brief history up to the early 19th century. Reprinted 1964.

GMN 6395 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8378

1898 PAGEL, Julius Leopold (1851 – 1912)

Geschichte der Medicin. 2 vols.

A collection of lectures. The bibliography of the revised edition of 1922, for which Sudhoff was responsible, is significantly improved over the first edition.

GMN 6396 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8380

1898 VIRCHOW, Rudolf Ludwig Karl (1821 – 1902)

Die neueren Fortschritte in der Wissenschaft und ihr Einfluss auf Medicin und Chirurgie.

English translation in Disease, life and man. Selected essays by Rudolf Virchow. Selected, translated, annotated, and introduced by L. J. Rather, Stanford, 1958.

GMN 6397 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8381

1902 –1905 PAGEL, Julius Leopold (1851 – 1912); NEUBURGER, Max (1868 – 1955); PUSCHMANN, Theodor (1844 – 1899)

Handbuch der Geschichte der Medizin. Begründet von Theodore Puschmann. Herausgegeben von Max Neuburger und Julius Pagel. 3 vols.

Puschmann died before the completion of this work, and it was then edited by Pagel and Neuburger. It ranks with the work of Haeser; many authorities collaborated in the writing of the histories of the various subjects…

GMN 6398 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8385

1905 ALLBUTT, Sir Thomas Clifford (1836 – 1925)

The historical relations of medicine and surgery to the end of the sixteenth century.

GMN 5803 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6903

1906 –1911 NEUBURGER, Max (1868 – 1955)

Geschichte der Medizin. Vol. 1-2, pt. 1.

An English translation was published in London, 2 vols., 1909-25.

GMN 6401 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8390

1908 PAGEL, Julius Leopold (1851 – 1912)

Zeittafeln zur Geschichte der Medizin.

GMN 6403 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8392

1909 FOSSEL, Viktor (1846 – 1913)

Studien zur Geschichte der Medizin.

GMN 6404 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8394

1909 CAMAC, Charles Nicoll Bancker (1868 – 1940)

Epoch-making contributions to medicine, surgery and the allied sciences. Being reprints of those communications which first conveyed epoch-making observations to the scientific world together with biographical sketches of the observers. Collected by C. N. B. Camac.

GMN 13826 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16115

1910 VIERORDT, Karl Hermann (1853 – 1943)

Medizinisches aus der Geschichte. 3te. Aufl.

GMN 6406 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8395

1913 GARRISON, Fielding Hudson (1870 – 1935)

An introduction to the history of medicine.

One of the best single-volume histories of medicine from the bibliographical point of view, mainly for 19th century and earlier material. A rather compressed work with much detail, this is really more of a reference w…

GMN 6408 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8397

1916 VIERORDT, Karl Hermann (1853 – 1943)

Medizin-geschichtliches Hilfsbuch mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Entdeckungsgeschichte und der Biographie.

GMN 6409 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8399

1917 –1921 SINGER, Charles Joseph (1876 – 1960)

Studies in the history and method of science. 2 vols. Edited by Charles Singer.

A collection of essays by several authorities, unusually well produced and illustrated for the time. Introduction to vol. 1 by Sir William Osler. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

GMN 6411 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8400

1921 SUDHOFF, Karl Friedrich Jakob (1853 – 1938); MEYER-STEINEG, Theodor (1873 – 1936)

Geschichte der Medizin im Überblick.

5th edition, 1965, under the title Illustrierte Geschichte der Medizin.

GMN 6413 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8402

1921 OSLER, Sir William (1849 – 1919)

The evolution of modern medicine. A series of lectures delivered at Yale University on the Silliman Foundation in April, 1913.

The final text of these lectures, which Osler characterized as "an aeroplane flight over the progress of medicine through the ages," remained unfinished at Osler’s death, and Osler requested in his will that this and …

GMN 6414 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8404

1923 THOMPSON, Charles John Samuel (1862 – 1943); POWER, Sir D’Arcy (1855 – 1941)

Chronologia medica: A handlist of persons, periods and events in the history of medicine.

An illustrated outline of people and events the authors considered significant in 1923. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

GMN 12756 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15002

1926 CUMSTON, Charles Greene (1868 – 1927)

An introduction to the history of medicine from the time of the Pharaohs to the end of the XVIIIth century … With an essay on the relation of history and philosophy to medicine by F.G. Crookshank.

GMN 6415 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8406

1926 NEUBURGER, Max (1868 – 1955)

Die Lehre von der heilkraft der Natur im Wandel der Zeiten.

The standard work on the history of the doctrine of “the healing power of Nature”. English translation, New York, 1932.

GMN 6417 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8408

1927 STICKER, Georg (1860 – 1960)

Die Entwickelung der ärztlichen Kunst in Deutschland.

GMN 6559 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8242

1927 CASTIGLIONI, Arturo (1874 – 1953)

Storia della medicina.

This work is similar in plan and scope to that of Garrison (No. 6408). Much attention is devoted to palaeopathology, with valuable accounts of the School of Salerno, and medieval and Renaissance Italian medicine. An E…

GMN 6418 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8410

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

1928 SINGER, Charles Joseph (1876 – 1960)

A short history of medicine.

A highly readable outline history. Second edition revised by E.A. Underwood (1962).

GMN 6421 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8413

1931 CAMAC, Charles Nicoll Bancker (1868 – 1940)

Imhotep to Harvey: Backgrounds of medical history. Forward by Henry Fairfield Osborn.

GMN 6423 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8416

1931 SIGERIST, Henry Ernest (1891 – 1957)

Einführing in die Medizin.

Traces the evolution of medicine from the stage of superstition and magic to the present time, and shows how our knowledge of the subject has developed through the study of anatomy and physiology. Translated in Englis…

GMN 6424 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8418

1934 GARCIA DEL REAL Y ÁLVAREZ DE MIJARES, Eduardo (1870 – 1947)

Historia contemporánea de la medicina.

GMN 6425 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8419

1935 –1937 FÜLÖP-MILLER, René (1891 – 1963)

Kulturgeschichte der Heilkunde.

GMN 6429 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8420

1936 –1949 LAIGNEL-LAVASTINE, Paul-Marie Maxime (1875 – 1953)

Histoire générale de la médecine, de la pharmacie, de l’art dentaire et de l’art véterinaire. 3 vols.

This splendidly produced work, beautifully illustrated, was written by experts in each branch of the subject, with Laignel-Lavastine as general editor.

GMN 6430 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8421

1936 LLOYD, Wyndham Edward Buckley

A hundred years of medicine.

New edition 1968.

GMN 6431 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8423

1936 MAJOR, Ralph Hermon (1884 – 1970)

Disease and destiny.

GMN 6432 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8425

1936 SHRYOCK, Richard Harrison (1893 – 1972)

The development of modern medicine, an interpretation of the social and scientific factors involved.

Shryock was one of the historians who founded and shaped the technique of writing the social history of medicine. This was his most influential work. Revised edition, 1947, translated into French, German and Japanese.

GMN 6433 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8427