1483 HIPPOCRATES, [Ἱπποκράτης; Hippocrates of Kos] (-460 – -370); GENTILI DA FOLIGNO, Gentile (Gentilis Fulginas; Gentilis de Flugineo) ( – 1348); ARGILAGNES, Franciscus (1450 – )

De divisione librorum Galeni IN: Articella seu Opus artis medicinae.

Considering the central importance of Galen's writings in medicine from the time he wrote well through the sixteenth and even the seventeenth century, and the need for physicians to make sense of such a large number o…

GMN 6813 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8976

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

1525 GALEN, [Κλαύδιος Γαληνός; Galen of Pergamon] (129 – 216); TORRESANO, Andrea (Torresani, Andrea Asolano) (1451 – 1528); OPIZO, Johannes Baptista (Giovanni Baptista Oppizoni) (1485 – 1532)

Librorum pars prima [-quinta] … 5 vols.

Greek editio princeps of Galen's complete works in Greek, edited by the Paduan professor G. B. Oppizzoni [Opizo] with the help of John Clement , Edward Wotton, William Rose (ca. 1490-1525), and Thomas Lupset, all Engi…

GMN 27 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4692

1525 GALEN, [Κλαύδιος Γαληνός; Galen of Pergamon] (129 – 216)

Peri ton idion biblion [Latin: De Libris propriis liber, On his own writings] and Peri tes taxeos ton idion biblion [Latin: De ordine librorum suorum liber, On the arrangement of his own writings]. IN: Galeni librorum pars prima-quinta, Part IV.

The extent of Claudius Galen's written work was so great that Galen himself felt the need to provide a bibliography organizing and explaining his own writings. He also felt the need to distinguish between works that h…

GMN 6815 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8978

1530 BRUNFELS, Otto (1488 – 1534)

Catalogus illustrium medicorum sive de primis medicinae scriptoribus.

The first separately published medical bibliography, containing 750 entries listing over 300 authors and their works in chronological order. Opens with an alphabetical index of authors, and ends with a subject index. …

GMN 6960 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9125

1545 –1555 GESNER, Conrad [Konrad Gessner] (1516 – 1565)

Bibliotheca universalis, sive catalogus omnium scriptorum locupletissimus, in tribus linguis. Latina, Graeca, and Hebraica. 3 vols. and appendix.

This was one of the first attempts at a universal bibliography. Unfortunately the section on medicine (liber xxi) was never published. William Osler used the Bibliotheca universalis as one of the models for his own Bi…

GMN 6743 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8124

1555 GESNER, Conrad [Konrad Gessner] (1516 – 1565)

De chirurgia scriptores optimi quique veteres et recentiores, plerique in Germania antehac non editi.

A collection made by Gesner of various surgical works by ancient and recent authors including M. A. Blondus, A. Bolognini, G. Dondi, A. Ferri, Galen, C. Gesner, J.Langius, B. Maggi, Marianus Sanctus, Oribasius, and J.…

GMN 5562 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6929

1562 GALEN, [Κλαύδιος Γαληνός; Galen of Pergamon] (129 – 216); GESNER, Conrad [Konrad Gessner] (1516 – 1565)

Prologomena in Galenum, in tres partes divisa IN: volume one of Cl [audius]Galen Pergameni [Opera] Omnia quae extant, in Latinum sermonem convers.

Prologomena in Galenum, in tres partes divisa written by physician, naturalist, and bibliographer, Conrad Gessner (Gesner), and issued in volume one of Cl [audius] Galeni Pergameni [Opera] Omnia, quae extant, in Latin…

GMN 6814 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8977

1590 LECOQ, Pascal [PASCHALIS GALLUS] (1567 – 1632)

Bibliotheca medica. Sive catalogus illorum, qui ex professo artem medicam in hunc usque annum scriptis illustrarunt.

The first systematic medical bibliography. Includes an annotated list of 1,224 authors writing in Latin, lists of French, German, and Italian writers, and other material. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

GMN 6743.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8127

1591 SPACH, Israel (1560 – 1610)

Nomenclator scriptorum medicorum. Hoc est: elenchus eorum qui artem medicam suis scriptis illustrarunt, secundum locos communes ipsius medicinae.

The first medical subject bibliography, arranged under very broad subject headings with indexes of authors and subjects. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

GMN 6743.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8130

1606 GUINTER VON ANDERNACH, Johannes [Johannes Guinterius; Johannes Winter; Jean Guenther] (1505 – 1574); SCHENCK VON GRAFENBERG, Johann Georg (1560 – 1620)

Gynaeciorum commentarius, de gravidarum parturientium, puerperarum & infantium, cura… Accessit elenchus auctorum in re medica cluentium, qui gynaecia scriptis clararunt & illustrarunt. Opera e studio Joan. Georgii Schenkii …

Schenck compiled the first bibliography of gynecology, entitled Pinax auctorum in re medica, Graecorum, Latinorum priscorum, Arabum Latinobarbarorum, Latinorum recentiorum, tum & peregrinis liniguis cluentium, Exstant…

GMN 6013.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7201

1637 LINDEN, Johannes Antonides van der (1609 – 1664)

De scriptis medicis, libri duo.

Van der Linden’s book was at the time of its appearance the most complete medical bibliography yet produced. He issued corrected editions in 1651 and 1662, and G.A. Mercklin published a considerably expanded version a…

GMN 6744 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8134

1654 BOREL, Pierre [BORELLUS.] (1620 – 1689)

Bibliotheca chimica. Seu catalogus liborum philosophicorum hermeticorum. In quo quatuor millia ciciter, authorem chimicorum vel de transmutatione metallorum, re minerali & arcanis, tam manuscriptorum, quam in lucem editorum, cum eorum editionibus, usque ad annum 1653 continentur.

The first independent bibliography of chemistry and alchemy, citing 4000 books and manuscripts, including authors or titles now lost or obtainable today only with great difficulty. Digital facsimile from Google Books …

GMN 12810 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15056

1679 LIPEN, Martin (1630 – 1692)

Bibliotheca realis medica, omnium materiarum, rerum, et titulorum, in universa medicina occurrentium.

The first large, well-printed bibliography of medicine, including twice as many authors as van der Linden (No. 6744). It represented an elaborate subject anaylsis, with entries arranged alphabetically by subjects, wit…

GMN 6744.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8138

1708 BOERHAAVE, Herman (1668 – 1738)

Institutiones medicae in usus annuae exercitationis domesticos digestae.

Institutiones medicae, Boerhaave’s first book, represented lectures given by Boerhaave on June 23, 1701; it was soon being used in virtually every medical school in Europe, going though numerous authorized and unautho…

GMN 581 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/369

1715 DOUGLAS, James (1675 – 1742)

Bibliographiae anatomicae specimen, sive catalogus omnium penè auctorum qui ab Hippocrate ad Harveum re anatomicam ex professo, vel obiter, scriptis illustrarunt.

The first attempt at a systematic medical bibliography. Revised edition with annotations by revisions by Bernhard Siegfried Albinus (Leiden, 1734). Douglas's original autograph manuscript for the book is preserved in …

GMN 6745 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8140

1726 BOERHAAVE, Herman (1668 – 1738)

Methodus discendi medicinam.

During 1710 Boerhaave lectured on the Methodus discendi medicinam. In 1726 the first edition was published from notes taken at his lectures but without his permission. Lindeboom, Bibliographia Boerhaaviana (1959) No. …

GMN 6746 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8143

1731 STOLLE, Gottlieb (1673 – 1744); KESTNER, Christian Wilhelm (1694 – 1747)

Anleitung zur Historie der medicinischen Gelahrheit.

A pioneer history of medical writing, for which the historian, Stolle, collaborated with the medical historian/biographer/bibliographer Kestner. Digital facsimile from the Google Books at this link.

GMN 6746.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8148

1738 LINNAEUS, Carl (Linné) (1707 – 1778); ARTEDI, Peter (1705 – 1735)

Ichthyologia sive opera omnia de Piscibus....omnia in hoc genere perfectiora, quam antea ulla. Posthuma vindicavit, recognovit, coaptavit & edidit Carolus Linnaeus.

After Artedi's mysterious and premature death by drowning at the age of 30 Linnaeus raised money to pay off Artedi's creditors and obtained his papers. These he published in the present five part work. The five parts …

GMN 7112 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9279

1751 BOERHAAVE, Herman (1668 – 1738); HALLER, Albrecht von (1708 – 1777)

Methodus studii medici emaculata & accessionibus locupletata ab Alberto ab Haller. 2 vols.

A greatly expanded version of Boerhaave's Methodus discendi medicinam (1726), resulting in a text perhaps triple or quadruple its original length. While Boerhaave frequently cited classic authors in his lectures, Hall…

GMN 6830 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8994

1753 TARIN, Pierre (1725 – 1761)

Dictionaire anatomique suivi d'une bibliothèque anatomique et physiologique.

An anatomical dictionary with most of the entries cross referenced to related structures, followed by a very extensive bibliography of anatomical and physiological works. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

GMN 7800 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9972

1763 FALCONET, Camille (1671 – 1762)

Catalogue de la bibliotheque de feu M. Falconet, medecin consultant du roi, et doyen des médecins de la Faculté de Paris. 2 vols.

Of the 19,798 lots in the auction catalogue of Falconet's library, which at its peak contained around 60,000 volumes, there were 3,672 lots of medical books, including a major cross-section of significant medical work…

GMN 10628 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12821

1770 –1773 PORTAL, Antoine (1742 – 1832)

Histoire de l’anatomie et de la chirurgie. 6 vols.

A biobibliographical survey to 1755, including dentistry.

GMN 437.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1091

1771 –1772 HALLER, Albrecht von (1708 – 1777)

Bibliotheca botanica. 2 vols.

This was the first of the several bibliographies compiled by Haller, one of the greatest figures in the history of medicine. The work contains the most exhaustive and thorough information of the writings in the field …

GMN 1833 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2175

1774 –1777 HALLER, Albrecht von (1708 – 1777)

Bibliotheca anatomica. 2 vols.

Haller is one of the greatest names in medical bibliography. While pursuing his monumental scientific career he found time to compile bibliographies of botany, anatomy, medicine and surgery which together form the mos…

GMN 438 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1094

1774 –1775 HALLER, Albrecht von (1708 – 1777)

Bibliotheca chirurgica. 2 vols

Reprinted, Hildesheim, G. Olms, 1971.

GMN 5789 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6862

1776 –1788 HALLER, Albrecht von (1708 – 1777)

Bibliotheca medicinae practicae. 4 vols.

Haller compiled four great bibliographies dealing respectively with botany, anatomy, surgery, and medicine. They formed the most complete reference work of the time, consisting of a classified analysis of over 52,000 …

GMN 6747 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8151

1781 VIGILIIS VON CREUTZENFELD, Stephan Hieronymus de (1750 – 1789)

Bibliotheca chirurgica. 2 vols.

Fulton (No. 6785) points out that this work contains the “most complete bibliographical study of the literature of head injury that had been brought together up to that time”. Digital facsimile from Google Books at th…

GMN 5000 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6549

1783 JUGLER, Johann Heinrich (1758 – 1812)

Bibliothecae ophthalmicae specimen primum eruditorum examini subjicit.

The earliest bibliography and history of ophthalmology.

GMN 5992 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7109

1783 –1795 BLUMENBACH, Johann Friedrich (1752 – 1840)

Medicinische Bibliothek. 3 vols.

Includes detailed abstracts of periodical literature.

GMN 6748 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8153

1784 WEBER, Carl Martin (1734 – 1800)

Entwurf einer auserlesenen medicinischpraktischen Bibliothek für angehende Aerzte.

An annotated bibliography of recommended books for the aspiring physician, arranged by subject, and chronologically by date of publication within each subject, with an author index at the end. Digital facsimile of the…

GMN 7194 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9361

1786 BLUMENBACH, Johann Friedrich (1752 – 1840)

Introductio in historiam medicinae litterarium.

An annotated subject bibliography of the history of medicine, arranged chronologically from antiquity to Blumenbach’s time.

GMN 6749 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8155

1788 MATTOS, Manoel de Sá

Bibliotheca elementar chirurgico-anatomica, ou compendio historico-critico, e chronologico sobre a cirurgia e anatomia em geral, que contém os seus principios, incrementos e ultimo estado, assim em Portugal, como nas mais partes cultas do mundo; com a especificação de seus respectivos auctores, suas obras, vidas, methodos e inventos, desde os primeiros seculos até o presente ….

The first bibliography of historical medical literature in Portuguese. The preliminary leaves evaluate the status of medical history and bibliography. Part 1 describes the history of medicine to 1600; part 2, its hist…

GMN 10106 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12295

1793 –1797 PLOUCQUET, Wilhelm Gottfried (1744 – 1814)

Initia bibliothecae medico-practicae et chirurgicae realis sive repertorii medicinae practicae et chirurgiae. 8 vols.

The first important classified bibliography of medical literature covering both monographic material and current periodicals.

GMN 6750 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8157

1796 –1800 BANKS, Sir Joseph (1743 – 1820); DRYANDER, Jonas Carlsson (1748 – 1810)

Catalogus bibliothecae historico-naturalis Josephi Banks, auctore Jona Dryander. 5 vols.

Digital facsimile of the 5 vols. from the Hathi Trust at this link.

GMN 7093 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9260

1799 –1803 PLOUCQUET, Wilhelm Gottfried (1744 – 1814)

Bibliotheca medico-practica et chirurgica realis recentior sive continuatio et supplementa initiorum bibliothecae medico-practicae et chirurgicae. 4 vols.

Continuation of No. 6750.

GMN 6750.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8160

1801 –1821 REUSS, Jeremias David (1750 – 1837)

Repertorium commentationum a societatibus litterariis editarum. 16 vols.

A classified subject index to the contents of learned society journals to the end of the 18th century. Vols. 10-16 deal with medicine and surgery. Reprinted, New York, Franklin, 1961.

GMN 6750.3 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8165

1806 PENNSYLVANIA HOSPITAL

A catalogue of the medical library, belonging to the Pennsylvania Hospital; exhibiting the names of authors and editors, in alphabetical order, and an arrangement of them under distinct heads. Also, a list of articles contained in the anatomical museum; and the rules of the museum and of the library.

Probably the first catalogue of a medical museum in the United States and also possibly the first catalogue of an institutional medical library. The library was open to users for a one time payment of $30, later raise…

GMN 10379 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12571

1808 –1809 PLOUCQUET, Wilhelm Gottfried (1744 – 1814)

Literatura medica digesta sive repertorium medicinae practicae, chirurgiae atque rei obstetriciae. 4 vols.

A revised edition, with 40,000 additional citations, of Nos. 6750 and 6750.1. A supplement (1 vol.) was published in 1813.

GMN 6750.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8163

1810 –1811 BURDACH, Karl Friedrich (1776 – 1847)

Die Literatur der Heilwissenschaft. 2 vols.

14,995 titles arranged according to medical subject. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

GMN 7750 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9922

1812 WATT, Robert (1774 – 1819)

Catalogue of medical books, for the use of students attending lectures on the principles and practice of medicine; with an address to medical students, on the best method of prosecuting their studies.

This is the catalogue that Watt prepared of his own very carefully chosen medical library, and published for the use of his students. Because Watt chose the roughly 1000 books with great care the library is representa…

GMN 8409 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10586

1813 YOUNG, Thomas (1773 – 1829)

An introduction to medical literature, including a system of practical nosology. Intended as a guide to students, and an assistant to practitioners.

The remarkable Thomas Young compiled this bibliography of works which he considered necessary to a complete medical library. Second edition, 1823.

GMN 6751 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8167

1824 WATT, Robert (1774 – 1819)

Bibliotheca Britannica, or, A general index to British and foreign literature. 4 vols.

This bio-bibliographical encyclopedia of English and foreign literature includes many articles on physicians from the ancient world up to Watt's time, and is an extraordinary achievement for one man. Typically the fir…

GMN 8410 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10587

1826 –1838 HAIN, Ludwig Friedrich Theodor (1781 – 1836)

Repertorium bibliographicum. 2 vols. [in 4].

Alphabetical author-index of 16,299 incunabula. Originally based on the contents of the Munich Hofbibliothek, it was made more useful when Walter Arthur Copinger published a 3-volume supplement, 1895-1902, which added…

GMN 6752 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8168

1828 CHOULANT, Johann Ludwig (1791 – 1861)

Handbuch der Bücherkunde für die ältere Medizin zur Kenntniss der griechischen, lateinischen und arabischen Schriften im ärztlichen Fache und zur bibliographischen Unterscheidung ihrer verschiedenen Ausgaben, Uebersetzungen und Erläuterungen.

This check list of printed works of the older medical writers underwent a second edition in 1841, which was reprinted in 1911, 1926 and 1956. Digital facsimile of the 1841 edition from Google Books at this link.

GMN 6753 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8169

1830 –1845 CALLISEN, Adolph Carl Peter (1787 – 1866)

Medicinisches Schriftsteller-Lexicon der jetzt lebenden Aerzte, Wundärzte, Geburtschelfer, Apotheker, und Naturforscher aller gebildeten Völker. 33 vols.

In 25 vols. and and 8-vol. supplement, Callisen’s great medical bibliography of writings by physicians, surgeons, obstetricians, pharmacists, and naturalists then living gives a complete view of the literature of the …

GMN 6754 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8171

1833 ATKINSON, James (1759 – 1839)

Medical bibliography, A and B.

Although of limited scientific value, this extensively annotated work is the most humorous bibliography of medical literature ever published, even if the humor is of a "rarified" nature. Atkinson, surgeon to the Duke …

GMN 6754.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8173

1835 FORBES, Sir John (1788 – 1861)

A manual of select medical bibliography, in which the books are arranged chronologically according to the subjects, and the derivations of the terms and the nosological and vernacular synonyms of the diseases are given. With an appendix, containing lists of the collected works of authors, systematic treatises on medicine, transactions of societies, journals, &c. &c &c.

“First serious attempt by anyone in the English-speaking world to give a subject classification for medical literature” (Fulton). This was first published in volume 4 of Cyclopaedia of practical medicine, edited by Fo…

GMN 6755 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8176

1838 –1840 PETTIGREW, Thomas Joseph (1791 – 1865)

Medical portrait gallery. Biographical memoirs of the most celebrated physicians, surgeons, etc. etc. who have contributed to the advancement of medical science. 4 vols.

Includes engraved portraits as well as text. The text frequently contains extensively annotated bibliographies of key works of the physicians portrayed. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

GMN 6711 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7816

1842 CHOULANT, Johann Ludwig (1791 – 1861); ROSENBAUM, Julius (1807 – 1874)

Bibliotheca medico-historica: sive, catalogus librorum historicorum de re medica et scientia naturali systematicus.

Additamenta, by Julius Rosenbaum, 2 parts, 1842-47. Reprinted (without Additamenta), 1960.

GMN 6756 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8195