1465 SABUNCUOGLU (OTTOMAN TURKISH: شرف الدّین صابونجی اوغلی), Şerafeddin (1385 – 1468)
Cerrahiyyetu'l-Haniyye (Imperial Surgery)
In 1465, at the age of 80, Ottoman surgeon and physician Şerafeddin Sabuncuoğlu published in manuscript an illustrated atlas of surgery and dentistry. This was also the first medical textbook written in Turkish, proba…
GMN 6819 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8982
1721 GAUDEREAU, Martin (1663 – 1743)
Relation des différentes espèces de peste qui reconnaissent les orientaux, des précautions & des remèdes qu'ils prennent pour empêcher la communication & le progrès; et ce que nous devons faire à leur exemple pour nous en préserver, & nous en guérir.
Gaudereau worked as a missionary in Turkey, Armenia, Persia, and India, facing plague outbreaks several times. In Turkey he almost succumbed to the plague, himself, but was cured using local remedies. These remedies a…
GMN 10651 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12844
1803 WITTMAN, William
Travels in Turkey, Asia-Minor, Syria, and across the desert into Egypt during the years 1799, 1800, and 1801, in company with the Turkish Army, and the British Military Mission.To which are annexed, observations on the plague, and on the diseases prevalent in Turkey, and a meteorological journal.
Wittman described the plague and other epidemics that afflicted both the Ottoman and British armies. In the Appendix he provided medical suggestions for treatment, together with a history of the plague. Digital facsim…
GMN 7367 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9539
1818 BRUGNATELLI, Luigi Valentino (1761 – 1818)
Pharmacopoeia Geniki.
The first pharmacopeia printed in Turkey. This was a translation into Greek from Brugnatelli's Farmakopoea ad uso degli Speziali, e Medici Moderni della Repubblica Italiana. The printer in Istanbul was not identified.…
GMN 13075 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15327
1820 SĀNĪZĀDE, Mehmed Atāullah Efendi (1771 – 1826)
Hamse-i Şanizade. Miratü'l Ebdan fi Teşrih-i Azaü'l-İnsan [About anatomy]; Usulü't Tabia [Book of physiology]; Miyaru'l-Etibba [Practice of medicine].
This illustrated compendium of anatomy, physiology, and internal medicine was first medical work in Turkish printed by letterpress in the Ottoman Empire. It was also one of the first medical works in Turkish to draw t…
GMN 9696 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11883
1820 CHÂNI-ZÂDÉH MEHEMMED ATAOULLA
Mirât ul-abd fi techrīhh azâ il-insân.
The first book on anatomy and medicine printed in Turkish. The title may be translated as Miroir des corps dans l'anatomie des membres de l''homme. The work was primarily derived from European sources and included 56 …
GMN 13116 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15369
1820 ATAULLAH ('ATĀ' ALLĀH), Sanizade Mehmed (1771 – 1826)
Hamse-i-Sânizade.
Written in Ottoman Turkish, and printed in Istabul, this was the first illustrated medical book printed in the Muslim world. Digital facsimile from the Bayerische StaatsBibliothek at this link.
GMN 13927 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16221
1821 BIANCHI, T. - X.
Notice sur le premier ouvrage d'anatomie et de médecine, imprimé en Turc, à Constantinople, en 1820, intitulé Miroir des corps dans l'anatomie de l'homme envoyé et offert par S. Exc. L'Ambassadeur de France près la sublime porte a la Bibliothèque du Roi; Suivie du Catalogue des livres turcs, arabes et persans, imprimés à Contantinople, depuis l'introduction de l'Imprimerie, en 12726-27, jusqu'en 1820.
Bianchi characterized himself on the title page as Adj. Secretarty-Interpreter of the King for Oriental Languages. In this pamphlet he translated parts of the text of Chani-Zadeh and also translated the Table of Conte…
GMN 13115 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15368
1833 OPPENHEIM, Friedrich Wilhelm (1799 – 1852)
Ueber den Zustand der Heilkunde und über die Volkskrankheiten in der europäischen und asiatischen Türkei. Ein Beitrag zur Kultur- und Sittengeschichte.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 7260 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9429
1842 BERNARD, Karl Ambros (1808 – 1844)
Les bains de Brousse, en Bithynie (Turquie d'Asie), avec une vue des bains et un plan des environs de Brousse.
The introduction of Western hydrotherapy to the Ottoman world. Focusing upon the hot springs of Bursa, Bernard promoted the healing effects of warm waters to the general Ottoman population. Digital facsimile from Goog…
GMN 13708 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15992
1842 DAVY, John (1790 – 1868)
Notes and observations on the Ionian Islands and Malta: With some remarks on Constantinople and Turkey, and on the system of quarantine as at present conducted. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 13843 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16133
1844 BERNARD, Karl Ambros (1808 – 1844)
Pharmacopoea Castrensis Ottomano. Pharmacopée militaire Ottomane.
The first original pharmacopoeia printed in the Ottoman Empire, with an original text by the Austrian physician Karl Ambros Bernard. The text of this pharmacopeia was in French and Latin, accompanied by Italian terms.…
GMN 13074 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15326
1858
Medical and surgical history of the British Army which served in Turkey and the Crimea during the war against Russia, in the years 1854-56. 2 vols.
GREAT BRITAIN. War Office. Medical Services
First official medical and surgical history of a war.
GMN 2165 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1041
1861 WILSON, Sir William James Erasmus (1809 – 1884)
The eastern, or Turkish bath: Its history, revival in Britain, and application to the purposes of health.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 10049 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12238
1927 LOVEJOY, Esther Pohl (1869 – 1967)
Certain samaritans.
A first-hand account of the American Women's Hospitals especially in Greece, Turkey and the Balkans helping to relieve the poulations uprooted by World War I and its aftermath. Lovejoy became the second woman to gradu…
GMN 7842 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10014
1960 HUARD, Pierre Alphonse (1901 – 1983); GRMEK, Mirko Dražen (1924 – 2000)
Le premier manuscrit chirurgical turc, rédigé par Charaf-ed-Din (1465), et illustré de 140 miniatures.
An edition of BnF Ms. suppl. turc 693.
GMN 7162 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9329
1966 DIETRICH, Albert (1912 – 2015); DIETRICH, M. L.
Medicinalia Arabica. Studien über arabische medizinische Handschriften in türkischen und syrischen Bibliotheken. (Abhandlungen der Akademie der Wissenschaftern in Göttingen. phil. hist. Klasse, Dritte Folge, No. 66).
GMN 8419 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10596
1980 TERZIOGLU, Arsian; KREBS, Linda Marion
The history of old Turkish dentistry.
GMN 12917 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15164
1983 BECKMAN, Gary Michael (1948 – )
Hittite birth rituals. 2nd revised edition.
"Owing to a paucity of relevant sources, we know rather little about Hittite medical practice, but it is clear that native therapies relied as much on magic as upon what moderns would recognize as medicine. Practition…
GMN 10630 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12823
2006 ZE'EVI, Dror (1953 – )
Producing sexual desire: Changing sexual discourse in the Ottoman Middle East, 1500-1900.
GMN 9376 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11559
2008 IHSANOGLU, Ekmeleddin Mehmet (1943 – )
Osmanli tibbi bilimler literaturu tarihi [History of the literature of medical sciences during the Ottoman period]. Edited by E. Ihsanoglu. [Îlim tarihi kaynaklari ve arastirmalari serisi 14, Osmanli bilim tarihi literatürü serisi 7]. 4 vols.
Comprehensive and detailed catalogue of Turkish medical writings produced during the Ottoman period from the 14th to early 20th centuries. "The main body of the book lists the medical works in chronological order unde…
GMN 9239 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11421
2009 SHEFER-MOSSENSOHN, Miri
Ottoman medicine: Healing and medical institutions, 1500-1700.
GMN 11242 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13439
2010 YILDIRIM, Nuran
A history of healthcare in Istanbul: Health organizations, epidemics, infections and disease control, preventive health institutions, hospitals, medical education.
GMN 8275 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10451
2012 BULMUS, Birsen
Plague, quarantines and geopolitics in the Ottoman empire.
An examination of Ottoman plague treatises and writers from the Black Death until 1923.
GMN 8492 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10669
2012 BACHOUR, Natalia; IBN SALLŪM, Salih ibn Nasrallah al-Halabi ( – 1671)
Oswaldus Crollius und Daniel Sennert im frühneuzeitlichen Istanbul: Studien zur Rezeption des Paracelsismus im Werk des osmanischen Arztes Salih b. Nasrullāh Ibn Sallūm al-Halabī
Study of the "Al-Ṭibb al-jadīd al-kīmiyāʼī alladhī ikhtaraʻahu Barākalsūs (The new chemical medicine invented by Paracelsus), an Arabic compendium of alchemical works from early modern Europe by Salih ibn Nasrallah al…
GMN 12804 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15050
2015 VARLIK, Nükhet
Plague and empire in the early modern Mediterranean world: The Ottoman experience, 1347-1600.
GMN 8274 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10450
