1767 HOLWELL, John Zephaniah (1711 – 1798)
An account of the manner of inoculating for the small pox in the East Indies: With some observations on the practice and mode of treating that disease in those parts.
Holwell's account of smallpox variolation in India prior to Jenner has been disputed by historians. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 12397 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14626
1826 AINSLIE, Whitelaw (1767 – 1837)
Materia Indica; or, some account of those articles which are employed by the Hindoos and other eastern nations, in their medicine, arts, and agriculture; comprising also formulae, with practical observations, names of diseases in various eastern languages, and a copious list of oriental books immediately connected with general science. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 8523 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10700
1832 TWINING, William (1790 – 1835)
Clinical illustrations of the more important diseases of Bengal, with the result of an inquiry into their pathology and treatment.
Digital facsimile from the Medical Heritage Library, Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 8806 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10984
1833 PLAYFAIR, George; KHAN, Hakim Muhammad Sharif (1722 – 1807)
The Taleef shereef, or Indian materia medica translated from the original by George Playfair, Superintending Surgeon, Bengal Service. Published by The Medical and Physical Society of Calcutta.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 8208 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10384
1837 ROYLE, John Forbes (1798 – 1858)
An essay on the antiquity of Hindoo medicine, including an introductory lecture to the course of materia medica and therapeutics, delivered at King's College.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 8209 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10385
1837 MARTIN, James Ranald (1796 – 1874)
Notes on the medical topography of Calcutta.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 8803 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10981
1840 BRETT, Frederick Harrington
A practical essay on some of the principal surgical diseases of India.
Includes a discussion of the Hindu method of rhinoplasty and other plastic operations. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 8465 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10642
1843 MACGREGOR, William Lewis (1801 – 1853)
Practical observations on the principal diseases affecting the health of the European and native soldiers in the north-western provinces of India with a supplement on dysentery.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 8807 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10985
1844 WEBB, Allan (1803 – 1863)
Pathologia Indica, or, The anatomy of Indian diseases, medical and surgical: Based upon morbid specimens from all parts of India in the museum of the Calcutta Medical College; illustrated by detailed cases, with the prescriptions and treatment employed, and comments, physiological, practical and historical.
Significantly expanded second edition, in two parts (Calcutta: Thacker & Co., 1848). Digital facsimile of the 1848 edition from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 8810 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10988
1845 WISE, Thomas Alexander (1801 – 1889)
Commentary on the Hindu system of medicine.
Wise was a physician and surgeon in the Bengal Medical Service. Digital facsimile from The Medical Heritage Library, Internet Archive, at this link.
GMN 7169 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9336
1846 ESDAILE, James (1808 – 1859)
Mesmerism in India, and its practical application in surgery and medicine.
Esdaile performed a variety of surgical operations on Hindus, upon many of whom he appears successfully to have induced hypnotic anesthesia. However, his similar attempts with Europeans were not so successful.
GMN 5650.3 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7291
1849 MOUAT, Frederic John (1816 – 1897)
An atlas of anatomical plates of the human body, with descriptive letter-press in English and Hindustani.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 13868 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16158
1850 WEBB, Allan (1803 – 1863)
The historical relations of ancient Hindu with Greek medicine in connection with the study of modern medical science in India: Being a general introductory lecture delivered June 1850, at the Calcutta Medical College.
Webb was surgeon in the Bengal Army, and later Professor of Anatomy at the Calcutta Medical College. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 8808 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10986
1855 WEBB, Allan (1803 – 1863)
Elephantiasis orientalis, and especially elephantiasis genitalis in Bengal.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 8809 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10987
1856 MOREHEAD, Charles (1807 – 1882)
Clinical researches on disease in India. 2 vols.
One of the most comprehensive studies of disease in India during the mid-19th century; includes 556 case reports. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link
GMN 10112 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12301
1860 WARING, Edward John (1819 – 1891)
Remarks on the uses of some bazaar medicines, and on a few of the common indigenous plants of India, according to European practice.
At the time of publication of this work, which contained texts in both Sanskrit and English, Waring was "Physician to His Highness The Maha Rajah of Travancore." Digital facsimile of the 1860 edition from the Biodiver…
GMN 8818 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10996
1866 TRENDELENBURG, Friedrich (1844 – 1924)
De veterum Indorum chirurgia. Dissertatio inauguralis.
Trendelenburg’s graduation thesis on the ancient Hindu systems of medicine. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 5792 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6871
1868 WARING, Edward John (1819 – 1891)
Pharmacopoeia of India, prepared under the authority of Her Majesty's Secretary of State for India in Council
Waring was "Surgeon in Her Majesty's Indian Army." Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 8817 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10995
1870 CHEEVERS, Norman (1818 – 1886)
A manual of medical jurisprudence for India, including the outline of a history of crime against the person in India.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 11623 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13823
1877 DUTT, Uday Chand (1834 – 1884)
Materia medica of the Hindus compiled from Sanskrit medical works. With a glossary of Indian plants.
GMN 13781 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16068
1890 –1893 HOOPER, David (1858 – 1947); DYMOCK, William (1834 – 1892); WARDEN, Charles James Hislop (1851 – 1900)
Pharmacographia indica: A history of the principal drugs of vegetable origin, met with in British India. 3 vols.
On the title page Dymock is identified as "Brigade Surgeon, Bombay Army, Principal Medical Storekeeper to Government." Warden is identified as "Surgeon-Major, Bengal Army, Professor of Chemistry in the Calcutta Medica…
GMN 9246 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11428
1900 SMITH, Henry (1862 – 1948)
Extractions of cataract in the capsule.
Smith, an officer in the Indian Medical Service, had remarkable success with his method of extraction of cataract within the capsule. He modified his operation in 1926 (Arch. Ophthal. N.Y., 55, 213-24). See also Smith…
GMN 5946 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6931
1904 POWER, Frederick Belding (1853 – 1927); GORNALL, Frank Howorth
The constituents of chaulmoogra seeds.
Hydnocarpus wightiana or Chaulmoogra is a tree in the Achariaceae family. The oil from seeds of Hydnocarpus wightiana or Chaulmoogra, a tree in the Achariaceae family, was widely used in Indian medicine and Chinese tr…
GMN 2437 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2907
1906 MARIADASSOU, Paramananda
Moeurs médicales de l'Inde et leurs rapports avec la médecine européenne.
Digital facsimile from wellcomecollection.org at this link.
GMN 13502 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15777
1907 HOERNLÉ, Augustus Friedrich Rudolf (1841 – 1918)
Studies in the medicine of ancient India. Part 1. Osteology or the bones of the human body.
All published.
GMN 6487 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7983
1908 EWENS, George Francis William
Insanity in India: Its symptoms and diagnosis; with reference to the relation of crime and insanity.
Includes considerable discussion of the psychoactive effects of cannabis. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
GMN 8246 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10422
1913 –1914 MUKHOPADHYAYA, Girindranath (1872 – 1935)
The surgical instruments of the Hindus, with a comparative study of the surgical instruments of the Greek, Roman, Arab and the modern Eouropean [sic] surgeons. 2 vols.
Vol. 2 consists of plates.
GMN 6488 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7985
1914 CRAWFORD, Dirom Grey (1857 – 1942)
A history of the Indian Medical Service 1600-1913. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 8241 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10417
1917 ELLIOT, Robert Henry (1864 – 1936)
The Indian operation of couching for cataract. Incorporating The Hunterian Lectures....
Prefaced by an extensive historical introduction; the remainder of the text being of historical significance in the 21st century. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
GMN 12959 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15206
1923 –1929 MUKHOPADHYAYA, Girindranath (1872 – 1935)
History of Indian medicine. Containing notices, biographical, of the Ayurvedic physicians and their works on medicine, from the earliest ages to the present time. 3 vols.
Reprinted New Delhi, 1974.
GMN 6488.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7987
1924 KNOWLES, Robert (1883 – 1936); NAPIER, Lionel Everard (1888 – 1957); ET AL
On a Herpetomonas found in the gut of the sandfly, Phlebotomus argentipes, fed on kala-azar patients.
Demonstration that L. donovani is capable of reproduction in Phlebotomus. With R. O. Smith.
GMN 5301.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6532
1929 BALFOUR, Margaret Ida (1866 – 1945); YOUNG, Ruth (1884 – 1993)
The work of medical women in India.
GMN 8812 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10990
1941 ADLER, Saul (1895 – 1956); BER, Mordechai ( – 1952)
The transmission of Leishmania tropica by the bite of Phlebotomus papatasii.
Proof of the transmission of L. tropica by P. papatasii.
GMN 5301.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6543
1942 SWAMINATH, C. S.
Transmission of Indian kala-azar to man by the bites of Phlebotomus argentipes, Ann. and Brun.
Successful transmission of kala-azar to man by the bite of Phlebotomus argentipes reported, showing it to be the vector of Leishmania. With H. E. Shortt and L. A. P. Anderson.
GMN 5302 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6545
1965 SANYAL, Promode Kumar (1913 – 1994)
A story of medicine and pharmacy in India. Pharmacy 2000 years ago and after.
A short history of the four systems of medicine practiced in India.
GMN 6491.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7993
1976 LESLIE, Charles Miller (1923 – 2009)
Asian medical systems: A comparative study, edited by Charles Leslie.
GMN 8497 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10674
1980 RÂY, Priyadaranjan (1888 – 1982); GUPTA, Hirendra Nath
Caraka Samhita: A scientific synopsis.
GMN 12961 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15208
1980 RÂY, Priyadaranjan (1888 – 1982); GUPTA, Hirendra Nath; ROY, Mira
Suśruta Samhita: A scientific synopsis
GMN 12962 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15209
1985 RAMACHANDRA RAO, Saligrama Krishna (1925 – 2006)
Encyclopaedia of Indian medicine. Volume one: Historical perspective.
GMN 8498 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10675
1987 WUJASTYK, Dominik; MEULENBELD, Gerrit Jan (1928 – 2017)
Studies on Indian medical history, edited by G. Jan Meulenbeld and Dominik Wujastyk.
GMN 7358 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9530
1993 ARNOLD, David (1946 – )
Colonizing the body: State medicine and epidemic disease in nineteenth-century India.
An authoritative account of the way that medicine was practiced in India in adaptation to the situation faced by physicians and the state in India, focusing on three major epidemic diseases: smallpox, cholera plague.
GMN 8811 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10989
1994 HARRISON, Mark
Public health in British India: Anglo-Indian preventive medicine 1859-1914.
The first major study of public health in British India.
GMN 8802 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10980
1998 WUJASTYK, Dominik
The roots of Ayurveda.
Readings in English translation, with commentaries, from classical medical texts.
GMN 12806 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15052
1999 –2002 MEULENBELD, Gerrit Jan (1928 – 2017)
A history of Indian medical literature. 5 vols.
Comprises the entire corpus of Sanskrit medical texts, from the earliest times to the present, thus covering about two millennia.
GMN 7216 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9383
2000 ARNOLD, David (1946 – )
Science, technology and medicine in Colonial India, 1760-1947. The new Cambridge history of India, Vol. 3, pt. 5.
GMN 12728 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14974
2003 SELIN, Helaine (1946 – )
Medicine across cultures: History and practice of medicine in non-Western cultures. Edited by Helaine Selin.
A very wide-ranging selection of essays
GMN 9746 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11934
2008 KARRI, Sunya K.; SAPER, Robert B.; KALES, Stefanos N.
Lead encephalopathy due to traditional medicines.
Abstract: "Traditional medicine use is common in developing countries and increasingly popular in the western world. Despite the popularity of traditional medicines, scientific research on safety and efficacy is limit…
GMN 12724 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14970
2009 WEISS, Richard S.
Recipes for immortality: Healing, religion, and community in South India.
"Despite the global spread of Western medical practice, traditional doctors still thrive in the modern world. In Recipes for Immortality, Richard Weiss illuminates their continued success by examining the ways in whic…
GMN 11825 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14027
2009 PANDE, Ishita (1976 – )
Medicine, race and liberalism in British Bengal: Symptoms of empire.
"This book focuses on the entwinement of politics and medicine and power and knowledge in India during the age of empire. Using the powerful metaphor of ‘pathology’ - the science of the origin, nature, and course of d…
GMN 12666 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14910
2010 ZYSK, Kenneth G.
Medicine in the {Veda}: Religious healing in the {Veda} with translations and annotations of medical hymns from the {Rgveda and the Atharvaveda} and renderings from the corresponding ritual texts.
GMN 12723 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14969
