1531 BRUNFELS, Otto (1488 – 1534); PAUL OF AEGINA (ΠΑΥ͂ΛΟΣ ΑἸΓΙΝΉΤΗΣ; PAULUS AEGINETA) (625 – 690); KOPP, Wilhelm (1461 – 1532)
Pharmaca simplicia, Othone Brunfelsio interprete. Idem De ratione victus Guilelmo Copo Basilensi interprete.
First edition in Latin of Paul of Aegina's treatise on pharmacological simples, the ingredients for preparing medicines. This describes the properties of about 750 plants and minerals, listing them in alphabetical ord…
GMN 12807 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15053
1770 ALSTON, Charles (1683 – 1760); HOPE, John (1725 – 1786)
Lectures on the materia medica: Containing the natural history of drugs, their virtues and doses: Also directions for the study of the materia medica; and an appendix on the method of prescribing. Published from the manuscript of the late Dr. Charles Alston...by John Hope. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 12733 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14979
1902 BERENDES, Julius (1837 – 1914)
Des Pedanios Dioskurides aus Anazarbos Arzneimittellehre in fünf Büchern. Übersetzt und mit Erklärungen Versehen.
Analysis of Dioscordes from the pharmacological standpoint, including determination of his units of measurements, critical in dosage. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 8569 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10746
1902 FÜHNER, Hermann (1871 – 1944)
Lithotherapie: Historische Studien über die medizinische Verwendung der Edelsteine.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 8961 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11140
1921 LLOYD, John Uri (1849 – 1936)
Origin and history of all the pharmacopeial vegetable drugs, chemicals and preparations with bibliography... Prepared under the auspices of and published by the American Drug Manufacturers' Association, Washington, D.C. Vol. 1 Vegetable drugs
Lloyd comprehensively collected and studied the historical literature, citing it throughout the text and in the numerous bibliographies of specific drugs in this work. The book includes a bibliography of historical so…
GMN 12446 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14678
1922 ROHDE, Eleanour Sophy Sinclair (1881 – 1950)
The old English herbals.
Reprinted London, Minerva Press, 1972.
GMN 2048 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2258
1925 KLEBS, Arnold Carl (1870 – 1943)
Catalogue of early herbals.
GMN 2050 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2262
1927 SINGER, Charles Joseph (1876 – 1960)
The herbal in antiquity and its transmission to later ages.
GMN 11383 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13582
1928 BUDGE, Sir Ernest Alfred Thompson Wallis (1857 – 1934)
The divine origin of the craft of the herbalist.
A semi-popular account useful for its surveys of the earliest herbal literature: Egyptian, Sumerian, Assyrian, Greece, Syriac, Arabic, Coptic, Ethiopian (Abyssinian). Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at thi…
GMN 12678 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14923
1934 DIOSCORIDES, Pedanius [Πεδάνιος Διοσκουρίδης] (40 – 90); GOODYER, John (1592 – 1664); GUNTHER, Robert William Theodore (1869 – 1940)
The Greek herbal of Dioscorides, illustrated by a Byzantine, A.D. 512; Englished by John Goodyer, A.D. 1655; edited and first printed, A.D. 1933, by Robert T. Gunther ... with three hundred and ninety-six illustrations.
Goodyer's translation is considered more of a paraphrase than a translation.
GMN 8564 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10741
1938 ARBER, Agnes Robertson (1879 – 1960)
Herbals: their origin and evolution. A chapter in the history of botany, 1470-1670. 2nd edition.
Includes an invaluable bibliography. Reprinted, with new introduction and additional references, 1987.
GMN 2059 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2316
1953 –1959 LAGUNA DE SEGOVIA, Andrés [LACUNA] (1499 – 1559); DIOSCORIDES, Pedanius [Πεδάνιος Διοσκουρίδης] (40 – 90); DUBLER, César E. (1915 – 1966)
La "Materia médica" de Dioscórides: Transmisión medieval y renacentista by César E. Dubler. Vol. I: La transmisión medieval y renacentista y la supervivencia en la medicina popular moderna de la "Materia médica" de Dioscórides, estudiada particularmente en España y África del Norte. Vol. 2: La versión árabe de la 'Materia Médica' de Dioscórides (texto, variantes e indices): estudio de la transcripción de los nombres griegos al árabe y comparación de las versiones griega, árabe y castellana. Vol. 3: La "Materia médica" de Dioscórides traducida y comentada por D. Andrés de Laguna (Texto crítico). Vol. 4: D. Andrés de Laguna y su época. Vol. 5: Glosario médico castellano del siglo XVI. Prólogo de Gregorio Marañón. Vol. 6: Indices generales y léxico especial de Andrés de Laguna.
GMN 9245 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11427
1958 –1961 FULTON, John Farquhar (1899 – 1960); QUINBY, Jane (1901 – 1965); STEVENSON, Allan Henry (1903 – 1970); HUNT, Rachel McMasters Miller (1884 – 1963)
Catalogue of botanical books in the collection of Rachel McMasters Hunt. 2 vols. in 3.
Ostensibly the catalogue of Rachel McMasters Hunt's private collection, which she donated to the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation at Carnegie Mellon University, this is much more than a finely printed, luxur…
GMN 8744 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10922
1958 NISSEN, Claus (1901 – 1975)
Herbals of five centuries. A contribution to medical history and bibliography.
GMN 9740 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11927
1966 HEILMANN, Karl Eugen
Kräuterbücher in Bild und Geschichte.
GMN 2068.9 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2407
1976 NICOLAUS SALERNITANUS, (Nicolaus Praepostius) (1120 – ); GOLTZ, Dietlinde
Mittelalterliche Pharmazie und Medizin. Dargestellt an Geschichte und Inhalt des ANTIDOTARIUM NICOLAI
GMN 8962 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11141
1979 RAPHAEL, Sandra; BLUNT, Wilfrid Jasper Walter (1901 – 1987)
The illustrated herbal.
GMN 7464 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9636
1979 VOIGTS, Linda Ehrsam
Anglo-Saxon plant remedies and the Anglo-Saxons.
GMN 8559 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10736
1981 DIOSCORIDES, Pedanius [Πεδάνιος Διοσκουρίδης] (40 – 90); MAZAL, Otto (1932 – 2008)
Pflanzen, Wurzeln, Säfte, Samen. Antike Heilkunst in Miniaturen des Wiener Dioskurides.
GMN 12177 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14387
1982 –1986 BÜCHI, Jakob
Die Entwicklung der Rezept- und Arzneibuchliteratur. Vol. 1: Altertum und Mittelalter. 1982. Vol. 2: Die Autoren, ihre Werke und die Fortschritte im 16. Jahrhundert. 1984 Vol. 3: Die Arzneibücher und schweizerischen Pharmakopöen vom 17.-20. Jahrhundert. 1986.
GMN 11940 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14145
1983 DIOSCORIDES, Pedanius [Πεδάνιος Διοσκουρίδης] (40 – 90); SADEK, Mahmoud M.
The Arabic materia medica of Dioscorides.
GMN 9244 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11426
1989 CRELLIN, John K.; PHILPOTT, Jane
Herbal medicine past and present. Vol. 1: Trying to give ease: Tommie Bass and the story of herbal medicine. Vol. 2: A reference guide to medicinal plants: Herbal medicine past and present.
GMN 8863 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11041
1992 JOHNSTON, Stanley H. Jr. (1932 – 2013)
The Cleveland herbal, botanical, and horticultural collections: A descriptive bibliography of pre-1830 works from the libraries of the Holden Arboretum, the Cleveland Medical Library Association, and the Garden Center of Cleveland.
GMN 9568 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11754
1992 RIDDLE, John M. (1937 – )
Quid pro quo: Studies in the history of drugs.
"All too often ancient herbal and other remedies have been dismissed as ’simply’ folklore, of no relevance to medical science. John Riddle’s approach, however, has been to explore the history of drugs with the hypothe…
GMN 11942 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14147
1994 GOODMAN, Jordan
Tobacco in history: The cultures of dependence.
GMN 9684 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11871
1997 HILDEGARD OF BINGEN, (Hildegard von Bingen; Hildegardis Bingensis) (1098 – 1179); MÜLLER, Irmgard
Die pflanzlichen Heilmittel bei Hildegard von Bingen: Heilwissen aus der Klostermedizin.
GMN 9060 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11239
1997 GALEN, [Κλαύδιος Γαληνός; Galen of Pergamon] (129 – 216); DEBRU, Armelle
Galen on pharmacology: Philosophy, history and medicine. Proceedings of the Vth International Galen Colloquium, Lille, 16-18 March 1995. Edited by Armelle Debru.
GMN 9609 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11796
1998 FREYER, H. P. Michael
Europäische Heilkräuterkunde: Ein Erfahrungsschatz aus Jahrtausenden.
GMN 11941 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14146
1998 HERNÁNDEZ BERMEJO, J. Esteban; GARCÍA SANCHEZ, Expiración
Economic botany and ethnobotany in Al-Andalus (Iberian Peninsula: Tenth-Fifteenth Centuries), an unknown heritage of mankind.
GMN 12527 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14762
1999 STANNARD, Jerry Willmert (1926 – 1988); STANNARD, Katherine E.; KAY, Richard
Herbs and herbalism in the Middle Ages and Renaissance
GMN 7153 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9320
1999 STANNARD, Jerry Willmert (1926 – 1988); STANNARD, Katherine E.; KAY, Richard
Pristina medicamenta: Ancient and medieval medical botany
GMN 8874 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11052
1999 MARQUES, Vera Regina Baltrão (1954 – 2013)
Natureza em boiões: Medicinas e boticá-rios no Brasil setecentista.
GMN 8937 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11115
2000 COLLINS, Minta
Medieval herbals: The illustrative traditions.
A study of illuminated medieval herbals from 512-1450 CE.
GMN 7193 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9360
2000 POLLINGTON, Stephen
Early English charms, plant lore, and healing.
GMN 9743 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11931
2001 HALLER, John S. Jr. (1940 – ); THOMSON, Samuel (1769 – 1843)
The people's doctors: Samuel Thomson and the American Botanical Movement 1790-1860.
"Samuel Thomson, born in New Hampshire in 1769 to an illiterate farming family, had no formal education, but he learned the elements of botanical medicine from a "root doctor," who he met in his youth. Thomson sought …
GMN 9408 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11591
2001 GATELY, Iain (1965 – )
Tobacco: A cultural history of how an exotic plant seduced civilization.
GMN 9686 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11873
2001 FLANNERY, Michael A.; BERMAN, Alex (1914 – 2000)
America's botanico-medical movements: Vox populi.
GMN 10115 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12304
2003 LEV, Efraim
Medicinal substances in Jerusalem from early times to the present day. (BAR International Series 1112).
GMN 11047 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13243
2004 SUMNER, Judith
American household botany: A history of useful plants 1620-1900.
GMN 9799 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11987
2005 GOODMAN, Jordan
Tobacco in history and culture: An encyclopedia. Edited by Jordan Goodman. 2 vols.
GMN 9784 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11972
2008 IPPOLITOVA, Aleksandra Borisovna
Russkie rukopisnye travniki XVII–XVIII vekov: Issledovanie fol′klora i etnobotaniki. (Russian Manuscript Herbals of the 17th and 18th Centuries: An Investigation of Folklore and Ethnobotany).
GMN 10085 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12274
2009 LAROCHE, Rebecca
Medical authority and Englishwomen’s herbal texts, 1550–1650.
"Through an analysis of twenty-four examples of female-owned herbals supplemented by case studies of the herbal references in the writings of Margaret Hoby, Grace Mildmay, Elizabeth Isham, and Isabella Whitney, Rebecc…
GMN 10613 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12806
2009 TOMASI, Lucia Tongiorgi (1939 – ); WILLIS, Tony
An Oak Spring herbaria: Herbs and herbals from the fourteenth to the nineteenth centuries. A selection of the rare books, manuscripts and works of art in the collection of Rachel Lambert Mellon by Lucia Tongiorgi Tomasi & Tony Willis. Edited with a description of the American herbals by Mark Argetsinger.
A spectacularly beautiful volume as are the other 3 vols in the Oak Spring series.
GMN 10957 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13153
2011 SAAD, Bashar; SAAD, Omar
Greco-Arab and Islamic herbal medicine: Traditional system, ethics, safety, efficacy, and regulatory issues.
GMN 10461 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12654
2012 KUSUKAWA, Sachiko
Picturing the book of nature: Image, text, and argument in sixteenth-century human anatomy and medical botany.
GMN 8389 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10566
2012 WILSON, Philip K.; HURST, W. Jeffrey
Chocolate as medicine: A quest over the centuries.
GMN 8799 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10977
2014 DIOSCORIDES, Pedanius [Πεδάνιος Διοσκουρίδης] (40 – 90); WHIPKEY, Anna; KALBAUGH, Kirby; FRANZ, Audra; JANICK, Jules (1931 – )
A database for three Dioscoridean illustrated herbals.
"Abstract. An image database was developed for three illustrated recensions of the nonillustrated manuscript of Dioscorides entitled ... (De Materia Medica in Latin; On Medical Matters in English) written in approxima…
GMN 10909 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13105
2017 KYLE, Sarah R.
Medicine and humanism in late medieval Italy: The Carrara herbal in Padua.
GMN 8570 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10747
2017 SCHIEBINGER, Londa (1952 – )
Secret cures of slaves: People, plants, and medicine in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world.
"Massive mortality among enslaved Africans and European planters, soldiers, and sailors fueled the search for new healing techniques. Amerindian, African, and European knowledges competed to cure diseases emerging fro…
GMN 9862 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12050