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1530De compositione medicamentorum... lib VII per Ioannem Guinterium Andernacum imprimum latinitate donati. Eiusdem De ponderibus & mensuris liber, D. Andrea Alciato interprete.
GALEN, [Κλαύδιος Γαληνός; Galen of Pergamon] (129 – 216)
GALEN, [Κλαύδιος Γαληνός; Galen of Pergamon] (129 – 216) GUINTER VON ANDERNACH, Johannes [Johannes Guinterius; Johannes Winter; Jean Guenther] (1505 – 1574)
ALCIATO, Andrea (1492 – 1550)
ALCIATO, Andrea (1492 – 1550)
1555Acerca de la materia medicinal, y de los venenos mortiferos, traduzido de lengua griege, en la vulgar castellana, & illustrado con claras y substantiales annotationes, y con las figuras de innumeras plantas exquisitas y raras, por el Doctor Andres de Laguna....
LAGUNA DE SEGOVIA, Andrés [LACUNA] (1499 – 1559)
DIOSCORIDES, Pedanius [Πεδάνιος Διοσκουρίδης] (40 – 90)
DIOSCORIDES, Pedanius [Πεδάνιος Διοσκουρίδης] (40 – 90)
1558Les remonstrances sur le default du labour et culture des plantes, et de la cognoissance d'icelles, contenant la maniere d'affranchir et appriuoiser les arbres sauuages.
BELON, Pierre [Pierre Belon du Mans; Petrus Bellonius Cenomanus] (1517 – 1564)
BELON, Pierre [Pierre Belon du Mans; Petrus Bellonius Cenomanus] (1517 – 1564)
1588Hortus medicus et philosophicus: In quo plurimarum stirpium breves descriptiones, novae icones non paucae, indicationes locorum natalium, observationes de cultura earum peculiares, atque insuper nonnulla remedia euporista, nec non philologicae quadame continenteur. Item sylva Hercynia: sive catalgus plantarum sponte nascentium in montibus & locis plerisque.
CAMERARIUS, Joachim the Younger (1534 – 1598)
CAMERARIUS, Joachim the Younger (1534 – 1598)
1591L'horto dei semplici di Padova, oue si vede primieramente la forma di tutta la pianta con le sue misure: & indi i suoi partimenti distinti per numeri in ciascuna arella, intagliato in rame.
CORTUSO, Giacomo Antonio (Cortusi) (1513 – )
1597The garden of health conteyning the sundry rare and hidden vertues and properties of all kindes of simples and plants, together with the maner how they are to be vsed and applyed in medicine for the health of mans body, against diuers diseases and infirmities most common amongst men. Gathered by the long experience and industrie of William Langham, practitioner in phisicke.
LANGHAM, William
1598Onomatologia, seu nomenclatura stirpium quae in Horto Regio Monspeliensi recens constructo coluntur.
BELLEVAL, Pierre Richer de (1564 – 1632)
BELLEVAL, Pierre Richer de (1564 – 1632)
1622Tabacologia: Hoc est, tabaci, seu nicotianae descriptio medico-cheirurgico-pharmaceutica: Vel eius praeparatio & usus in omnibus corporis humani incommodis.
NEANDER, Johann (1596 – 1630)
NEANDER, Johann (1596 – 1630)
1640L'ouverture du Jardin Royal de Paris, pour la demonstration des plantes medecinales.
LA BROSSE, Guy de (1589 – 1641)
1689Catalogus plantarum Horti Medici Amstelodamensis. Pars prior.
COMMELIN, Jan [COMMELIJN] (1629 – 1692)
1697​–1701Horti medici Amstelodamensis rariorum tam orientalis, quam occidentalis Indiae, aliarumque peregrinarum plantarum magno studio ac labore, sumptibus civitatis Amstelodamensis, longâ annorum serie collectarum, descriptio et icones ad vivum æri incisæ. Opus posthumum, latinitate donatum, notisque & observationibus illustratum, à Frederico Ruyschio & Francisco Kiggelario. 2 vols.
COMMELIN, Jan [COMMELIJN] (1629 – 1692) COMMELIN, Caspar [COMMELIJN] (1668 – 1731)
1712Amoentitatum exoticarum politico-physico-medicarum fasciculi V.
KAEMPFER, Engelbert (1651 – 1716)
KAEMPFER, Engelbert (1651 – 1716)
1714​–1725Journal des observations physiques, mathematiques et botaniques, faites par l'ordre du roi sur les côtes orientales de l'Amerique meridionale, & dans les Indes occidentales, depuis l'année 1707, jusques en 1712. 3 vols.
FEUILLÉE, Louis (1660 – 1732)
1721The virtue and use of coffee, with regard to the plague, and other infectious distempers: containing the most remarkable observations of the greatest men in Europe concerning it ... To which is prefix'd an exact figure of the tree, flower, and fruit taken from the life.
BRADLEY, Richard (1688 – 1732)
1735Historiae Aegypti naturalis qua continentur rerum Aegyptiarum libri quatuor. Opus posthumum nunc primum ex auctoris autographo, diligentissime recognito, editum; atque ex eodem tabellis aeneis XXV illustratum et uberimmo indice auctem. (2 vols.) Vol. 2: Pars secunda, sive, de Plantis Aegypti liber auctus & emendatus. Accedunt tabella aenae LXXVII plantis summo artificio incisis; ut & dissertatio eiusdem de laserpitio, & lotoaegyptia. Cum observationibus & notis Joannis Veslingii, equitis, In Patavino Gymnasio Anatomiae & Pharmaciae professoris primarii. Accedunt Eiusdem Joannis Veslingii paraeneses ad rem herbariam & vindiciae opobalsami cum indicibus necessariis.
ALPINI, Prospero [ALPINUS] (1553 – 1617)
VESLING, Johann (1598 – 1649)
VESLING, Johann (1598 – 1649)
1774La botanique mise à la portée de tout le monde ou collection des plantes d'usage dans la médecine, dans les alimens et dans les arts. Avec des notices instructives puisées dans les auteurs les plus celebres, contenant la description, le climât, la culture, les proprietes et les vertus propres a chaque plante, precedé d’une introduction a la botanique, ou dictionnaire abregé des principaux termes emploiés dans cette science. 3 vols.
REGNAULT, Nicolas-François (1746 – 1810) REGNAULT, Geneviève de Nangis (1746 – 1802)
1781Herbier ou collection des plantes médicinales de la Chine: D'après un manuscrit peint et unique qui se trouve dans la Bibliothèque de l'Empereur de la Chine, pour servir suitte [sic] à la collection des fleurs qui se cultivent dans les Jardins de la Chine et de l'Europe.
BUC'HOZ, Pierre-Joseph (1731 – 1807)
1784Die Deutsche [sic] Giftpflanzen, zur Verhütung der tragischen Vorfälle in den Haushaltungen, nach ihren botanischen Kennzeichen, nebst den Heilungsmitteln.
HALLE, Johann Samuel (1727 – 1810)
1787Gifthistorie des Thier- Pflanzen- und Mineralreichs, nebst den Gegengiften, und der medicinischen Anwendung der Gifte, nach den neuesten Toxicologen.
HALLE, Johann Samuel (1727 – 1810)
1813Materia medica of Hindoostan, and artisan’s and agriculturist’s nomenclature.
AINSLIE, Whitelaw (1767 – 1837)
1814​–1819Flore médicale. 7 vols.
CHAUMETON, François-Pierre (1775 – 1819)
POIRET, Jean Louis Marie (1755 – 1834)
POIRET, Jean Louis Marie (1755 – 1834) TYRBAS DE CHAMBERET, Jean-Baptiste-Joseph-Anne-César (1779 – 1870)
PANCKOUCKE, Ernestine (1784 – 1860)
PANCKOUCKE, Ernestine (1784 – 1860)
TURPIN, Pierre Jean François (1775 – 1840)
TURPIN, Pierre Jean François (1775 – 1840)
1817​–1819Vegetable materia medica of the United States. 2 vols.
BARTON, William Paul Crillon (1786 – 1856)
BARTON, William Paul Crillon (1786 – 1856)
1817​–1820American medical botany, being a collection of the native medicinal plants of the United States, containing their botanical history and chemical analysis, and properties and uses in medicine, diet and the arts. 3 vols.
BIGELOW, Jacob (1786 – 1879)
BIGELOW, Jacob (1786 – 1879)
1821​–1829Flore pittoresque et médicale des Antilles, ou, Histoire naturelle des plantes usuelles des colonies françaises, anglaises, espagnoles et portugaises; par M. E. Descourtilz. Peinte par J. Th. Descourtilz. 8 vols.
DESCOURTILZ, Michel Étienne (1777 – 1835)
DESCOURTILZ, Michel Étienne (1777 – 1835) DESCOURTILZ, Jean-Théodore (1796 – 1855)
1827​–1834Pharmaceutische Waarenkunde mit illuminirten Kupfern nach der Natur gezeichnet von Ernst Schenk. Begonnen von Friedemann Goebel. Fortgesetzt von Gustav Kunze. 14 parts in 2 vols.
GOEBEL, Karl Christian Traugott Friedemann (1794 – 1851)
GOEBEL, Karl Christian Traugott Friedemann (1794 – 1851)
KUNZE, Gustav (1793 – 1851)
KUNZE, Gustav (1793 – 1851) SCHENK, Ernst
1828​–1830Medical flora; or, manual of the medical botany of the United States of North America. Containing a selection of above 100 figures and descriptions of medical plants, with their names, qualities, properties, history &c; and notes or remarks on nearly 500 equivalent substitutes. 2 vols.
RAFINESQUE, Constantine Samuel (1783 – 1840)
RAFINESQUE, Constantine Samuel (1783 – 1840)
1830The Botanic physician: Being a compendium of the practice of physic, upon botanical principles, containing all the principal branches necessary to the study of medicine, as anatomy; physiology; surgery; causes, symptoms and cure of diseases; midwifery; materia medica; pharmacy, botany, &c. Together with a great variety of useful recipes.
SMITH, Elisha
1833The dispensatory of the United States of America.
BACHE, Franklin (1792 – 1864)
BACHE, Franklin (1792 – 1864)
WOOD, George Bacon (1797 – 1879)
WOOD, George Bacon (1797 – 1879)
1834Hortus medicus, or figures and descriptions of the more important plants used in medicine, or possessed of poisonous qualities; with their medical properties, chemical analysis, &c. &c
GRAVES, George (1754 – 1839) MORRIES, John Davie
1841The American vegetable practice, or, a new and improved guide to health: Designed for the use of families. : In six Parts. Part I. Concise view of the human body, with engraved and wood-cut illustrations. Part II. Glance at the old school practice of physic. Part III. Vegetable materia medica, with colored Illustrations. Part IV. Compounds. Part V. Practice of medicine, based upon what are deemed correct physiological and pathological principles. Part VI. Guide for women, containing a simplified treatise on childbirth, with a description of the diseases peculiar to females and infant. 2 vols.
MATTSON, Morris
1842A scripture herbal.
GRAHAM, Maria (later Maria, Lady Callcott) (1785 – 1842)
GRAHAM, Maria (later Maria, Lady Callcott) (1785 – 1842)
1847Medical botany: or, Descriptions of the more important plants used in medicine, with their history, properties, and mode of administration.
GRIFFITH, Robert Eglesfeld (1798 – 1850)
1847​–1852Flora medico-farmaceutica. 6 vols.
CASSONE, Felice (1815 – 1854)
1852​–1853The flora homoeopathica: Or, illustrations and descriptions of the medicinal plants used as homoeopathic remedies. 2 vols.
HAMILTON, Edward (1815 – 1903)
1877​–1883Traité des simples. 3 vols. Notices et extraits des manuscrits de la Bibliothèque nationale et autres bibliothèques, 1877, tome 23,1; tome 25,1; tome 26,1. Traduit par Lucien Leclerc.
LECLERC, Lucien (1816 – 1893)
LECLERC, Lucien (1816 – 1893) IBN AL-BAYTĀR AL-MĀLAQĪ, Ḍiyāʾ Al-Dīn Abū Muḥammad ʿAbdllāh Ibn Aḥmad (Ibn al-Baytar) (1197 – 1248)
1880Medicinal plants, being descriptions with original figures of the principal plants employed in medicine. 4 vols.
BENTLEY, Robert (1821 – 1893)
BENTLEY, Robert (1821 – 1893)
TRIMEN, Henry (1843 – 1896)
TRIMEN, Henry (1843 – 1896)
1889The useful native plants of Australia. (Including Tasmania).
MAIDEN, Joseph Henry (1859 – 1925)
MAIDEN, Joseph Henry (1859 – 1925)
1901The medicinal plants of the Philippines. Translated and revised by Jerome B. Thomas, Jr.
PARDO DE TAVERA, Trinidad Hermenegildo José Maria Francisco (1857 – 1925)
PARDO DE TAVERA, Trinidad Hermenegildo José Maria Francisco (1857 – 1925) THOMAS, Jerome B. Jr.
1914Some American medical botanists commemorated in our botanical nomenclature.
KELLY, Howard Atwood (1858 – 1943)
KELLY, Howard Atwood (1858 – 1943)
1937Useful plants and drugs of Iran and Iraq. By David Hooper with notes by Henry Field.
HOOPER, David (1858 – 1947)
FIELD, Henry (1902 – 1986)
FIELD, Henry (1902 – 1986)
1949A dictionary of Assyrian botany.
THOMPSON, Reginald Campbell (1876 – 1941)
1953The book of plants [Kitâb al-nabât] of Abū Hanīfa ad-Dīnawari: Part of the alphabetical section (j-i). Edited and translated by Bernhard Lewin.
LEWIN, Bernhard IBN DAWŪD DĪNAWARĪ, Ābu Ḥanīfah Āḥmad (815 – 896)
1988Dioscurides triumphans: Ein anonymer arabischer Kommentar (Ende 12. Jh. n. Chr.) zur Materia medica. Arabischer Text nebst kommentierter deutscher Übersetzung. 2 vols.
DIETRICH, Albert (1912 – 2015)
1991Die Dioskurides-Erklärung des Ibn-al-Baitār: Ein Beitrag zur arabischen Pfanzensynonymik des Mittelalters. Edited and translated by Albert Dietrich. (Abhandlungen der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Göttingen, phil.-hist. Kl., fol. 3, no. 191).
DIOSCORIDES, Pedanius [Πεδάνιος Διοσκουρίδης] (40 – 90)
DIOSCORIDES, Pedanius [Πεδάνιος Διοσκουρίδης] (40 – 90) DIETRICH, Albert (1912 – 2015) IBN AL-BAYTĀR AL-MĀLAQĪ, Ḍiyāʾ Al-Dīn Abū Muḥammad ʿAbdllāh Ibn Aḥmad (Ibn al-Baytar) (1197 – 1248)
1993Medicinal plants and enigmatic health practices of Northern Ethiopia.
ABEBE, Dawit AYEHU, Ahadu
1997Iroquois medical botany.
HERRICK, James W.
1999A Pompeian herbal: Ancient and modern medicinal plants. Plant portraits by Victoria I and Lillian Nicholson Meyer. Photographs by Stanley A. Jashemki and others.
JASHEMSKI, Wilhelmina Mary Feemster (1910 – 2007)
2000Dioscorides: De Materia Medica, being an herbal with many other medicinal materials, written in Greek in the first century of the common era. A new indexed version in Modern English by Tess Anne Osbaldeston and Robert P. A Wood.
DIOSCORIDES, Pedanius [Πεδάνιος Διοσκουρίδης] (40 – 90)
DIOSCORIDES, Pedanius [Πεδάνιος Διοσκουρίδης] (40 – 90) OSBALDESTON, Tess Anne WOOD, Robert P. A.
2001Three receptaria from Medieval England: The languages of medicine in the fourteenth century. Edited by Tony Hunt with the collaboration of Michael Benskin.
HUNT, Anthony "Tony" B. (1944 – ) BENSKIN, Michael
2001A doctor in the garden: Nomen medici in botanicis. Australian flora and the world of medicine.
PEARN, John Hemsley (1940 – )