1582 RAUWOLF, Leonhard (1535 – 1596)
Aigentlich Beschreibung der Raiss, so er vor diser Zeit gegen Auffgang inn die Morgenländer, fürnemlich Syriam, Iudaeam, Arabiam, Mesopotamiam, Babyloniam, Assyriam, Armeniam etc....
Rauwolf provided the first modern descriptions of the flora of the area east of the Levantine coast. He was also the first to describe the riparian flora of the Euphrates, and the first European to publish an account …
GMN 7327 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9498
1756 RUSSELL, Alexander (1715 – 1768)
Natural history of Aleppo and parts adjacent.
Includes (Chap, iv) a good account of “Aleppo boil”, which Russell found to be endemic in Aleppo. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 5290 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6404
1791 RUSSELL, Patrick (1727 – 1805)
A treatise of the plague: Containing an historical journal, and medical account, of the plague, at Aleppo, in the years 1760, 1761, and 1762.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 9522 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11708
1803 LARREY, Dominique Jean (1766 – 1842)
Rélation historique et chirurgicale de I’expedition de l'Armée d’Orient, en Egypte et en Syrie.
Larrey's history of his experiences with Napoleon and Napoleon's armies during the Egypt campaign. Includes a reprint of Larrey's treatise on trachoma, which was first published at Napoleon's press in Cairo. Digital f…
GMN 12942 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15189
1822 RICHARDSON, Robert (1779 – 1847)
Travels along the Mediterranean, and parts adjacent; in the company with the Earl of Belmore, during the years 1816-17-18: Extending as far as the second cataract of the Nile, Jerusalem, Damascus, Balbec &c. &c. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 12497 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14730
1829 ALIBERT, Jean Louis Marc (1768 – 1837)
Sur la pyrophlyctide endémique, ou pustule d’Aleppo.
Important description of “Aleppo boil”, furunculosis orientalis.
GMN 5291 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6412
1969 HAMARNEH, Sami Khalaf (1925 – 2010)
Index of manuscripts on medicine, pharmacy, and allied sciences in the Zahiriyah Library
GMN 13715 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15999
