1478 ARNALD OF VILLANOVA, (Arnaldus de Villa Nova; Arnau de Vilanova; Arnaldus Villanovanus; Arnaud de Ville-Neuve; Arnaldo de Villanueva) (1240 – 1311); HIRNKOFEN, Wilhelm von (1450 – )
Von Bewahrung und Bereitung der Weine.
The first printed book on wine, its production and preservation, translated from the Latin by Wilhelm von Hirnkofen. It discusses the value of wine in diet and as a medication. Wine has been called the oldest document…
GMN 1959.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8798
1565 GRATAROLO, Guglielmo (1516 – 1568)
De vini natura, artificio et usu deque re omni potabili.
On the medical sues of wine. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 13792 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16079
1571 BACCI, Andrea (1524 – 1600)
De thermis …libri septem. Opus ... in quo agitur de universa aquarum natura, deque differentiis omnibus, ac mistionibus cum terris, cum ignibus, cum metallis, de lacubus, fontibus, fluminibus, de balneis totius orbis, & de methodo medendi per balneas, deque lavationum simul atque exercitationum institutis in admirandis thermis Romanorum....
A comprehensive study of mineral waters, dealing with all the spas of the then-known world. Besides exhaustive coverage of the baths of antiquity and of Bacci’s own time, the work gives considerable attention to wines…
GMN 1986.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3784
1596 BACCI, Andrea (1524 – 1600)
De naturali vinorum historia de vinis Italiae et de conviviis antiquorum libri septem....Accessit de factitiis ac cervisiis de q[ue] Rheni, Galliae, Hispaniae et de totius Europa vinis et de omni vinorum usu compendiaria tractatio.
A comprensive study of the production, storage, characteristics, and use of wines. Book two considers wine in relation to health. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 7968 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10144
1700 JONES, John [English] (1645 – 1709)
The mysteries of opium revealed.
Includes the earliest English description of drug addiction, and withdrawal. Jones attempted to use wine as a partial substitute until withdrawal was complete.
GMN 2070.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2498
1775 BARRY, Sir Edward (1696 – 1776)
Observations historical, critical, and medical, on the wines of the ancients. And the analogy between them and modern wines. With general observations and qualities of water, and in particular those of Bath.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 13336 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15604
1863 BANTING, William (1779 – 1878)
Letter on corpulence; address to the public.
Banting, a prominent English undertaker, and formerly obese, was the first to popularize a weight loss diet based on limiting intake of refined and easily digestible carbohydrates. He changed his diet at the suggestio…
GMN 3914 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5027
2001 PAUL, Harry W. (1933 – )
Bacchic medicine: Wine and alcohol therapies from Napoleon to the French paradox.
GMN 12085 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14294
2018 NORRIE, Philip Anthony (1953 – )
The history of wine as a medicine: From its beginnings in China to the present day.
GMN 11610 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13810
